-
Honour One Another
Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; The church in Rome was taught by Paul to have mutual affection for one another, as a family has affection towards one another. The church, when organised, is like a family working and serving together in a locality that God has brought them to. It has been appointed into the same family and into a specific place to preach the gospel and to teach the new believers to honour the Lord and to serve Him. The church, functioning as a family, is to have affection for one another based on brotherly love (“be kindly…
-
Let Brotherly Love Continue
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue Brotherly love is the affection that one feels for a brother. It is the unpretending open expression of the heart of a brother in Christ for another. It is the result of the salvation that Christ has brought through the His Gospel. Salvation in Christ puts those who have trusted Christ as their Saviour into the Kingdom of God, and makes us all the family of GOD. When we are in the local church, God has designed to bind us all together by the heart. Brotherly love, therefore, is the essential ingredient that God uses to…
-
Follow the Lord
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Joshua 3:3 When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. The children of Israel were preparing themselves to go into the promised land. Joshua had commanded the spies to see the land and they brought back a good report: God had already gone before to prepare the way. As a reader of this wonderful passage, we can see that, in the mind of God, the time was now – the situation was ideal, the hearts of the people ready…
-
Go Ye, I am With You Alway
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Matthew 28: 19-20 Go ye… I am with you alway The Lord Jesus had already come and completed His redemption work at Calvary. He had a secondary objective in His life on Earth and that was to win many and adding them to the kingdom of God. His institution – the local church – is the agency through which this must be accomplished. People need to be reached; they need to repent and to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God by the power of the Gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16.) They need to be baptized, built up in the faith…
-
Let Us Sow in Tears
Image © 2011, Jamsari Ahmad. Used with permission Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Psalm 126 highlights two groups of people: one rejoicing because the Lord has intervened to allow them to return home to their homeland after their captivity, and the other, still in captivity, looking to the Lord for His help. God is ever-ready to assist us in our trials. Has He not said that He is our Helper in times of need? He is our strong refuge and high tower? God stands ever ready to bless us even in our needs and trials. How do we receive the Lordʼs blessings? In this…
-
The Determination of the Servant of God
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. The apostle Paulʼs life is a picture of the determined servant of God. Paul loved the Lord Jesus dearly. The cross of Christ was more important to him than anything else. He knew he came from the pits of hell as a child of the devil destined for an eternity without Christ. Paul knew that the…
-
How God Calls
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. The Lord Jesus laments a lack of workers and commands us as His people to pray for the Lord to send forth more labourers into His harvest field. However, even when the labourers are few, God has His requirements for his tasks. Are the requirements for Godʼs service skills, or technical know-how or expertise? We will find that what we know and have learnt in our own lives are immaterial in the initial call for…
-
Praying in the Holy Ghost
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Jude 1:20 …praying in the Holy Ghost… Praying is asking; praying is spiritual work. It requires spiritual help and it requires spiritual strength. The natural man does not want to pray; the natural man hates praying. The flesh goes to sleep when this spiritual exercise is practiced. But the spiritual man prays; he loves to pray because he loves the Saviour. He knows that the only way to communicate with the One he loves is by praying. But what is praying in the Holy Ghost? Why do we pray in the Holy Ghost and what is the effect of praying in the…
-
Waiting on the Lord
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Waiting upon the Lord has an implication of expectation, that the person will trust in the Lord and wait on Him to act on his behalf. When we pray and there is no answer, we expect God to answer; we expect Him to come through. What are the outcomes of waiting on the Lord? We shall renew our strength Waiting upon the Lord renews our strength because…
-
Men Ought Always to Pray
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee. Used with permission Luke 18:1 …men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Prayer is asking something of God. Prayer, to the child of God, is as natural as breathing. Our hearts are automatically tuned to heaven when there is a need, when there is praise or when there is pain in the heart. This act of turning to God automatically can only be possible for a man who has been changed from the inside by the power of God. The Lord Jesus teaches His disciples and us that we ought always to pray and not to faint. Prayer, though natural to the child…