Reflections of the week

Wait Till Your Change Come

6 years ago Evangelical Ministry 0
Job 14:14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes (NKJV). Meditation The genuine suffering and difficulty you are experiencing now are pointers of glorious things which will happen in the future. God created you to serve Him and to fulfil Read More

The Need to Give

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Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you” (NKJV). Meditation A blessing accompanies every commandment of God. When He said, “Condemn not,” there Read More

The Master Is Calling You

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Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he with Me (AMPC). Meditation Jesus’ call to intimacy is a challenge to our comfort. To hear Read More

Thirsting for God

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Isaiah 42:1-3 As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for you, the living God; when can I go and worship in your presence? Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, “Where is Read More

Show Me Your Glory

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Exodus 33:18-23 And Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Then God said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But Read More

What Is The Principal Fruit of Receiving the Eucharist In Holy Communion?

6 years ago Evangelical Ministry 0
The major thing the reception of the Eucharist in Holy Communion does is to unite the communicants with Jesus Christ; Eucharist knits us with Christ. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 1391, Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. Its principal fruit is to bring about an intimate union with Christ Jesus. Read More

Why Is Eucharist Considered To Be The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving And Praise To God?

6 years ago Evangelical Ministry 0
The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father because in it the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all His benefits, for all that He has accomplished through creation, redemption, and sanctification. In fact, Eucharist means first of all “thanksgiving.” Secondly, by the Eucharist, the Church sings the glory of God in Read More

What Earlier Writing Gave Clue On How Eucharist Was Celebrated in Ancient Time

6 years ago Evangelical Ministry 0
The writings of St. Justin Martyr as early as the second century revealed the basic lines of the order of the Eucharistic celebration. They have stayed the same until our own day for all the great liturgical families. St. Justin wrote to the pagan emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161) around the year 155, explaining what Christians Read More

That I May See – Mark 10: 46-52 (Day 15)

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THAT I MAY SEE – MARK 10: 46-52 (DAY 15) “Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, a son  of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Read More

Let The Thirsty Come – John 7: 37 (Day 14)

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LET THE THIRSTY COME – JOHN 3: 37 (DAY 14) “On the last day that great day of the feast, Jesus cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink” A solemn call, deeply and serious, is still going out today loud and clear: Come if you are thirsty. Thirst means Read More