JNM - Tuhan Pengembara ------ Menyangkal diri
Tuhan Pengembara From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ada seorang pengembara yang sangat ingin melihat pemandangan yang ada di balik suatu gunung yang amat tinggi. Maka disiapkanlah segala peralatannya dan berangkatlah ia. Karena begitu beratnya medan yang harus dia tempuh, segala perbekalan dan perlengkapannya pun habis. Akan tetapi, karena begitu besar keinginannya untuk melihat pemandangan yang ada di balik gunung itu, ia terus melanjutkan perjalannya. Sampai suatu ketika, ia menjumpai semak belukar yang sangat lebat dan penuh duri. Tidak ada jalan lain selain ia harus melewati semak belukar itu. Pikir pengembara itu Wah, jika aku harus melewati semak ini, maka kulitku pasti akan robek dan penuh luka. Tapi aku harus melanjutkan perjal anan ini. Maka pengembara itupun mengambil ancang-ancang dan ia menerobos semak itu. Ajaib, pengembara itu tidak mengalami luka goresan sedikitpun. Dengan penuh sukacita, ia kemudian melanjutkan perjalanan dan berkata dalam hati Betapa hebatnya aku. Semak belukarpun tak mampu menghalangi aku. Selama hampir 1 jam lamanya ia berjalan, tampaklah di hadapannya kerikil-kerikil tajam berserakan. Dan tak ada jalan lain selain dia harus melewati jalan itu. Pikir pengembara itu untuk kedua kalinya Jika aku melewati kerikil ini, kakiku pasti akan berdarah dan terluka. Tapi aku tetap harus melewatinya. Maka dengan segenap tekadnya, pengembara itu berjalan. Ajaib, ia tak mengalami luka tusukkan kerikil itu sedikitpun dan tampak kakinya dalam keadaan baik-baik saja. Sekali lagi ia berkata dalam hati : Betapa hebatnya aku. Kerikil tajampun tak mampu menghalangi jalanku. Pengembara itupun kembali melanjutkan perjalanannya. Saat hampir sampai di puncak gunung itu, ia kembali menjumpai rintangan. Batu-batu besar dan licin menghalangi jalannya, dan tak ada jalan lain selain dia harus melewatinya. Pikir pengembara itu untuk yang ketiga kalinya : Jika aku harus mendaki batu-batu ini, aku pasti akan tergelincir dan tangan serta kakiku akan patah. Tapi aku ingin sampai di puncak itu. Aku harus melewatinya. Maka pengembara itupun mulai mendaki batu itu dan ia...tergelincir. Aneh, setelah bangkit, pengembara itu tidak merasakan sakit di tubuhnya dan tak ada satupun tulangnya yang patah. Betapa hebatnya aku. Batu-batu terjal inipun tidak dapat menghalangi jalanku. Maka, iapun melanjutkan perjalanan dan sampailah ia di puncak gunung itu. Betapa sukacitanya ia meihat pemandangan yang sungguh indah dan tak pernah ia melihat yang seindah ini. Akan tetapi, saat pengembara itu membalikkan badannya, tampaklah di hadapannya sosok manusia yang penuh luka sedang duduk memandanginya. Tubuhnya penuh luka goresan dan kakinya penuh luka tusukan dan darah. Ia tak dapat menggerakkan seluruh tubuhnya karena patah dan remuk tulangnya. Berkatalah pengembara itu dengan penuh iba pada sosok penuh luka itu : Mengapa tubuhmu penuh luka seperti itu? Apakah karena segala rintangan yang ada tadi? Tidak bisakah engkau sehebat aku karena aku bisa melewatinya tanpa luka sedikitpun? Siapakah engkau sebenarnya ? Jawab sosok penuh luka itu dengan tatapan penuh kasih : Aku adalah Tuhanmu. Betapa hatiKu tak mampu menolak untuk menyertaimu dalam perjalanan ini, mengingat betapa inginnya engkau melihat keindahan ini. Ketahuilah, saat engkau harus melewati semak belukar itu, Aku memelukmu erat supaya tak satupun duri merobek kulitmu. Saat kau harus melewati kerikil tajam, maka Aku menggendongmu supaya kakimu tidak tertusuk. Ketika kau memanjat batu licin dan terjatuh, Aku menopangmu dari bawah agar tak satupun tulangmu patah. Ingatkah engkau kembali padaKU ? Pengembara itupun terduduk dan menangis tersedu-sedu. Untuk kedua kalinya, Tuhan harus menumpahkan darahNya untuk suatu kebahagiaan. Kadang, kita lupa bahwa Tuhan selalu menyertai melindungi kita. Kita lebih mudah ingat betapa hebatnya diri kita yang mampu melampaui segala rintangan tanpa menyadari bahwa Tuhan bekerja di sana. Dan sekali lagi, Tuhan harus berkorban untuk keselamatan kita. Maka, seperti Tuhan yang tak mampu menolak untuk menyertai anakNya, dapatkah kita juga tak mampu menolak segala kasihNya dalam perjalanan hidup kita dan membiarkan tanganNya bekerja dalam hidup kita? == Menyangkal diri From: Marco Suherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kemarin setelah saya membeli DVD The Day After Tommorow, saya membeli DVD Van Helsing, dan hari ini saya memikirkan untuk membeli DVD Chronicle of Riddick yang bahkan beli diputar di bioskop Indonesia. Saya jadi berpikir kenapa saya suka menonton film yang berisi kekerasan, darah, perkelahian dsbnya, kalau dulu saya malah suka nonton film yang menyajikan tentang seks dan sejenisnya, juga foto-foto wanita telanjang dan pornografi, cuma sekarang suka ngak lagi, walaupun masih banyak film yang menyajikan itu, apalagi internet. Pikiran saya jaid merenungkan tentang FirmanNya, Sangkal dirimu, pikul salibmu dan
JNM - Believer With Abusive Mate
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BELIEVING WIFE ABUSIVE BELIEVING/UNBELIEVING HUSBAND To Clarissa from R Tyler oldservant8 --Jabez1Chr4 -- Elkanah Dear Clarissa [Names etc changed for privacy, You wrote and I respond at /// Please think and pray about it. In a message dated 6/30/04 5:36:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clarissa: Dear Brothers and Sisters, I need your prayers. I need Jesus. SNIP My husband drinks every night now and he thinks that it's okay to play with a person when drinking ex. pulling hair, etc.); Now got mad when I discussed this with him and it took a lot of courage because I take a lot of abuse from him. ///When a husband is abusive, threatening and hurtful to his wife and children, should she stay and take it? Can she leave him for the safety of herself and her children? ***Mat 10:23* Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; . . . WEY ***1 Co 7: 10 But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, A wife should not be separated from husband; 11 (but if also she shall have been separated, she should remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) . . . . . ///The wife has the option of leaving her husband and remaining celibately separated from him. If during that separation, and her husband is found to be an unbeliever of Jesus, when he no longer wants to dwell with her and rejects, abandons, repudiates her and the marriage, then she is free of him and free to divorce him and remarry. ***1 Cor. 7:13* And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to be dwelling with her, she should not leave/divorce/ abandon/ repudiate him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, . . . . ; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 15 But if the unbelieving one separates/departs, he/she should separate/depart. A brother or a sister is not [maritally] bound in such [cases], but God has called us in peace. 16 For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save [your] husband? ***Mt. 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; . . . . ///When your husband persecutes you in one city, flee to another. ***Joh 11:53 From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him. 54 Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples. ***Mt 2:13 Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it. ///When you learn that your mate is intent on doing grave harm to you, take your children and flee to another county, state or country if you have to in order to be safe. ***Mt 12: 14 But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. 15 But Jesus knowing it, withdrew thence, and great crowds followed him; and he healed them all: ***Ac 14: 5 And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them, 6 they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country, 7 and there they were announcing the glad tidings. ///When you learn that your mate is intent on doing grave harm to you, flee from him and find another place to serve God. ***Joh 7:1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ///When you know that you mate seeks to do you harm, do not live or walk where he lives. ***Ac 9:24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him; 25 but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. ///When you know that you mate seeks to do you harm, flee to the Jesus believers and let them escape from your evil mate. ***Luke 6:27 But I say to you who hear: Love your [mates who have made themselves your] enemies, . . . ///What does that mean? That means being patient and kind with your mate, showing that love with neither envy nor jealousy, without being forward and self-assertive, boastful or conceited. She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger at her mate, nor brood over wrongs done to her by her mate. She finds no pleasure in any injustice done to her mate, but joyfully sides with the truth when she can. She knows how to be silent, calm and peaceful. She is full of trust in Jesus, full of hope in Jesus, full of patient endurance because of Jesus. ***Luke 6:27 . . . do good to those [mates] who hate you, 28 bless those [mates] who curse you, and pray for those [mates] who despitefully use you. 29 And to him/her who
JNM - Gods Work Ministry E-Mail
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gods Work Ministry Inspirational and Encouragement E-Mail Dear Friend, As believers in the Lord, we are to remember who we are and whose we are and never allow ourselves to think about giving up. The Lord is our strength and comfort and is a very present help in time of trouble. We are to remember that life is never going to be perfect and there will always be trials and tribulations that will come our way. It's only at the end of the trial that we truly understand how beneficial that situation was in strengthening our faith and helping to develop our character. When tough times come, don't for a second think of giving up, but rather stand steadfast in your faith committing that you will never give up, but rather will stand strong and continue on. (Psalm 46:1-5) (Ephesians 6:13-18) I hope you are encouraged and strengthened by today's message. GIVING UP TOO SOON A man meets a guru in the road. The man asks the guru, Which way is success? The aged, bearded sage speaks not but points to a place off in the distance. The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud Splat Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction. The man obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening, and when the man crawls back, he is bloody, broken, tattered, and irate. â?oI asked you which way is success, he screams at the guru. I followed the direction you indicated. And all I got was Splattered! No more of this pointing! Talk! Only then does the guru speak, and what he says is this: Success Is that way. Just a little past Splat Author Unknown Be encouraged and know that success is promised to come if we faint not. We are to be diligent and continuous in the pursuits that God has placed in our hearts and must never believe the lie that success isn't meant for us. We need to always remember that to stumble does not mean to fail, but rather should be motivation to get our eyes refocused on the goal and to get back up with a renewed and refreshed fervor to reach those goals and successes that our ahead of each of us. (Galatians 6:9) (Psalm 37:23-26) Read and meditate on these scriptures: James 1:2-5 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Psalm 23:1-4 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 37:23-26 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and He delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with His hand. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.â? Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible. Today's Selected Poem: THE PROMISE Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/inpoem182.htm Today's Selected Testimony: ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony27.htm In Christ's Service, Dwayne Savaya Gods Work Ministry Please feel free to visit the Website to read more Encouraging and Inspirational stories, poems and testimonies. Our E-mail Archives are available as well to read the messages that have been sent in the past. You can also send Free E-cards to friends and loved ones with the many choices available. You are also welcome to post your prayer requests in our Prayer Forum. All this and more available at --- http://www.Godswork.org You can also send prayer requests to --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add your E-mail address if you'd like correspondence with the prayer partners. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/IYOolB/TM ~- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
