Blessed assurance


Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels, descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.




Not much is known of the background of this Fanny Crosby hymn, "Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine." Fanny tells this one story about the hymn. Mrs. Joseph Fairchild Knapp, wife of the organizer of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, went to visit her and get an opinion of a tune Mrs. Knapp had written. "What does it say to you, Fanny?" she asked. Fanny's answer was "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine." And then a few minutes later she handed to Mrs. Knapp the completed lyrics of the hymn. The tune and the lyrics were put together and are still sung today.

Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns. She said about her blindness, "The first face ever to gladden my sight will be when I get to heaven and behold the face of the One who died for me. . . . I verily believe that God intended that I should live my days in physical darkness so that I might be better prepared to sing His praise and lead others from spiritual darkness into eternal light. With sight I would have been too distracted to have written thousands of hymns."

Good Day to Ya'll.

And thanks Bananajoe,

One of the way to be filled with God's spirit is to sing hymns and songs.

Can even be modern day songs by Hillsongs, Chris Tomlins etc. It does not have to be old Hymns.

Even if you don't know the words, you can hum the tune.

Being filled with God's spirit is like being energised with power to walk victoriously in Christ.


Ephesians 5:18-19
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Nov 5 2012, 09:54 AM

I was planning to host garden wedding for 200+ pax, any place to recommend..? I can't afford for sky-high pricing.

When is your wedding?

end march 2013

amen

We are spending RM 34 Million for our new church building that will complete this month. Got big and beautiful garden just for wedding. come look see look see ok.

34million. while still many mouths goes hungry.

is this even necessary? i bet your pastors drive mercs/mpvs.

I believe each Church has Visions and mission statement.

Every Church should geared up for expansion and growth after a while and usually happens

when current building cannot accommodate for the increasing numbers of people coming in.

Really depends on the leading of God's spirit.

It will take money as properties cost nowadays is sky rocket high.

Nothing wrong imo.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Nov 6 2012, 01:03 AM

building a church is nothing wrong

spending on unecessary things is.

i've seen how mega churches boasts having alot of money. beautifying their church with sophisticated PA systems, entertainment systems, sports halls, ball rooms, etc etc.

but when it comes to donating money to orang asli, the poor, the destitutes, etc..all end up being a scrooge. ask for donating PCs for some classes for foreign workers, all end up dumping junk PCs like P166, win98, etc. Ask for more money to buy better computers so can teach them with relevant skills (as part of the curicullar activities), all say no money. but then all drive big cars, buy iphones, samsung, ipads, etc showing off.

hypocrites.

34mil for church building? come on.

unknow , i got this question from my other friend
he question what is the gift of roh kudus or 7 kurnian kudus
then i duno

I see All Churches that is Christ centred belongs to God as the head.
And God uses different members for different purposes.

The rule of the thumb is not to judge neither be worry about it
because God will take care of irresponsible fund management.

Have Faith that God knows and does act.

Our Job as Christians is to walk a life of Love.

God has given each of us a mission in life. You and I have different callings and gifts.

And we are to use it to build people up. Especially towards people who need guidance.

I practise this rule. Even IF there is fund mismanagement in existence but because I'm not a Church committee board member,

It's not my duty to even bother about it unless there's strong prompting from the Holy Spirit to intervene.

And I would only consider doing it if I have verified proofs. To just criticize out in the open, doesn't gel very well with the life of peace we are called to live in.

God have the final say and will rightly judge against those who abuse Church funds for selfishness. Lets not try to take his place.

Have peace brother.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Nov 6 2012, 02:15 AM

The 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit originate from Catholic denomination.

They got it from Isaiah 11:2-3.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.

The last one is termed as piousness.

To my knowledge there are also 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. (Galatians 5:22) That is a different thing compared to definition of gifts.

I don't consider these as something that's so crucial, we have to remember it to be classified as such, neither am I saying these classification of the 7 gifts are wrong. They are all correct in fact.

Because under the NT,The Bible does mention The Holy Spirit who acts as our Divine Teacher and Guider to all Truth, so to speak. And Christ is our Wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:30), who is already in you.

In essence you are already equip with all you that need for guidance and is it is found in Christ Jesus.

It's like this. When you need Guidance, you pray to God the Father who sees and accepts you in Jesus and will prompt the Holy Spirit to act and answer.

Fund management? I'll scream at those who think thrice in donating to the poor and the needy while they continue living in life of luxury.

hypocrites. most of them are snobs and clicks to their own rich kind. heaven have no place for these people.

Pastor drive only honda civic.

Jesus taught me a lesson about trying to jaga tepi kain orang.

John 21:19-23

After Jesus reinstated peter's ministry, despite him betraying by denying 3 times, Jesus said to Peter, "Follow Me" then Peter asked Jesus about John
"what about him?"

See.

God already gave Peter what he needs to do in life and in fact restored Him and gave this divine command, Follow Me. That is God's will for Peter.

The same that God will give everyone who believes in Him, God will give you, your calling in Life. When God gives His will, Christians should zero in on the will of God and focus on it.

But Peter (perhaps a bit busybody) asked " what about Him Lord?"

Jesus answered in verse 22

Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.

In Essence Jesus is saying. Don't be busy body about others, do my Will.

I love that expression. "what is that to you?" It really put us in our place not to be out of perspective especially when God commands it.



Well I hope the verse speaks to you. But if you insist you want to do things your way, up to you.

Shalom.




My Senior Pastor, Honda Insight, bcos of green tech.

Morning brothers!

too bad something bad had happen.. my wedding had cancel, I even choose to leave god. I'm on the path to build strong evidence to proof that satan existing now. If 1 day u guys from above the heaven saw me in hell, spare me a dog bone

Share with us. I believe we can solve your problem.

i don't recall the world being perfect?

bad things happen blame satan or god? i see u chose to leave god and u wanna proof satan exist? so conclusion, u blame both?

This post has been edited by hotjake: Nov 6 2012, 01:11 PM