There are TWO responses to this people;

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS.

GOD FIRST! GOD ALONE!

LIVING FOR CHRIST ALONE!

I remember one day during my bible study; the study was on Job. I was certainly amazed of how God was telling the devil about a certain man- his ways and his heart for God.
I stopped to think that moment... Itunu! What does God think about you?


It has been over 3 months after the study on Job yet that question still resonates in my spirit. It would and should continue to resonate in my spirit...hehe!
Look at how God describes Job.
Job 1 verse 8. God said to Satan, “Have you noticed my friend Job? There’s no one quite like him—honest and true to his word, totally devoted to God and hating evil.”

If you study this chapter very well, God was boasting about Job. Remember how our parents talk to their friends about us; their children- how amazing we are at school work, or how we were the best at the school play or musical.
That is exactly what God was doing here!
Brings me to the topic.... can God vouch for you? for me?
The devil tries to tempt God's children all the time, either based on our weakness or life circumstances.
Can God boldly say I KNOW Mary can't ever drink even though tempted or persuaded by her friends.
Are our weakness(sinful habits) so overwhelming we cannot even vouch for ourselves, how much more God, lol!
The grace of God is not just available to forgive our sins but to prevent us from falling constantly into sin.

We all have/have had struggles but the grace of God and the power of salvation is available to deliver us.

I celebrate you all
muahhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys!

cómo ha sido su semana?

Fine I hope!

In my walk with God, I have learnt a lot of things; and I am still learning.

This portion is concerning my study of the word.  (A POST ON HOW TO STUDY THE WORD COMING SOON)

You cannot have a successful Christian life without constantly feeding on the word of God. There are a lot of materials available to help the young believer/Christian in our day to day study.

Some of these are the different translations of the bible to help us relate bible teachings with our present day life and give deeper meanings to teachings; a lot of us including myself do not understand old translations like the King James bible

My favourite is the message translation. Since I have been studying with this bible translation I hardly ever use any other,lol

A lot of churches and bible study groups use this translation a lot too.

 

Here is a little more information on WHY EUGENE PETERSON, THE TRANSLATOR wrote the message translation

Why was The Message written?

The best answer to that question comes from Eugene Peterson himself: "While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren't feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become 'old hat.'" Peterson's parishioners simply weren't connecting with the real meaning of the words and the relevance of the New Testament for their own lives. So he began to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original ancient Greek— writing straight out of the Greek text without looking at other English translations. As he shared his version of Galatians with them, they quit stirring their coffee and started catching Paul's passion and excitement as he wrote to a group of Christians whom he was guiding in the ways of Jesus Christ. For more than two years, Peterson devoted all his efforts to The Message New Testament. His primary goal was to capture the tone of the text and the original conversational feel of the Greek, in contemporary English. Language changes. New words are formed. Old words take on new meaning. There is a need in every generation to keep the language of the gospel message current, fresh, and understandable —the way it was for its very first readers. That is what The Message seeks to accomplish for contemporary readers. It is a version for our time —designed to be read by contemporary people in the same way as the original koine Greek and Hebrew manuscripts were savored by people thousands of years ago. That's why NavPress felt the time was right for a new version. When we hear something over and over again in the same way, we can become so familiar with it that the text loses its impact. The Message strives to help readers hear the living Word of God— the Bible— in a way that engages and intrigues us right where we are. Some people like to read the Bible in Elizabethan English. Others want to read a version that gives a close word-for-word correspondence between the original languages and English. Eugene Peterson recognized that the original sentence structure is very different from that of contemporary English. He decided to strive for the spirit of the original manuscripts—to express the rhythm of the voices, the flavor of the idiomatic expressions, the subtle connotations of meaning that are often lost in English translations. The goal of The Message is to engage people in the reading process and help them understand what they read. This is not a study Bible, but rather "a reading Bible." The verse numbers, which are not in the original documents, have been left out of the print version to facilitate easy and enjoyable reading. The original books of the Bible were not written in formal language.

The Message tries to recapture the Word in the words we use today.



If you do not have this translation; you need to get it!!! Your study life will take a great leap!

Joshua 1:8-9 The Message Translation (MSG)

And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll succeed.



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