Tongues of Fire! Vol 1

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Today I have been feeling a sobbing sadness that settled within my heart. A sadness that makes me wonder if it is even worthwhile continuing in ministering to God's people. A sadness that makes me wonder if all the sacrifices are even worth it all. A sadness that causes deep feelings of disappointment when I look at how lightly the Gospel is treated. How evil is preferred over good. How easy compromise is accepted in favour of a choice to stand strong for Truth, righteousness and justice.

I wonder ... Could this sadness be that of the Heart of the Father? Could I share in a little of how His Heart feels when He sees all these things?

This I now know and realize, the days ahead of those who will walk in the Light and who will follow along the straight and narrow will not become easier. We should know that the very ones we may minister to today and who we love, may be the ones digging our graves tomorrow!

We are going down south at a frightening pace! How can people be so blind while standing in the Light?

- vdhoven

Do you know …

That no man can achieve salvation through good works, but that God expects good works from the life of every man saved?

We don't meet Jesus and receive salvation by being good or anything we do good. We receive our salvation and have a personal encounter with Jesus through His love shown towards us and by Him gracefully opening our eyes to see Him and to be born again by His Spirit.

Once we are saved however, His Spirit lives in us to do good works! He enables us to live our lives well pleasing to God and to bear "much fruit" of the salvation we have received. His Spirit living in us, manifests through our lives, as we allow Him to control us and as we obey His voice. He empowers us to demonstrate our living faith, through works of Righteousness by His Power working in us, so we may be well pleasing in our actions before Him.

"For God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure." - Phil 2:13

When you are saved your life will become a harvest field producing the fruit of good works pleasing to God!

According to these works we will appear before the judgement seat of Christ (Who saved us and who then will want to see what we have done with the salvation we have freely received from Him), to be tried and to test our works of what kind they are. According to these works our lives will be judged before Him. Whether we 'buried' our salvation freely received, or multiplied His grace freely given and entrusted in us! (Math 25 from verse 18)

"For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body." - 2 Cor 5:10

-vdhoven

"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me". - 1 Corinthians 15:10

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in

weakness.” - 2 Corinthians 12:9 Grace is never passive. Wherever grace is taught as a principle that causes us to become passive in our walk with God, not having to produce any works of righteousness and rests on Christ's work done, it is a false grace message taught!

Christ did faithfully complete His work on earth - He did "finish" His course on earth and fulfilled His destiny - So we are called to follow His example and fulfil ours also!