Taken, blessed, broken, given

Watch it all...
 
Lord let me also be like the bread of communion. 
"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body." Matthew 26:26

Worthy is the Lamb.

Alleluia
Alleluia
For the Lord God Almighty reigns
Alleluia
Alleluia
For the Lord God Almighty reigns
Alleluia
Holy
Holy are You Lord God Almighty
Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy is the Lamb
You are holy
Holy are you Lord God Almighty
Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy is the Lamb
Amen
Michael W. Smith 

Or the original Latin version.



Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
which means:

    Lamb of God, you who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
    Lamb of God, you who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
    Lamb of God, you who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace. 
Truly our Lord Jesus is worthy... let us remember this this Sunday.

May we pray this...

song every day.
 
If We've Ever Needed you - Casting Crowns:

Hear our cry, Lord we pray,
Our faces down, our hands are raised,
You called us out, we turned away, we've turned away.

With ship wrecked faith, idols rise,
We do what is right, in our own eyes,
Our children now, will pay the price,
We need Your light, Lord, shine Your light.

If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now,
We are desperate for Your hand, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out.

All our hearts, all our strength,
With all our minds, we're at Your fate,
May Your Kingdom come, in our hearts and lives,
Let Your Church arise, let Your Church arise!

If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now,
We are desperate for Your hand, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out

If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now,
We're are desperate for Your hand, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out,
If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now,
We are desperate for Your hand, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out

We need You now
Revive us now
We need You now  
"I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications."
 Psalm 116:1

Great music!

A great song! Just to show that Christian music is just as great as any other!
Newsboys - Live With Abandon (Official Lyric Video) from newsboys on GodTube.

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 ESV

God of wonders...

Truly he is! 
Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalm 40:5

"Insanity of God" from imb connecting on Vimeo.
This book is inspirational, a must read!

"Be faithful, even to the point of death . . ."

Revelation 2:10

Trance for Christ

this is an awesome remix of Matthew Parkers great song "I am Yours"

Thank you DJ Jireh...for making Trance with the message of the Gospel. Heavenly Trance indeed!

Here, here I am
Take my hand and fill me with your spirit, Lord
I am yours
And I'll do what you command
Coz I am yours, I am yours
Here I am, Lord
I am yours

There's nothing that I'd rather do then follow you
You bought me with your blood and I belong to you
Here I am, all of me, I give myself completely, Lord
Take my hand, I want to be, wholly, wholly, wholly yours

Here, here I am
Take my hand and fill me with your spirit, Lord

Here, here I am
Take my hand and fill me with your spirit, Lord
I am yours
And I'll do what you command
Coz I am yours, I am yours
Here I am, Lord
I am yours

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." Martin Luther

White Flag

 
"White Flag" Chris Tomlin, from the album Burning Lights

The battle rages on
As storm and tempest roar
We cannot win this fight
Inside our rebel hearts
We're laying down our weapons now

We raise our white flag
We surrender
All to You
All for You

We raise our white flag
The war is over
Love has come
Your love has won

Here on this Holy ground
You made a way for peace
Laying your body down
You took our rightful place
This freedom song is marching on

We raise our white flag
We surrender
All to You
All for You

We raise our white flag
The war is over
Love has come
Your love has won

Your love has won

We lift the cross
Lift it high lift it high [x8]

We raise our white flag
We surrender
All to You
All for You

We raise our white flag
The war is over
Love has come
Your love has won

We raise our white flag
We surrender
All to You
All for You

We raise our white flag
The war is over
Love has come
Your love has won

We lift the cross
Lift it high lift it high [x4] 
I love this song... It describes how we should surrender to God and lay everything at his feet.
"We raise our white flag, the war is over, Love has come, Your love has won!"

The theme song form MMC Karoo 2013

Genoeg is genoeg! Enough is enough! It is time to stand for Jesus and our values and not to be afraid to proclaim who we belong to!

Matthew 7:15-20

New King James Version (NKJV)

You Will Know Them by Their Fruits

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹

"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

You will never again wake up With silence in your heart

"Silence In Your Heart"

You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart
You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart

You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart

You will never again wake up
With your whole world torn apart
And I will be your shelter and
These tears will be your last
You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart

And I will be your shelter and
These tears will be your last
You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart

You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart
You will never again wake up
With your whole world torn apart
And I will be your shelter and
These tears will be your last
You will never again wake up
With silence in your heart

Who will be your shelter? Who will mend your shattered world? Who will wipe away your tears?
For me the answer is plain to see... Jesus my Savoir! So my heart cannot stay silent anymore!
Amazing how the lyrics echo the word of God and the music itself has this amazing uplifting beat that makes one want to dance and shout out for joy!
Sing to the Lord with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. Psalm 147

When you see a big flash in the sky...

duck... wait for the boom... then take a look outside.
Rule #1 from the Meteor Strike Survival Guide, adapted from the "How to survive a nuclear strike handbook.". 
Jokes aside it must have been an awesome and somewhat frightening experience to have been in the Ural mountains Friday last week.
This all happened while MD and I were on our way to a real Boeretroue in Hoopstad. For those that have not attended one and wish to maintain some form of diet... do not accept the invitation!
It was virtually non stop eating from the moment we arrived on the farm until we left on Sunday morning late. Biltong by the bucket load and other delights, then at the reception even more followed by salads and bykosse to die for and enough braai to feed a small army.


Coming back to the meteor... it reminds me of this passage from Matthew 24;
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. 

Let us therefore be prepared and live our lives as if each day is the day we will meet Jesus face to face.

Walking in His Will...

Without Faith this would be impossible to do.
Hebrews 11.1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Probably the most profound truth in a short sentence.
We believe in something that is foolishness for those still walking in darkness or those that have rejected the gift of Love Divine.
When the world throws it's disbelief at you keep in mind this verse and remember that you have the Word of God to fall back on. However when one considers that in the time of Acts the New Testament was still largely inaccessible or unwritten, all those Christians had was Faith in what they had heard from other followers of Jesus and the support of fellow believers. 
^{Verse 6 explains this process as well.}
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Our Faith is what opens up our walk in His will and enables us to be the tools that the Holy Spirit can use to be an example to others.

Remember... our God is the God of Angel Armies, whom shall we fear? Enjoy the video and hope it will inspire you to walk in His will this year.
 

Chris Tomlin - Whom Shall I Fear (God Of Angel Armies)

You hear me when I call
You are my morning song
Though darkness fills the night
It cannot hide the light
Whom shall I fear

You crush the enemy
Underneath my feet
You are my Sword and Shield
Though trouble lingers still
Whom shall I fear

Chorus:
I know Who goes before me
I know Who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always on my side
The One who reigns forever
He is a Friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side

My strength is in Your name
For You alone can save
You will deliver me
Yours is the victory

Chorus:
I know Who goes before me
I know Who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always on my side
The One who reigns forever
He is a Friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear

Bridge:
And nothing formed against me shall stand
You hold the whole world in Your hands
I’m holding onto Your promises
You are faithful
You are faithful
You are faithful

Chorus:
I know Who goes before me
I know Who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always on my side
The One who reigns forever
He is a Friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side

Chorus:
I know Who goes before me
I know Who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always on my side
The One who reigns forever
He is a Friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side

The God of angel armies is always by my side

Our Gift from God

 
For it is written...
For God so loved the world.

America... between the rock and the hard place.

As I watch from afar something strikes me as being both amusing as well as disturbing.
The next president will either be the present one, Barak Obama or Mitt Rommey.
Both are not 100% Christian when weighed by the Bible according to Matthew 7:16 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" The present day job description of politician makes this contrary to God's word very often and seems to be counter to biblical practices and directives. Yet many voters are being asked to judge them on biblical principles and vote accordingly. 
So what should a Christian voter do when posed with such a dilemma? Jesus wants us to be the salt of this world by participating not only at church level but at community and national level as well as shown in 1 Peter 2:13-17 , for us South Africans it is somewhat easier as there are political parties that have based their doctrine on biblical guidelines but for the US Christian it is less easy as the two parties have different views on biblical guidance. This is of course compounded as mentioned by the candidate's stance on the issues as well and their perceived relationship with God based on their respective professed faiths.
Only prayer (James 1.5) can give them those answers and I will be praying that God will give the Christians in the USA the discernment to vote not as they wish, but as God wishes. 
We should all remember this in our daily walk when we need to make decisions. 
Psalm 25:12 "The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live."

Note: I have started using NETBibleTagger in my blogs, it is very handy in that it automatically tags and quotes scripture references on the blog from Bible ORG.

Volcanoes under the artic

and somehow the "experts" discount the influence on the ice sheet? Pull the other one please. The Gakkel Ridge is dotted with volcanoes and hot water vents and since the discovery in the 1950's there seems to have been an increase in the activity of the geothermal sources, my common sense tells me this is the overlying reason for the increased loss of ice cover and not climate cahnge per se. Especially when one looks at the map... it lies in the centre of the artic se and one can compare it to the element inside an electric kettle, sooner or later it will heat up the water above it and disturb the existing thermoclines which would have shieded the ice from the warm water. Heat will eventually find a way to rise to the top of a thermal system... basic physics! This of course has been kept rather quite in the media as it does not fit in well with the popular scenario of Climate Change. Tectonic activity is also why part of the Antartic ice shelf is melting while the rest of the continent is recoding record ice levels. 
Yes, we are living in changing climatic conditions but there are bigger influences from earth and space than the puny species homo sapiens can ever imagine. Having said that we should be guardians over our little patch in any case but to presume that we can influence the winds is taking things out of perspective. Bear in mind that we should always remember who is really in control...
Psalm 8:4 "What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?"

Thank you Jesus

 "And all these things have finally been complete"

Google "DNA is a language" and be astounded.

Perry Marshal challenges Atheists with this amazing statement.“If You Can Read This, I Can Prove God Exists”
And He is not alone when one reads many of the articles found doing that Google search. 
This proves to me that what the Bible states in Job 31 to 41 where God reveals himself through the natural world around us, from the Cosmic to the Microscopic. Now even the stuff that makes us who we are is telling us that God is the author of it all...


"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."

Psalm 19 King James Version (KJV)

Something diffrent from the norm...

Nice to see a cute video, shows that normality can still be entertaining. Imagination knows no bounds both in the story and the production.

Today's quote is just as inspiring, not only did God do that but he imagined a way out for us sinners, God in his infinite imagination and wisdom was able to give us redemption without it costing us anything but acceptance of his love. I cannot imagine a greater love than giving your Son on a tree as sacrifice for sin, even when we are not worthy of the sacrifice.

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything." HENRY MILLER

Awesome!

Just to show how awesome the universe is... a glimpse by photographer Daniel Lopez.  

Makes these words from the Bible ring very true. Psalm 147:4-5 says "He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Great is our Lord, and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite."

The Arab Spring

... is working out very well so far...

And he laid out a vision for the post-Gaddafi future with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the "basic source" of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In a gesture that showed his own piety, he urged Libyans not to express their joy by firing guns in the air, but rather to chant "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great. He then stepped aside from the podium and knelt to offer a brief prayer of thanks.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2097588,00.html#ixzz1bggTZkiE

This is what I expected to happen and it is going to happen in Egypt and all the other "Liberated" countries. It is the nature of the Islamic religion. It cannot change and become liberal due to it's dark origins.

The times we live in require us to make choices and to take a stand... 

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[a] against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.[b] 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39 English Standard Version (ESV) God’s Everlasting Love