Because He Lives - Finding Life: John 14:19

This is Namma for Christ with the one hundred seventh inspirational message dated Wednesday, January 18th, 2017.  The title of this message is, "Because HE Lives - Finding Life: John 14:19”.  The first three words of the title of this message are also the title of an inspirational Christian song as song by Matt Maher ( The video/song of “Because He Lives - Amen” with lyrics are found
at the end of this message).  The scripture comes from the nineteenth verse of the fourteenth chapter of the book of John:

John 14:19b

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

. . .Because I live, ye shall live also.

For many years, I have enjoyed reading the
daily inspirational messages as provided by RBC Ministries in their
publications of "OUR DAILY BREAD".  Yesterday, Tuesday, January 17th, I read the message for the day and found it to be so beautiful and inspiring,
I wanted to share it with you (see the below message). RBC Ministries has the website of:  www.rbc.org so that you can read and enjoy life-changing wisdom of daily inspirational messages based on scripture from the Bible. Please read and enjoy:

Finding Life

The words of Ravi’s father cut deep. “You’re a complete failure.
You’re an embarrassment to the
family.” Compared to his talented siblings, Ravi was viewed as a disgrace. He tried excelling in sports, and he did, but he still felt like a loser. He wondered, What is going to become of me? Am I a complete failure? Can I get out of life some way, painlessly? These thoughts haunted him, but he talked to no one. That simply wasn’t done in his culture. He had been taught to “keep your private heartache private; keep your collapsing world
propped up.”

So Ravi struggled alone. Then while he was recovering in the
hospital after a failed suicide attempt, a visitor brought him a Bible opened to John 14. His mother read these words of Jesus to Ravi: “Because I live, you also will live” (v. 19). This
may be my only hope, he thought. A new way of living. Life as defined by the Author of life. So he prayed, “Jesus, if You are the one who gives life as it is meant to be, I want it.”

Transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to You alone.

Life can present despairing moments. But, like Ravi, we can find
hope in Jesus who is “the way and the truth and the life” (v. 6). God longs to give us a rich and satisfying life.

Dear Lord, I acknowledge
that I am a sinner, and I need Your forgiveness. Thank You, Jesus, for dying
for me and giving me eternal life. Transform my life so that I may bring glory
and honor to You alone.

Please listen and enjoy the below inspirational song/video by Matt Maher (with lyrics) entitled, “Because He Lives - Amen”:
 

(I do not own the rights to this song.)

BE BLESSED!

First (Look to Him) - Psalm 121:1-2

This is Namma for Christ with the one hundred sixth inspirational message dated Saturday, January 14th, 2017.  The title of this message is, "First: Look to Him – Psalm 121:1-2". The “first word” of the title of this message is taken from the uplifting song, “First” as sung by Christian artist Lauren Daigle. The scripture comes from the first two verses of the 121^st Psalm, as written by David:

Psalm 121:1-2

King James Version (KJV)

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

² My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Recently, I was reading the above passage of scripture and decided to research the verses further. The following is what I found on the internet: “The Treasury of David” as written by Charles H. Spurgeon. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England’s best known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century.

(May the below meditation, bless you – as it blessed me…)

The Treasury of David

By Charles H. Spurgeon

Psalm 121:1-2

EXPOSITION

Verse 1. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. It is wise to look to the strong for strength. Dwellers in valleys are subject to many disorders for which there is no cure but a sojourn in the uplands, and it is well when they shake off their lethargy and resolve upon a climb. Down below they are the prey of marauders, and to escape from them the surest method is to fly to the strongholds upon the mountains. Often before the actual ascent the sick and plundered people looked towards the hills and longed to be upon their summits. The holy man who here sings a choice sonnet looked away from the slanderers by whom he was tormented to the Lord who saw all from His high places, and was ready to pour down succour for His injured servant. Help comes to saints only from above, they look elsewhere in vain: let us lift up our eyes with hope, expectance, desire, and confidence. Satan will endeavour to keep our eyes upon our sorrows that we may be disquieted and discouraged; be it ours firmly to resolve that we will look out and look up, for there is good cheer for the eyes, and they that lift up their eyes to the eternal hills shall soon have their hearts lifted up also. The purposes of God; the divine attributes; the immutable promises; the covenant, ordered in all things and sure; the providence, predestination, and proved faithfulness of the Lord—these are the hills to which we must lift up our eyes, for from these our help must come. It is our resolve that we will not be bandaged and blindfolded, but will lift up our eyes. Or is the text in the interrogative? Does he ask, "Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills?" Does he feel that the highest places of the earth can afford him no shelter? Or does he renounce the idea of recruits hastening to his standard from the hardy mountaineers? And hence does he again enquire, "Whence cometh my help?" If so, the next verse answers the question, and shows whence all help must come.

Verse 2. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. What we need is help,—help powerful, efficient, constant: we need a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:1

King James Version (KJV)

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

What a mercy that we have it in our God. Our hope is in Jehovah, for our help comes from Him. Help is on the road, and will not fail to reach us in due time, for He who sends it to us was never known to be too late. Jehovah who created all things is equal to every emergency; heaven and earth are at the disposal of Him who made them, therefore let us be very joyful in our Infinite Helper. He will sooner destroy heaven and earth than permit His people to be destroyed and the perpetual hills themselves shall bow rather than He shall fail whose ways are everlasting. We are bound to look beyond heaven and earth to Him who made them both: it is vain to trust the creatures: it is wise to trust the Creator.

Please listen and be blessed by the below inspirational and anointed song/video (with lyrics) entitled, “First” by Christian artist Lauren Daigle.

(I do not own the rights to this song.)

BE BLESSED!