Bended Worship Ministry

Here’s one activity a Christian should be notable about, that of being thankful. And that is to one – God, from whom alone flows and derived everything that is good. What can we be thankful about? From a Christian who truly has learned how it is to really rejoice…everything! The good and even the not so good for then we have come to see God for who he is and the reality of his word that “in all things God works for the good of all those who love him…those that are called…”

Why is it so important that we should be thankful? Why is it that God’s word exhorts us in so many places to be so?

It is a testimony that we have received. A Christians witness always starts in the truth that he/she has received. And I am speaking here about life and all the things that accompany it as God has purposed. His says that, in being made one with Christ, he showered us will with all spiritual blessings. Ephesians 1:3…And this is something that is already done. This means that a Christian having received Christ already has these blessings. But there is something about the nature of being thankful, that this should be continual, unceasing like prayer. And why is this so? In John 8:38 we hear the Lord speaking, “He who believes in me, as the Scripture said,’From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ “ The Lord is speaking here about an unending supply of life, something that God expect to be flowing in and flowing out of a believer in uninterrupted fashion. Can we not be unceasingly thankful with such an experience? Praise the Lord!

You see being thankful really is not about things. It is about Jesus. What he has done and continually is doing. The experience of this affecting the whole man flows in songs of praises extolling God’s goodness, his beauty and holiness, into joyful shouts of thanksgiving to God who so deserved! It is because we have received life!

It is Jesus Christ being made known. We as believers are all called upon to bear witness of Christ. We are all called to tell others about the gospel – the saving work of Christ, his coming Kingdom. And we can truthfully say that sometimes we are puzzling how. We think of strategies, we plan, we train others in the so may programs that have come about. Still we find ourselves asking…how? But here is a way God has given us so simple that we fail to notice it for what it is. Being thankful! To be thankful is to bear witness of a God so good no words is enough. To be thankful is to proclaim God’s wonderful work accomplished in Christ. To be thankful will tell many how we have come to received Christ, how we experience Christ, how we grow knowing Christ. Not only that but how God loved us, how he fills us with many good things…oh there’s no end to this! I believed that Paul after that beating with Silas in Philippi, were busy singing praise and thanking God when the earth shook breaking everything open in the Philippians jail. It brought about the salvation of the jailer and his household. Nothing fancy here, no weeks upon weeks of training, no agonizing about the how to’ s. Just a simple witness. They have just one thing. They have life and they are thankful!

Where the ability of the saints does lies? How can we ever live the holy life to which God have called us? How can we be a truly effective witness for Christ? How can I serve God? How can we please God? How? How? So many questions that bugs the saint that many are left feeling guilty making many even more ineffective for God’s work! But the Lord Jesus himself exclaimed, ” ….truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself…” Jn.5:19 AKJV.

If our Lord himself speak of his own inability ( as a man and because of a reason that is…) then why should we be so much bothered or perplexed by our own inability? Rather we should be asking, coming to God that is, that we may see and know where lies our ability. I am speaking here of the ability of the saints so wonderful that if we will begin to truly realize, we will see men and women of God growing in the grace and the knowledge of God, becoming more and more fruitful for His glory, being mightily used by God, becoming the ambassadors that God has called us to be.

This is a matter of a right perspective, a godly perspective. God is concerned not of what we can seemingly do, but of what He alone can do! And mind you, brothers and sisters, our God is raring to do this he is grieved even as he waits for his saints to respond to these glorious truths. And it is for us to receive this, for us to trust Him. This is where the problem lies, for we profess our faith, that we trust God and yet we do otherwise. We think of this and we think of that, we plan; we do the works not realizing that all of this is nothing unless it comes from a growing knowledge of the Son, yes! Unless the life of Jesus flows.

Have we forgotten God’s word in Ephesians 2: 8? “For it is by grace…it is the gift of God.” The life of a Christian depends on the receiving of this Grace daily, no! on a moment by moment basis. This is a gift. We have received life as a gift and the living of this is also by gift! We just received. What we need is a momentary supply of God’s grace that is realized in a life that is in utter dependence on Lord Jesus Christ. Why this so? Because our ability to live in such that we are able to walk worthy of the calling ( Eph.4:1) depends solely on what the Lord Jesus can do and will do!

Our consciousness should be not on what we can do, not even on what we will do, but on what our loving God will do. Let’s see some verses here: Do you fear what man can do? “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us…” Daniel 3:17. Are you bothered by the commission of mistakes? “Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling…” Jude 24. Do you feel like you are not blessed? “Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think…” Eph.3:20. Temptations? “…but when you are tempted…he will also provide a way…” 1Cor.10:13. Are you even asking, how am I to live by God’s grace? “ Our God is able to make all grace abound towards you “ 2Cor.9:8.

It is God at work. From the very beginning until it’s consummation. The ability of a believer always lies in what God will do in through the believer. This is grace! And so His word in 2 Corinthians 4:7 shines as it is testified upon in the lives of those who have walk humbly with their God, those who have gone on to learn a life of surrender, those who have come to know that their ability is as it has been and always in the person of Christ Jesus…” But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” Praise, Honor, and Glory be to our God and His Christ now and forever!

We make so much of weaknesses! Even to point that we unwittingly dishonor God whom the Bible properly addressed as the, “Almighty,” to whom we always sing, “ all things are possible.” What about weaknesses? If we will just take time to see, we will realize that we came to define weakness as the very tendency of man to sin., or if we will just be forthright and confessing, the sinful nature itself! Let us understand that what we say a weakness the word of God say a SIN! And God says that it is dead. That’s why the Lord Jesus came to die, not just to take our sin away but also as the word say, to put the body of sin to death. How can something that is dead be still called a weakness, for weakness belongs to the living? Let’s listen to Paul, his own declarations about weakness and we can read this in 2 Corinthians 11:, starting verse 16 up to Chapter 12:10. This is what it’s meant to be weak. ” That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2Cor.12:10

If we will just truly exercise faith in our love for our God we will see that there is so much that God can do in a very, very tangible way in so that given the opportunity, we could truly say with Paul, “for when I am weak, then I am strong.” I am speaking here of the ability of the saints and where this ability lies. And all we have to do is believe and receive! Remember sin and what we know as weakness is out of the question here. It is dead! Romans 6:11…” In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin…” What we have here is an ever progressing realization of what God’s grace can do, of what Christ’s can do.

I say it again all we have to do is believe and receive, something that is already given. That is what grace is all about, we just believe and receive. How many are those still wallowing in unbelief! And I am speaking of Christians, believers, brothers and sisters.The heart of God is grieved! “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Gal.5:1. Arise brothers and sisters and Christ will shine his light on you. Let Him who does mighty things work mightily in and though you. Let us together declare…”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!