Sari @sarikorpi@dingdash.com

@DevotionalTreasures Thank you my brother! 😊

That verse became alive for me through being a mother (of five). In the beginning, with the first child, it was hard for me to put my own needs aside as the baby needed to be cared of and breastfed day and night. I just waited the whole day for my husband to come home from work! But as time went and we got more children, I slowly learned to start "dying for myself" and put my own desires aside. I then started to understand what that verse meant about giving your body as a sacrifice to God. I see this same also in marriage, you give yourself to the other. (1 Cor. 7:4).

God bless you!

@DevotionalTreasures Good post! Yes, the altars' to God is now to be built in our hearts! And what are the sacrifices on our altars? Our worship, our life - our living bodies! This is one of my absolute favorite verses in the Bible:

"I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship." (Rom. 12:1)

So this is not just a theological thing to build an altar to God in our hearts and "give our life to Jesus", it means that we practically give our b o d i e s for Him as a living sacrifices, which means everything that I use my body for in my everyday life. ❤

"Make Him central to your every hour, the source of your every breath, and the Light that everyone sees in you each day."

Amen!

@tanjaostman 😂

@erdenpilger I fully agree that the healing of our spirit, which was bound to sin and therefore dead spiritually, is the absolute most important healing to a person! However, God is so full of compassion for us humans that he wants to reach his hand out also in our physical needs and sicknesses, that's what Jesus did when he walked on earth; he healed both spiritually and physicallly. And he's the same today. Why doesn't then everyone get healed, although we pray and cry out to God? I don't know. God's ways are higher than ours. So in that way I too think we can't take it as a prophesy (guarantee) for all sicknesses in the world. 
It's a pity that many charismatic churches has made healing (and christianity) a business (where you seek worldly success). They don't seek HIM, only his blessings. Daniel is a good role model: to stand firm and obey God's word, know He is able to save from evil people (or heal) - also if he won't. He's God, and He's 100% good and righteous. ❤ God bless you!

"Jesus has changed my life, His name be lifted high, this holy fire's burning inside of me!"

https://youtu.be/sw-t4NCuhVY

@DevotionalTreasures God is truly worthy of our praise! And when He has lit His fire in us it can't stay hidden! Be blessed brother! 😊

@Chidiotamiri Thank you!
And you put it very well in your previous post: "But though the ability to sin is still in us, the grace of God has appeared to us and it enables us to say "NO" to sin."
Be blessed!

When we seek God as a means to get something for us, we will not find Him."

- K. P Yohannan

"But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

- Matt. 6:33

@Chidiotamiri Amen to this! 🙏

@Crissy_1565 To see a person be transformed by the love and power of God, surrender himself totally to Christ and start preaching the gospel so that more people can be set free - That's what Jesus came for! He came so that the lost world would have a chance. Without Him we are lost.

Keith Green is a great example of a person who lived 100% for Christ. His life was totally transformed and consumed by the love God, put on fire for Jesus and for the lost in the world - saving nothing of himself. Impacted millions of peoples lives and are still impacting:

https://youtu.be/4nLRCIzNI5c

@Chidiotamiri Amen!
And ones' Jesus has made us righteous and purified us from our past sins, He gives us His grace to live a holy life according to his will. But now it's all glory to Him, because I know in me, that's in my flesh, dwell nothing good (Rom.7:18). He helps me to die to my self and to walk in the Spirit. (Rom. 6:13).We are not slaves to sin anymore, although it will be stuck to us as long as we live in this body. (Rom. 7:25). But we have a new Master now! 🙌 (Rom. 6:6-7,14)

"We're blind to the fact that we have an obligation to five billion people in the world. This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of lost souls".

- Leonard Ravenhill

@KarlGessler correcting: not 70, but 72 disciples.

"But if the Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead 
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead 
shall also quicken your mortal 
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you". (Rom.8:11)

 "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." (Mat. 22:29).

Here Jesus was correcting the sadukees who didn't believe in resurrection from the death.

I'm thinking, how much have we as church gone wrong in a similar way today? Do we have faith in the real Jesus (who is Son of God, yet a man) and who is powerful in everything concerning our lives? Do we understand (and truly believe/act on it!) that the same power that raised up Jesus from the grave, now dwells in us? Are these signs following us (Mark.16:17-18)?

Do we know what the Bible says and read it by ourselves? Or do we trust that our pastor knows the best so that we don't need to read or understand it ourselves? Do we lean on tradition more than on God's word?

We need them both: the Power (Gods Holy Spirit) and the scripture (the Bible), so that we won't go astray.

God help us! 🙏

@KarlGessler "A Jesus of theory or story hour is a sentimental comfort. The real Jesus commands the wind and seas and is a force to be reckoned with." Amen!!

@KarlGessler And I'm at the same time talking to myself here - I long to see God move in my life as he did among the first disciples! To be ready to leave everything for the sake of the Kingdom, to heal the sick, cast out demons and preach the gospel so that peoples' lives are changed and they are free to live a holy life for God. Not be bound to sin anymore! (Rom. 6:7). To see God work in us and through us!