No Condemnation in Christ Jesus

 "...There is now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,..."
[Romans 8:1]

Jesus POINTS your wrongs to CORRECT you into His ways and NEVER to condemn you. On the other hand, the Pharisees notices someone's wrongs and condemns them because they feel righteous.

They do not see the sin that is in themselves and points out others wrongs. That is a spontaneous reaction of the Pharisees.

Yet Jesus in His encounter with the woman who was caught in adultery, simply highlighted the TRUTH in the midst of the judgement of the Pharisees.

This is the TRUTH that He highlighted:

“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7)

At that point their eyes were opened and none of them dared to throw the stone since ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).

In our days as Christians, we must becareful not to take the positions of the Pharisees. The longer we have been a Christian, the more self righteous we are prone to become. Because we felt like we have lived blamelessly all these years. The fact that we tend to forget is that we too have been sinners and we too have been forgiven by the Grace of God.

The measure of sin is one, it deserves death. (For the wages of sin is death). Yet by the Grace of the Cross we have been made right with God by the Blood of Jesus.

Why are we pointing at someone's dirty laundry when we have or used to have our own? It is also not by our ability that we could be restored in right standing with Him but by the GRACE that we CANNOT EARN no matter how hard we have tried.

It is by the Grace & the Love of God that we could become more and more like Him.

Before you throw a stone of condemnation at someone, think of how you came into this relationship with God in the first place. Is it through your perfect life ? Or was it in brokeness that He mended your heart to encounter Him & have your life to be restored in Him.

No one but Christ in His Judgement Seat at the Last Days has the right to condemn anybody. Because at the end of the day, we are all sinners who have been forgiven by the grace of God.

If you have misjudge your friend or condemn them in any way, approach them and apologize. Lets reconcile & restore His truth back in our relationships/ friendships.

During this Good Friday, lets take an opportunity to reflect on and put to death every wrong perceptions, every wrong thinking and every wrong ways upon His Cross. That it is FINISHED.

Lets LIVE a RESURRECTED LIFE as a New Creation in Christ defeating the ways of the world & be raised up together with Christ (Col 3:1).

[To be RAISED UP in Christ is to be ELEVATED in our ways of thinking & living, to conform to His TRUTH.]

Happy Good Friday everyone :)! JBU

The Fruit of Your Life

"Perhatikan buah kehidupan kita maka kita akan tahu dimana kita telah berakar…"

Tidak ada pohon yang dapat bertumbuh dan berbuah jikalau pohon itu tidak mempunyai akar. Akar itu sendiri yang membuat pohon itu HIDUP sehingga buah2nya pun terlihat dan dapat dinikmati oleh orang2 yang memakan buah itu.

Sama seperti buah hidup kita. Sudahkah anda perhatikan buah kehidupan saudara akhir2 ini? Bagaimanakah 'RASA' buah dari kehidupan saudara yang dicicipi oleh orang2 skitar saudara ?

Buah hidup kita adalah setiap perkataan yang kita lontarkan, setiap perlakuan kita, setiap pikiran kita dan apapun yang keluar dari hidup kita.

Dimana kita telah berakar, buah kehidupan kita pun akan mencerminkan apa yang 'disalurkan' oleh akar kita.

Sebagaimana akar menyalurkan air dan nutrisi untuk pertumbuhan sebuah pohon. Apa yang menjadi sumber kehidupan kita pun akan bertumbuh di dalam hidup kita.

CONTOH:

1. KEKUDUSAN DALAM BERHUBUNGAN
Bilamana kita terus menerus berakar pada pola kehidupan dunia melalui tontonan TV/Movie yang jelas2 menentang nilai2 kekudusan yang Tuhan kehendaki dalam hidup kita, jelas nilai2 yang diperlihatkan melalui tontonan2 itu yang akan bertumbuh di dalam hati dan pikiran kita. Maka tidak heran bahwa akhir2 ini banyak sekali anak Tuhan yang menghiraukan kekudusan dalam hubungan mereka.

2.KEKUDUSAN DALAM PERKATAAN
Sama dengan contoh yang di atas, media dan entertainment dunia saat ini sedang mengajarkan kita untuk menghujat dan menjatuhkan setiap value2 yang diajarkan oleh Tuhan. Kata2 kita mempunyai kuasa.

[Amsal 18:21 TB]
Hidup dan mati dikuasai lidah, siapa suka menggemakannya, akan memakan buahnya.

 Apabila kita berakar di dalam Kristus maka hasil dari buah kehidupan kitapun akan mempunyai karakter Kristus.

Perhatikan buah kehidupan anda, sehingga anda akan mengetahui dimana anda telah berakar selama ini.

Jika anda melihat buah hidup yang salah, carilah sumber akarnya. Setiap masalah yang terlihat hanya bisa diselesaikan secara efektif ketika kita menemukan akar permasalahannya.

Biarlah hidup kita selalu berbuah bagi KemulianNya ♡ =] !

In His ministry,



Amanda Setiadi ♡ =]

[ Matius 7:16-20]
Dari buahnyalah kamu akan mengenal mereka. Dapatkah orang memetik buah anggur dari semak duri atau buah ara dari rumput duri? Demikianlah setiap pohon yang baik menghasilkan buah yang baik, sedang pohon yang tidak baik menghasilkan buah yang tidak baik. Tidak mungkin pohon yang baik itu menghasilkan buah yang tidak baik, ataupun pohon yang tidak baik itu menghasilkan buah yang baik.  Dan setiap pohon yang tidak menghasilkan buah yang baik, pasti ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api.  Jadi dari buahnyalah kamu akan mengenal mereka.

[ Yohanes 15:4-5]
Tinggallah di dalam Aku dan Aku di dalam kamu. Sama seperti ranting tidak dapat berbuah dari dirinya sendiri, kalau ia tidak tinggal pada pokok anggur, demikian juga kamu tidak berbuah, jikalau kamu tidak tinggal di dalam Aku. Akulah pokok anggur dan kamulah ranting-rantingnya. Barangsiapa tinggal di dalam Aku dan Aku di dalam dia, ia berbuah banyak, sebab di luar Aku kamu tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa.

 [Galatia 5:22-23]
Tetapi buah Roh ialah: kasih, sukacita, damai sejahtera, kesabaran, kemurahan, kebaikan, kesetiaan, kelemahlembutan, penguasaan diri. Tidak ada hukum yang menentang hal-hal itu.

[ James 3:11-12]
Adakah sumber memancarkan air tawar dan air pahit dari mata air yang sama? Saudara-saudaraku, adakah pohon ara dapat menghasilkan buah zaitun dan adakah pokok anggur dapat menghasilkan buah ara? Demikian juga mata air asin tidak dapat mengeluarkan air tawar.

Listening & Doing the Word of God ♡

LISTENING AND DOING THE WORD OF GOD
18 February 2015
[James 1:19-25]

Let this reminds us to not just merely listen to the Word of God and retain it as knowledge. But to APPLY it to our lives and LIVE TO REPRESENT HIM DAILY.
Represent Him in the way we love other people....
Represent Him in the way we serve one another....
Represent Him in our speech... Represent Him in the way we think...
Represent Him in the way we submit to our authorities...
Represent Him in our attitude... It is a CHOICE & a DECISION to LIVE according to the rest of the world that chooses to ignore God
OR

to LIVE as one who ACKNOWLEDGES that CHRIST IS LORD over our lives :) ♡ !

#BeBlessed
#toGodbetheglory
#180melbourne
#LoveJesus

BEING A STEWARD TO GOD'S SEED

BEING A STEWARD TO GOD'S SEED
4 February 2015

In my experience, the blessings that God gives most often comes in the form of a SEED to be STEWARDED into the fullness of His original purpose in our lives.

Only the right STEWARDSHIP will cause the blessings we received to achieve God's original purpose.

What do I mean by that ?

A tool in someone's hand can be used for many things. For example that knife in your hand can be used to chop some vegetables or it can be use to hurt someone. The groceries that God has provided for you and your family, its our part to cook it and make it edible otherwise we still cant eat it.

The point is, God always gives us the SEED that it may grow in HIS TIME. He gives us the SEED that will indeed BEAR FRUIT ultimately. For the seed to grow, the farmer needs to CULTIVATE the land and WATER the SEED.

Example that we can relate to is in relationships. A relationship that has been brought by the Lord will become a great testimony if you STEWARD it well.

 We are responsible for the way we steward our relationships. Dont blame God if you trigger the mess, know that He has given each of us responsibility to steward His blessings.

To be a GOOD STEWARD or a BAD STEWARD is determined by the attitude of our heart and the treatment that we place towards that blessing.

So ask yourselves, what have you done with the SEED of GOD's BLESSING in your lives today?

IF THE WAIT CAUSES YOU TO DOUBT

In the same way that you cant see the fruit of the tree when you look at a seed, we cant see the end product of that blessing immediately. But because you believe that the RIGHT FRUIT will come out of the seed you have planted, then you would be waiting in HOPE until the TIME that the seed bears its fruit.

KNOW THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR HOPE

If circumstances makes you doubt if this really is from God, reflect back to your foundation. Was your hope founded upon His Words and confirmation OR was it a product of worry, anxiety, fear, etc?

If you've had the wrong foundation then go back to the Lord and ask Him to purify your motivation today.

If your foundation is in Christ then allow His grace to sustain you in the process.

 We walk by FAITH and not by sight. And "…FAITH is CONFIDENCE in what we HOPE for and ASSURANCE about what we do not see." [Hebrews 11:1]

#stewardship #seedFaith #toGodbetheglory #180melbourne

Bless you all!

WALKING WITH GOD - 1 February 2015

WALKING WITH GOD

What is walking with the Lord?

It was hard to fully interpret when I first heard the term...

When we walk with someone, we can CHOOSE to LISTEN to what they say, CHOOSE to KNOW what they are talking about or ignore it. We can also CHOOSE to say goodbye and walk on our own ways by not following the person we walk with. Why do we do this? Because we do not know their value, we do not want to try to understand them, we have our own interest, we have assumed that whatever they are talking about or wherever they are taking us is not something we will enjoy.

As I grow in my faith walk the term was made clearer through many circumstances that I went through.

PICTURE what happens we we WALK WITH our FATHER,

We will get to hear His stories

We will hear His point of view of things

We will know Him more through the things He tells us

We will know Him more as we spend more time together

We will know His LOVE for us

We will learn from Him

We will talk with Him along the way because its a two way communication

We will learn secrets from Him the more we spend time with Him

We will seek out His interests because of our love towards Him

We will understand Him more

We will be constantly in awe with Him because He is just so amazing

We will know that He knows where He is leading us into

We will know that there is no ONE like HIM

We will TRUST Him as we spend more time with Him

We will obey Him more

We will know that He is ALWAYS RIGHT !

We will know Wisdom

We will know how to REPRESENT HIM

We will think like He does

We will be able to tell other what He is like !

There are many more than you can know by your own experience of walking with your earthly father or even with your friend. There are many more stories to share together and to experience together the longer you walk with someone.

The more I WALK with HIM,

The more I KNOW HIM

The more I WALK with HIM

The more I SEE what HE SEES

The more I WALK with HIM,

The more I know the TRUTH of HIS WORDS

The more I WALK with HIM,

The GREATER AWARENESS I have of His Presence in my life

The more I WALK with HIM,

The more JOY there is in my heart

The more I WALK with HIM,

My purpose became CLEARER and DEEPER is my UNDERSTANDING

If this does not happen to you or along the way you have been distracted and gone away from the Lord, BELIEVE today that so long you are willing to CALL on to Him, He will answer you. (Jeremiah 33:3). 

Its never too late, TAKE A STEP TOWARDS the LORD and HE WILL RUN TOWARDS YOU (Luke 15 – the way the father loves the Prodigal Son) 

When we are a child, we may have very little understanding of what our Father is saying. BUT He is patient with us in waiting for us to grow and constantly pouring His Love towards us. He is patient to see us approaching Him daily and seeking Him more and more. As we grow in maturity, we will be more involved with His desires and be able to PARTNER WITH HIM.

This is for me a simple way to picture our Faith walk with the Lord !!

HE LONGS FOR US TO CONSTANTLY WALK WITH HIM in this journey together until we reach our ETERNAL DESTINATION...

The walk is FUN but we can get LOST if we get distracted towards other things.

Distraction causes us to miss out on His Words and the worse is to draw away from Him.

WALK WITH HIM ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIVES and HE WILL SHOW YOU THE GREATER THINGS,

"that no eye has SEE no ear has HEARD and no mind has CONCEIVED..."

[1 Corinthians 2:9]

because He is just so GOOD !

#ItsaLIFELONGJOURNEY

#ItsthedepthoftheFELLOWSHIPwithHim

#DIGdeeper

LOVE YOU JESUS !! ALL GLORY AND UNTO BE TO YOU ALONE FOREVER AND EVER <3 !