"I have been a Christian my entire life, but my lifestyle had not been a worthy representation for Christ even though the Lord had blessed me richly.
I was a CEO in a non-profit organization and had tried my best to be a good influence for my employees and those I served. But I lived a secret life dominated by pot smoking, alcohol, and pornography. I knew I was leading a double life. Needless to say, despite my best intentions, I lost my job, my reputation was tarnished, and all that I had built up was torn down.
During that time, I kept asking God to forgive me and change my heart. I knew I couldn’t become the person I wanted to be without the help of the Holy Spirit. But no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t change my behavior. Then, I found your program on television and as I listened to your teaching on God’s grace, my spirit started to stir within me. It took many months of listening before anything changed in my life.
Pastor Prince, your message of grace was the turning point for me. When I heard God loves me and cares for me even as I struggled with my sins, my heart was moved and I knew it was time to change. You said to remind myself, even in my sin, that I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I did that and I also started partaking of the holy Communion daily. I also received a vision that inspired me to change the way I was living.
With the help of the Holy Spirit, I lost the desire to smoke pot, drink, and watch pornography! Today I am delivered from my shameful addictions and have joined a local church where I can enjoy the company of fellow believers. I earnestly seek God’s will for me and ask for Him to complete the plan He has started in me.
Thank you, Pastor Prince, for your teachings because they changed my life so that I could become the person God wants me to be. With the years I have left on this earth, I wish to serve God and be an instrument of His grace and love. God bless you for reminding me how much God loves me."
Anonymous | Ohio, United States
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Beloved, what God has done for others, He wants to do for you as well. As you read this story, I pray that it builds up your faith with the confident expectation of good for your future. Be encouraged because your breakthrough is next!
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同時也有6部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過265的網紅Eleanor Lee,也在其Youtube影片中提到,"Once I was broken, but you loved my whole heart through." - Heard this song for the first time when I was in a church in Amsterdam. Really touched by...
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Use your Gifts in a Spirit of Love
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 WEB)
The Corinthian church liked to show off their gift of praying in tongues in a chaotic manner. They spoke it loudly during worship and the sharing of the word, causing such disruption that Paul had to teach them to do everything orderly in congregational worship. The problem was not just limited to that. They liked to compare and boast about who had a better spiritual gift.
Probably one person who could pray in tongues liked to say how he was greater or more loved by God than other members who could not do it. Then the other would retort saying that he had another better spiritual gift than praying in tongues. These squabbles would lead to factions being formed, people with the same kind of gifts grouping together and disliking those who had different gifts from them.
That is why Paul had to use the analogy of the foot and the hand saying that they don’t need each other being a ridiculous idea. He had to teach them proper decorum on how to minister in their gifts the right way. Paul had to teach them how the body of Christ is meant to be united as one, working together, and built up in love.
“For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body. If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now they are many members, but one body. The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.” No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety; whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part, that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-26 WEB)
Comparison and divisiveness are toxic. Everything ought to be done in love, if not, it is easy for pride to come in and ruin everything. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
It is not so much about their gifts not working or profiting them when they don’t do it in the right spirit. Yes, they may lose out on heavenly rewards because God weighs the heart, but spiritual gifts will always work because they operate by grace—not based on how worthy the person is by works. It is more about how it is pointless when done boastfully because God gave them the gifts to be used in love—not to compare, boast, or inflate their egos. God’s spiritual gifts are not party tricks to impress men with.
Use your gifts in a spirit of love, to build people up by demonstrating the love of God. Recognize that every believer has a different set of gifts, unique for his or her calling. Yes, you have a gift! God designed this diversity so that we would all need each other, and minister to one another. Just like that, we will build up the body of Christ in love. This is the right way that glorifies God!
God has equipped you with powerful gifts to fulfill your calling. Do you know what your gifts and calling are? Do you know what are eternal rewards and how you can maximize them, especially seeing as Jesus’ return is so close, right at the doors? “Sandcastles Don’t Last Forever” is a book that this end time generation needs to read. Redeem your time wisely and receive the best eternal rewards: http://bit.ly/sandcastlesdontlastforever
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"I had been a believer for over forty years but I was miserable. I was addicted to wine and taking medication for insomnia. I was also depressed and hated my life.
I lost my godmother, my father, and my best friend of over 25 years. I also lost my job, house, and other family members.
I have a 25-year-old son who ended up in jail for doing and selling drugs. He has been stealing from others, including me, since he was 12. I also have a 42-year-old son who is an alcoholic and a marijuana user. He also sold drugs for a living.
But I still trusted the Lord. I brought my children up in church but we were under wrong believing and lived under the law. I knew life had to be more than this and that God had a calling for me, but I couldn’t find a way out of the mess. Eventually, I depended on medicine, marijuana, and wine to help me sleep and go about my daily life.
One day, I saw Pastor Prince on television talking about how as believers, we can declare that we are the righteousness of God in Christ even when we’re still in our addictions and trusting Him to break free. He also taught about the holy Communion. My spirit came alive—I’d never heard God’s Word preached like that before.
I began to declare that I am the righteousness of God in Christ and partook of the holy Communion daily. Today I have been free of alcohol, medications, and drugs for over a year! I no longer have any desire for drugs, alcohol, or pills.
Pastor Prince, ever since I started watching your television broadcast, my life has changed. I’ve also been teaching my two sons about the gospel of grace. They have been born again. My younger son in jail will be coming home any day now.
Thank you, Pastor Prince, for preaching the gospel of grace. Because I believe right, I now live right! I continue to pray for you and your family. Because of the message you preach, lives are being changed. Hallelujah!"
Anonymous | California, United States
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united church of god 在 Eleanor Lee Youtube 的最佳解答
"Once I was broken, but you loved my whole heart through."
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Heard this song for the first time when I was in a church in Amsterdam. Really touched by the lyrics, whether you're a believer or not I hope you can just simply enjoy the flow of this song. I'll link the original one down below.
Also don't think I did a 100% job on this cover but I just feel like this need to be done. We're not perfect but God always is and always will be holding on to us.
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Hold me now
In the hands that created the heavens
Find me now
Where the grace runs as deep as Your scars
You pulled me from the clay
You set me on a rock
Called me by Your Name
And made my heart whole again
Lifted up
And my knees know it’s all for Your glory
That I might stand
With more reasons to sing than to fear
You pulled me from the clay
Set me on a rock
Called me by Your Name
And made my heart whole again
So here I stand, high in surrender
I need You now
Hold my heart, now and forever
My soul cries out
Once I was broken, but You loved my whole heart through
Sin has no hold on me
Cause Your grace holds me now
And that grace
Owns the ground where the grave did
Where all my shame remains
Left for dead in Your wake
You crashed those age-old gates
You left no stone unturned
You stepped out of that grave
And shouldered me all the way
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Original music video: https://youtu.be/eRUM70CPYls
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united church of god 在 Benjamin Man — iBenTV Youtube 的最讚貼文
I wrote this song inspired and based on 1 Peter 5:6-9, and it's my way of expressing the essence of what it's like believing in God.
I included a range of clips; from worship concerts to chilling in our youth room to Hillsong concerts TO ELLIE GOULDING concerts to washed out concerts to my trip in japan to bonfires; anyway, it represents how no matter where we are and how toxic our environment is- God is with us.
"6) Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7) Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8) Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9) Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
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Lyrics:
In the valley of my doubts
I appear
In a place where all I see is fear
All that I can think about is why,
Why is this all happening to me
At the mountain foot He stands alone
All alone against the father of lies
Like a roaring lion he prowls around
It’s looking to devour my soul
And through the storms,
I get lost in the ways of the world
And I am weak, I give in to the curse inside me
In the dark I’ll close my eyes
In the light I’ll realize,
You will lift me up in times
When I’m weak
You have planned my every move
You will know what I will do
Mighty God I trust in You
When my mind is somewhere insecure
When in times my heart is far, from shore
At a place where storms are raging, I am sure
Your love is never-failing, to me
And through the storms,
I get lost in the ways of the world
And I am weak, I give in to the curse inside me
In the dark I’ll close my eyes
In the light I’ll realize,
You will lift me up in times
When I’m weak
You have planned my every move
You will know what I will do
Mighty God I trust in You
All the people sing:
“Glory to the highest name”
Build a fire to break the chains on us
All the people sing:
“Hallelujah praise His name”
Worthy is the one who drank the cup
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united church of god 在 Benjamin Man — iBenTV Youtube 的最佳解答
Psalm 36:5
"Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds"
I've had so much fun recording this cover, God has definitely blessed me with things I do not deserve! Thank you lord :) x
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