Luke 8:25
"Were Is Your Faith"
The sea went from calm to rough and the disciples were being tossed to and fro upon the ship, even though Jesus was aboard the ship with them , their fear over took their faith. Even though they had seen Jesus healing and performing miracles prior to boarding the ship; Jesus only saw their fear and not there faith, for His first response to them was; "where is you faith." It is well know that sudden storms are common on the sea of Galilee. Christ displayed peace, and was able to sleep in a dangerous storm.
Our lives are likening unto the ship being tossed on the waves and like the the disciples, when an abrupt change comes alone that we don't understand our fear starts to increase and our faith begins to twiddle. No matter how big the storm in our lives, there is a peace we can have when we know we are in the center of God's will. By His word He controls the winds and the roughest seas in our lives. How thankful we should be that Christ calms the ragging storms in life. see (Psalm 107:31)
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Lord Reigneth
Psalms 97:1
"The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice"
Across the regions a voice cries for the rejoicing at the reign of Jesus. The sacred fire descend, like lighting the gospel flames forth and all the nations see the glory of God. "The Lord reigneth" this is the essence of the gospel proclamation, and the foundation of the gospel Kingdom. What reason do we have to rejoice? Because others have reigneth since time began and have produced injustice, oppression, bloodshed and terror.
The reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; is the hope of mankind, and when we are all gather together with Jesus Christ, at the appointed time when God will say "Bring My Children Home" Than will paradise be restored. Be ready for when Jesus comes he will bring untold blessings to all God's children.
"THE LORD REIGNETH"
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice"
Across the regions a voice cries for the rejoicing at the reign of Jesus. The sacred fire descend, like lighting the gospel flames forth and all the nations see the glory of God. "The Lord reigneth" this is the essence of the gospel proclamation, and the foundation of the gospel Kingdom. What reason do we have to rejoice? Because others have reigneth since time began and have produced injustice, oppression, bloodshed and terror.
The reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; is the hope of mankind, and when we are all gather together with Jesus Christ, at the appointed time when God will say "Bring My Children Home" Than will paradise be restored. Be ready for when Jesus comes he will bring untold blessings to all God's children.
"THE LORD REIGNETH"
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
A Living Sacrifice
Genesis 22:9
"And Abraham built an altar"
"And bound Isaac his son"
We must not think that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, IE, sacrifice our lives. Not-- I am willing to go to death with Thee, but--I am willing to be identified with Thy death so that I may sacrifice my life to God. God does not want us to give up things! Just as God purified Abraham, the same discipline goes on in our lives. God never tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having; life with Him. It is the question of loosening the things that hinder life, and immediately those bands that hinder you will be loosened by identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God whereby we can sacrifice our lives to Him.
It is no value to god to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice" to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus Christ. This is; "What Is Acceptable To God."
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"And Abraham built an altar"
"And bound Isaac his son"
We must not think that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, IE, sacrifice our lives. Not-- I am willing to go to death with Thee, but--I am willing to be identified with Thy death so that I may sacrifice my life to God. God does not want us to give up things! Just as God purified Abraham, the same discipline goes on in our lives. God never tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having; life with Him. It is the question of loosening the things that hinder life, and immediately those bands that hinder you will be loosened by identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God whereby we can sacrifice our lives to Him.
It is no value to god to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice" to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus Christ. This is; "What Is Acceptable To God."
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Will To Be Loyal
Joshua 14:15
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve"
Will is the whole of man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before---the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall those moments now as the spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily; and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition other people get more and more "out of it" that is where the strain comes. God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You don,t need to find out were God is leading, "Just Go." The only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him-- "I will be loyal." Immediately you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don't consult other Christians but profess before Him---I will serve Thee. Will to be loyal and give other people credit for being loyal too.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve"
Will is the whole of man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before---the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall those moments now as the spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily; and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition other people get more and more "out of it" that is where the strain comes. God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You don,t need to find out were God is leading, "Just Go." The only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him-- "I will be loyal." Immediately you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don't consult other Christians but profess before Him---I will serve Thee. Will to be loyal and give other people credit for being loyal too.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Monday, May 27, 2013
Let Go!
Joshua 24:19
"Ye cannot serve the Lord"
Have you the slightest reliance on anything other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? It is quite true to say-- "I cannot live a holy life," but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. "Ye cannot serve the Lord God"; but you can put yourself in the place where God's almighty power will come through you. Are you sufficiently right with God to expect Him to manifest His wonderful life in you?
It is not an impulse, but a deliberate commitment. You say--But God can never have called me to this, I am too unworthy, it can't mean me. It does mean you, and the weaker and feebler you are, the better. The one who has something to trust in is the last one to come anywhere near saying-- "I will serve The Lord." We say "If I really could believe!" The point is-- if I really will believe. No wonder Jesus Christ lays such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. "And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." If we really believed that God meant what He said-- what should we be like! Dare I really let God be to me all that He says He will be? "I Say Yes!" Let Go And Serve God!
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"Ye cannot serve the Lord"
Have you the slightest reliance on anything other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? It is quite true to say-- "I cannot live a holy life," but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. "Ye cannot serve the Lord God"; but you can put yourself in the place where God's almighty power will come through you. Are you sufficiently right with God to expect Him to manifest His wonderful life in you?
It is not an impulse, but a deliberate commitment. You say--But God can never have called me to this, I am too unworthy, it can't mean me. It does mean you, and the weaker and feebler you are, the better. The one who has something to trust in is the last one to come anywhere near saying-- "I will serve The Lord." We say "If I really could believe!" The point is-- if I really will believe. No wonder Jesus Christ lays such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. "And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." If we really believed that God meant what He said-- what should we be like! Dare I really let God be to me all that He says He will be? "I Say Yes!" Let Go And Serve God!
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Ideal Of Belief
John 11:26
"Believest thou this"
Martha believed in the power at the disposal of Jesus Christ, she believed that if He had been present He could have healed her brother Lazarus; she believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with God and whatever He ask God to do , God would do; but she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha's ideal of belief would change in the near future; Jesus led her on until her belief had became a personal possession, and than slowly emerged into a particular inheritance---- "Yea, Lord, I believe that Thou art the Christ."
Is there something like that in the Lord's dealings with you? Is Jesus educating you into a personal intimacy with Himself? Let Him press home His question to you--"Believest thou this?" What is your ordeal of doubt? Have you come, like Martha, to some overwhelming passage in your circumstances where your ideal of belief is about to emerge into a personal belief? this can never be until a personal need arises out of a personal problem.
To believe is to commit. In the programed ideal belief I commit myself, and abandon all that is not related to that commitment. In personal belief I commit myself morally to this way of confidence and refuse to compromise with any other; and in particular belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ, and determine in that thing to be dominated by the Lord alone.
When I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me-- "Believest thou this?' I find that faith is as natural as breathing, and I am staggered that I was so stupid as not to trust him before.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"Believest thou this"
Martha believed in the power at the disposal of Jesus Christ, she believed that if He had been present He could have healed her brother Lazarus; she believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with God and whatever He ask God to do , God would do; but she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha's ideal of belief would change in the near future; Jesus led her on until her belief had became a personal possession, and than slowly emerged into a particular inheritance---- "Yea, Lord, I believe that Thou art the Christ."
Is there something like that in the Lord's dealings with you? Is Jesus educating you into a personal intimacy with Himself? Let Him press home His question to you--"Believest thou this?" What is your ordeal of doubt? Have you come, like Martha, to some overwhelming passage in your circumstances where your ideal of belief is about to emerge into a personal belief? this can never be until a personal need arises out of a personal problem.
To believe is to commit. In the programed ideal belief I commit myself, and abandon all that is not related to that commitment. In personal belief I commit myself morally to this way of confidence and refuse to compromise with any other; and in particular belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ, and determine in that thing to be dominated by the Lord alone.
When I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me-- "Believest thou this?' I find that faith is as natural as breathing, and I am staggered that I was so stupid as not to trust him before.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Obedience The Reality of God
John 14:15
"If you love Me, keep My commandments"
Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us every emphatically what we ought to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of oneness of spirit. That is why whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an -- IF--you do not need to unless you like. "If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself," let him give up his right to himself to me. Our Lord is talking of eternal positions, but of being of value to Himself in this order of things; that is why He sounds so stern (Luke 14:26). Never interpret these words apart from the One Who uttered them.
The Lord does not give me rules, He makes His standard very clear, and if my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone else in competition with him, IE (my wife, myself).. Jesus Christ will not help me to obey Him, I must obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowed with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience many were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me in other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
"If you love Me, keep My commandments"
Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us every emphatically what we ought to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of oneness of spirit. That is why whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an -- IF--you do not need to unless you like. "If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself," let him give up his right to himself to me. Our Lord is talking of eternal positions, but of being of value to Himself in this order of things; that is why He sounds so stern (Luke 14:26). Never interpret these words apart from the One Who uttered them.
The Lord does not give me rules, He makes His standard very clear, and if my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone else in competition with him, IE (my wife, myself).. Jesus Christ will not help me to obey Him, I must obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowed with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience many were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me in other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
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