Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hope the Not Disappointing


"If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are the ones to be pitied more than all men" - 1 Corinthians 15:19. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Corinth provide specific explanation of something very important that is awakening. There are three important topics of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians in chapter 15, which is about the resurrection of Christ, the resurrection and the resurrection of the body. The Apostle Paul wanted to clarify that there is hope beyond death. Many people think that death is the end of everything. No more hope beyond death. And the Christians in Corinth affected by such a paradigm. Paul insists that hope to Christ not only in life on this earth alone. However, hope in Christ through the world of the dead though. Therefore, Paul is saying that if we only looked forward to Christ merely living in this world, then it makes us people most unfortunate fate. Paul invites us to view the future with great hope. And hope to Christ is a definite expectation. Hope that can not be limited by this world even by death though. Our hope in Christ must transcend territorial boundaries. Paul wanted to show us that our hope in Christ is a hope that does not disappoint. Why? Since Christ is the firstborn of our resurrection. And we who believe in Him will live or rise even though we're dead. This has been our hope. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ensuring our hope that we too will rise up and come together with Christ in the kingdom of heaven.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

5 Ways to Motivate Yourself When Fails


At the time a person experiences a failure in the process of life, usually motivated him to be dropped. There's even a loss of motivation at all. Of course this kind of attitude is less wise. Because the actual failure is not the end of everything.

The important question to ask is how to motivate yourself when a failure? Here are 5 ways to motivate yourself when it fails:

1. Consider your expectations
Usually when it fails, hopes to be lost due to failures. Therefore, to re-ignite your motivation, consider your expectations. By the time you come back to see your expectations are pending, then it is a source of energy to revive your motivation to achieve it.

2. Try something different
Failure in principle always be our way of life. When you experience a failure in something that is done, try to do it in a different way. A different way is needed to replace the old ways of working. Lanhkah first failed, but try again the second step, if it fails again, try step three and so on up to ten steps in which you can succeed.

Trying a different way, signifies that you are motivating yourself to rise from failure. With that kind of attitude, and you will reap the sweet fruit that way.

3. Use your power
When a person has failed deadlocked, strength also sucked. As a result, the person becomes weak, sluggish, tired, lethargic and demotivated.

Therefore, use the skills you have. Use the power of your best. Then learn to overcome your weaknesses and shortcomings. Encourage yourself that you can definitely bounce back.

4. Learn to get back up
No matter how many times you fail and fall. Build your motivation back and start doing again what delayed by failure.

Paul Meyer said, "Ninety percent of all people who fail have not actually lost. They just give up". Failure does not mean we've lost. But often we give up before we lose. We do not want to get back up that is the problem.

J. I. Packer said: "One second victory of the unconscious makes one feel that after this there is nothing that really means, while a second disaster that makes one feel aware that this is the end of everything. However, none of these events is not realistic because the None of the events that actually felt like it ".

5. Look to the Lord God
When it failed, does not mean that the Lord God has forsaken you. He is the Lord God who cares And. In any circumstance, God is always ready to help you.

When our hands, God intervened to assist and help us. He will give us the strength to bounce back.
With regard to the Lord God, we are spiritually motivating for support LORD God that we can rise again.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Hope Amid the One You Got Against



Hope Amid The One You Got Against

It hurts when people misunderstand us. You may feel that no one has ever experienced pain or grief caused by other people misunderstand him, the way you feel.

How do we strengthen amid hopes people misunderstand us?

1. LORD our God also feel the pain
When we are in the middle of people who misunderstand us, most people become angry, hurt and resentment and try to reply.

Even worse was bemoaning himself that he is the most miserable than others. And no one else suffers the same as him. There is hope in the midst of people who misunderstand us. The hope is that the Lord our God is also feeling the pain when misunderstood man. Lord Jesus felt sorrow, because people repeatedly misunderstood him during his life on earth. His companions, his own family and of course, his enemies, his misunderstood.


2. People misunderstand it's not forever.
Hope in the midst of people misunderstand us is that it did not last long. We have to know that it was a misunderstanding only temporary.

Therefore, we do not have to hurt, angry and disappointed and discouraged. We also do not have to fear the wretched news. When we heard the news that people misunderstand us, our hearts are still full of complete trust in God.


3. Lord God protect us
At a time when people misunderstand us, remember that the Lord God protect us. This is our hope. Lord protect us by the power of God and His love.

Let us give thanks for the faith and remember that His love will not let us. He will never let go of his grip on us as His people.



How to Give Meaning When You Lonely


Have you ever felt as if he were standing alone? You feel isolated, even if you are surrounded by people? There is a void in your heart, as though there is something missing? The good news is that the feeling of loneliness is not inevitable, and it's not the end of everything. Jehovah God can help you through your feelings of loneliness. We should not be controlled by our emotions, but by the reliability of the Word of the Lord God. Jesus knew loneliness you feel. He often feel left alone when He lived on earth. He would miss the human touch when no one thought of his needs. Even his family was sometimes considered him odd. And when he needs his friends around him, even the 12 followers of his most faithful did not always accompany him. We can thank the Lord God that He knows and understands our needs and He cares. His eyes are always fixed on us. How to make sense of when you're lonely?

1. Fill in your loneliness by reading.
One way to make sense of loneliness when you are reading. Fill in your loneliness by reading useful. For example, reading the Bible, reading spiritual meditations, spiritual magazines, spiritual books, newspapers and magazines. Through reading, you have a sense of loneliness. By reading, insight and knowledge you gain and the more extensive. So lonely does not make you stress.
2. Communicating with the Lord God.
Another way to give meaning to your loneliness is to communicate with God through prayer God. Through prayer, spiritual life grows. You can pray a lot. Good for you, your family and many other things. Thus, you will not be lonely in vain. There is meaning when you're lonely. Instead of bemoaning your lonely, more meaningful and meaningless if you fill with prayer. So, make your loneliness meaningful.
How to: First, fill your loneliness by reading the Bible, spiritual meditations, spiritual magazine, grade books, newspapers and magazines that are beneficial to you. Second, fill your loneliness by communicating with Jehovah God through prayer.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Hope the Not Disappointing


In this life, we often experience unpleasant truths. For example, the deteriorating economic conditions, natural disasters that never stops, the war that led to the loss of life.

All of the above conditions, make us lose hope in life. We are disappointed, angry and hurt.

In such a situation, as a Christian, there is good news for us. The good news is that there is hope that will not disappoint.

The question is how is that hope does not disappoint it?

1. Jehovah God is the source
Hope that does not disappoint comes from the LORD God. Therefore, we should expect only the Lord God alone, because her hope never disappoints us.

Why is that? For the LORD God never gives us hope that empty his people. The LORD God is a definite expectation. So, expect only the Lord God alone.

2. LORD God works
The Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the church at Rome, thus: "And we know that God causes all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose" - Romans 8:28.

Jehovah God is working in our lives totality. He works to provide and produce the best for us.
Therefore, the hope of the Lord God is a definite expectation. It is said that, because the Lord God actively fulfilling what the needs were.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Living Hope In Central Scrimmage



Read: Genesis 5:25-6:8
Noah was a prominent biblical incredible. His name means "rest." Noah is the son of Lamech. He was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It was he who built the ark, which ultimately saved his entire family from destruction by God the world through the flood.
In today's passage, we find the name of Noah for the first time. When his parents gave the name of Noah, they have hope that his future will be more personal blessing of his generation, which "will provide encouragement in our work painstakingly filled in the land that has been cursed by God '. From this statement, contained two important messages or expectations of Lamech. First, Lamech complaints against the terrible condition of all mankind. With the entrance of sin and the curse that followed, the condition of the human race into a horrible nightmare. Our lives are in bondage, so the whole time there was filled with continuous hard work. Because God has cursed the earth, every human being must feel sick and tired exhaust to commercialize the earth. Second, there is new hope for the birth of his son, which "will provide comfort in our work." Hope is not just a hope or dream that is owned by the parents of the children, but the ability to capture and expecting something more. Lamech have hopes that one day his son would be the answer to the generation of his day. Amid harsh and difficult living conditions, Lamech Noah hopes on his son.
Then to whom shall we, who live in these days, should anchor our hope? To whom do we expect consolation in our work that this painstaking? Only in Jesus. He said, "Come unto me all the weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest."

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Hope in the Middle of Suffering


"If you lose heart at the time of distress, kecillah strength"
Proverbs 24:10

When we believe in Jesus and confess Him as Lord and Savior of his life, this does not mean that we will not encounter any problems. That does not mean also that we are free from the problem and we'll instantly blessed with abundance both in the family, job, business, business, education, environment and others.

Just when we decide to follow Jesus, the devil will try to pull us back to fall into sin, because he does not like the decisions we take. Various issues will still come hit our lives endlessly as long as we are still breathing.
Often we also give up on problems that are befalling us. We hope that God's immediate help and provide solutions to the problems we face. In fact, God's answer does not come too, so we become discouraged. We do not know that God was testing and processing of our lives so that we can truly trust and surrender to God with all our hearts.

Sense of discouragement is often followed by feelings of disappointment with the conditions of our lives, and even some are disappointed to God, to not go to church anymore. This condition will make us weaker and did not have the strength to be able to move forward to face the problem.

"Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary affliction is for us an eternal glory that more than anything else, is much greater than our suffering" 2 Corinthians 4:16-17.

The Apostle Paul in his suffering he experienced so much, also keep her in order not to lose heart. Though outwardly he was getting weaker, but stronger spiritual man in the Lord. He knew that what God has for him is far greater than what he experienced. This is the power that enables Paul to remain faithful to the Lord until the end of his escort.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Certainty in Hope In Jesus Christ



God of creation in the work of rescue and deliver believers from a historical point to a new point in history. The coming of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior into the world and guarantees a sure hope for those who believe.

Jesus Christ is God who became the center of worship, and the hope of humanity from age to age, and he also hopes other creatures, because He is the One who will bring a new heaven and a new earth in which suffering and death will be no more - without him the world does not have hope.

In Jesus, hope it would. God knows the world more clearly than anyone else. With him, there was certainty. All we need to do just one, that believe. People who are hopeless because they refused to believe and lay a pattern of thinking that there is no hope. And if they want to start changing your thinking and want to believe it, then we started in line with God.

What is important is to believe what Jesus says about who we are and what our circumstances, are recorded in the Bible. Jesus said that He loves us, and in him there is a future full of hope. Remember and believe in His Word, because God never lied let alone deny his own words. Never brothers on feelings. Hope is a decision that is sometimes the opposite of what we say.

Is that so you need these days, whether it be financial, work, healing or strength. Bring to Jesus right now, trust, and experience do you possess that hope was not in vain. From now on, do not delay! Without hope, the believer does not have a key to enter and experience the promises of God. If we dare to hope, that we dare to accept the promise of God's most spectacular ones. Do we put hope in people. Hoping to humans only invites disappointment.

People who are hopeful will always be full of joy, peace and a heart full of gratitude, not a grim face and grouchy. One that makes hope seem difficult since humans began to see from their own glasses. There will be two options, the first he could slowly lose hope, the second he started arrogant.

Pray this "I believe in you Jesus there is hope! Hope I just was in you. Strong and I'll be waiting for you God. Thanks for this expectation!"

What practical steps? Having believed that hope is real, act and speak like a hopeless katalah. Do not complain and say the problem continues every day. Replace with thanksgiving and blessing and positive words. Every time you attack the human mind with despair, immediately reject it and declare that expectation. Prove that hope is real.

What verses can be held: Isaiah 40: 31 "But those who wait for the LORD gain new powers: their rise is like a flying eagle wings power, they run and do not become sluggish, they walk and not become weary. Romans 8 : 24b, 25 "For how people still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait patiently. "Romans 12: 12" Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, and persevering in prayer! "Psalm 37:4-5" Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your life to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will act, Romans 15: 13 "The God of hope, satisfy you with all joy and peace in your faith, so that by the power of the Holy Ghost ye abound in hope"

Hope is not knowledge, but rather, eternal belief that God will fulfill His promises to us. it's the belief that if we live according to the laws of God and the words of His prophets now, we will receive the blessings that are expected in the future. It is believing and expecting that our prayers will be answered. It was revealed in confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, patience and endurance. In the language of the Gospel, the hope is for sure, do not flinch, and active. The prophets of old speak of "firm hope" and "living hope. It is the hope of glory to God through the work of goodness. With hope comes joy and happiness. Hopefully, we can" have patience, and bear ... our misery. "

Jesus Christ came to earth as the Savior of men. He died on the cross, for the sake of all mankind who will put his hope in Him. Jesus not only died on the cross on the hill of Golgotha, but Jesus had risen from the grave and ascended into heaven. That is why to this day, and for ever in fact he is still alive. The Lord Jesus promised an expectation. Anyone who believes in Him will get salvation. Come on, do not wait, run, catch, and try hard to achieve that expectation.