no fear

1 John 4:18
18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear…

i cant be redeemed by a million dollars

1 Peter 1:

18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
20He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
21Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

Jesus' sacrifice includes our diseases

i have always been puzzled by Jesus sacrifice. i did not understand the significance of his death and ressurection though i have been a christian all my life.

one of the new revelations i have had about Jesus in the past couple of years is that He not only died for my sins, he died for my diseases as well.

So when a christian asks God for healing, it is not based on God's will or sooka-ness alone. there is a more legitimate, more legal ground for healing.

it is that JESUS dies for our diseases.
lets look at Isaiah 53:4-5, a chapter about Jesus.

King James Bible
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

actually, griefs and sorrows meant pains and sickness in the original Hebrew.

Bible in Basic English
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

Jewish Publication Society Tanakh
Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.


Hooray! Hallelujah! and that is why today i know i am disease free. and even when any diagnosis of illness arises: i know i will be healed.

for a greater in depth look into healing see this article:
http://sg.geocities.com/saltandlight5/healingintheatonement.html

our covenant God

Genesis 15:
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

Genesis 15 is quite an intriguing chapter.
God promises Abram to give him a son (Issac).
Abram believes God, and is credited with righteousness.

God then promises and convenants with Abram to give him the land (what is today known as Israel). God also foretells the escape of the Israelites from Egpyt under moses.
The covenant proceeds to be cut.
However, before it is done, Abram is put into a deep sleep.
one might think, oh, God bluff abram and put him to sleep so covenant wont be cut.

the interesting thing is: God cuts the covenant with a "smoking oven and a flaming torch". This torch or pillar of fire is supposedly Jesus. So Jesus represented Abram as early as that and was his representative. interesting huh.

the same thing is in operation today, since Jesus' death on the cross.
The new covenant is cut between jesus as our representative and God our father.

sting of death is gone.

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”- 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

we have been set free from sin and its consequence: death.

it does not mean that we will stop sinning. because we live in fleshly bodies, sin still arises. but thanks be to God, eternal death and damnation sis no longer our reward.

he was made the sacrifice for us

i believe that every person knows that there is good and evil, and that the evil needs to be punished. i believe this is inherent, and not a matter of social construct.

a human knows that evil, or sin, needs to be punished. criminal law for example, is a reflection of this. ( i am in the midst of my comparative criminal law 48 hour paper so i immediately linked criminal law)

i believe that when a person commits a wrong, there is a feeling inside that tells the person this is WRONG, and it needs to be punished. the thing is, how is the person to absolve this guilty feeling? how to atone?

Jesus was made the appropriation for our sins. we can try our best to do more good deeds than evil ones, or to avoid morally evil actions. but no matter how we try, we will fail.

there was only one perfect man, and He alone is 'innocent' enough to bear our punishment. and the best part is, HE was willing to.

Jesus died for our sins on the Christ to absolve us form guilt, eternal death, and punishment.

He IS our lamb that was slain.

and that is why today, i can live in peace, not stressed about having to be punished for my sins.

call it forth

today's devotion copied from the new creation church website.

Romans 4:17
… God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;



“Pastor Prince, I feel the pain in my body. How can I go around saying that Christ has redeemed me from this sickness? How can I say that by His stripes I am healed?”

Well, God’s way is to call those things that are not as though they are. And because you are made in God’s image, you can also call those things that are not as though they are.

When God wanted to make Abraham a father of many nations, what did He do? He changed the way Abraham talked. At that time, Abraham did not even have a single child from Sarah because she was barren. So how could he become a father of many?

God changed the way he talked by changing his name from Abram to Abraham, which means “father of many nations”. (Genesis 17:5) Just imagine: From then on, every time he met someone, he would say, “Hi, my name is Father Of Many Nations.” Every time dinner was ready, Sarah would call out to Abraham who was out in the field, “Darling… Father Of Many Nations … dinner is ready! Father Of Many Nations…” You can just hear their neighbours saying, “They want a child so much they have gone mad!” But God changed the way Abraham talked, so that he called forth what God saw him already blessed with.

You know, when Jesus saw the man with a withered hand, He did not say, “My goodness! It is so withered!” He said, “Stretch forth your hand!” (Matthew 12:13) He called forth what He wanted. He looked at the paralytic and said, “Rise, take up your bed and walk!” (Matthew 9:6) He did not see the way it was in the natural. He saw the way God meant it to be and He called it forth.

Genesis 1 tells us that in the beginning, there was darkness over the face of the whole earth. God saw the darkness and He said, “Light be!” And light was. God called forth what He wanted and it became so! If it were you or me, we would probably have said, “Whoa! It is so dark!”

My friend, despite the pain, call forth your healing. It is pointless to state the obvious. No, change the way you talk. See the way God meant it to be, and start calling forth your healing and wholeness!

go ahead and use your authority

Exodus 14:15–16

15And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. 16But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.


i really like today's scripture and the devotion i read pertaining to this.
many times christian pray pleading prayers, and we are waiting for results before we believe.

but God asks us first to believe, then we will see the results.

when we pray, we should pray filled with faith, knowing that God answers our prayers. we should not 'hope' for God to answer, because that connotes some level of unbelief.

faith is the confident expectation of good. we know God will work things out for our good. what a great God, what a merciful tender loving God he is.

Thank you LORD God for answering my prayers. Thank you Jesus, you are my high priest, my lawyer before God, and the one who saved me and made everything perfect for me.

Thank you for protecting my family. Amen.

jesus understands our struggles

Hebrews 4:15
15For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

be strong in the Lord

Ephesians 6:10
10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

abiding in love

John 15:9
9“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

daily devotions

time really flies. one moment i was starting the last semester of school, the next i am preparing for my final exams of law school. still, 4 years seem so short. can still recall my experience as a 'freshie' at law camp in june 2004. then, i was thinking: 2008 is my graduation. what a long way.

but i am here in april 2008 looking at 4 years of legal education and desperately studying for insurance, international commercial litigation, comparative crim and finishing up my globalization and international law research paper.

anyway, this is really an aside because my main purpose for this entry is to concretize my daily devotionals. small group had a wonderful retreat in batam 2 weeks ago and my aim was to really get seeped into the Word. meditation and absorbing the Word is what i will be trying to do now. so, everyday, hopefully, i will enter my devotional here and when i have the time, i will comment on it.

my devotions dont come from a fixed place. i go to a few websites and sometimes my daily verse will be what i listened to or read recently.

anyway, i was just reading up on the 10 lost tribes of Israel and am really interested to find out WHO are the 10 last tribes.
just some history: After the reign of Solomon and some time after that (not sure of exact details) the Israelites were separated into 2 kingdoms: the northern kingdom of Israel which consisted of 10 tribes and the southern kingdom of Judah which consisted of 2 tribes. ('jews' are short form for "Judahites", the inhabitants of Judah).

The Assyrians conquered Israel and supposedly deported them all over. so, many israelites fled and were spread all around the world. no one is sure where and who they are.

the theory is that the some nations of the world today belong to the 10 tribes. some believe Chinese are. Japanese are. Ethiopia are. and so on and forth.i dont think we will ever be sure of this until we get to heaven. but i know that will be one of the questions i ask Jesus when i see Him.

as for the current nation state of Israel, if i am not wrong, they only consist of the the southern nation of Judah, and thus are called Jews. only 2 tribes.

where are the 10 lost tribes of israel?



OK, NOW ON TO MY purpose of this entry:

my verse for today is Psalms 1: 1-4


Psalm 1
BOOK I : Psalms 1-41
1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

i am looking at this verse because of a sermon i am currently listening to.
when i have time i will share what it's about.