(Portraits Of Great Preachers)

THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH(Christ to A.D. 500) 
Ignatius                                                (35-107) 
Polycarp                                               (69-155) 
Quintus Florens Tertullian                 (160-220) 
Chrysostom (John of Antioch)          (347-407)
Patrick                                                 (389-461) 
DARK AGES OF THE CHURCH   (A.D. 500-1000) 
Columba                                            (521-597) 
REFORMATION OF CHURCH (A.D. 1000-1500)
John Wycliffe                                   (1320-1384) 
John Huss                                        (1369-1415) 
Girolamo Savonarola                      (1452-1498) 
Ulrich Zwingli                                   (1484-1531) 
William Tyndale                                (1494-1536) 
Martin Luther                                    (1483-1546) 
Menno Simons                                  (1492-1559) 
ENLIGHTMENT OF CHURCH (A.D. 1500-1600) 
John Calvin                                       (1509-1564) 
John Knox                                         (1513-1572) 
WORD GROWTH IN THE CHURCH (A.D. 1600-1700)
Roger Williams                                 (1603-1684) 
John Bunyan                                    (1628-1688) 
 Richard Baxter                                 (1615-1691) 
George Fox                                       (1624-1691) 
SANTIFICATION OF THE CHURCH (A.D. 1700-1800) 
Susanna Wesley                               (1659-1742) 
Alexander Mack                                (1679-1735) 
David Brainerd                                  (1718-1747) 
Jonathon Edwards                           (1703-1758) 
George Whitefield                            (1714-1770) 
John Wesley                                     (1703-1791) 
TRUTH PREVAILS IN  CHURCH (A.D. 1800-1900) 
John Newton                                     (1725-1807) 
Robert Raikes                                   (1736-1811) 
 Francis Asbury                               (1745-1816) 
William Carey                                   (1761-1834) 
Christmas Evans                             (1766-1838) 
 Robert Murray McCheyne              (1813-1843) 
Adoniram Judson                            (1788-1850) 
Peter Cartwright                               (1785-1872) 
David Livingstone                            (1813-1873) 
Charles Grandison Finney              (1792-1875) 
 Stephen Paxon                                (1837-1881) 
Robert Moffat                                    (1795-1883) 
Jeremiah McAuley                            (1839-1884) 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon             (1834-1892) 
Absalom Backus Earle                    (1812-1895) 
Adoniram Judson Gordon               (1836-1895) 
Dwight Lyman Moody                      (1837-1899) 
 EVANGELISM Of CHURCH(A.D. 1900-2000) 
John Jasper                                     (1812-1901) 
Thomas DeWitt Talmage                 (1832-1902) 
James Hudson Taylor                     (1832-1905) 
Samuel Porter Jones                      (1847-1906) 
John Gibson Paton                         (1824-1907) 
William Bradford Booth                  (1829-1912) 
John Hyde                                        (1865-1912) 
Benajah Harvey Carroll                   (1843-1914) 
John Wilbur Chapman                    (1859-1918) 
Albert Benjamin Simpson                      (1884-1919) 
Cyrus Ingersoll Scofield                          (1843-1921) 
 Amzi Clarence Dixon                              (1854-1925) 
Reuben Archer Torrey                             (1856-1928) 
Frederick Brotherton Meyer                   (1847-1929) 
C. T. Studd                                                (1860-1931) 
James M. Gray                                         (1851-1935) 
William Ashley Sunday                            (1862-1935) 
Jonathan Goforth                                     (1859-1936) 
Paul Rader                                                (1879-1938) 
William Edward Biederwolf                    (1867-1939) 
T. T. Martin                                               (1862-1939) 
Melvin Ernest Trotter                              (1870-1940) 
Henry Clay Morrison                               (1857-1942) 
Reuben (Uncle Bud) Robinson                (1860-1942) 
George W. Truett                                      (1867-1944) 
George Campbell Morgan                       (1863-1945) 
Lee Rutland Scarborough                       (1870-1945) 
Rodney (Gypsy) Smith                             (1860-1947) 
 William Bell Riley                                    (1861-1947) 
Louis S. Bauman                                       (1875-1950) 
Evan Roberts                                            (1878-1950) 
William Leroy Pettingill                          (1886-1950) 
Harry A. Ironside                                     (1876-1951) 
Lewis Sperry Chafer                                (1871-1952) 
John Franklyn Norris                              (1877-1952) 
Thomas Todhunter Shields                      (1873-1955) 
WilliamReedNewell                                  (1868-1956)
John Edward Brown                                (1879-1957) 
 Louis Entzminger                                    (1876-1958) 
William Graham Scroggie                       (1877-1958) 
Mordecai Ham                                          (1878-1959) 
Ernest Ira Reveal                                      (1880-1959) 
Robert Pierce Shuler                                (1880-1965) 
Martin R. De Haan                                   (1891-1965) 
Charles Frederick Weigle                        (1871-1966) 
Robert Reynolds Jones                            (1883-1968) 
Charles Edward Fuller                            (1887-1968) 
Alva J. McClain                                        (1888-1968) 
Walter Lewis Wilson                                (1881-1969) 
William Culbertson                                  (1905-1971) 
Dallas Franklin Billington                       (1903-1972) 
Fred Sheldon Donnelson                          (1897-1974) 
George Beauchamp Vick                         (1901-1975) 
Gaylord Ford Porter                                (1893-1976) 
Oliver Boyce Greene                                (1915-1976) 
Robert Greene Lee                                   (1886-1978) 
John Richard Rice                                    (1895-1980) 
Bascom Ray Lakin                                   (1901-1984) 
Faithful Women                               (OT, NT - Today)
The Unknown Christian                  (Christ - Today)

(✞Knowing Jesus✞ )

Knowing Jesus ! 

✞so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.✞(Hebrews 9:28a)

Thoughts on Today’s VerseChrist was made the sacrifice for our sins, which rendered His ministry as the sin-sacrifice final and complete. 

Christ appeared the first time to put away sins forever and although today He is sitting at the right hand of the Father and one day will appear for a second time, when He comes to set up His kingdom – His sacrifice for sin was made once and for all – and it was completed forever at Calvary.

Just as it is appointed for every man to die once for his sins – for the wages of sin is death for every sinner, so Christ died on the cross once.. and He died to pay the price for every single sin. 

He died once to pay the price for the multitude of sins that mankind has committed – so that all who believe on His name would not perish but have everlasting life.

Christ was anointed of God put sin away forever and He alone was qualified to do so. As the eternal Son of God and as the perfect Son of man, He bore the sins of the world alone.. and disposed of them all forever.

And He is coming back again for our citizenship is in heaven and our Saviour is in heaven. Our hope is in heaven and our treasure is in heaven. God is in heaven – and to all who believe that Christ Jesus as Saviour, He will appear a second time.

ကက္သလစ္သာသနာ ႏွစ္ ၅၀၀ ျပည့္ပြဲ 
 ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ ကက္သလစ္ ခရစ္ယာန္သာသနာ ေရာက္ရွိ
အေျခခ်ျခင္း ႏွစ္ ၅၀၀ ျပည့္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ပြဲေတာ္ကုိ
 လာမည့္ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာ ၂၁ ရက္မွ ၂၃ ရက္အထိ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕
ဗုိလ္ေအာင္ေက်ာ္လမ္းရွိ စိန္႔ေမရီကာသီျဒယ္
ဘုရားေက်ာင္းတြင္ က်င္းပမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္
၁၆ ရာစုခန္႔က အိႏၵိယသမုဒၵရာအတြင္း စြန္႔စားသြားလာကာ
 ကူးသန္း ေရာင္းဝယ္ေနသည့္ ဥေရာပေတာင္ပိုင္းသား
 ေပၚတူဂီ လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ဗရင္ဂ်ီ ေခၚ ကက္သလစ္ ခရစ္ယာန္သာသနာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာခဲ့ျခင္း
 ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိ ႏွစ္ ၅၀၀ ျပည့္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ပြဲေတာ္ကုိ
 မူလက ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီး ဖရန္စစ္ လာေရာက္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ရန္
ရွိေသာ္လည္း ယခု အခါ လာေရာက္ႏုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေတာ့ဟု
 သိရသည္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ကက္သလစ္ ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္
 အတြင္းေရးမႉး ဖာသာ ေမာရစ္က“ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီး
မလာျဖစ္ဘူး၊ ဘာေၾကာင့္ လဲဆုိေတာ့ ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီးက
 ဗာတီကန္ႏုိင္ငံမွာ အႀကီးအကဲေလ၊ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔
 ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက အႀကီးအကဲ သမၼတက ဖိတ္မွ
လာႏုိင္မွာျဖစ္သလုိ၊ ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီး လုံၿခဳံေရးကိစၥ
ကုိလည္း ျမန္မာဘက္က တာ၀န္ယူရမယ္ဆုိေတာ့
အခက္အခဲရွိမယ့္သေဘာ ေၾကာင့္ ထင္ပါတယ္”ဟု ဆုိသည္။
 ထုိေၾကာင့္ ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီး ကုိယ္စား အာရွတုိက္
 ကက္သလစ္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ ဥကၠ႒
တက္ေရာက္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရ သည္။ အႏုပညာရွင္ ကုိ
ဖရက္ဒီက“အားလုံးကေတာ့ ပုပ္ရဟန္းမင္းႀကီး
လာမလားဆုိၿပီး ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ၾကတာေပါ့၊ ဒီတေခါက္ေရာက္
မလာႏုိင္ ေပမယ့္၊ ေနာင္ဆုိရင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ
 ေရာက္လာႏုိင္မယ္လို႔ ယုံၾကည္ေနမိတယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ယခုက်င္းပမည့္ ႏွစ္ ၅၀၀ ျပည့္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ပြဲကုိ
 ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတ၀န္းရွိ ကက္သလစ္ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာ၀င္
 ၅ ေသာင္း ခန္႔က လာ ေရာက္ရန္ စာရင္းေပးသြင္းထားၿပီး
၀တ္ျပဳပြဲမ်ား၊ စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ျခင္းမ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား႐ိုးရာ
အက ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲမ်ား၊ ကက္သလစ္ ဘာသာ၀င္
အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ႏြဲ႔ယဥ္၀င္း၊ ခ်စ္သုေ၀၊ ခ်မ္းခ်မ္း၊
 ေနေန၊ ေဂ်းမီ၊ ဆုိင္းေနာ္၊ အနဂၢ၊ သံသာ၀င္း၊ ဖရက္ဒီ တုိ႔အျပင္
 ျဖဴျဖဴေက်ာ္သိန္း၊ နီနီခင္ေဇာ္ စသည့္ အဆိုေတာ္မ်ားလည္း
သီဆုိေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲကုိ ႐ုပ္သံမွ
တုိက္႐ိုက္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ ျပသႏုိင္ရင္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ကက္သလစ္ သာသနာသည္ ၁၄၉၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဗာစ္ကိုဒဂါးမား
 အိႏၵိယတိုက္ငယ္ကို ရွာေဖြေတြ႕ရွိခ်ိန္မွစကာ အာရွတုိက္ရွိ
အိႏၵိယ၊ သီရိလကၤာ၊ ျမန္မာ၊ ထုိင္း၊ မေလးရွား၊ မကာအုိ
 စသည့္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားသို႔ ပင္လယ္ေရေၾကာင္း စြန္႔စားသြားလာသူ
 ေပၚတူဂီတုိ႔ႏွင့္အတူ ေရာက္လာျခင္း
 ျဖစ္သည္။ ၁၅၀၅ ခုႏွစ္က ဟံသာ၀တီ(ပဲခူး)ေရာက္
အီတလီကုန္သည္ တဦးက ဟံသာ၀တီ ဘုရင္ထံတြင္
 ေပၚတူဂီစစ္သား ၁၀ဝ၀ ခန္႔ လစာ ရိကၡာႏွင့္ အမႈထမ္း
 ေနေၾကာင္း မွတ္တမ္း တင္ခဲ့ဖူးသည္။ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပင္
ကက္သလစ္ ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘာသာ၀င္ ေပၚတူဂီတုိ႔
 သံလြင္ျမစ္ဝွမ္းရွိ မုတၱမ(Mataban)၊ ဧရာဝတီ
 ျမစ္ဝကြ်န္းေပၚရွိ ပုသိမ္ (Cosmin) ႏွင့္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္
 ေျမာက္ဦး စသည့္ ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ ၿမိဳ႕ျပႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ဝင္ထြက္ကာ
ကူးသန္းေရာင္းဝယ္ရင္း အမႈထမ္း အေျခခ်ေနထိုင္ ခဲ့ၾက၏။
ဘုရင့္ေနာင္ မင္းၾတားႀကီးလက္ထက္ ဟံသာ၀တီ၊ အင္းဝ၊
မိုးညႇင္း၊ မဏိပူရ၊ မုတၱမ၊ ရွမ္းကုန္းျမင့္၊ ဇင္းမယ္(ခ်င္းမိုင္)၊
အယုဒၶယ၊ လင္းဇင္း စသည့္ ၿမိဳ႕ျပ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားကို တိုက္ခိုက္သိမ္း
 ပိုက္ကာ ဟံသာဝတီ အင္ပါယာ ထူေထာင္ရာ၌ ေပၚတူဂီတို႔သည္ အေရးပါသည့္ ေၾကးစားစစ္သားမ်ား ျဖစ္လာၾကသည္။
၁၆၀၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေပၚတူဂီလူမ်ဳိးဖိလစ္ ဒီဗရစ္တို(ငဇကၤာ)
သံလ်င္ကုိအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရသည့္အခါ ေပၚတူဂီ 
အေျမာက္အမ်ား သံလ်င္တြင္အေျခခ်ခဲ့ သည္။
သံလ်င္က်ဆုံးၿပီးေနာက္အေနာက္ဘက္
လြန္မင္းက ကက္သလစ္ဘာသာ၀င္ ေပၚတူဂီမ်ားကို 
အင္း၀သုိ႔ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္သြား ခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္ပုိင္းတြင္
 ခ်င္းတြင္းျမစ္ႏွင့္ မူးျမစ္ၾကားသုိ႔ ပုိ႔ေဆာင္၍ 
ဗရင္ဂ်ီရြာႀကီးမ်ားအျဖစ္တည္ေထာင္ၿပီးခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာကုိ
 လြတ္ လပ္စြာကုိးကြယ္ေစခဲ့သည္။ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ယေန႔တုိင္
 ခ်မ္းသာ၊ ေခ်ာင္း႐ိုး၊ မုံလွ၊ ေခ်ာင္းဦး၊ နဘက္၊ ေမဂြန္ စသည့္
ကက္သလစ္ ခရစ္ယာန္ ရြာႀကီးမ်ားကုိ ေတြ႔ႏုိင္ သည္။
 ေနာက္ပုိင္းတြင္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး ေပါလ္အန္ဗီ႐ိုစ္
 ဘီဂန္းဒက္ ကဲ့သုိ႔ေသာ သာသနာျပဳ ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားေၾကာင့္
 ကက္သလစ္ခရစ္ယန္ဘာသာသည္
 ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတ၀န္းပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔ခဲ့သည္။

ေျမာ္လင္.ခ်က္ကုန္ဆံုးေနျပီလား??

ယေန. ေမ်ာ္လင္.ခ်က္ကုန္ဆံုးျပီး၊ဝမ္းနည္း၍ ပင္ပန္းနြမ္းနယ္ေနေသာ သူမ်ားအတြက္ သတင္းေကာင္းကေတာ. သင္သည္ အထက္ေကာင္းကင္၌ ပ်ံသန္းေနေသာ ငွက္ငယ္မ်ားထက္ ပုိ၍ ဘုရားသခင္ တန္းဖုိးထားေသာသူျဖစ္သည္။အဘယ္ေၾကာင္.ဆုိေသာ္ သင္နွင္.က်ြနုပ္၏ ေကာင္းျခင္း မေကာင္းျခင္းေၾကာင္. မဟုတ္ပါ၊သင္.အထဲ၌ရွိေသာ သူနွင္.သ႑န္သူ ဖန္ရွင္းထား သည္.ဝိညာဥ္ကုိ ဘုရားတန္ဖုိး ထားျခင္းေၾကာင္. ျဖစ္သည္။ ကယ္တင္ျခင္း၊ကယ္တင္ျခင္းလုိ. ယေန.ေျပာ၊ ေျပာေနၾက တာလည္း အျပင္ခႏၵာကုိယ္ကယ္တင္ဖုိ. မဟုတ္ပဲ ထုိဝိညာဥ္ကုိ ကယ္တင္ဖုိ.အလုိ.ငွါျဖစ္သည္။ 

ဖိလိပိ၄း၆ အဘယ္အမႈကိုမွ် စိုးရိမ္ျခင္းမရွိဘဲ အရာရာ၌ ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ကို ခ်ီးမြမ္းျခင္းႏွင့္တကြ ဆုေတာင္ပဌနာ ျပဳေသာအားျဖင့္၊ သင္တို႔ေတာင္းပန္လိုေသာ အရာမ်ားတို႔ကို ဘုရားသခင္အား ၾကားေလွ်ာက္ၾကေလာ့။ 

 ၇ ထိုသို႔ ျပဳလွ်င္ အဘယ္သူမွ်ႀကံ၍ မမွီႏိုင္ေသာ ဘုရားသခင္၏ ၿငိမ္သက္ျခင္းသည္ ေယရႈခရစ္အားျဖင့္ သင္တို႔၏စိတ္ႏွလံုး တို႔ကို ေစာင့္မလိမ့္မည္။ ၁၉ ငါ၏ဘုရားသခင္သည္ ဘုန္းအာႏုေဘာ္၌ စံပယ္ေတာ္မူေသာ စည္းစိမ္ရွိ သည္အတိုင္း၊ သင္တို႔အလိုရွိသမွ်တို႔ကို ေယရႈခရစ္အားျဖင့္ ျပည့္စံုေစေတာ္မူလိမ့္မည္။ မာသဲ ၆း၂၆ မိုဃ္းေကာင္းကင္၌က်င္လည္ေသာငွက္မ်ားကို ၾကည့္ရႈဆင္ျခင္ ၾကေလာ့။ ထိုငွက္တို႔သည္မ်ိဳးေစ့ကိုမစိုက္မႀကဲ၊ စပါးကိုမရိတ္၊ က်ီ၌မစုမသြင္း။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ကင္ဘံု၌ရွိေတာ္မူေသာ သင္တို႔အဘ သည္သူ တို႔ကို ေကြၽးေမြးေတာ္မူ၏။ ထိုငွက္တို႔ထက္ သင္တို႔သည္ အလြန္ျမတ္သည္မဟုတ္ေလာ။ 

Have Faith and Believe!

ယံုၾကည္ျခင္းမွ ခ်စ္ျခင္းေမတၱာသုိ.

ေယရွဳနွလံုးသား..!!

!ဘုရားသခင္၏သဘာဝ၊ဘုရား၏နွလံုးသား
!ခရစ္ေတာ္၏အတြင္းနွလံုးသားေဖါင္ေဒးရွင္းသည္ 
!မရွိဆင္းရဲသူနွင္. လုိအပ္ေနေသာ သူကုိ မ,စျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ !မုဆုိးမနွင္.မိဘမဲ.မ်ားကုိ ကြယ္ကာေတာ္မူတယ္။ !ဒုကၡပင္လယ္ေဝေနေသာ ဤေလာကုိ !နုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ၾကြယ္ဝခ်မ္းသာျခင္းအေမြေပးဖုိ. 
!!သြန္သင္ပါတယ္။ မိမိေနအိမ္ အသုိင္းအဝန္းနွင္. !!အဖဲြ.အစည္းတြင္ရွိေသာ မရွိဆင္းရဲသူအား !!ၾကည္.ရွဳေစာင္.ေရွာက္ပါက သင္.ေနာက္ကြယ္၌ရွိေနေသာ !*ဘုရားသခင္ထံမွက်န္းမာျခင္း ေျဖာင္.မတ္ျခင္း၊
!*ၾကြယ္ဝျခင္း ေရာင္ျခည္ အလွ်င္ျမန္ !*ထြန္းလင္းေတာက္ပါလာမယ္လုိ.ဂတိေပးျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
!*ဟရွာယ(၅၈း၈) သုိ႔ျပဳလွ်င္သင္၏အလင္းသည္ 
!မုိဃ္းေသာက္ေသာ အလင္းကဲ့သို႔ေပၚထြန္း၍၊အလ်င္အျမန္ 
!က်န္းမာျခင္း သုိ႔ ေရာက္လိမ့္မည္။သင္၏ေျဖာင့္္မတ္ျခင္း၊ 
!ပါရမီသည္ သင္ေရွ႔၌သြား၍၊
!*ဘုရား၏ ဘုန္းေတာ္သည္ ေနာက္၌လုံၿခဳံေစလိမ့္မည္။ !*ခရစ္ေတာ္၏နွလံုးသားသည္ အစဥ္အျမဲ အဖိနွိပ္ခံ၊ !*အပါယ္ခံေတြဘက္မွာ ရပ္တည္ခ်င္သည္.နွလံုးသားျဖစ္တယ္။ !(God's heart is always for the underdog) *!ထုိသူေတြရဲ.လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကုိလည္း *!ထာဝရအျမဲေတြးေပးတတ္ပါတယ္။ 
*!သင္သည္ ထုိဘုရားသခင္၏ နွလံုးသား နွင္. *!ခ်ိတ္ဆက္လုိက္ျပီဆုိတာနဲ.အမွ် သင္.ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ရွိ *!လူေတြကုိ ေဝငွေျပာျပ ခ်င္လာတယ္၊ 
*!မ်ားမ်ား သက္ေသခံေဝမွ်ေလ *!သခင္.နွလံုးစည္းခ်က္လည္း ျမန္ဆန္ေလျဖစ္ကာ *!သူ.ဘုန္းေတာ္ပုိမုိထင္ရွာ:လာမည္ ျဖစ္တယ္။ 
*!အနီးပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ရွိ လုိအပ္ေနေသာအငယ္ဆံုးသူေတြကုိ
*!ပုိမုိကူညီမ,စနုိင္မည္.အေၾကာင္း ေမတၱာေရွ.ထားလွ်က္
*!ေဝမွ်လုိက္ပါတယ္။

"က်မေသရင္... မ်က္ရည္မက်ၾကပါနဲ."

မိတ္ေဆြကဲ.သုိ. စကားေျပာလုိေသာဘုရား..!!

I was reading in the book of Exodus. Typically, when I read the Old Testament, I read the stories filled with accounts of the awesome wonder and power of God. But this time as I read, one thing really struck me and touched my heart. I was reading about this conversation Moses was having with God about how they were going to get the people into the Promised Land. God had already brought them out of captivity, but they hadn’t gotten into the Promised Land yet. Now, the Israelites had been through a lot over the previous generations, and their thinking was a little off. God was meeting with Moses in a place called the tent of meetings. And God said to Moses, “You know what Moses? I’m going to help you, and I’m going to be with you.” The scripture says that “God talked to Moses as a man talks to a friend.” I believe this is a beautiful picture of God’s heart. He’s saying to all of us, “I want to talk to you like your friend talks to you.” Too many times in life, we think God is far off. We think we have to hear him booming in the clouds, or He’s so mysterious that we don’t really hear what He’s saying. But this scripture tells us what He’s saying! He wants to talk to us like a friend. He’s saying, “I am going to be with you, and I’m going to give you the victory!” I don’t know what you need from God today. Do you have a question for Him? Do you have a need? Know this: God is the same today as He was yesterday, and He’ll be the same tomorrow and forever! He wants to talk to you like He talks to a friend. Incline your ear to Him! Sing to Him! He’s not a far-off God! He speaks to you personally and directly. But once you’re aware of that, then you can understand that still, small voice. Trust Him, talk to Him and know that He longs to have conversations with you like a friend! “The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. . . .” (Exodus 33: 11, NIV)

Nothing is impossible with God!

In the book of Genesis, God promised Abraham and Sarah that they would have a son and that all the generations of the earth would be blessed through him. In the natural, this looked impossible because they were both well beyond childbearing years. They could have easily looked at their situation and decided, “There is just no way.” But even though they couldn’t see a way in the natural, they chose to put their faith and trust in God. They chose to stay open and consider what He could do beyond their earthly limitations.

Hebrews 11 tells us that their faith opened the door for God to bring to pass what He had promised in their lives. When they considered God, He did the impossible—He strengthened their mortal bodies so they could conceive a child even when there was no earthly way.

Are you facing a situation in your life that seems impossible—something in your relationships, finances or maybe in your physical body? Anytime you don’t know what to do or how to do it, remember this: God does. He is not confined to the resources of this earthly realm. He is the God of the impossible!

There’s always more happening than what you can see. Even when your hands are tied, His hands are never tied. When it looks like there is nothing in your bank account, God has an unlimited supply. He promises to meet every single one of your needs according to His riches in glory. When a relationship seems broken beyond repair, God is the God of restoration. He can soften and mend people’s hearts. When you need an opportunity to open up and you can’t see a way, don’t give up because God can make a way. He knows how to get you to the right place at the right time. He can cause the right people to have favor on you and bring you the right connections. Hope on in faith knowing that God is always working behind the scenes for your good!
“Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37, NLT)

GOD always leads us!!

Have you ever heard about how hunters used to trap monkeys? The hunters would fill a large barrel with bananas and then cut a small hole in the side of it just barely big enough for the monkey to get his hand and arm through. The monkey, completely unaware of the trap, would reach his arm into the barrel and grab one of those bananas. But when he would try to pull his arm out, he wouldn’t be able to get his clenched fist and the banana through the hole. The monkey would hold that banana so tightly and not dare release it. Consequently, the hunters would easily capture the monkey. What’s interesting is that at any point prior to the capture, the monkey could have easily let go of the banana and pulled his hand out of the barrel. But that monkey was so focused on what he wanted that he didn’t even realize he was in a trap!

Many people live like that today—with both hands clenched, so focused on trying to hold on to what they have that they don’t realize it’s robbing them of the freedom and victory God has in store. Don’t let that be you! Choose to release anything that’s keeping you from God’s best because nothing in this world is worth holding on to so tightly. Don’t get trapped because you aren’t willing to change or reposition yourself or your thinking. Remember, God always has your best in mind. His plans are for your good, and when you follow His plans, you can move forward in peace, strength, joy, faith and victory.

What’s the best way to avoid the traps? Stay close to Father God. Be willing to let go of anything that He whispers to your heart. It can be letting go of wrong mindsets or attitudes. It can be letting go of questions about something that didn’t work out, or letting go of an old relationship. It could even be letting go of a dream that you’ve had so God can give you something better. Don’t let anything keep you from God’s best. You may not always understand, but that’s when you have to trust God’s goodness.

Remember, God always leads us one step at a time in our journey of life. Be open to what He has for you and let Him reposition you. You already have everything you need to be successful in your future, so why hold on to the past? Today set yourself up for freedom and victory by being open-handed, open-minded, and open-hearted to what God has for you!

“Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.” (Luke 17:33, NIV)

GOD IS ALWAYS READY!!

Who do you approach boldly? Your spouse or loved one? A close friend or your child? Who do you approach cautiously? Someone you don’t know or maybe someone you had a conflict with?

The other day I was reading in Hebrews, and in chapter four, verse 16 it says “to come boldly to the throne of grace and receive mercy.” I was thinking, how many times do people shrink back or hide from God because of guilt, condemnation or fear? They have a misconception about how God views them, and it affects their relationship with Him. It’s just like Adam and Eve in the garden way back in the very beginning. They sinned and hid from God. (As if you can really hide from God.) But God doesn’t want us to hide from Him; He wants us to come boldly to Him so He can give us His mercy. He’s saying today, “I don’t care what you’ve done, come to Me. Let Me make you whole and new again.”

I encounter so many people who believe that God is always mad at them. When things don’t go well, the first thing they say is, “Well, God, You did it to me again!” It’s as if they think God is just waiting for them to do something wrong so He can punish them and make their lives difficult. Let me assure you right now, that is the farthest thing from the truth! God is not mad at you; He is madly in love with you! When you receive His love, it will give you confidence to go to Him.

Remember, it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve made a mistake; it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve blown it. God is always ready to receive you with open, loving arms. In fact, He’s already forgiven you for anything you’ve done in the past and anything you will do in the future. All you must do is come boldly and receive His grace and mercy today!

ေယရွဳခရစ္ဟူေသာတုိက္ျမစ္

၁ေကာ၃း၁၁ ေယရႈခရစ္တည္းဟူေသာ၊ခ်လ်က္ရွိေသာတုိက္ျမစ္မွတပါး အျခားေသာတိုက္ ျမစ္ကိုအဘယ္သူမွ်မခ်ႏိုင္။
လူတိုင္း လုပ္ေသာအလုပ္သည္ အဘယ္သို႔ ေသာအလုပ္ျဖစ္သည္ကိုမီးသည္စစ္ေၾကာစံုစမ္းလိမ့္မည္။ ၁၄ထုိတိုက္ျမစ္အေပၚ၌ထပ္ဆင့္၍တည္ေဆာက္ေသာအၾကင္သူ၏အလုပ္ သည္ၿမဲ၏၊ထုိသူသည္အက်ဳိးကိုခံရလိမ့္မည္။ ၁၅အၾကင္သူ၏အလုပ္သည္ကြၽမ္းေလာင္၏၊ထိုသူသည္အရႈံးခံရလိမ့္မည္။ ဂလာတိ၂း၂၀ အထက္ပါက်မ္းပိုဒ္၏အနက္ကုိ ေလးေလးနက္နက္ဆင္ျခင္သင္.သည္။ တုိက္ျမစ္ဆုိတာ(ေယရွဳ )ကုိဆုိလုိျပီးထုိေယရွဳအားျဖင္. ပါဝင္လွဴဒါန္းသီဆုိ ခ်ီးမြမ္းသမွ်အ၇ာအားလံုးကုိ ဘု၇ားလက္ခံျပီး အက်ိဳးခံစားမည္။ ထို(Foundation)သည္ ေယရွဳမဟုတ္ပဲ ငါ./ငါတုိ.(လူမ်ိဳး၊လူမွဳအဖဲြ.စည္း၊ ဂုိဏ္း၊ေငြေၾကးစသည္.)အုတ္ျမစ္အ၇ာအားလံုး ေလာင္က်ြမ္းလိမ္.မည္။

စစ္မွန္ေသာကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း

၁။လူေတြနားလည္သေဘာေပါက္ေသာ ကုိးကြယ္ျခင္းနဲ. ဘုရား ကုိးကြယ္ေစခ်င္ေသာပံုစံ ကဲြလြဲေနတတ္ပါတယ္။ 
လူေတြက ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္းဆိုတာ အစဥ္အလာတစ္ခုလုိလုပ္ေဆာင္ ဖို.သာ အားသန္ျပီး မိမိ ျကိုက္ သလို မိမိေက်နပ္သလို၊လူကုိ ဗဟုိျပဳ(Men center) လုပ္ေဆာင္ ျခင္းနွင့္သာေက်နပ္ေနျကသည္။ ဘုရားက နာမ္ဝိညာဥ္ဘုရား ျဖစ္ ျပီး သူ.ကိုကိုးကြယ္ ေသာသူမွန္သမွ်သည္ နာမ္၊ဝိညာဥ၊္သစၥာနွင့္ ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း ကို နွစ္သက္ပါသည္။ ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္းဆိုတာက ကိုယ္ကေက်နပ္သလို ကိုးကြယ္ဖုိ.မ ဟုတ္ပဲ ဘုရားနည္းလမ္း အတိုင္း ဘုရားေက်နပ္ဖုိ. အေရးၾကီးပါသည္။ ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း ဆိုတာက အျပင္ပိုင္း ဟန္ပန္အမူအရာထက္ အတြင္း ဝိညာဥ္ထဲ ကျဖစ္ဖို့ အေရးျကီးပါသည္။ မ်ားစြာေသာ ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း မ်ားသည္ အတြင္းနွလုံးသား နွင့္ ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္းမ်ားထက္ အျပင္ပိုင္းလူေတြ ခ် မွတ္ထားတဲ့စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္း လုပ္ ရိုးလုပ္စဥ္မ်ားကို နွလုံးသားမပါပဲ လုပ္ေဆာင္ ေနျကသည္က မ်ားသည္။ ယခင္သမၼာေဟာင္းကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္းမွာ ယဇ္ေကာင္ မပါရင္ ဘုရားက လက္မခံပါ။ဘယ္သူက ဘယ္ပုံစံ ကိုးကြယ္တယ္ဆုိတာထက္ ယဇ္ေကာင္ ပါဖို့က အေရးျကီးတယ္။ ကာဣန နွင့္ အာေဗလ ကိုးကြယ္တဲ့အခါမွာ နွစ္ေယာက္စလုံး ကိုးကြယ္ဖို့ လာေရာက္ေသာ္လည္း ဘုရားခ်မွတ္တဲ့ယဇ္ေကာင္ပါျပီး လာေရာက္ကိုးကြယ္ေသာ အာေဗလ ယဇ္ပူေဇာ္ျခင္းကိုသာ ဘုရားက လက္ခံခဲ့ျပီး ကာဣန နွင့္သူ့ ပူေဇာ္သကၠာ ကို ျငင္းပယ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အေျကာင္းက ယဇ္ေကာင္ မပါ လို့ျဖစ္တယ္။ ယေန့မ်ားစြာ ေသာလူေတြ ကိုးကြယ္ဖို့ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာၾကေသာ္လည္း ဘုရားသတ္မွတ္တဲ့ ဝိညာဥ္အထဲက နွလုံးသားနဲ့ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါက ဘုရားလက္ခံမည္မဟုတ္ေခ်။  
၂။သစၥာနွင့္ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္း။
 ေနရာနွင့္မဆိုင္ပဲ သစၥာရွိျခင္းနဲ့ဆိုင္ပါသည္။ ရွာမာရိအမ်ိဳးသမီးက ေယရူကို ေမးသည္ ဘယ္ေနရာမွာ ကိုးကြယ္တာ အသင့္ေတာ္ဆုံးနဲ့ အမွန္ဆုံးလည္း?? ေယရူကဒီအေျဖကို ေပးခဲ့ တယ္။ သစၥာနဲ့.ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္း။ ေနရာႏွင္. အေဆာက္အအုံထဲမွာမူတည္ျပီး ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္းမဟုတ္ပဲ သစၥာရွိစြာ ျဖင့္အသက္ရွင္ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္း ျဖစ္ရမည္။ ေန့ရက္နွင့္ေနရာ အေပၚမွာကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္းကို ခရစ္ယာန္မ်ားစြာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနျကျပီး ဘုရားနွစ္သက္ေသာ ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္း ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ေပ။ထြက္ ၂၀:၂၄ မွာေတာ့ ကိုးကြယ္တဲ့ အရပ္ခပ္ သိမ္းမွာ ျကြလာမယ္လို့ဘုရားက ကတိရွိပါတယ္။ တစ္ကယ္လည္း လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဒံေယလ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကရုပ္ထု အျပည့္ ရွိတဲ့ ဗါဗုလုန္ နိုင္ငံမွာ ဘုရင့္အမိန့္နဲ့ ရုပ္ထုျကီးကို ကိုးကြယ္ဖို့ ျငင္းဆန္ျပီး မီးေလာင္ေနတဲ့ မီးပုံကို ေရြးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူတို့ သစၥာ နဲ့ ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္းကို ဘုရားဂုဏ္ျပဳ ျပီးဘုရားကိုယ္တိုင္အဲ့ဒီမီးပုံအလယ္မွာ ျကြလာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သစၥာနဲ့ကိုးကြယ္ ျခင္းကို နွစ္သက္တဲ့ ဘုရားပါ။ ဒါေျကာင့္ လုပ္ရိုးလုပ္စဥ္ သမရိုးက်လူေတြေတာင္ ပ်င္းတဲ့ ကိုးကြယိျခင္းကေန ဘုရား အလိုရွိတဲ့ ဘုရားကိုယ္တိုင္ ျကြ ျပီး ေနရာယူတဲ့ နာမ္၊ဝိညာဥ္၊ သစၥာနဲ.ကိုးကြယ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ လာဝရဘုရားထံေတာ္ပါးသုိ. ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ၾကပါစုိ.။

"What does the Bible say about Christian tithing?

Many Christians struggle with the issue of tithing. In some churches giving is over-emphasized. At the same time, many Christians refuse to submit to the biblical exhortations about making offerings to the Lord. 
Tithing/giving is intended to be a joy and a blessing. Sadly, that is sometimes not the case in the church today. Tithing is an Old Testament concept. The tithe was a requirement of the Law in which the Israelites were to give 10 percent of the crops they grew and the livestock they raised to the tabernacle/temple (Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:26; Deuteronomy 14:24; 2 Chronicles 31:5).
 In fact, the Old Testament Law required multiple tithes—one for the Levites, one for the use of the temple and the feasts, and one for the poor of the land—which would have pushed the total to around 23.3 percent.
 Some understand the Old Testament tithe as a method of taxation to provide for the needs of the priests and Levites in the sacrificial system. The New Testament nowhere commands, or even recommends, that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system. 
The New Testament nowhere designates a percentage of income a person should set aside, but only says gifts should be “in keeping with income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Some in the Christian church have taken the 10 percent figure from the Old Testament tithe and applied it as a “recommended minimum” for Christians in their giving. 
 The New Testament talks about the importance and benefits of giving. We are to give as we are able. Some times that means giving more than 10 percent; sometimes that may mean giving less. 
It all depends on the ability of the Christian and the needs of the church. Every Christian should diligently pray and seek God’s wisdom in the matter of participating in tithing and/or how much to give (James 1:5). 
Above all, all tithes and offerings should be given with pure motives and an attitude of worship to God and service to the body of Christ. 
“Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).

" What is the definition of the church? "

Although "church" has come to mean a building or organization, the original Greek ekklesia meant "a gathering, assembly" and is the basis for our word "congregation."
 And that is what God designed the church to be—a group of people. The definition of a "church" as a separate building specifically for worship would have been foreign to the early believers, as they met in homes. 
When a building was mentioned in the New Testament, it was always in relation to the church that met there (Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Philemon 1:2). 
The church was the people, not the building. With the legitimization and affluence of Christianity in later years, the "church" came to mean the building where people met. Now, it often is used to mean a particular denomination.
 But the truest meaning of the word "church" is the group of believers. Christ is the head of the church, and the church is the body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23). 
The members of the body are all Christians. "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many" (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). 
The universal church is defined as all who have received the Holy Spirit, no matter their location, denomination, or era. 
To ensure order and to provide fellowship, the universal church is also divided into local churches. The universal church is the body of Christ, composed of everyone who has received Christ as their Savior. It is comprised of every believer from every country and every time from Pentecost (Acts 2) until Christ's return. 
Although a specific denomination may teach a more accurate view of God and His Word than another, the universal church recognizes no denominations, just individual believers joined together in one body. 
No matter the denomination or the size of a local church, the purpose is to do corporately what all who name the name of Jesus are to do individually—glorify God in worship, obey and honor Him in all we do, and encourage one another to do the same. 
The church is not a building; it is a group of people. It is not a denomination; it is everyone who has received the Holy Spirit. And it doesn't grant salvation; it is people, loving and glorifying God and teaching others about a saving knowledge of Christ. 
As believers, we are joined with all Christians from Peter to the smallest child in the body of Christ. The local church is where the members of the universal church can apply 1 Corinthians 12: encouraging, teaching, and building one another up in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Does a person have to attend church to be saved?

The church is of great importance, yet the Bible is clear that the way to heaven in by faith in Christ alone. Ephesians 2:8-9 notes there are no works involved in earning our way to heaven: 
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." Going to church is a good thing, but it is not meritorious—it does not merit eternal life. 
 A person's church involvement does not determine entrance into heaven. However, the Bible does emphasize the importance of Christian fellowship in a local church. 
The word translated "church" is the Greek word ekklesia, a reference to an assembly meaning "called out." The church is not a building, but rather the "called out" ones of God, the gathering of people with faith in Jesus Christ.
 In addition, Christians are specifically told not to neglect "meet[ing] together, as is the habit of some." Rather, we should encourage "one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near" (Hebrews 10:25). 
Church involvement is both an encouragement to us and an opportunity to encourage others. The local church is a family, not a facility. A strong family will be there for each another during good times and bad. 
We are united by our faith in Jesus Christ, and we seek to help one another grow closer to Him and to share Him with others. "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers" (1 John 3:14), and if we love them, we will desire to spend time with them. 
 The church is so important that the Bible calls it the bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:25 teaches that the model for a husband's love for his wife is Christ's love for the church. Wrapping up the topic of marriage, Paul says, "I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church" (verse 32).
 If God thinks so highly of the church as to call it His "bride," we must consider our fellowship with one another extremely important. While no amount of church attendance will get a person to heaven, church involvement is the expected norm for someone who follows Jesus Christ. 
Our salvation is found in Him, and only Him (Acts 4:12), and the church is the context in which we encourage one another to grow and actively serve others.

Is church attendance important?

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul compares Christ-followers to a body—the body of Christ. 
Every Christian is a part of this body (vs. 27), every part needs the others (vs. 21), and every part should be concerned for the others (vs. 25-26). 
 In addition, no part of the body—no member of the church—can claim to be a self-sufficient unit (vs. 15-16). Since the local church is the method God has chosen for us to join together and live like a cohesive body, church attendance is very important.
 Although all Christians make up the universal church, God uses smaller local churches in very specific, important ways. The local church is where we learn about God (Acts 2:42). 
It's also how we build each other up through encouragement (Hebrews 3:13), exhortation (Hebrews 10:24), service (Galatians 5:13), honor (Romans 12:10), and compassion (Ephesians 4:32). 
Church attendance is not a requirement. We don't have to go to church to be saved. But staying away from church is dangerous. 
When we avoid other believers and reject their encouragement, the world will influence our beliefs and thoughts more than the Word (Hebrews 10:25). 
In the church, however, God has provided people who can remind us Who He is and how much He loves us (Romans 15:14). Most importantly, we can grow in love for God and others (1 John 4:12).