D A
I have trusted in Your mercy
Bm F#m
I trust in Your unfailing love
G D
I place my trust in You, O Lord
Em A
Jesus, I will trust in You
Chorus :
G A
You are so faithful, O my Lord
F#m Bm
You are so faithful, O my God
G
I trust in You
A D
I trust in You, O Lord
2 Cor 9:12-14 CEB
Your ministry of this service to God’s people isn’t only fully meeting their needs but it is also multiplying in many expressions of thanksgiving to God. They will give honor to God for your obedience to your confession of Christ’s gospel. They will do this because this service provides evidence of your obedience, and because of your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone. They will also pray for you, and they will care deeply for you because of the outstanding grace that God has given to you.
2 Cor 9:12-14 NLT
So two good things will result from this ministry of giving—the needs of the believers in Jerusalem will be met, and they will joyfully express their thanks to God. As a result of your ministry, they will give glory to God. For your generosity to them and to all believers will prove that you are obedient to the Good News of Christ. And they will pray for you with deep affection because of the overflowing grace God has given to you.
Two good things result from the ministry of giving : the needs of the saints are met and they will express their thanksgiving to God our Lord. It is also proof or evidence of our faith – that we believe in Christ and obey Him in helping the least of the brothers. (Matt 25:33-46). Doing good by giving to the saints is an acceptable worship sacrifice or a memorial offering to God. (Heb 13:16). Of course, if we trumpet our giving or we do not give cheerfully, then we are not obeying Christ because we love Him but do so with other motives.
One of the greatest joys in life is to have fellow brothers and sisters caring deeply for us by praying for us.
C F G C
Lamb of God, Son of man,
C F G C
Jesus Christ, Great I Am,
F G Em Am
Emmanuel, Prince of peace,
F G C
My one desire is to worship You
Chorus :
F G Em Am
I’m so in awe, so in awe of You
F G Em Am
I’m so in awe, so in awe of You
F G C
I’m so in awe of You, Lord.
(Lyrics are used with permission from Malcolm Tan.)
Thanks unto the Lord for giving JC’s Manifesto the opportunity to be one of the vessels in availing covid treatment medicine to save lives in South Asia. The treatment results were documented so that we could have first hand proof ourselves whether the medicine was efficacious, and not relying on hearsay reports. As shown in the sample report below, it was extremely efficacious.
Not only is this ministry within our meager budget to reach and help hundreds, if not thousands, but also it is an excellent bridge for evangelism in the most practical way. All glory and honor to our Lord.
Exactly one year ago on 1st June 2020, I shared here that our Lord God decrees all calamities and our right response to our Lord’s calamitous judgment is to repent corporately and if not possible, we will repent individually and let God render to us each of our ways since He knows all our hearts. 1 Kings 8:35-40.
http://www.jcmanifesto.org/all-calamities-are-decreed-by-the-lord/
Fast forward to today, the pandemic continues to ravage. Our Lord wants obedience and not sacrifice. We can continue to organize global prayer and praise, prayer chant of Psalms 91, and even fasting, but all will be futile if we do not repent. The false NAR apostles and prophets also came on the scene to prophesize and declare victory over the pandemic last year causing many to be indifferent and unrepentant. (Our Lord is sovereign and He may have mercy and relent at some point in time.) To add further injury, we see Christendom in many nations trust more of the secular authorities to remedy the situation than to humble and seek our Lord’s face first and foremost. 2 Chron 7:13-14.
Deut 28:15,21-22 KJV said such :
“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee…The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.”
It is interesting to note that in KJV, the pestilence judgment is a consumption with a fever and with an inflammation. Consumption is an old English word for wasting disease affecting the lungs such as tuberculosis. Covid 19 fits the description of a consumption with fever and with an inflammation of the lungs.
So may God our Lord bless the faithful with wisdom to know the correct response to Him.
Zeph 2:3 KJV
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.
Psalms 46:1-2; 10-11
G C
Lord, You are my refuge and strength
Am D
Lord, You are my present help in trouble
G C
I will not fear though the earth gives way
Am D G
Though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea
Chorus:
C G
Be still and know that the Lord is God
Am D
He will be exalted among the nations
C G
The Lord of hosts is with us
Am D
The God of Jacob is our fortress
Conducted the Christian Growth class from 7th Feb to 2nd May 2021. All thanks and praise to the Lord for the faithful attendance of 5 brothers and sisters over 13 weeks.
Will be conducting the basic theology class with the following topics soon and I pray that a short concise booklet will be birthed out of this class.
The office of the high priest was instituted when God gave the law to the Israelites. The high priest was responsible for interceding for Israel before God. In John 17, Jesus our Lord interceded for Himself, His disciples and all believers so the prayer became known as the High Priestly prayer.
Who can know exactly how to pray to God better than the Son of God Himself who had been with God since eternity past and for all eternity. This prayer, together with the Lord’s Prayer, will be comprehensive enough as examples to pray for oneself and others for the main petition priorities are mentioned in them. How important it will be for all believers to know the petition priorities made in these two prayers by our Lord.
The Lord’s Prayer is a personal prayer while the High Priestly Prayer is a corporate prayer. One prays for oneself for provisions, forgiveness and deliverance; the other prays for the security, sanctification and unity of one’s disciples and the church at large.
The outline of this High Priestly prayer is as follows :
The main petition priorities gleaned from the High Priestly prayer are :
There are already many articles written on the subject of the Holy Trinity. I just want to share some clear evidence from Scripture to debunk Binitarianism specifically. Binitarianism is the belief that there is no Third Person in the God-head and the Holy Spirit mentioned in Scripture is either the spirit-being of God the Father or God the Son.
Firstly, 2 Cor 13:14 mentioned all three persons in the benediction in which there is no necessity to mention the Holy Spirit if it is not existent separately. ( 2 Cor 13:14. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.)
Secondly, during the baptism of our Lord Jesus, it was clearly mentioned that God the Father spoke from Heaven and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and alighting on our Lord Jesus. (Matt 3:16-17. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”)
Thirdly, our Lord Jesus mentioned that He had to leave in order for God the Father to send the Helper (the Holy Spirit) to the disciples. John 16:7. And the Holy Spirit will not speak on His own authority but will only speak what He hears and will glorify our Lord Jesus implying the subordination of the Holy Spirit to Him. So there is clearly this subordination to one another in the God-head. God the Father would send God the Spirit to be subservient in His ministry to glorify God the Son and will not speak on His own authority but declare the truths from God the Son. John 16:14. These verses – John 16:7, 13-14 – will be incomprehensible if God the Spirit is not a separate Person from God the Father and God the Son. According to Binitarianism, if the Holy Spirit is just the spirit-being of God the Father or God the Son, re-reading these verses will be incomprehensible. (John 16:7,13-14. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you…When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare to you.)
Fourthly, the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. If the Holy Spirit is the spirit-being of God the Father, then it will be ambiguous to intercede to Himself since we know from John 16 that our Lord Jesus is distinct from the Helper, the Holy Spirit. (Rom 8:26-27. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.)
Lastly, we are given the Great Commission by our Lord to make disciples of all nations and baptizing them in the name of the Triune God – God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In Acts 19:1-7, the disciples in Ephesus did not even know of the Holy Spirit despite being baptized by John the Baptist and telling them to believe in the name of Jesus our Lord. They did not have the Holy Spirit since their understanding of the gospel and the Triune God were likely to be spurious.
Through the centuries since the birth of the church, creeds from ecumenical councils and confession of huge part of Christendom have affirmed the Holy Trinity.
The Nicene Creed, accepted by all Christendom, clearly states in the creed that the Holy Spirit is worshiped and glorified together with God the Father and God the Son : “…And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life. He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified…” The Athanasian creed affirms the Holy Trinity though it is not universally accepted by all Protestant churches. (http://www.prca.org/about/official-standards/creeds/ecumenical/athanasian).
Other confession through the centuries include the Belgic Confession (https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/belgic-confession-1561/) and the Cape Town Commitment (https://www.lausanne.org/content/ctcommitment#p1-5).
The US economy was already showing sign of distress in September 2019 when the Federal Reserve had to conduct repo action by pumping hundreds of billions into the market. The covid-19 pandemic simply amplified the distress. The Fed created so much new money out of thin air to enable the US government to provide stimulus package to the economy in March 2020. The balance sheet had set new record. The G4 (US, EU, UK, Japan) balance sheet will grow from USD 16.5 trillion in 2019 to 29.5 trillion in 2022.
(What is a repo ? When enacting a repo operation, the US central bank buys government securities from banks with predetermined repurchase dates. The offerings create temporary liquidity for the financial system, adding more funds to the plumbing that connects banks, accounts, and transactions.)
Sadly, all these monies went to bankroll the government debt and backstop all the bonds of almost all major corporations including zombie ones. Think of what the zombie CEOs would do with the easy helicopter money. They bought back the shares of the companies and sent the stock market into record frenzy heights creating the biggest disconnect between the stock market and the real economy. No longer is the stock market the barometer of the health of the economy. While the big corporations, including zombie corporations, have easy access to such money, the SMEs will close in record numbers.
Imagine how the rich and the poor Americans will spend their stimulus check of USD 1200. The rich will have no need of this money and put it in stock or Bitcoin and putting this USD 1200 into Bitcoin in March 2020 will yield USD 4000 in Jan 2021, while the poor will have spent it on basic necessities. This has caused the biggest rich and poor divide. The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer.
The interest rates from central banks are now at record low between near zero to negative even. Imagine now the failing states like Italy, Spain and Portugal continue to get zero or negative interest loans from ECB to bankroll their deficits indefinitely. The central bank of Japan is now the only sole buyer of the government bonds and the government now owns 50% of the stock market. Italy, Spain and Portugal are imitating what Japan is doing.
I can see no solution at all except for the G4 central banks to continue to print money to finance everything without any end in sight.
How will this crazy imbalance end ? I believe the judgment of all wealth by God mentioned in Rev 18 will be the final outcome. The wealth of US and all who grow rich because of her will be destroyed. All the kings of the earth (governments), merchants (global MNCs, SMEs and their supply chain components) and those who make their living by the sea (global ports cum financial centres) will weep when the judgment comes. I believe the prophecy in Scripture – that the fourth empire under the Antichrist will emerge to lead the disillusioned world – will be fulfilled after this destruction of wealth.
