Why Jesus needs to pray?

Why man needs to eat food at least three times a day or more?  What are the effects to man's physical body if he's not well fed or eats the nutritious food?  Have you tried to skip a meal in a day or had skipped one whole day without food and water?

To function man's physical body and mind more effectively and be ready to meet the many demands of the day, man needs to eat nutritious food regularly.  Man can't stay longer in work cause of weak resistance, can't concentrate in taking examination, can't make wise decision and might affected easily by cough and flu if lack of necessary fuel in the body.  Man's normal activities are negatively affected.  How much more those people like children who just eat food that is not nutritious and in a little quantity or just a meal a day like in many countries around the world who are very scarce in basic needs like food.  What to expect them to function their body effectively and become useful and productive for their immediate family, community and country as a whole?  Food is very essential to live a normal life and to become more productive in different areas of life.

In the book of Mark 1:35-39, Jesus showed to us clearly his very need to commune with his heavenly Father in prayer.  Why he needed to discipline himself to wake up early, to go to a solitary and to pray?  Isn't it that he is God and doesn't need to be strengthened spiritually to become more effective, fruitful and powerful to preach, teach the good news of salvation, cast out demons and to heal various sicknesses?

God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit knew the dilemma and problem of man to restore his broken relationship with them because of sin  (Romans 3:23) that's why Jesus, the Son has learned to obey the will of the Father to leave temporarily heaven and his being God just to live like a true man.  He emptied and subjected himself to the four corners of the earth or accepted the reality to be bounded by time and space and lived like a real and true man.  He humbled himself, lived a holy life and in full dependence and trust from his Father, lived a simple life, bore the many issues of life, even the pains, ridicules, mocking from his very own people and had keep himself meek and controlled himself even he knew that he can call his Father to bring even an angel to kill the evil people who did evil to him and had shouted to release a criminal in exchange for an innocent like him in order to die through hanging on the cross because of his love for mankind (Philippians 2:5-8).

Jesus knew that he has to obey the will of the Father and be subjected and bounded by time and space.  He lived like a real and true man that needs to depend on the provisions of God through prayer.  He knew that he can do the will of God effectively, fruitfully and with power if he will always attuned and connected with his Father in prayer.  Before he started his public ministry, he was led by the Holy Spirit to the desert to pray and fast for forty nights and  forty days as the only and best spiritual discipline he needs to do to reach the cross of Calvary.  And when Satan tempted Jesus, he overcame Satan and was not give in to temptation and Satan left him with anger and shame because of his defeat cause of the inner strength and wisdom that Jesus had gained through prayer and fasting (Matthew 4:1-11).

After Jesus prayer, his disciples were looking for him cause  people are waiting for him, but he told them to go instead to other place to preach and teach the good news and to heal various sicknesses the reason why he came on earth.  He told his disciples that other people are also in need to hear the message of deliverance from the power and punishment brought by sin.  Jesus had the wisdom and power in doing the ministry in which he was called.  His decisions were enlightened through prayer and was always been directed by God to his focus or goal through this spiritual discipline.

As Christian and  or leaders in different churches, follow the example of Jesus as the sure way of victory in our lives and ministries.  Satan will continue to divert our attentions away from the will of our God.  He will do all he can do to weaken our faith, become defeated always when temptations come, have no strength to overcome trials in life, and to serve money and God.  Don't let Satan win over us, but keep our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.  Pray as Jesus did.  Discipline ourselves in prayer and hold on to his words in James 5:16-17 that says, "The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."

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Why we need to share the good news of God's love and forgiveness to all?

For every minute of the day, one hundred five people died due to different reasons. It means 6,300 people an hour, 151,200 a day, 4,536,000 a month and 54,432,000 a year.  This figure is just 40% of the birth rate worldwide or 136,080,000 people a year.   Death is the number one cause of traumatic experiences of man and he can't avoid it.  Out of this figure of death rate, an estimated of only 25% of this or around (54,432,000 x 25%) 13,608,000 will enter the kingdom of heaven and the remaining 40,824,000 will suffer in hell of torment and agony for eternity a year.  This estimate is based on the the teaching of Jesus recorded in Mathew 7:13-14 of the narrow and the wide door, the parable of the sower in Luke 8:1-15 and the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23.  As of this year 2016, the estimates of the United Nations worldwide population is 7.5 billions plus and minus of 10% or around 8.2 billion people.  Considering the 25% of this or 2.05 billion, these numbers are the only people who will enter the kingdom of God and the remaining of almost 5.9 billion will perish in hell for eternity.  This 2.05 billion people are the combined numbers of people who truly received Jesus as their Lord and Savior from the the time of Jesus ministry up to now or more or less 2000 years ago, so it means it needs another 6000 years to lead the remaining 5.9 billion by the gospel of Jesus Christ.  And if the predictions of many bible believing preachers and teachers that the second coming of the Lord will happen in our time, what then will be the final destiny of this vast numbers of people?

In the book of Mathew 9:35-38, he wrote the daily schedules of Jesus as being preoccupied of the non-stop and urgent ministry of preaching and teaching about the kingdom of God which is open and available to all who will truly believe in him.  He taught them many wonderful and very important teachings about repentance, life, forgiveness and others that leads to life and one of these is the beatitudes or who are the blessed today which is written in Matthew 5:1-12.  His ministry was coupled and confirmed of his healing of various sicknesses and miracles that were shocked the people of the power of Jesus that led them to find joy, purpose, meaning and hope in life, but envy, shame and anger to the enemies of the gospel like the Pharisees, Sadducees and others.  He found compassion to the crowds who are harassed, hopeless and helpless in life that even their system is evil which is caused by sin. The population during that time was around 300 million and Jesus was so concerned on the vast numbers of people that he compared to the harvest that are ripe and need to be harvested.  Jesus saw the need for more faithful followers who will lead the needy people to be freed from the power of sin, its punishment, and even from the evil system that make their lives in mess (Mathew 9:35-38). He opened the eyes of his faithful disciples for the need of more workers to harvest the vast numbers of crops that are ripe.  He encouraged them to pray to the Lord of the harvest to become more faithful in doing his will to lead the people to the saving knowledge of Jesus and to send more workers to work with them continuously until the last man on earth comes to his fold cause God doesn't want that even the last one here on earth will perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

How much more now that the world's population is almost 8 billion people as compared to 300 million during the time of Jesus.  This message of urgency and big need for more workers to bring the good news of salvation to all is still the calling up to this very hour.  What is your response to this untiring calling of God?  God did his part of salvation through his Son Jesus and the harvest is still going on.  The population now of the world is much bigger compared before, people are getting more wicked and their minds have no room for the words of God that need workers who will sacrifice everything just to be a part of a big mission of bringing them to repentance and to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus, for the second coming of the Lord Jesus is at hand.  This is the right time to respond and to be a part of this great commission.

Here are the things that you can do in response to his calling:  First, pray daily for the names of the people and your contacts within your reach that the gospel of good news will be shared to them and that the Holy Spirit will convict them of their sins, to repent, to believe and to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  Second, show the love and care of Jesus through doing good to them always and don't expect anything in return.  Third, pray unceasingly that the Lord will send more workers to preach and to teach the good news.  Fourth, support financially all efforts of your church, organizations and or individuals who have clear focus and program to reach the souls and to strengthen their faith.  Lastly, pray that God will give you the courage to share the good news to your loved ones and contacts or let yourself be willing to accept the challenge to sacrifice all things just to follow Jesus and to do his will to share the gospel till his coming.  Are you ready and willing to be a part of this calling in Matthew 28:18-20 that says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

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What wiil Happen To Your Soul When You Die?

Did you know that the average death worldwide recorded by Ecology Global Network is around 55.3 million a year?  This is 42 % of the total birth rate of 131.4 million a year.  It means that for every minute, there are 105 people die or 6,300 an hour or 151,200 a day (Ecology.com).  Of this estimated data, how many percent of this death daily goes to heaven and goes to hell?

Why we need to give an urgent and importance on this reality?  Is there a death after life or is this just a creation of a very wildest thinking of man?  God has created man in his image and was created as very good and God was so pleased to see his creations in perfect and normal condition.  But because of sin of disobedience, Adam and Eve had put the whole creation of God in ruin, including mankind.  The perfect, beautiful and normal creations of God were and are groaning in pain like a woman who is in the situation of delivering her baby.  "For the wages of sin is death both physical death and spiritual death or eternal separation from the presence of God" (Romans 6:23).   Adam has opened the door to a very awful and painful life to the world and even physical death had first experience by Abel, the younger son  of Adam and Eve.

God knew that because of sin, the world and the whole mankind were in great danger.  The holiness of God must be satisfied to solve the dilemma of death, the wages of sin.  Whatever men tried to do to restore again their broken relationship with God, these resulted to nothing.  "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).  Because of the great mercy and love of God to mankind, he sent Jesus, his only begotten Son to die on the cross as the once and for all offering to satisfy his holiness for the forgiveness of sin, and to save  men from the punishment of sin which is death.  "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal" (John 3:16).

The good news of God's salvation was prophesied thousand years ago by the prophet Isaiah before the birth of Jesus, was studied intelligently by the three wise men who traveled a distant place to worship the King,  was explained clearly  by the angel of God to Mary and Joseph the meaning of the inception of a child in the womb of Mary, and was announced also by the angel to the shepherds the message of hope and salvation to the hopeless and lonely men.

For thousand years,  God talked and commanded his obedient holy men to bring to the wicked people the message of repentance in order to be saved.  Noah, a devoted and obedient man of God was ridiculed, mocked and was called insane by the people in his generation because of reminding them to repent or face the destruction of their generation through the great flood. They ignored and rejected God's message through Noah and after he and his immediate family and selected animals entered the ark, God closed the big and heavy door of the ark and his judgment through great flood came and all the people who rejected Noah's reminders were all drown into water and died (Genesis 6-9).

History seems true today in our present generation of the 21st  century.  People in all parts of the world have different concerns and stands about the true teachings of the words of God.  Life now becomes so complicated because of the power of Satan to deceive people of many deceptive lustful offers, materialism, ideologies, priorities, values and even needs.  Satan and his followers are doing their very best to deceive all people in the world and lead them away from God.  His main goal is to kill, to steal and to destroy the relationship of man.  He wants all men to be with him in hell knowing that his end and Christ second coming is very near.  We can observe now that the sins in Gomorrah and Sodom, the sins of the people in Noah's time and the sins of the people in our present generations are almost the same but much worst today.

Holy men and women of God are now sacrificing their earthly opportunities in order to obey the call of God to remind the people today to repent from their sins and to obey the words of God.  But still,  majority of the 8.5 billion population of the world today are wicked and their thoughts and minds have no room for God (Psalm 10:4) cause they love to do the very lustful offers of the world, the goodness of materialism, the messages they want to hear that bring good life, success, sensuality, doing the best of the two worlds, immorality, idolatry, and living in hatred, anger, envy, drunkenness and others,  These people can't enter the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).

If people will insist to live in this crooked way, wait for the much intense punishment of God cause he will no longer destroy again the world through great flood but through fire (II Peter 3:7).

The rich man lived and enjoyed his life on earth and had no regard and concern to live a holy life and to live for the kingdom of God but the poor Lazarus had live a holy life in the midst of poverty.  He put his trust in God and obeyed him till he died.  Both of them died and Lazarus was brought immediately by the angels of God to comfort him in heaven, the place of God and of the holy people like father Abraham, a place of joy, peace, health, happiness.  No more tears, sickness and loneliness.  A place of complete serenity and love (Revelation 21:4).  But the rich man died and he was thrown into the lake of fire.  A place of torment, pain and agony.  He requested father Abraham to bring back Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger to water and to dip to his dry lip and tongue but his request was denied and for the last time, he begged father Abraham to bring Lazarus to life and to go to the house of his father on earth cause he has five brothers that need to be reminded to repent from their sins cause he doesn't want them to be with him in hell too.  But his request was denied again.  Father Abraham told him that Moses and the prophets are there already and Lazarus can't be brought into life again.  It is up to his brothers weather they will believe or not (Luke:16:19-31).

Brothers and sisters all over the world, death will surely come to all of us,  don't be deceived by Satan and his followers.  The words of God are very clear and you have to listen and believe.  Turn away from your sins and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  Admit to yourself that you are a sinner also and one of the reasons why Jesus died on the cross.  Confess your sins to God, ask for his forgiveness, turn away from these and obey the words of God daily.  If you will receive Jesus today, he will forgive you and will count you as one of his children (John 1:12).  As a child of God, you will have eternal life and will no longer be judged and to be thrown into hell to suffer pain, to be tormented and be punished for eternity.  Don't sacrifice your 85 years on earth for eternity.  Make a wise decision today.  Jesus loves you and has wonderful plan in your life.  He wants you to be with him in heaven for eternity.

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