The Bodies of Dr Myles Munroe, Wife and Crash Victims Returned Home

The bodies of renowned evangelical pastor and motivational speaker, Myles Munroe, his wife, Ruth, and three of seven other persons who died with them in a fiery jet crash in Freeport, Bahamas, two Sundays ago were returned home to family and friends in the island’s capital of New Providence Monday in preparation for multiple memorials in upcoming weeks.

Since his untimely death on Sunday, Nov. 9, the life of Munroe, a globally recognized Christian leader, has beencelebrated in memorial services across the world.

The biggest memorial, however, will take place in the place where Munroe’s life began — the Bahamas.
The life of Munroe and his wife are scheduled to be celebrated at a national memorial planned for Wednesday, Dec. 3 at the 15,000-seat Thomas Robinson Stadium in the Bahamas. Munroe’s Bahamas Faith Ministries will then hold an official funeral service for the couple a day later on Thursday, Dec. 4 at the church’s International Diplomat Center on Carmichael Road in Nassau, Bahamas.

Getting their bodies back from Freeport where they perished, was the first step in getting the memorial started, explained Bahamas Faith Ministries spokesman Kevin Harris in an interview with The Christian Post Wednesday.

The 15,000-seat Thomas Robinson Stadium in the Bahamas where a national memorial is planned for Myles Munroe and his wife, Ruth, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.

The bodies of senior vice president and fellowship pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries Richard Pinder, and pilots Captain Stanley Thurston and First Officer Frahkan Cooper were also returned Monday, according to a press statement issued by the church.

“The families were present, we had a service, a small service under the airport hangar. There was no viewing of the bodies, they came draped in the Bahamian flag colors … they were loaded into hearses and transported to funeral homes,” said Harris of the reception.

A photo from the reception of the bodies shows three hearses caught in procession as supporters raised Bahamian flags and gawked with somber expressions.

Harris explained that a team from the church and other national officials will be meeting late Wednesday night to determine how long the national memorial for Munroe and his wife will last and what format it will take.

As for how Munroe’s children are doing in the aftermath of the tragedy, Harris said: “I can say from having to be with them, they are very strong. Of course it’s a difficult period for them having lost both parents. Their faith is unmoved. … [They are trusting] “God will reveal himself.”

Prayer for new week

You have the life of God in you, therefore you will live above sickness and disease. Your body will receive strength and your health will be restored. You will live to finish your assignment in Jesus name.

 It’s your week of Supernatural Breakthrough!! Whatever has held you back has no choice but to let go. You shall be a victor not a victim In Jesus Name! If God has spoken who can speak it!

Happy New Week from us ASB-World. 

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE DASH?

By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. John 15:8

What are you supposed to do with your life? According to scripture, we are all placed here on this earth to glorify and honour God and produce spiritual fruit in our lives.

In fact, one of the songs we will sing in heaven is this one: "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." (Revelation 4:11).

We exist for the pleasure of God. We were created to bring glory to Him and to produce spiritual fruit.

Jesus said, "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain" (John 15:16).

He also said, "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples" (verse 8).

We don't determine how long we will live on this earth. We may try. We can hang out at health food stores and take all kinds of vitamins and do all the right things, and we may even improve the quality of our lives by doing these things, but it is God who determines the length of our lives.

It is God who decided when we were to be born. And it is God who decides when we will die. We have nothing to say about those dates.

But we have everything to say about the dash in between them. So what do we do with the dash? How do we live out the dash?

We are here to glorify God. We don't all have the same talents, but we have all been given our lives.

So let's not waste them in the pursuit of nothingness. Let's invest our lives in the pursuit of God.

Prayer: Lord, let my life bring glory to You.

Scriptural Reading: John 15:5-8

RECIPE: ROSE BUD BREAD ROLLS ARE SIMPLY STUNNING

Orange Rolls

¼ cup warm water

1 tablespoon yeast

3 eggs

½ cut butter

¾ cup milk

½ cup sugar

¾ teaspoon salt

4 ½ - 5 cups flour

Dissolve yeast in warm water, set aside for 5 minutes.  In a large mixing bowl mix together eggs, sugar, and salt.  Set aside.  

In a small saucepan, melt butter then add milk.  Slowly pour into egg mixture mixing all the time.  Add yeast mixture and 2 cups flour.  Mix until dough is smooth.  Add remaining flour 1 cup at a time.  Only use needed amount of flour to form a smooth yet sticky dough.  DO NOT ADD MORE THAN 5 CUPS OF FLOUR. Cover dough with plastic wrap or aluminum foil.  Place in refrigerator overnight. 

Orange filling:

1/2 cup butter – melted

1 cup sugar

Juice from 1/2 orange

Zest from 1 orange

To make the orange filling:  Combine all ingredients in a medium size bowl and stir to blend. 

Butter or grease 2 muffin pans then set aside. Roll into a rectangle.  Spread the melted butter and orange mixture on the dough leaving ½-inch border around the sides.  Roll dough from the long end.  Cut roll into 24 slices and place in prepare muffin pans.  Allow to rise until double in size.  Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.  Immediate remove from oven and flip rolls out onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper.  Allow all the orange glaze to drizzle over the rolls.

Would You Do This For Fashion? Hmmmm

I’m sure most women are familiar with the feeling of seeing the shoe of their dreams in a shop. Just when they squeeze their feet in to fit, they discover the shoe is just too tight…in fact two sizes small. When they ask the shop attendant for the same shoe in their actual size, they get this reply:

“It’s the only size left.”

They’ll then wish their feet were small enough to fit in. Well, plastic surgeons have capitalized on the longings of these women and invented a foot plastic surgery which they’ve called the ‘Cinderella.’ Foot altering surgeries has been going on for years now, but The New York Times reported last week that they’ve suddenly become more popular than ever.

They procedures range from strategic Botox injections on the balls of your feet, to the Perfect 10 (toe shortening) to the Model T (toe lengthening) to the Cinderella, where your entire foot is altered to fit your favourite shoe size.

Beverly Hills doctor, Dr. Ali Sadrieh, says these elective, cosmetic foot surgeries are so popular that he coined cute little names for them all, so patients can conveniently order them like they’re choosing lip gloss shades at a cosmetic shop.

Another doctor; the founder of NYC Footcare, Dr. Oliver Zong, who is a self-proclaimed “originator of the foot face-lift and toe tuck,” routinely corrects such conditions as High Heel Foot (a term he coined to describe a deformed foot that’s conformed to the shape of a stiletto), and Hitchhiker’s Toe, (an abnormally large big toe that sticks out like the thumb of a hitch hiker). He recently introduced the phrase “Toebesity,” which he plans to describe on his site, where flashing text promises: “Designer feet for designer shoes.”

Do you think these feet-altering procedures are crazy? Would you undergo any?

Source: Elle magazine

RESIST THE FLESH

Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. Ephesians 2:1

The Holy Spirit guides believers to make wise and righteous decisions. But when Christians fail to listen, they can make choices that appeal to the flesh instead.

After the serpent spoke to Eve, she no doubt took a long look at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17; 3:3).

Whatever she might have thought about the tree before, she now saw it with new eyes—flesh-focused eyes.

Genesis 3 tells us that the forbidden tree appealed to Eve in three ways:

1. It was good for food

2. It was a delight to the eyes, and

3. It was desirable to make one wise.

In other words, the tree could fulfill three legitimate human appetites: the desire for tasty meals, beauty, and wisdom.

There is nothing wrong with these God-given yearnings. The Lord created a variety of food and an earth packed with breathtaking sights so that people could enjoy them.

He also offers the Holy Spirit as a source of His true wisdom and knowledge. In fact, it is the Spirit who teaches believers to keep fleshly appetites under control and in balance.

Meanwhile, Satan works very hard at corrupting healthy desires. He abhors seeing people's appetites satisfied.

What he wants is to watch a person lusting after a good thing until he or she is controlled by the impulse to have it.

The Devil is pleased when people make themselves slaves to a desire that—in the proper context—the Lord intended to be enjoyed freely.

A believer walking in the Holy Spirit rejects gluttony, preferring desires that are within God's boundaries instead. That's how we get His very best.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for victory over Satan, the world, and my flesh.

Scriptural Reading: Ephesians 2:1-7

GIVE YOUR BEST TO RELATIONSHIPS

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her.

The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.

The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.

That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn’t sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Reflection:

If you don’t give your hundred percent in a relationship, you’ll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.

This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship etc. Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good.

In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Do you build walls instead of bridges?