Faith to grab the blessing, then strength to endure the burden

With every blessing, there is a burden, and with every burden, there is a blessing coming. If you have the faith to grab the blessing, you must have the strength to endure the burden. The more you are afflicted, the more you grow, they meant it for evil, but God meant it for your good. Many who get the blessings without the burden don't appreciate what they have. When you have to bear a burden, you are grateful and humble when you receive the blessing. Are you a Burden-bearer? "It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes." (Psalm 119:71)
by T.D Jakes.

Video of the day by Newsboys: God's Not Dead, Jesus is ALIVE

Let love explode and bring the dead to life

A love so bold to see a revolution somehow

Let love explode and bring the dead to life

A love so bold to bring a revolution somehow

Now I'm lost in Your freedom

In this world I'll overcome

[2x]

My God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

Roaring, He's roaring, roaring like a lion

Let hope arise and make the darkness hide

My faith is dead I need resurrection somehow

Now I'm lost in Your freedom

In this world I'll overcome

[2x]

My God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

Roaring, He's roaring, roaring like a lion

He's roaring, He's roaring

[3x]

Let heaven roar

And fire fall

Come shake the ground

With the sound

Of revival

[4x]

My God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

He's roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion [2x]

EASTER BRINGS HOPE

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." - John 11:25

For some, Easter will be a great day, spent surrounded by family and friends. But for others, it will be a sad day, because Easter is a reminder of a loved one who has died and is now desperately missed.

Death seems so cruel, so harsh, and so final. That is what the disciples were feeling when they saw their Lord, whom they had left everything to follow, hanging on the cross.

They were devastated. Death had crushed them. But if they would have gone back in their memories, they would have recalled an important event and statement Jesus had made.

They would have remembered Jesus standing at the tomb of His close friend Lazarus. They would have remembered that Jesus did something completely unexpected: He wept (see John 11:35).

Jesus wept, because He knew that death was not part of God's original plan. Humanity was not meant to grow old, to suffer with disease, or to die.

But because of the sin of Adam and Eve, sin entered the human race, and death followed with it. And death spread to all of us. Jesus wept, because it broke His heart.

But standing there at Lazarus' tomb, Jesus also delivered these hope-filled words: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live" (John 11:25).

Death is not the end for a believer. The resurrection of Jesus Christ proves that death is the beginning of glory for those who have put their faith in Christ.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for destroying the power of death over me.

Scriptural Reading: John 11:17-27

Video of the day by Kari jobe, O the blood

Verse 1

O the blood

Crimson love

Price of life's demand

Shameful sin

Placed on him

The hope of every man

Chorus

O the blood of jesus washes me

O the blood of jesus shed for me

What a sacrifice that saved my life

Yes the blood it is my victory

Verse 2

Savior son

Holy one

Slain so i can live

See the lamb

The great i am

Who takes away my sin

Bridge

O the blood of the lamb

O the blood of the lamb

O the blood of the lamb

The precious blood of the lamb

What a sacrifice

That saved my life

Yes the blood it is my victory

Verse 3

O what love

No greater love

Grace how can it be

That in my sin

Yes even then

He shed his blood for me.

Happy Good-Friday from us here ASB-World,Thank you Jesus for your BLOOD.

FINISHED!

When Jesus had tasted it, he said, "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and released his spirit. - John 19:30

The cross was the goal of Jesus from the very beginning. His birth was significant and so was His death.

The incarnation was for our atonement. He was born to die so that we might live. And when He had accomplished the purpose He had come to fulfil, He summed it up with a single word: "finished."

In the original Greek, it was a common word. Jesus probably used it after He finished a project that He and Joseph might have been working on together in the carpentry shop.

Jesus might have turned to Joseph and said, "Finished. Now let's go have lunch." It is finished. Mission accomplished. It is done.
So what was finished? Finished and completed were the horrendous sufferings of Christ.

Never again would He experience pain at the hands of wicked men. Never again would He have to bear the sins of the world. Never again would He, even for a moment, be forsaken of God. That was completed. That was taken care of.

Also finished was Satan's stronghold on humanity. Jesus came to deal a decisive blow against the devil and his demons at the cross of Calvary.

Hebrews 2:14 says. "Only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death."

This means that you no longer have to be under the power of sin. Because of Jesus' accomplishment at the cross, finished was the stronghold of Satan on humanity.

And lastly, finished was our salvation. It is completed. It is done. All of our sins were transferred to Jesus when He hung on the cross.

His righteousness was transferred to our account. So Jesus cried out the words, "It is finished!" It was God's deliberate and well-thought-out plan. It is finished-so rejoice!

Prayer: Lord, let Your finished work of redemption manifest in me.

Scriptural Reading: John 19:28-30

Happy New Month of April

Happy New Month of April, this new month will bring new change to our situations. All is well in this new month, stay clam and fresh in this month.....

Happy new month of April from us all Adenike Salako Blog's World :)

ASB-World: Congratulations to Nigeria President elect Gen Buhari

Congratulations to the new Nigeria President elect Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, we ASB-World pray that God Almighty will grant you wisdom and knowledge  to direct the country right. Congratulations once again.