Yesterday's Service was a Service of Hymns which was led by Bro Ofori-Karikari. In his exhortation before the start of the Service, he read Job 1:8 where God asked Satan whether he(Satan) has considered Job, that there is none like him on earth. and Daniel 6:5 where the other presidents and princes sought to find something against Daniel but they realised that "we shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God"
What will God say about you? was the question he asked us. Is our life pleasing to God? Can anybody tell from our lifestyle that we are followeres of Christ?
We began the Service with MHB 615 - Guide me O Thou great Jehovah - we need God to be our deliverer and our shield as we go through this life. His powerful Hand will protect us.
Our 2nd Hymn was MHB 516 - When we walk with the Lord - part of the 5th Stanza says 'what He says we will do; where He sends we will go...' In 1Sam 15:2~ God asked Saul to go to war with the Amalekites and kill everybody and every animal... we know what happened...Obedience is better than sacrifice. As Christians, do we do what God asks us to do, and do we go where He sends us?
MHB 538 - What a friend we have in Jesus - Prov18:24b ..and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Jesus is that friend who is closer to us than a brother. We have all been dispised or abandoned by friends before. The only solution is to bring all these troubles to Jesus in prayer.
In MHB 371 (And can it be...), Charles Wesley was in church but had no peace in his heart until he boldly approached the Eternal Throne and claimed what belonged to him. He therefore wrote in the 5th Stanza
'No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach the eternal Throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
MHB 822 - Onward Christian Soldiers - was our next hymn. In it we receive the assurance that God has given us the victory already in Jesus Christ, so we should just march on.
MHB 821- Stand up stand up for Jesus - which we sang sitting, goes with Eph 6:10 "finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might".
- The arm of flesh will fail us
- the strife will not be long
- all the troubles and pain will end and finally, victory will be ours.
- so let us stand up for Jesus:
This day the noise of battle
The next the victor's song.
MHB 701 - The Church's one Foundation
Mr Ofori-Karikari continued his exhortation and reminded us that God uses people to set up Churches; but the foundation is and must always be Jesus. He is the Lord of the Church.
In Is 61:1, Jesus has been anointed by the Father to 'preach the good news' etc
Rescue the perishing - MHB 338 was our penultimate hymn - We must save the lost at all cost; but Jesus must live in our hearts before we can do that. Our lifestyles must be attractive to the lost.
PHB 161 was our last Hymn.
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