Footsteps to Zion

Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? Copyright © 2014 CreationSwap LLC We were created to walk not only in the natural but also in a spiritual sense. Walking in the spiritual sense can pertain to our day-to-day fellowship with God or our life journey as a whole. That is why we often hear among Christians questions like “How is your walk with God lately?” or “Where are you in your walk with God?” We will all make a choice of how to walk. Man can either walk on his own, with wrong company or with God. That God requires us to walk with Him reveals how God does not desire for man to walk on his own.  A. Walk alone . To walk on one’s own is to be independent. An independent attitude is to desire to chart your own path and pursue it with your own strength, not desiring to receive guidance and strength from God. Independence is a problem of unbelievers ...

     Our encounters with God should translate to obedience. We don't want to be those described by Paul in 2 Timothy 3:5 like those " having a form of godliness but denying its power. " It's quite easy to have this "form" of spirituality. Just do what others do, (or dont do what they dont do), speak in a manner that they speak. Yet, one will know soon that their heart is not converted, for it still holds true what it says in Matthew 7:16 : " By their fruits you shall know them .. ."      The generation today face a harder challenge : The situations now are such that it is harder for one to obey /to be righteous partly because of the increasing social pressure from the world, the government, or even the church itself!  - Getting married nowadays means lots of costs and pressure! A couple is bombarded with media that promote immorality and yet cannot follow God through marriage (due to financial difficulties, misconceptions, inconvenience...

Luke 5:17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.        This passage is a beautiful demonstration of how Jesus and the Holy Spirit work together. Here was Jesus teaching but the power of the Lord to heal is said to be present. The word “present” here means "It is I." This indicates that the power of the Lord is a person and this person is the Holy Spirit. And He was present as Jesus taught. The Holy Spirit was with Jesus in the form of the Anointing. This was why healing was possible. Any healing ministry is only possible in the presence of the Holy Spirit who is the power of God to heal. In fact, the signs and wonders of God be it healing or others take place because God endows His people with His Spirit. Further, only when a work is anointed by God does it become accep...

     While praying and meditating about the fellowship that God has planted us in, the Lord has impressed upon me what I call as “Immediates”. These pertain to things that would require immediate obedience, immediate repentance... Things that need to be immediately addressed in our fellowship:   The immediates : 1.Immediate need for purity 2.Immediate need for faith 3.Immediate need to press in  1. NEED FOR PURITY  - not just pertaining to being morally and sexually pure, but also being free from the defilement of he worldliness that surrounds us. - We should have a cautiousness, a sense of carefulness in the things we see and think of - Being married does not protect one from having purity struggles. - We should have excellence in purity. This area should be dealt with and treated with all seriousness. - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! Matthew 5:28 - We must be cleansed from all our desires that go against the perfect wi...

     In the book of Jeremiah, the people of God committed grave sin against the Lord by turning to idols and performing abominable acts. As a result, the Lord judged them and brought destruction upon the land. In the mercy of God, He provided a way for Israel to return to Him and be restored. He opened the door of captivity. He promised that those who will accept captivity in Babylon shall live and return. I believe that today there are still times when God leads His people to a Babylon experience and just like in Israel it is for the purpose of restoring and perfecting His saints.      Babylon can mean many things to different people. In the time of Daniel, Babylon was all of these things put together. It was a place of captivity which to us can translate to trying situations in our lives that limit our movement and options. It was also a place where the Israelites were under the rule of a fierce king which to us can translate to being under leade...

Please refer to the video below : courtesy of Zion Ministries Philippines

     The Scripture tells us that we are to live as pilgrims in this world, sojourners who are merely passing through on their way to their heavenly home. Has this reality hit us yet? Are we living it out? Looking at the life of the Patriarch Abraham we see some precious truths about how it is to live as a pilgrim. May we learn from his example and be faithful pilgrims to the end!  Hebrews 11:8-10 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 1.   Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance.   He obeyed God even when it meant living his comfort zone. He obeyed even w...