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Break free from evil part 12: Growing in faith and confidence

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, In : Word for the week 
There are three keys of success in our Christian life: 1) the faith that overcomes the world, 2) our trust in the Scriptures as His inerrant Word and 3) intimate relationship with the Lord. Let’s discuss how we can grow in faith and develop confidence that can help us grow and do mighty exploits for God. There are teachers that teach self-confidence is a vain thing in this world and therefore we must throw it away. There are also teachers that tell the opposite that we need it and we cannot...
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Break free from evil part 10: The cross--the remedy for sin and bondage

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, July 12, 2010, In : Word for the week 
I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. Isaiah 63:3

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

The old rugged cross was a symbol of the Roman empire’s prestige, power and position. It is shameful to be crucified as the Scriptures say that cursed be the man that hangs on a tree. The cross was a human invention of the most wicked scheme of punishment to his fellow; yet just as the human mind intended it ...


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Break free from evil part 9: The incubation of evil

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, June 27, 2010, In : Word for the week 
Evil does have a life by itself. It cannot be denied that once this life form infects the human being, he becomes its target until he is fully overcome. The devil establishes itself in the believers mind and heart as clearly expounded by Paul, For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against t...
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Break free from evil part 8: The transmission of evil

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, June 19, 2010, In : Word for the week 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6

Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. Romans 6:13 (NIV)

Like a virus that needs a host before it can infect an animal or plant, evil is not transmitted without a host. It needs body before being incubated and then shots up to infect othe...


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Break free from evil part 5: Fear-the door to oppression

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, May 17, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Just as faith is the door for God’s Kingdom in one’s life, fear is the door for Satan to enter into a person’s life and oppress him. He controls people, kingdoms and nations through fear. To the degree that one has allowed fear in his life that is the degree that he is influenced by fear. Every time there is distrust among nations and among friends, it is because one has been affected by fear.

For example the conflict between Christians and Muslims in the south is not merely ...


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Break free from evil part 2: Man-God's agent on earth

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : Word for the week 
“The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.” Psalms 115:16

The earth is the battleground between good and evil. It is occurring in the hearts and minds of people. Even if we think we are inside the church, God and the devil are pursuing us with diametrically opposed purposes and intentions; the two most powerful beings in the universe are both trying to kill us! Just as God desired to walk with man in the garden in close and intimate fell...


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A heart ablazed for God part 13

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, April 15, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Resurrection power

There is true life in the Lord. Everyone who dies in the Lord lives again. If this is the end of all things-we are the greatest of all fools and our preaching is vain, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, no...


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Understanding 2010 and the coming election part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, March 22, 2010, In : Special bulletin 
The times in the wilderness

Israel was not quickly transported to heaven after believing God and being “baptized” in the Red sea. She was thrust rather to walking the great distance from that point on to the wilderness. This experience is really a means of God to get their hearts truly aligned to His mind for the calling that He has called them. This journey could have not lasted very long, it could have been simply an 11 days journey and  then to the Promised Land, but because of t...


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The religious right and the 2010 elections

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, March 19, 2010, In : Special bulletin 
“There seems to be a way for a man but the end thereof is death,” Solomon wrote, and it seems that every man since tried to put up a solution to solve every problem. There is a subtle thought, that just one chance, just one idea, just one opportune time, and I will make it big. Like Lucifer, these dreamers defile the sanctuary, use the name of God, their calling and then trade it for the goods of the world. Every dream, goal and motive which is not aligned with the Word of God, and ...
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Understanding 2010 and the coming election part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, March 19, 2010, In : Special bulletin 
The year 2010 is fraught with foreboding presence of either God or the devil in the election. Our destiny hangs in the balance, and it hangs on the captain we will choose to steer the Philippine leadership to either greater bondage or the freedom from it. This ship, which I have discussed in my books “Freedom from religious bondage” (Bringing down friarism), and also in “Restorers of the breach” (Contending for the dream) symbolizes the present leadership and

Francisco Pizarro ...


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So, Whose Test Is This? By Francis Frangipane

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, In : Special bulletin 

I think most of us do not grasp the degree of suffering and devastation that has hit Haiti. We think because the front-page news about Haiti has diminished that Haiti's need has also diminished, but it has not. The urgency of people being buried alive has been replaced with the urgency of a million and a half people without homes or shelter.

To put this disaster into perspective, recall the terrifying Sumatran tsunami that killed 230,000 people in December 2004. Eighteen nations were...


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A heart ablazed for God part 6: John’s testimony

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, March 1, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Yesterday was different. The clouds seem to have their shining luster, stirred as if brought nearer into the clouds of heaven, full of stars. The Jordan river was not full and overflowing at the day nor it flooded its banks. This is the place where many come to refresh themselves and gather some water for washing their camels and donkey. Few have ever imagined that this River would still continue its coarse running for more than 4,000 years feeding Israel and the Jordan valley for the neede...


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Finding Christ in a broken world

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Fröhliche Weihnachten! Naragsak a Pascua kadatayu amin. These two words are often painted in canvass of mixed colors, splashed with creativity, they hang almost everywhere in most shops and department stores. Some even glow at night with neon brightness. This happens not just in Europe but around the world where Christ is named and the

To the extent that we do good deeds to the least of His Brethren, we did it to Him

practice celebrated with assiduous religiosity. Sometime ago, I felt the pa...


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A functioning body

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, In : Word for the week 
“For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Just as the body of man is but one, so is the Body of Christ but one

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for ...


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Praise you in the storm: typhoon Ramil is dead

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, October 23, 2009, In : Special bulletin 

In an amazing twist of destiny, we have been spared from another possibly deadly typhoon attack but praise the Lord for as we have all been praying, God stopped Ramil in the sea. Can God really stop a typhoon, much less a superstrong one in the radar of weather forecasters?  Yes, that truth is easier realized than anything when we think that He is both just, merciful and loving God. God can stop any percolating typhoon, windstorm, thunderstorm or even tornado. Even at the risk of being ...


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Developing Confidence part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Word for the week 

In 1 Samuel 17:1-11, we are told that the Philistines were all lined up in battle against the Israelites, and then, as if to display their arrogance, brought their massive weaponry into the thick of the conflict and challenged the Israelites if they could truly fight them. “Bring out your champion and let each of us fight together,” shouted the giant in taunting manner. “If he will win, we will be your slaves, but if I will win, you will be our servants,” rung the words t...


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Developing Confidence part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : Word for the week 
There are three keys of success in the Christian life: 1) the faith that overcomes the world, 2) our trust in the Scriptures as His inerrant Word and 3) intimate relationship with the Lord. Today we will be discussing what is confidence and how can we develop it in our lives. There are teachers that teach self-confidence is a vain thing in this world and therefore we must throw it away. There are also teachers that tell us the opposite, that we need it and we cannot survive without it. So who...
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Understanding the Onslaught of "Ondoy" and "Pepeng"

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Special bulletin 

Given all the prevailing issues that have come due to the floods that has brought our country to its knees, there is only one sure solution that everyone of us need to understand. We must build our houses on the Rock, that is plain, stable and solid ground that none can push away. This Rock is not dead, nor is it of volcanic origin or “earthly” as many geologists would mistake. It is not. We have to see the perspectives that is upon us now by asking three salient questions,

1) Wh...


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Finger on the wall

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
One of my favorite books in the Bible is the book of Daniel. This man of God tread down the serpent and acted as counsellor, watchman and interpreter of God in the courts of the Kings during his days. He served one of the most cruel king ever born of woman, Nebuchadnezzar. He also served Darius the Mede as well as Cyrus the great. During one instance in his service to the house of Nebuchadnezzar, when his son was already ruling in his place, a finger appeared suddenly on the wall. Lost of wor...
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The conflict between light and darkness part 3

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Word for the week 
We continue our discussion on how we can best become the harbingers of peace and light into our families, communities and eventually our nation. The church is the most powerful entity in this world when we all combine our resources together as one big cooperative and institution. Whenever the Lord looks down from heaven, He does not see His body as bodies but He only sees one Church, His Bride. It is therefore very repugnant if not at all presumptuous to think that we own the people of God as...
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Above all powers: bracing for typhoon Pepeng

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : Special bulletin 
In one of the most prophetic songs I have ever heard, Michael W. Smith’s Above All declares the majesty and power of God over the creation and dominion of man and all created beings. God’s power is really above all authority, above all powers, above all kings, above all thrones and dominions-He truly is the epitome, the one above all things. If Jesus is then King above all, what is the question? This is the struggle of all believers during times of crisis and during trials. Can God be tru...
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Typhoon "Ondoy" and its spiritual significance part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, September 28, 2009, In : Special bulletin 
I was wondering if there were signs to be observed and things that we have overlooked why we have not known before hand the magnitude of the flood that will be coming. If we could have known then we could have prepared very well. This in essence is the conclusion of many of those who were surprised of the flooding that took away millions of pesos of infrastructure damages and more than a hundred lives.



Because we thought that PAGASA forecasts are not worth learning, most of us were caught una...
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Typhoon "Ondoy" and its spiritual significance part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, September 27, 2009, In : Special bulletin 
This past two days we saw the great swell of water that flooded Marikina, Rizal, Bulacan and 23 other provinces that could only be described as catastrophic in nature. Typhoons and hurricanes represent one of the most potent forces of nature that could ever bring disaster on earth. With an average of 20 typhoons passing all over the country, there is no doubt that it takes a great faith and patience to truly build something of value and wonder in our country specially in Luzon and parts of Vi...
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The conflict between light and darkness part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, September 27, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Previously, we discussed that one of the greatest barriers that is coming down is the carnal reasoning that we must only take good care ourselves and forget the others. Being our brother’s keeper is loving our neighbor as we love ourselves which is the second commandment of Love. Probably, all the great mistakes in history is rooted in self-preservation, thus Jesus forewarned “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. “For w...
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A tribute to Renan Gup-Ay

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, September 27, 2009, In : Bonhoeffer files 
The following is our tribute to the family of Renan Gup-Ay who passed without even saying goodbye to his family because he was snatched into eternity while studying Medicine as a second year proper at St. Louis University Baguio. May the Lord comfort all the bereaving family and give them the grace to stand and face the storms in this life. God bless you all.

A monologue of the dead

How fallen is the man of the family,
How terror has befallen us all,
Death has taken one slain,
Where is victor...


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Shaping your destiny through prophetic declarations

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, In : Word for the week 
 
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