Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Wonderful Counselor/Mighty God/Everlasting Father/Prince of Peace!

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” – Isaiah 9:6 NIV

God, our Creator and our heavenly Father (see 1 Corinthians 8:6) sent His Son, Jesus as an image of Himself (Colossians 1:15) into the world to crucify Himself on the cross as an atonement of our sins due to His steadfast love, in order to reveal Himself to us, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23):

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9-10)

He wants us to know that there is better life ahead of us, which is an everlasting one, for our citizenship is in the kingdom of Heaven (see Philippians 3:18-21), where there are no more tears, death, mourning, crying, and pain (Revelation 21:4):

For God so loved the world [heaven – the kingdom of God] that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall NOT perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world [us] through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:16-18)

As these verses state, we HAVE to believe in Jesus Christ, NOT legalistically, but in FULL-DEVOTION in order to have eternal life, which is our eternal home as well – “For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.” (2 Corinthians 5:1)

Jesus Christ is the Wonderful Counselor, and Prince of Peace. These are because of the Holy Spirit, whom God poured His Spirit into us due to His steadfast love (Romans 5:5), as our guidance/advisor/counselor/friend to help us in the walk with the Lord:

The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:26-27)

And inside of the Holy Spirit, there are different fruits, which are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But there are all combined into the one, which is THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (Galatians 5:22-23). So if we know that we have the Holy Spirit inside of us, then we have those qualities as well, which produces character:

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5)

Overall, our heavenly Father is Mighty God, since He is the Creator as well (see Genesis 1:1):

Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. (Isaiah 40:28 NLT)

This means He created us as well (see Genesis 1:27), which means that He is controlling us through the Holy Spirit, if we are willing to let Him to control over lives. 
Once we FULLY-SURRENDER to Him, He will never let us go from the Spirit and His presence!


You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. – Psalm 139:1-14

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