If you were asked to use one word to describe the Christian life, which one would you choose? Many of us would pick faith because believing in Jesus is the foundation of Christianity. But did you know that the believerβs life should also be characterized by good works? While we arenβt saved by anything good weβve done, genuine salvation always results in a changed life, complete with new thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. Every Christian should be a living, walking example of good deeds.
When Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, he commended them for their βwork of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christβ (1 Thess. 1:3). Everything we do should be motivated by faith, hope, and love, which are rooted in our relationship with Christ.
So now the question is, What qualifies as good work in the Christian life? Scripture is filled with examples: caring for others, meeting needs, giving our time and treasure, and engaging in activities like worship, prayer, and Bible reading. These are the activities that should characterize us as Godβs children and Christβs representatives in this world.
As we consider the topic of good works, we must remember four important truths. Otherwise we may assume that we are the ones who define whatβs good, what needs to be done, and how it should be accomplished.
First of all, God determines what He wants each of us to do. According to Ephesians 2:10, βWe are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.β Since we belong to Christ, who purchased us with His blood, He has full authority over our life. There are specific tasks we are appointed to accomplish as we walk according to His will. If we think believing in Christ means attending church on Sundays but living as we please all week long, weβre wasting our life. Christians are the people through whom the Holy Spirit is carrying out the work of Christ here on earth. He redeemed us from sin and purified us for Himself so we could be people zealous for good deeds (Titus 2:14).
Second, God equips us for whatever He calls us to do. He βis able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within usβ (Eph. 3:20). In every opportunity God gives and every act of service He calls us to perform, He has already provided whatever we need to accomplish the task before us.
Just consider the many resources the Lord uses to empower us for good works. His indwelling Spirit gives us direction and strength to obey, as well as spiritual gifts that enable us to serve Him. He uses the Scripture to teach, reprove, correct, and train us in righteousness so weβll be adequately equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). And He uses our brothers and sisters in Christ to motivate us toward love and good deeds (Heb. 10:24). Even our wealth becomes a tool in His hands when we use it as He desiresββto do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to shareβ (1 Tim. 6:18).
Third, our good works are to glorify God, and not ourselves. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus called His followers βthe light of the worldβ and said they were to let their light shine so others would see their good works and glorify the Father (Matt. 5:14-16). But just one chapter later, He warned them: βBeware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by themβ (6:1).
The difference is motivation. Although we should never seek the approval and praise of other people for what we do, our life should stand out and be characterized by good deeds in the midst of a dark, self-centered world. If commendations come our way, we need to remember that apart from Christ, we are nothing. Then we can simply pass the praise on to Him in a silent prayer of recognition and gratitude.
Fourth, God will one day judge our good works. What we do in this life will have a tremendous impact on our eternity. As believers, we will be called before the judgment seat of Christ to account for our deeds (2 Cor. 5:10). Some of our works will be worthless and burned up like wood, hay, and straw in the judgment. But we will be rewarded for the good works done in obedience to God, according to His power, and for His glory (1 Cor. 3:10-15).
Although we donβt know exactly what these rewards will be, one thing is certain: They will signify a life of good deeds that glorified and pleased God. Nothing could be more valuable than receiving praise from our beloved Savior. So letβs each spend our life living for Him.
When it comes to good works, remember that these are not just religious activities. Christ takes into account whatever we do that flows from obedience to Himβat home, work, school, church, and beyond. Also, we must resist the temptation to compare our works with the achievements of others. Weβre responsible only for the tasks God has prepared specifically for us.
Who said "The State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation"?
Tek yuh time.
I'll check back tomorrow. MaΓ±ana.
* That's right folks! There is nothing to discuss or debate or explain or argue about. It is a done deal. A PPP victory on May 11th, 2015 is a fait accompli. It is written in stone---100% guaranteed.
* Congratulations in advance to President Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar on his re-election.
* With a guaranteed majority on May 11th, the esteemed President Ramotar and the PPP will be able to pursue a new Guyana development model that will turbocharge the Guyanese economy. No more hindrance and obstruction from the PNC/AFC.
* My deepest sympathy to all the PNC(APNU/AFC) supporters on GNI. Please don't take the defeat personally. Life is too short to be angry, depressed and frustrated.
* LONG LIVE THE PPP.
Rev
Please use this thread to list crime in Guyana since the new administration took over.
New thread
There is no way that the PPP/C will win if Elections were held today.
No one within the PPP are today able to curtail bribery and corruptions, and this scrooge is manifested in everyday dealings.
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport is like a Technical Institute for bribery and Corruptions....It is now going the way of Racial Profiling, sometime I wonder if GRA Sattaur is sleeping or the Minister Responsible is sleeping?
Unless the PPP/C rein in corruptions and Bribery there can be no W.
Simply put, the PPP/C supporters will not go out and waste their time voting.
Maybe there is a story I will share one day that deals with the President Office and the Minister of Housing, who indirectly has told the President to go fu$K off.
LATA MANGESHKAR:
MAJESTICAL VOICE UNFORGETTABLE MELODIES
Lata Mangeshkar receiving " Bharat Ratan Award" from President K. R. Narayanan during Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in Delhi, March 2001.
Out of a billion and over, only a handful has been bestowed with this award, Lataji has commented that this perhaps is the "greatest achievement of her life"
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WHAT ALL YOU EATING IN 2011 ?
Thanks for the suggestion Petal:
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We are topical in international circles given our potential oil benefaction. Imagine someone coming here to find out who we are and the board is full of homophobic themes, and with a prodigious out pouring of " stick in the butt" kind of phrases form our apparently mean spirited cadre of village louts as the face of our nation. It takes but a little policing. Raymond was supposed to do that. He is too busy chasing the green. He needs help. Please nominate someone to raise the class profile of our people on the world stage. We have been in the gutter for too long and cannot get out if these fellows who should know better continues to generate these vile memes that distort who we are.
Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhaanay kay liyay aa
Let it be anguish, come still to torment my heart
aa phir say mujhay chhorr kay jaanay kay liyay aa
Come, even if to leave me again
GHAZALS
OK Folks!
Take a good look at that billboard---it says it all---white Americans have awakened.
MUSLIM TERRORIST OSAMA WAS ELIMINATED IN MAY 2011; MUSLIM BORN BLACK MARXIST PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE DEFEATED IN NOV 2012.
THE BIG QUESTION:
Will Hussein just be defeated in November or will Hussein be defeated in a landslide ?
DEFINITION: Losing by 10+ points is landslide.
We all know Hussein will be defeated----actually 96% of blacks, 99.99% of Muslims, and 80% of Guyanese US citizens will vote for Hussein---these folks are on their knees praying for Hussein to win---but thanks to white blue collar Americans---Hussein will be defeated.
The Rev is now 1000% confident that white capitalist Mitt Romney will be America's next President and black, muslim born Marxist Hussein will be soundly defeated.
What I am curious to know is this:
WILL HUSSEIN LOSE BY A LANDSLIDE ?
Rev

βBarber shopβ company gets $300 MILLION computer contracts
JULY 21, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS
Digital Technology, the company which was handed two Government contracts valued at a $293 million to supply computers and related equipment to schools, has been found to have as its head office what is now a Brooklyn, USA barber shop, in a case that bears a striking resemblance to Fip Motilall. Motilall pocketed a US$15.4 contract to build access roads to the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project, but investigations by this newspaper revealed his US address to be but a sari and puja shop in Florida.

54 Public Rd. Grove E.B.D., the companyβs head office in Guyana
Now, investigations by this newspaper have unearthed facts about Digital Technology that could mirror the startling revelations about Fip Motilall and his company. On July 13, Digital Technology Group of Companies (as it was registered in Guyana) was awarded a contract valued at $223 million for the supply of 1,400 desktop computers to 70 schools across the country. On Monday last, the Education Ministry awarded a further $70 million to the same company to provide more computers, plus servers and overhead projectors. Digital Technology in Guyana is in fact listed as the Caribbean and Latin America Office of a company that goes by the name Digital Waves Technology Inc., which has as its Head Office this address: 3154 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208.
Three months ago, checks by this newspaper revealed that this address housed a company called Assets Realty Inc. Today, the property has been remodeled and renamed βAntonio and Martin Barber Shopβ as further checks revealed, yesterday. Upstairs of the building serves as rented apartments. For that Head Office address, the company lists its contact information as the mobile number: 347-410-9772. Calls to that number result in the voicemail: βHello, youβve reached Cliff David. Please leave a message after the tone and Iβll get back to you shortly. Thank you for calling.β In Guyana, the companyβs local address is 54 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara. This address is part of a business complex at Grove, which did not have a single computer to sell recently when a Kaieteur News reporter researching bidders for the governmentβs One Laptop Per Family project visited. The reporter was directed to the companyβs office in Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, and the result was no different. Digital Technology in Guyana was one of the companies which put in a bid to supply the government 27,000 laptops under a US$9 millon project. However, the companyβs bid, along with the two other bidders, was not successful and the project went to a re-tender.

Krishendat Sukhu

Pulandar Kandhi

Minister Shaik Baksh
When Kaieteur News contacted the company to speak with its Chief Executive Officer, Krishendat βTerrenceβ Sukhu, the person answering the phone said he was not in the office. Further calls yielded the same results, and messages for Sukhu to return calls for clarification went unanswered. On Monday, this newspaper was told that Sukhu was out of the country and would possibly return in two weeks.
At the contract signing on July 13, Education Minister Shaik Baksh, said that Sukhu had already procured some of the computers and that he was expected to complete delivery by the end of the first term. Mr Sukhu explained that the computers would be Dell made, and acquired through its Central American agency. They would have the standard USB ports and 250-gigabyte hard drives. Initially, there were queries about the ability of the company to actually procure the computers before it had signed the contract, but a source close to the company said that from the time the tenders were open and Mr Sukhu learnt that he had won the tender with the lowest bid, he set about procuring the computers.
Digital Technology boasts of being a world-class management team with direct knowledge of the industry, extensive research experience, and unique administration skills. The company claims to deliver Computer Hardware, Software, Surveillance Systems, Training, VOIP and Networking, Computer and related equipment servicing to customers, and commenced integration and Support of Wireless Internet from February 2006. The company was in fact incorporated in Guyana in June 2, 2009. It also states on its website that it currently hosts approximately 10 websites and has five collocated servers. The company does not list the name of these websites it hosts.
On Monday, when asked about the programme of due diligence performed by the Ministry of Education, Permanent Secretary Pulandar Kandhi, said that the various contractors were subjected to a rigorous examination by the Central Tender Board and by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which is funding one of the computer programmes by the Ministry. However, Digital Technology was not subjected to such scrutiny since its project was outside the scope of the CDB.
Source
AFC leaders betray core values, principles β former GS
AFC/APNU coalition pact
β¦massive internal conflicts; more resignations expected
By Michael Younge
The Alliance For Change (AFC) has undermined its own core values and principles which appealed to thousands of Guyanese who were not willing to continue to give their support to the Peopleβs National Congress Reform (PNCR), the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) or the ruling Peopleβs Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) at the polls again.
The party has also destroyed the foundation which set it apart as a third force and choice for young people who wanted βreal positive changeβ and βa new political cultureβ which would see those with murky hands and vendettas removed from the countryβs governance structures in the future.
These are sentiments expressed by former General Secretary and Executive Member of the AFC, Sixtus Edwards during an exclusive interview with theGuyana Times on Wednesday.
Edwards who tendered his resignation earlier this month, explained that he felt betrayed by the party which he helped build pillar by pillar after its formation back in 2006. He admitted that while he said he resigned for βpersonal reasonsβ, many National Executive Members and others who were familiar with the internal politics of the party know that there was more to his decision to depart the AFC. βThe reason why I left the party is because of the people within there are not keeping with their core valuesβ, he said sternly. He explained that back in 2006 when the AFC was formed, the party Executives and members swore that they would remain neutral offering hope to those who were willing to leave their homes in the PPP/C and PNC to join a journey to heal and change Guyana.
βWe should have remained neutralβ¦and for the people,β Edwards said passionately during the interview alleging that the AFC has now been watered down to an alliance of hate and vengeance against the PPP/C. βThere is nothing there for our youths. They have in no way kept those principles and values which we laboured for alive. You eating back your words by joining the APNU and I do not want to be in an organisation like thatβ, he declared. Asked whether he was sure he made the right decision when he left the party, Edwards responded in the positive.
Losing electoral support
Meanwhile, Edwards, who has been with the AFC for over ten years now, believes that the party will lose massive electoral support. βThe middle ground is goneβ¦β he advised. He also put this newspaper on notice that lots of people have already walked away from the AFC and are continuing to do so. Asked to clarify, Edwards said that he had reason to believe that more Executives were planning to resign over the coming weeks because the party was not adhering to its Constitution of core values. βThere are lots of coverups taking place. Everyone wants family, sister, and brother to be in the party and hold positions. Lots of corruption, cronyism and nepotism are taking placeβ, he insisted.
βA lot of people more will leaveβ¦.β
For the first time, Edwards alleged that there was widespread fixing and tampering with the process to elect internal leaders for the AFC. βAt the last conferenceβ¦people were not votingβ¦there were no nominationsβ¦.for the people to hold post of Chairman, Vice Chairmanβ¦.General Secretaryβ, he alleged. Asked again to clarify his statement, Edwards said βThere were no nominationsβ¦the people were told that the party had already sorted this aspect of the conference outβ. βninety per cent of the people wanted to vote me back in as GS, but there was no real nominationsβ¦.β he reiterated. Questioned why the party members attending the conference did not object to this undemocratic practice, the former General Secretary said β[that] they (Executive) had already worked out the thingβ¦it happened before.β
βI built this party. I spent ten yearsβ¦I was the man who was there when everybody had left the party and to see it reaching to level, it hurts,β he claimed. He denied that he never raised his concerns with the Executive before. βThese concerns have been shared many times, year after year.β
Edwards also confirmed that no one from the Executive reached out to him following his resignation or even placed a call to him despite his sterling contributions to the AFC and his ability to galvanise large amounts of support from all the regions.
βThey never called me, nobody calledβ¦. There is nobody in the AFC that has more support than meβ¦ whether Indo Guyanese or β¦ the Afro-Guyanese I brought to the AFC. No ody that has made more sacrifices than meβ, he said. He plans on moving on from here and vows to continue to struggle for the development of Guyanese at different levels.
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Presidential front runner of the republican party, Donald Trump is unstoppable in the polls throughout the country on this Super Tuesday.
One thing people ought to know that illegal immigrants and foreign enemies that lives here has ruin the repetition of America for too long.
The white supremacist that supports Trump will actually help him rather than hurt him. Donald Trump will not allowed what is happening in England to happen in United States.
His call to be tough on illegal immigrants and terrorists whose aim is to destroy the country that gave them sanctuary is justifiable.
This thing aint ova yet?
Three years ago, posting as Bookman, I created GNI BOOK CLUB. The response was encouraging.
Following Bookman's self-exile in late 2011, however, the book club faded into the netherworld.
Today I'm pleased to launch GNI BOOK CLUB [2]. All members are invited to share information about books they're reading and discuss book-related matters.
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I just finished reading "MY LIFE WITH CHE: The Making of a Revolutionary" by Hilda Gadea. She was the first wife of the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. This book was first published in 1972, five years after Che was assassinated in Bolivia. Hilda Gadea died of cancer in 1974.
Last week I also read another memoir by Che's second wife, Aleida March. That book, "REMEMBERING CHE:My Life With Che Guevara", was first published in 2008.
Together, these two books open windows into the personal and professional aspects of a larger-than-life character who made a mark in history and died at the youthful age of 39, fighting for a more humane world.
Charrandas was an AFC parliamentarian, one of 12 according to the Cummingsburg Accord. His replacement is not another AFC member. Barbara Pilgrim is APNU. This means that AFC share in coalition has been reduced from 12 to 11. Less than the agreed 40%. Clearly the PNC-dominated APNU doesn't trust another AFC.
Guyanese outraged at Grangerβs insensitive, racist facebook comment | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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Monday, 07 January 2013 22:22 |
SCORES of Guyanese have expressed concern over what they say is a highly offensive and racially charged comment made by Opposition Leader David Granger on social media. The comment has attracted criticisms from not only Guyanese of East Indian decent, but of African lineage that are strongly rejecting any appeal to politics or pandering to race by politicians to score cheap political points. ** USE File PHOTO of David Granger |
He was so good at his trade, his voice resonated with emotions, raw emotions that would hold one spellbound like the ancient mariner weaving a tale that must be told, and after then, that impact of that story would remain for a lifetime. Such was the golden voice of the Legendary Master, like a magician he would hold one fixated whils't he weaves his enchanting spell with accuracy at the beholders, who can only be dumbstruck with awe, such emotions and sadness would truly soothes the listeners and create that impact to last a lifetime. The man that was endowed with that "bardaan" was Mukesh Chand Mathur, known as Mukesh. .
In focusing our lens on this genious, we shall compile 100 of his songs, songs that are still popular, songs that has left an impact that we can relate to, songs that if you were to pass by a rumshop, you would see many a troubled souls taking solace in the tunes of Mukesh, wether it be a "Dost Dost Na Raha" or "O Mere Hamrahi"
In reminising on Mukesh, will we pull articles from the internet, we will features songs from different sites, we will pull lyrics from where we could obtain same, translations will be done by friends with credit given at the end of each song. Comments will be entertained.
Beforehand I would definately express our "Thank You" to the many providers of articles of which will be used. As usual our project will not be a profitable or monetary venture, but a venture to give satisfaction to the many fans of Mukesh.
Ray, you can use the ending of each song that we will be offering to do some advertisment, you can work it out with Amral. A brother helping another brother

Did I forget anything? oh, Lynn,Saeed, DaFreak/Riya, will be looking for assistance from you guys.
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Charrandass Persaud: Vulga Lawrence..shut you mouth..or hang a roll of toilet paper on you neck ..to wipe the shit that falls out..when you open it. You so dunce!! (FB)
This man may have done great good for Guyana but his way of speaking to his former comrades is undesirable. He also said that Nagamootoo took eight years to finish law school as opposed to who? Him?
I bring this to GNI since most posters are prone to the same behavior of distorting people's names and cuss down attitude. You either agree or disagree. You don't stoop to a lower level. This gentleman is an attorney.
Love, Petal