About Writer
I wanted a space to write down my spiritual reflections, and this website (shema-rhema.com) came to mind. A few weeks ago, I had set up this website and left it to collect dust on the World Wide Web. God prepared me before I knew I wanted to write.
But should I share my writings in public? I asked for a Bible verse about writing, and this came by:
These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:14-15 (NKJV)
It sounds impetuous for someone who has no earthly authority or credentials to write and dictate how fellow Christians should conduct themselves. But God uses foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27). God qualifies the unqualified. I believe all children of God can hear from Abba Father and share the gems deposited in our hearts. I am a child of God. The daughter of Abba Father. The princess of the King of kings.
So I come humbly as a daughter and servant of God, who went through the school of the Holy Spirit, the valleys of breakings, and the potter’s hands of moulding, to write here. By prayer, I hear. By faith, I write and speak.
Let me know if something I wrote resonates with your spirit – it will encourage me. But I am also still learning, so read my writings with discernment and if something doesn’t agree with your spirit, seek God’s wisdom and correct me in gentleness. Your written comments, like your tongue, also have the power of life and death. Let’s encourage one another and build one another up.
May you be blessed as you read the words on this website.
About Shema Rhema
Shema // Hear (Hebrew)
Rhema // Spoken Word (Greek)
Shema, “hear”.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is your God; the Lord is One.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV)
Why should we hear the Word of God? In Your Word in Psalm 119, I listed down verses from Psalm 119 that contain the words “Your Word”. Many of these verses give good reasons for why we should hear or know the Word. For example, His Word strengthens us in Ps 119:28, “My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word.”
Rhema, “that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word.”
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:17 (ESV)
The Rhema word is when a particular verse or portion of Scripture jumps out to you and speaks to your spirit and life. You could have read it many times, but now you have a new revelation. Thus, the Spoken Word.
Source of meanings: www.blueletterbible.org
Our Beliefs
Statement of Faith
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.
There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus is God, the living Word who became flesh through His virgin birth. In absolute deity and full humanity, Jesus led a sinless life filled with miracles. He died on the cross to atone for all human sins and death through His shed blood. Jesus resurrected and ascended to the right hand of God and is now interceding for us.
On earth, we have the Holy Spirit indwelling in us because Jesus asked the Father to give us another Advocate to help and be with us forever—the Spirit of truth. As we are set free to live in the authority of Christ, we unite as believers in our Lord Jesus Christ to become members of His Body, the Church, to worship Him, go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them, and teaching them to obey everything Jesus has commanded us.
Core Values
Truth – We anchor faith back to the Word of God.
Generosity – We give to bless.
Evangelism – We share the good news using new wineskins.
Connection – We connect people: within themselves, with other people, and with God.
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