Thursday 30 January 2014
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Erase it.
Erase it.
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Oh! we confessed to you father, of hurting many people through our words and deeds. Its all proud nature in us which prompt to cause trouble in others life. Dear Lord, give us the simplicity of life and a humble spirit to live for you and you alone. Amen.
Psalm 86:2
Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God;
Monday 27 January 2014
GOD IS GOD OF MIRACLES-GOD WILL RELEASE HIS POWER AND YOU WILL BE HEALED.-----
GOD IS GOD OF MIRACLES
--IF YOU BELIEVE LET ME PRAY FOR YOU, GOD WILL RELEASE HIS POWER AND YOU WILL BE HEALED.-----
What happened today we
don't see people getting healed when we pray. People expectation to
come for healing crusade, convention etc is to
get deliverance and get healing. During his earthly ministry, Jesus Christ touched
and transformed countless lives. The four Gospels record
37 miracles of Jesus, only a small portion of the multitudes of people who were made whole
by our Savior. The closing verse of John's Gospel says,
"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written
down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books
that would be written." (John 21:25, NIV). When
disciple were unable to cast out evil spirit from a boy, Jesus in reply
said, “You unbelieving generation,” how
long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? . A great
anointed preacher whom God used in his early days in demonstrating His
power through him, now no more God uses him to touch millions of people. One of
the reason will be the lack of faith in preacher and other reason may be
His focus of serving God would have been diverted. Fame and Name has engulfed
him to that extend, he thinks only of himself and for himself.
The first word that he uttered may be "I" did it or
it happened through me only. No where the picture of God and His
Grace in his life. But still God carry out His work, because he is
more concern for the individual soul who are perishing and purging
into eternal hell. He is God, All Powerful and His power flows to the
people who believes in Him without doubt. No matter what kind of disease
or how big it is, God closer to you if you believe and He will
surely heal you. Let not negative thought or doubt come into
your heart, rather follow the simple steps of faith through
the first miracle performed by Jesus and draw
closer to the One who is God of
miracles. The first miracle of Jesus was turning the water into wine at the
wedding of Cana. We can learn many truths from this incident.
OUTLINE
1.INVITATION
2.INTERCESSION
3.INSTRUCTION
4.INSTRUMENTS
5. INSPIRATION
THE MESSAGE
FIVE KEYS TO YOUR MIRACLE : from the wedding at Cana
1.INVITATION
John 2:1,2
If we want to experience a miracle, we must first invite Jesus into our lives.Jesus was invited to the wedding at Cana. If Jesus had not been invited to that wedding the miracle would not have taken place. We must invite Jesus into every area of our lives. We must seek His blessing and His guidance in every aspect of our lives.
2.INTERCESSION:
John 2:3,4
The second step for a miracle is to intercede before the Lord, and to make our requests known to him. At the wedding in Cana when they ran out of wine, Mary the mother of Jesus made it known to Jesus. We must also take all our burdens to the Lord. Instead of rushing to our friends and relatives to share our needs , we must first take it to the Lord and cast our burdens upon Him.
3.INSTRUCTION:
John 2:5.
The third step is to be taught obedience to the commandments of the Lord.At the wedding in Cana , Mary , the mother of Jesus told the servants to do whatever Jesus commanded them to do. It was obedience to the instructions of Jesus that enabled them to experience the miracle. We must be careful to obey the instructions that the Lord gives to us.We must live according to the word of God.
4.INSTRUMENTS:
John 2:6.
The Lord uses instruments to perform His miracle.At the wedding in Cana the Lord used the water that was available to perform a miracle. Jesus used five loaves and two fishes that was available to feed the five thousand. The Lord can use whatever we have to perform miracles. He can use even ordinary vessels to reveal His power. We should allow the Lord to use whatever we have for His glory.
5.INSPIRATION:
John 2:7,8.
Here Jesus intervened and performed a miracle by turning the water into wine and His disciples believed on Him. The miracle that Jesus performed inspired the disciples and caused them to develop a strong faith in the Lord. We must cause every miracle that the Lord performs to become an inspiration for us to have a greater and deeper faith in Him.
1.INVITATION
2.INTERCESSION
3.INSTRUCTION
4.INSTRUMENTS
5. INSPIRATION
THE MESSAGE
FIVE KEYS TO YOUR MIRACLE : from the wedding at Cana
1.INVITATION
John 2:1,2
If we want to experience a miracle, we must first invite Jesus into our lives.Jesus was invited to the wedding at Cana. If Jesus had not been invited to that wedding the miracle would not have taken place. We must invite Jesus into every area of our lives. We must seek His blessing and His guidance in every aspect of our lives.
2.INTERCESSION:
John 2:3,4
The second step for a miracle is to intercede before the Lord, and to make our requests known to him. At the wedding in Cana when they ran out of wine, Mary the mother of Jesus made it known to Jesus. We must also take all our burdens to the Lord. Instead of rushing to our friends and relatives to share our needs , we must first take it to the Lord and cast our burdens upon Him.
3.INSTRUCTION:
John 2:5.
The third step is to be taught obedience to the commandments of the Lord.At the wedding in Cana , Mary , the mother of Jesus told the servants to do whatever Jesus commanded them to do. It was obedience to the instructions of Jesus that enabled them to experience the miracle. We must be careful to obey the instructions that the Lord gives to us.We must live according to the word of God.
4.INSTRUMENTS:
John 2:6.
The Lord uses instruments to perform His miracle.At the wedding in Cana the Lord used the water that was available to perform a miracle. Jesus used five loaves and two fishes that was available to feed the five thousand. The Lord can use whatever we have to perform miracles. He can use even ordinary vessels to reveal His power. We should allow the Lord to use whatever we have for His glory.
5.INSPIRATION:
John 2:7,8.
Here Jesus intervened and performed a miracle by turning the water into wine and His disciples believed on Him. The miracle that Jesus performed inspired the disciples and caused them to develop a strong faith in the Lord. We must cause every miracle that the Lord performs to become an inspiration for us to have a greater and deeper faith in Him.
--IF YOU BELIEVE LET ME PRAY FOR YOU, GOD WILL
RELEASE HIS POWER AND YOU WILL BE HEALED.-----
If you are healed after reading
and believing in Jesus, All honor and glory unto Him.
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Sunday 26 January 2014
Don't Walk Away-Wait you will be delivered.
Don't Walk Away-Wait you will be delivered.
Judges 6:12
The
angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him,
“The
LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.”
A great
number of Midianites and Amalekites invaded Israel to destroy the crops.
Because Israel was so weak, the people, including Gideon,saw no other
possibility than to hide themselves in caves. During the wheat harvest, Gideon
was hiding in a winepress when God appeared to him and greeted him by saying, “The
LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.”Gideon did not expect such an address. He
did not feel like a warrior; horror, need and fear were his daily bread. Gideon
answered, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to
us?” ( Judges 6:13).
This response
surprises me. God greets Gideon as a friend. Doesn’t God have a right to judge?
Obviously God sees differently than we humans. God’s presence changes the
atmosphere: hope instead of discouragement, acceptance instead of disapproval,
victory instead of weakness, fulfillment instead of want—this is how God is
when He approaches us.
I am beginning to
understand why God compares us to eagles that mount upon strong wings and soar
(see Isaiah 40:29–31). Instead, He could have compared us to sparrows that peck
around in the street. He describes us as a palm tree in the desert, bearing
fruit even in continuous drought (see Psalm 92:12–15). He could have likened us
to grass that is trampled underfoot. He says we’re skilled warriors, using His
weapons and defeating the enemy (see Psalm 18:30–40)—even though He has reason
enough to compare us to cowards.
Yes, this is our God. He sees us
differently than we see ourselves. Rather than seeing us as we are, He
recognizes us for whom He intends us to be. Even when we hide in fear as Gideon
did, God is confident in our sincerity and ability. When Peter denied his Lord
with a curse, Jesus responded only with a look.
He spoke no words of criticism.
Even after Peter failed and returned to fishing, Jesus still counted on him. He
pursued Peter, meeting him at the Sea of Galilee, and invited him to a lovingly
prepared meal. Tenderly Jesus inquired of Peter, “Do you love Me?” Peter’s “yes”
was enough. Jesus entrusted Peter with His sheep—without conditions.
This gives hope to anyone who
wants to give up their calling, believing that God cannot use them because of
their sin and failure. Can you imagine that God wants to greet you as He
greeted Gideon? He sees you hiding in your winepress, yet He believes in you.
Despite your failings, God did not give up on you. When the righteous fall, it’s
into God’s arms—the same is true for you!
Stand up again, you eagle, mount
up and soar! You are not created to give up, but to conquer the skies! You are
not wilting grass but a sturdy palm tree. Dig deep down to the real source of
water for which you’ve longed.
Valiant warrior, take up the
sword that you put down and face the battle again. You are called to victory,
even when the last battle was lost.
Saturday 25 January 2014
Friday 24 January 2014
Don’t limit your God-Knowing His power
Genesis 18:9-15
Don’t limit your God-Knowing His power
00 00:0 You can identify, then,
with poor Sarah. She laughed when God did not. She managed to conceal her
laughter, but that doesn’t work with the Lord, who knows the very thoughts and
intentions of our hearts. When the Lord said, “Why did Sarah laugh?” she denied
it and said, “I didn’t laugh.” But the Lord knew differently and said, “No, but
you did laugh.” It wasn’t a laughing matter to the Lord.
The problem was that
Sarah’s laughter reflected her unbelief in the promise of God. Unbelief is a
more serious sin than most of us realize. To doubt God’s promise is tantamount
to calling God a liar. It is to demote God from His place of sovereign power
and to promote myself over Him. God doesn’t take kindly to unbelief.
All of us struggle, at
different levels, with the problem of unbelief. Perhaps, like Abraham and
Sarah, you’ve prayed for something for years, but God has not answered. Life is
passing you by while you wait. You struggle with doubt as you often wonder
whether He is hearing your prayers. You may have suffered some tragedy, such as
the loss of a close loved one, and you wonder, “Where was God when this
happened?” Maybe it’s a family problem that has dragged on for years. You
wonder, “Why doesn’t God do something? Why doesn’t He answer?” Sometimes I’ve
struggled with doubt when I’ve needed some small thing that would be easy for
God to provide, something which I knew would further His work, and yet in spite
of my prayers, God did not answer.
The
Lord’s word to Sarah speaks to all who struggle with unbelief (and that’s all
of us): “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?” This
story of Abraham and Sarah waiting all these years for the promised son teaches
us an important spiritual lesson:
God brings us to the end of our strength so that we will trust in
His ability to do the impossible.
By nature we all trust
in ourselves most of the time, and in God only when we really have to. If we
trust in ourselves, then we glory in ourselves. But God’s purpose is that we
glory in Him alone. So through various means He graciously brings us to the
place where we have no hope except in Him, so that we trust in Him and He gets
the glory. The first step in this process is ...
1. God brings us to the end of our
strength.
We’re also reminded that
Abraham and Sarah were old, and that Sarah was past the age of childbearing
(18:11). It was humanly impossible for her to bear a son. She was already
through menopause. In her natural strength, she was barren.
That’s where the Lord
wants us in our relationship with Him, to recognize our weakness so that we
will trust His strength. Many people mistakenly think that the reason they
struggle in their Christian lives is that they’re too weak. That isn’t so. The
reason we struggle in our Christian walk is that we do not recognize our own
weakness for what it is, and so we trust in ourselves rather than in the Lord.
When we see our weakness and cast ourselves on the Lord’s strength, then we’re
strong. God doesn’t help those who help themselves. God helps those who are
helpless.. Hudson Taylor used to say that when God wanted to open inland China
to the gospel, He looked around until He found a man weak enough for the task.
2. The Lord confronts our unbelief
so that we will see things from His perspective.
“Why did Sarah laugh?” He wanted Abraham and
Sarah to think about that question. The answer was, “Sarah laughed because she
didn’t believe the Lord.”As I said, unbelief is sin because in effect it calls
God a liar and me the truthful one. It says, “I know better than the
omniscient, all-powerful God, what He can do or not do!” It implies either that
God doesn’t know what He’s talking about or He isn’t able to do it. So the Lord
asks a second question, “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?”
Unbelief is also serious
because invariably it leads to other sins. Sarah denied that she did what the
Lord says she did: “I didn’t laugh.”. But how foolish to think that we can hide
our sin from the Lord who knows every thought in our heads! He got her to face
her sin of unbelief and to think about things from His perspective with the
rhetorical question, “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?”
The most loving thing
the Lord can do is to make us face our sin of unbelief: “No, you did doubt Me.
Admit the truth yourself, because I know your heart.” Then He lovingly gets us
to consider things from His almighty perspective: “I could never be in any
situation which would be too difficult for the Lord to work.”
A
woman once came up to the famous Bible teacher, G. Campbell Morgan, and asked,
“Dr. Morgan, should we pray about the little things in our lives, or only the
big things?” In his British manner, Dr. Morgan drew up and said, “Madam, can
you think of anything in your life that is big to God?”
3. When we trust God to do the
humanly impossible, He rewards us.
Because
she faced her sin of unbelief and thought about things from God’s perspective,
Sarah received the faith to
conceive Isaac. Faith is a gift God is ready to give us the moment we will turn
from our unbelief and see Him for who He is: the God for whom nothing is too
difficult.
Also,
Sarah received laughter. Her laughter of doubt
(18:12) was replaced with the laughter of joy when Isaac was born (21:6). In
fact, Isaac’s name means “he laughs.”
.
In
the same way, the Lord is gracious, ready to forgive us and meet our every need
when we turn from our unbelief and trust in His mighty power.
Application:
·
Know that God is able; believe that He will do
it.
·
Rely not in your understanding, rather trust in
Him.
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Write down the past achievement and answered
prayer.
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Get Encourage by reading promises of God.
Thursday 23 January 2014
Your Labor is not in vain
Your Labor is not in vain
Paul continually prayed for the churches he planted, thanking God for them. He told the Ephesians the same thing. (Ephesians 1:15-16) Do you thank God for the good Christian brothers and sisters that God has brought into your life?
He goes on to tell the specific things that he is thankful for.
The first was their works produced by faith. Whatever they did, they did it for the Lord and for His glory. Colossians 3:23-24 Are your works out of faith, or are they just the drudgery of making a living? Think about it are you work by faith or by the knowledge that you have of every thing that you do.
Secondly, he was thankful for their labor prompted by love. This makes my heart thankful too. Lately I have seen a number of believers do things out of love, helping others just because they love the Lord and the family of God. Some of it is a real sacrifice, but they want to express their gratitude to God. It is a real labor of love. Think about are you help some one to get appreciation and publicity or you help because of Christ love in you.
Third is their endurance inspired by hope. They believed that the Lord was going to return and reward everyone according to what they have done. In the face of persecution, they did not give up, but kept on enduring. Since Paul only had a short time with them, he must have been especially impressed and grateful for this quality in them. Think about are you looking to get reward from people or you endure in service knowing about eternal reward kept for you in heaven.
He goes on to tell the specific things that he is thankful for.
The first was their works produced by faith. Whatever they did, they did it for the Lord and for His glory. Colossians 3:23-24 Are your works out of faith, or are they just the drudgery of making a living? Think about it are you work by faith or by the knowledge that you have of every thing that you do.
Secondly, he was thankful for their labor prompted by love. This makes my heart thankful too. Lately I have seen a number of believers do things out of love, helping others just because they love the Lord and the family of God. Some of it is a real sacrifice, but they want to express their gratitude to God. It is a real labor of love. Think about are you help some one to get appreciation and publicity or you help because of Christ love in you.
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