Exodus 16:27
Then the people traveled to Elim. At Elim there were twelve springs of water and 70 palm trees. So the people made their camp there near that water.
Exodus 17:1-2
Then the people left Elim and came to the Desert of Zin, between Elim
and Sinai. They arrived at that place on the 15th day of the second monthb after leaving Egypt.Then the whole community of Israelites began complaining again. They complained to Moses and Aaron in the desert.
The Israelites year started with their exodus(depart) from Egypt, the concepts of months started with their freedom from Egypt by the awesome works of the Lord's hand
which includes
1)Aaron's staff becomes snake
2)Moses's hand became leprous as white as snow and the next moment back to normal.
3)The Plague of Blood(done my Egyptian magicians)
4)The Plague of Frogs(done my Egyptian magicians)
5)The Plague of Gnats-(All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats)-Egypt magicians could not perform this
6)The Plague of Flies
7)The Plague of Livestock
8)The Plague of Boils
9)The Plague of Hail
10)The Plague of Locusts
11)The Plague of Darkness
12)The Plague of FirstBorn-The Israelites Untouched bcoz of Passover held
13)Crossing of the Red sea on DRY Land.
14)The waters of Marah and Elim(bitter Water became sweet at marah)
During all the plagues God made a distinction by making only Egyptians affected but not the Israelites nor their livestock!!
So even after seeing miracles...even the Big big miracles in the last couple months..still they grumbled on the onset of trouble as in Exodus16:27, 17:1,2
We too often forget or take for granted the things God did for us previously and grumble about the present!!
The Lord said to Moses, "I have heard he grumbling of the Israelites.Tell them.
'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread.
THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD!!!! Exodus 16:11-12
So basically God said in the last line "Then you will know how much I do for One I LOVE!"
see the way God attaches his name with the ppl of Israelites. saying LORD YOUR GOD!!
He showed himself as a provider....tht he cares.He could have been angered by their Unbelief and left them to die in the desert...but he let them continue the journey by his grace!!
And now after thousands of years after it happened....he is right here with us and if u are reading this...its by his grace the Holy Spirit is giving you a chance to Rejoice in the Lord...
How gracious of the Lord....AND HE STILL CARES....Psalm 121:4 He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep!
And so does not sleep......He is forever waiting on us....like the Father of the Parable of the lost son was always waiting at the gate for his Son all the time!!
Lets not keep him waitin anymore....lets grab this opportunity and
while we would be still a long way off ...
Our Father would see us from afar and
have compassion on us and
Run towards us and
throw his arms around us and
kiss us!
All God wants to remind us today again is that HE LOVES US WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE....Jeremiah 31:3
May we always understand the unending depth of his Love for us!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Believe and You shall Receive
Today is March 23 ....and i checked my rediffmail to see any sermon that i usually get daily...but i dint find any!!!
The Holy Spirit told me that you will be geting in gmail .....so i checked gmail account but i dint find any new mail!!!
But i knew since God promised me i would receive his word.....i knew I would !!!
SO I DID NOT GIVE UP!!!
And i was pretty sure God would definetly give me his word through mail!!!
And wolaaa....Later a little while hardly 10 minutes...tops!!!..
i checked and i got a mail from Christian Fellwoship Church (Zac Poonen)
And im posting here wat he shared!!!
WORD FOR THE WEEK 22 March 2009 12:04pm
Christian Fellowship Church, Bangalore, India
http://www.cfcindia.com
------------------------------------------------------------
God Doesn’t Work According To Human Logic
Zac Poonen
This is a follow-up to last week’s article: “Beware of
Missing God's Plan For Your Life”
Like a bird with two wings – one opposite to the other –
that enables it to fly, two Biblical truths often look like
contradictions of each other. This is called a paradox. But
both opposites must be held together simultaneously, if we
are to understand the truth correctly. Only then will we be
able to fly - spiritually. Otherwise we will be earthbound -
and depressed.
The WHOLE truth is contained (as Jesus told Satan) in “It is
written” and in “It is ALSO written” (Matt.4:7).
If you have missed God’s perfect plan for his life through
disobedience, it doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. You can
still be an overcomer if you believe that your Almighty
heavenly Father can do a miracle for you.
The Bible begins with two cases of failure that God turned
to amazing profit.
First: God created the heavens and the earth perfect. But
when some of the angels sinned, the earth became "formless,
empty and dark" (Gen.1:2). But God worked on that shapeless,
empty, dark mass and made something so beautiful out of it
that He Himself finally called it "Very Good" (Gen. 1:31).
The second case: God made Adam and Eve and had a perfect
plan for them. But they frustrated God’s plan by sinning.
But God came to the garden and promised them that the seed
of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent. That was
a promise of Christ crushing Satan on Calvary.
But Christ’s death was part of God’s perfect plan from all
eternity. He is referred to as "the Lamb Who was slain from
the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:8). Yet we know that
Christ died only because Adam and Eve had sinned. So
logically speaking, we could say that God’s perfect plan to
send Christ to die for the sins of the world was fulfilled,
not despite Adam’s failure, but because of Adam’s failure!
We would not have known God’s love shown on Calvary’s cross,
were it not for Adam’s sin!
This baffles our logic and that is why the Scriptures say
that we should "not lean on our own understanding" (Prov.
3:5). God doesn’t work according to mathematical logic!!
When solving an arithmetic problem, if you make a mistake at
any step, the final answer will always be wrong. According
to such logic, if you missed God’s will at any time in your
past life, you cannot fulfil God’s perfect will now.
But God says "My ways are not your ways." (Isa.55:8,9). His
plan doesn’t work according to mathematical logic. If it
did, then not a single human being would be able to fulfil
God’s perfect plan. For we have all failed God at some time
or the other. We have sinned even after becoming believers.
But the amazing truth is that there is still hope for every
one of us.
If God worked according to mathematical logic, then we would
have to say that Christ’s coming to the earth was God’s
second-best. But it would be blasphemous to say so.
What is the message that God is trying to get through to us?
Just this that God can take a man who has failed repeatedly,
and still make him fulfil His perfect plan.
This is because even the failure may have been part of God’s
perfect plan to teach him a few unforgettable lessons. This
may not be possible for human logic to grasp, because we
know God so little.
God can use only broken men and women. And one way He breaks
us is through repeated failures.
Genuine victory over sin is always accompanied by the
deepest humility. Repeated failures help to destroy our
self-confidence so that we are convinced that victory over
sin is impossible, apart from God’s enabling grace. Then,
when we do get victory, we will never boast about it.
Further, when we have failed repeatedly ourselves, we cannot
despise another who fails. We can sympathise with those who
have messed up their lives, because we have discovered the
weakness of our own flesh, through our own innumerable
falls. We can then "deal gently with the ignorant and
misguided, since we ourselves are beset with weakness" (Heb.
5:3).
If you now say, "But I have messed up things so many times.
It is impossible for God to bring me into His perfect plan
now", then it will be impossible for God, because YOU do not
believe that He can do that for you.
God’s law is: "It will be done for you according to your
faith" (Matt. 9:29). We get what we have faith for. If we
believe that something is impossible for God to do for us,
then it will not be done for us.
On the other hand you will discover at the judgment seat of
Christ that another believer who had made a greater mess of
his life than you did, nevertheless fulfilled God’s perfect
plan for his life - because he believed that God could pick
up the broken pieces of his life and make something "very
good" out of it.
So all of us - young and old - can have hope, no matter how
much we may have failed in the past, if we will only
acknowledge our failures, humble ourselves and believe in
our wonder-working, Almighty Father.
Thus we can learn from our failures and fulfil God’s perfect
plan for our lives.
And in the ages to come, God will show us forth to others as
examples of what He could do with those whose lives were
total failures. He will show what He could do in us, through
the "surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in
Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7). Hallelujah!
Amen and Amen.
The Holy Spirit told me that you will be geting in gmail .....so i checked gmail account but i dint find any new mail!!!
But i knew since God promised me i would receive his word.....i knew I would !!!
SO I DID NOT GIVE UP!!!
And i was pretty sure God would definetly give me his word through mail!!!
And wolaaa....Later a little while hardly 10 minutes...tops!!!..
i checked and i got a mail from Christian Fellwoship Church (Zac Poonen)
And im posting here wat he shared!!!
WORD FOR THE WEEK 22 March 2009 12:04pm
Christian Fellowship Church, Bangalore, India
http://www.cfcindia.com
------------------------------
God Doesn’t Work According To Human Logic
Zac Poonen
This is a follow-up to last week’s article: “Beware of
Missing God's Plan For Your Life”
Like a bird with two wings – one opposite to the other –
that enables it to fly, two Biblical truths often look like
contradictions of each other. This is called a paradox. But
both opposites must be held together simultaneously, if we
are to understand the truth correctly. Only then will we be
able to fly - spiritually. Otherwise we will be earthbound -
and depressed.
The WHOLE truth is contained (as Jesus told Satan) in “It is
written” and in “It is ALSO written” (Matt.4:7).
If you have missed God’s perfect plan for his life through
disobedience, it doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. You can
still be an overcomer if you believe that your Almighty
heavenly Father can do a miracle for you.
The Bible begins with two cases of failure that God turned
to amazing profit.
First: God created the heavens and the earth perfect. But
when some of the angels sinned, the earth became "formless,
empty and dark" (Gen.1:2). But God worked on that shapeless,
empty, dark mass and made something so beautiful out of it
that He Himself finally called it "Very Good" (Gen. 1:31).
The second case: God made Adam and Eve and had a perfect
plan for them. But they frustrated God’s plan by sinning.
But God came to the garden and promised them that the seed
of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent. That was
a promise of Christ crushing Satan on Calvary.
But Christ’s death was part of God’s perfect plan from all
eternity. He is referred to as "the Lamb Who was slain from
the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:8). Yet we know that
Christ died only because Adam and Eve had sinned. So
logically speaking, we could say that God’s perfect plan to
send Christ to die for the sins of the world was fulfilled,
not despite Adam’s failure, but because of Adam’s failure!
We would not have known God’s love shown on Calvary’s cross,
were it not for Adam’s sin!
This baffles our logic and that is why the Scriptures say
that we should "not lean on our own understanding" (Prov.
3:5). God doesn’t work according to mathematical logic!!
When solving an arithmetic problem, if you make a mistake at
any step, the final answer will always be wrong. According
to such logic, if you missed God’s will at any time in your
past life, you cannot fulfil God’s perfect will now.
But God says "My ways are not your ways." (Isa.55:8,9). His
plan doesn’t work according to mathematical logic. If it
did, then not a single human being would be able to fulfil
God’s perfect plan. For we have all failed God at some time
or the other. We have sinned even after becoming believers.
But the amazing truth is that there is still hope for every
one of us.
If God worked according to mathematical logic, then we would
have to say that Christ’s coming to the earth was God’s
second-best. But it would be blasphemous to say so.
What is the message that God is trying to get through to us?
Just this that God can take a man who has failed repeatedly,
and still make him fulfil His perfect plan.
This is because even the failure may have been part of God’s
perfect plan to teach him a few unforgettable lessons. This
may not be possible for human logic to grasp, because we
know God so little.
God can use only broken men and women. And one way He breaks
us is through repeated failures.
Genuine victory over sin is always accompanied by the
deepest humility. Repeated failures help to destroy our
self-confidence so that we are convinced that victory over
sin is impossible, apart from God’s enabling grace. Then,
when we do get victory, we will never boast about it.
Further, when we have failed repeatedly ourselves, we cannot
despise another who fails. We can sympathise with those who
have messed up their lives, because we have discovered the
weakness of our own flesh, through our own innumerable
falls. We can then "deal gently with the ignorant and
misguided, since we ourselves are beset with weakness" (Heb.
5:3).
If you now say, "But I have messed up things so many times.
It is impossible for God to bring me into His perfect plan
now", then it will be impossible for God, because YOU do not
believe that He can do that for you.
God’s law is: "It will be done for you according to your
faith" (Matt. 9:29). We get what we have faith for. If we
believe that something is impossible for God to do for us,
then it will not be done for us.
On the other hand you will discover at the judgment seat of
Christ that another believer who had made a greater mess of
his life than you did, nevertheless fulfilled God’s perfect
plan for his life - because he believed that God could pick
up the broken pieces of his life and make something "very
good" out of it.
So all of us - young and old - can have hope, no matter how
much we may have failed in the past, if we will only
acknowledge our failures, humble ourselves and believe in
our wonder-working, Almighty Father.
Thus we can learn from our failures and fulfil God’s perfect
plan for our lives.
And in the ages to come, God will show us forth to others as
examples of what He could do with those whose lives were
total failures. He will show what He could do in us, through
the "surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in
Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7). Hallelujah!
Amen and Amen.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Livin a Dream!!
Do u know what it is to Live a dream!!!!!!!
For our God-God Almighty....
The God of Abraham
The same God who promised Abraham....
Promised him when it looked highly impossible for him to have a son when he was hundred years old and his wife too old to give birth.
And we can see the in the day of their distress when they called upon the LORD for a son...he responded and he gave them a son.
The God of Isaac
The same God who promised Isaac his Children when his wife was barren for almost 20 years after marriage(That's pretty long enough)...The Lord not only answered their prayer by giving them not one child but twins..but also answered when Rebekah inquired as why the babies jostled against each other in her womb and God responded saying There are two nations in your womb...so it is rightly said That God waits sometimes so that he can give us the BEST!!
The God of Jacob
The same God who promised Jacob who was fleeing from his home coz he feared his brother Esau.His condition was hopeless..he was a running man, he was not even a faithful or a good person...coz he cheated his brother for the birthright and blessings.
But God still was gracious to him and he promised Jacob when he appeared in his dream and said this.. Genesis 28:13-14
"I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Issac.
I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth,
and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.
All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go,(This thing Jacob remind himself again in Genesis 35:3)
and I will bring you back to his land.
I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
In Genesis 35:3 Jacob says this of God...that "God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever i have gone."
So the LORD who promised Jacob has been fulfilling his promise as he said that HE WILL NOT LEAVE HIM and he dint!!!
And today we know how richly the country Israel is blessed and that they are as numerous as the sands on the sea shore and the dust of the earth.
The same God....is talking to us today....for he is STILL ANSWERING US IN THE DAY OF OUR DISTRESS AND HE STILL IS WITH US WHEREVER WE GO!!
I experienced that personally in my life for he never left me nor abandoned me for he loved me more than i could comprehend!!!
Isn't it beautiful that the same God who's been al through the people of the Bible is STILL here with us an still he is willing to be concerned for our lives more than we ever are..and he said that I have Plans for you...........woaahh...
The same God who spoke this Universe into existence and the same God who planned all the beautiful waterfalls of the earth...the same God who created all the beautiful landscapes of this world too numerous to count and too beautiful to comprehend!!!
That very same God is talking to us today and he is saying I HAVE PLANS FOR YOU, plans not to destroy you but to give you a hope and a FUTURE.!!!
Should we be worried about anything in our life than to continuosly think about how to please our only TRUE MASTER.
So when he says For I have plans to Give you a Hope and a FUTURE!! Would it be any less than a dream!!
So lets reach out to our dream.....for our God is ready to make our lives just as incomprehensible as if it were a dream and you are thinking its just tooo good to be true.....but it is for its the LORD Who answered you and he MEANS IT!!!!!!!!!!
People may betray your trust and may hurt you...but the LORD has the best of plans just so that WE MAY KNOW THAT HE LOVES US!!!
That HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANYTHING!!!
So lets get Lost in his sea of Love....for he has lot to offer than YOU CAN EVER THINK OR IMAGINE!!!!!!!!!!
Abraham dint have the least of Idea when God said what would he bring to pass as part of his promise to him
and neither did Issac and neither did Jacob!!
AND NEITHER CAN YOU!!!!!!!
Coz what he is going to do in your life will blow your mind....coz its going to be absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!!
Please read the before line again coz I'm telling you You don't have any idea yourself what GOD means he says that he is ready to do more than you can EVER THINK or Imagine!!!!!!!
May the Understanding of the Love of the God and our saviour Jesus Christ be our forever quest in our lives...
Amen
For our God-God Almighty....
The God of Abraham
The same God who promised Abraham....
Promised him when it looked highly impossible for him to have a son when he was hundred years old and his wife too old to give birth.
And we can see the in the day of their distress when they called upon the LORD for a son...he responded and he gave them a son.
The God of Isaac
The same God who promised Isaac his Children when his wife was barren for almost 20 years after marriage(That's pretty long enough)...The Lord not only answered their prayer by giving them not one child but twins..but also answered when Rebekah inquired as why the babies jostled against each other in her womb and God responded saying There are two nations in your womb...so it is rightly said That God waits sometimes so that he can give us the BEST!!
The God of Jacob
The same God who promised Jacob who was fleeing from his home coz he feared his brother Esau.His condition was hopeless..he was a running man, he was not even a faithful or a good person...coz he cheated his brother for the birthright and blessings.
But God still was gracious to him and he promised Jacob when he appeared in his dream and said this.. Genesis 28:13-14
"I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Issac.
I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth,
and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.
All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go,(This thing Jacob remind himself again in Genesis 35:3)
and I will bring you back to his land.
I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
In Genesis 35:3 Jacob says this of God...that "God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever i have gone."
So the LORD who promised Jacob has been fulfilling his promise as he said that HE WILL NOT LEAVE HIM and he dint!!!
And today we know how richly the country Israel is blessed and that they are as numerous as the sands on the sea shore and the dust of the earth.
The same God....is talking to us today....for he is STILL ANSWERING US IN THE DAY OF OUR DISTRESS AND HE STILL IS WITH US WHEREVER WE GO!!
I experienced that personally in my life for he never left me nor abandoned me for he loved me more than i could comprehend!!!
Isn't it beautiful that the same God who's been al through the people of the Bible is STILL here with us an still he is willing to be concerned for our lives more than we ever are..and he said that I have Plans for you...........woaahh...
The same God who spoke this Universe into existence and the same God who planned all the beautiful waterfalls of the earth...the same God who created all the beautiful landscapes of this world too numerous to count and too beautiful to comprehend!!!
That very same God is talking to us today and he is saying I HAVE PLANS FOR YOU, plans not to destroy you but to give you a hope and a FUTURE.!!!
Should we be worried about anything in our life than to continuosly think about how to please our only TRUE MASTER.
So when he says For I have plans to Give you a Hope and a FUTURE!! Would it be any less than a dream!!
So lets reach out to our dream.....for our God is ready to make our lives just as incomprehensible as if it were a dream and you are thinking its just tooo good to be true.....but it is for its the LORD Who answered you and he MEANS IT!!!!!!!!!!
People may betray your trust and may hurt you...but the LORD has the best of plans just so that WE MAY KNOW THAT HE LOVES US!!!
That HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANYTHING!!!
So lets get Lost in his sea of Love....for he has lot to offer than YOU CAN EVER THINK OR IMAGINE!!!!!!!!!!
Abraham dint have the least of Idea when God said what would he bring to pass as part of his promise to him
and neither did Issac and neither did Jacob!!
AND NEITHER CAN YOU!!!!!!!
Coz what he is going to do in your life will blow your mind....coz its going to be absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!!
Please read the before line again coz I'm telling you You don't have any idea yourself what GOD means he says that he is ready to do more than you can EVER THINK or Imagine!!!!!!!
May the Understanding of the Love of the God and our saviour Jesus Christ be our forever quest in our lives...
Amen
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Abram's Faithfulness
Genesis 15:1
After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:
"Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,
your very great reward."
If you see how this verse starts, It says "After this"...
So what happened before??
We see in Genesis 14:21-24
Here Abram chose to Depend on God no matter what Whether in Good or Bad!!
We usually resort to God in worst case scenarios only....only when things are out of our control...but if they ..we don't care!!
But Abram dint!
Because of this faithfulness shown by Abram, God personally came and you can see in
Gen 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
And he promised him a great promise.
So to the Level of faithfulness shown is directly proporional to a blessed abundant life.
Faithfulness Shown-------Yes---Greater abundant life..A set of new opportunities
|---No----Less abundant life tan you were supposed to have
if said yes.
Abram had no idea when he was saying No to such a great treasure..(it was the treasure left after defeating 4 kings...well that would have been definitely HUGE!!) that God will promise him a treasure of his children who would never cease to exist!
So friends lets us stop thinking about What God will do for me today!!
But instead lets think in a different way...Think about What can you give as ur gift for the Lord today.....Tell God ...Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening!!
And he will show what needs to be done...He does speak!!
For he said...Call unto me and I Will answer You. Jeremiah 33:3
And our God is not a liar!! So lets not devil fool us into making God a liar!!
When We don't believe his word...that means we are actually saying that God is a liar!
So lets hold onto the promises God gave us in his word!!
May You all be blessed with the understanding of his everlasting Love!! Amen
After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:
"Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,
your very great reward."
If you see how this verse starts, It says "After this"...
So what happened before??
We see in Genesis 14:21-24
21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."
22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath 23 that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich.' 24 I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshcol and Mamre. Let them have their share."
Abram was presented with a very TEMPTING offer but he remembered his oath to the Lord...and that he dint want anyone else to take glory for making him rich!! He wanted God to have the glory.....Wanting to depend on God totally.
These days we sometimes saying I depend on God as if that's our last resort!!
Here Abram chose to Depend on God no matter what Whether in Good or Bad!!
We usually resort to God in worst case scenarios only....only when things are out of our control...but if they ..we don't care!!
But Abram dint!
Because of this faithfulness shown by Abram, God personally came and you can see in
Gen 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
And he promised him a great promise.
So to the Level of faithfulness shown is directly proporional to a blessed abundant life.
Faithfulness Shown-------Yes---Greater abundant life..A set of new opportunities
|---No----Less abundant life tan you were supposed to have
if said yes.
Abram had no idea when he was saying No to such a great treasure..(it was the treasure left after defeating 4 kings...well that would have been definitely HUGE!!) that God will promise him a treasure of his children who would never cease to exist!
So friends lets us stop thinking about What God will do for me today!!
But instead lets think in a different way...Think about What can you give as ur gift for the Lord today.....Tell God ...Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening!!
And he will show what needs to be done...He does speak!!
For he said...Call unto me and I Will answer You. Jeremiah 33:3
And our God is not a liar!! So lets not devil fool us into making God a liar!!
When We don't believe his word...that means we are actually saying that God is a liar!
So lets hold onto the promises God gave us in his word!!
May You all be blessed with the understanding of his everlasting Love!! Amen
Monday, March 9, 2009
Dont Cry!!!
Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.
As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.
And a large crowd from the town was with her.
When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, "Don't cry."
Its amazing that the Lord has been ever compassionate all through the ages even now...I know it...coz i Know how he talked to me and said to me Don't Cry when i myself cried in hopelessness!!
I have spent 3 years of my college in a very remote place and its was so remote i dint have any kind of Christian fellowship for all these years!
God could have let me go, coz i was not living a life worthy of him that he has to be with me there...where i was the lone Christian in my college!!
It was tough..But the Lord was always there...He never left me!!
In spite of my wretched lifestyle there...God never left me...He always was there...taking care of me..Many times he gave me peace when I came to him restless!
What I found was .....WHENEVER I CRIED UNTO HIM....HE IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED...>SOOOO MANY TIMES!!
SO when i read this scripture it was sooooo true!!
And i know it was the same God whose heart went out for the widow mother in the scripture...and same God whose heart went out When he saw ME CRYING!!
He is forever same....he always was....So loving ...so caring...Such an amazing Father...Who cant stand his children's tears!!
Can you hear God say Don't Cry...Understand that I Love You...For I am with You says the Word of God!!!
When u Cry ....Don't think God doesn't care....he does...and he Understands our pain...our weakness...Thats Why he got up on that Cross!!
Just to say that I Love you and willing to do anything to have you back in my arms!!!
As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.
And a large crowd from the town was with her.
When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, "Don't cry."
Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Luke 7:11-13Its amazing that the Lord has been ever compassionate all through the ages even now...I know it...coz i Know how he talked to me and said to me Don't Cry when i myself cried in hopelessness!!
I have spent 3 years of my college in a very remote place and its was so remote i dint have any kind of Christian fellowship for all these years!
God could have let me go, coz i was not living a life worthy of him that he has to be with me there...where i was the lone Christian in my college!!
It was tough..But the Lord was always there...He never left me!!
In spite of my wretched lifestyle there...God never left me...He always was there...taking care of me..Many times he gave me peace when I came to him restless!
What I found was .....WHENEVER I CRIED UNTO HIM....HE IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED...>SOOOO MANY TIMES!!
SO when i read this scripture it was sooooo true!!
And i know it was the same God whose heart went out for the widow mother in the scripture...and same God whose heart went out When he saw ME CRYING!!
He is forever same....he always was....So loving ...so caring...Such an amazing Father...Who cant stand his children's tears!!
Can you hear God say Don't Cry...Understand that I Love You...For I am with You says the Word of God!!!
When u Cry ....Don't think God doesn't care....he does...and he Understands our pain...our weakness...Thats Why he got up on that Cross!!
Just to say that I Love you and willing to do anything to have you back in my arms!!!
Monday, March 2, 2009
There is no one soo bad that God is wont willing to Change
George Whitefield, the famous British travelling preacher in 1700's England/America, preached several times a day before thousands, but some would laugh and mock.
At Rotherham some men met in a tavern, making bets to see who could best mimic his sermons. Each had to stand on a table, open the Bible and pretend to preach like Whitefield, while the others laughed.
One named Thorpe was the last to act. He jumped onto the table saying, "I will beat you all." He opened the Bible and read the first verse he saw, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."(Luke 13:3) Suddenly he realised the solemn truth of the text, and was deeply convicted of his lost condition. He tried to preach, but instead of mocking, he spoke very seriously. A solemn quietness spread over the whole group, and those who'd come to scoff went away in tears.
Thorpe was saved by the Lord, later laboring for many years as a faithful preacher of the gospel.
At Rotherham some men met in a tavern, making bets to see who could best mimic his sermons. Each had to stand on a table, open the Bible and pretend to preach like Whitefield, while the others laughed.
One named Thorpe was the last to act. He jumped onto the table saying, "I will beat you all." He opened the Bible and read the first verse he saw, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."(Luke 13:3) Suddenly he realised the solemn truth of the text, and was deeply convicted of his lost condition. He tried to preach, but instead of mocking, he spoke very seriously. A solemn quietness spread over the whole group, and those who'd come to scoff went away in tears.
Thorpe was saved by the Lord, later laboring for many years as a faithful preacher of the gospel.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Did u know this was in the BIBLE
friends....ive just come along this as i was reading and thought i should share it!!
Here is where in the Bible we can see that the concept of WATER CYCLE (Evaporation condensation...) was known to the people of biblical times.
In verses 27 where it says so very clearly which was discovered after much scientific research ...here we see Elihu speaking about it while trying to tell JOb of his folly and reminding BEFORE WHOM IS HE STANDING BEFORE!!
Later in the last verse....we see that even cattle known when earthly calamitites occur befire they happen....which is known to occur and scientists have found that it is indeed true...
This is just what i found today and thought i wanted to share it !!
26 How great is God?beyond our understanding!
The number of his years is past finding out.
27 "He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams [c] ;
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
and abundant showers fall on mankind.
29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds,
how he thunders from his pavilion?
30 See how he scatters his lightning about him,
bathing the depths of the sea.
31 This is the way he governs [d] the nations
and provides food in abundance.
32 He fills his hands with lightning
and commands it to strike its mark.
33 His thunder announces the coming storm;
even the cattle make known its approach.
Here is where in the Bible we can see that the concept of WATER CYCLE (Evaporation condensation...) was known to the people of biblical times.
In verses 27 where it says so very clearly which was discovered after much scientific research ...here we see Elihu speaking about it while trying to tell JOb of his folly and reminding BEFORE WHOM IS HE STANDING BEFORE!!
Later in the last verse....we see that even cattle known when earthly calamitites occur befire they happen....which is known to occur and scientists have found that it is indeed true...
This is just what i found today and thought i wanted to share it !!
26 How great is God?beyond our understanding!
The number of his years is past finding out.
27 "He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams [c] ;
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
and abundant showers fall on mankind.
29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds,
how he thunders from his pavilion?
30 See how he scatters his lightning about him,
bathing the depths of the sea.
31 This is the way he governs [d] the nations
and provides food in abundance.
32 He fills his hands with lightning
and commands it to strike its mark.
33 His thunder announces the coming storm;
even the cattle make known its approach.
Friday, February 13, 2009
WE Crucified Christ bcoz of our Wretched Lives
Today in the morning of 13th Feb,2009.
I woke up a little before than usual so that I can spend some time with God.
I wanted to hear from him, so I switched on my phone to see if i got my daily verse.
So I believed that i would get it.
Couple of minuted later...there rings my phone and i got the message and it said.
"Beloved I pray that you may prosper in a ll things and be in health , just as your soul prospers. 3 John1:2
I prayed God and asked God "Would you show me your love a new this morning"
then God reminded me to see Isaiah 53
This started from a few verse before that is Isaiah 52:14
Just as many people who appalled at him-his appearance SO disfigured beyond that of ANY MAN and his form marred beyond human likeness.
See the words SO and ANY MAN...Bible doesnt lie that means He was disfigured than any other person YOU have ever seen in your life.
Then started to think
Would you leave the hand of your Dad if you know that he would die for you!!!
Wont you do anything possible from stop it from happening to save your Dad....to not see ur Dad dying!!
I was just thinking Wouldnt it be better if our foolish minds would have understand the Love God was tryin to pour out on us since the very beginning.
God had since the beginning trying to say the same thing of How much Love he has for us in his heart!!!
But our minds couldnt perceive it and he was ready to get on the cross just to make us understand that HE LOVES YOU!!!!
What would you do if you want your child to understand your Love for him...
Godtried to make our minds understand in many many ways..
But in the need he had to Give up his only Son Jesus Christ!!
I woke up a little before than usual so that I can spend some time with God.
I wanted to hear from him, so I switched on my phone to see if i got my daily verse.
So I believed that i would get it.
Couple of minuted later...there rings my phone and i got the message and it said.
"Beloved I pray that you may prosper in a ll things and be in health , just as your soul prospers. 3 John1:2
I prayed God and asked God "Would you show me your love a new this morning"
then God reminded me to see Isaiah 53
This started from a few verse before that is Isaiah 52:14
Just as many people who appalled at him-his appearance SO disfigured beyond that of ANY MAN and his form marred beyond human likeness.
See the words SO and ANY MAN...Bible doesnt lie that means He was disfigured than any other person YOU have ever seen in your life.
Then started to think
Would you leave the hand of your Dad if you know that he would die for you!!!
Wont you do anything possible from stop it from happening to save your Dad....to not see ur Dad dying!!
I was just thinking Wouldnt it be better if our foolish minds would have understand the Love God was tryin to pour out on us since the very beginning.
God had since the beginning trying to say the same thing of How much Love he has for us in his heart!!!
But our minds couldnt perceive it and he was ready to get on the cross just to make us understand that HE LOVES YOU!!!!
What would you do if you want your child to understand your Love for him...
Godtried to make our minds understand in many many ways..
But in the need he had to Give up his only Son Jesus Christ!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lost Child
Iam writing this because the grace of the Lord has shown me something i was not able to comprehend before!
From the past few days i was so away from the Lord but i dint realize that until God brought me much closer to make me realize how far i was....
I spent an entire day sinning....bluntly turning against God coz i knew what God wanted me to do but i was not able to !!
Just then my cell rang and there was a message....and i saw and it said...
Call to me and i will answer you , And i will tell you wondrous things, secrets you have not known. Jeremiah 33:3
I was shocked ...i was like..... God!!!!....iam trying to run away from you...YOU SHOULD BE SCOLDING ME IN THE WORST CASE!!
But i was like HOW COULD HE HAVE SAID THAT!!!
I knew how blunt i was trying face away from God and he said Call to me!!
Even though i was filled with so much negativity ....i just started praying...i dint feel like praying...i was ashamed and i dint want to face him!!
And here he was saying Call to me...and so i called and said
God i am so much away from you....my heart has become so hard i know ...for iam not able to feel your touch on my heart....
He told me to take out a book which i was reading..."HE CHOSE THE NAILS" by MAx Lucado..
THe moment i opened it....the title was saying ....I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU!!!
How can God say such a thing when i have been so unfaithful to him!!
There was a small story on that page..
"Madeline came back that night but not for long.
Joe(Madeline's father) never faulted her for leaving.After all, what its like being the daughter of a butcher?
In their last days together he tried so hard. He made her favourite dinner-she didn't want to eat. He invited her to a movie-she stayed in her room.
He bought her a new dress- she dint even say thank you.And there was that spring day he left work early to be at the house when she arrived home from school.
Wouldn't you know that was the day she never came home....."
The story was no doubt pointing to me for i was lost and running away from God and he said that He is trying so hard to be with me again.....
HE THE VERY GOD WHO CREATED EVERYTHING I EVER SAW....
Caringgggggggg.....sooooo much that he is desiring, he is desperate as the father in this story...
And then in the later part of the story....the girl who goes to live her own lifestyle gets ruined and then understands the Love that her father gave to her....But she was soo ashamed to go back...her father would send letters but she wouldn't open them...
But one day....she got a Note and it was personally handed by her father to the place where she was....
The girl was first shocked to know her own father gave her a note...
and this time when she saw the note....it said...
" I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE!!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DO, This Doesn't change the way i feeel.What I've said in each letter is still true."
Then she opened those letter she kept stacking up....and all the letters said the same thing...
"Will you come Home and dance with your poppa again??"
Saying this sentence is too hard....for how could one say that when he knows that his son is living a wayward life...
But God was asking me this...i couldn't stop crying...What am i Dad...iam not even worthy of calling you like that!!!
Then God told me to look at Luke 15:11-24
Asi started to read the Holy Spirit made me realize this
1) Jesus was telling this parable...
And the parable was about a Man and his two sons..Younger who is lost and Older who was with him..
So God is telling here about two types of people in this world..those who are faithful and those who aren't!!
But as you see in this parable God talks about the one who is lost than the one who is there with him!.
I was beginning to realize that this is the story of every person who ever existed !!!
Coz We all have sinned
and
we all have fallen short of his grace
and
we all got lost!!
So Jesus here was revealing to me his heart as i read the story ...
I realized that as God was telling this parable he was thinking of every person and many of them whom he loved enough to call him his sons...but they dint make the choice to make him their father.
I started to be filled with grief as i felt pain of God's heart as he told that story for he knew about all his children who are forever lost.
For he would have remembered all his children whom he showered his Love upon...
Just imagine if a mother lost her only son and you ask her how he got lost...
She would cry and wail and say how he was with her till the last moment and then got lost!..
These feelings are given by none but our God who feels the same way...he created everything...how we would feel is also same as how God would feel!!
The Love of God ....can be seen in a mother and father's love for their child.
And that's the reason God was very particular about honouring your parents...
Coz the relationship he designed between a parent and a child is a replica of the relationship between God and his Children!!
How heartbreaking is this sentence for the father when a son wishes his father to let him go away from him...as the story starts here saying
"Father, give me my share of the estate"
God made us for the very purpose to have fellowship with him ...that they can Love each other.
And when we choose to turn our face away from him....God cant stand it...his heart gets filled with pain.
God knows our future...and where we would end up!!! SO how difficult would it be for the father to LET GO OF HIS SON!!
For he knows that he designed him to be in his hand....but at the same time when his son doesn't wish ..so God is forced to honour the gift of freewill..
If we read the parable we can realize that ..
The thing which actually made him come to his senses as the verse says in
Luke 15:17
When he came to his senses,
he said ,'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here iam starving to death!'
He realized the LOVE OF HIS FATHER.....Was so much that even the servants lived at ease...
The World is cruel my dear friends...for it is not of God..It never knew him..
And its only the Love that God showed us on the cross that can truly save us from our every affliction...
No matter how much alone we think we are in our afflictions,trials temptations,addictions, ITS ALL A LIE....For we know we have a Father...
WHO IS SAYING TO US...
" I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE!!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DO, This Doesn't change the way i feeel.
"Will you come home to me again ...in arms....my dear child"
As we read in the parable that the son actually thought of asking his father to make him his servant...
But when he actually went there....
His Father on the very sight of him ....
as the verse says...
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he RAN to his son , threw his arms around him and kissed him.
and when the son said...
"Father I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son."
The moment he said this ...the father dint let him say another word....In this case the father was none but Jesus himself and the son is none but US!!
And since Jesus already knew what the son was going to say abt asking him to hire him as his servant.He dint even let him speak that sentence...for he was his SON!! and he COULD NOT BEAR THE THOUGHT OF THINKING HIM OF AS A SERVANT....though we don't even deserve to be treated as a servant of the Lord..!!
But it is written ....For the Father LAVISHED HIS LOVE UPON US!!
Oh....the Love of the Lord....is toooo good to not know about!
May God and our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit make each one of you who read this what he made me experience as he told me!!
If you have been touched by the Lord....Praise God for his Love.
If u dint..then why dont you CALL UPON HIM ...for he said HE WILL ANSWER!!
HE answered me and he will surely answer you!!
For the creator of the universes and much beyond is declaring this!!
From the past few days i was so away from the Lord but i dint realize that until God brought me much closer to make me realize how far i was....
I spent an entire day sinning....bluntly turning against God coz i knew what God wanted me to do but i was not able to !!
Just then my cell rang and there was a message....and i saw and it said...
Call to me and i will answer you , And i will tell you wondrous things, secrets you have not known. Jeremiah 33:3
I was shocked ...i was like..... God!!!!....iam trying to run away from you...YOU SHOULD BE SCOLDING ME IN THE WORST CASE!!
But i was like HOW COULD HE HAVE SAID THAT!!!
I knew how blunt i was trying face away from God and he said Call to me!!
Even though i was filled with so much negativity ....i just started praying...i dint feel like praying...i was ashamed and i dint want to face him!!
And here he was saying Call to me...and so i called and said
God i am so much away from you....my heart has become so hard i know ...for iam not able to feel your touch on my heart....
He told me to take out a book which i was reading..."HE CHOSE THE NAILS" by MAx Lucado..
THe moment i opened it....the title was saying ....I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU!!!
How can God say such a thing when i have been so unfaithful to him!!
There was a small story on that page..
"Madeline came back that night but not for long.
Joe(Madeline's father) never faulted her for leaving.After all, what its like being the daughter of a butcher?
In their last days together he tried so hard. He made her favourite dinner-she didn't want to eat. He invited her to a movie-she stayed in her room.
He bought her a new dress- she dint even say thank you.And there was that spring day he left work early to be at the house when she arrived home from school.
Wouldn't you know that was the day she never came home....."
The story was no doubt pointing to me for i was lost and running away from God and he said that He is trying so hard to be with me again.....
HE THE VERY GOD WHO CREATED EVERYTHING I EVER SAW....
Caringgggggggg.....sooooo much that he is desiring, he is desperate as the father in this story...
And then in the later part of the story....the girl who goes to live her own lifestyle gets ruined and then understands the Love that her father gave to her....But she was soo ashamed to go back...her father would send letters but she wouldn't open them...
But one day....she got a Note and it was personally handed by her father to the place where she was....
The girl was first shocked to know her own father gave her a note...
and this time when she saw the note....it said...
" I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE!!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DO, This Doesn't change the way i feeel.What I've said in each letter is still true."
Then she opened those letter she kept stacking up....and all the letters said the same thing...
"Will you come Home and dance with your poppa again??"
Saying this sentence is too hard....for how could one say that when he knows that his son is living a wayward life...
But God was asking me this...i couldn't stop crying...What am i Dad...iam not even worthy of calling you like that!!!
Then God told me to look at Luke 15:11-24
Asi started to read the Holy Spirit made me realize this
1) Jesus was telling this parable...
And the parable was about a Man and his two sons..Younger who is lost and Older who was with him..
So God is telling here about two types of people in this world..those who are faithful and those who aren't!!
But as you see in this parable God talks about the one who is lost than the one who is there with him!.
I was beginning to realize that this is the story of every person who ever existed !!!
Coz We all have sinned
and
we all have fallen short of his grace
and
we all got lost!!
So Jesus here was revealing to me his heart as i read the story ...
I realized that as God was telling this parable he was thinking of every person and many of them whom he loved enough to call him his sons...but they dint make the choice to make him their father.
I started to be filled with grief as i felt pain of God's heart as he told that story for he knew about all his children who are forever lost.
For he would have remembered all his children whom he showered his Love upon...
Just imagine if a mother lost her only son and you ask her how he got lost...
She would cry and wail and say how he was with her till the last moment and then got lost!..
These feelings are given by none but our God who feels the same way...he created everything...how we would feel is also same as how God would feel!!
The Love of God ....can be seen in a mother and father's love for their child.
And that's the reason God was very particular about honouring your parents...
Coz the relationship he designed between a parent and a child is a replica of the relationship between God and his Children!!
How heartbreaking is this sentence for the father when a son wishes his father to let him go away from him...as the story starts here saying
"Father, give me my share of the estate"
God made us for the very purpose to have fellowship with him ...that they can Love each other.
And when we choose to turn our face away from him....God cant stand it...his heart gets filled with pain.
God knows our future...and where we would end up!!! SO how difficult would it be for the father to LET GO OF HIS SON!!
For he knows that he designed him to be in his hand....but at the same time when his son doesn't wish ..so God is forced to honour the gift of freewill..
If we read the parable we can realize that ..
The thing which actually made him come to his senses as the verse says in
Luke 15:17
When he came to his senses,
he said ,'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here iam starving to death!'
He realized the LOVE OF HIS FATHER.....Was so much that even the servants lived at ease...
The World is cruel my dear friends...for it is not of God..It never knew him..
And its only the Love that God showed us on the cross that can truly save us from our every affliction...
No matter how much alone we think we are in our afflictions,trials temptations,addictions, ITS ALL A LIE....For we know we have a Father...
WHO IS SAYING TO US...
" I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE!!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DO, This Doesn't change the way i feeel.
"Will you come home to me again ...in arms....my dear child"
As we read in the parable that the son actually thought of asking his father to make him his servant...
But when he actually went there....
His Father on the very sight of him ....
as the verse says...
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he RAN to his son , threw his arms around him and kissed him.
and when the son said...
"Father I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son."
The moment he said this ...the father dint let him say another word....In this case the father was none but Jesus himself and the son is none but US!!
And since Jesus already knew what the son was going to say abt asking him to hire him as his servant.He dint even let him speak that sentence...for he was his SON!! and he COULD NOT BEAR THE THOUGHT OF THINKING HIM OF AS A SERVANT....though we don't even deserve to be treated as a servant of the Lord..!!
But it is written ....For the Father LAVISHED HIS LOVE UPON US!!
Oh....the Love of the Lord....is toooo good to not know about!
May God and our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit make each one of you who read this what he made me experience as he told me!!
If you have been touched by the Lord....Praise God for his Love.
If u dint..then why dont you CALL UPON HIM ...for he said HE WILL ANSWER!!
HE answered me and he will surely answer you!!
For the creator of the universes and much beyond is declaring this!!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
My Dad would never let me go
I just cant come to terms as to what JUST HAPPENED NOW....
Ive been so dragged away from the truth these days...even when i knew that there was no truth in any other things of my life but only that the devil fooled me!
I just was talking to God and just started to open and read all the Bible verses which came in my mail which i have been postponing from many days...
And one by one as i read God started to talk to me....He told me to Speak victory in his name for he has paid the price for MY FLAWS.
HE WENT UNDER THE CLAWS FOR MY FLAWS
Just then i opened youtube to watch a song which was on my lips all day long.. and it was O Praise him by David Crowder.
And later i started to watch
Everything Glorious(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeatwGBzo8&feature=related)
AS i was wacthing it ...i was actually depressed that i was not able to make any progress in my christian life inspite of the wonderful things God has been revealing to me and i asked him to help me.
As i got a little interest to read the verses in my inbox...and then when i watched the vedio....actually as i was listening to the vedio (not watching it)
i was reading some comments beneath the vedio...
But at the exact time in the vedio where a Mother was kissing her Child ....
Then in a moment i realised wait a min...God ur kissing me and smiling at me...
HOW COULD YOU..I could have not watched that scene ...i could have missesd that scene but God made me watch it at the exact time just just
JUST TO TELL ME HE STILL LOVES ME!!!!!!!!!
In the vedio they beautifully picturize with vedios of small kids playing around...
And not only this God also made me look at another song the moment he told me this he turned my head to the another song whose title was Never Let go!!!
Telling How He has and would and will Never Let go of me and the same thing which he expects of us and wants us to relaize once in for all that WE can never let go of HIm ....for in him is Life ....LIfe in all its fullness....in Abundance.
For his word says For i have come so that you may have life and Life in abundance.
Do we think that we realised the full extent of lives God has planned for us!!!!!!!!!
I realised from watching that vedio clip that .... Are we not all like that before God so small and not knowing about the Complexities of life ...but God Knows everything about us....
Our Health
Our Relationships
Our Finances
Our Past
Our Present
Our Future
And he has a planned a future more than we can ever imagine or think...which is waiting to be realised unless we learn the truth and continue in it daily.
May We Realise the Blessing God gave us Once in for all....HIs Son Jesus Christ.
Amen
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