Able God

This morning I had a wonderful revelation. I didn’t want to delay and miss any of d points, so m typing it down immediately….

Daniel 3rd chapter…..
we know that it talks about a mighty act of God….we have been hearing about it even before our schooling and its d favorite story to most of us…..
But I missed to notice two key points of the chapter and one from Daniel chapter 1…

1. I often focused on “God saves” and “if He doesn’t”…. (from Dan 3:17-18)
So it kinda became to me like, “God can save us or He may not save us”, in everything…i started to doubt every aspect of my life. Every situation in life I doubted “will He…. or not??”….
but I missed the key point…..
Dan 3:17 – If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is ableto deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand.
Dan 3:18 – But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
This morning when I was reading this I realized something and reread it again and again, from the 17th verse – the God we serve is ABLE
He is able to deliver us…..
and the 18th verse can be put in simple words “no matter what, we won’t bow or worship ur gods/idols”….
haha suddenly my thought pattern changed….
MEET THE ABLE GOD
He is able to deliver us from all evil…
Any sort of circumstances, any amount of fiery furnaces and lions dens….and no matter what, we serve Him and Him alone….coz Our God is Able……Amen….

2. Second one sounds regular but it’s the most important one….
when we take a stand for the Lord, we not only make God happy, but we will glorify His name and others will see His glory and praise His name…
Read Daniel 3:19-30….
after Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego say to the king that they won’t bow before his golden idol, the king becomes furious…He orders the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual…he commands strongest men to tie these three fellows and throw them into furnace….coz furnace was so hot, even the men who went there to throw these three into it, got burnt and died…..but the king gets his surprise of his life…..he sees four men, instead of three in the furnace. He realizes that the fourth one is an Angel (sons of God) and he also notices that non of them are harmed, not even their clothes are burnt…..
immediately he approaches the mouth of the furnace and calls “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”….
and in 28th and 29th verses
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. 29 Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.”
Glory be to God

3. we all know this scripture portion-
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one…… 1 Cor 8:4
But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled….. 1 Cor 8:7 >
So by this scripture portion we understand that we have to keep our conscience clear that there is only one God and idol is nothing at all and we can eat the food offered to idols…….
But this morning I realize that God likes us to be like
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah who did not defile their bodies by eating foreign food (read Daniel 1:5-14)…
why didn’t they eat kings food?? Some say they are vegetarians/ vegans…. some say that kings food had high cholesterol stuff (u knw, u can imagine) and doesn’t go with the laws given in Deuteronomy….etc……..
yet it is also logical to think that may be the food is sacrificed/ offered to some idol…..
O I am not trying to contradict what Paul says. But certainly Paul did not say, “be with idolatrous and eat whatever they offer to their idols”…. what he said is absolutely right….we can eat such food coz idol is nothing at all in the world…… but do it when there is an absolute necessity…. say for example when you are starving and there is no other go than to eat such food… etc etc, u can relate to….but when there is a choice, u better avoid because certainly God likes us to be like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah
Read the portions after Danial 1:14…. The chief will test them for ten days and sees that they are very well built than those who ate kings food and drank wine…..God blessed them with all kinds of knowledge…..
and King notices that “In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. Dan 1:20″

God bless you…in Jesus’ name, Amen….

Judgmental, are we??

We tend to get judgmental as soon as we get into ministry….instead of understanding d situation and solving it, we start pointing out….. and many a times we tend to point out mistakes in other ministries……………………
Jesus said in Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God………
how can we be peacemakers wen we ourselves lack d sense of peace and spirit of understanding….
(no offense to anyone, nor focusing on any particular group…sorry if u feel so)

discussion::: can you differentiate between LOVE and LUST??

lets talk something straight forward…..
world has changed so much….sex became easy….having a partner became a prestigious issue….virgins are looked down upon….eventually one of the greatest curiosities in marriage is lost………
media and literature are taken as model………………………………………………………..
so in these situational days, can you Differentiate Love from Lust???
anyone up for a discussion??

a simple exercise to put your faith into action

‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.”

in other words, “IF YOU CAN BELIEVE, everything is possible” Mark 9:23…and the next verse we can see the man saying that he believes and asks Jesus to help…and there comes the help……….

God can not do wonders in your life unless you believe that He can and He will...it is easy to say u have faith when things are going d way u want them to…but when things start to go wrong, our faith weavers….
let me put it this way – “if u can still retain faith in those situations too, that means u really have faith”…..that’s why the Bible says that trials and tribulations are TESTS FOR YOUR FAITH….they are to make you strong and God will not allow them in an amount that is more than u can bear…. (1 Corinthians 10:13)

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have u tried this exercise?? it helped me….

firstly…remember this……faith will start working when u are able to picturise yourself according to God’s promise….if God says He will make a way, you should be able to picturise Him making a way in your stuck up life…If the promise says “by His stripes you are healed”, you should be able to picturise yourself being healed by Him…..if u are not able to picturise, that simply means u r not able to trust d verse completely…thats why u have to meditate it day and night, keep saying d verse all d time so that it will embed into your system and gives u so much faith that u r able to picturise God literally making a way……then that will come to pass……

secondly….. “….call those thing which be not as though they were.”Roman 4:17 (Read the full passage of Roman 4 and entire 17th verse to understand better)…. What does it mean to call thing that be not as though they were?
1.   Speaking positive thing in your life.
2.   Believe what you speak.
3.    Trust in God.

Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland………
(you do the 18th verse and God will do the 19th….exercise this from today along with me, shall v, let’s see the new thing God is going to do in our lives…..)

Meet India’s first trans gender pastor…

Shunned and traumatized as a youngster, 25-year-old Bharathi now preaches to a congregation of 45 respectful parishioners, including 14 families, as India’s first transgender pastor.

Bharathi, who completed her bachelor’s degree in theology last April, has been a pastor at the Evangelical Church of India (ECI) branch in Chengalpattu, on the outskirts of Chennai, for the past eight months.

The path breaking move by the ECI, which has more than 100,000 followers across India, coincides with evangelical denominations in other countries, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, deciding to allow transgenders as pastors.

‘Acceptance was a dream’

Raised as a boy and taunted at school, India’s first trans gender pastor Bharathi is now called to preside over baby showers and christenings, though conducting weddings is sometime away. Bharathi conducts service in Tamil and English every Sunday, “administers communion” to her parishioners, and is training another trans gender to become a pastor. She says her parishioners’ acceptance of her has touched her deeply.

“I have conducted two baby showers for families and even named a child. Though I do not have a licence to conduct a wedding, a parishioner printed my name on his wedding invitation,” says Bharathi.

Bharathi says such societal acceptance was once just a dream for her and continues to be a dream for thousands of transgenders across the country. “I have formed a team to work with me among transgenders in Chengalpattu, to bring them into the church and help them stay out of trouble,” she says.

Bharathi, whose family assumed she was a boy at birth, says she had had a harrowing childhood. “I was very feminine and my classmates and neighbours would make fun of me. I became a loner and could not even complete Class 12,” she says.

When Bharathi was 10, she says an “angel” entered their home. “A sister at a church near our home took pity on me and took me in,” she says. The church soon became Bharathi’s home and she decided to embrace Christianity at the age of twelve. “I started reading the Bible and praying in church every day. I converted when I was 12 and was baptized a few years later in 2000.”

“Society generally ostracizes the trans gender community, but Bharathi has an opportunity to preach to an entire community. It is something everybody is proud of,” says Devi, a trans gender who has adopted Bharathi as her daughter.

Bharathi, who left home more than seven years ago, visited her family two months ago. “I had resolved to return to my family only after reaching a position of repute. When I returned, my parents were proud of me.”

A sister at a church near my home took pity on me and took me in. I started reading the Bible and praying in church every day. I converted when I was 12 and was baptized a few years later in 2000.

 

courtesy: Anesh Hope Mission and Soldiers of Jesus

peace trumps happiness….

all these days of my job search, i was happy…in fact most happy than ever…but i could not sleep in the nights…so many disturbing thoughts and mental pressures…..that is when i understood the big difference between happiness and peace……peace trumps happiness………Jesus says,

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:27)

respect the marriage

when u think u r ready to divorce and get married to another person, then u should realize that u do not know the meaning of marriage and u don’t respect wedding vows, no matter what…..