Falling in love with you

 

Father teach me to love you more

To love you more when I am happy and sore

There is fullness of joy in your presence

In my high or low, you are my only essence

 

You loved me with the love unending

Placed me in a family that seeks your ascending

Touched by your grace, moved by your compassion

I learnt your way in my life in this church of Passion

 

Evangelists, intercessors and worshippers were among them

Everyone in Christ, they sound like a beautiful rhythm

Standing in the gap, preaching your gospel

Worshipping you, each one being a true disciple

 

Desperate I get, to be a part of any team

It goes far beyond, to the other side of the stream

Longing to do your will I ran a blind race

Without noticing your guidance and your loving grace

 

Tried to sing, tried to play music in your name

Failure in every attempt, thus turned away in shame

“You are blessed to work as an individual”, said my sister

Confused about your will I started writing this tongue twister

 

Inferiority kicks in and laziness adds up

Gave way to the enemy for the sadness to stirrup

What am I doing, why am I doing

Who is it for, it’s a complete ruin

 

While struggling in desperation I heard your still voice

Don’t you want to love me without all these and rejoice?

Realization hits like a mighty storm in the sea

Desiring what is seen and heard, is not my cup of tea

 

Lord, I will be what and however you want me to be

If you want me to be this, then this is what I will be

Least of all your servants, I’m the donkey who carries you therein

Ready to work hardest, yet not I am, but your grace that is within

 

True worship is not about music and songs

Intercession is not a fairy language of the monks

Evangelism is neither an ability nor talent of gongs

It’s all about the intimacy with you and to you I belong

 

Father teach me to fall in love with you forever

To trust and obey you in every endeavour

There is fullness of joy in your presence

In my high or low, you are my only essence

 

 

What I am is because of my Potter

What I am is because of my Potter
                                                            -Vicas Charlie Sundar

Not frustrated, nor deprived

Not fed up, never gave up

.

My dad was on the hospital bed

My mom’s eyes turned crimson red

Middle in the ocean all alone

Waiting for the storm to come along

.

My papers get rejected

Professor calls my work dejected

Heart cries continually in pain

That was the year of no minimal gain

.

Oh happily driving to Christmas celebration

Suddenly comes a bike without any calibration

Hitting the break to save a life, I did

Slept on the road with my broken grid

.

Puppy my brother my friend and my equal

His life came to an end like an ugly sequel

Good comes to bad, bad comes to good

You will never know what you should

.

Oh what a wonderful, wonderful day

Three years of waiting and here it was today

My results have come like a humbling proclaim

Only to say that it was a total decline

.

Very frustrated, Very deprived

Totally fed up, completely gave up

.

Yet soon I realized that it doesn’t matter

As long as I am in the hands of the potter

Human brain can’t comprehend what’s going on

But He reminds me that He is with me all along

.

Dad rose up like an eagle after a big storm

Mom is all happy and completely calm

My broken bones were grafted stronger than Adamantium

Puppy lived to the fullest and now in Elysium

.

He fought the battles for me even for my small living room

Why wouldn’t He give me the victory over the doom?

I shall wait upon His promises, very calm in the calamity

I boast on my weakness, marching without the negativity

.

Pastor, Kee, Kar, Pet, Spa and Paul

I thank each one of you all

God used you to teach me what is His way

With the tongues beyond the upper room, come let us pray

.

Hard pressed, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despair;

Persecuted, not abandoned; Struck down, but not beyond repair

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus

So that the life of Christ may also be revealed in us

.

Not frustrated, nor deprived

Not fed up, never gave up

I am what I am and what I am is because of my Potter

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

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 able

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 members of our own church, we think what we know is the only truth, what we believe in is always right and what others know/believe is inconsiderate….

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)

__________________________

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)