Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of Hebrews 11:7, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
In this passage from the Bible, we see how by faith Noah being divinely warned by God saved his family. Enoch was the great grandfather of Noah. We can see that the same faith found in Enoch was also found in Noah. We read that this Noah also walked with God (Genesis 6:9). He saved his family from the floods as he heeded God’s warning about it. He did not question or argue with God about His instructions for building the ark but fully trusted Him and built the ark. (Genesis 6:9-22).
And because Noah implicitly obeyed God, his family was saved, and Noah was found to be righteous and integrous in the eyes of God. Even in our life many times we receive warning from God. Perhaps you might have ignored them and therefore faced many struggles. When we pay heed to the warning that God gives us, and trust in His word, our family will be protected.
I am well acquainted with Dr Arivazhagan from Madurai. He has two children. His son had completed MBBS, while his daughter was studying MBBS. Dr Arivazhagan had written a letter to me saying, “Please pray that my son secures a seat for MD. I cannot pay two crores for an MD seat. Only God should pave the way for his admission. After I prayed, I sent him this reply, “Make a faith confession that God has granted the MD seat for your son. Similarly, the doctor and his son made the faith confessions.
Days passed and I received another letter from him. God had enabled his son to get a seat in CMC Vellore without any capitation fees. Hallelujah! It is very difficult to secure a seat at CMC Vellore for MD by merit. But when the doctor’s son wrote the entrance exam for the MD exam, God’s wisdom was revealed. When you believe the same miracle can take place in your family as well. Do not be worried!
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you for always helping us in our times of trouble. Increase our faith in you so that we can trust you at all times and receive miracles in our lives. Be with us and guide us.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
Dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of 2 Samuel 22:31, ‘He is a shield to all those who trust in Him. ”
The Lord is a shield to all who trust in Him. Many children have endured losses. You are thinking, ‘What is this life full of pain and agony? . You are weary and frustrated. The devil is shooting arrows in many children’s lives. That is harming your body, mind and life. The reason is because you don’t have a shield. There is no shield to shoot down the arrows of the devil. The witchcraft that some do, against us penetrates into us like an arrow and is shattering our lives. The reason is the absence of the shield. Many deadly diseases are coming towards us. It is penetrating into us and is bringing losses, struggles, sufferings and financial crisis. The reason is the absence of the shield. So, why is the shield necessary? Arrows will come towards us, but we need a shield to stop all those arrows aimed at us. If we have a worldly shield, we can stop it to a certain level, but if the Lord himself is a shield to us, He will stop everything and protect us from all harm and danger.
If you are given a shield, you will be able to stop only the arrows that are shot at you. However, we do not know how the devil will spread a trap for us. Only the Lord who can look over us in all directions can be our real shield. That is why the Lord is telling that He will be a shied to all who trust in Him. If the Lord is our shield, He will be the security around us. The Bible says, that the Lord will dwell in the midst, like the wall of fire. He will protect you from all harm. But the Lord is not a one-way shield; He is an all-rounded shield. So trust in Him. Don’t put your trust in worldly things like money or material or a person, but in the Lord. None other than the Lord can be our protection and shield. So, trust in the Lord and ask Him to be your shield. He will raise a wall of fire around you and will dwell in your midst and will perform miracles for you.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! From this day change all the situations that cause pain to some children and give them divine deliverance and peace. I pray that You alone will be the shield for your children. Let them trust in You rather than anything that is worldly. Let them say, ‘The Lord is a shield to me’ He is a shield to me and my family’. May You be their shield and protection. Save them from all disaster. May they be safe and secure as You are the shield to them.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen!
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of “ Psalm 23:6, ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. ”
‘All the days of my life’ means as long as you live, goodness and mercy shall follow you. The Psalmist speaks about himself, so he refers as, ‘Me’. Today the Lord is giving you this word and blessing you. As long as you live, goodness and mercy will follow you. All these days, poverty might have followed you. Debts would have followed you for many years and ruined your peace. As you experienced many failures, you would have faced failures one after the other. Losses might have followed you. But what will happen from today onwards? Goodness and mercy will follow you. Goodness will follow you instead of the days when evil followed you. Many good events are going to take place in your family. Many auspicious events will take place.
Two thousand years ago, Lord Jesus who went about doing good to all on the earth has come into your house today, to do good for you. The Lord is telling that goodness and mercy will follow you. The Lord is bringing double blessings of goodness and mercy into your homes. The reason that the Lord is bringing mercy along with goodness is that there may be some obstacles or the defiling of holiness in certain places that have stopped good things from happening.
Although there may be situations that will not allow you to receive goodness, the Lord will grant you that goodness based on His mercy and grace. In the Bible, Job said,’ Evil came to me who was waiting for good’. Evil might have happened to you, though you were waiting for good to happen. However, the Lord is telling that grace will surround you so that, that evil will turn around into good. So today, the assurance to all of you is that the Lord will qualify you for the job you are not qualified for. Some say, ‘I am not qualified for such a great post’. I do not have previous experience. Just think about David. What previous experience did, David have with a royal life. Is there any relation between being a shepherd and a king? It was God’s grace! So David wrote this psalm, ‘Goodness and mercy will follow me’. This grace and mercy caused him to be seated among kings. Today, this grace will make you to be seated among kings and princes. Instead of the evil days, that you had experienced, with debts, and with all the losses that followed you, the Lord who has compassion on you is telling that goodness and good events will follow you. He will do as He has promised you. So you can expect miracles to happen in your life in the near future. But you need to depend on the Lord with all your heart and mind.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! All these days, some of them have been experiencing evil, debts, losses and struggles. Let goodness and mercy follow them for the years they had faced evil and let all that they have lost be restored to them. Bless them that their cup might overflow. Let them experience overflowing blessings in their life.
In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of “ John 15:5, ‘He who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit. ”
This is the experience of being established in the Lord. The Lord will surely be established in us. You need not have any doubt about it. But are we really established in the Lord? That is the question. The auspicious word is that we must abide in the Lord, and He in us. Our fruitful life does not alone depend on one’s efforts. You need the Lord’s help and your effort as well. A man can bear fruits only with his hard work and the help of the Lord. Both you and the Lord must go together if you need success in your life. Only then you can bear fruit. Today, many children, instead of bearing good fruits, are ruining themselves. And therefore they face a lot of shame and failure because of this. They face torment. They may be caught in many cases. But if you are established in the Lord, God will not allow you to be caught in any case. The Lord will make you escape from there wisely. The devil will deceive us when we are not established in the Lord, but if the Lord is near us, the devil cannot come near us.
In the Bible we read about Job. He was a righteous man and feared the Lord. The devil could not make him fail, because he was established in the Lord. Though he lost everything, he did not lose his righteousness. He preserved it. You must also be established in the Lord at any situation. Trials will come, but you must be established in the Lord. Do you know why the Lord is giving the auspicious word every day? It is for you to be strengthened. It is for you to bear a lot of good fruits. The words you hear every day must bring changes in your life. So, in who are you established? What are you established in? Put a question and check yourself on this. The reason for failure and shame for some is that they are rooted in their own understanding. The Bible says, ‘Israel fell because of its own understanding’. They did not consider the counsel of God. Only if the counsel of God is established in Him, then that person is established in the Lord. Some are established in their own understanding, some take the advice of their friends. The Bible says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. You can bear fruits only if you are established in the Lord. Then you will grow and all that pertains to you will yield great fruits.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! On this day, help your children to make a good, decision, that is to be established in the Lord and bear good fruits. In the past, they would have made their own decisions out of their own understanding and would have failed. If they have been caught in debts, in legal cases, please deliver them. Help them to be established in the Lord, in Your word and bear good fruits.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen!
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the name of our Creator, Maker, and ever unforgettable Lord Jesus Christ. The Blessed word that the Lord has given for you today is from the book of Psalms 37:4, 5, “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your ways unto the Lord trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass. ”
From the above context we see that God expects us to trust in Him. God wants us to commit our ways unto the Lord. Then all our desires will be fulfilled. Many of you who are reading this message are hurt in your mind that things are not working as you expected. Though you received many promises only a few were fulfilled. You are still waiting for the rest to happen. As a result your heart is troubled. The Lord never rejects the desires of your heart. He hears your prayers and answers them when you are badly in need of the blessing. He gives you, what you request when you are capable of receiving it. God knows when the desire of your heart should be fulfilled. In case He answers your request immediately then you may disregard the blessing that is granted to you at an earlier period. The Lord does not want you to lose the blessings that He gives you, just as Esau lost the blessings from his father by giving away his birth right to his brother Jacob for a bowl of porridge just to fill his hunger.
Never say that God is bad just because God had not answered to your prayers. The Lord is good, so He waits for the right time to answer your prayers.
He is longing to bless you. The Bible says, it pleased the Lord to bless Israel. Yes You are His beloved children. You are Israel. The Psalmist says, The Lord will fulfil the desire of those who fear Him. He also will hear their cry and save them.” That is the nature of God. The Lord may not give it to you as you are not, matured enough to receive that blessing for which you desire or pray for. When God finds you fit for receiving the blessing and you will be able to handle it carefully then the Lord will grant you, your petition. You may be of age but you may not have the experience, to handle the situation. God sees if you are broadminded and matured enough to handle hard situation that might arise when you receive the blessing.
So all you need to do is to ask the Lord to grant you the maturity to receive the blessing. Secondly ask God to give you the grace to preserve the blessings that God gives to you. The Bible says, the blessings of the Lord rests upon the head of the righteous. You need to be righteous to receive God’s blessing. You cannot be unrighteous and claim for God’ blessing. Thirdly ask God to forgive you of all your sins. And give up all those things that do not please God. Finally ask God to prepare your heart to accept what God gives you and use it wisely and carefully. So you got to uproot your past sinful nature and become perfect, holy and righteous before this Holy God in order for God to bless you with the desires of your heart. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we are glad to realize that you wait for us, to get matured in order that we may receive the Blessings. Thank you Lord for instructing us to be righteous. also perfect in our behaviour. Make us holy for we ourselves cannot become holy. Let the Holy Spirit cleanse us thoroughly and make us fit to receive the desires of the heart.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
