Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you, today is from the book of Deuteronomy 28:12 ,“The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land, in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.”
From the above context we learn that God will open the heavens to pour out His blessings upon you. He will cause to rain upon your land and you will see greenery and prosperity in your life. God will bless all your work and everything you put your hand to.
This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, namely the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are placed here before the curses. God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy. It is his delight to bless. It is better that we should be drawn to what is good by a child-like hope of God’s favour, rather than we be frightened to it, by the fear of his wrath. The blessing is promised, upon certain condition that you need to diligently hearken to the voice of God. You need to keep up religion, the form and power of it, in your families and nation, and then the providence of God would prosper all your outward concerns.
To whom is the Lord promising these blessings. Many of you are longing for these promises to be fulfilled in your life. God will surely bless you as per his promise, mentioned in the above verse on one condition that you listen and obey the voice of the Lord. You need to obey the commandments of the Lord and above all you need to live according to your conscience.
The Lord shall open unto you, his good treasure. The Bible says, the Lord has his treasures of snow and of hail, and of wind, but here his good treasure, is his treasure of rain. He will send rain upon the just and the unjust to show his concern over you and help you to grow and multiply. That is God will open the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season; where his good treasure of rain is laid up, and bring it forth or, for the enriching of the land, or will open the windows thereof, and pour down the blessing; so that at the proper time, both in autumn and spring, for the one is called the former, and the other the latter rain; for watering it when sown, and the latter before harvest. With this blessing the Lord will bless you and your children.
You will thus, with a good harvest be able to pay back all your debts, and begin a new business. Your barns shall be plenty and vats shall overflow. God will bless all the work of your hand; especially in agriculture, for without the blessing of rain, all the labour of the farmers would be of no purpose: And when you become prosperous, you shall lend to many nations, or people , and you shall not borrow; The connection of these words, goes to say, that you will have sufficient corn and also left over, to supply or furnish other countries with corn. And that you will even trade your produce like millet, honey, oil, and balm with other nations. Thus you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God. Therefore may God help you to listen and obey the voice of the Lord God that you may inherit all the blessings mentioned in the above verse. God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord, teach us to listen and obey the voice of the Lord. Help us to achieve all the blessings mentioned in the verse. Give us the heart to walk according to the word of God. May we and our children inherit the blessings of God. Please provide former rain and latter rain in its season so that we may reap a good harvest. Lord if you prosper us we will surely lend to others and never borrow from others. Help us to eat and be satisfied and praise the name of God.
In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
Dearly Beloved, 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 Isaiah 58:8,” Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.”
From the above context, we learn that Your light will soon break forth like the early morning, and your healing will spring forth speedily. Your righteousness shall go before you and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. We need the Lord to be with us always so that we will have God’s hand of protection upon us. If God should be with us then we need to be worthy of God’s presence in us. In the Bible, we read about Joseph. He was a dreamer. Often he used to dream and discuss the dream with his father and brothers. His father loved him and made him a coat of many colors. So he was hated by his brothers. Joseph was sold by his brothers to the Egyptian traders. There in that strange land, he was left to suffer the consequences of life. … Joseph, the son of Jacob who was called Israel, was a slave in Egypt. He was purchased by Potiphar, a captain of the guard of Pharaoh… Potiphar appointed him as the headman and made him in charge of his household. But his wife falsely accused him and so he was thrown into prison. While imprisoned, Joseph interpreted the dreams of the Pharaoh’s butler and baker, also thrown into jail for offending their master.
Once Pharaoh had a dream. None of his men could interpret his dream. So he was very upset. Then the Butler reminded the Pharaoh about Joseph the dreamer. So the king asked his men to bring Joseph from the prison. Joseph was brought to the palace and the Pharaoh revealed his dreams, When the Pharaoh asked him to interpret his dream, Joseph prayed unto the Lord to help him interpret the dream. Therefore God was with him, and he told Pharaoh that there would be seven years of a good harvest. After the good harvest, there would be severe famine in the land of Egypt, for the next seven years. So he advised Pharaoh to store sufficient food grains for the people so that they will be able to face the famine wisely. Pharaoh was impressed by the revelation of Joseph. Pharaoh gave Joseph a position of power in Egypt because Joseph had correctly interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams. God gave Joseph the ability to interpret the .dream. As a result, Joseph became the vizier of Egypt, the prime minister, and was given a gold seal of authority after he interpreted the pharaoh’s dream. We thus see how Joseph’s life began to bloom in the land of strangers. A totally foreign country, but there God exalted Joseph because God was with him.
Like Joseph, I too had to face tough times in my life. Especially the death of my brother shattered our peace. I had greater responsibility to shoulder. So I know what it is to go through trials. Since I had experienced many sufferings in the past, I am able to comfort others. God did not leave me like that because I held on to God from my childhood days. I used to be with the Father in the church and help out in setting up the altar and do other petty errands offered to me in the church. Like Samuel, I grew up in the church. This helped me in the long run. God did not leave me like that. He helped me to spring forth speedily. Though my beginning was small as a car mechanic, later God helped me to start my own car business. There was a time when I had to stitch my torn shirt or go without a meal. But today, “I experience the Light break forth like the morning, And the righteousness of God go before me. For the glory of the Lord shall be my rear guard.” The Bible says. “A faithful man abounds with blessings.” The Lord has blessed me abundantly.
The Lord has enabled me to start a prayer tower not only in Chennai but in Mumbai, and Nagercoil. God does wonders beyond numbers. He will do the same for you also in your life. Maybe at the moment you are struggling in your life. You are asking, when will good days come in my life? When will I see my children do well in life? Will God open a way for us? The Bible says, Your hope will not be lost. Surely there is a hereafter. No harm shall befall you. All will be well with you and your children if you will only make Jesus the Master of your life. The Bible says the generation of the upright will be blessed. And unto the upright, there arises light in the darkness. When you give your priority to the Lord Jesus Christ, then everything will fall in its place. God Bless You.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord help us to realize that God will help us see better days in our life. The Lord will be our rear guard. His righteousness will go before us. Healing will spring forth speedily. And let the Light of God go forth like the morning. Thank You for the hope we have in You, O LORD.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
Dearly Beloved, 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 Zechariah 9:12,”Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope. Even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.”
From the above context we learn that if you return to the Lord even during times of trials and affliction, instead of backsliding, God will change the situation, for your own good and help you to receive a double portion of blessing. God promises to bless you with a double portion of blessing today itself and he will not postpone it for tomorrow. God loves you and cares for you. He will give you a double portion of blessing. The Bible says, Job prayed for his friends and so the Lord heard his prayer and blessed the latter part of his life. God blessed Job and the Lord restored his fortunes, and gave him twice as much as he had before. The Lord restored double, of what he initially had. Just as God blessed Job he wants to bless you also as He is not a God of partiality. God knows that every good gift and perfect comes from above, and comes down from the father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shadow of turning.
The first part of Job’s life was tremendous. The Bible tells that the friendly counsel of God was over his tent. The Almighty God was with him. When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me; When my steps were bathed with cream, And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me! This describes the wealth and the sophisticated life that Job lived in the past days. The oil from heaven came down like a river of blessing upon him. His children used to sit around him. His servants respected him. They would bow before him. Job was so wealthy that he bathed in ghee. It was a costly affair. But when he was going through troubles he was disrespected by his servants. His friends made fun of him. They thought he must have made some secret sins before God. And therefore He was being punished by God. Though he was a righteous man before God, testing came to ruin his life. Problems came, he had trials, unbearable. His pain was beyond expression. His body was filled with boils. He had lost his ten beautiful children and all his wealth and cattle. Yet he did not sin by his lips. Neither did he black slide or curse God or blame Him for all the afflictions he was going through.
Even his wife was very unhappy about Job. She said. “Do you still hold to your integrity? Curse God and die.”But job said to her, You speak as one of the foolish woman speaks. Shall we indeed accept, good from God, and shall we not, accept adversity. In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”If Job had back slidden like his wife he would not have been blessed with a double portion of blessing. Therefore children of God, in case you have lost hope in God, or you have backslidden from God, it is high time you return back to God. Ask God for His forgiveness. Then God will bless you. When God permits certain trials, never talk ill about God. This is how he was able to console his wife who had lost all her children. She too was going through depression but she lost her faith in God. The Lord is saying, may be you too like Job may be going through some kind of affliction, but you must always remember that good days are ahead of you. After all the bad days are gone, good days will surely come to those of you who are reading this message, and who patiently endure troubles without murmuring. So endure trials patiently. The trials that you are going through are permitted to you by God, so that you will draw near to God. And those trials are never to destroy you because God does not want anyone to perish but that all should be saved.
Some of you are saying God did not give me a job then why should I go to church. God has not done any good thing for me, then why should I go to church or read the Bible or even pray to God. Doesn’t God know my problems? I tell you God has kept you alive isn’t that a great blessing. Today there is no guarantee for someone, who goes outside that he will return safely, such is the time we are going through. Many parents are worried over such children who are back slidden and refuse to go to church or enjoy spiritual fellowship with God. Such children are a burden to parents. They provoke their parents for no reason. They should learn to wait at the feet of the lord, for the appointed time. Turn from their wicked ways and return back to God. Rather than make vain arguments, and provoke God Himself by their foolish remarks about God. May the Lord be merciful to such people and help them to humble themselves before God. Never go to church to gain some benefit from God, rather go to worship the Lord. God knows when He should bless you. God will never leave you as orphans. The Lord who feeds the ravens will also feed you and satisfy your longing souls. Honour the Lord for Who He is and glorify his name. Magnify his name, and then the Lord will be merciful to you and bless you with a double portion of blessing. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Father God, we thank you for telling us to bear our afflictions patiently. Teach us never to grumble or provoke God, when we go through trials. Give us the strength to endure our sufferings. We need your blessings. Without You we cannot do anything. Help us with double portion of blessing that we may do well in our life.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; For He who promised is faithful.”
From the above context we see how the Lord keeps his promise. We learn that if God has given you a promise then He will surely fulfil His Promise, because He who has promised is faithful. Therefore we need to confess our hope in God without wavering. Firstly we need to believe with all of our heart that our God keeps His promise. He might take many years to fulfil His promise. You need to wait until it takes place in your life. You should not speak negatively about your life. This shows that you are doubting His power. We need to confess our faith and trust in God. There should be no negative thoughts or negative talks, from your mouth. You need to be strong and adamant in your faith.
Some of you reading this message may have the habit of always speaking negatively about yourself. Will I ever be fine in my life. Will I ever get married ? Is it possible for me to go abroad? Will I be able to conceive and get a child ? Will I ever rise up in my life? Will I secure a Government job? Always doubting about yourself. God doesn’t like murmuring and doubting. The Bible says a double minded man is uncertain in everything. So get rid of negative thoughts and speak always words of faith.
When the angel of God appeared before Mary the virgin, she listened to the word of God and believed in her heart that the promise of God would be fulfilled in her life. She readily accepted the word of God. She did not doubt or question the angel of God. But confirmed how it was possible when she knew no man. When the angel told her that the Holy Spirit Of God will come upon her and the power of the Highest will over shadow her, she just believed. And prepared herself to receive the promise and the baby Jesus in her womb that was to be born. This is the kind of faith that God expects from each one of you. So the promise was fulfilled at the appointed time.
Therefore God honoured Mary the mother of Jesus. Her cousin Elizabeth said, unto her, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”Blessed is she who believed. For there will be a fulfilment of those things which were told her from the Lord. God had a vision for this young virgin. And God fulfilled the vision at the appointed time. No one could obstruct the vision of God from being fulfilled. Joseph the husband of Mary being a just man, not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away, but the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ”So even he couldn’t arrest or prevent the vision of God that was to happen in Mary’s life.
The Bible says, “Not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord, had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.” If so, did you ever realize what is God’s vision for you in your life? What does God want to do for you, in your education. In your business? In your family life? Do you have any goal in your life? Do you believe that God is operating His plan for the wellbeing of your life. Therefore as children of God, Hold fast the confession of your hope without wavering, For He who promised is faithful. God has given you many promises as he had given to the people of Israel. And just as God fulfilled all the promises he had given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob God will fulfil His plan and His vision in your life also. Just put your trust in the Lord, for the Bible says, they that trust in the Lord shall prosper. You will prosper provided you trust in the Living God. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for the vision you have for each one of us. Help us to find out the vision that you have purposed in our life and work towards it. Teach us to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. May we place our trust in God completely, like Mary. Enable us to think and talk positively, that we may do well in life.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
Dearly Beloved, 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 Psalm 91:15, “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honour him.”
From this context we see how God intervenes and rescues us when we are in trouble. But we need to call upon the name of the Lord. Then God will be with us and honour us. A man who makes God his refuge, will feel assured, that God will interpose and save him from all his troubles. The Psalmist had great confidence in God at all times. He had an unwavering belief, that God is a hearer of prayer. When poverty and wretchedness is felt by us, then we plead to God for His mercy. I know of a brother who came to our “Anbarin Pathaathil Oru Naal”, sometime back and gave his testimony saying that through the message God spoke to him when Brother prophesied, “God is going to waver your debts or the creditor will come and make peace with you. Therefore don’t get worried go in peace.” That Brother was touched by the prophesy of God. He went home believing in the word of God, that was spoken to him through the message.
That brother couldn’t sleep peacefully because he was scared that the creditor will cause trouble to him next morning. So he called out to the name of God. “Jesus, Jesus.” This brother had come to our meeting for the first time. He did not know how to pray. All he knew was to call on the name of Jesus. To his surprise the lord appeared before him and asked him “Why did you call Me? What is your problem? He said”, My body is paining and I suffer from several problems. So heal my body. Then he said, I am afraid of the creditor, he is pressurizing me to repay the amount immediately.” The Lord replied to him saying , “The pain from your body will be healed. And the creditor will not trouble you any further, but he will speak peace with you, So don’t worry.” Saying this Lord disappeared. The next morning the creditor came as that brother had expected. He said, to that brother, “Don’t worry, you can pay back the money you have borrowed, leisurely when you have sufficient money to pay back.”That brother was surprised to hear the creditor speak like that. He remembered how Jesus appeared the previous night and told him that the creditor will come and make peace with him. He was saved by the Lord. Because he found mercy from God. He couldn’t believe his eyes. From that day onwards he began to attend out Fast and Prayer Meeting “Anbarin Padathil Oru Naal” regularly. He called on the name of the Lord and so he was blessed.
2ooo years ago, while Jesus lived on the face of this earth. Jesus was leaving Jericho, followed by a large crowd, of people, on his way to Jerusalem, when he came across a blind beggar called Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus called out to Jesus saying , “Jesus, Son of David. Take pity on me!” since there was no response, he called out more loudly. Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” The disciples warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, “Be of good cheer. Rise, Jesus is calling you.” And throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus. So Jesus answered and said to him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” The blind man said to Jesus Rabboni, help me receive my sight.”Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.
What are the troubles that you are facing today? Are you going through depression? Is it because of financial difficulty? Are you suffering from some kind of acute disease? Do you have fear about the future of your children? Are you afraid of the third wave of Corona that is about to attack small children? What is your problem? Are you afraid of the money lender, to whom you have to repay the money? Is he threatening you daily? Do you have a boil in your body and you think it might be cancer. Call on the name of Jesus, like Bartimaeus, God will answer you and solve all your problems. God says, ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ David says in his psalm, “ “In the day of trouble I will call upon You. You will answer me.” God further says, Call upon me in times of trouble; I will rescue you, and you shall glorify me. He is a God of promise. Therefore when you go through trouble call upon the name of the Lord. He will answer you and you shall be blessed. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Father we thank You for telling us through this message that we need to call upon the name of the Lord when we go through trouble. Thank You for all Your promises, that assure us that when we call on the name of the Lord, God will answer us. Help us Lord to have total confidence in You.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
