My Dear Brother And Sister 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“Job 1:21″ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
My Dear Brother And Sister, from the above context we learn that Job was a spiritual man who trusted God. He was a prayerful man, who kept his seven sons and three daughters covered by prayer, appealing to the Lord for their spiritual well-being. He was a wise man who had been blessed by God in many ways, and he was a pillar of spiritual piety among his peers, but Job was unaware of the spiritual battle that was raging in heavenly places. Although he knew God as Creator and worshipped Him with reverent fear, Job did not know that the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, was using him to challenge God’s sovereign authority. The Lord had referred to Job as, “My servant,” and said of him, “there is no one on earth like unto him.” The result of Satan’s dialogue with the Lord, and his evil accusations against Job, allowed the Lord to permit the devil to test Job’s loyalty to God and his faith in his Creator, Whom he served with reverent fear.
My Dear Brother And Sister, Multiple disasters befell the stricken man, including the death of his ten children and the loss of his entire material assets. His many possessions and dearly loved offspring were all snatched from Job in one day – but this godly man did not curse the Lord, despite his broken-hearted grief. He tore his mantle in anguish of heart, shaved his head, as a sign of mourning. Although he was troubled at heart, yet he fell on the ground in order to worship the Lord, and cried out, saying, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Satan had wagered that Job would curse God when such intense disasters befell him, but Job recognised that everything he had was a gift from the Lord, and acknowledged that God retains the right to bestow blessings and remove them. He acknowledged that God is equally justified in permitting evil to overtake his servants as well as good. This grief-stricken man understood that all he had was from the Lord, and the loss of his estate and dearly loved children did not negate the goodness of God.
My Dear Brother And Sister, Job had long understood that we are born into this world with nothing, and that when we die, we leave this world equally empty-handed. Job’s response to his tragic loss, demonstrates a truly extraordinary man with a truly remarkable faith in God. He reacted to his woes with worship, and to his devastating losses with reverence and humility of heart. Job did not curse the Lord, as Satan had supposed, and despite his ongoing problems and pain, he retained his faith in God, which honoured the Lord. Satan was entirely wrong in his assessment of Job’s relationship with God almighty. His godly devotion, saintly worship and reverential fear of our heavenly Father reveals his extraordinary faith in God. For it is often when we are in pain, or in deep distress that we cling more tightly to the God of our salvation, for there is no one else to turn to, because He has the words that comfort us. However, we need to follow the attitude and behaviour of Job who was a saintly man. For he was a man of prayer and praise. He was a man who knew and trusted God’s Word. We too should be prepared to reiterate the words that came from Job’s mouth and the sentiment that ruled his heart, even when we do not know or understand why difficulties and disasters strew our pathway. May we be prepared to cry like Job, saying, “ The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You for the amazing lessons we can learn from Your servant, Job. We thank You for the many blessings You have graciously given us throughout our life, and we pray that we may hold the things of this world lightly, knowing that all we have is from You –Lord. And that whether we are rich or poor, whether, whether we rejoice or mourn we will accept the truth that whether You give or take away – we pray, that we may rejoice in Your goodness always, in order that we might live, to Your praise and glory.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
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 Acts 3:6-8, ” Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk . And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.”
From the above context we learn about a man, who was lame by birth. In the midst of many needs in his life he was sitting at the Beautiful Gate, begging for alms. He could not do anything by himself. He had to depend upon someone else to help him meet his need to shift him from one place to another. Life was miserable to him. He wondered as to when this situation will come to an end. He would have been crying over his pitiable situation. It was then that he noticed the disciples, Peter and John going up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, and the lame man who was lame from his birth was carried, by someone and was usually laid at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those that entered into the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple the lame man, stretched out his hands and asked for alms. And Peter, fixing his eyes upon him with John, said, look on us. And the lame man listened unto them, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, unto him we don’t have Silver and Gold but what we have, we will give, you. In the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
And Peter took the lame man, by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God: And all the people who came to the temple, knew that it was the lame man, who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at the incident or the miracle which had happened unto him, by the disciples. Are you like the lame man sitting and crying over your helpless situation, that you cannot do anything without the help of anyone. God suddenly changed his entire situation because he thought it was enough that he suffered as a lame man begging for food and alms. God sent his disciples John and Peter to deliver him from that horrible situation. They did not have silver or gold to offer him to meet his needs but they gave him something more than he could think of. God gave him an opportunity for him to walk and run and live joyfully like other men and women. He will not be sitting at the temple gate anymore begging for food rather he would go out and work to earn his lively hood.
God wants to revive you from your difficult situation. Many of you are suffering from Arthritis, but today God is healing you from your pain. He is strengthening every limb of yours that has failed to function properly. Just as God had planned that the lame man should not be begging for food, for the rest of his life, God made him walk. Likewise, I do not have silver or gold to give you, but I have Christ, with me which I wish to offer to you in the name of Jesus. When you have Jesus Christ within you then all that you do will be prosperous. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I bless you with a divine healing that your twisted legs might straighten and your hip bone which had been causing much pain might be healed in the name of Jesus. You rise up and walk from all your sickness, your debts, your poverty state of life and from your laziness, from the demonic and evil spirit that has got hold of you in the name of Jesus. Let all forces of darkness come out of you and may you obtain that Great Light. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we thank You because of your unfailing love, your grace and mercy. Thank you Lord, for healing our bones which were weak. We praise Your holy name for restoring our health and strengthening every area of our life with Your power, that we might be able to work and earn our livelihood and not be begging. Thank You for enabling us to walk and run and live joyfully.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
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 Job 14:14, “If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days, of my hard service, I will wait, till my change comes.”
From the above context we see that Job questions God, as to when a change will come in his life. He says, “I am waiting for the end time of my affliction to come.” Our God is one who brings about changes, in our life. But he does not change. At the same time He changes, our circumstances. In the case of Job, it was God who allowed him to be afflicted in order to check his faith in God. Job proved himself to be blameless and righteous. He did not murmur against God, neither did he grumble over his situation. He believed that God will bring about a great change in his life, after the period of his affliction. He says that he is waiting for the appointed time, for God to bring about a change in his life. He had faith in God that God the Father will not destroy him in his affliction; instead he will change his sorrow into joy and also help him see the days of glory as he had lived in the past days of his life. This shows how wealthy he had been in the past with his wife and children. He had lived a respectable life.
But now his condition was miserable. I see in my spirit, many of you reading this message with much expectation, hoping for a change to take place in your life. Those of you who are going through affliction and trials due to financial crisis, joblessness, failure in business, poor payment, huge debts, and poor health condition, may be anxiously waiting for a change to happen in your life. You may be saying, “Will not God open His eyes and see my affliction? How long am I going to suffer like this? When will I see good days in my life? When will I get a good job? When will I earn more money? When will I get settled ? When will I have a child? I am living in great shame and humiliation, How can I face the society? When will I do well in my business? ”These are some of the questions that may arise in your mind. Well as prophesy, I wish to say that God will soon bring about a change in your life provided you remain quiet like Job who waited for the appointed time of change in his life. God says, surely there is an end, to all your sufferings. Your hope will not be cut off. There will be an end to your sickness, your state of poverty, and your debts. God will bring an end to your shame and humiliation, He knows all your problems and sorrows that you go through in your life. The Bible says, “The eyes of the Lord look down from heaven, upon the children of men. “God keeps looking at you and your needs to support you when you are in trouble. All you need to do is to wait upon God patiently for His time.
Job was living peacefully as a wealthy man with his wife and ten children. But disaster suddenly struck his family. He lost his ten children on a single day, then his cattle, his wealth and all glory and honour. He took a potsherd with which to scrape, the boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. His friends looking at his disfigured body wondered whether he had committed some secret sin against God. Even his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die. But he spoke to her saying, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks.” Shall we who accepted good from God and shall we not accept adversity? And in this Job did not sin with his lips. So when affliction strikes your door then count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Because once the period of affliction gets over then God will pour out his blessings upon you. He blessed Job who endured very patiently, a double portion of blessing. Then his brothers and sisters, and all his acquaintances, came to him and ate food with him, consoled and comforted him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. The Lord blessed the latter days of Job, more than his beginning. God will bless you also as he had blessed Job. Wait patiently for the appointed time of change. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we thank You for telling us about Job and his affliction. Help us to bear patiently the affliction that we need to go through. Give us the grace we need to wait upon God, when we go through affliction.
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 Luke 19:10, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
From the above context we read, again that Jesus came to seek that which was lost. That morning, Zacchaeus did not expect that before long he would be honouring Jesus in his own home. As a rich, important and chief tax-collector he was an individual who was hated by the Jews and despised by the Romans and was quite possibly a man who had been a swindler. But Jesus took time to come to him, to call to him and to open up for him the path of salvation, for Jesus has come to seek and to save that which was lost. No doubt God had been preparing the heart of this wealthy yet detested tax-collector, for God is able to discern the motives of every man, and this meeting with Christ brought a sinner to repentance, when confronted with the incomparable perfection of the Son of Man.
The arrogant Pharisees looked down upon tax-collectors and sinners and thanked God that they were so different from such ‘offensive’ people. These self-righteous men were so proud that they fasted twice a week, paid tithes of all their cumin and dill. They were righteous in their own petty little eyes, yet failed to act justly to love mercy and to walk humbly before God. But the Lord was different, from those critical Jewish leaders, who readily accused the Lord Jesus of mingling with tax-collectors and sinners! But that day, salvation came to the house of Zacchaeus, for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. God still knows the heart of man and He is still seeking and saving those which are lost and bringing salvation to many souls who trust in HIM – by grace through faith.
Jesus said, “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It is about a shepherd who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost. For the son of Man has come to save that which was lost. If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? “What do you think about the shepherd? And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that lost sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. For the Bible says, God is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. So Repent and be saved. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we thank You because You came to seek and to save lost sinners like us and for the amazing love and grace You have bestowed upon us. Thank You for forgiving our sin s, for bringing salvation into our heart and for dwelling inside of us. Keep us humble in heart, meek in spirit and submissive to Your Holy Spirit, and may we be used to Your greater glory in all that we say and do.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters 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 “Ezekiel 34:16, “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak. I will feed them in justice.”
My Dear Brothers And Sisters, from the above context we learn that God sent His only Begotten son to seek that which was lost. To bring back those who had gone astray. God will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. Then you shall say, “My cup overflows.” I see in my spirit, many of you are crying over your sinking life. But God will help you float upwards from your sinking state, and lift you from the miry clay and set your feet upon the rock. It is necessary to obey God’s word and spread out your net into the deep sea, like apostle Peter, who had a good catch. The net refers to your talents, your potential, your skill , your intelligence, may be in your job, your business, your family life, your financial position, your health condition. The Bible says, “Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. ”
My Dear Brothers And Sisters, We read in the Bible about a father who had two sons. The eldest son took care of his father and all that he had. But the younger son took his share that belonged to him, from his father and went away to a distant country. He enjoyed all the money with his friends in wrong activities and later after all his money got over he was left alone in such a pitiable state of life. He starved for food. So he worked as a caretaker of pigs and he ate the husk, the food that was given to the pigs. His clothes were torn and he did not have another to change. One day he thought about his father and his father’s house where there were many servants. He decided to return to his father’s house. And thought he would join his father, not as his son but as his servant. On the other hand, we see his father who waited for him day after day, month after month and year after year. He believed that one day God will change his son’s mind and bring him home. He will someday return not as a person with bad nature but as a refined person, since he had learnt through experience what life is, without his father who loved and cared for him. When the younger son returned home there was great rejoicing. His father put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, and gave new set of clothes. There was feasting and great celebration.
My Dear Brothers And Sisters, Has any one of your relative left your home in anger, or threatening you, it could be your husband, your son, your son in law, or your own daughter, must have left your home because of misunderstanding. Don’t worry, God who promised that He will seek the lost and will bring back the strayed, will surely bring back your dear ones as refined persons. Those who left you, by hurting you, rebuking you, wounding you and causing much pain to you, will return in a miraculous manner. For God has seen your tears, regarding your loss. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. He will bring all those who left you, as changed persons, repenting of their sinful nature. It will be a glorious day, you will rejoice in the Lord, and say, “ My cup overflows.” There will be great celebration in your home when you will find your lost one. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we thank you for assuring us that You will seek those whom we have lost in life. Bring them back as changed persons. Let them realize their mistake, and return home. We can’t bear the pain for having lost them. Make us to rejoice by their return, like the prodigal son, who returned back to his father.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
