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 Isaiah 40:4 , “Every valley shall be exalted. And every mountain and hill shall be made low. The crooked places shall be made straight. And the rough places smooth. ”
From the above context we come to understand that God will exalt the low valleys, and straighten all the crooked places of our life. He will smoothen the rough places and elevate the low levels of our life.
Every valley shall be exalted – That is, every valley, or low piece of ground, shall be filled up so as to make a level highway, as it was done in order to facilitate the march of Israel armies. It means simply that the impassable valleys were to be filled up so as to make a level road for their safe journey. The army had to march through the valley and the mountain side. The general idea is that all obstructions were to be removed, so that the march would be without embarrassment. This is also applicable to the opinions, habits, conduct, in the pride, self-confidence, and irreligion of the nation that would prevent cordial relationship among the Israelites and others surrounding nations. So every mountain had to be levelled. They shall be dug down so as to make the journey easy. And when the eastern princes marched through desert countries, ways were prepared for them, and hindrances were removed.
Satan is the strong man armed; but our Lord Jesus is stronger; and He shall proceed, and do all that He purposes to do for you in your life. Christ is the good Shepherd; He shows tender care for His sheep. God will strengthen that you May know your Shepherd’s voice, and follow Him, proving yourselves as His sheep. God is mindful of you. He loves you. You are precious in His sight. Therefore He always sends His angels to protect you, that your foot may not slip. He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
God has put a mark on your foreheads. The seal of God is on your forehead. The Lord says that He will make you like a signet ring and has chosen you to be His own to be His priceless possession. To be His signet ring which means we are in a covenant with God. When we walk with God in right perspective, then we will receive all the blessings. Your descendants will also be blessed. You will prosper in every area of your life. Never think that you are finished when you are caught up in the midst of problems. Never think you have come to the end of your life because of your problems. God is able to make a new beginning in your life. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. We thank You for lifting us from every difficulty (valley), of our life and exalting us to a higher level. Lord You level the road for our safe journey through the valley and the mountain side. And You have straightened the ‹crooked‘ and rough places that we may enjoy the goodness of God in the land of the living. Thank You Lord for solving all our problems that was like mountains 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 Luke 18:7,8 “ And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.”
From the above context we see that God will avenge his own elect, who cry out to Him day and night. In the above context we learn that Christ uses the parable of the widow woman and the unjust judge to encourage us to be continually in prayer, not to lose our hope in God, when the answer to our prayers get delayed due to various reason, to pray without ceasing – to remain in constant communion with the Lord, as we request Him for the blessings we need, from His gracious hand, especially when those blessings seem to be delayed.
Our God is not as a worldly judge, Who is reluctant to bestow His blessings, but rather a generous Father Who gives good gifts to all His children without any variation. Nor are we likened to some lonely, poverty-stricken, unsupported widow, for we are children of God, beloved of the Father, accepted in the Beloved and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Because we do not have to grovel for meagre scraps at the bench of an unbelieving judge, for we have free and open access into the throne of grace and the riches of His love in Christ Jesus so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
We are to be continually in prayer, to pray without ceasing , to remain in constant communion with the Lord, knowing that God answers our prayers. His delay is not inactivity or disinterest, but a preparation to make all things work together for good, to those that love God and are called according to His purpose. Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Any perceived delay is His wise preparations.
We are a special people, whom God has loved with an everlasting love. Hence of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, He chose to offer everlasting life and salvation to us. As a result we are peculiarly His: and these He will avenge and vindicate, right their wrongs, do them justice, and deliver them from their adversaries, and take vengeance on them. He hates sin, and wants to do His justice to those who lift up to Him in prayer, whose prayers He always hears; whose tears He puts up in his bottle; and whose importunity must surely be thought to have more regard with Him, than that of the poor widow with the unjust judge: May God give you the grace to trust God at all times. Then The Lord will be merciful to you and your children and grant all your prayer requests. For God takes pleasure in those who hope in His mercy. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord help us to maintain a trusting attitude of prayer, knowing that any perceived delay is Your willing preparation. Thank You that You are our Father and we are Your children. Teach us to wait upon You for every need of ours. Thank You Lord for hearing our prayers and answering our prayers at the appointed time of our need.
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 Jeremiah 31:20, “ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.”
From the above context we learn that God remembers us even in our lowly state. In the above context He says, he remembers his dear child Ephraim, though often He had spoken against him. God says, that His heart yearns for Ephraim and so He still remembers him and will surely have mercy on him. God says, ” Is not Ephraim my dear son?” yes, he is; and so is everyone who has relation with the Lord, all of them are his dear children, his beloved ones, loved by him with an everlasting love; they are “precious” to him, they are dear to him as the apple of his eye; they are highly esteemed of by him; they are his jewels and peculiar treasure: how precious they are to him appears by his parting with his own most precious Son for their sakes; by sympathizing with them under all their afflictions; by providing most delicious food; by clothing them with the robe of righteousness, and garments of salvation; and by protecting them with a guard of angels.
Just as God remembers Ephraim and wants to show mercy to him God wants to show you mercy, especially to all those who are reading this message. May be your husband failed to have good relationship with you and so abandoned you in your mother’s house. You are struggling in your parent’s house who has considered you as a burden. They had spent a lot of money in getting you married but now you have become a burden to them. But God remembers your affliction so he will talk to your husband the good things that you have done while you both lived together. God will remind the good things about you and will unite you with your husband.
Once a young brother visited me. He said, “Sir, there is no sin that I have not committed. But I think that God has spared my life because of my mother’s prayer.” He further said. “God should have broken either my hand or my leg. I should have been severely punished for all my wicked ways.”I used to go to many dirty places, and return home very late, almost drunk. But my mother used to cry and keep praying over my life. Often she used to cover me, when I return home drunk and pray for me in the night. I love my mother; she has suffered much because of my bad behaviour. She has tolerated me much. She used to cry out to God ‘’Saying God protect my son, let not the wrath of God fall upon my son.” I have seen my mother shedding tears. I want to do some good for her. I can’t bear seeing her cry over me. ”Sir please pray that I should overcome my sinful life.”Therefore I counselled him for twenty minutes. And God spoke to him through me saying, “Your body is the temple of God. It is the place where God dwells. You have no right to destroy your body. The prayer of your mother has sustained you thus far. Just as she believed that you will change from your bad habits, God also has more faith and confidence in you that you will repent of all your sins, and wrong doings. Hence you should not cheat your mother anymore.” That young brother submitted himself in the mighty hands of God. The spirit of God descended upon him. And from that day on he is living a God fearing life. A life of testimony. God heard the prayer of his mother and remembered her tears and therefore saved this young man. God remembers you and will help you to lead a successful life . He will help you to overcome all struggles in your life.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank you for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for remembering us in all our situation and helping us in times of need. We also thank You for remembering our children and our spouse. You remember us in our affliction and save our children from the plans of wicked people who surround us and cause confusion within the family. Thank You Lord for instructing us in the way we should go and for remembering us in our lowly state of life. In Jesus name we pray .Amen
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 Psalms 115:12, “The Lord has been mindful of us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.”
From the above context we learn that we are acquainted with God, in such a way that God is mindful of us. When God says, that He is mindful of us, then we can, be sure that we are special in the eyes of God. It is not great if your friend or your relative says that they are mindful of you. The greatest joy that we can posses, in our life, is that our God, who created us, is mindful of us. He remembers all the members of your family, He remembers even those who have gone out of your house due to various reasons or have backslidden from God. You might have forgotten them in your busy life but God remembers them. He says, how can I forget you? How can I forsake you? How can I commit you into the hands of strangers? He says, “I have shed My precious blood, to purchase you. Even if you run away from Me, I shall not let you go. “
I see in my spirit, the faces of many parents being enlightened, on hearing this word, that God is mindful of their sons, or daughters, who had run away from their house because of wrong life. They are wondering if God will even bless their children who had back slidden and gone astray. Yes, my dear brothers and sisters God is mindful of them. He had pardoned all their sins and their iniquities. He remembers them no more. He has thrown them behind His back and buried them deep into the sea. Since God is also mindful of them He will bless them. He will not leave them destitute. He is a God who left the ninety nine sheep and went in search of one lost sheep. You may be seven members in your family. And one of you might have gone astray. Your son or daughter might be caught up in a snare. They could have fallen into the miry clay of sin of any kind. They might be into drugs, into wrong life style, into alcoholisms, into all kinds of sinful activities. They are involved in sin, by their own good will and pleasure without any fear of the Lord.
Such children do not care to respect their parents. They are ruthless in achieving their wrong goals in life. They fail to understand the love of their parents who had slogged all their lives for their betterment. Though your son or daughter had wronged you, yet God leaves behind the six good children and goes in search of the seventh one who had left your home. How will he get him / her, back? God will pick your child from the miry clay or the thorny bush of sin and would carry him/her on his shoulder around his neck and return back home. What a wonderful God we have. Halleluiah! He always, remembers us in our lowly state. . He is a God who hugs and embraces us. He remembers that one child of yours who went astray and goes after him/her and brings back like the shepherd who went after the lost sheep and brought it back home safely. Our God came to the earth to redeem that which was lost. I am sure that many children who have gone astray will come back to your home safely in the near future.
I wish to share an incident that took place during my ministry when I went to Bangalore some years back. While preaching the word of God, suddenly I looked at a young brother who came to the meeting and said, prophetically “Your Father will soon return back home.” The young man was sitting in tears listening to the preaching. When I spoke these words he did not know what to do. He knew that the prophetic word was aimed at him. After the meeting was over I did not hear any news from that young brother. He had left home after the meeting. I was actually waiting for someone to tell me the revelation of the prophesy. But no one came on the first day. But on the last day after the meeting was over the young man came up to me and said, Sir, “ I waited for the fulfilment of your prophesy and them come and tell you the outcome.”He continued saying “My father got lost in Kancheepuram. But came back safely to our home in Bangalore. How is this possible? How can a man with a loss of memory return back home safely? I was curious to hear all about his father. He said that it was several months since his father got lost in Kancheepuram. His father does not remember how he reached Bangalore. The son did not know by which bus or train he had reached Bangalore.
As soon as his father got down at Bangalore he saw a church across the road. He went into the church and sat in the door step. There the Pastor met him and asked his whereabouts. He learnt that his son resided in Bangalore and inquired the father if he had the phone number of his son? At a flash of memory the father quickly gave the pastor the phone number. Immediately the Pastor called out to his son who was in tears. On hearing the good news he rushed to the spot to meet his father. His father who suffered from loss of memory had absconded several months back from Kancheepuram. That father would often go away, from their home due to loss of memory. So this young man as usual had lost his father and was crying in the meeting. God was mindful of his father. Though he was old and was suffering from loss of memory, God remembered him and the agony of the family members. God brought his father back home safely. Praise be to God. For He is mindful of Israel, He is mindful of Aaron. And He blesses both the small and great. God Bless You.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for illustrating a real incident to help us understand that God is mindful of us. And God is also mindful of our children who have backslidden. And had left our home for various reasons. Thank You Lord for going after them and correcting them and bringing them back to our home. We praise You Lord, for sending Your son to seek that which was lost.
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 Proverbs 4:23 , “Above all guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.”
From the above context we see that there is an intensity and urgency in pleading you to guard your heart about all else, for the Bible says , the heart is the seat of the thoughts, the will, the conscience and the emotions. The heart is the storehouse for wisdom and all that influences the life and character of an individual, and Jesus reminds us that we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, with every part of our inner being.
As water reflects the face so one’s life reflects the heart. The Bible says, Your beauty should not come from outward adornment such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewellery or fine clothes, rather it should be that of your inner self, the unfolding beauty of a gentle and quite spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. Therefore we need to adapt the nature of Christ to a good extent and maintain a loving and helpful attitude. A quality to consider the poor, and the needy, the widows and the fatherless.
Your heart should not rule your lives and dictate your decisions for unguarded feeling can fluctuate; unguarded emotions can twist and turn on a whim; unguarded thoughts can toss to and fro like the wave of the sea and an unguarded will can lead you away from the path of peace. The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and unless checked and guarded above all things, will influence our lives for evil and not for good. So it is necessary for you to guard your hearts as the highest priority. For the heart is the source and well-spring of life, the heart is the repository for life, the treasury for truth, the warehouse of wisdom.
The Bible says, the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. But the Lord says, I search the heart and examine the mind to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve. So you need to guard your heart above all else. Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favour and a good name in the sight of God and man. Usually people look at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart.
As Christ is our life, our truth, and our wisdom and the Lord searches the heart and tests the mind and we are to guard our heart to receive the knowledge of Him Who has brought us out of darkness into His glorious light and Who has taken us from the doors of death and breathed into us the breath of the new-life in Christ. All you got to do is to love the Lord your God and with all your heart, with all your soul and with your entire mind. Learn to be strong and take heart all those who hope in the Lord. For where your treasure is there will your heart be also. For blessed are all those who keep his statutes and seek God with all their heart. May the Lord help you to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commandments to serve Him with all your heart and your soul. God Bless You.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord help us to guard our heart above all things. Search our heart and know our thoughts and see if there is any wicked way in us and guide us into the path of righteousness. Let not our heart influence our lives. Teach us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, with every part of our inner being.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
