My Dear Brothers and Sisters, 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 5:21, “And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemes? Who can forgive sins but God alone.“
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that our God not only heals disease but also forgives sin. Luke, in the above context describes about the unfriendly observers in the crowd. They were Pharisees, and doctors, and they were assembled from every part of Galilee, and even from Judea, and from Jerusalem. These unorthodox leaders thought themselves too superior or too holy to mingle with the mob so they kept together by themselves. These men were ready to find fault with Jesus and His disciples. From this incident we see that they simply couldnt, tolerate that Christ could forgive sins. These Pharisees were blind to the pathetic condition of the Paralysed man. But they pounced at once gleefully on Christs words. Man your sins are forgiven for you.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Pharisees knew that forgiveness was a divine prerogative which no man could share. For sin is the name of evil. And only God can forgive sin. Forgiveness is the outpouring of Gods love on a sinner. Only God can pour out that love. The Pharisees having heard much of his doctrine and miracles came from all parts to watch and observe him, that they might expose Him to the people. And even in the midst of such a crowd, the power of the Lord was present to heal those who gathered to hear His sermons and to be healed of their infirmities.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, the above context says, that they presented the sick man to Christ and He said, Man Your sins be forgiven to you. That is the blessing that one must seek. Actually the Pharisees waited to find fault with Jesus and questioned His authority. They wondered from where He acquired the power to forgive sins. But Jesus knew what they had come for. He knew that spiritual blessing was more important than physical healing. In order to make known to them that He has the power to forgive sins, He said to the Paralyzed, Man your sins are forgiven to you.It was easy for Him to say this, than say Man take up your bed and walk.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, A lot of people usually come to Jesus to receive something from Him. Some came to get relief from their depression. Some came to obtain financial help; some came to be blessed with a job. Some wanted God to help them with their marriage. Some wanted God to give them direction about their life. None of them ever expected that Christ would forgive their sins, neither did they want their sins to be forgiven. All that they expected was to be healed. Even the paralyzed expected only to be healed of his disease. So when Jesus said, Man your sins are forgiven to you. They wondered at His saying.
So my dear Brothers and Sisters, no matter how great a sinner you might be, acknowledge your sin before God, for He not only heals your disease but is able to forgive your sins. The moment your sins are forgiven, you will instantly receive healing, then you can enjoy peace and harmony. The Bible says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper. But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Therefore turn to God, repent of your sins and receive His blessings. God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord give us the ability to forgive others of their wrong deed. Enable us to believe thy power to forgive sins. Help us to be pleasing to Christ. Give us the faith, ability and willingness to heal our souls. Give us to desire the pardon of sin, more than any earthly blessing. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, 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 5:24, 25, “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into your house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that Jesus has the power to forgive sins. Two thousand years ago, when Jesus lived on this earth, people gathered wherever He went to listen to His sermon. Jesus not only preached the gospel but did many good things for the people who came up to Him. He healed the sick, drove the evil spirit away, and sent them home joyfully. In those days, when people came to know that Jesus was coming to a particular place, a huge crowd would gather there. One day He was preaching at a cottage meeting in a place called Capernaum, when the people heard that Jesus was about to preach there, a huge crowd gathered there. The people brought all those who were sick, weak and evil possessed to the cottage meeting with a hope that they would all be healed. They had faith in Jesus Christ.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, while Jesus was preaching in that cottage the power to heal the sick came into the people during the time of sermon. The words that the Lord spoke had power, spread out like medicine and they were healed. A few people who felt that healing and miracles were taking place, in that cottage, ran out and brought a man who was paralyzed. They brought him in faith with a hope that he would get healed if he heard the sermon. Because of the crowd they could not enter into the house. So they went up on the house top and let him down with his bed through the tilling into the midst before Jesus. On seeing their faith, Jesus was awestruck and He said to him, Man your sins are forgiven. He said to the man, Arise take up your bed and walk.” Immediately the paralyzed man took up his bed and walked up to his home. What a miracle!
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, even while you are reading this message I am sure that the healing power of Jesus will emerge into your body and heal those of you who are sick and need healing right now. Halleluiah! Jesus is Jehovah Rapha. Rapha means, to restore, to heal. He is the Lord who heals both physical and emotional needs. Jehovah is the great physician who heals all our disease. May God heal you of your sickness.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank You for letting us know that you have power to forgive sins. And that sickness is caused because of sin. We thank you for forgiving all our sins and setting us free from illness. Help us to have faith like the men who brought the paralyzed man before Jesus and helped him to be restored. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Dearly beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet and bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed word that the Lord has given us today is from the book of Ezekiel 36:11, “I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord”. The first blessing the Lord gave to Adam and Eve was to multiply and fill the Earth. God had placed the blessing of multiplication for His people from the beginning of creation.
It is the will of God that people should not stay at the same level, but move to different levels. It is the will of God that His people should multiply in everything.
God does not want to see your shrink in life. He wants to multiply you. Some of you may say that your family members are waiting to suppress you and not allow you to excel in life. When you stumble in life, God will encourage you and make you come up amidst the struggles. He is going to make you victorious in all that you do. Even today you might have backslid in your business, or even got de-promoted at your workplace; the Lord is going to put an end to all your problems. God is determined to change your situation and make you multiply. You will start witnessing a day-to-day improvement in your life.
Today is the day of multiplication. If you want to be multiplied day-by-day in the worldly things, you must edify yourself spiritually. When you edify yourself, you will experience the multiplication. It is not the will of God for you to be stuck but to multiply. When you increase your time of prayer, you will see the blessings of God in your life.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. I pray that You may bless Your dear children in all that they do. Father, may You multiply the works of their hand. Give them an increase in all that they do. Lord, make them the head and not the tail. Give them the courage and strength to accomplish the works of their hands. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, 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 61:7, “Instead of shame you shall have a double honour, and instead of confusion they shall receive in their portion. They shall possess double in their land. Everlasting joy shall be theirs.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that our God rewards those who are faithful in their life. For God will bless such people with a double portion of blessing. Just as the waves of the sea keep rolling forever, there will be problems, trials, tribulation, testing and affliction throughout your life time. God allows problems in the lives of every individual. Whoever it may be or however high dignitaries they might be, all will undergo problems at one point of time or other. This is because God wants us to depend upon him totally. He gives them trouble that they might seek God. Some might say that the intensity of their trouble is increasing day after day. And they are unable to bear the problems.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God says, that trouble and trials will be there but will not exceed above a particular limit. God will not trouble you more than what you can. The measuring limit is defined by God Himself; therefore He knows how much you can or cannot bear. Since it seems beyond your capacity God urges you to be strong and bold in Him to overcome the trials of your life. God therefore says, “In this world you will have tribulation, but in Me you may have Peace.” God assures that if we overcome the trials without murmuring God will give you victory. God will never allow you to be a failure because victory comes from the Lord.
Dear brothers and Sisters if you see the life of Job he says, “If a man dies shall he live again? All the days, of my hard service, I will wait. He asks, when will a change come in my life? He was a great man of faith. He believed a day of bloom will return in his life. So he waits patiently for that day. He lost his cattle, his wealth, his property, and his children. He said, God gave and now God has taken away, praise be to the name of God. Job was the richest man of his times. People bowed before him. There were many to serve him. But now God had taken away everything from him. So Job in sack cloth sat among the ashes and scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery. Yet he believed that God is able to return back all that He had taken away from him. His faith was immovable. Therefore God returned double portion of blessing. Indeed the Lord gave twice as much as he had before. God blessed the latter part of his life more than his beginning.
My dear Brothers and Sisters, God will bless you too with double portion of blessing. Just have faith when you go through trials and tribulation.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord thank you for teaching through the life of Job how we need to have great faith in God. Not to murmur but be thankful to God even in times of hardship. Give us the strength to bear the trials that we face in our life. May we receive a double portion of blessing after a period of affliction. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, 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 118:8, 9, “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence, in man. It is better to put your trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that, we need to put our confidence in God rather than man or princes. It is better in all ways, to trust in the Lord rather than man, for it is wiser. It is much safer to trust in God. For God is more likely to help, than man. And therefore it is better to put our confidence in God rather than man. If we rely upon mortal man, our confidence in him will be futile, but we are always secure in the hands of our God. If we trust in man it tends to make us mean and dependent but confidence in God elevates, produces a sacred quiet of spirit and sanctifies the soul. The Bible says, it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. For princes are but men and the best of men are poor creatures. In many troubles they cannot help us in the least degree for instance in sickness, bereavement, or death neither can they assist us in reference to our eternal state.
Our God is one who fills the empty space of your life. The Bible says, No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. You must therefore set your faith upon the Lord. The only remedy to heal your children is to have strong faith in God. The only person whom you can believe is Jesus Christ.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is better to put your trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man or princes. So today you bring all your problems before the Lord. Be it your husband or that of your children. Bring it to the Lord, for He cares for you. When you bring your problem before the Lord then it becomes the burden of the Lord. It becomes his responsibility to heal or to bring deliverance to your children. A mother once told me of how her son had been caught up in a critical situation and only when the Lord intervened the Lord solved his entire problem. God who removes the kings, and raises up new kings and appoints judges in favour of His children completely changed his situation and now he is a great blessing and is currently the back bone of our ministry. Halleluiah! Therefore cast your entire burden upon the Lord for He will sustain you. Submit yourselves in the mighty hand of the Lord and He will exalt you in due season. God Bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Help my children to cast their burden upon you and trust for your provision. You are able to exalt any one and I pray that you will exalt my children who are yearning for a blessing in their lives. In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
