July 13, 2019
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 Psalm 113: 7,8, “He raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the Ash heap that He may seat him with princes.’’
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today the Lord is going to give you the staff to earn your royal bounties, and thus be blessed in your life. For He raises the poor and lifts the needy. Until yesterday you would have been a failure. But today the Lord is going to bless you with needed education qualification, capacity, skill, wisdom, knowledge, and everything that is necessary to lift you up in your status. You will be successful in your interview. I wish to illustrate, how a brother by the name John Solomon, who attended Anbarin Padathil Oru Naal our monthly fasting prayer meet, regularly grew up to a better status in life. He came to Chennai as a poor man with a meager salary of Rupees Four thousand.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today he looks fair and handsome but when I saw him for the first time he was not so appealing. He was working in a small job then. I used to see him seated at the front row regularly at the Fasting Prayer Meeting. The Lord blessed him step by step. He got married and was blessed with a son. He soon built his own house. You must have seen him listing out all the miracles the Lord has performed in his life. He said not a single prophesy had failed to happen in his life. He had bought a house in Maddipakkam, I inaugurated it. I then told him that he would build more houses. He built another house in Trichy Halleluiah! As a spiritual father, I feel very happy when I see the growth and prosperity of the children of God.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, his growth was too fast, but all of a sudden he lost his job. He said to me “Uncle, only now I am shooting up in my life but at this point of time, I have lost my job”’ I told him that when the heart of Pharaoh was hardened good things happened to the people of Israel. If one door is shut, another door will be opened for you in an MNC company. The Lord is going to take you across the nation.” He held on to these words. He got a job in an MNC company, later He got an onsite project, and now he and his family are very happy. Do you know the reason for it. Just like you all, one day, he came and sat, in the meeting without anything. But it was the talents, that the Lord had kept within him and the fear of the Lord, that enabled him to shoot up in his life. When he became rich and wealthy he did not throw away God, instead, he honored him. Like Jacob, he said, “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which you have shown, your servant.” John Solomon was a humble brother. So God exalted him. So my dear Brothers and Sisters, in the same way, God will exalt you, if you fear the Lord and humble yourself in the mighty hands of God. God will bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank you, Lord, for teaching us to fear the Lord and be humble in life. Make us hold on to the Lord, during times of difficulties. Never to refrain ourselves from God for any reason. Remove all poverty and lift us up to a better status in our life. May the Blessings of God be upon us so that Your name may be honored.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
