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Ministries will be shaken

Jeremiah 38:22 - And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of
Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's [confusion]
princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends [good men] have set thee on
[incited], and have prevailed against thee: thy feet [journey] are sunk in
the mire (a poison), and they are turned away back [backslide].

When I got this message I asked the Lord what message He wanted to give
through this and this is what He put in my heart.

In today's time we see many ministries are built on shaky grounds. Their
understanding of what they are doing, why they are doing it and what they
are trying to achieve from it, is all unclear to them. They all claim to be
doing God's work and saving lives but then even the Lord looks at them and
is amused at what they are doing in His name.

People may be looking at all the evangelising that is happening all around
and the thousands of people whom these ministries are reaching out, to but
when one checks the quality of their work it is like gold plated jewellery.
And when someone gives gold plated jewellery as precious ornaments it
angers the person whom it is given to, especially no bride is decorated
with gold plated jewellery.

The time is at hand the Lord is doing housekeeping. He is decided to clean
the house for the great things He is about to do. So today He is warning
the Preachers, Pastors, Ministry leaders, Church heads etc. to avoid doing
their own thing in His name but to abide to His Voice and His Word.

[Prayer Starters]

Lord, there are many running Churches and Ministries in your name, but the
things that they do go against your purpose / mission as revealed to us
through Jesus Christ. Lord we pray they repent from their ways and avoid
their works being destroyed. Let them build people from inside and not from
outside. You Lord hate religious people but desire a pure heart...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Jeremiah 38:20-23

20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee,
the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto
thee, and thy soul shall live.

21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath
shewed me:

22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house
shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women
shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee:
thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be
burned with fire.

1 Corinthians 3:12-15

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's
work of what sort it is.

14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive
a reward.

15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself
shall be saved; yet so as by fire.


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These two, who work for the Lord shall die

1 Samuel 2:34 - And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon
thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of
them.

Today's scripture talks of the anger of the Lord on Elli's sons Hophni and
Phinehas, the Lord cursed them to die young.

In today's message I would not be talking of what the sons of Elli did or
did not do, but the Lord wants to tell us today there are many Hophni and
Phinehas today working in the name of the Lord and these will not see life
to its fullness.

These names which Elli gave to his children had a meaning and it is
uprising how the names were given which coincided with their destiny.

The name Hophni comes from the Hebrew word 'Chophniy&# 39; and means 'handful&# 39;.
In today's message it speaks of a person who is materialistic and
self-serving while claiming to do the Lord's work. These are people who
work not so much for God's purpose but for their share from the offering
that comes to the Lord. What they take is not wrong, for the Lord Himself
had commanded that the priest take a handful of the offering that people
offered to the Lord. So what he takes is rightfully his but what angers the
Lord is their focus is not on the work of the Lord but more to the handful
what they are to receive.

The second name Phinehas comes from the Hebrew word 'Piynchac&# 39; which means
'mouth of brass'. The Hebrew word translated as 'brass&# 39; comes from the root
word 'nachuwsh&# 39; which means ringing or metal used for the bell. This metal
was an important metal used for many objects in the Sanctuary. In the book
of Revelation we read Jesus Christ on Judgment Day is depicted as having
feet of brass. The name of the metal comes from the root meaning 'divine&# 39;
or 'enchanter&# 39; symbolizing in today's message as a person who works to
perform miracles or sign and wonders.

We need to always remember Jesus came to heal the hearts or inner-man and
make them back to what man was before he sinned. Healing of the body or
miracles are done so as to encourage a person to come to the Lord, and are
a natural consequence when the glory of the Lord in manifested. But when a
person hardens his heart and only seeks the Lord for the sake of the
healing or miracle then it angers the Lord more.

In today's message the second lot talks of people who focus on stage shows.
Their main purpose is not to change people's hearts but to do miracle and
healings. They may do it for their own glorification, or glory of their
ministry, or may do it just to convert people and bring them to a religion
called 'Christianity&# 39;, but all these reasons fail the purpose of God. Jesus
did not start a religion called Christianity, nor was His aim to make it
the largest religion in the world; He in fact hated religions and
traditions of man. He came to save His sheep and bring them back unto the
Father.

In today's message the Lord is angry with both lots of people who do not
work for the purpose / mission of the Lord Jesus Christ but yet dedicatedly
do 'Lord' s work'. Both these lot of people will see their strength diminish
and as the Lord says will die young (physically and spiritually) .

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, there are many who claim to do your work and are very well known in
today's world but very, very few are there who work for your mission. Lord,
we pray the hearts of these people change and they focus on your mission
more than do your work, so that they do not lose strength and die young...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

1 Samuel 2:28-31

28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest,
to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and
did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of
the children of Israel?

29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have
commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make
yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house,
and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the
LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and
they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of
thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

Revelation 2:18 - And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These
things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire,
and his feet are like fine brass;

Matthew 7:21-23

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity.
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Our life on earth is a shadow

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days
upon earth are a shadow:)

The book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible. It was written even before
Moses that is why one will not find any reference to any other book or any
Man of God in it. Job was not a Prophet but was a Teacher by calling. There
are no prophetic scriptures in the book of Job, but one will find the whole
book loaded with understanding of the Kingdom of God.

If there was no prophetic Word then how did Job understand the Kingdom of
God?

If one reads in Romans, Paul acknowledges the Word of God was given even
before God spoke through His messengers and started telling man to document
it for this Word was in His creation. We need to understand even thing seen
and unseen, from the smallest to the greatest, from the weakest to the
strongest has been designed for a purpose and that purpose is to learn of
the spiritual kingdoms - the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness,
recorded in Genesis as His kind and their kind respectively. That is why
even though some animals are called 'unclean&# 39; yet when the Spirit of Truth
was given to man, God instructed man to consume them. The unclean was not
the flesh of the animals but in what it represented.

In today's message Job and his friends are discussing about life and the
scripture shows they knew life by looking around even though no Prophet had
spoken in the Name of the Lord. They had not seen Heaven neither were told
about spirit life, but by observing earthly life they know a spirit dwells
in the body and even though the person dies in this world yet his or her
spirit continues to live.

Bible says all those who reject the Lord are already judged and are like
grass that is cut of when they dry and are thrown in the oven. Most people
raise the question what about those who have not heard the Gospel how can
they be accused of rejecting God.

Irrespective of anyone giving or not giving the Gospel, every human being
knows God exist and that He is holy and almighty, and God has created him
or her for a purpose and he or she needs to live a life of holiness and
also worship Him through his or she life. They also know those who do will
be gathered unto Him and those who do not will be punished.

Since man does not want to live a life holy but wants to fulfil the desires
of his flesh (carnal mind) he tries to be god and therefore like God
created man out of dust, he tries to create gods out of dust; he also
starts to worship the creation and not the Creator. Even an atheist who
claimed there is no God knows God exist but as scripture says he keeps
telling himself there is no God and tries to fool himself.

Now coming to the part of giving the Gospel, we read 'unless every ear has
not heard the Gospel the end will not come'. The term 'ever ear' is not
speaking of every man but only those who are His children which means His
flock. We read Jesus states in Luke 4 after reading scriptures that spoke
of Him, He talks of two incidents of Elijah and Elisha being guided to
specific people and not to all. The Jews in that synagogue understood what
He meant and were furious, therefore they tried to throw Jesus off the
cliff, but Jesus slips away from their midst.

Bible says in the later days more and more children of God will come in the
world, therefore His Spirit and His grace will abode more and more. Also
more and more messengers / workers will be sent to give the Gospel to His
people, and God will make a way for His sheep to hear His voice and come to
Him.

Today's message is tell all His people the life they live here on earth is
not the real life God has created them for, but is a shadow of the things
He has set for them. Look at this world minus man's tampering it, if the
shadow is so beautiful then what would the real be?

If you are His sheep this message has done its job and speaking unto you.
So let us not live for this world but live to move on to our real Home.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are an Awesome God and your wisdom is un-measureable. You created
this beautiful and great universe and that too just for us to understand
and know You so as to come to You. We cannot even imagine how beautiful our
real Home would be, for our human minds cannot imagine it. Lord, we pray we
more and more die to the flesh and live for the spirit so that we do not
miss our way Home...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Job 8:8-10

8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the
search of their fathers:

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
earth are a shadow:)

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their
heart?

Luke 4:21-29

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in
your ears.

22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which
proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb,
Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do
also here in thy country.

24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own
country.

25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of
Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great
famine was throughout all the land;

26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of
Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and
none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were
filled with wrath,

29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow
of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down
headlong.

Romans 1:17-23

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:
as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God
hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.

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Wisdom how to get it - the TRY and CRY methods

Proverbs 2:1-6

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide [treasure] my
commandments with thee;

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to
understanding;

3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for
understanding;

4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid
treasures;

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge
of God.

6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding.

There are 2 ways in getting wisdom - one is the TRY method and the other
the CRY method.

The TRY method is the experience method it requires us to go through
situations in our lives and to learn from them, we can also learn from the
experience of others. This is one reason the Bible says give ear to the
words of the aged for they share what they have learned through their
experience in their lives. There are drawbacks in this method, firstly it
takes a long time to gain wisdom through this TRY method; one also needs to
pay a big price (suffering) if the wisdom is gained out of one's own
experiences. This wisdom can also be gained from experience of others,
though it may not be reliable, for at times it comes fused with their own
understandings.

The CRY is the method wherein we ask God and God gives us wisdom, as it is
written by James 1:5 but it is not as easy as just asking and receiving.
Today's message gives us details of how to ask God.

Solomon asked God for wisdom and was given wisdom. The first time he asked,
God gave him wisdom of the world but then he realized this wisdom was not
sufficient, so he asked again and then God gave him wisdom to understand
things of the Spirit world.

In today's message the Lord teaches us the five steps on how to get
Spiritual wisdom.

The first step is to acknowledge the Bible as Word of God. Unless we do not
take every word of the Bible as Word of God we will never receive wisdom to
understand the hidden things of God.

The second step is to treasure every word of the Word of God as a living
word and to meditate on it day and night (unceasingly) . Like a sowed seed
needs to be watered and protected as also every word that we read of the
Word should be sowed, watered and protected within us.

The third step is stated as 'cries after knowledge.&# 39; The word translated as
'cry' also means to 'read' . It asks us to read things related to the matter
in the Word of God, meaning to do research.

The fourth step tells us even after we research and all the previous steps
yet it is not assured we will have the right understanding and wisdom. This
step tells us to pray unto the Lord to reveal the right understanding. One
may think why do research and the previous steps and not do this step
directly?

I was discussing with a brother today morning and shared how he noticed
what I did, that many young famous preachers in India are children and
disciples of T.D. Jakes and less children and disciples of Jesus Christ.
They not only teach the teachings of TD Jakes but also imitate him on the
stage while preaching. The youth who are spiritual infants get impressed
with their stage performance and follow these preachers. At the end we do
not see the Lord being glorified but man being glorified. These preachers
do not study scriptures but think watching TV preachers means studying the
Bible. Let me tell you there are hardly any good Bible teachers on TV. The
real message of the Kingdom of God is not what the general public likes to
hear so there are very little chances of them being on TV.

Being taught by the Lord I can tell you of first-hand experience on how
difficult it is for God to give us the right understanding without the
previous steps. My whole journey of learning from the Lord started with me
making a prayer asking for wisdom to understand His Word for the purpose of
serving His people. Before that prayer I used to read scriptures and they
were like history lessons for me. But after the prayer my learning started
with the Lord showing me visions, then I would spend days meditating on
those visions to understand them. As I built my knowledge and understanding
of fundamental things it became easier to understand scriptures and today
the Lord does not need to show me visions to explain scriptures to me.

The fifth step tells us as we seek silver so we should seek the hidden
treasures through wisdom. In the Bible silver symbolizes things like money
or precious things, knowledge and understanding of this world and gold
symbolizes precious understandings and gifts of the spirit world. We know
without silver (money, knowledge and understanding of this world) it is
almost impossible to live in this world, but can we lose gold for the sake
of silver? Even if we do not value gold more than silver, the Lord tells us
to at least value gold as much as we value silver.

Through these five steps the Lord says we will understand fear of the Lord
and find knowledge of God. We all know fear of the Lord is the first step
towards wisdom of God. So these five steps are steps not for getting the
ultimate wisdom of God but just steps to start our journey to receive the
wisdom of God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are Almighty God and your wisdom has no bounds. The wisdom of man
is like foolishness before God. Man thinks he knows and You, Lord laugh at
him. Lord we pray we do not thirst more the knowledge and wisdom of this
world but seek more the knowledge and wisdom of your Kingdom. Fill us with
thirst for the understanding of your Kingdom which is living waters...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Luke 2:52 - And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
God and man.

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this
world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Ephesians 1:16-18

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what
is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints,

James 1:5 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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Called to be Kings and Sons

Ezra 6:10 - That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of
heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

I had received this message last Sunday for my Bible class and took this in
depth at the session which was of about 2hours. I will attend to this same
here in a very short way.

Jesus was allowed to be crucified by the Romans mainly for reason He called
Himself 'King' and the Jews crucified Him for calling Himself 'Son of God'.

Christians in general associate both these titles to Jesus, which without
doubt belongs to Him. But the question I like to ask is He the only one who
holds these titles of King and Son of God?

The story of Jesus as man claiming Kingship starts during the times of
Samuel when the people of Israel had no king; it was the Lord who led them.
But these people wanted to be like the other people of the world who had a
human leading them as king. So they rejected God as king and asked of Him
for a human king. The Lord obliged them, but with a heavy heart for He knew
there was no man worthy to lead His people. Later the Lord Himself came as
man Jesus to claim back His position as king. The story does not end here.

Coming to the title 'Son of God', when God made man he had the image of God
in him, the spirit man was identical as the Angels but lower than the
Angels because he dwelled in the flesh, the Angels are called sons of God.
Later when the image in man got corrupted due to sin man lost the title of
son of God. Due to the curse of God the corrupt image of Adam got passed
from generations to generations of Adam through the father. Jesus was born
out of man but was yet born without corruption for He was not born from a
human father but only a human mother. So being born without the corruption
He was the only Son of God and He by the power of the Holy Spirit remained
uncorrupted and thus had victory over the corruption and remained Son of
God. Here too the story does not end here.

Lord came as man Jesus not just to claim His position as King and show man
He can have victory over corruption (the work of Satan). If we read Genesis
when God created man He had given man dominion (as king / ruler) over all
the world and over every beast (being, not just animal but also over every
spiritual being) that dwell in this world. Due to sin and corruption of the
image of God in him, he lost this dominion or kingship and creation became
his enemy.

The Gospel of John says Jesus Christ came to make us back into sons of God
by giving us His Spirit. By His sacrifice (payment for our sins/breaking
the covenant) making peace between man and God, by the working of the
Spirit in us and by the revelation of the Truth we will become overcomers
of the corruption get back the uncorrupted image and become sons of God
once again. Once the image of God is restored in us and we become sons of
God we also are restored the dominion we had in the beginning, thus we are
also restored our kingship.

So we see Jesus came just not to become our King but to restore kingship to
us and to make us sons and kings once again. Man did not realize God had
made each and every one among them kings but yet they ask God for a king.
God is not king but He is King of kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus as man is
King and is referred to as Prince / Commander of kings. But when He retails
back His glory as God the Son, becoming God He becomes King of Kings that
is why He as the humbled Lamb (not as a human) is called Kings of kings and
Lords of Lords.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You made us sons and kings, but looking at the world we like to be
like them and do not realize our own value. Lord we pray we separate
ourselves from the ways of the world and by the help of your Spirit live a
life according to your Word, that we overcome corruption in us by the Truth
of your Word becoming complete in us. Lord let us know that You came to
give us authority not just like ministers of a king but as kings. Lord, it
is not You but we who will crush the head of Satan under our feat as Kings
and as Sons of God...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Genesis 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Luke 3:38 - Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was
the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

John 1:12,13

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.

1 Corinthians 4:8 - Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as
kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign
with you.

1 Timothy 6:14-16

14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only
Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and
power everlasting. Amen.

Revelation 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and
the first begotten of the dead, and the prince [commander] of the kings of
the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood,

Revelation 5:10 - And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we
shall reign on the earth.

Revelation 17:14 - These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that
are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Revelation 19:11-16

11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon
him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and
make war.

12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and
he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God.

14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

1 Peter 2:9 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who
hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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A day against fenced cities and high towers

Zephaniah 1: 14, 15, 16 - The great day of the LORD is near, it is near,
and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man
shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and
alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

Past 2 months I have not been getting good messages from the Lord. I know
many do not really like what I am writing but I would prefer writing what
the Lord wants to tell us than to post what the people like to read.

We are living in prophetic times; when I say that it means a time when many
prophesies written thousands of years back are going to be fulfilled. This
is not the time when Jesus Christ is going to come back; for Him to come
there is still a long time many, many years.

The Bible talks of 2 days of the Lord. The word 'day' does not specify a
particular day. In Bible terms the word 'day' is used for a period of time
and 'hour' is used for a very short period of time. Today's 'day' is not
the Day of Judgement which comes at the end. The most important signs of
that day is that there would be a false peace, coming of the 'son of
perdition' (the false man of god who has great powers), the two witnesses
of the Lord who have powers to cause great world disasters to happen on
their word (they are the ones to reach the pinnacle of spiritual growth),
the release of Lucifer and ultimately the coming of Jesus Christ with His
Angels.

From last year there have been warnings of the things that are happening
today in the world and these are going to continue for some time and may
even increase further. I had no idea of the extent of these disasters until
of late when I saw a video on Youtube titled 'Signs Of Change' for the
month of January and showed natural disasters which happened world-wide
almost every 2nd or 3rd in that month. These disasters were not normal but
at a scale that never happened in the last 10, 20 or 100 years but what was
important to note was that they are happening all together, at very close
intervals, and that too at different parts of the world, also they were not
just related to climate.

Today the Lord is saying He is doing this to shake people of 2 categories -
one who live in fenced cities and second in high towers.

The term 'fenced cities' does not mean those who are protected by the Lord
(symbolized as Zion in the Bible). It means those who have made themselves
inaccessible to the Lord. They have hardened their hearts. It does not
necessary refer to people who do not know God, it more refers to people who
know God but have taken Him for granted. It includes people who call
themselves as those who 'live by grace'. No doubt we all come before the
Lord by grace and are bought to the path of salvation only by grace. But
God requires us to grow and become sons, He does not like if we continue to
remain spiritual infants for inheritance is not for infants but only for
mature sons. It is only when we do His mission do we spiritually grow, when
we live more for Him and less for ourselves. Grace brings us on the path to
Heaven and it is the Spirit of the Lord who takes us along the path.

The other category translated as 'high tower' means 'lofty corners' . They
are people who are become representatives of Jesus Christ to the world but
do things that are not in-line with the Kingdom of God. They include people
who preach the 'prosperity Gospel' and always say things like "all is
well", "God understands your weaknesses so even if you continue in it He
will keep on tolerating and loving you", "being blessed means to have
riches of this world", "God desires to give you all your desires
(irrespective they are inline to His will or not)".

Because people lack understanding of scripture and discernment they are
being misled by people like these. God is stating today He is going to
attend to these preachers.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, your Word says your eyes are always on your people. It does not only
mean You protect them from dangers, and your favour is upon them, but also
means You are more aware of their wrong doing than of those whom your eyes
and not upon. Lord, You have asked your people to be holy for You are Holy.
Lord we pray for more and more of the Spirit of discernment on your people.
Lord them be aware of evil and separate themselves from it...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

2 Timothy 3:1-7

1 This know also, that in the last [last in series] days perilous [hard]
times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-8

1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you.

2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
thief in the night.

3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape.

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you
as a thief.

5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are
not of the night, nor of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5

1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him,

2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition;

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God.

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these thing
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Beersheba unto Hinnom

Nehemiah 11: 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and
the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt
from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

When I got this message it took me quite some time, to figure out what the
Lord is trying to tell us. This scripture is a part of scriptures which
tell us of how the people of Israel dwelled during the time they were under
the Persian rule.

Beersheba was a place where Abraham made an oath with Abimelech and Abraham
(at that time Abram) dug a well as a sign of their oath. This place was
called Beersheba meaning well of seven which symbolizes well or supply of
fullness. This place was the southernmost point of the land earmarked unto
the Israelites, therefore they usually used the term 'from Dan to
Beersheba' like we use the term north to south. For them this territory was
the world since it was the territory the Lord had given them. But in
today's message we read written Beersheba unto Hinnom. When I saw this I
wondered why; was the Lord going to increase our blessings, but only when I
went into the meaning of their name Hinnom I realized what the Lord was
telling us. The Hebrew word 'Hinnom&# 39; means 'lamentation&# 39;.

Some years back I had received a warning and in that vision I had seen a
bridge off sea been broken and part of it drown in the sea. The time period
indicated in that vision pointed to somewhere in November end and early
December last year. At that time I thought it was a warning about a natural
calamity which would hit Mumbai. But around October, November start I
realized this would be a financial disaster waiting to happen since the
previous recession was shown to me as a highway that was deserted and the
reason being the vehicles were having a shortage of fuel and even previous
visions showed prosperity as a highway.

Through December there were hardly any signs of problems, but today we can
see it luring in the shadow. Things that did not happen during the last
recession are been seen happening now. Some countries have not experience
its effects yet.

In the Bible poverty is projected as a salt water crocodile and one of the
characteristics of this animal is that it lures slowly towards its prey,
the only things seen at this time are its nostrils and eyes. Once in arm's
reach it pounces on it and holds its prey tightly in its jaws. At this time
it is almost impossible to free one's self from its jaws, most of the time
the person losses a part of one's self trying to free from its hold.
Another dangerous point is once the crocodile gets a hold of its prey and
has an advantage over it, it spins round and round holding the prey in its
jaws and tries to drown it and kill it. If one reflects on the things that
come over a person at this time then one would be able to relate it to the
crocodile.

Today's message is not a good message. It is a warning which the Lord is
telling Christian nations that they would be moving from a time of
sufficient to a time of mourning. This mourning would also be caused due
the times of frequent natural disasters that we are in. Note - It is not
the time of indication that Jesus would come but a step in the chain of
events leading to when Jesus Christ would come again.

Let us pray for each other and repent for the lives we have been living,
and especially for taking the Lord and His instructions for granted since
we had been blessed with worldly things.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are God and your Kingdom is not of this world. You made us Lord,
so that we overcome this world and prove ourselves to be your Children and
to be blessed with things unimaginable. Even though we were not capable or
worthy, it is You who made it possible for us to do so. Lord in spite of
You doing so much yet we have taken You for granted. Lord, forgive us your
people and have mercy on us. Let us not perish, but for your Name sake
takes us through this times unharmed...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

1 Kings 4:25 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

Judges 20:1 - Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

Samuel 24:2 - For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was
with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to
Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the
people.


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Time between prayers

Lamentation 3:56 - Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my
breathing, at my cry.

In today's message the Hebrew 'revachah&# 39; word translated as breathing comes
from the root word 'revach&# 39; which means interval.

If one has seen a person crying with great grief especially small children,
in between their loud crying they stop in between to breathe.

Today's message reminds us when we pray to God He does hear our prayer, but
what about the time in between our prayers, do we pray for those times?

What are these times when we do not pray?

Jeremiah symbolizes these times as times when water is flowing over his
head, when he is drowned in worldly things. When he is cut off from breath,
a word translated as spirit, a time when we walk in the flesh and not in
spirit, a time when we are not communicating with the Spirit of the Lord.

He also states these time when he is in the lowest pit, a time when
problems look so serve that depression grooms death, helplessness and
vanity over us.

Paul instructions in his letters to always be in prayer meaning to always
be in communication with the Lord. We can be doing work, out in a park with
our family or even at a party; we need to be always aware of the presence
of the Lord and keep our ears inclined to Him voice like a radio receiver
that is tuned into a radio band.

The Lord is telling when we pray to also pray for the times when we are not
praying. So that we be less often in those times, that those time be short
and do not consume us.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, we pray for the times when we are not praying, the times when we are
lost in this world enjoying the pleasures of this world, or times when the
troubles of this world have burdened us. We pray Lord those times be short
and less often, that we be always aware of your presence. Lord, You are
omnipresent and only a heart that is far from You restricts your presence.
Lord, keep our hearts and ears always inclined to You and your voice...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

1 Thessalonians 5:17-19

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

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Refraining our feet from evil ways

Psalm 119:101 - I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
keep thy word.

In today's message the psalmist talks of refraining one's feet from evil!
Does one do things with one's feet or more with their hands? Or is evil a
name of a place that one goes to with one's feet?

It is in the understanding of today's message that one will know why Jesus
washed only the feet of His disciple and commanded them to wash each
other's feet. He told them at that time but they could do that (wash
another' s feet) only later, it was only because He gave them His Spirit and
authority they could wash another' s feet and today we too can wash the feet
of others because Jesus gave us His Spirit (at Pentecost) and the authority
to do so. We can wash other's Believer' s feet but they have to wash their
own hands but neither we nor anyone else can wash the hands of others.

You may have got confused with what I just stated. Let me explain.

We need to realize God commanded no one could enter the Tabernacle / come
before the Lord without washing one's hands and feet. Breaking this
commandment was considered even worse than murder; God stated any person
who breaks this commandment would die. Since the Jews lacked understanding
of this commandment and thought it was about washing thus they made washing
a ritual that became more of bondage. They used vessels made of silver or
of other precious metals for washing; some even engraved them with precious
stones. One would literally know the financial status of the family by
their washing vessel. Jesus detested this, therefore at times would not
even wash His hands just to let them know what they were doing or believing
in was wrong.

I understood washing of feet when I understood the symbol of feet in
scriptures while reading Moses' first encounter with the Lord, when the
Lord spoke to Moses through the burning bush. We read the Lord (Angel of
the Lord) instructed Moses to remove his sandals when he approached the
burning bush for it was holy ground. I just reflected on this instruction
which the Lord gave, where was Moses standing? He was standing on a
mountain. The whole place around him was the same; there was dirt / mud all
around. The bush was not burning on some granite or marble flooring, it was
normal earth. How far from the burning bush was holy ground? So the
question came to my mind why did the Lord ask Moses to remove his sandals
when approaching the burning bush/Him. His sandals would have had mud on
them, the same mud which was all over the place.

It was later I realizes feet symbolized one way or walk of life and the
Lord instructed Moses as he approached near to the place where the Lord's
glory was manifested (burning bush) to come as he is. The also instructed
the Jews / Israelites before the entered the Tabernacle to wash their feet
(get forgiveness for the wrong in their life) and wash their hand (get
forgiveness for their wrong doings), else if they approached His glory in a
sinful state they would die.

Only God had authority to forgive sins and Jesus being Son of God and
Christ also had the authority to forgive. He gave them this authority only
after giving them His Spirit.

We as Christians, baptized with the Holy Spirit have authority to forgive
sins, not only of those sinned against us but even those of others and this
authority we receive through Jesus Christ. Those who are baptized in the
Holy Spirit can forgive the sins of others but for our own sins we need to
go to another brother or sister in the Lord.

In today's message the psalmist states one does not become holy because one
keeps the Law but to keep the Law one need to be holy. The Law is not all
about not doing evil but is more about doing good. To do good works we need
to be close to God since it is the Lord who does the good works through us.
If we live a life of evil then god will not be able to work through us.
Thus we need to live a holy life to live a life of righteousness.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord we pray that we keep away from living a life of sin so that we can
have a relationship with You, that we be a holy vessel for the works of the
Tabernacle - the works of your Kingdom. Lord let it be registered in our
hearts that Christianity is not all about not doing evil but more about
doing your plans, about setting the coming of your Kingdom...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Exodus 3:4-5

4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him
out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am
I.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Acts 7:33 - Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for
the place where thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 30:18-21

18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to
wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.

19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:

20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash
with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to
minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and
it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed
throughout their generations.

John 13:3-10

3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and
that he was come from God, and went to God;

4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel,
and girded himself.

5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou
wash my feet?

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but
thou shalt know hereafter.

8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him,
If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands
and my head.

10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his
feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Matthew 16:19 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 - Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.

Matthew 9:6 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth
to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up
thy bed, and go unto thine house.

Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

John 20:22-23

22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Spirit:

23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose
soever sins ye retain, they are retained.


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The SPROUT that became King and Priest

Zechariah 6:12,13 - And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of
hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow
up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he
shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall
sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and
the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

The book of Zechariah is one of the most amazing books; most of the matter
expounded in the book of Revelation comes from this book. Also lots of
prophecies in the New Testament with regards to Jesus that were fulfilled
originate in this book.

In today's message Jesus Christ is referred to as 'BRANCH&# 39; and this term is
also used in the book of Isaiah. The Hebrew word 'tsemach&# 39; also means
SPROUT. If we read the verse says He will 'grow up out of His place', out
of 'His place' not from an existing place, and if we read John 15 Jesus
says I am the True Vine, He does not say He is the part of a vine but
disassociates Himself from the existing vine of Adam. He says whosoever
becomes a part of this New True Vine will bear fruit when they abide by His
Word and become His disciples. By ourselves we cannot bear fruit but just
by our abiding in Him, it is He who brings fruit in us.

So we see technically we cannot use the word BRANCH for Christ but need to
use the word SPROUT. It is this very reason He was born out of a virgin so
that He is born out of the human race and yet not be born out of a human
father. Being born out of a virgin ensured that the corruption of man that
is passed from father to children would not come unto Him, yet He would
fulfill the requirement of being a sacrifice on the behalf of man, for He
was Son of Man born out of a woman. Had He been born of a human father then
the sin nature and curses on man would have blemished Him. He was not only
born without blemish but remained without blemish. That is why to be like
Him, we who are born out of blemish need to be born again and it was His
death and resurrection that made it possible for us to be born again by His
giving us His Spirit.

Today's message says Son of Man - Jesus Christ the SPROUT who sits on one
throne yet holds 2 offices, one office of Kingship and the other of Priest.
We who are in Christ are also called to hold these 2 offices. As kings we
need to bring into subjection our carnal nature and have dominion on this
world, the authority which God had given us and which we lost due to sin,
and as priests we are called to build the Temple.

To have victory over our enemies both natural and spiritual we need to have
victory over our internal enemy which is the nature of Adam, the nature
which we are born with and which comes through our earthly fathers. That is
why when we die to ourselves and are born again in Christ we are a new
creation and thus have power with God and are called His Israel. This does
not happen on the day we are baptized but the process of being born again
starts on that day with our baptism and as we grow spiritually we are less
our old man and more the new man in Christ.

Paul writes our body is the Temple of God and also we collectively in
Christ, as one body also become the Temple of God. We cannot build one
without building the other. That means we cannot build our own selves
without building others nor can we build others if we are not building
ourselves. So to build others we need to first start building ourselves and
as we build others we need to continually build ourselves.

In both cases we see the work starts inside, within us and then spreads out.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord Jesus, You came as man and became the SPROUT so that we spiritually by
our faith can disconnect from the nature of Adam and be connected to You as
your branches. It is You by your Spirit who brings fruit in us, making us
fruitful and keeping us from being put in the fire in the end to be
consumed like grass. Lord, help us to understand the importance to work
within ourselves and to continue this work with others...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 15:1-8

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit.

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered;
and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be
my disciples.

Psalms 80:15 - And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
branch [the Hebrew word here is 'ben' which means 'Son' ] that thou madest
strong for thyself.

Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch [SPROUT] of the LORD be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for
them that are escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 11:1 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch [Hebrew word used here is 'netser&# 39; which symbolizes 'growth&# 39;
like the budding of Aaron's rod] shall grow out of his roots:

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A day of trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities

Zephaniah 1:15,16 - That day is a day of wrath [fury], a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness [destruction] and desolation [ruin], a day of
darkness [obscurity] and gloominess [calamity], a day of clouds and thick
darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and
against the high [haughty] towers [chiefs].

When the year 2013 started I had posted a message of warning to Americans,
this was based on a vision I have received in April 2010. Today we see the
warning has indeed come true that does not mean it ends here (I thought it
would happen in November but started in December).

In today's message the warning continues and the message is not only for
Americans but all those so called 'Christian nations' who have taken the
Lord for granted. The message says they thought they were protected by the
Lord even though internally they are spiritually hollow.

Deception is so high that it is very difficult to find preachers in theses
'Christian nations' who preach God's Word truthfully. It is not that these
teachings are new; they existed since many centauries but today even the
few who preached truthfully God's Word, from the little they knew are also
taken into the main stream of deceit. They preach what people's ears itch
to hear and not what the Lord wants to speak unto them.

The Lord is saying to these people His fury is set on them. This would not
only be through natural disasters but also financial and other means. This
shaking is to cause a change in heart of these people and bring the high
towers down. The so called 'blessed&# 39; people will realize that the Lord is
the Lord of the world every race and nation, and should not be taken for
granted. Jeremiah 12:2 puts this very well. It says indeed the Lord planted
them, they grew in the Lord, they also did do the Lord's work and their
work did indeed bring fruit, yet the Lord says their hearts are far from
Him.

Today the trumpet is blowing for these people to gather unto the Lord, to
leave their place of standing and their thinking, to humble themselves and
come unto the Lord, seek His truth.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are God and when your people floated away from You in their
haughtiness. Their mouths speak about You but their hearts are far from
You. They desire the blessings of this world more than your Kingdom. They
sow to reap in this world. They have little knowledge of You and your
Kingdom that is why they become victims of vanity. Lord, we pray for your
mercy in their lives. We pray You send people who teach according to your
heart, people who change hearts and bring again a passion for You and your
kingdom within them and turn away your wrath...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Jeremiah 12:2 - Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they
grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far
from their hearts (reins

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Rise early and worship

1 Samuel 1: 19 - And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped
before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and
Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

There was a time when I would sit to pray late in the night after I
finished all my work and just before I went off to bed. I use to feel very
nice to pray at this time for everyone else would retire for the day and I
could have good time alone with the Lord. But one day the Lord shook me by
what He revealed to me. I thought it pleased God to spend time with the
Lord in prayer after I finished all my day's work, but then the Lord was
not pleased.

One day the Lord gave a vision in which He showed me that my prayers we
like human excreta (shit). I thought was it the way I prayed that was the
problem?, but then that was not the case for later as I reflected on this
vision and understood tithing is not only about give money but also time I
realized the problem was to do with the time of the day that I prayed.

We people are so selfish that we use the best part of the day for ourselves
and when we have finished with everything we sit to give the leftover of
the day to the Lord. The Lord says He desires our first fruits; He desire
the first part of the day not the last, leftover part. God is not a beggar
but is Lord; He is the one who blesses us with time. He is the giver of the
day and desires we give Him at least the start of our day.

In today's message we see it is written 'and they rose up in the morning
early, and worshipped before the LORD'. This could have just been written
as 'they went and worshipped the Lord', but the fact the Lord wanted us to
know the time they went has a reason. It was this fact that they gave due
first importance to God before they came together in courtship, pleased the
Lord.

Today the Lord is asking us, who is the most important person in our lives?
If it is Him, then why are we not giving due importance to Him, but giving
Him our first fruits of time of the day?

[Prayer Starter]

Lord Jesus, You are the Morning Star and so also are the Cherubs called the
Morning Star. The Word says it is the Cherubs that led worship unto You
time in and out by saying 'Holy, Holy, Holy'. Lord, You our provider and
You desire the first fruits of all that we receive from You. Lord, we pray
more and more people get up early morning and spend quality time with You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Deuteronomy 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the
earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.

Revelation 2:26-28

26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will
I give power over the nations:

27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter
shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

28 And I will give him the morning star.

Revelation 22:16 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these
things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the
bright and morning star.


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God will multiply their sorrow

Psalm 16:4 - Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their
names into my lips.

When we read the previous verse alone with this verse the Lord notes, in
this world there 2 types of people, the first lot includes those who
acknowledge Him as God and pursue Him in their lives and the second lot
includes those who pursue the blessings (riches) of world or the gods of
this world. If we read next verses it tells us those who honestly pursue
God are those who pursue His inheritance. That means those who desire not
this worldly kingdom but the Kingdom of the Lord are the ones whom the Lord
calls as Saints and among them there are those who are on special mission
whom the Lord calls His excellent (elect).

Just last Sunday I was preaching in a Church on the topic 'Spiritual
Warfare' . People must have thought I would teach them on how to pray
better, how to fast or all those things which most preachers preach, things
like of how to battle with Satan and his goons, how to deliver people and
how to have authority over evil spirits.

But as I neared the end of my preaching they were in for a big surprise.
They realized the biggest battle was nowhere else but in them and with
their own self. They realize the battle was all about having authority over
one's own carnal flesh (desires) and bring it under the will of God. They
realized when they fight the battle within the Lord fights the battle
without. It was all about pursuing the Lord's Righteousness.

Those who pursue the Lord's Righteousness are the ones who will one day
become Sons of God, They are the ones who will be co-rulers with Christ.
They are the ones who will inherit the Kingdom of God, meaning not just
enter but have rights in the Kingdom.

Today's message talks of those who pursue this world and these are the one
who to deny God and the Truth thus they create gods that do not exist or
they make the things of this world as gods. They are the one who crave a
life that desires to fulfil their carnal lust thus come under bondage of
evil spirits. Even among them the Lord says are some who show righteous;
they do the works of works of the Kingdom of God but without the love for
God and His Kingdom. Their works or righteousness the Lord says are
unacceptable to Him. What the Lord says He would not take their name on His
lips means He (Jesus Christ) will not confess about them to the Father
(Matthew 10:32).

[Prayer Starter]

Lord Jesus, You have said in your Word those who confess You to the world
those You will confess before the Father. Today You have explained to us
that this confessing is not about being verbal but being a living
testimony. It is about pursuing You and your Kingdom. We pray Lord that we
living a life pleasing to You and not be just verbal Christians.. .

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Psalm 16:2-8

2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness
extendeth not to thee;

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom
is all my delight.

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their
drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my
lips.

5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou
maintainest my lot.

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly
heritage.

7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct
me in the night seasons.

8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.

Matthew 10:32 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 7: 21-23

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity.

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God has given them all unto us if we thirst

Obadiah 1:19,20,21 - And the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and the
plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and
the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin Gilead. And the captivity of this host
of the children of Israel that of the Canaanites, unto Zarephath; and the
captivity [exiles] of Jerusalem, which in Sepharad, shall possess the
cities of the south. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the
mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S. [Italic words removed]

Before I come to the message I like to expound on some words.

Esau means 'hairy&# 39; - spiritually symbolizes those who live only on grace
and do not work towards righteousness. We are saved by grace unto
righteousness. It is by faith we receive grace and the Spirit of God we
receive by the grace of God reveals the Word and leads us to keep the Word
thus brings righteousness in us.

Philistine means 'immigrants&# 39; - spiritually symbolizes those who have doubt
about their fundamental belief. They are the ones who hop from denomination
to denomination, church to church or religion to religion. They cause more
confusion to people, than anything else.

Ephraim means 'doubled blessed' - God has given us everything that we need,
being blessed means receiving what God has provided to us. Being doubled
blessed means trying to squeeze out more than what is needed, or graving
for more than what God has planned for us. These are the prosperity Gospel
seekers. Like God allowed Lucifer to take much of the Tree of Life in
Heaven, more than what he needed which later caused him a very anointed of
God to fall, so also He allows us. He will not stop us from craving for
things of this world, it is we who should decide what we desire - this
world or His Kingdom, they both do not get alone; we have to choose best of
one, for we cannot have best of both, best of one and less of the other.

Samaria means 'watch mountain' and comes from the root word which means to
observe. It refers to the audience in the Church. People who think giving
attendance to church on Sundays is all about being Christian. They think
the mission of Christ is dedicated to only a few and surely they are not
one of those few.

Benjamin means 'son of the right hand'. Scripturally it refers to those who
are worldly righteous that is why we see this tribe refused to cross the
river Jordan to claim the Promised Land which symbolized Heaven.

Gilead means 'rocky mountains' . It refers to people who have little, little
understanding of the Kingdom of God. The problem is not the quantity but
the problem is they cannot relate their one understanding with the other.
The Bible is called Word of God not words of God. The Truth is symbolized
as one large rock, more like a cliff not many stones. Truth is one, all
understanding of scriptures inter-connect together and inter-relates with
each other as one, therefore is symbolized by the fruit pomegranate.

Children of Israel means 'little ones of Israel' or spiritually growing.

Canaanites means 'Canaan zealous' (inhabitants or descendants of Canaan)
and Canaan means 'low land' thus symbolizes those who believing suffering
or being oppressed is the way to Heaven and thus passionately pursue it.

Zarephath means 'refinery&# 39; symbolizing people who think being tested is
good (contrary to Jesus teaching us in the prayer 'Our Father' to ask the
Father not to put us to test).

Exiles of Jerusalem - Jerusalem here means 'teaching of peace' and these
people are those who use force, aggression or hostility to prove their
doctrine or understanding of scriptures.

The Lord is telling us all these people the Lord will give unto us if we
are from the south. Here the Hebrew word translated as south comes from the
root word meaning 'thirsty&# 39;. The Lord is saying if we are thirsty for Him,
He will fill us with Living water (which symbolizes understanding of the
Kingdom of God - which gives eternal life). Note here the Lord uses the
word Saviours and not just Saviour. This we got in our previous messages
the Lord Jesus Christ has called us to be like Him and to rule with Him. He
came to give back to man the dominance in this world that was given unto
man by God and which man lost when sin came in his life.

Time is come for us to have a vertical growth and thus manifest the power
of God and to declare the Kingdom of God.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, the world does not know You because your people do not manifest your
power and glory. Your people do not thirst for You therefore do not receive
your understanding and thus lack and suffer as Christians. Lord we pray You
fill your people with more and more thirst of your Kingdom that we can
claim and bring all these people You mentioned unto You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
John 4:10 - Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 7:38 - He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.

John 17:3 - And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

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Will the Jews get their land?

Promised Land

There are many Christians whose eyes are either towards the sky walking
looking up waiting when Jesus would appear in the clouds or their eyes are
towards the country Israel waiting when Israel will get peace and security
and grow into a great nation?

Last Sunday I took a Sindhi woman to Church alone with my family. She used
to go to the Catholic Church with my mom so I invited her to come and
experience how we worship the Lord. She did like it and kept saying the
word it is 'different&# 39;. During worship I saw she closed her eyes, lifted
her hands and worshiped with us. One would be very happy, seeing this but
in my spirit I was not jumping seeing this for later as we spoke did I
realize why.

I told her on my way back about a debate I had just the day before with one
of the senior most Muslim apologist (that too was my first live debate with
Muslims) and how we debated on the topic 'Is the Bible or the Quran the
Word of God'.

She told me her father in his lifetime had read both the Bible and the
Quran. She was told that the Quran was written before the Bible since
Mohammad came before Jesus (according to her understanding) . She thought
all gods and all religions are the same. Now go back and think who was she
worshipping with her eyes closed? Since the truth was far from her, even
though she did 'good' yet her 'good' was no good.

The Bible says all the promises of God are YES and AMEN in Jesus Christ.

The Jews are people who rejected Jesus Christ and were far from God and the
Truth, so if they have rejected Jesus Christ how could they become heirs to
the promises of the Lord?

Another thing the Sindhi women told me that she was made to understand that
Christians believed that, when Jesus Christ comes again the world would end
and the good people would enter another world a new world which would last
another 5000 years. This the cycle of 500years, God has been following
since creation coming in different forms. She also claimed God has already
come as a man since 70years and has been revealing these things.

Now tell me is this written in the Bible? Firstly she has not read the
Bible, but is going by hearsay like Mohammad did and wrote the Quran (that
is why all his facts are all messed up, he cooked up a concoction of the
OT, NT and another heathen religion and made the Quran).

She was not a Christian but sadly this is the state of many Christians who
do not study scriptures but 'know' the Bible from TV preachers and stage
preachers whose only agenda is to gather larger crowds and make bigger
'churches&# 39;.

God is telling us do not get distracted or waste precious time behind the
country Israel for the real Israel means Sons of God and the Son of Man
Jesus Christ being first made way for us to become Sons of God - the real
Israel. Let us grow in Spirit and have power and authority and bring the
Kingdom of God here and let He be glorified among all nations.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, Satan has used many ways to destroy your people and one of his
successful ways is to distract people not rooted in your Word with vain
things. Lord, we pray they know You are God of all mankind and your
promises are only for your children who believe in You and have accepted
You through your Son. Your Word says there is no Jew, no Greek, no Roman
all are one and same for You and You love them all the same. So there is no
American, no Israelite, no Indian, no European, no African, no Arabian, no
Chinese, no Japanese or any race, nor creed but only your children who
believe and accept You and rest those who are of children of Satan those
who have rejected You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

2 Corinthians 1:19-20

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us,
even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was
yea.

20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the
glory of God by us.

Colossians 3:11 - Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and
in all.

Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 10:12 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

1 Corinthians 1:23 - But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psalms 67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
all nations.

Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain
of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.


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Kingdom of the seed

Psalms 89:3,4 - I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto
David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy
throne to all generations. Selah.

When I received this scripture again for a message I was wondering why and
what the Lord wanted to tell us and when I understood it, it surprised me.

If one asks any Christian even a theologian on this scripture they will
tell you it refers to Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.

Many Christian have a thinking Jesus will come again as man and will rule
the world for a 1000years and after that I do not know what they conclude.
Some say He will be defeated or killed again or would be taken up. I do not
know where they get such understanding. They have fused the Bible with
mythological stories by taking bits and pieces of scriptures and lack
knowledge of who God is and what His Mission / Cross is.

In simple words His story of man [the Bible] and His Law [as given in the
Bible] is for the Righteousness of man which comes through faith in Jesus
Christ. Through our faith we receive grace and are called to good works
which builds righteousness in us. It is not by good works we are saved but
by grace which we receive through our faith, and when this faith becomes
living in us it causes us to do good works [the Mission of Christ]. The
good works confirms our faith and brings fruit to the grace we have
received.

The Hebrew word 'zera' translated as seed in today's message does not refer
to 'a seed' but to the yield, for it comes from the word zara which means
to sow. When one sows he or she does not plant one seed but many seeds.

Jesus is referred to as Son of God and the Gospel of John 1:12 says Christ
came to make those who believe in Him into Sons of God.

When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom He used the words Kingdom of Heaven or
Kingdom of God. Only twice He used the words 'my kingdom' and at both times
He referred to the end on Judgment day when He comes in glory. He also
mentions not just Him but with Him others too will also sit on thrones. To
understand the thrones one need to understand what the 12 tribes represent
and what the Heavens are made of.

People think His glory will be magnificent and will peak when He comes
again, No.

When He comes again it is written He will come as Son of Man not as God the
Son. He comes as what He humbled Himself to [a man]. It is only when He
returns to the Father with His Bride will He be what He was before He
humbled Himself - as God [the Son].

Jesus [the man] was the first true Israel and the first of Zion; He came to
make us Israel and bring us into Zion and if a person understands this, he
or she will understand what today's message tells us.

Note today's message has the word Selah at its end. The words tells us to
reflect deeply on this message for in it lies great treasure.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, your Word tells us what man has not imagined or conceived in His
heart that You have set for Him in your Kingdom. Lord, we pray for your
people for they have harden their hearts and are far from You that is why
precious things of your Kingdom are hidden from them...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Romans 10:4 - For Christ is the end [finally] of the law [Commandments] for
righteousness to every one that believeth.

John 1: 12 - But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Luke 22:30 - That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit
on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

John 18:36 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom
were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father
with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye
which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit
in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Rule life - know, perceive, receive and give

Proverbs 1:1, 2, 3 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of
Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment,
and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
discretion.

The Hebrew word 'mashal&# 39; is translated here as 'proverb&# 39; but this word also
has another meaning, it means 'to rule'.

When we read the first 3 lines of this book it says it is given to us to
rule or have authority or have control on a few this and these are.

1) To know wisdom and instruction.

2) To perceive the words of understanding.

3) To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgement and equity.

4) To give to the simple, young man (immature but passionate and energetic)
knowledge and discretion.

If we divide the whole thing it is in 4 parts -

1) Know

2) Perceive

3) Receive

4) Give

The Word of God or knowledge of the Kingdom of God should be approached in
this fashion. We need to know what it is, then we need to understand it
(perceive), receive it and then share this understanding with others. This
process allows us to have a rule over life, in other words be rulers over
our lives, for God has given us dominion over this world and life on this
world that is why He calls us Israel which means Prince of God - one who
has authority in God.

People do not follow these steps in its order, or do not complete all the
steps, therefore struggle in life.

Firstly people do not know what is the purpose or power of the Word of God
therefore do not understand it. Since they do not understand it they do not
receive it fully. They receive worldly knowledge, mostly knowledge of the
Kingdom of God mixed with worldly knowledge. Thus what they give is also a
corrupt understanding of the Kingdom of God and then the people they build
do not have discernment. Now these people who are not build well they start
on a wrong foot and without discernment they pick-up more garbage on the
way and thus they too join this viscous cycle that suffocates life. The
very thing that was meant to have rule over life since not taken properly
lands up doing the opposite - suffocates it.

Let us firstly know the purpose and power of the Word of God, this itself
is not clear to most Christians. When I say 'most' it sadly means almost
all. We firstly start on the wrong foot then those who start on the right
foot do not complete the whole process, thus all of us struggle in life.

Let us show the world that Christianity is not a way of life or about
living a good life but something about being king over life in this world
for Christianity is based or founded over the Word of God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, when You gave the Word it had only one purpose and that was to
overcome darkness. Lord we pray your people know the power of your Word
that it gives life, life in abundance and it overcomes darkness, for it
overcomes sin and death. Lord Jesus, You demonstrated to us the power of
the Word by your death and resurrection. You proved to us You overcame and
now we too can overcome...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

John 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world.

Matthew 28:18-20

18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me
in heaven and in earth.

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

John 16:1-3

1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee:

2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 1:1-5

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that
was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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Where is the seed?

Psalms 89:4 - Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne
to all generations. Selah.

Last Sunday at my Bible class I was teaching on the real reasons why God
called any object or event unclean and the Hebrew word used has 4 meanings
(dimensions) and one of them was menstruation. On further study of it we
learned it had nothing to do with the process a woman goes through but the
Lord was explaining us about the spiritual menstruation His people (both
man and woman) go through which is truly unclean.

Another very amazing thing we learned from the Lord is about birth.
Although a woman gives birth to a child yet the child existed even before
he or she takes form in the womb of his or her mother. The moment the egg
in the woman is fertilized, the egg starts to divide and thus starts the
formation of the various organs of the child; it is at this very stage when
the basic organs develop that the spirit of the child starts to exist into
this being that is in the womb. The woman does not create but just bring
into existence into this world a spirit being that already existed and was
created by the Lord long before. Scriptures tell us we all were created in
the beginning and existed since the creation of this world that is why the
Lord knows us from the beginning. Then the question comes, where were we
before we came into the womb of our mothers? The answer to this I learned
when I was teaching my daughter to grow plants.

When we put seeds in the soil the plant already exist within the seed and
it comes to life when we sow it. The life of the plant would be a short
period from a few days to many years but the life of the seed if keep in
right condition could be for hundreds of years. When God blessed Abraham He
also blessed the seeds in his loins and same did God do to the seeds that
were in the loins of Isaac and Jacob. So we see the seeds existed in the
loins of the father even before they started to take form of a man in the
womb of its mother. The seeds in the father do not just include the
children born by his wife but includes all his generations to come,
including of his sons and his grandsons and so on. So can one imagine what
God has planned within a man?

We also see that is why curses from generation to generation were via the
father and not via the mother.

Today's scripture talks of the seed of David being blessed forever. The Son
of Man - Jesus was called the son of David even though He was his God. We
see God the Son humbled Himself and became a seed of man that came to
natural life within the womb of a woman named Mary. When Jesus Christ comes
again scripture state the Son of Man with His Angels, it does not say God
the Son with His Angels. When Jesus ascended after 40days of His
resurrection the Angel said to His disciples 'He would come back as He
went' and He went as a resurrected man - Son of Man. We also read when God
blessed Jacob He said out of His loins would come - Kings. When God told
Satan in the Garden of Eden that the seed of man would crush its head, He
did not speak only of Jesus for Jesus works with us and through us and it
is we people of God who will crush Satan's head.

Scripture say the Son of Man will come into the Kingdom of God and His
Kingdom would be forever. Jesus called us brethren and Paul also spoke of
the crown for those who have a high calling otherwise called the Elect.
Paul also expands on this by saying some of us will rule over the Angels

Today God is reminding us He has called us for great things and His plans
were set from the beginning of creation. He has not failed and will not
fail. We will indeed bring in the Kingdom of God and be co-rulers with
Jesus Christ when He comes in glory.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, what man has not seen or imagined You have set for him in your
Kingdom. Lord we pray that we realize what we are called to become and
change our attitude towards life and towards problems for You Lord, have
already declared the victory and nothing can now stop it...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Genesis 35:10-12

10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called
any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a
nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out
of thy loins;

12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it,
and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for
I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Exodus 34:6-7

6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD
God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and
truth,

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and
sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children, and upon the children' s children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation.

Acts 1:9-11

9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold,
two men stood by them in white apparel;

11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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People will come to the Lord from the Arab nations

Isaiah 18:7 - In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose
land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of
hosts, the mount Zion.

If one recollects before the Arab-spring started the Lord had given us a
message of it and had also given us an indication that it would last for
about 4 years. Today we are entering the 3rd year of the Arab spring and we
are seeing things are getting murkier, one fighting against another and the
whole Arab nation is divided into groups which are fighting each other in
different countries.

Let me expound on some words in today's scripture before I come to its
message.

Isaiah 18:7 - In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people deferred and scoured and from a people fearful from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land
the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the
mount Zion.

We see today more and more Christians are waking up to the evil named
'Islam&# 39; and realizing no longer they can sit down and just observe and sigh
over this religion while it spreads across the world. If we look at world
statistics this religion has maximum count in places where Christians are
fewer. Largest numbers of Muslims dwell in Asia with Pakistan, India and
Indonesia together having more Muslims than in the Middle-East or the
African subcontinent. Now with Christians in Asia waking up and more and
more taking up Apologetics we will soon see Islam getting wiped out from
the face of this world.

God on His part is working directly in the Middle-East and one may say how.
If one reads scriptures the Lord promised His people that He would send
before them locusts into the enemy's land and clear the land for them so as
enable them to dwell in it. If one studies locust - they symbolize hurts.
When Arab-spring started people thought they were fighting for democracy
but today we see the fight has nothing to do with democracy but with
sectarianism. Hurts that were existing as long as 1000 to 1200 years back,
have suddenly cropped up in a big way and are causing them to destroy their
own land, and each other, eating into their nation as a plaque.

Today the Lord is telling us by the end of the Arab-spring we will see many
will accept Christ and come to the knowledge of the Truth. These will not
be ordinary Christians but will be mighty warriors for the kingdom of God.

To some extend this work has already started and some of the Arab countries
which are still not got involved in the Arab-spring have started to take
notice of this activity. To stop this they are thinking of ways to reduce
the presence of Christians in their land so planning to increase Zakat
which is a tax which a non-Muslim pays to the state so as to be allowed to
follow their religion in an Islamic country. This increase is going to be
not small but big so that most immigrants (who are the ones evangelising)
will be discouraged to live there and thus go to their own countries.
Others are directly removing immigrants on some or other pretext.

Let us rejoice and thank the Lord for the harvest He is going to give us
from among the Muslim nations and the souls who are going to be saved from
being perished due to vanity.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord You alone are the Truth and life comes only from You alone. Your Word
says the knowledge of You is life; salvation and eternal life is in knowing
You. Lord we thank You for the souls You are saving from amongst the
Muslims. We thank You for your abundant mercy...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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The wicked plots and the Lord laughs at them

Psalms 37:12,13 - The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon
him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day
is coming.

In today's message we see the Lord encouraging us not to worry if we have
people who have evil devises against us. The Lord is telling us when evil
people devise against His righteous He laughs at them.

We need to understand the depth of these words as to what is means when the
Lord says 'He laughs at them'. Understand if God is going to give eye for
an eye or tooth for a tooth then He would not have used the words 'He
laughs at them'. When He uses the words 'laughs at them' it means something
that the evil person could not imagine is just over that person's head. We
see such scenes in cartoons like Tom and Jerry, where Tom the cat devises
evil plans against Jerry the mouse but lands up getting more hurt then he
thought of inflicting on Jerry, and Jerry manages to always escape these
traps either unhurt or very little hurt.

What we need to also remember that only when we are just / righteous then
only we are fully protected or have the favour of God over our lives. When
God calls us righteous He does not mean that we are perfect, for He knows
man cannot be prefect by himself. When He calls us righteous it means we
love His Law (Commandments) and try to keep it with all our hearts and all
our strength.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are Righteous and Holy. Nothing unrighteous can stand before You
for You and light and darkness perishes before You. Lord, we pray we grow
more and more in our desire to keep your Word and be strengthened in mind,
spirit and body to be just...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Luke 10:25-28

25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying,
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy
mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt
live.

Matthew 13:41-43

41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out
of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth.

43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Psalms 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of
the ungodly shall perish.

Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.

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Warning of the coup
Jeremiah 41:11,12 - But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, Then they took all the men, and went
to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great
waters that are in Gibeon.

After the destruction of Jerusalem in 588BC Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon took the most elite of the Jewish captives of the kinds of Daniel
to Babylon, and those who were weak, old, unskilled or unfit he left
behind. He put Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, (who saved Jeremiah from death)
and grandson of Shaphan (King Josiah's secretary) as in-charge over them.
When Jeremiah was given a choice he chose to stay back with Gedaliah in
Judea.

When the Jews who were in other lands like Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria
came to know that Nebuchadnezzar had put Gedaliah in charge as Governor of
Judea they came to Judea with their offerings and badges of mourning for
the destruction of the Lord's house and the holy city; also Jews who had
been driven to Moab, Ammon, and Edom, but now with reassured confidence
began to gather in Judea. The Jews who gathered included the captains of
armies like Ishmael son of Nethaniah (who was of blood royal), Johanan and
Jonathan, Seraiah, the sons of Ephai, Jezaniah, and their men.

Johanan had warned Gedaliah that Baalis (called from the idol Baal) king of
Ammon had sent Ishmael to assassinate him and his retinue. Johanan even
offered Gedaliah, to kill Ishmael but this offer Gedaliah refused. So
Ishmael, in violation of the sacred rights of hospitality and took
advantage of the opportunity, while eating Gedaliah' s "bread" at Mizpah,
smote him two months after his appointment at a royal party recorded as
"Jewish irreconcilables&quo t;. Ishmael with his ten men also killed all the Jews
and even the Chaldeans present at this royal party. It is written all the
bodies of all the people Ishmael killed he dumped them in a pit made to
collect drinking water for the people of Mizpah. Later when Johanah came to
know of this, he came to Mizpah with his men and confronted Ishmael. Then
Ishmael with his few people managed to flee to the Ammonites who were
Israelites traditional enemies. Later Johanan fearing a backlash from the
Babylonians since many Chaldeans has also died fled to Egypt taking with
him the remnant Jews, among who was Jeremiah.

This message is given to us today for we too are given a warning of a coup
like Gedaliah was. If we do not do something about it then we too will one
day face the consequences of our careless attitude, our ignorance and
laziness.

The religion followed by Muslims is called Islam for they believe that
Ishmael the son of Abraham and his servant woman is the rightful heir to
the promises of Abraham. In other words they are the children of Ishmael
like we Christians are by faith the children of Abraham through Isaac
through Jacob / Israel.

I was collecting data for a presentation tomorrow on Islam on its growth
and spread around the world. From these figures and having background
knowledge of the religion, we come to understand the strategy they are
using successfully i.e. in Britain alone there are almost 6000 who
converted to Islam annually and most among them are women. Knowing Islam,
women are the worst victims of this religion (which is more of a political
system since the 1st Islamic year of their calendar is the year they came
into power) yet we see they manage to deceive them sufficiently to get them
to accept Islam. These people are kept away from the real face of Islam,
the main picture but are shown a trailer which looks like a fairy-tale.

They are told Islam is a religion of peace but are not told this peace
according to them will only come when the whole world accepts Islam, and to
achieve this peace they have to restore to violence.

They do not realize according to Islam almost all woman will not be
eligible to go to paradise since they would not be able to fulfil one of
the necessary 5 pillars of Islam which is keeping the Ramadan. Due to
menstruation they cannot keep the 40 days fast therefore will go to hell.
In fact in their religious books Mohammad states he saw hell full of women.
He also says women have half the brains of a man.

As Muslim men have all the rights, in fact an obligation to beat the women
for the silliest of reasons and it also defines the method of beating.
Mohammad who is projected as one who loved his wives dearly; himself would
beat his wives black and green. One of his wife's skin is stated to have
patches of green due to the beatings. This wife Aisha (whom he married when
she was 6 years old and who he is stated to, 'as loved the most') went to
the level to state that the worst punishment for a woman was to be a Muslim
woman.

You will find not only womanizers but also paedophiles also joining Islam
for it allows polygamy including child marriage. Officially one man can
marry 4 women and can also have relationship with others on contract
basses. They have terms like 'thighing&# 39; (as suggested by Mohammad) for
relationship between a man and a young infant.

It is high time we Christians wake up to this evil called Islam. Even
though we Christians are greater in numbers today and if we continue to
sleep it would not be far we will be completely overtaken and would live in
our own countries as second grade citizens having restricted rights and
paying tax (Zakat) to them so as to be allowed to follow our own belief.

The Lord does not call us to take up arms against them or to restore to any
violence. Violence against Islam is like a wind against a bush fire, it
only helps it to spread. We are called to use weapons like truth, love and
kindness. We are called to educate people on the real face of Islam and for
that we ourselves need to learn for the right people (after being firm
rooted in our own faith so that we do not get deceived). We are called to
reach out of Muslims families and help them so that they see Christ in us
and learn to love Christ.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, when You declared the enemy as given unto your people, You declared
the victory. All they needed to do is get into the battle field. Lord, we
are people who walk in Spirit and not in the flesh. Help us to use
spiritual weapons like truth, love and kindness, against this fire called
Islam which is out to burn and destroy your people...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Jeremiah 40 & 41


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Do not worship the Lord in high places

2 Kings 15:3,4 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done; Save that the high
places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on
the high places.

When I had lacked understanding of scriptures I thought the Lord hated the
Israelites for worshiping Him is temples made on hills or mountains. We see
in many religions specially those who are into worshipping mythical gods
prefer to make their temples on high lands and also their 'holy' men go
into solitary to be with their gods, meditating on mountain tops.

Later I realized it was nothing to do with the place or height at which
they worshipped that God hated but more about the way or whom their
worshipped.

We see Jesus at times went on mountain tops to spend time with His Father.
It was not that He preferred mountains, for He also went regularly to
gardens to spend time with His Father. He simply desired to be in nature,
away from manmade world to have personal time with His Father.

In Ezekiel 20:28-29 it clearly says these places of worship which the
Israelites built on hills were places where they kept idols along with the
typical symbols that God had told them to keep in a place of worship. In
simple words these high places were places of worship where they had fused
pagan gods, traditions and beliefs into their way of life (what is today
called religious harmony).

We see some main stream churches like the Catholics and Orthodox Christians
are very much into worshipping God in high places. They call themselves the
original church but do not realize most of their beliefs, sacraments and
traditions originated not during the time of Jesus or the Apostles, but way
before that.

One classic example of religious fusion (harmony) is Chrislam which is a
fusion of Christianity and Islam. These people believe that both the God of
the Christians and the Allah of the Muslims are the same. Since the Quran
takes names of people like Noah, Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Joseph, Moses,
David, Aaron, Mary and Isa (Jesus) among others, they think both the books
have common goals. It seems either these people are blind or dumb or have
not read both the books.

They do not read in the Quran Mohammad states the 'Trinity&# 39; or Godhead to
be God the Father, Isa (Jesus) and Mary the mother of Isa (Jesus). They
also do not realize that the Mary of the Quran is supposed to be the sister
of Moses (mistaken for Miriam). They do not realize that the Isa (Jesus) in
the Quran is a fictitious character who speaks as a just born infant and
this Isa in some Aayah (verses) states to have died and resurrected but in
one Mohammad denies his crucifixion, death and resurrection. These are just
a few of the crazy things in the Quran. So in short the Quran states the
Bible is a lie and the Jesus of the Bible is no one else but an ordinary
prophet who came to glorify Mohammad (remember Satan told Jesus to worship
him and he would give this world / people to him) and yet these foolish
Christian accept it. Looks like they have compared the photos of God and
Allah to state they are the same and not their nature or origin as stated
in their respective books (Allah which means 'The god' was the pagan god
Hubal a moon god whom one of the 360 gods the pagan Arabs worshipped in the
Kaaba, he had 3 daughters who's names are mentioned in the Satanic Verses).

The same with Catholics, most Catholics do not realize their belief states
Jesus is not the only way to the Father for Jews and Muslims too can go to
Heaven even though they reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour (sections
836 to 845 of the CCC). They belief the sacrifice of Jesus was not
sufficient for the salvation of man that is why Mary is must for she
complemented it and thus she also becomes a way to Heaven. They do not
realize all the characteristics the Jews gave to a goddess Ashtoreth (like
Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, Perpetual Virgin etc..) and put in the
Sanctuary are the same they have given to this spirit who claims to be Mary
the mother of Jesus, of whom they have made idols and lifted up in every
church of theirs. They do not know the round wafer they call as
Eucharistic/ Communion symbolizes the sun god due to which they have a
highly
decorated stand which symbolizes the sun god in its glory, this was
introduced in 1200AD into the RC church and replaced the leavened bread. It
was the same wafer which Jezebel the pagan high priestess broke with her
congregation. So we see all those very idols, beliefs and traditions that
the Israelites did in these high places have not disappeared but are still
continuing unto this very day.

Jesus said true worshippers will be those people who worship the Father in
spirit and truth. So let us remove ourselves from high place and worship
the Lord in spirit and truth.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You alone are God. You alone are Truth and Light. Satan who is a
father of lies and the great deceiver knows if he put black against white
he would get caught easily therefore put grey against white so as to fool
people to think they are still in the white. Lord we pray that people
realize what they think is grey not nothing but black for in your Kingdom
there is either a YES or NO, White or Black and those who stand in between
draw more wrath from You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Ezekiel 20:28-29

28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up
mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the
thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their
sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the
name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

Numbers 22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam,
and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see
the utmost part of the people.

Ezekiel 36:2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

1 Kings 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was
the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
that altar.

John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him.

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Where and how to Praise the Lord

Psalm 150:1,2 - Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him
in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him
according to his excellent greatness.

This psalm is the last psalm in the book of Psalms and it ends the book
beautifully. It ends with telling man where and how to praise God.

The first 2 verses tell man where to praise God and verse 3 to 6 say how.
In today's message I will take only the where factor in a little detail;
the how factor would make this message too long for each instrument and how
to use them has a meaning and understanding.

The where factor has 4 points:-

1) In His sanctuary

2) In the firmament of his power

3) For his mighty acts

4) According to his excellent greatness

1) Paul says we are the Temple of God and our bodies are tents in which we
dwell. Note in the wilderness the Sanctuary was made in a tent, not in a
fixed structure. True children of God are people who know they are passing
through this place which hates them like the Israelites passed through the
wilderness. Like the Lord provided them every day through their journey so
also the Lord will provide for us (and in the days He did not, He had
already made the provision). That is why true children of God do not worry
of their needs for their God is their Provider (Father).

2) If we read the book of Moses and other books of the Old Testament the
power of God was manifested most in His people when they carried/possessed
the Ark of Covenant. The Ark symbolizes and its study gives us the true
meaning of the Cross of Christ. When we carry the Cross of Christ, it is
the Lord who protects us and manifests His power over us.

3) In the Bible we see Jesus did great wonders and He did those through the
power of the Holy Spirit that is why He said in the later days we would do
greater wonders than He did. So we people become an instrument for God to
do His mighty acts because we have received His Spirit.

4) Jesus said if they saw Him they saw the Father for the Father and He are
one. After Jesus died and resurrected He gave us His Spirit so that the
Spirit of Him (God) would dwell in all who believe in Him. Today as we have
the Spirit of God (Christ) in us we project the Father for Jesus Christ and
the Father are one. That is why we are called ambassadors of the Kingdom of
God.

So we see all these 4 points, point to us being the place wherein the Lord
can be truly praised. So to praise the Lord we need to be the Temple of the
Lord, we need to do the mission of Christ, we need let the Holy Spirit work
through us and lastly we need to project the nature of Christ.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, the Israelites did not truly know You. Although your grace was on
them yet they did things that were symbolic which was shadow of the truth,
yet your glory led them and shined through them such that the world took
notice of them. Today Lord the curtain that was between us is torn and we
have received Grace and Truth through our faith in Jesus Christ. Today
things that were hidden to them are revealed to us through your Spirit, the
Spirit of Truth. We pray Lord that your greater glory shines upon us when
your praise truly dwells in us...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Psalm 150

1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent
greatness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery
and harp.

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding
cymbals.

6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

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Infringing the Sabbath Year

Jeremiah 34:15, 16 - And ye were now turned, and had done right in my
sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: But ye turned
and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his
handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and
brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

One of the main reasons the Church is not growing as it is supposed to grow
is because most church leaders are not keeping the Sabbath Year. This
statement may surprise you.

Christians know for one thing that the Sabbath year is symbolic therefore
do not keep the Sabbath year but when it comes to Sabbath day some try to
follow the Jewish understanding and try to keep it in the flesh and not in
the spirit or right understanding of it (even though the Jews failed to
keep the Sabbath day).

Before I come to today’s message I like to expound on some of the words.

The Hebrew word ‘shiphchah’ translated as handmaid comes from the root word
that means ‘of family’.

The Hebrew word ‘ebed’ translated as servant means someone who serves.

When someone asked Jesus who is my neighbour Jesus gave the parable of the
Good Samaritan. People have a wrong understanding of Samaritans. They were
mostly of Israelite origin. Those who lived in Judah or followed the rules
of the Temple in Jerusalem were called Jews. The Samaritans were believers
of Yahweh (YHWH) but did not follow the traditions of the Jews therefore
were hated by the Jews. It was like if they saw a Samaritan and a snake
they would possibly attack the Samaritan first and then the snake; the Jews
made the Samarians to fill water from the well during odd times after they
finished. They were considered as heretics/untouchabl e caste.

In short family means those who are believers in Jesus Christ and
neighbours are those who are His sheep but not in His flock - they are lost
sheep. We are called to love those who are children of God and do not know
Him as we love our selves and those within the family we need to love like
Christ loved us. Therefore like the Good Shepherd we need to go out and
bring the lost sheep into the sheepfold.

Who were those in the Sabbath Year with regards to, did the Lord ask to be
released?

It was about the release of a person who had all the 3 characteristics.

1) Neighbour - the lost sheep

2) Servant - one who serves

3) Handmaid - one from the family

The Sabbath year was about the release of those whom we have bought into
the Lord and whom we mould spiritually. During the time of moulding they
become our disciples even though they are family to us. We though they
serve with us / serve us / abide by us we are not allowed to always keep
them as our disciples. We are called to set them free on the Sabbath Year.

The Sabbath Year was the 7th year, 7 symbolizes the Holy Spirit (7 Spirits
of God). The Sabbath Year in short symbolized the time when the Holy Spirit
starts to work in the life of those who we are nurturing in the Lord.

The Lord is saying we bring people in the Lord and break their bonds of the
lies of this world. But then when the time comes to set them free to the
Spirit of God, we try to put spiritual bonds on them by making them abide
by our rules which we call ‘authority’. We land up suffocating the Spirit
in their lives by our own rules and regulations, demands of respect and
self-glorification. Thus we land up destroying our good work and actually
land up provoking the Lord to greater anger.

Most western Churches do this and Indian churches have landed following
their trend of Infringing the Sabbath Year. We land up not making disciples
for the Lord but disciples for ourselves.

Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath Year. He prepared His twelve disciples and
then handed them over to the Holy Spirit to take charge over them.

Let our good work not be destroyed by our possessiveness over those whom we
have bought into the Lord. Let us not be obstacles in their path to do
great works in the Kingdom of God. Let us humble ourselves and just be
steps for them to grow and reach higher positions in the Kingdom of God. It
is the Lord who will lift us when we humble ourselves.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, Your Word says not by your Power or by your strength but by your
Spirit. Lord Jesus You also said there is no real teacher like the Spirit
of God on the person. Lord, we pray that we do not put iron yokes on people
after breaking their bonds of this world. Help us to bring them unto your
Spirit and surrender them unto You to led them and build them further...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 4:7-20

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink.

8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a
Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no
dealings with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and
who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of
him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the
well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and
drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw.

16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy
husband: in that saidst thou truly.

19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.

2 Kings 5:1-3

1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man
with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a
leper.

2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive
out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet
that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

2 Kings 3:1 - Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
twelve years.

Matthew 23:7-10

7 "greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’

8 "But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ,
and you are all brethren.

9 "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who
is in heaven.

10 "And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.

Rabbi means honourable teacher

By Christ (meaning anointed one) Jesus refers to the Spirit on the person

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Every Promise of God will surely come to pass

Joshua 1:3 - Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that
have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

The book of Joshua starts with the Lord speaking to Joshua after the death
of Moses. One needs to give due attention to the words of the Lord to
Joshua. The Lord tells Joshua 'that I have given unto you, as I said unto
Moses', and what was that the Lord had promised? The Lord says 'every place
that the sole of your feet shall/has tread upon'.

Yes there were many places the Israelites captured during their journey in
the wilderness but all the places they captured they left and did not stay
back to dwell, leaving for the places on the banks of the river Jordan
which the sons of Joseph insist on dwelling on, but which the Lord did not
desire they do. Even till date all the land which was promised is yet not
under Jewish rule in the natural. Also in his lifetime Moses did not dwell
in any land he captured, so was the promise a failure?

If we see this scripture without its true understanding, we see God did not
fulfil His promise to Moses, but if we see it in its true understanding He
did fulfil it. To understand it we need to get into study of each word.

The Hebrew word 'maqowm&# 39; translated as 'everyplace&# 39; comes from the root
word 'quwm' which means 'rise' or 'standing up', so this word does not
refer to a place but what develops on it, like city, nation or home. It
refers to the people more than the land or an object.

The word 'kaph' translated as 'sole' is mostly translated as 'hand' in the
Bible, but here we see the translators chose the word 'sole' not 'hand'
because how could one say 'hand of your foot!'.

Now, coming to the word 'foot' which is from the Hebrew word 'regel&# 39;
actually refers to the journey and not the feet. So the words 'sole of the
foot' actually means 'hand of your journey' which further means 'the works
of your life'.

So the actual promise of the Lord was the Lord would give Moses all those
people with him and they would be deeply affected by the life of Moses or
the things Moses did and this we see was fulfilled in the life of Moses.

When Moses died the people were so taken up with the loss of Moses that
they grieved for many days and the Lord had to hide his body so that they
do not start to worship or give to honour his corpse. Had God not hid Moses
body, the Jews who call themselves disciples of Moses, they would have
preserved it and would have roamed with it all their lives making it a
relic, worshiping it (like some 'Christian&# 39; do to dead bodies or parts of
people whom they call saints). Jude expands on this point and puts it as an
incident where the Lord (Angel of God) and Satan fought over the body of
Moses.

Know that our Lord is indeed God and He is a keeper of His Word. Everything
He has promised towards us He surely brings to past. Now what is very
important is that we understand the promises well and we do not assume our
own things, so that we do not have doubts when we see our expectations are
not being fulfilled.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are mighty God, who is Omnipresent. Time is not a factor for You.
Be it past, present of future in all dimensions of time You exist and for
You they all are today. Lord, we know when You chose us, You knew us as
finished products, for You fulfil all that You promise. Open our minds to
understand your promises so that our eyes are truly focused on them...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 9:28 - Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we
are Moses' disciples.

Acts 6:11 - Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak
blasphemous words against Moses, and God.

Jude 1:9 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.


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Who is He, what is His Name and His Son's Name?

(This is a very important post please read it again and again and
understand it well)

Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?
Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?
Who hath bound the waters in a garment?
Who hath established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son's name,
if thou canst tell?

The Lord wants to continue on the topic of knowing the Lord Jesus Christ
for the knowledge of this is power and eternal life (lets us have eternal
life John 17:3). Today I may take some strong meat but will try to make it
as easy as I can (worked on it since 2 days trying to simplify it).

People do not give due attention to scriptures therefore do not know who
Lord Jesus Christ truly is. Christians are not very clear on the Godhead /
Trinity and some so called Christians think it is supposed to be a mystery
forever therefore they avoid taking the pain to try to understand. Even
people who passed Bible colleges and done multiple PhD's on it sadly lack
this knowledge.

Most Christians who have converted to Islam have done so mostly on this one
factor of 'Trinity&# 39;, 3 God's in one and the role of Jesus in it (note
Mohammad though Trinity means God the Father, Mary the mother and Jesus the
son). Most Christians make the prime mistake of putting the man Jesus as
part of the Godhead.

I was just a few minutes back in a FB group where Christians debate with
Muslims; one Christian said Jesus is God and another said Jesus is not God.
To this the Muslims took advantage and tried to prey of the weak Christians.

The Gospel of John is the best book to know Jesus and we see in this book
Jesus claims to be 'I AM' (God) and at the same time 'Son of Man' and also
'Son of God'. He goes on further to say because He is Son of Man the Father
gave Him authority to sit on the Judgement seat.

People have problems placing the Lord Jesus Christ as God, Son of God and
Son of Man. Firstly their confusion starts due to not differentiating
between God (The Son) and a Son of God, they think both are the same; that
is why they use the term 'beloved&# 39; (as in John 1:18) even though the Greek
word means just 'only' (this was of the main factors that made a great
theologian like Bart Ehrman into an atheist).

Today's message attends to all three identities of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The first sentence "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?" speaks
of the Man (Son of Man) - Jesus Christ.

If one sees, after Jesus died and resurrected He had yet not completed all
the sacrifices for the salvation of man. By His resurrection He had broken
the curse of Hell but He yet had to perform some of the sacrifices and most
important among them was the last one of sprinkling of the blood on Throne
of the Holy of Holies; that is why after His resurrection He did not allow
Mary the Magdalene to touch Him. He told her not to touch Him since He had
not yet ascended to the Father, but later in the evening (after his walk)
when He met His disciples He asked Thomas to feel the wounds in His hands.
We see by the evening of the day of His resurrection Jesus Christ has
finished all the sacrifices including one in which He walks into the
wilderness, which also was part of the sacrifices needed for the salvation
of man according to the book of Moses (that is where He met the two people,
Cleopas and his friend, and broke bread with them). So we see Jesus Christ
had ascended to Heaven and descended after His resurrection on the same day
and then again ascended after spending 40days with His disciples.

As Son of Man and due to His righteousness He is set to sit on the Throne
of Judgment of His flock (of those who believe in Him), to separate those
who did not keep His Father's Will from those who did (those who do not
believe in Him are already judged). We need to note in His mercy the Father
allowed man (Son of Man) to judge man, for had it been God judging man none
would have survived. But since no man was worthy to sit on the Throne of
Judgment God the Son came as man and fulfilled all conditions to be worthy.
After judgment He covers those who kept His Father's Will with His
righteousness (blood) and makes them worthy to come before the Father
(enter Heaven).

Coming to the God part, of the Lord Jesus Christ, we read in second last
sentence "What is His name, and what is His Son's name".

Where people mostly get confused is that they do not realize God the Father
and Son are one yet both are unique individuals. Picturing this according
to worldly ways is not possible. Muslims ask is God man to have a son?

Jesus attends to this factor very well in the Gospel of John. In John 1:18
He states 'no one has seen the Father at any time other than the (only) Son
who was declared from the bosom of the Father'. The Greek word translated
as bosom literately means creek. It is only when we take John 15:26 and

John 16:28 into consideration we can understand John 1:18.

In John 15:26 and John 16:28 Jesus states the Son (God the Son) 'proceeded
from the Father', 'came forth from the Father' and in John 1:18 He projects
God the Father as a mountain and the Son as a part existing within the
Father as one and yet being an individual.

God is Spirit and the word translated as Son is not to be understood as a
product as natural man reproduces. It means 'of' or part of. Human man is
produced / reproduced by birth but spirit man is part of (connected to) the
human father's spirit and takes birth in the womb of its mother. That is
why we find scriptures as Abraham' s seeds being in his lion even when he
had no natural children or in Genesis 5:1-2 God cursing all the generations
of Adam with the nature of Adam by calling all of them Adam. Our seeds
include not just our immediate children but also grandchildren, great
grandchildren and so on.

God the Son is part of God the Father and being part of the Father they
have the same Spirit that is why we read at times 'Spirit of the Father'
and sometimes 'Spirit of the Son' (Lord Jesus Christ) even though they
refer to the same Spirit.

The most complicated part of Jesus Christ, is understanding His identity as
'Son of God'. This is not because it is difficult to understand but because
man has distorted it so much due his lack of understanding.

I will not be able to take this in detail here for this message will become
many times its length (which is already long). But in simple words I will
put the term 'Son of God' is to do with the image of God. That is why we
see Angels are referred as Sons of God and even man before he sinned was
called Son of God and we read Jesus came to make us into Sons of God (John
1:12). That simply means Jesus came to restore the image of God back into
man, as to what it was before man sinned. Jesus does that by first taking
away the sin by His sacrifice (playing the price) and by His Spirit getting
man to overcome the sinful Adam nature (by grafting us into His Nature -
growing of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit).

Let us remember, when we declare the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ we are
not just declaring the Saviour but God (The Son) who humbled Himself (Son
of God) and came as man Jesus (Son of Man). He overcame sin as man and by
His sacrifice took away our sins, by His righteousness He restores our
relation with God and by His Spirit make us back into Sons of God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are a Magnificent God. You are a God of prosperity. You are
always creating better things and growing in glory. Your wisdom can not be
comprehended and your ways and not the ways of man. In your Mercy You
uplift us as You grow from glory to glory. Lord we pray more and more may
know You and have power in knowing You...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter
ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending
upon the Son of man.

John 5:25-27

25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall
live.

26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to
have life in himself;

27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is
the Son of man.

John 6:61-69

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said
unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the
beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me,
except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with
him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the
words of eternal life.

69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the
living God.

John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended
to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Luke 24:13-15

13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus,
which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned,
Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my
hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not
faithless, but believing.

John1:18 - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me:

John 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world:
again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

John 17:1-3, 9, 11-12, 21-24

1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee:

2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast
given me; for they are thine.

11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am
coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given
me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given
me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son
of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast
sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one:

23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and
that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as
thou hast loved me.

24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Genesis 5:1-2

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name
Adam, in the day when they were created.


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Time

Psalm 90:4 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it
is past, and as a watch in the night.

One of the most difficult things to understand through scriptures is the
factor time. The Hebrew word 'shaneh&# 39; which is translated as year in
today's message simply means a division of time and comes from the root
word 'shanah&# 39; which means change or second time. So in short this division
of time was between a set of events that repeated.

In the olden days, time was calculated on the position of the Sun and moon
and its revolutions (moons revolution around the earth and earth's around
the Sun and rotation around itself). Though the calculation of time was not
very accurate but it gave quite a good guideline for people. But there are
factors which people ignore that effect our calculation of time, like the
floods at the time of Noah were caused due to a great earthquake which
shifted the axis of the earth (some claim it to be triggered by a large
asteroid impact which happened somewhere around 17th September - around the
time when the Feast of Trumpets which symbolizes the coming of Judgement
Day is celebrated).

Before the floods the year had 360 days and that is where we get 360
degrees for a circle. Historians have found the Aztecs, Chinese and ancient
Hebrew calculated a year as 360 days from before the Noah floods. That is
why the Aztec Sundial not only reflected time as in of a day, but also of
month and year. After the floods 5.25 days were added to the year by the
shifting of the earth axis by 5 degrees (that is why we see most mountains
ranges are at an angel to the earth's current axis). But if one checks in
the prophecies of Moses, time is still accurately calculated on 360days a
year and not 365.25 days year.

The Hebrew word 'ethmowl&# 39; translated as yesterday does not really mean the
day before but means the time before or the time that is gone.

We need to understand everything that the Lord did in the time before were
not incidents which we can ignore today. He is telling us they all had a
purpose not only for that time but also for our future. The Old Testament
is a shadow and so also is time (things God did as written in the Word) a
shadow of things to come.

In the book of Ezekiel the Lord says He will do better things from the
things He has done before. When one thing is set against another or
compared against another we get to know somewhat of what that new thing
would be.

The Lord is telling us not to ignore history but to learn from it. We
should not repeat the mistakes that our forefather did but learn from them.
From Adam to Noah to Abraham to Moses to David to people before Jesus and
those after Jesus including unto Peter, Paul and John, all of them made
mistakes, none were perfect as Jesus was. Jesus is the one who divides
time. It is by Him time is set and by Him all things are set in time. Today
He is telling us to be in His Spirit, His Word and in His time, learning
what to do and what not to do for the end is like the night, of which
things are already declared.

Even if we know Judgment Day would come in September (Feast of Trumpets)
yet Bible does not reveal which year but gives a time period of about
200years within which it would happen. That is why when God (the Son) came
as man Jesus, being 100 percent man He had to learn all things through
scriptures. Learned men, Angels and Holy Spirit helped Him to understand
scriptures. That is the reason Jesus said He did not know the hour (exact
day) and is only known to the Father for what God has not said no one
knows, even Angels in Heaven do not know.

We too like Jesus have learned men, Angels and the Spirit of God to
minister to us, we may not know the hour the end will come but we can know
the season and many other things that happen before the end comes.
Therefore let us be watchful that we do not get consumed by them as
fruitless trees.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, all things that would affect your people and their salvation have
been written in your Word. We pray Lord, You give us more and more wisdom
and open our minds to understand your Word. Help us to understand the
seasons of the fig tree and not be cursed and destroyed for not bearing
fruit in its season. We pray You strengthen our hearts that we may not make
the same mistakes our ancestors did but by your Spirit and your Word walk
in righteousness. ..

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Ezekiel 36:11 - And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and
will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.

Revelation 9:1-11

1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the
earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the
pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened
by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them
was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the
earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which
have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they
should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall
desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto
battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their
faces were as the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the
teeth of lions.

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the
sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to
battle.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their
tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless
pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue
hath his name Apollyon.


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Preserve my soul O Lord

Psalm 86: 1,2 - Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and
needy. Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee.

Two days back I got the same message Psalm 86 and I did not know what to
write, my mind was not focused. I was not getting as to what the Lord
wanted to say. Today as I sat down making my mind that I will surely write
today, things started to flow.

People have a wrong thinking that to be a Christian one has to be a good
person, or that all Christian are people who are holy and do not sin or
make mistakes.

We need to understand Christians are people who at one time in their live
had no hope and had found hope in Christ. They are people who being aware
that God is Holy and nothing unholy can dwell before Him in Heaven;
therefore to go to Heaven they needed to change their lives and they knew
by their own efforts it was impossible to be good or be holy.

Christians are people who know that Christ is the only way by which their
lives can change and thus they hold on to Christ and reject the life they
have been living. This is not simple thing but a day to day battle where
the person does not fight evil but battles to hold on to good.

Other religions all give the call to fight evil to overcome evil. Some will
target the evil spirit and others the person who in weak and in whom evil
dwells. Christ is the only one who says to overcome evil come to me for I
have overcome it. We Christian in spirit actually battle our own selves and
not anyone or anything else. When the Bible gives a call to fight evil it
does not tell us to go out and hunt where all Satan dwells and to battle
him. It tell us to fight him within us and thus to have the light which
Christ showed us.

As Christians we have one part which wants to hold on to Christ and to be
like Him, and the other part that tells to surrender to the desires of the
flesh and to vanity.

We should also not have the crazy idea that Christians are perfect beings
the day they are Born-again and start attending Church. Let me put this in
picture. Let us imagine 3 white clothes, one which is old or dull white but
does not have any stain on it, second cloth which is average white but has
a few stains on it, the third bright, shining white but has big, dark,
black patches on it.

If we ask any person which of them would they consider clean, the first,
second or third? I am sure all would say first even though it may seem a
little dull but since it does not have any spots, stains or black patches
on it, it would be considered clean compared to the others. And if we ask
which is the dirties? It would be the third cloth, for even though part of
it shines very bright white, yet the big dark black patches would fail it.

Our good works is the clean brightness and our sins are the stains. Even if
we die doing good works yet we would not be considered good for our sins
would out do our good works.

God alone has the power to forgive and He does not just write off evil,
someone has to pay the prize for sin. God is not man to take back His Word,
if He has said it; it has to come to pass. That is why Jesus Christ had to
drink the cup of the wrath of God for our sake. He did not fear the
suffering He went through in the flesh for these were written in the book
of Psalms and Isaiah. As man blessed with wisdom of God He studied them and
had a clear understanding of them. That is why He spoke of it many a times
before. But when the time came for Him to drink of the cup of God's wrath
He trebled. Even though He was perfect and fully able in all things as man
yet He Himself could not comprehend the wrath of God, being forsaken by His
Heavenly Father therefore struggled in the Garden of Gethsemane. It was His
obedience and His love for us that at last caused His to drink of the cup.

Today we Christians can go boldly before God not because of our good works
but because Christ has covered our stains with His whiteness and caused us
to be without stains. But our baptism in Him our stains are removed and by
our baptism in the Holy Spirit we are made white, brighter day by day. No
doubt good works are part of our lives but these are not those we take
credit for but those which the Spirit of God whom we have received through
Jesus Christ, who helps us to do.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, when we heard your voice a desire for life came into us and to love
eternally we knew we have to dwell in your Holy presence in Heaven. But
Lord our sin became iron chains that bound us and prevented us from coming
to You. By your Son, You Lord made a way to set us free from our iron
chains and by your Spirit You lead us unto You. We thank You Lord for the
sacrifice of your Son and for your Spirit. Let your light shine in us so
that others may hear your call and come to You through Jesus Christ your
Son...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Ephesians 2:11-22

Mark 14:33-36

33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore
amazed, and to be very heavy;

34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry
ye here, and watch.

35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that,
if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away
this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Luke 22:41-44

41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down,
and prayed,

42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it
were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

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Prayer of David

Psalm 86

Just 2 days back I was in discussion with some Orthodox Christians on the
identity of who Jesus is. One person insisted Jesus was 100 percent Divine
(God) and 100 percent human at the same time. We debated on this for some
time and soon the admin of that group (who was also an orthodox Christian)
removed me from the group without giving me a change to bring the
discussion to conclusion.

If one reads Hindu mythology, one would see Hindu gods or devas or bhagwans
(man-gods) who are humans having divine powers. They at times have human
deficiencies and at times nothing can affect them. They can be injured and
can even die like humans, but yet they are called gods. They also have the
ability to comeback as another human or in another form of life, keeping
the divine nature yet taking the mortal form which is known as incarnation.
These are nothing but human thinking or imagination which lacks wisdom of
God.

This understanding is not restricted to only Hindus even Greek and Roman
and even Christians who lack wisdom of God have given such characteristics
to Jesus Christ. They lack knowledge of who Jesus Christ is therefore have
made Him a demigod like one of the figures of Hindu or Greek mythology.

It is not only Orthodox Christians that have this problem but also
Catholics, for this is originally a Catholic understanding (which follows
Nicolaitans teachings) that Jesus Christ was a demigod, both God and man on
earth. John says those who deny Jesus Christ was 100 percent man on earth
is a spirit that is not from God but have (influenced by) the spirit of the
Antichrist. What causes confusion to most is that we all know that Jesus
Christ was God (The Son), so how do we put that into picture this
understanding and yet not deny Jesus Christ was 100 percent man?

Firstly people do not have the basic understanding of why Jesus became our
sacrifice. Most Christians think He died on the cross to defeat Satan and
save us from him.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, God did not need to humble Himself, come as
man and be a sacrifice to save us from Satan who was created by Him. Jesus
being man stood between God and man, He became our sacrifice to remove the
wrath of God on man by taking the sin of man on Himself, drinking the cup
of the wrath of God and thus made peace between God and man that is why the
curtain between God and man was torn. He did not leave His glory in the
Heavens and became human to defeat Satan or to fight him. God is God
Almighty, Omnipotent who created this universe by just a word can crush
Satan by just a rebuke from His mouth; scriptures say Satan trembles just
by the knowledge of Him and by His Name Satan crumbles.

Genesis 3: 15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.

The words ‘bruise’ used in ‘bruise thy head’ and ‘bruise’ in ‘bruise his
heel’ if one checks the Hebrew text is not the same. The words are ‘crush
thy head’ and ‘strike thy heel’ also the Hebrew word ‘aqeb’ translated as
heel also means footsteps and comes from the root word ‘aqab’ meaning stay.
The words ‘strike his heel’ actually means Satan will cause problems or
trouble in the life of mankind.

Understand Jesus as man died for us not to defeat Satan but to save man
from God and to open the doors of Heaven which was shut for us. God desired
that man who is lower than Angels defeats Satan but He also knew man would
not be able to do so by himself therefore Jesus made available His Spirit
for man. It is the Spirit of God who opens the knowledge and understanding
of the Kingdom of God to man so as to bring back the Fruit of Truth which
man lost in the Garden of Eden by eating the fruit of doubt of the Tree of
Good and Bad.

If we read scriptures, when Jesus comes back the Angels with Him are none
other than those who are among the 1st resurrection, whom the Bible also
calls as the ‘Elect’. They along with Jesus Christ declare the Name of the
Lord, who Christ is and it is written all things in Heaven, earth and
levels below bow to the Name. Everything natural ceases to exist, evil and
death is destroyed and thus comes the Kingdom of God where God dwells with
(spirit) man.

When we say Jesus or Jesus Christ or Lord Jesus Christ we declare different
aspects of Him even though they all point to the same person. We need to
always remember when Jesus said ‘rejoice for I have overcome’ He was not
deceiving man by being a demigod or God and man and claiming to have
overcome sin, but said this for He being 100 percent man in the flesh had
overcome sin and thus became an example (cornerstone) for man on how to
overcome sin (through His Spirit). He in short enabled man to defeat Satan,
so it is we who will crush the head of Satan.

Why did I take this topic in today’s message which is Psalm 86? What has
the prayer of David to do with this topic?

If one studies this Psalm well one will realize David was not praying to
anyone else than God the Son whom we know as Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us become overcomers by coming to the true knowledge of who the Lord
Jesus Christ is and bring Satan to his knees and crush his head. That is
not by only doing Bible study but also by our living His Word, because
Truth is only understood when it is lived.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, we pray the fruit of doubt which our ancestors ate in the Garden of
Eden may be totally and completely taken away from us and that we quickly
receive back the Fruit of Truth through the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit we
pray You open our minds and bring us to the knowledge of Lord Jesus Christ
that we may overcome every area of our lives and thus become His Bride
ready for His coming...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Psalm 86

1 Bow down thine ear [give audience], O LORD, hear me: for I am poor
[afflicted] and needy.

2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that
trusteth in thee.

3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon thee.

6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

8 Among the Gods [Elohim] there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
are there any works like unto thy works.

9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O
Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to
fear thy name.

12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will
glorify thy name for evermore.

13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from
the lowest hell.

14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent
men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof
ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an
antichrist.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world.

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The Apocrypha of the Jews

Esther 9:12 - And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain
and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of
Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is
thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further?
and it shall be done.

If one knows the Bible the books which the Catholics claim as part of the
Bible like Maccabees I and II, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach
etc. these were never considered as canon (scripture), by early Church
father or even by the Catholic Church right up to 1400AD. It was after
people started studying scriptures and started questioning the traditions
of the Catholic Church that the Catholic Church started claiming these
books to be part of the books that are considered as scriptures. No doubt
these books were read as references by early Church fathers but never given
the status of canon. It was the Catholic Church that canonized these books
in 1400AD just to justify their manmade traditions and beliefs.

People are not aware even the Jews did the same thing.

The Old Testament we have has 39 books but during the time of Jesus there
were only 38 books in them. In 1947 one of the greatest Biblical
discoveries were made, they found what is today called the Dead Sea
Scrolls. These are a collection of books from 150BC to 70AD which were
sealed in various caves on the banks of the Dead Sea. This collection of
manuscripts included the whole of the Old Testament translated in Aramaic.
In this collection the book of Esther was missing.

Theologians have tried to justify the 66 books in the Bible based on the
book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah has 66 verses but if one looks carefully
one will see the 65th and the 66th chapters give the same prophecy /
contents about New Heavens / New Nation (translated as earth) being the
Throne of God (New Jerusalem) and rebuking of the hypocrites (rebellious
people).

People may now think should we remove the book of Esther? If we see Esther
is not a book of faith for no Christian belief has any root in the book of
Esther. The Jews have some traditions rooted in this book therefore gave it
importance. For us Christians it is more a historical book that includes
the testimony of a woman called Esther and how by her faith, determination
and dedication towards God and His people saved the lives of the Jewish
nation. These people later rejected Christ and although saved from earthly
destruction would not be spared for eternal destruction. The Bible does say
at the end some of the Jews will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and accept
Him as their Lord and Saviour, but that would be the state of people of
every religion, for it is written in the end days the grace of the Lord
will be abundant and His Spirit will be poured on many such that many will
come to the knowledge of Him and His glory will increase throughout this
world before the false prophet comes.

Today's message the Lord tells us to look back and take example from the
life of this simple woman named Esther and how He worked wonders through
this simple woman and did what was impossible to even thousands of men.
What God wants from us today is total faith in Him. He wants us to be part
of His vision and it is only when we are part of His vision will we have
determination and dedication to hold on to His Word for His Word is the
footprint for the salvation of mankind.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You do not desire great things from us but have just simple
expectations of holding on to You and your instructions, and it is You Lord
who will do great things from those who do so. Lord, we pray that your Word
be always before our eyes and we have a heart for your people and You
seated on the throne of your heart and You be glorified through us...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Ephesians 2:1-7

1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now
worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were
by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved;)

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus:

7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

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Touch the hem of His garment

Luke 8: 43,44 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had
spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came
behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her
issue of blood stanched.

There was a historian who did study on who this woman was from secure
historical documents, and that it of great interest to note the facts he
had collected. He shared that this woman was a Roman widow of a very senior
Roman army official whose only child was also taken from her because of the
sickness which she suffered. This sickness was not only considered unclean
by the Jews but also by the Romans and was called a curse of goddess by
them. Even today in these modern ages in countries like India in many
religions people consider the menstruation period of a woman as unclean.
Hindu women are not allowed to go in the kitchen or do any work that is
personal to anyone; they are made to sleep separately far from the other
house members during this period. I know of a family that sent the
daughter-in- law to her mother's place during her periods. The sons were
engineers, all highly educated yet like fools followed or tolerated these
customs. I use a term 'the educated illiterate&# 39; for such people. They study
but have no understanding of what they studied.

In today's message there is something very particular the woman did which
shows that she was not a Jew and what she really did was something so very
important which I did not hear any preacher preach or read any teaching
touching this.

Some religions have some symbols connected with their dressing like a
Muslim has to grow his beard and dress in a particular fashion, specially
the women of this community, for all this is written in detail in their
Hadiths; similarly a Sikh has to wear a turban and carry some other objects
always on him or her (even women fully dedicated to the religion wear
turbans, carry a dragger and do certain religious duties).

Similarly the Jews too had something that was unique to their dressing for
it was instructed by the Lord in the book of Moses. The Lord had commanded
ever Jew to have a blue hem at the border of their garments. This hem
became their identity and proclaimed to the world that this person was a
Jew.

The Lord had commanded them to put the blue lace cloth to the border of
their clothes as a reminder that they are keepers of the Law of God and a
holy nation. When the woman touched the hem of Jesus she had touched His
identity as to who He was, that is why she managed to draw power from Jesus
without His knowledge.

This woman showed us how there is power in touching the identity who Jesus
is, we do not need to touch any blue bordered cloth today for we are
spiritual people; what we need to touch is the knowledge of who Jesus is,
for there is power in the Name of Jesus (nature/ character, who Jesus is).
We have power not speaking the word 'Jesus&# 39; but only in the knowledge of
who He is.

This incident is a very good example to show us the 100 percent human
factor of Jesus. We see Jesus was like any other human but since He was
Christ, a man who walked in Spirit, He could feel in Spirit what was
happening to Him.

When God the Son humbled Himself and came as man, He truly became 100
percent man. The godly powers He had was not because He was God who humbled
Himself and became man, but only because the Spirit of God was on Him and
the image of God was perfect in Him thus He had authority in the Lord
(Father). We too can do all those things which Jesus did if we have the
Spirit of God on us and we become more and more Sons of God. That is why
Jesus says one day when grow in Spirit we will do greater things than He
did, not that we will be greater than Jesus but since Jesus did things that
were necessary and would glorify only the Father and not Himself. As the
end come there would be many things which we would need to do that would be
greater manifestation of the glory of God than the things Jesus did.

But as Son of Man Jesus did one thing that benefits whole mankind (only
those who believe in Him) and that is as man He had victory over sin and
death, opened the doors of Heaven for us and by His sacrifice He made peace
between God and man so that we receive His Spirit and may also have a share
in His victory.

[Prayer Starter]

Father God, You said in your Word your righteous will walk in power and
authority for You will fulfil the desires of his or her heart. Lord we pray
we walk more and more sturdily in your Word with the help of your Spirit so
that we become more and more mature Sons and have power and authority to
heal and protect your people, and give glory unto You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Luke 8:43-48

43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all
her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately
her issue of blood stanched.

45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that
were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and
sayest thou, Who touched me?

46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is
gone out of me.

47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and
falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for
what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made
thee whole; go in peace.

Numbers 15:38-40

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them
fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and
that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek
not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a
whoring:

40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your
God.

John 14:12 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father.

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