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Jephthah the Judge
Judges 11: 9,10 - And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye
bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the
LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head? And the elders of
Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do
not so according to thy words.
Jephthah who was the ninth judge to Israel is a beautiful testimony
for us to learn from. Here we see the tribe of Gilead approaching
Jephthah to lead them into battle with the sons of Ammon. They must
have come to him because they considered him a great warrior and
strategist. If we read the starting of the chapter we see it was
these very people who drove Jephthah out because although he was a son
of Gilead but his mother was a harlot. At that time Jephthah did not
fight against his brothers for his rights but quietly retreated to a
place far from them. It is the Lord who led them to see Jephthah as
the one who can save them from the Ammonites. Although the people of
Gilead saw Jephthah as the capable person, Jephthah did not see
himself as capable but he saw the Lord making him capable.
Jephthah's faith in the Lord and knowledge of scriptures can be seen
by his argument with the sons of Ammon. His love and commitment to the
Lord is also witnessed by his sacrifice of his only daughter's
chastity to the Lord. She became the first person in the Bible who
vowed her chastity (which symbolized herself and her generations) as a
sacrifice unto the Lord.
We see the favor of God on this humble man whom the Lord set him to
judge Israel for the rest of his life. Even when the arrogant tribe of
Ephraim confronted him, the Lord delivered them into the hands of
Jephthah the Gileadite.
Jephthah never thought himself as a looser (being a son of a harlot),
nor he thought himself to be great because of his ability. What
Jephthah saw was the Lord was with him and he knew his God that
qualified him not only as a leader of the Gilead but also to be a
judge over all Israel.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, your people look at themselves at their deficiencies or they
look at their abilities and because of this they fail in life. Lord,
help us like Jephthah to look at You in us more than looking at
ourselves. We may be good or bad in what we can do; we may confident
or totally insecure but when we see You in us we are assured victory
is ours...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Judges 11:1-3
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was
the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and
they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in
our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob:
and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Judges 11:28-40
28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the
words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over
Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from
Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my
house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon,
shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt
offering.
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even
twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great
slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children
of Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his
daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she
was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes,
and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou
art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the
LORD, and I cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth
unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of
thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of
thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let
me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and
bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went
with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned
unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had
vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of
Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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Trust the Lord
Psalm 37:1, 2 - Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be
thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. For they shall
soon be cut down like the grass [hay], and wither as the green herb
[small spouted grass].

Must be wondering why there has been a long gap between my previous
mail and today's mail. If you have read my last mails the Lord was
preparing me for that journey like Jonah went through in the belly of
the whale.

These few days changed a lot of my life for both I and my daughter had
Dengue. My daughter by God's grace did not have a very serious problem
but my situation was very serious. Till Friday evening no one would
tell by looking at me that I was having a serious attack of Dengue. My
fever had stopped and I was feeling quite okay. But when I blood
report came everyone panicked, my palette count was 25,000. My
Physician out of panic gave me medication for Malaria which caused me
to breakout in rash. I was forced by my brother in law to be
hospitalized, and the moment I signed the check in papers I collapsed
there due to weakness, my count went up and even lower (to 19000). Yet
in those difficult moments the Lord's Hand was over me and within 4
days I was discharged with being administered only saline, medicine
for fever and for the allergy. The day I was discharged my daughter
was admitted in the same hospital.
When I went through this I knew the Lord was chastising me and even in
this chastising He was teaching me amazing things and as promised
showed His glorious Hand over me. It was only in the afternoon I
realized that I was to go through this but that was not the case with
my daughter. The sickness was trying to spread its roots because we
were thinking logically. Immediately my spirit woke up and even before
I rebuked it my daughter started being normal. We did have to wait for
two days before the doctor allowed her to be discharged and she was
not administered saline or an injection even once.
During all this there were people around who thought all kind of crazy
things specially my close family for I am the first one to come out of
the Catholic Church. During that time when I was crying unto the Lord
the message to me was the same as the Lord has given us today.
Trust in the Lord and you will never be disappointed. Forces visible
or invisible will not be able do any harm more than what the Lord
allows and for the duration the Lord allows. During this time the Lord
will keep you and strengthen you. Those who do evil or injustice
towards you will be cut out like hay or will wither like small
sprouted grass having no evil fruit to harm you.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are awesome God. In your wisdom You give even the most hard
hearted a chance to repent. You allow your loved ones to go through
inconvenience because You maturing them and making them stronger. But
in all this You are in control of all things and nothing is without
You. Lord help us surrender ourselves in the most difficult moments to
trust in You. Even our enemies cannot harm us when we surrender unto
You...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Jeremiah 23:19-20
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the
wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed,
and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it perfectly.
Psalm 112
1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that
delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright
shall be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endureth for ever.
4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is
gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs
with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in
everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his
desire upon his enemies.
9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his
teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
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The Father wants the best and fittest Sons

2 Kings 10:3 - look ye out the best and fittest of your
master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and
fight for your master's house.

After yesterday's message this is the best message the Lord
could give.

Have you seen an army commando go under training? He goes
through and overcomes hurdles and obstructions and
many a time is put to a physical breaking point so as to increase
his physical tolerance.

We too are soldiers of the Kingdom of God and to make us
fit and strong the Lord does at time put us through
the breaking point. The Lord wants to reinforce our amour
so that when the real attacks come we will be strong to
face it.

The Lord is capable to do all things but He desires to do
it through us. He could have finish Satan and his
team with just a word but He desires man to know Him and
through the knowledge of Him be able to overcome Satan and
his team.


[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You came as man and showed us to way and what
is expected of us mankind. You gave us abundant grace
and your Spirit enables us to be like You. You work in each
one of us and slowly by slowly built each one of use to be
more and more like You. We know the victory is
already written for You said IT IS FINISHED. Lord we
rejoice in our victory and waiting patiently for our glory
in You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.


[Reference Scriptures]
Luke 22:42-44
42 saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this
cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43 And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven,
strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly;
and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood
falling down upon the ground.

Hebrew 1:10-14
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the
foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy
hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they
all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a
garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And
thy years shall not fail.
13 But of which of the angels hath he said at any
time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the
footstool of thy feet?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth
to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit
salvation?

Hebrew 12:6-13
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth
with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his
father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have
been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to
chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much
rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and
live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as
seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be
partakers of his holiness.
11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not
joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit
unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit
of righteousness.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and
the palsied knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that
which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be
healed.

2 Peter 1:2-8
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power has given to us all
things that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given to us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in
the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Father wants the best and fittest Sons
2 Kings 10:3 - look ye out the best and fittest of your master's sons,
and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
After yesterday's message this is the best message the Lord could give.
Have you seen an army commando go under training? He goes through and
overcomes hurdles and obstructions and many a time is put to a
physical breaking point so as to increase his physical tolerance.
We too are soldiers of the Kingdom of God and to make us fit and
strong the Lord does at time put us through the breaking point. The
Lord wants to reinforce our amour so that when the real attacks come
we will be strong to face it.
The Lord is capable to do all things but He desires to do it through
us. He could have finish Satan and his team with just a word but He
desires man to know Him and through the knowledge of Him be able to
overcome Satan and his team.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You came as man and showed us to way and what is expected
of us mankind. You gave us abundant grace and your Spirit enables us
to be like You. You work in each one of us and slowly by slowly built
each one of use to be more and more like You. We know the victory is
already written for You said IT IS FINISHED. Lord we rejoice in our
victory and waiting patiently for our glory in You...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Luke 22:42-44
42 saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43 And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat
became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
Hebrew 1:10-14
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the
earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old
as doth a garment;
12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they
shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
13 But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on
my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for
the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?
Hebrew 12:6-13
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with
sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we
gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto
the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to
them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but
grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that
have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be
not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
2 Peter 1:2-8
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God,
and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power has given to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has
called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that
by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you
shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
--
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Time when the earth shakes below your feet

Psalms 86: 1 - Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

When King David wrote these lines one should understand the depth of
his cry unto the Lord. He was not in need of money or material needs.

Imagine yourself to be one who whenever lifts your hands unto the Lord
our even desires in your heart and the Lord fulfills it. There is
nothing in this world big enough or great enough which you pray for
that does not happen. As you are growing level to level, faith to
faith then suddenly things start happening to you or to people close
to you. You ask the Lord and you do not get a response immediately.
You prayer to Him and you still have to wait and wait for your prayer
to be answered. You are a person who is confident to shake a city or a
country by your prayer are now wondering why your prayer in not heard.

Even at these times when your boat is rocking in a rough sea yet you
will see the Hand of God not letting things get out of hand. These are
the time of testing of faith and building of patience.

You look at yourself like David did and ask where I have gone wrong?
Even though you are improving in the Lord yet you know you have been
doing mistake but trust in Him Who has forgiven you many a times
before. You trust in Him being good, ready to forgive, abundant in
loving kindness. This is the time when you come to know your God
better and trust in Him. You come to have more authority in Him and
know His purpose better.

Jesus had many a powers by the authority He held as Son of God and His
relationship as Son, but in everything He did, He made sure He
glorified God and not Himself.

Almost every Man of God when through this level of refinement, of
correction and they saw a great leap in their spiritual growth. So if
you are going to these time trust in the Lord for He is good.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You should us the path of perfectness of faith. Even at
your most weak time, when it was the only time You made a prayer of
request you cancelled it and submitted unto the will of the Father.
Every other time You prayed Your prayer was a prayer of declaration or
of thanks giving for You knew the Father and His will. Lord as You
build us, since You are our Father and Mother hold us gentle and close
to your bosom, we trust in You to deliver us out of our situations.. .

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Psalms 86:2-7
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.

Genesis 20:17; 21:1-2
17 And Abraham [who had not received his promise son for more than
20years] prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and
his maid-servants; and they bare children.
18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of
Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto
Sarah as he had spoken.
2 And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to him.

Matthew 26:38-39
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto
death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me:
nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

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Why we have no peace or no safety, and why disasters surround us

2 Chronicles 15:3,5 - Now for a long season Israel was without the
true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: And in those
times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came
in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

In today's message the Lord says why people do not have peace, no
safety and why disasters surround them and the 3 reasons which He
states are without true God (not worshiping the true God), without
teaching priest (lack understanding of the Word of God) and without
law (not walking in the righteousness of God).

People do not realize the importance of worshiping God. Many think
they worship God to butter Him. One should realize we are nothing
before God and there is no way man can do anything which can butter
Him up, we worship God more because we need to more than God needs us
to. When we worship God we seek His countenance and have peace in our
surrounding that is the reason why we worship God.

This peace is not worldly peace but peace from God. So do not expect
all our enemies to come and shake our hand, but expect when our enemy
shakes his fist against us he will no longer be able to do so.

So when we worship God we need to get desperate and lifting our hands
(symbolizes surrendering ourselves) we need to cry out unto Him.

The main reason we study the Bible is to know God and know ourselves
in Him. People think they know God, till date right from Enoch to
today there is no one who knows God fully except for Jesus Christ. All
of us know a little of God. Even Moses who spoke face to face with God
knew only His back. In those times man was not redeemed by the Blood
sacrifice of Jesus Christ so they could not receive the Holy Spirit in
full but we who are now are in a better position to know God than the
Patriarchs before Jesus. Even though the Men of God wrote the
scriptures, they themselves did not have the real full knowledge of
what they wrote but today the Spirit of God - The Spirit of Truth
unfolds those scriptures to us. It is only when we have the full
understanding of the scripture will we know God and have total
authority in His Name.

This is a continuous process and we need to keep building ourselves
and build each other in the understanding of the Word of God.

Just worshiping God and pursuing the understanding of His Word and not
walking in that understanding is like knowing God but rejecting Him.
It is righteousness (walking in His ways) which brings peace with us.
So true acceptance of God is when we worship Him in Spirit and Truth;
which means worshiping God with understanding of Who He is and having
Him in us as a part of us. God being Holy requires us to keep
ourselves holy since we are His true Temple. We may not be perfect but
according to the understanding we have of Him and His Word we need to
walk in it, but one day when we all together get to know Him the
perfectness will come in us.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, your people lost the Truth, Righteousness and Holiness when
sin entered them through Adam. Because sin dwells in man your anger is
on man and creation which man is put in authority of. To bring back
man to You, You allow us to worship You and gave us the Word to know
You and be like You created us, in your image. Knowing this is
impossible to man alone You gave us an example and your Spirit through
your Son Jesus Christ so that we will be able to be born again in the
image You created us. Lord we pray You help us more and more to
worship You in Spirit and Truth...

This prayer we make in your Mighty Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Psalms 138:1-2
1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word
above all thy name.

Psalms 85:10
10 Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other.

Psalms 5:12
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou
compass him as with a shield.

Psalms 34:15,17
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open
unto their cry.
17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out
of all their troubles.

John 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek
to be his worshippers.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit
and truth.

Matthew 11:27
27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one
knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.

John 4:38
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have
labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

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How we are saved.
Psalms 119:144 - Thy testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me
understanding, and I shall live.
We were made Sons of God and had access to the Tree of Life so could
live forever but due to sin entering us through Adam we lost access to
the Tree of Life and were cursed to perish.
God the Son humbled Himself becoming Son of God came as man and by His
sacrifice He paid the price for every soul that believes in Him. The
generations of Adam were cursed to perish in prison (Hell) and Lord
Jesus Christ paid the price for us to be free from this prison. Now we
have a hope to enter Heaven and have access the Tree of Life and thus
live forever.
The question comes now how can the sacrifice of one man pay the price
of the millions, billions of people. For this we need understand
spirit life. An Angel (Son of God) is a single spirit being, we too
are single spirit being and are made same as the Angel but are living
trapped in the flesh. A Cherubim (also known as Beast or Living Ones)
are multi life beings. The book of Ezekiel describes them as full of
eyes or having thousands of eyes; each eye represents a spirit life.
God the Son is the only being other than God the Father and His Spirit
Who has life in Himself. So in Him is countless lives. As He humbled
Himself and became a sacrifice He became a sacrifice for each and
every one of us who believes in Him including those who were born, are
born and will be born. This is the reason He is a personal sacrifice
for each one of us and yet an eternal sacrifice.
We need to understand even though the sentence of perishing in Hell is
canceled yet we will not enter Heaven unless we have the two things in
us. Those two things are, one His testimony and second the
understanding of His Word. That does not mean each one of us needs to
be expert on the Bible. We in spirit are all connected to each other
and also referred as one body therefore it means the whole of mankind
together needs to get the understanding of His Word. The Blood
sacrifice of Jesus made available the Spirit of God to man. Now the
Spirit of God - the Spirit of Truth unfolds the Word to each one of us
and over the time all mankind will have the full and proper
understanding of the Word.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You are God and You left the Heaven of Heavens and
humbling Yourself came as man to be an eternal sacrifice for each one
of us. Lord we thank You for paying the price for our sins. We also
thank You for making available your Spirit. Lord help us understand we
all are one body in You and we need to work together with You as our
head...
This prayer we make in your Mighty Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Ezekiel 1:15-18
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the
earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the
colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a
wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned
not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and
their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Revelation 5:6
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits
of God sent forth into all the earth.
John 5:26
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to have life in himself;
Genesis 1:27
27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them [him].
Revelation 10:1-4
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with
a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were
the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right
foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he
had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up
those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Revelation 6:9
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held:
Revelation 12:17
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with
the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Have faith like Jonah but not an attitude of Jonah

Jonah

For today's message the Lord wants us to meditate on Jonah as a
testimony. When the word 'Jonah' is spoken the first thing that comes
to mind is of he being in the belly of a fish for 3 days.

When Jonah was told to give the message of repentance to the people of
Nineveh, Jonah was very disappointed. If you and I were living during
those times we too would possibly think the same way.

To give you an example it is like the Lord telling an American to go
to Afghanistan / Northern Pakistan and to give Osama Bin Laden and his
people the message of repentance (even this is an understatement) . The
people of Nineveh were a powerful force who lived a barbarous life.
They were pageant worshipers who sacrificed infants and people as an
act of worship. They were even known to skin people alive. For any
ordinary person to walk into that city was considered insane. The
world hated them and this fact is known by the structure of their city
walls. But these people had the greatest technology and prosperity for
building towers and multilevel war ships during those times is like
building skyscrapers and submarines now.

When Jonah was told to give the message of repentance to the people of
Nineveh he did not fear the people and also knew that they would
accept and change, which he did not want. Jonah wanted the people of
Nineveh to be let scot-free but wanted them to be punished. The Lord
had given the people of Nineveh 40 days limit after which they would
be completely destroyed. To make sure they get destroyed Jonah went
the opposite direction to a place far from Nineveh.

The Lord was well aware that Jonah would do that and this act of Jonah
actually helped in getting the people of Nineveh to repent. The people
of Nineveh worshiped a god who was half man and half fish and the
walls of their city gate had the carvings on this god on either side.

When Jonah survived through belly of the fish he must have looked just
unimaginable for a person from Europe fishing in the Mediterranean Sea
was once swallowed by a whale and when they cut open the whale after
nearly a day he came out alive but pale all over. This breed of whale
is known to swallow huge objects and vomit them on the banks of the
sea. The belly of this whale is very large and can hold a person and
sufficient air for that person to be alive for a long time.

Jonah covered with digestive juice for 3 days was vomited out on the
banks of the sea outside the city of Nineveh. This must have been
witnessed by some of the people of Nineveh this was the reason he
walked into the fortified city right up to the center and no one
stopped or questioned him. The words that came out of his mouth were
like words coming directly from God for them, since Jonah came for a
fish.

The attitude of Jonah can be known by his disappointment and rebelling
with the Lord after the people of Nineveh repented.

God first desires to save and not to punish He is patient, kind and
merciful. Though His Kingdom is founded on righteousness, His love and
mercy over writes all.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for your love and mercy. Your wisdom is beyond
man's imagination and by your wisdom You have created all things. You
are perfect and the creation You have created is perfect knowing the
hearts of man. For the wicked people You have given the sign of Jonah.
Lord help us not to harden our hearts, but help us surrender to all
your instructions. ..

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Jonah 1:1-2
1 Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for
their wickedness is come up before me.
3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to
Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go
with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.

Jonah 2:7 - 3:6
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer
came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I
will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon
the dry land.
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and
put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:8 - 4:5
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily
unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the
violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and
God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them;
and he did it not.
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not
this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before
unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for
it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till
he might see what would become of the city.

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The curse on the leaders without wisdom

Jeremiah 8:9-11
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they
have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to
them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto
the greatest is given to covetousness[ profit], from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Today's message is something which we are seeing happening in many
churches where the congregation gets dispersed to other congregations
or churches.

The Lord is saying there are leaders among us who led churches
(congregations) and preach about God and yet have rejected the Word.
One may wonder how is it possible a person preaching the Word can
reject the Word?

We need to understand the Word of God is like a super medicine which
is multi-content. It has vitamins to make string (blessings), some
elements which our body lacks (promises), pain killer (encouraging
Words), antibodies (corrections) etc.

There are many who preach only blessings, promises and encouraging
words but the corrections etc. are deleted for they believe our God is
a loving Father so He does not rebuke.

How can a father who really loves his child, not correct his child?
This can be possible only if the child is perfect.

These people have distorted the Name of the God and therefore, they
not having the fear of God lack wisdom. These people preach peace even
at the time of caution. Also these same people work in the vineyard of
the Lord with the main reason of receiving material blessings. They
feel since their God is omnipotent so they should have all things and
the best of things. Such preachers will roam with branded products and
flashy wares and accumulate riches beyond their needs.

For such people the Lord says He will give their congregations and
their harvest unto others.

If you as person go to a Church where the leader keeps saying 'all is
well' all the time then you better run out from the door nearest to
you and do not turn back. But if he comes to correct you once in a
while or preaches about something you are doing which is not right and
asks you to change your ways, go and give him a hug, bless him and
thank God for a good shepherd.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are a good shepherd. You weld a staff to guide a stray
sheep. You make some of us shepherds over your sheep and we wield your
staff. Help us Lord to have understand the purpose of your coming and
your Word. Help us to be honest and humble in our work in You. Help us
to overcome ourselves and let You in us be...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
1 Timothy 3:1-13
1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he
desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,
sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker [ready for a physical fight], not
greedy of filthy lucre [greed of gain]; but patient, not a brawler
[one who starts fights], not covetous [no love for money];
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in
subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take
care of the church of God?)
6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the
condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest
he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to
much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office
of a deacon, being found blameless.
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful
in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children
and their own houses well.
13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to
themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in
Christ Jesus.

Romans 9:8
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not
the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for
the seed.

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The Servant Prince
Ezekiel 17:24 - And all the trees of the field shall know that I the
LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have
dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the
LORD have spoken and have done it
In today's message the Lord is telling us that He will bring down the
high trees and exalt the low trees, He also says He will dry up the
green tree and make the dry tree flourish.
When one reads this message one wonders if one should be always of low
profile and not to make efforts in God’s Kingdom, but if we do that
then how will we do the work of the Kingdom of God. It is not to be
understood in that manner.
Today's message basically talks of two humilities; one towards God and
the other towards His people. Let me explain it in the reverse order.
When it comes to humility concerning God's people it does not mean
putting oneself last. For example if I am standing in a queue and a
child of God is standing way behind you, going and standing behind
that person is not humility but foolishness. Humility requires me to
help or show the person how he or she can progress in the queue and if
not go ahead of me, at least come to my position. It means taking
concern of that person’s success while not losing the race ourselves.
It means competing against the race as a team and not competing with
that person. If that person can go ahead of you so be it, Praise the
Lord. If anyone of us wins more it is good since it is the whole team
that increase goes to ultimately.
When it comes to humility concern God, it requires us to be a vessel
or instrument in the Hands of the Lord. It is the fear of the Lord
that brings true wisdom and humility towards the Lord.
When we know Who our God is who we are compared to Him. We realized we
are just nothing. All what we are and have accomplished, we need to
give glory to God for making us such and achieving it into our lives.
A tool cannot take pride for being that specific tool and what it
achieves as that tool. It is because the maker in his wisdom made it
that tool it became possible to do what it does. For example a hammer
cannot take pride against a screwdriver for what it does. Also it
would be foolish for a screwdriver to stop workings as a screwdriver
and competing with the hammer starts being used as a hammer.
God has made each one of us and given us the skills which are to be
used for His glory (in God’s Kingdom the word skills is more
appropriate word than the word talents).
Today's message can be best explained in just one line - 'Ruling God's
Kingdom with a heart of a Servant and serving His people with a heart
of a Prince'.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, You are God and Master of your people. Your people suffer
because they do not know You or who they are in You. You humbled
Yourself and came as Son of Man to lift your people to become your
Sons and princes. You called them Israel for what You will achieve in
them. Man lost your glory because of sin and sold themselves to
earthly prosperity which is vanity. Lord, let your people know that
they are connected to each other in spirit and therefore should work
for each other and be concern of each other as they are of
themselves.. .
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
John 15:12-15
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends [associates] .
14 Ye are my friends[associates] , if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends [associates] ; for
all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one
receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an
imperishable crown.
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as
one who beats the air.
27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when
I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even
ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
1 Peter 5:1-7
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and
a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but
of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown
of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of
you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God
resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he
may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
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Prophetic rebuke from the Lord
Zephaniah the Prophet
There are a lot of people who prophesy or rebuke in the Name of the
Lord. Sometimes it is difficult to identify if they are doing it in
Spirit or are doing so in the flesh (according to their own
understanding) .
In my previous mails I specified that since the Word of God is
complete, therefore the prophesying which we do, are basically
application of the Word [promises] into our lives.
Also what is called by most as 'word of knowledge' is nothing but the
prompting of the Holy Spirit. This ability is giving to every believer
who is in tune with the Holy Spirit.
One thing that the Lord wants to tell us today through the book of
Zephaniah is how to discern prophetic rebuke. Zephaniah was from the
royal bloodline of Judah and yet he was like a junior Jeremiah. Two
third of his book is full of rebukes but being a true prophetic rebuke
his last chapter is full of encouragement and hope.
Corrections are very essential for growth. If you have people around
you who always praise you and tell you how good you are, then pity on
you. You are very likely to have a disaster in your life for will
never know one day if there is a pit in front of you and you being
blinded by praises will fall in it. So call yourself blessed if the
Lord has put someone close to you to point out your faults. But if a
person who points only to your faults is very likely doing it in the
flesh. For any rebuke from the Lord comes with a purpose of growth. It
will have hope, encouragement or comforting words also at the end of
the rebuke.
If God can give Satan thousand years to repent, whom He knows will
never do so, would not the same Lord be merciful with us?
With every challenging situation the Lord opens a window of escape and
this is visible only when our eyes are focused on Him and we do not
harden our hearts. Understand the Lord has created us to prosper us
and if we get this written into our hearts, our faith in the Lord will
increase and it will become easy to walk on His path and discern it
from the paths of the world and of Satan.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are a loving and merciful God. You made us and are aware of
our weaknesses. You gave us all that we need to strengthen us in body
mind and spirit. Your Word, the Sacrifice of your Son and your Spirit
are all that we need to overcome sin and death. Lord, help us
circumcise our hearts and direct our path unto your path so that we
not only reach our purpose in You but also receive it in fullness...
This payer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Romans 15:3-4
3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The
reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might
have hope.
Romans 16:26
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets,
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all
nations for the obedience of faith:
Ecclesiastes 7:5
5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear
the song of fools.
Proverbs 9:8
8 Reprove not a scorner [boastful / arrogant], lest he hate thee:
rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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The great army of women
Psalms 68:11-13 [KJV]
11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
divided the spoil.
13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings
of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Psalms 68:11-13 [NASB]
11 The Lord gives the command; The women who proclaim the good tidings
are a great host:
12“ Kings of armies flee, they flee, And she who remains at home will
divide the spoil!”
13 When you lie down among the cooking stones or saddle bags
sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And
its pinions with glistening gold.
Psalms 68:11-13 [RSV]
11 the lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore
the tidings:
12 "the kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!" the women at home
divide the spoil,
13 though they stay among the sheepfolds-the wings of a dove covered
with silver, its pinions with green gold.
Yesterday we understood as an example the true Law of Moses through
Bible image study. In today's message which the Lord has given us He
likes us to get deeper into understanding His scriptures well by this
study.
Most people get confused between translations and with today's message
one wonders if the source of the translations is the same. This is one
reason I always tell those who are seriously studying scriptures not
to stick to any one translation. All of the translations being right
yet are different because each is giving a different dimension of the
meaning of scriptures.
It is only when we put the person or objects they symbolize into the
scripture we get the real understanding of scriptures and also realize
this is what Jesus, Paul, John and others from the New Testament
preached.
Like I told you a woman is a man yet not fully matured in spirit or
yet not become a son of God. The word translated as 'home' occurs 2055
times in scriptures and is translated differently as below:
house 1881, household 54, home 25, within 22, temple 11, prison 16,
place 16, family 3, families + 01 2, dungeon 2, misc 23
In this scripture it speaks of being part of the temple or family
which symbolizes the Church / Body of Christ.
The wing of dove here is described here as made of silver and the
feathers made of gold. Wings symbolize grace, silver symbolizes
earthly riches, gold spiritual riches and dove symbolizes Spirit. If
one looks at the structure of a wing most part on the wing is the
feathers. A basic small skeleton is what is left if the feathers are
removed.
Putting the meaning into place the same scripture gives a great depth
of understanding.
Psalms 68:11-13 [with symbolization put]
11 The Lord gives the command (Word); the believers (spiritually
growing) who proclaim the good tidings (Gospel) are a great host
(army):
12“ Kings of armies (earthly armies includes fallen angels) flee, they
flee, And the believers who remains in the Body of Christ will divide
the spoil!”
13 When you rest (fellowship) among the sheepfolds (flock of Jesus -
the Good Shepherd), You are like the grace of the Spirit covered with
needed riches of this world (includes skills, earthly knowledge etc.),
And its feathers of spiritual riches (gifts and fruits of the Holy
Spirit).
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for the Instructions for receiving our salvation in
full. You desire not only to save us but also bless us in abundance as
we return back unto You in Heaven. Lord, You gave us your Spirit of
Truth Who enfolds the scriptures unto us. Holy Spirit, O Father open
the minds of your people, help them understand and receive in
abundance of your Kingdom...
This prayer we make in the precious Name of Jesus, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Mark 16:15-18
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the
gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall
they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover.
Luke 4:18-19
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:16-19
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for
necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the
gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against
my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I
may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my
power in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain the more.
2 Corinthians 6:13-18
13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,)
be ye also enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are
the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them,
and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
1 John 1:1-3
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was manifested unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also
may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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The menstrual impurity of a woman
Leviticus 15:24 - And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be
upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he
lieth shall be unclean.
Today's message is one of my most difficult messages till date to
deliver. It is not that the Lord has not given me the understanding on
this matter but my problem is how to put it in my mail. This requires
proper understanding of Bible image study for it is not to do with
what it says but what it means.
I put in my previous mail man and woman in spirit are of the same
gender male. In physical, man is made in the image of the nature of
God and woman in the image of the nature of man. To understand Spirit
God understand the physical man and to understand spirit man
understand physical woman. This is the reason we have Paul saying man
should love his woman as Christ has love the Church. This knowledge
also gives a great understanding of marriage.
Every part of our body is made with purpose and even its position in
the system has understanding. Right from the DNA of a cell of our body
to our physical form speaks volumes of the spiritual knowledge.
We receive new (spiritual) life when the Word of God fertilizes the
seed of faith that is in us. A person in the Lord who is ministering
represents man and a person being ministered to represents a woman
with ovum (a human egg). A woman having menstrual periods represents a
person lost faith. Any person responsible or having anything to do
with the complete loss of faith of a spiritually growing person (child
of God - little one of Israel) is very serious matter. Such a person
should withdraw from the vineyard of the Lord until he or she has
repented and the Lord has forgiven him or her (7 representing Christ).
It is not just his or her personal responsibility to see to this is
done but even the Church has a part in seeing this is implemented.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for making us your children by giving us a seed of
faith. Lord, we pray that each and every worker in the vineyard of the
Lord understand how precious each and every soul is to the Kingdom of
God. You are a Shepherd that leaves his herd to search for that one
lost sheep. Lord we ask for your forgiveness if we have been cause
directly or indirectly for the loss of faith of any soul. We know when
we come to You with repentant heart You do not turn them back...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Matthew 18:6
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them [him].
Genesis 2:20-24
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and
to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help
meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Hebrew 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints [bones] and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Matthew 9:20-22
20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood
twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I
shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said,
Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the
woman was made whole from that hour.
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Egypt a reed to the house of Israel
Ezekiel 29:6 - And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am
the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel.
The Hebrew word Mizraim / Mitsraim translated as Egypt means 'the two
Matsor' or 'double straits'. The word 'matsors' means defense and
'strait' means passage.
An inhabitant of Egypt means in metaphor a person having two gods or
two ways of living. Jesus said I am the only way, but these people
have another way also - their way. They want God but also want their
worldly selves too.
The Lord said unless we lose our worldly selves, we will not find our
real selves. We need to detach from the nature called Adam in us then
only will be able to have the nature of Jesus in us. There is no way
we can have connection between Adam and Jesus. Jesus is also known as
the last [latter end] Adam, symbolizing He was another Adam having
nothing to do with the first Adam in nature.
People who think we need to be Christians and live in peace with
others in this world. No doubt a Christian is a peace loving entity
but he does not make peace with the Devil and the ways of the devil.
He is always in a state of war with Satan and the plans of Satan.
Making peace and loving a person is different from making peace with
idolatry ways and believes.
In Mumbai my nephew goes to a well known Catholic school and in their
school they celebrate all kinds of pageant festivals of the Hindus and
other religions. Like me my brother in law does not send his children
to school on those days, so the principle who is a priest called him
and have him a sound hearing saying things like 'which world do you
live in', 'we live in a democratic country', etc..
These Catholic priest and nuns hate believers and do not accept their
children into Catholic schools because of their boldness to witness
Christ. They would not mind any non-believers or even an atheist but
not a Christian believer.
When Jesus used the word Church He meant 'people drawn out'. We cannot
be 'people drawn out' if we do all what others do. Love does not mean
killing yourself with another dying person; that is called
foolishness. Love means giving life to a person dying at whatever cost
it may be.
A reed is a grass kind of plant that grows in shallow waters. It is
equivalent to weeds on dry land. Weeds are plants which are called
nuisance plants which disrupt planned growth like gardens or fields.
They just grow anywhere and eat away the good soil and do not allow
the good plants to grow. Weeds or reeds symbolize the understanding or
knowledge of this world.
Studying science, geography, history, mathematics, medicine, astronomy
or doing aerobics etc. is not bad for they are connected to what God
has created. But things like psychology, religion, astrology, yoga,
homeopathy etc. are manmade understandings which eat away into the
Truth.
The Red Sea through which the passing of Israel symbolized water
baptism was called the Reed Sea during those times. There were reeds
that grew in plenty along the banks of this sea, therefore the
Egyptians called it the Reed Sea, it was during the Greek period that
the name became Red Sea because of the reddish sand along this sea.
Unless we do not die to these reeds, we will not have a new life in
Christ and become true Christians.
The Lord is telling us today those who dwell in Egypt and are like
reeds will come to know He is Lord. Like the Lord bought down the gods
of Egypt by the plaques in the book of Exodus so also He will bring
down the gods of the Egyptians and destroy their reeds.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You alone are God and there is no God besides You. Lord, forgive
us for the times we have put ourselves over You and the things of your
Kingdom. Help us to say No to our carnal nature and say Yes to your
Kingdom. Help us detach from Adam and be grafted into the Last Adam
which is Christ...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name.
[Reference Scriptures]
1 Corinthians 15:42-45
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;
the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Matthew 16:24-26
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will
lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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What the Hell!
Job 26:6 - Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
In childhood we have cursed by hell and spoken so much about it but
how many of us have actually though what hell is and studied it up
with the scriptures?
People just jump at mails, testimonies or teachings wherein the person
claims hell visitation, but has anyone verified these with scriptures
before forwarding them?
People of this world are like cattle they do what they see others do
and do things which are routine to them, but people of God baptized
with his Spirit are people blessed with wisdom and discernment, they
do not behave like cattle.
Majority of Christians do not know what salvation is because they do
not understand what hell is. They know hell from movies, fairy tales
and story books actually playing into the hands of the deceiver so
that we do not understand the Truth. Satan deceives and creates false
images in our minds to distort the Truth. He knows the moment the
Truth is in full in us his time of the thousand years will be up and
he will have to face the Son of man. For instance Satan in the Bible
is said to be very beautiful creation created by God who was among the
most anointed of the Lord. He was one of the morning stars who led the
worship of the Angels but due greed, pride and other evil which got
into him his heart became ugly inside.
Satan has deceived man into believing hell is a place he rules and it
is a place which is like a pit always on fire wherein people are burnt
and destroyed.
Understand Satan has no place in creation wherein he rules. The only
place he rules is the hearts of those who do not love God.
Hell as perfectly described in the New Testament. Let me clear the 5
basics of hell.
1) Hell is not a place where Satan rules. It is a place where God
rules and has an Angel of the Lord in-charge of hell. No doubt evil
souls are there in hell but yet they are not in charge.
2) Hell is a place which God rules and is a prison wherein souls
are imprisoned. These souls are the generations of Adam which were
cursed by God when sin came into Adam and Eve. The earthly life of man
is about hundred and twenty years but his spirit life is still many,
many time his earthly life. The rest of his life (minus his earthly
life) he will spend here if he is not free from the curse of Adam.
3) There is not fire in hell but the fire is inside the souls
imprisoned in hell. God is a righteous God and punishes people
accordingly to their doings. A soul unredeemed or still under the
curse takes with him all the sins inside his soul to hell. These sins
are personified as living worms and even as fire which never
extinguish. Understand Jesus too went to hell after death but He was
not harmed there. The sins were on Him but not in Him. He preached to
the souls there and those who accepted Him were freed from hell and
some even appeared to earthly man (that does not mean they came back
to earthly life, they appeared as Samuel or Moses appeared after
death).
4) Satan himself is imprison here in hell prison and would be set
free at the end days. The word devil is plural and the spirits working
under him are also called by him. These spirit's (fallen angels)
powers are taken away and use the powers in man to destroy man. Only a
person knowing the Truth has authority over them for they deceive any
soul not having the Truth in them.
5) When God created man the spirit life of man was not eternal
(forever) but was for thousands of years. After these thousands of
years to live man needed to eat of the Tree of Life. This is the
reason why Adam and Eve did not eat of this tree when they were
created. But if they continued to have access they would not have died
sin would flourish unceasingly. God not only removed their access to
this Tree but also confined their spirits to this prison called hell
after their earthly life, so that they perish after completing their
spirit life. Jesus by his sacrifice broke this curse of being confined
to hell and his resurrection was proof of the job done. Now any soul
that believes in Him is also free of this curse and thus saved from
hell. This does not mean that the soul enters Heaven. The soul has to
wait in sleep till the second coming of Jesus and Judgment Day to be
judged and enter His Father's House - Heaven where it will have access
to the Tree of Life and live eternally. This means any soul which does
not believe in Jesus Christ however good that soul may be or goodness
may have done, has no hope of being free from the sentence of hell. It
also means every soul which believes in Jesus Christ does not enter
Heaven but only those which keep His Father's Word.
Let the Truth set you free from the deceit of the evil one.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for the gift of life. We thank You that You made a
way via Jesus Christ that we do not perish but live and have eternal
life in You. By faith we have been disconnected from Adam and grafted
in You to be free from the curse of sin and death. Lord, we pray for
all the souls which are deceived by Satan to lose their salvation in
You. Lord, open their hearts and minds to understand the things of
your Kingdom...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 3:22-24
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep
the way of the tree of life.
Isaiah 66:24 [NIV]
24 "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who
rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be
quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Matthew 8:11-12 [NIV]
11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and
will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in
the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the
darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Revelation 9:11 [NIV]
11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in
Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
Job 26:6 [NIV]
6 Death [Sheol] is naked before God;
Destruction [Abaddon] lies uncovered.
Luke 8:30 [NIV]
30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
"Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him. 31And
they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
Isaiah 53:8-9 [NIV]
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare
his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for
the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his
death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth.
1 Peter 3:18-20 [NIV]
18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the
unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but
made alive by the Spirit,
19 through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison
20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of
Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in
all, were saved through water,
--
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Cry from the Fish gate
Zephaniah 1:10 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and
an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Today's scripture has 2 dimensions of understanding one is spiritual
and the other prophetic.
Taking the spiritual message:
This is a rebuke to the people of God who are in the following 3
categories which are fish gate, second gate and the hills.
The Hebrew word 'fish' comes from the root word 'increase' so he term
'fish gate' speaks of people who love God and worship Him only for
increase. In reality their real god is their desires for the things of
this world and God is a mean to get these desires fulfilled.
The Hebrew word 'second or double' talks about people who disguise
themselves and live a double life. They are inhabitants of Egypt
(which means 'double standards'). God had warned the people of God not
to turn back to Egypt or they will die. These people do not turn back
to Egypt but bring Egypt where they are. They call themselves
Christians but live a life of an unbeliever.
The term 'hill' in the Bible is used for high places of worship. From
the start man has believed God dwells on heights. The term 'heights'
does not mean just physical location; it also speaks about elaborate
decoration. All false gods had and have temples which are elaborate in
rich decorations. If one checks scriptures the Lord preferred to stay
in the Tabernacle as given unto Moses. In that Tabernacle most of the
gold was used not to make pillars and fancy deco but mostly for the
holy objects which symbolized Holy things or Beings of the Kingdom of
God. Most of the fancy deco was not inside the Holy place but on the
outside. Even when David desired to build a permanent beautiful temple
for the Lord; the Lord did not allow him. But just not to displease
His loved one the Lord allowed David's son Solomon to do so. Even when
Solomon built the temple he had to offer a great sacrifice and plead
the Lord for His glory to dwell in the temple he build.
The Lord prefects a simple place of worship and dislikes fancy places
with gold and silver deco. You will not find the glory of God in such
places but only the glory of man, such places are called high places
or hills. The glory of God is found in simple halls where people come
to worship in spirit and truth.
As far as the prophetic understanding of this scripture is concern,
this was explained to John of Revelations in visions as recorded in
his book and is concerning Babylon the Great or the Whore seated on
the Beast. Clues to these are the Fish gate was the gate where the
people of Tyre polluted the Sabbath (the Greek word for Tyre is Peter
which means pebble / small stone), the second or middle gate is from
where Babylonians attacked Jerusalem during the time of Jeremiah and
the term hills refers to the fancy churches build by this institute.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we pray for the believers who know You but yet love this world
and things of this world. We also pray for those who show a life of
holiness while they live a life of lust and deceit. We pray Lord their
hearts be set right and they surrender themselves completely,
including their desires to You. May their desires be for the things of
your Kingdom and not for things of this world. Open the minds of your
people Lord that they see most precious to You are your people and not
fancy structures and monuments...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
2 Chronicles 33:13-14
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the
west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish
gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height,
and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Nehemiah 13:16
16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all
manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah,
and in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39:3
3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the
middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the
king of Babylon.
Zephaniah 1:7-13
7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the
LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
his guests.
8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that
I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as
are clothed with strange apparel.
9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there
shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from
the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are
cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their
lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will
he do evil.
13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and
they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Revelation 17:1-10
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee
the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and
the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw
a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked
with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with
great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will
tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth
her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the
earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was,
and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the
other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short
space.
--
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The Lord brings us into His Mother's House

Songs of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them,
but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him
go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the
chamber of her that conceived me.
This message may be a little difficult to understand but I trust the
Lord who has given us this message He will deliver it to the hearts it
is intended to.
Firstly I told you the book Songs of Solomon is a book of metaphors.
It is written like a Shakespeare play with the name of the characters
removed. So to know who said to whom and who it refers to, one needs
to know the character and the character's nature well. Without
knowledge of the characters one will never understand Songs of
Solomon. This book really tests your understanding of the Kingdom of
Heaven.
When the Lord first introduced Himself to Abraham (Abram) He gave his
Name as Almighty God - Al Shaddai. In the Old Hebrew language this
word literally means Strong Breasted One. It does translate to
Almighty One but has more meaning than just that. It means God is our
Father and our Mother; He is our Creator, Originator of life, our
Provider and also the One Who loves and cares for us.
In the Kingdom of Heaven (Upper Heavens) there is no gender for all
are of one gender - male. In Genesis when God created the worlds the
words 'His Kind' is a male gender and 'Their Kind' is a female gender.
This has nothing to do with the physical genders. In the physical
(natural) world genders are images of natures, for when God created
woman He made her from the bone of man (rib bone which does not have
marrow) and bone symbolizes nature of man and marrow the spirit. In
physical form a woman is made in man's nature but spiritually both are
of one gender. That's the reason a spiritually mature woman no longer
is daughter but a son of God.
The book of Solomon does not refer to these characteristics of
genders. Here the gender is of role play. Our family is called a
Church for it symbolizes the institute of God - The Father, The Mother
and Son (children). When I say Mother here it speaks of God The Holy
Spirit. The word Spirit is of female gender - it does not mean God is
of female gender. He is referred too even by the Son as Father but in
the redemption of man God the Holy Spirit plays the role of the Mother
like the Son does of a Brother. Thus by being part of the Family we
inherit the Kingdom of the Father.
Like mother nurtures the child, loves and cares for it, so does the
Holy Spirit do to us when we become His children. It was by the Holy
Spirit that God the Son who became Son of God and came as man Jesus.
Jesus wants to take us into the chamber of the Holy Spirit, the
special place of care and love so that we will be spiritually
nourished, loved and made strong so as to be like Him.
Let us celebrate Mother's Day everyday by surrendering ourselves to
the Holy Spirit and enter into the special chamber of love, care and
nourishment.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, You are our Father and You are our Mother. O Holy Spirit,
You are the giver of life and You alone are the One Who cares and
nourishes us. Take us into your bosom O Holy Spirit and keep us always
close to You. Do not let go of us even when we misbehave. We are weak
but You are strong, be our strength and help us overcome...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 17:1
1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and
be thou perfect.
Exodus 6:3
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Genesis 1:24-25
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:20-24
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and
to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help
meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
John 1:10-14
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world
knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth.
--
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Which tribe are you from?
Numbers 1:4 - And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every
one head of the house of his fathers.
When the Lord led the Israelites to their promise land He segregated
them into 12 tribes and the tribes were allocated their inheritance in
the Promise Land according to their tribes. This is one area a lot of
understanding is required - the twelve tribes of Israel.
We know the Israelites symbolize the people of God and the promise
land symbolizes Heaven. Most people think that the twelve tribes were
to do with the Jews and not the believers. All assume that at the end
the Jews will accept Christ and enter Heaven therefore in Revelations
it is written about the 12 tribes.
I knew in the start there was more to this and it was only a few
months back the Lord made me understand the twelve tribes were to do
with the twelve Fruit(s) of the Holy Spirit.
When the Lord made the dress of the High priest He put stones
according to the tribes on the breast plate of the High priest. If one
compares them with the stones of which Heaven is made in the book of
Revelation they will find them the same (either identical or of the
similar kind).
Even the numbers of Apostles Jesus selected were 12, and when Judas
died he was replaced so as to keep the count 12. Numbers in the Bible
are symbolic to what they represent.
As we know Heaven is a spiritual place not an earthly place to be made
of gold and precious stones, so as the Lord led me to study and
understand the stones, I studied some of them and found them
symbolizing the Fruit(s) of the Holy Spirit i.e. the stone ruby also
known as blood stone symbolizes righteousness and onyx stone which has
various colorful parallel layers symbolizes wisdom (I have done very
little study in this area and a lot is there to understood here).
When God showed Abraham his generations He showed him the stars and
compared his generations indirectly to the stars. We also read the
stars symbolize the Angels and stars too are grouped into 12 sections
in astronomy. Satan knowing the secrets of Heaven and tries to distort
the truth and makes man to believe in astrology and births signs.
What I also found that, when we come in the Lord most areas of
weakness the Lord takes away but gets us to overcome a particular area
in our lives for which He says his grace is sufficient. It is this
area which connects us to the tribe we belong (no confirmation on this
yet).
In today's scripture the Lord is assuring us that by His help we will
surely be victorious in our areas of weakness. It is not we who can do
it but by Him (Holy Spirit) alone we can.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, You are Almighty God and nothing is impossible to You. When
You created creation and set forth your plans to overcome darkness,
even the Angels were baffled as to how You would do it. You use mere
insignificant man to overcome the mighty fallen angels. It is your
light which shines in us and overcomes darkness. We thank You Lord for
finding us worthy to be part of your great plans and in return
blessing us and prospering us unto unimaginable inheritance. ..
We thank You in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Exodus 28:15-21
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work;
after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and
of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make
it.
16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length
thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of
stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle:
this shall be the first row.
18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall
be set in gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet;
every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Revelation 21:19-20
19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all
manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite;
the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the
eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Ephesians 5:9
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness [holiness] and
righteousness and truth;)
Revelation 22:1-3
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and
yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the
healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
--
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Jesus is no longer in tombs He has risen

Luke 24:22,23 - Yea, and certain women also of our company made us
astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not
his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of
angels, which said that he was alive.

The women who were with Jesus during His ministry stuck with Him even
after He was crucified and put in the tomb. When they went there in
the early morning of the third day they did not find the body of Jesus
in the tomb. There were Angels there who told them that He was no
longer there in the tomb but had risen.

Today as I was reading this scripture, I wondered 'what is the fresh
manna the Lord is giving us today'. I just looked up the Greek word
translated as sepulcher or tomb and was surprised that it came from
the root word meaning 'memorial'.

You would say so what is surprising about tomb being a memorial?

The surprising factor is that many of our Christian brothers and
sisters still go tombs to worship Jesus.

When we make statues of Jesus or put up photograph of Jesus or even
put up a crucifix, it is a memorial for us to remind us of Jesus. But
today's message tells us that Jesus has risen and is no longer in the
memorial. Making memorial and worshiping at them, including an altar
(not the table of service) is like declaring Jesus has not risen.

Jesus is not found in memorials but is with you and me. We will only
come to know Him when you break bread.

At the last supper Jesus took bread broke it and gave it to his
disciples saying 'this is my body, take eat' and. He also said 'do
this in remembrance of me'. We too have to take our body break it and
give it unto others in remembrance of Jesus, to be like Jesus and
await His return.

Breaking our body does not mean physical but our spiritual body, which
is our desires, our understandings, our will, who we are, etc. We need
to break them and making Jesus' desire our desire we share this Jesus
with others. It is only when we share Jesus with others, will we
ourselves come to know Jesus. So as we share the little Jesus we know,
we come to know more of Jesus and when we share this more, we come to
know even more and thus keep growing in Jesus Christ.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You are not dead but alive. You defeat the gates of Hell
and gave us victory and life. Lord, there are many among us who still
do not know You have risen and no longer in the tomb, they worship You
in memorials. Lord, like the Angels spoke to the women who were with
You, speak to the hearts of these people and let them find You and
know You when the share You with others. You have risen and we declare
You as King of all the world...

This prayer we make in your Mighty Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Luke 24:24-31
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and
found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into
his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he
made as though he would have gone further.
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward
evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread,
and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out
of their sight.

Matthew 26:26
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it [give
praise], and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take,
eat; this is my body.

Luke 22:19
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto
them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me.

--
T@MZ

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Polluting the Name of the Lord

Jeremiah 34:16 - 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.

I always believe a firm foundation of understanding on a matter will
help a person really grow in knowledge and understanding on that
matter. Therefore I always test the foundation of what I know when I
study on that topic.

Of late the Lord has been teaching me on authority and as we all know
authority come by the holy and precious Name of the Lord. In John
17:12 Jesus declares that in His Name is the Name of the Lord. In the
Old Testament the Lord as many Names so the question comes which is
his Name?

People put Yahweh as the Name and the others as references to the
Lord. The word Yahweh is man created because the original work has 4
constants YHWH, the vowels were put for pronunciation. Jehovah
(Yahovah) / Jah (Yahh) / Yahovih are the variations of YHWH.

In the New Testament the only place the Hebrew [references] to God is
used by Jesus to Himself.

My question to the Lord was what is your Name? To this He answered -
what is your name? So then came my questions as to what is my name?

In this world we have a name XYZ and we all know there are many XYZ
existing in our time. What about those before and yet to come? If our
name is written in the Book of Life then which XYZ will it refer to?
If God says I am unique and my name is written on the palm of His Hand
then what is this unique name?

Interestingly if you live in India you get to learn a lot from the
ways of man. In India the south Indians identify themselves by their
name, their father's name, the name of the place they were born and
the clang they belong. In other places they use their name, the name
of their father and their family name to identify themselves. The
Catholics have a maternal name, a baptismal name, their father's name
and the name of their family.

Summarizing all this, when God says He knows our name it means the
unique who we are. In all creation God has not created another you or
me. There may be another person looking identically like us, even
speaking like us and also with the same name but yet we will not be
identical inside.

Our earthly name is connected to our earthly life but each one of us
has a heavenly name which is unique to us and which the Lord knows.

The Lord's Name defines who He is and His uniqueness. When we stand in
His Name we are to show who He is. If we misrepresent Him by showing
another character of Him we are polluting His Holy Name. For God is
Holy, His ways are Holy and His Name is Holy.

The Church since ages has been misrepresenting God and in the Name of
the Lord feeding its own carnal desires thus polluting His Name.

We all are not perfect and all do mistakes but when knowing we are
wrong still continue to do so is of concern and not acceptable. God
calls them stiff neck people and His wrath is on them. If you are part
of just a congregation which is polluting things which are holy unto
the Lord, it is your duty to correct that congregation. And if you are
unable to do so better move out of that congregation and move in to
another wherein you will grow and not face the wrath of God.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, You are Holy, Holy is your Name and there is none like You.
Lord, forgive us for the times we polluted your Name by
misrepresenting You unto others. Help is Lord that when we take your
Name we also stand by your holiness. Help us to take courage and stand
by your Word and not fear man...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Exodus 6:3
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

Exodus 34:4-7
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses
rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the
LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the LORD.
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.

John 8:58-59
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was, I am [Existing One].
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
passed by.

Exodus 3:13-14
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me
unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say
unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

John 17:12
12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast
given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Jeremiah 16:21
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will
cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my
name is The LORD [YHWH - Existing One].

Revelation 21:27
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they
which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

--
T@MZ

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The Lord is always checking His Garden

Songs of Solomon 6: 11 - I went down into the garden of nuts to see
the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and
the pomegranates budded.

Today's message not only gives a beautiful understanding of how the
Lord deals with his people but also is a perfect example of Image
study.

The scripture talks about a Being visiting the nut (pistachio) garden
to see the fruits of the valley. To see if the vine tree is
flourishing and is budding pomegranates!

Most people who have no idea of image study think it is the bride who
visits the garden.

The scripture actually talks of the Holy Spirit visiting his people.
The children of God here are symbolized as one a pistachio tree and
also as vine tree.

If one gets into the characteristics of the pistachio tree one would
understand why. I will put this with what it symbolizes.

The pistachio tree grows not more than 10 meters - God's people are
not world centric people. 10 being the fullness of the single digit
+1, so also God's people are those who earthly desires are for their
needs and a little more which is to share with others (1/10th -
represents tithe).

The pistachio tree grows well in sunny position and well drained soil
- The sun represents the grace of the Son and God's people grow in the
grace of God the Son. Earthly water symbolizes sin and well drained
soil represents continual repentance. If people of God get set in
stagnant sin it will soon destroy them like this tree which develops
root rot if the soil is not well drained.

The pistachio nut is specifically taken because of its shell it does
not have a very hard shell - The people of God are those who do not
harden their hearts. To discern a child of God from a child of this
world (vanity) or Satan one needs to look at the heart of that person.
Even the villains who became Men of God; if one observes minutely the
scriptures they did have something good in them even when they were
lost.

The pistachio tree is unisexual and has separate male and female trees
- This aspect which is will take me more than this short mail (will
need me to write a whole book) to explain. But the clue is that Heaven
is only for the Sons of God not the daughters of God. It does not
refer to physical gender but to the spiritual gender it has to do with
sheep and goats which are part of the Lord’s flock.

The vine tree - It refers to the disciples and I had explained in my
previous mail about how the Disciples of Christ symbolize the grape
vine tree. Summarized they do not stand on their own the Lord is their
help. They give best results in extreme situations and are always
stretched to their physical limits. They bare best fruit in little
lacking of earthly needs.

Pomegranates - they symbolize Truth. If one dissects a pomegranate
fruit they will understand the uniqueness and beauty of its structure.
I did write on this in my previous mails.
Summarized: The fruit has (4) sections like Truth, 3 are to do with
man and 4th is Kingdom of God, which means knowing who man is in God's
Kingdom. Each aril as a whole represents understanding and each side a
revelation. Each aril cannot be put in any place other than its
original unique place. The fruit's name comes from the Latin word
'pomum' meaning 'apple seeded'. Apple of the eye represents Christ and
apple seeded means Christ seeded. The whole Bible - the Truth is all
to do about Christ.

The Lord regularly audits his people to see if the budding of the
Truth is happening via the Disciples of Christ.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You are the Truth and all creation is about You. It is
through You, for You and by You that creation was made, exist and will
find its purpose. Lord we thank You for finding us worthy to be your
children. We thank You Holy Spirit for building us and taking care of
us for You are the Husbandman of this garden. Help your workers O
Lord, that the complete Truth bear fruit in them and they work
selflessly and ceaselessly for the harvest...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
John 15:1-2
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.

Numbers 6:2-4
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either
man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to
separate themselves unto the LORD:
3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall
drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he
drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of
the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

Ezekiel 15:2-4 (Lord rebuking Israel)
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a
branch which is among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin
of it to hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both
the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any
work?

Exodus 28:31-34
31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof:
it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as
it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and
bells of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate,
upon the hem of the robe round about.

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Then the moon will darken

John 9:4 - I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.

From the start, I have been always specifying there are different
levels of Bible study and the Holy Spirit teaches us through these
levels to help us grow in knowledge and understanding of the Kingdom
of God. It starts with Bible Commentaries (context of the scriptures),
Bible Cross References (connecting scripture with scriptures), Word
Study (Studying each word and its properties / rendering) and then
comes a world not understandable to common man (the unwise) it
includes various ways of study like Image Study (most of the Bible is
written like a Metaphor), Bible Numerics (the languages used to record
the scriptures has numerical properties / numbers play an very
important part in understanding Kingdom of Heaven), Music notes (each
and every Psalm of the book of Psalms can be played like a song and
gives a feeling of its content) etc...

One of the areas the Lord has been building me strongly is in Image
Study. In scriptures we see everything the Lord created was in an
image. The Lord did this so that we can understand all that is beyond
our ability. When Jesus spoke in parables to teach about the Kingdom
of God it seem very simple, but even unto today since 2000 years
people are still discovering more and more of those few simple lines.
God has created all things in spiritual images so that we living in
this natural world can understand things of the spirit world. We
cannot understand or imagine even simple things like what spirit is
for example the Hebrew word translated as spirit means 'breath'.
Spirit does not mean air, nor does it mean the gases we breathe in and
out.

Putting the whole of creation in short and simple words, we all have
one task as Christians working in the Lord's vineyard and that is to
fulfill scriptures. God has written the story and defines parameters
to this story, what is kept as a variable is our choice to be on the
better part of it (that is to enter Heaven) and how much benefit are
we going to take in this story so that we enter Heaven rich. Jesus
Christ made the first part possible and the Holy Spirit helps in the
second part.

The interesting part comes is that the number (quantity) of the
harvest is already defined and the number of workers in getting this
harvest is also defined. Also defined is the time period in which this
harvest will be taken.

Now the catch is - are we going to choose to be just the harvest or a
worker of the harvest? If we are going to be a worker then how much of
this harvest are we going to collect?

Understand when a farmer reaps his harvest he cuts almost the whole
plant including stem, corn and leaves. Later the stems, leaves and
parts of the corn excluding the seeds are all discarded; only the
seeds count at the end. When we are harvesting, are we harvesting more
seeds or only all that which will be discarded?

Ask yourself even if you have a large congregation of people, how many
of them will pass through the test of fire on the Judgment Day?
Therefore the Lord always emphasizes more on quality then quantity.

Now coming to today's message, Jesus is telling us of a time when
there will be no workers of the vineyard. In scriptures just before
the end time comes it talks of the moon being darkened.

The sun symbolized Christ, the moon a Man of God and a star symbolizes
Angel. Moon does not have its own light but reflects the light of the
sun. Moon and star worshipers are actually man and Angel worshipers.
Star of David symbolizes the Seed of David which is Christ. Ironically
the Jews literally worship it but deny Whom it symbolizes. Similarly
the Muslims literally worship Mohammed without knowing, their whole
belief is guided by the moon (the Kabah - the shrine of Islam was and
still is a temple of moon gods).

Let us open our spiritual eyes and not be deceived in spirit. Let us
enlighten ourselves by the Word of God which is completed in Christ
and unfolded unto us by His Spirit. Let each of us understand our
purpose and take full account of what we do today so that our tomorrow
(eternal life in Heaven) will be better for we receive in Heaven
according to our harvest.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we pray for the workers of the vineyard and for our harvest. You
are the Lord of the harvest. It is only by You and through You that we
receive our harvest. Lord, we pray that we do loose our harvest due to
our carnal minds and lack of understanding of your Instructions. ..

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Isaiah 28:9-11(words added for readability has been removed)
9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand
the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
breasts?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
11 Nay, but by strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to
this people;

Genesis 1:25-27
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Matthew 5:17-18
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or
one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 23:7-9
7 And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and
make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and
the moon shall not give its light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.

Daniel 12:8-13 (words added for readability has been removed)
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what the
end of these?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words closed up and sealed
till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked
shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the
wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily [continually / evermore -
referring to the Holy Spirit] shall be taken away, and the abomination
that maketh desolate set up, a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
hundred and five and thirty days.

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Your children are watching and learning from you
1 Kings 15:2,3 - Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. And he walked in all the
sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was
not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
How many a times have I come across parents who keep complaining about
their children being mischievous, not studying, not paying attention
for more than 5 minutes etc... Most of the time I keep the child out
and instead of speaking or praying over the child start counseling the
parents.
Children are like fresh clay on a potter's wheel. Like our Father is
our potter, we too are potters to our children. It is how we handle
them and what we teach them that determines what they become.
Children by nature go less by what we talk and more by what they see
us we do. Visual training is considered the fastest and best way of
teaching. Most people have a photographic memory and instantly
recollect what they saw, especially children. Children will give you
details which you did not even notice. Any event that disturbs them
gets etched onto their minds. Undoing them is most difficult and
therefore it is best to avoid doing it in the first place; prevention
is better than cure.
In today's scripture we read Abijam who was weak in heart saw the
sinful ways of his father Nebat and followed him. We also read the
name of his mother given as Maachah which means 'oppression' . So much
so was the effect of his mother on him that she had an incestuous
relationship with him and gave birth to a child Asa who later became
king. But we see Asa was strong in heart for cut himself from his
parents not following them but followed David as an example and was
blessed.
When a child weak in heart and has a father who openly sins before him
and a mother who oppresses the child, then what can one expect of the
child. Lord too understood this and therefore it is written he slept
with his fathers.
This same message goes to spiritual leaders or spiritual fathers. The
Lord instructed Israel not to make steps to climb to the altar and but
slopes, so that the children of Israel do not see the nakedness of the
spiritual leaders.
We are the altar of the Lord made of earth (Adam was made of earth and
life was put into him) and stones (which symbolizes understanding -
the Holy Spirit is called the Rock because He is perfect Truth and
understanding) . God never really gave importance to any structure made
by man nor did his glory dwell there long. God always needs a perfect
structure to dwell in for He is perfect and that perfect structure is
man made in his image.
Steps symbolize high increase of great desire to progress. God gives
us the increase and it is He who lifts us or glorifies us. When we try
to work towards our increase or try to glorify us we are climbing
steps. God instructs spiritual leaders not to expose this nakedness of
theirs to their congregations or spiritual children. If they do they
will be inviting the wrath of God.
Even oppressing the people of God for personal glory like not letting
a person go to another congregation where they person has more comfort
for better fellowship or not letting so as to not lose the tithe
income also invites the wrath of God on the leader.
God is more interested in his harvest, if the worker of the vineyard
does not work in the interest of the harvest he or she becomes an
enemy of the Lord and thus is judged first.
Be careful of what you show of yourself to your natural as well as
your spiritual children, they are very dear to the Lord.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, we thank You for giving us such lovely children. We ask your
forgiveness if we have shown our nakedness to them. Help us Lord to
control our desires and our weaknesses especially when we are before
our children. Protect our children even from us so that they give
glory to You and lift your holy Name...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scripture]
Exodus 20:23-26
23 Ye shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of
gold, ye shall not make unto you.
24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice
thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and
thine oxen: in every place where I record my name I will come unto
thee and I will bless thee.
25 And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of
hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted
it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
1 Kings 15:1-14
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
reigned Abijam over Judah.
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as
the heart of David his father.
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp
in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and
turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of
his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And
there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
David his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all
the idols that his fathers had made.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol,
and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
perfect with the LORD all his days.
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Deliver the poor from the wicked

Psalm 82:3-6
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods[powerful] ; and all of you are children of
the most High.

In wildlife we have a food chain wherein the more ferocious animals
prey on the weaker animals. In the same way we have a chain in the
spirit world. The wicket in spirit prey on those poor in spirit; while
in the Kingdom of God those who are strong in spirit work for those
who are weak in spirit.

As we spiritually mature, we Christians are expected to work for the
poor people. This does not mean we start social service centers. We
need to understand one thing Jesus did love the poor and so did the
Apostles but their main aim was not to feed their physical bodies but
to feed their spiritual bodies. No doubt basic physical needs need to
be met but more concentration should be given to the spiritual needs.

'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and
you feed him forever'.

Understand God has already provided us our needs but because we are
weak in spirit we do not receive it, spiritually building a person
poor in spirit will allow him to receive his provision. It is the
misguided in spirit who concentrate on just the physical needs of the
poor.

The Lord says the poor are exploited by the wicket because they lack
understanding of who they are. God calls his people powerful (like
little gods) because his people are children of the Most High God and
the glory of God surrounds his children.

When sin came, all that God created as good got disrupted. It is only
when we forgive, heal and nourish the spirit man will we be able to
bring this creation back to the way God created it.

We as Christians are at war with the wicket in spirit snatching away
the poor from their hands and making them know they are powerful.
Making them know they are sons of God and bringing back the image of
God in them.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, the wicket are destroying and exploiting the poor in spirit.
Lord, You being almighty humbled yourself and became lower in spirit
so that You could deliver us, heal us and feed us so as to lift us up
and make us know how rich we were in spirit. Lord, You made us Sons
and even though we hold unlimited wealth we act like beggars due to
lack of understanding. Open our minds O Lord and alp us reach out to
others so that your glory be found among your children...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 1:25
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Romans 8:16-22
16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
children of God:
17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified with him.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to
us-ward.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the
revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but
by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.

Colossians 1:9-17
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory,
unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light;
13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us
into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:
15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the
earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created
through him, and unto him;
17 and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

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In that day every pot with be holy
Zachariah 14:21 - Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be
holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall
come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall
be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
In the Bible the Hebrew word 'Yowm' translated as day actually means a
period of time not just a 24hr period.
The Lord id saying at the end every pot will be holy and those who do
not know Lord will do so from them. The Lord also says that there will
be no Canaanite in the House of the Lord of hosts.
Do we know of any Canaanite existing now, so is it that this prophesy
will not be fulfilled?
The word 'Canaanite' comes from the root meaning 'lowland'. It refers
to spiritual person not earthly person. When God promised the
generations of Abraham the land of the Canaanites it did not truly
refer to the earthly land. Abraham hardly entered this land yet he was
please when he slept.
The land promised to the generations of Abraham was the Heavenly place
previously occupied by the fallen angels. The word pot used here
refers to people not earthen vessels.
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in one of the scrolls was written
the best place to keep the scriptures is earthen vessels anointed with
oil until the day of (second) coming of Jesus Christ. Paul in his
letters states we are the earthen vessels.
We become holy when we have the Word of God living in us.
Just a few days back a large part of our team which is organizing the
Blazing Youth Revival at Daund near Pune went for a site visit by
train. Each one of the team is a worker in the Lord's vineyard. They
are leaders of churches or ministries or at the back-end supporting
and building churches. All these Men and Women of God were humbled
when a hawker selling wares on the train came and shared his testimony
with us. We could see the awesome glory of God in his life. The only
reason was that he had made the Word his life and not part of his
life.
All of us do not see the awesome glory of God because we have made
Lord a part of our life not our lives. We give a portion of our time
and all that we have. We limit the Lord in our lives. It is only when
we give the complete of us to the Lord will we see the glory of God
fill our lives and we become holy vessels unto the Lord and people
will know the Lord when they see us, like they did when they saw
Jesus.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord God, You made us of your image but sin destroyed this image in
us. Lord, You came as man and by your Spirit You made way for man to
get back your image in us. Help us Lord to experience your glory
completely overwhelming us. Let the people around us who do not know
You see You in us and experience your power and beauty through us...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
2 Corinthians 4:7-10
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding
greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
8 we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet
not unto despair;
9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life
also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
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T@MZ
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