BLESSINGS AT HIS FEET.

By John Varghese.

The Holy Bible says in Luke 10:39, She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what He said. In Luke 10 we read that Jesus's visit to the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Martha opened the door for Him and she was involved in all the preprations that had to be made. She complained to Lord Jesus that her sister left her to do the work herself and asked him to tell her to help her. What was the response of Jesus? We read in Luke 10:41,42, "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, 'You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Dear friends chose the better that nobody can take away from that is to be at our Master's feet. Learn from Him and have the blessings from His feet and words.

Again the Holy Scripture says in John 11:32, When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, "Lord if you had been here, my brother would not have died." This shows her faith and trust in the Lord. In her time of need she also came in sorrow to the feet of Jesus. When read the remaining verses you can understand that what Jesus did for her. Dear readers, come to Jesus's feet. He will bless you, comfort you, Heal you, Save you. Amen. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and Mary got her brother alive. Praise the Lord. Come to the feet of Jesus, pour out your sorrow and sufferings to Him; He will solve all your problems and bless you beloved.

Then again the Bible says in John 12;3, Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Mary heard the word of God at His feet, she wept at His feet in her time of need and she worshiped Him also. This is an expensive worship of thanksgiving and the fragrance filled the house. Worship Him with praises and thanksgiving which are pleasing to God. Receive His blessings. Mary received. You also can. COME TO THE FEET OF JESUS AND RECEIVE HIS BLESSINGS. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

       SEVEN "I Ams" of CHRIST.
         (Meeting Man's Need)


1. "I am" the Bread (for the unsatisfied one)
                           John 6:35.
2. "I am" the Light (for the Blind one)
                           John 9:5.
3. "I am" the Door (for The unsafe one) 
                           John 10:9.
4. "I am" the Shepherd (for the lost one)    
                           John 10:11.
5. "I am" the Way (for the ignorant one)
                           John 14:6.  
6. "I am" the Life (for the dead one)
                           John 11:25.
7. "I am" the Vine (for the fruitless one)
                           John 15:1.


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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14. NIV.

Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14. NLT.


    

BLESSED PRAISE.

                        By John Varghese.


Praise is the joyful thanking and adoring of God, The celebration of His goodness and grace. This is fundamental to the life of believers everywhere. Most of the Psalms are full of praising God and give thanks to His goodness. The last verse in the book of Psalms says, Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So if you have the life, the breath of God you have to praise the Lord. In Psalms 146:2 says, I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live. The whole Bible is asking us to Praise God for all His wonders in our day to day life, for all the blessings we received in our life.


In Acts 16:25, the Bible says, "About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the other prisoners were listening to them." The next verse we read that suddenly God worked for the release of them and see how God worked. Even the jailer tried to kill himself thinking all the prisoners might have escaped and he'd have to give answer for it. Paul shared the gospel with him also and God prepared a way for his salvation. If we pray and praise God in our suffering God will prepare a way of escape and also salvation for others. Amen.

In Joshua 6:20 we see that when the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and the took the city. Here we see how Joshua got victory over Jericho, a well protected walled city. When the people of God shouted in the name the Lord, they got victory. If make a joyful sound to the Lord and praise His name. He will give victory to you..Believe it and and make a joyful noise and lead a victorious life.

Again the Bible says in 2 Chronicles 20:21, After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise Him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: "Give thanks to the LORD, for His love endures for ever." They got victory in the battle. God wants our praises and thanks giving in very loud voice.

In Psalm 100:1 the Bible says, Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Give a big Shout in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He died for our sins and lives for us and He will come again to gather us and we will be with Him for eternity. Praise the Lord. Amen..

A Small Mango tree with full of Mangos..




A Big Jack Fruit Tree with lot of Jack fruits, It is very sweet and taste fruit.....
I Praise GOD for the wonderful fruits God provided for us according to the seasons.. Thanks God....





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BLESSED PRAYER.

By John Varghese.


The Bible says in Acts 12:5, So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. If you read this chapter you can understand that the Church was in persecution during the time of King Herod. He arrested some, killed James with sword. It pleased the Jews, so he arrested Peter also and put him in prison. What the poor Christians can do in this time of trouble only prayer. Yes, they prayed, they prayed earnestly to God for Peter. Are you able to pray earnestly for the persecuted Christians in the present world. If you pray earnestly God will send His angels to deliver from the bondage  Beloved in Christ pray, pray earnestly for those who are in prison, sufferings and in persecution in and around us.


When the Church prayed earnestly God worked for the Church read the remaining verses from the same chapter. This was beyond Peter's thinking, beyond the expectation of  the people who prayed for him see verses 12, 15 and 17 of the same chapter. God will work beyond our understanding and expectation when we pray earnestly. Amen.


Again the Bible says in Luke 22:42, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."  In verses 44 we see that He prayed more earnestly. Yes dear beloved pray, earnestly pray, more earnestly, then God will work for us. Here in verses 43 we see, An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. He was in anguish and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. This is the more earnest way of praying for the deliverance you and me, for the whole mankind. He did not pray for take away the cup, that just shows his human nature of prayer. He prayed for the will of Father be done in his life. To fulfill the will of God. God sent His angels to strengthened him and fulfilled His. Beloved our prayers also be like this. If we are able to like this God will enable us to deliver many from the bondage of sin, sickness and Satan. Amen


The Bible says in Hebrews 5:7-10, During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek. This prayer of Jesus we see in the above paragraph. He prayed with loud cries and tears to God. That is the more earnest prayer. Do we have the burden and pain of the perishing souls in the world then we can able to pray like this. This kind of prayer comes from our love to the fellow people and love to God, not from our theological studies. If we pray like our Master God will use us for the deliverance of many people around us. Beloved readers of this pray for the deliverance of Christian leaders, pray earnestly, pray more earnestly, pray with loud cries and tears for the deliverance of the people in darkness and sinful life. God bless you all.


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Once a solid spiritual foundation has been set in place, we are able to grow into the new life God has promised us. The Bible calls this “maturing in Christ.” As I can readily attest, it is a lifelong process.

God’s intent is that as new believers, we become different people. We are “under construction.” We’re being transformed from the inside out. The chief architect of these changes is God himself. As a loving father, he comes alongside to personally direct our growth.

From my experience, and in observing others, some dramatic new patterns emerge. Harmful habits change. Attitudes, thinking and language move to a new level. Motives come under scrutiny. We ask, “Why on earth did I do that!” God shows us how to behave differently and we move on.

The process continues. Selfishness gives way to service. Relationships with others are restored. Bitterness, envy, jealousy and hatred diminish as love increases. We experience a new dimension of joy. Not overnight, but steadily, progressively. Profound adjustments are underway. We realize it is true – we really are new creations because Christ is living in us!

In its simplest form, prayer is just talking to God. But sometimes we just don't know what to say. Don't feel awkward if you don't know how to pray-even Jesus' own disciples asked for help, "Lord, teach us how to pray" (Luke 11:1). Many Christians do not devote consistent time to prayer because they don't know how or because they do not realize the power of their prayer. Just like a child must learn to walk, so a Christian must learn to pray-and just as a person will not do much in his life without first walking, so the Christian will not accomplish much without praying.

In response to His disciples' request, Jesus taught them a model prayer that holds six keys to powerful prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). The first and most important thing is to praise God-acknowledging who God is and thanking Him for what He has done. Next is praying for the purpose of God to come-in your life, family, church, country, and world-by asking God for His will to be done. Thirdly, you can ask for provision, for God to meet your daily needs. Jesus also taught us to pray for purity-that God would forgive us our sins just as we forgive others who sin against us. We are to also pray for protection and deliverance from the Devil. And finally, we set our priorities when we acknowledge to God that "Yours in the kingdom, the power, and the glory."

Just like a good parent will give his child what he needs, God loves to give good gifts to His children. As you set out to pray faithfully, you begin on a lifelong adventure of answered prayer from your heavenly Father!

Verses
"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5:14, 15).

"The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles" (Psalm 34:17).

"Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus." (Phil 4:6-7)

This is a good Prayer,  see how they are standing and be in Prayer time. Praise God.

A Life-Changing Prayer Colossians 1:7-14
How do you respond when people ask you to pray for them? Do you know how to lift them up before the Lord? In the first chapter of Colossians, the apostle Paul has given us a powerful model for intercession. We can have confidence that God will answer this life-changing biblical prayer.
A. Power: The prayer in Colossians 1:7-14 has the power to rescue someone from all kinds of difficulty, hardship, and destruction. One couple shared that they began praying it years ago for their small children. Today, all their children and grandchildren walk in the ways of the Lord.
B. Content: Ask God that the person would . . .
1. “Be filled with the knowledge of His will” (v. 9). Every believer needs to know the Lord’s specific plans for his or her life. As a parent, give your children freedom to follow their heavenly Father’s best for their lives.
2. “In all spiritual wisdom and understanding” (v. 9). Ask God to help them walk in a manner worthy of Christ’s name. As believers, our conversation, character, and conduct should reveal obedience to God.
3. “Bearing fruit in every good work” (v. 10). Christians should have an eternal influence on our world. As we obey God, He makes our lives fruitful.
4. “Increasing in the knowledge of God” (v. 10). A believer should grow closer and closer to the Lord over time. On a practical level, that means we should study the Bible, apply what we learn, and observe what happens when we obey or disobey God.
5. “Strengthened with all power” (v. 11). Pray that the other person will experience the power of God in his or her daily life. The Lord loves it when we realize our helplessness and cry out for His supernatural strength.
6. “Joyously giving thanks to the Father” (vv. 11-12). This request has to do with the person’s attitude. God wants us to meet life with thankfulness, trusting Him in the midst of hardship. He brings good out of suffering and deepens our character.
C. Results: Praying biblically yields fruit. While Dr. Stanley was on an In Touch cruise, he met a godly 11-year-old who prayed one of the most powerful scriptural prayers he had ever heard from a child. Because her parents cultivated an atmosphere that encouraged her to seek the Lord, she’s already making an impact.
Conclusion: Colossians 1 gives us a model that we can pray for anyone, no matter how young or old a person is. Commit yourself to intercede consistently for others, and believe that God will work in their lives.

BLESSINGS FROM GOD.

By John Varghese.


In Revelation 1:3 we read, Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. For blessings we need to read and hear and practice the Word of God. Amen.

In Proverbs 22:4 , the Bible says, Humility and the fear of the Lord bring wealth and honour and life. We all are working for getting any of this three ie., wealth, honour and life. Of course we have to work but God is the one who gives this and we get it only if we have humility and fear of the Lord. Amen.

Then for blessings we need to give the whole tithes if not we are robing God and will be under curse.
In the book of Malachi chapter four we read Bring the whole tithe into the store house . test me in this, "says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out to much blessings that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the wines in your fields will not cast their fruit", says the Lord Almighty . Before this verses the prophets reminds us from the Lord that Will a man rob God? yet you rob. Yes a man is not able to rob God because God almighty, omnipotent and omniscient. He knows us our thinking doings and all all. He knows everything in that perspective man can not rob God. Yet  you rob.. How do we rob God. In tithes and offerings. Tithes belongs to God and if we are not giving it to God we are robing Him. If we give the tithes God will protect the 90% and bless it for our use and savings. If we are not paying it God will not protect the 100% which includes the 10% of God' share. Another fact is everything belongs to God if He gives then only we receive for us. In I Chronicles 29: 14, we read, But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you , and we have given you only what comes from your hand. If this is so why we have to give tithes. You see in our homes we give somethings to our little ones and and ask again to give us some kids gladly gives some says no. We wants to know whether they share the things they have with others those who have not. Like God don't wants anything from us He is the owner, creator of all this universe. He provide everything to us and He wants us to share the things with others and glorify His name.

II Corinthians 8:4 says, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. Jesus Christ give up all the riches in glory in heaven He had to make me and you rich inheritance in His heavenly home, we are now co-heirs in His riches in glory. Amen. Again in verses 11 of the same chapter Paul says, You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. We are made rich by God to be generous and that is thanksgiving to God. Give thanks to God through our generosity..

So beloved shall we ask God to help us to read, to hear and to practice the word of God in our day to day life and claim God's blessings in our life. Shall we pray to our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ to make us humble like Him and have the fear of God and Obedience to God like Jesus when He was in the earth as a human. Shall we ask the Holy Spirit to help us to give the whole tithes and receive the abundant blessings from the triune God. Amen. God bless you all with these Holy Words.

An Indian Elephant,




Peacock..

THE GREATEST GIFT.

THE GREATEST GIFT IN THE WORLD.

By John Varghese.


The Author of the Gift : GOD.


The Incentive of the Gift : So Loved.


The Content of the Gift:His only begotten SON


The universality of the Gift: Whosoever.


The means of  Appropriation : Believes.


The benefits in the Gift: 
   1. Negative-    Not Perish                                                   
   2. Positive  -    Have Everlasting Life.     

Christmas is a time of giving and receiving GIFTS from our beloveds. The greatest gift from God to us is His Son Jesus Christ, and Salvation through the blood He shed on the Cross. This we receive through faith in Him. If we believe in Him through faith we have eternal life if we are not believe we perish. Dear friend believe in Jesus and receive the eternal life God prepared for you in this Christmas time.  
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS
                            AND
       BLESSED NEW YEAR 2012.


MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL WITH THIS 
                     MESSAGE.




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Happy New Year to all my readers.
Don't worry. God is watching YOU.
    Our God is wonderful.
             AMEN.

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GOD WHO REMEMBERS US

                           By John Varghese.

God is our loving heavenly father who remembers us always in all our situations. We human being may not remember all our friends and relatives in their time of needs. In Psalm 136:23 we read, to the one who remembered us in our low estate, His love endures for ever. Many a times people may not remember us in our low estate or in our pathetic conditions, but our God remembers us. If they remembers also there is time limit for that but our God remembers us always.
He remembers us to deliver us:

When we cry to God He remembers and makes ways of deliverance. In Exodus 2: 24, 25 - we read, God heard their groaning and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So He looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. He not only remembers us but He is concerned about our conditions also. He prepared a way of deliverance for the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt.The children of Israel cried to God in their sufferings at Egypt God heard their cry and remembered His covenant with Abraham and concerned about them and delivered them with His mighty Hands. The people who are in the bondage of sin and sufferings, if they turned to God He will deliver them through the blood of Jesus Christ. In Gen 19:20 we read that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that over threw the cities where Lot had lived. In Genesis chapter 18 we read that Abraham is pleading for these cities from 50 then45, 40,30,20 and finally 10 righteous people are there will you destroy it, God said no for the sake of ten righteous people He will not destroy it. But there is not even ten righteous people there. But God delivered Lot, when we pray for the cities where we live though it may destroyed because of its sinful condition but God will deliver us in His own way. What a wonderful loving God He is!! He deliver us from our sinful nature to His righteousness Amen!!!. Through the death of His son Jesus Christ on Calvary Cross !!!!.

He remembers us to bless us:
In Psalms 115:12,13 - we read that, The Lord remembers us and will bless us: He will bless the house of Israel, He will bless the house of Aaron, He will bless those who fear the Lord small and great alike. When our God remembers us His blessings also follows.  In the book of Esther we read about Mordecai was honoured when Haman plotted against him and the children of Israel. King could not sleep he asked for the chronicles and found out that Mordecai exposed Bigthana and Teresh and their conspiracy of assassinating  King Xerxes. Then he remembered that nothing has been done for this good work of Mordecai. This is the work of God in the time his trouble and suffering, he cried to God. God remembered him and reminded this to King Xerxes to honour him. God is able to change our problems into dancing and rejoicing.
 HE REMEMBERS US FOREVER.
In Psalms 105:8 the Bible says He remembers His covenant forever, the word he commanded for thousand generations. We may remember for  three or four generations not more than that but God remembers the words He commanded for thousand generations. What a wonderful God He is !! We are not able to remember the words we say for even some hours or days or months. Today with the help of electronics gadgets we record some of our sayings and when we replay it we remember it for some more years. But see the greatness of God. This gives us a clear assurance of our eternity and about out eternal life which He provided us through His son Jesus Christ.  We will leave with God eternally. God remembers all His promises He promised to us. We many times not at all remember our promises even when the other person reminds us about it because we are not willing to be faithful in our promises. In Psalms 105:42 we read in the Bible, For he remembered his holy promise given to His servant Abraham.

CHRISTIAN.

CHRISTIAN.


The word CHRISTIAN is used only three times in the Bible. First time at Antioch for the followers of Jesus. In Acts 11:26 we read, The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. To be a Christian means first  we become the disciple of Christ or a real follower of Christ. Disciple of Jesus means a pupil or follower or a learner   of Jesus Christ the great Master and Lord. Learning was both by listening and watching and imitating what the master is doing in our life. Those who were called apostles were also disciples. Jesus is still calling all the man kind who were weary and burdened to follow Him. In Matthew 11: 28-30 we read, " Come to me, all you who were weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." To become a disciple of Jesus we need to follow Him, we need to take the yoke and learn from Him and we need to practice it in our day to day life. When we really learn from Him we become humble in heart like Him. When we learn from Jesus we get the wisdom that comes from heaven which is pure, then peace - loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Jesus said you are the light of the world, we need to shine for Jesus and show the way to God through Jesus to the perishing souls. Again Jesus said You are the salt of  the earth, we know the grate work of salt which make taste for our food. Like that we Christians have to give taste to mankind in the earth. This we learn only from Jesus our Master who came to this world ministered here in this world and died for our sins and lives for us and interceding for us.So first the disciples become known as Christians, or in other words to be a Christian we need to be a disciple of Jesus.

Then the word is used in Acts 26:28, Then Agrippa said to Paul, "Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian ?" Paul is in chains and he is speaking about himself or arguing his own case in front of King Agrippa. During that time also he is evangelizing or sharing the gospel. When a true disciple become a christian he will use all opportunities to share the gospel and make others to become a disciple of Jesus or a Christian. Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved Acts 4:12, we need to declare this truth to others. In Romans 10:9 we see That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead , you will be saved.Salvation only through Jesus and through faith alone.

Finally the word Christian is used in I Peter 4:16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. There is sufferings in our life but we should not be ashamed of our suffering as Christian. Christ suffered a lot for our sin and salvation. When we compare the sufferings of Christ our sufferings are nothing. We need to rejoice in our sufferings as we participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that we may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed. In 2Timothy 3:12 Paul says, in fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. There is persecution and sufferings in our life during that time if we pray and sing and praise God, He will work for us as mentioned in Acts 16:25, in the life of Paul and Silas.

PRAYER:
God our heavenly father, the giver of every good gifts, there is so much for which we ought to give thanks. Thank you for your Son Jesus Christ who died for our sins and through that you adopted us also in your family and the eternal life which you given to us. Thank you for your call and making us  your disciples and worthy to be called as Christians, help us to make others also in to this fellowship of Christians. Help us not to be ashamed in time of sufferings and persecution as a Christian. Give us strength through thy Holy Spirit to rejoice in such times and praise you. Bless us and use us for your glory in this earth. This we ask in the name of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. Amen...


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