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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