Dearly beloved, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of Genesis 40:13, ‘Pharoah will lift up your head and restore you to your place’.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, This verse reveals the vision that was interpreted to the king, Pharoah’s cup bearer. as a prophecy, through Joseph who interpreted the vision given to the cupbearer about his future. It was about what was to happen in the future. The cupbearer faced a tough time in the palace. So suddenly he was put in prison by Pharoah. The Lord decided to give him a new life after his imprisonment. This verse is the background of what the Lord did to speak to Pharoah’s heart and bring the cupbearer back to the same position. The verse says, ‘Pharoah will lift up your head and restore you to your place’. The Lord will restore you also to your place in a good position. The Lord is giving this verse to you, or to someone, who lived well once upon a time, but has lost much now. People would have told you that situations were different during the days of your parents or grandparents. You may say that today you are left with nothing, but the Lord is telling you,’ I will lift up your head and restore you to your place’. The Lord gave this word through Joseph to the cupbearer and the Lord fulfilled it in three days. Amen.
Today, if the Lord is telling you this, He will fulfil it not in three days, but in a moment. Many of you are saying, that you are sliding back in your life, day by day, that your income is sliding back, that all your situations are against you. You are thinking, ‘How will I return to my former lifestyle?’ In the Bible, Job says, ‘It would have been better if I had my former blessings’. When does he say that? He told it when he faced struggles. ‘Lord, I once lived a wonderful life. It would be wonderful if I had those blessings which I had enjoyed in the past. The Lord seeing his righteousness, gave him a double portion of his former blessings. So, when we face certain struggles in life, the Lord will increase us to the way we lived before or even better than that. You must have this hope. You must never lose hope. The Lord who permitted such a struggle will restore you to your former life of goodness. All of you must have this hope, if not we will grow weary and get depressed. Then it will hinder growth and blessings. Therefore, according to the assurance that the Lord is giving today, be hopeful that You will come back to a good position again. The Lord is not only giving you this hope but will also fulfil it. When He fulfils it, the Bible says, that He will restore you to your former position. He will restore all that you had lost. Doors will be opened today, wherever you go. The Lord will give you new opportunities to develop yourself.
Prayer: Holy Father, we thank you. You have told that you will restore your children to their former position. Some of their jobs have been snatched away from them. Their authority and power has been snatched. For some, their wealth has been snatched. Lord, restore to them all that they have lost in their life. Lord in this situation consider them and bless them to take a step higher than they were before. I plead you as your servant, to make your children rejoice. You are the Lord who came to this world to seek and find that which was lost. You are the Lord who restored the position of the cupbearer. Restore the wealth and position that your children have lost and cause them to rejoice again. Restore to them their well-being, health, happiness and peace. We thank you for doing so.
In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen!
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of Hebrews 11:7, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
In this passage from the Bible, we see how by faith Noah being divinely warned by God saved his family. Enoch was the great grandfather of Noah. We can see that the same faith found in Enoch was also found in Noah. We read that this Noah also walked with God (Genesis 6:9). He saved his family from the floods as he heeded God’s warning about it. He did not question or argue with God about His instructions for building the ark but fully trusted Him and built the ark. (Genesis 6:9-22).
And because Noah implicitly obeyed God, his family was saved, and Noah was found to be righteous and integrous in the eyes of God. Even in our life many times we receive warning from God. Perhaps you might have ignored them and therefore faced many struggles. When we pay heed to the warning that God gives us, and trust in His word, our family will be protected.
I am well acquainted with Dr Arivazhagan from Madurai. He has two children. His son had completed MBBS, while his daughter was studying MBBS. Dr Arivazhagan had written a letter to me saying, “Please pray that my son secures a seat for MD. I cannot pay two crores for an MD seat. Only God should pave the way for his admission. After I prayed, I sent him this reply, “Make a faith confession that God has granted the MD seat for your son. Similarly, the doctor and his son made the faith confessions.
Days passed and I received another letter from him. God had enabled his son to get a seat in CMC Vellore without any capitation fees. Hallelujah! It is very difficult to secure a seat at CMC Vellore for MD by merit. But when the doctor’s son wrote the entrance exam for the MD exam, God’s wisdom was revealed. When you believe the same miracle can take place in your family as well. Do not be worried!
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you for always helping us in our times of trouble. Increase our faith in you so that we can trust you at all times and receive miracles in our lives. Be with us and guide us.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
Dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of 2 Samuel 22:31, ‘He is a shield to all those who trust in Him. ”
The Lord is a shield to all who trust in Him. Many children have endured losses. You are thinking, ‘What is this life full of pain and agony? . You are weary and frustrated. The devil is shooting arrows in many children’s lives. That is harming your body, mind and life. The reason is because you don’t have a shield. There is no shield to shoot down the arrows of the devil. The witchcraft that some do, against us penetrates into us like an arrow and is shattering our lives. The reason is the absence of the shield. Many deadly diseases are coming towards us. It is penetrating into us and is bringing losses, struggles, sufferings and financial crisis. The reason is the absence of the shield. So, why is the shield necessary? Arrows will come towards us, but we need a shield to stop all those arrows aimed at us. If we have a worldly shield, we can stop it to a certain level, but if the Lord himself is a shield to us, He will stop everything and protect us from all harm and danger.
If you are given a shield, you will be able to stop only the arrows that are shot at you. However, we do not know how the devil will spread a trap for us. Only the Lord who can look over us in all directions can be our real shield. That is why the Lord is telling that He will be a shied to all who trust in Him. If the Lord is our shield, He will be the security around us. The Bible says, that the Lord will dwell in the midst, like the wall of fire. He will protect you from all harm. But the Lord is not a one-way shield; He is an all-rounded shield. So trust in Him. Don’t put your trust in worldly things like money or material or a person, but in the Lord. None other than the Lord can be our protection and shield. So, trust in the Lord and ask Him to be your shield. He will raise a wall of fire around you and will dwell in your midst and will perform miracles for you.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! From this day change all the situations that cause pain to some children and give them divine deliverance and peace. I pray that You alone will be the shield for your children. Let them trust in You rather than anything that is worldly. Let them say, ‘The Lord is a shield to me’ He is a shield to me and my family’. May You be their shield and protection. Save them from all disaster. May they be safe and secure as You are the shield to them.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen!
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of “ Psalm 23:6, ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. ”
‘All the days of my life’ means as long as you live, goodness and mercy shall follow you. The Psalmist speaks about himself, so he refers as, ‘Me’. Today the Lord is giving you this word and blessing you. As long as you live, goodness and mercy will follow you. All these days, poverty might have followed you. Debts would have followed you for many years and ruined your peace. As you experienced many failures, you would have faced failures one after the other. Losses might have followed you. But what will happen from today onwards? Goodness and mercy will follow you. Goodness will follow you instead of the days when evil followed you. Many good events are going to take place in your family. Many auspicious events will take place.
Two thousand years ago, Lord Jesus who went about doing good to all on the earth has come into your house today, to do good for you. The Lord is telling that goodness and mercy will follow you. The Lord is bringing double blessings of goodness and mercy into your homes. The reason that the Lord is bringing mercy along with goodness is that there may be some obstacles or the defiling of holiness in certain places that have stopped good things from happening.
Although there may be situations that will not allow you to receive goodness, the Lord will grant you that goodness based on His mercy and grace. In the Bible, Job said,’ Evil came to me who was waiting for good’. Evil might have happened to you, though you were waiting for good to happen. However, the Lord is telling that grace will surround you so that, that evil will turn around into good. So today, the assurance to all of you is that the Lord will qualify you for the job you are not qualified for. Some say, ‘I am not qualified for such a great post’. I do not have previous experience. Just think about David. What previous experience did, David have with a royal life. Is there any relation between being a shepherd and a king? It was God’s grace! So David wrote this psalm, ‘Goodness and mercy will follow me’. This grace and mercy caused him to be seated among kings. Today, this grace will make you to be seated among kings and princes. Instead of the evil days, that you had experienced, with debts, and with all the losses that followed you, the Lord who has compassion on you is telling that goodness and good events will follow you. He will do as He has promised you. So you can expect miracles to happen in your life in the near future. But you need to depend on the Lord with all your heart and mind.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! All these days, some of them have been experiencing evil, debts, losses and struggles. Let goodness and mercy follow them for the years they had faced evil and let all that they have lost be restored to them. Bless them that their cup might overflow. Let them experience overflowing blessings in their life.
In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen
Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious life giving word of the Lord, for today is from the book of “ John 15:5, ‘He who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit. ”
This is the experience of being established in the Lord. The Lord will surely be established in us. You need not have any doubt about it. But are we really established in the Lord? That is the question. The auspicious word is that we must abide in the Lord, and He in us. Our fruitful life does not alone depend on one’s efforts. You need the Lord’s help and your effort as well. A man can bear fruits only with his hard work and the help of the Lord. Both you and the Lord must go together if you need success in your life. Only then you can bear fruit. Today, many children, instead of bearing good fruits, are ruining themselves. And therefore they face a lot of shame and failure because of this. They face torment. They may be caught in many cases. But if you are established in the Lord, God will not allow you to be caught in any case. The Lord will make you escape from there wisely. The devil will deceive us when we are not established in the Lord, but if the Lord is near us, the devil cannot come near us.
In the Bible we read about Job. He was a righteous man and feared the Lord. The devil could not make him fail, because he was established in the Lord. Though he lost everything, he did not lose his righteousness. He preserved it. You must also be established in the Lord at any situation. Trials will come, but you must be established in the Lord. Do you know why the Lord is giving the auspicious word every day? It is for you to be strengthened. It is for you to bear a lot of good fruits. The words you hear every day must bring changes in your life. So, in who are you established? What are you established in? Put a question and check yourself on this. The reason for failure and shame for some is that they are rooted in their own understanding. The Bible says, ‘Israel fell because of its own understanding’. They did not consider the counsel of God. Only if the counsel of God is established in Him, then that person is established in the Lord. Some are established in their own understanding, some take the advice of their friends. The Bible says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. You can bear fruits only if you are established in the Lord. Then you will grow and all that pertains to you will yield great fruits.
Prayer: Loving Lord, we thank you! On this day, help your children to make a good, decision, that is to be established in the Lord and bear good fruits. In the past, they would have made their own decisions out of their own understanding and would have failed. If they have been caught in debts, in legal cases, please deliver them. Help them to be established in the Lord, in Your word and bear good fruits.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen!
