I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of Hebrews 13:5 “Let your conduct be without covetousness ,be content with such things as you have, For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
From the above context we learn that Apostle Paul is counselling the people of the Hebrew church about their conduct. He tells them how they ought to be, in order that they will not be forsaken by God. And through this message the Lord is warning you too. God wants you to be careful in life , regarding the things of this world. God expects that each one of you should not be over anxious for worldly things. Desire for riches causes one to involve in many wrongful activities. Your love of money shows that you are more interested, in the things of this world, rather than your eternal life, with God.
In laying up treasures for a man’s own self, without being in any way useful to others and not making use of the talents given to you, for the glory of God, is sin. This is a very great evil, it is called idolatry and it is said to be the root of all evil. In those days the Jews were prone to this sin of covetousness. Therefore Paul had to admonish them. He wanted the believers in the Hebrew churches to keep away from covetousness. Instead he wanted them to show, brotherly love, hospitality, and to help in relieving people in bonds and adversity. And be content with such things as you have.
God desires that you remain content with the present things. And such contentment with these things, shows thankfulness, for the mercy of God, and your submission to the will and providence of God. For God hath Himself said, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.”When Moses was handing over the charge, of his people, to his successor, Joshua, He said, to Joshua, “ Be strong and of good courage. God will not fail you neither forsake you. Paul in his Epistle, to the Hebrews, refers to the same statement, and assures the people that in whatever circumstances they go through God will never leave them or forsake them.
Today man is not content with what God has provided him. He is not content with his job. He thinks he could have got a better job. Then he is not content with his salary. So he starts a side business. He can neither attend his job nor concentrate on his business. One fine day, he is found on the street with a huge loan to his account. He is not satisfied with his life partner. Neither is he content with his children whom God has blessed him with. He compares his wife and children with others. He is not satisfied with his honest and faithful servants. This is the common and low attitude of man as such. But God is displeased with this type of people.
There is a saying that “Money does many things.”This is true. But the Bible says, “The love of money is the root cause of all evil.” Money is essential, but money shouldn’t become your life itself.” Often we hear of incidents where children kill their own parents for the sake of property or wealth. Some men desert their own wife and children for the sake of money. Love of money is harmful, rather dangerous too. Today you need to repent of all your wrong doings. Ask God to forgive you and help you to live a life of contentment. Thank God for your good wife, your good children, your friends, your job, your salary whatever God has blessed you with. Be always grateful to God and pleasable in God’s sight, and learn to live a life of contentment rather than crying over the things that you don’t have or expect to have. Praise the Lord who considers you in your lowly state. Then God will never leave you or forsake you. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord we thank You for teaching us through this message that we need to be content with what we have . And not be covetous. Never to compare our wife or children with others. Help us to be thankful with what God has given us. We also thank you for assuring us that you will neither leave us nor forsake. May we learn that contentment with Godliness is great gain.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of Genesis 22:12 “For now I know, that you fear God, Since you have not with held, your son, your only son, from Me. “
From the above context we learn that Abraham who was known as the friend of God, was childless and he was waiting patiently for the gift of a child. God had promised him that he would make him a great nation ,and that He would l bless Him and make his name great. So Abraham waited on the Lord patiently. Now both Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah, had passed, the age of child bearing. But as the Lord had promised Abraham, Sarah bore to him a son and he called him Isaac. So the child grew up and was so dear to Abraham as he was the son of his old age.
But a day came when God wanted to test the faith of Abraham. So God called Abraham and asked him to sacrifice his only begotten son Isaac at Mount Moriah. So in obedience to God he took two of his men and Isaac and saddled his donkey took some wood and went to the place of which God had told him. So Abraham built an altar and laid his precious son on the altar, and stretched out his knife to slay his son, when God intervened, and stopped him from sacrificing his beloved son on the altar.
The Angel of the Lord, called Abraham from heaven, and said. “Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him, for now I know, that you fear God, Since you have not withheld, your son, your only son, from Me. “So we see that Abraham revealed his fear for God by his implicit obedience. The Lord therefore blessed Abraham with flocks, herds, cattle, riches, wealth, men servants, maid servants, and multiplied him abundantly. He also blessed him with gold, silver, camels and donkeys. God made him the most wealthiest man upon this earth, because he feared God. When God called him and asked him to get out of his country, from his family and his father’s house to a land that God would show, he obeyed God without questioning or doubting God. And so he was blessed.
Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus himself are characters who proved to be obedient, and humble in nature. Therefore God lifted them up. Mary had the quality of humbleness. When the Angel of the Lord came to her with the good news, and said to her, “And behold you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.”She humbled herself and replied, Behold the maid servant of the Lord, Let it be to me according to your word.”Here she obeyed the word of the Angel Gabriel. So she was known as the “ Highly favoured, Most Blessed among Woman.”God honoured her. God honoured Jesus, since He humbled himself to the very cross and therefore God exalted him by seating Him at the right hand of God the Father.
Every action of yours should reveal your humbleness. You need to respect the feelings of others. Respect the feelings of even those who are of low status. It may be your own husband or your wife. You need to respect even the feelings of your grown up children. Some wives may be more learned, more qualified, may be holding high post in the office, yet you need to be humble yourself, before your husband. Likewise many husbands too are so proud of your position that you fail to respect your wives. You need to repent of your wrong doings today. God says, “ That you Love one another as, I have loved you.” You need to exercise Godly love all the days of your life. Only then God will be pleased with you. These two characteristics, are important to attain name, fame and wealth in life. May God help you to acquire these good qualities in your life that you may be blessed like Abraham or Mary the Mother of Jesus. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for teaching us through this message that we ought to fear God and obey His word. Help us to avoid all wrong doings and reconcile with God each day of our life. Lord may we be like Abraham who was a man of great faith and like Mary who obeyed the voice of the Angel of God. Lord teach us to respect the feelings of others irrespective of their status. Bless us Lord according to our good nature.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of Proverbs 22:4 “ By Humility, and the fear of the Lord; Are Riches and Honour, and life.”
From the above context we know that only by humility we can achieve Riches, Honour and Life. And to acquire this we need to be more careful to do what is essential, so as to get a good name and maintain it too. Divine Providence has so ordered, that some are rich while others remain poor. But all are guilty before God. For at the throne of God’s Grace the poor are as welcome as the rich. Where the fear of the Lord is there will be humility. While the way of sin is dangerous and evil, the way of duty is safe and easy. By The fear of the Lord one distinguishes true Christian humility. And this involves, from a deep sense of God’s greatness, purity and perfection. Therefore the Bible says, The Fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom. And before Honour is Humility. For God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.
God says, this is a period of sanctification. Many of you are desirous to be wealthy, rich and earn more money and do well in life. This is not at all wrong. But to achieve such riches, wealth and honour you need to possess a good character. You desire to possess good name, fame and honour, You never like to be put to shame. You desire to live a long life, upon this earth. You desire to live without any sickness or disease. All this is good. But what is the good character that you need to have in order to achieve such a high position in your life, or live the life you want to have ? What should you do to inherit all this? What are these blessings based upon? Only two things you need to follow. Be humble and Fear God.
That’s why the Bible says, By Humility, and the fear of the Lord; Are Riches and Honour, and life.”God expects you to make two changes in your life in order to achieve Riches and Honour. You need to get rid of your pride and learn to be submissive and humble before God and man. If you were living all these days, without the fear of your conscious or without the fear of God it is high time you change your attitude. Restrain yourself from all your wicked plans, and schemes and ways of life.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord thank You for telling us that we need to humble ourselves. And acquire good qualities in order to achieve name and fame. Teach us to keep ourselves away from all wicked ways. Renew our life and help us to fear our conscious and God, so that we may acquire great riches and wealth.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given you for today is from the book of Luke 1:48,49, “For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant. For Behold hence forth all generations shall call me blessed. For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.”
Mary of the house of David was a poor virgin and Joseph to whom she was betrothed was a poor carpenter. And yet God instead of choosing the rich and noble families of Jewish people, He pitched upon this virgin to be the mother of the Messiah. The family of David was very much reduced and had left them hopeless and helpless, poor and miserable, but God has remembered his elect and has provided a Saviour for them and sent him to deliver them out of bondage because His mercy endures forever.
And this Mary was sensible and hence rejoiced in God her saviour. Though a virgin, to conceive and also bear, such a son, who should be called Jesus, a Saviour, Immanuel, God with us, and who was no other than the mighty God, the everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace, wherefore she describes God by the phrase, “He that is mighty” since this was the work of the Almighty Power and very justly adds, and Holy is His name. “The birth of Jesus Christ was brought about, without any impurity. Through the influence of the Holy Ghost. Thus God preserved the human nature from the interference of sin. Human race was sanctified and made fit to be united to the son of God. Mary realized the great things God has done for her in a spiritual sense. She understood that she was redeemed by the messiah and being sanctified, she experienced Gods sovereign grace, and goodness and his Almighty power with his justice and holiness. “Hence forth all generation shall call me blessed”.
Mary magnifies God, because He had respect to her who was so mean and poor in condition for though she belonged to the royal family of David, they had been afflicted, for many years, and had reduced to shambles. By choosing Mary from a poor family God magnifies Himself and takes pleasure in exalting such as are low. The Bible says, God has chosen the foolish things of the world, to put to shame the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world, to put to shame the things, which are mighty.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. We praise and thank you for considering the poor and needy. Though You are God of the Universe you took the form of man and was born in a manger. We thank You saviour for humbling yourself. We thank you for remembering us in our lowly state of life and for Your Love that endures forever. Lord we plead that You will regard the poor and needy at this period of time as they are struggling to meet their ends. Guard and protect their families and children as they are stranded in life, not knowing what to do.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
I greet and bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed word that the Lord has given for you today is from the book of Numbers 23:23 , There is no divination against Jacob, no evil omens against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’
From the above context we learn that Balaam was called by Balak the king of Moab, to curse Israel. But Balaam found that all his enchantments, and divinations, signified nothing and would never prevail, to bring a curse upon Israel. He knew it was vain thing for him to use them. And it was also vain for Balak to expect anything from them. Neither Balaam nor any other enchanter, or soothsayer, can use all the arts, they had practiced to hurt the people of Israel, who were the peculiar treasure of God. No one could ever stand against them as they were considered precious in His sight.
Dearly Beloved, people would have asked you, what has your God done for you? You have been going to the church regularly. What did you benefit by going to church? They might have criticized you. You would have been put to shame by them because you have not seen any good days in life. But they are all doing well in life. But nothing big has happened in your life. And so you may be disappointed. Yet you have not lost your hope in God , therefore today God is going to make you count all the good things that He has done for you.
If you are not able to list down His goodness or you are not able to rejoice in God’s work due to some satanic bondage you would have lost God’s blessings. Some satanic bondage is stopping you to rejoice all the blessings that God has blessed you with. You may be worried that you don’t know what is happening in your life. You may think that you have lost everything in your life. But today God says, that “There is no Divination against Jacob and no evil omens against Israel”. God loves and cares for Israel. God says, “Look I have found you in the furnace of affliction.”See I have inscribed you on the palms of My Hand, Your walls, are continually before Me.”
God has blessed you, but evil bondage has chained all your blessings until now, God is going to break those chains, barriers and bondages and liberate you. No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from Me,” declares the Lord.” Sometimes you may suffer from serious sickness in your body this is because of evil bondage. Once Jesus was teaching in the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. In the same manner God will cure you today, of your sickness that is due to curse or evil spirit.
The Lord will not let the enemies who rise up against you be prosperous. They will come against you from one direction but flee from you in seven direction. God will rebuke all the things that brought you shame. Your failures, your debts, or your diseases would have brought shame to you, whatever it is. God of Israel will not put Israel to shame. They could devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; and with their arrows they pierced them. God gave the strength of a wild ox to the people of Israel while they departed from the land of Egypt. Likewise, today, God will bless you with the strength of a wild ox. And you will rejoice over all the blessings that God has blessed you.
Prayer
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord, bless us with your goodness. We are patiently waiting for, whatever goodness that is yet to come. Lord will never put us to shame before others. Grant us good health, strength, skill to work, intelligence, wisdom, and good understanding. Remove all sickness from our body and break all the evil chains that we are caught up with, deliver us and make us free from all the bondages.
In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
