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 Isaiah 33:6 , “ Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times. And the strength of Salvation. The Fear of The Lord is His Treasure.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God wants to give all those who fear God, three treasures, namely Salvation, wisdom and knowledge. Those who wait for God by faith shall, find Him gracious to them. But if God leaves us to ourselves any morning then we are undone. We must commit ourselves to Him every morning, and go forth in His strength to do the work appointed to us for the day.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, when God arises His enemies are scattered. True wisdom and knowledge lead to strengthen our salvation which renders us steadfast in the ways of God. And true piety is the only treasure, that cannot be plundered from us. May all those who fear the Lord, acknowledge, that God can do everything you ask for, according to His will.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Word stability denotes firmness, steadiness, and constancy that prevailed during the time of Hezekiah the king of Judah. Strength of salvation –refers to the Saving Strength or Mighty Salvation. During his reign he undertook several reforms. He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars. He cut down the wooden images, and broke in pieces the bronze serpents that Moses had made. Thus he did what was right in the sight of God. Therefore God expanded his life span to 15 years. In those days, King Hezekiah was sick and near death. God sent word through Isaiah and so he said, to Hezekiah, “ Set your house in order for you shall die, and not live.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord reminding Him of all His good deeds. So God heard his prayer and added 15 years. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah. For King Hezekiah held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments. Therefore the Lord was with him. He prospered wherever he went.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, the Lord will prosper you too if you keep His commandments. You will also be blessed with all the three treasures of God namely, Salvation, Wisdom, and Knowledge. God wants you to experience the same first love, you had when you were saved in Christ. God wants to bring you back to His fold, and wipe away all your tears because of your backsliding. He wants to re establish complete Salvation in your life. God is delighted to hear that His children walk in the Truth. The Bible says, In an accepted time I have heard you. And in the day of Salvation I have helped you. Now is the time of God’s favour. Now is the day of Salvation. This is the day to be saved.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord, for forgiving our sins, and from backsliding. Help us to turn again to God. Teach us to acknowledge God, as our Saviour and Lord of our life. May we like Hezekiah trust in the Living God, and hold fast to His word. Help us not to depart from following God. Bless us with the three treasures, Salvation, Wisdom, and Knowledge.
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 3 John 1:2 “Beloved I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”
My dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that it is the prayer of St John for the Elder, Gaius and it includes three particulars, namely health of body, health of soul, and prosperity in secular affairs. These three things are necessary to the comfort of life. God expects that we prosper or succeed in all temporal affairs. In the business, in our career, in our marital relationship, whatever it may be, success of this sort depends upon the blessing of God, which makes one rich, it is to be wished and prayed for all such blessings.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God wants to bless us with good health that is of body. One has to be physically fit. For above all things, above all outward mercies, the most desirable is our good health, for without this the richest of dainties, the largest possessions, or the best of friends mean nothing to us or will be of no greater significance. Hence God prefers that we live with a healthy body free from sickness or diseases.
My dear Brothers and Sisters, To enjoy all the above goodness of God in the land of the living, One has to seek God with all of his mind soul, and spirit. For the soul is diseased with sin, and needs to be in good health. When all the sins and iniquities of a person is forgiven then he is said, to prosper. One must have a spiritual thirst for the gospel, the sincere milk of the word. He should feed upon it, and be nourished by it. He grows thereby and when it is in the lively exercise of faith, hope, and love, and when spiritual knowledge is increased or it grows in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ Jesus, and when the inward man is renewed day by day, with fresh strength, and when it enjoys communion with God, it becomes fruitful in every good work.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, just as St John prayed for the Elder Gaius, to be blessed with good health, sound spiritual life, I too sincerely desire that God bless everyone who reads this message, with good health, sound spiritual life and secular prosperity. May God bless you to draw closer to Him, and thus inherit, the blessings of God, for the blessings of the Lord makes one rich and does not cause sorrow. The Lord will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you. Worship the Lord your God, and His blessing will be upon you and your descendants.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. We thank You Lord, for Your good thought towards us. You want us to be blessed physically, spiritually, and with all secular blessing. Lord help us to worship you and obtain all the blessings from you. Teach us to pray for other fellowmen to receive all the blessings you have prepared for them.
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 1 Samuel 26:24, “And Indeed as your life was valued much this day in my eyes, so let my life be valued much in the eyes of the Lord. And let him deliver me out of all tribulation.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we learn that, the good spirit of the Lord had departed from King Saul and an evil spirit from God troubled him. Saul and his army were waiting for Samuel to arrive in order to offer sacrifice before going to war, but Samuel had not arrived. So Saul himself boldly offered sacrifice. This provoked God. In the meantime Samuel died. God refused to talk to Saul anymore, as he offered the sacrifices himself just before Prophet Samuel arrived. Not only did he disobey but also sought the help of a Medium at Endor. King Saul disguised himself and approached the medium and asked her to bring back the spirit of Prophet Samuel. And when she did according to his request the Spirit of Samuel came up and said to King Saul “The Lord has left you and has become your enemy. God has torn your kingdom, from you and has given it to your rival David. The Lord will deliver the army of Israel, into the hands of the Philistines.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters from then on King Saul began to attack David. Firstly he appointed David to play the harp to soothe the king. This was Saul’s plan to harm David. Whenever the tormenting spirit, from God troubled Saul, David would play the harp. Then Saul would feel better and the tormenting spirit would go away. At times Saul threw the spear at David, but David dodged and got away both times. The Lord had anointed David, and gave him the responsibility of kingship. But Saul withheld that position from David, and plotted to kill him. So David fled from the presence of Saul and hid himself on the hills of Hakilah. Saul went up to the hill of Hakilah with 3000 chosen men of Israel to search for David.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, They surrounded on all corners to attack David while he hid himself along with his body guard Abishai. The Bible says, God had sent a deep sleep over the 3000 men and Saul and even his bodyguard Abner. While they were asleep David and Abishai stealthily went up to King Saul and took his spear and cut a piece of cloth from his shawl, and the jug of water, that was placed by his head side. And escaped to the other side of the hill at a distance and called out to King Saul and his body guard Abner. And asked him “Why does my Lord thus pursue his servant? For what have I done or what evil is in my hand? For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as one hunt a partridge in the mountains?”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God had protected David, from King Saul and his men by giving them deep sleep. They slept in such a way, that they failed to know how David came up to them and stole the king’s spear and jar of water. In the same way the Lord will protect you from the hands of your enemies. Have you been targeted by someone. God says, from this day forth no one will target you. All their efforts to harm you will be nullified in the name of Jesus, for God says, “No man shall stand before you all the days of your life.”Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten just before your eyes. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. God also says that no weapon formed against you shall prosper. God values your life and will therefore preserve you from all danger and harm and deliver you from the hands of your foes. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank you Father, for your goodness and your mercy. Thank you for protecting us from the hands of our enemies. Help us to approach you in times of crisis. Just as you anointed David, please anoint us with oil of gladness. Teach us to respect those anointed by God.
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 Isaiah 43:4, “Because You are precious in My sight, You have been honoured. And I have loved You.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that our God cares for His children and they are very precious in His sight. So He honours them in the midst of ungodly people. A few of them are David, Samson, Daniel and Joseph. God honoured these men of God in the strange lands. Firstly we see David. The Philistines cursed David by his gods. But David said, “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands and I will strike you down and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God. David was anointed by God to be the king of Israel. And he was a man of great strength. He tells king Saul “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep and once your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine Goliath will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, David was confident of his victory over Goliath. He said, then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lords, and He will give you into our hands.
Likewise we see Samson. He went down to Timnah with his father and mother. To his surprise a young lion came roaring against him. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand. Though Samson disobeyed his parents, and took for himself a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines, God considered because he was anointed by God. For his birth was predicted by the Angel of God who appeared to the woman and said to her “ the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The spirit of the Lord, came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of their men, and took their garments and gave the changes of clothing to those who had explained the riddle. Though Samson was chosen by God to be the judge, of Israel, and allowed him to kill the lion and thirty Philistines, yet he did evil in the sight of the Lord because he loved Delilah from the valley of Sorek an ungodly woman. She betrayed Samson, because she was bribed by the Lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his unknown strength. He discloses the source of his strength hidden in his curly locks of hair. Delilah deceives him and reveals the secret of his strength to the Lords of the Philistines. Whereby he was bound by them and his hair was completely shaven. As a result he lost all his strength. The Philistines came upon him and bound him with bronze fetters, and put out his eyes and he became a mockery as he became a grinder in the prison.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, then Samson called upon the name of the Lord. He said, “Oh Lord God, remember me I pray, Strengthen me I pray, just this once. O God that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.” God took pity on Samson and strengthened him. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his lifetime.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters God never forsakes his chosen people for they are precious in His sight. Similarly you are precious in Gods sight. He will never forget you nor forsake you. God will be with you always, even to the end of the age. The Righteous shall never be shaken. The God of Israel goes before you, and will be with you. He will make all your crooked places straight. He will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. He will set you free from all your owes.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the great mountains. Therefore we the children of men put our trust under the shadow of Your wings. Make us strong like these men of God and help us to overcome all our problems that we face in our day to day life.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
Dear Beloved Brothers and sisters in Christ,
I greet you all and Bless you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As I waited upon the Lord with tears, the word that the Lord gave me to bless you is from the book of Isaiah 61:7 ‘Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours’.
The Lord is about to bless you with double Honor and Blessings this year. This year, God is going to equalize all the failures that you have had with a double honor over your life. God is going to make you a lender and not a borrower; the head and not the tail. There might have been people who have made fun of you because of your problems. But in this day, the Lord is going to make you a double portion of blessing over your life.
Our God is a God who is capable of giving you name instead of shame. You have to ask God, ‘Lord Jesus, You have promised that you will make me a person of honor and fame this year, what do you expect me to do for that?’ Ask the Lord to teach you the things that He is willing for you to do. When you ask the Lord for His guidance, he will guide you in the way you should go.
God Bless You
Prayer:
Our Loving Lord Jesus,
I thank you for this blessed day. I pray that You may bless Your beloved children with your precious Grace. In Jesus Name we Ask and Pray,
Amen.
