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 43:2 , “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned.”
In this verse, God is telling the people of Israel, that He will be with them in their most troubling times, giving them the strength to move beyond them and delivering them out of danger without harm. The Jewish people were in captivity in Babylon. They faced many afflictions and were persecuted by men, represented by the waters, rivers, and fire. Some of the Jewish people had rejected God and provoked His wrath. For these people, the temptations of satan came upon these people, rapidly and overwhelmed them into a disastrous state of separation from God.
In spite of their disobedience to Him, God tells His people that they should not fear because He has redeemed them. God will continue his love and care for them. His people are God’s workmanship, created by him unto good works and He will not forsake the work of His hands. Similarly God is mindful of you. He loves you. You are precious in His sight. Therefore He always sends his angels to protect you that your foot may not slip. He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. God has put a mark, the seal of God on your forehead. The Lord says that he will make you like a signet ring God has chosen you to be His own to be his priceless possession. To be His signet ring which means you are in a covenant with God. He says, “I will honour you and will treat you like the signet ring on my finger.”
Since He loves you He says, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you” by saying this God means that He will do anything for His Children. He opened the Red Sea for miles to allow the Israelites to walk on dry land through the sea Then God let the walls of the sea close and destroy Israel’s enemies. He did this to encourage the unbelieving Israelites to trust in Him in their difficulties and show them that those who hurt God’s people will be ruined. God suddenly dried up the Jordan river as a band of priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood at the edge of the river. The ark represented the presence of God. God piled up the water to reveal a dry riverbed so that His people could walk into Canaan and end their long, tiring wanderings in the wilderness.
When God loves you and you love God in return then, He says, Look “When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”Just as He said, He protected those men who stood for God instead of denying him. God protected Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Nebuchadnezzar had his soldiers throw them into a furnace after they refused to worship any god but the God the Father. The furnace was so hot that the soldiers who threw them into the furnace were killed from the flames of the fire. Yet they emerged from the furnace completely un singed and because of this miracle they were promoted in the province of Babylon. God exalted them.
Our Father in heaven desires that we belong to Him forever. He remembers our frame. He calls us by our names and says, “You are mine.”If you belong to Him He will take care of your problems. He will be with you when you pass through the waters. The waters will not over flow you. Which means no problem can exceed you. The spirit of God will help you to overcome any difficult situation that you might go through. Never think that you are finished when you are caught up in the midst of problems. Never think you have come to the end of your life because of your problems. God is able to make a new beginning in your life. Even when you are thrown into the fire you shall not be scorched. The three friends of Daniel when thrown into the fire were rescued by God. Yahweh was in the midst of them. They were confident that their God would save them to the uttermost. The fire had no power on their bodies. Their hair of their head was not burnt nor was their garments affected. And the smell of fire was not on them. This is the kind of protection that God provides for His children. So, make this Lord God your Beloved. Have faith like these men of God who were ready to be thrown in to the fire for the sake of God. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for your care and concern. Lord help us to be yours forever. May we be confident and faithful to you in all our ways. Help us to be bold like Daniel, who was prepared to be thrown in to the den of Lions. Give us the strength to overcome our difficulties. when we face challenges in our life. May You be glorified in our lives as you were glorified through the lives of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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 for you today is from the book of Isaiah 53:7 , “ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.”
From the above words we learn that though Jesus was oppressed and afflicted He never opened His mouth. He was pulled like a sheep that keeps silent, to the slaughter’s house. Jesus knew no sin, neither did he do any wrong, yet He was offered as a sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary outside the city, for our transgression. The Bible says, “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement for our peace was laid upon Him.”
Jesus who did no mistake or any wrong was made to stand, in the court, before Pontius Pilot, and the judge like a criminal, yet He did not open His mouth. And while He was being accused, by the chief Priests and the Elders, He answered nothing. Then the Pilot said to Him, “Do you not hear, how many things they testify against You?” And He answered him not one word and so the Governor marvelled greatly at His silence. Jesus never retorted to all the complaints that was charged against Him. The people very well knew that Jesus did no sin, and He only performed miracles for the good of the people, yet out of jealously they came against Him ferociously. Those of you reading this message may be doing good for others, like feeding the poor, and the aged, in the city out of your own concern and sympathy for them. But you too might be accused falsely due to jealousy.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord , for teaching us to gain endurance and longsuffering. Lord You judge us for what we are. Do not give up on us, but help us never to open our mouth when we are accused falsely. Give us the strength to overcome such crucial moment that is likely to occur in our life. May we like Jesus be calm and never open our mouth before accusers.
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 for you today is from the book of Isaiah 44:3,4 “For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground: I will pour my spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.”
From the above words we come to understand that just as plants and trees planted by water-courses, and in well-watered fields, grow and flourish, so will the children of God grow in virtue, hope, piety, and zeal. This is the desire of God regarding His children. So God says, For I will pour water, which means that God will use floods, rivers, streams, and waters, to irrigate and fertilize plants and trees. These water resources are often referred in the Bible as the Holy Spirit. God wants us to grow rich in Him and this needs the Holy Spirit to motivate, to encourage and thus develop our spiritual life in the Lord. The Spirit of God denotes divine blessings. This divine blessing is absolutely needful, until God who is plenteous showers upon you. Then, it is plenteous grace.
Most of God’s children have grown dry and parched, unfit for plantation hence God wants to pour His spirit, upon all those who are thirsty and are in need of water for irrigation. God refers to the dry burning sandy desert where waters would be made to burst out in copious streams. The sense is, that God would bestow blessings upon them in a marvellous, manner as if floods of waters were made to descend on the dry, parched, and desolated earth. It means here that the spiritual influences which would descend on the afflicted, desolate, comfortless, and exiled people would be like torrents of rain poured on the thirsty earth.
The Holy Spirit will come upon you like rain upon the grass, and as showers that water the earth. The Holy Spirit represents all the blessings of God. This God spoke to the Jews who were more interested in the carnal things of this world to which they were too much addicted. And when they are blessed by God, they shall increase and flourish like grass, and those herbs and plants which grow up in the midst of it. The blessing of God upon the Jews shall be so remarkable that many of the Gentiles shall join themselves unto them, and accept Jehovah for their God, and own themselves for his people. God Promises to do a new thing for His children who totally depend upon Him. And now it shall spring forth. God says, I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. God promises to pour His spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters, your young men and old men on your men servants and maidservants.
God wants to fill you with His divine Blessings. Are you willing to receive from Him the Holy Spirit? Then you will receive double fold blessings. Your sickness will be healed. Your Business will flourish like the trees planted by the rivers side. They will bring forth fruit in its season. In case your life has become too dry and parched, because of huge debts, and you are stuck in life, not able to move any further, the Lord will pour out His blessings in abundance upon you, and upon your children. Don’t lose hope, in yourself and in God. He will grant strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Today the Lord will perform a miracle for you. Receive the Holy Spirit and you shall be blessed. The Lord says, He will guide you continually and satisfy your souls in drought. He will strengthen your bones. You shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord for teaching us through this message the importance of receiving the Holy Spirit. Pour upon us the water and quench our thirst and also help us to grow rich and flourishing. That we may have a plenteous yield and that our barns will be full. By dwelling in us allow the Holy Spirit to help us live a righteous and faithful life. May the Holy Spirit comfort us and support us particularly in times of trial.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen
Dearly Beloved, 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 Daniel 3:17,18 , “If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fierce furnace, and He will deliver, us from your hand O King, ”But if not, let it be known to you,O king, that we do not serve your gods nor will we worship, the gold image, which you have set up. ”
From the above context we learn that Daniel’s friends were men of great faith and knew that their God would deliver them from the hand of the cruel king. So they refused to bow down or worship the golden statue. King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. He dreams of a statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. He dreams of a stone that destroys the statue. Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar the meaning of the statue: King Nebuchadnezzar hears this and thinks that he is the head of gold. So builds an enormous golden statue on the plain of Dura and commands everyone in his kingdom to worship the image.
The king told his subjects, that when the music sounds and the trumpets blare everyone in the kingdom must fall down and worship the statue. So everyone in the kingdom fell down before the statue and began to worship the golden statue but Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the three friends of Daniel refused to worship the statue. The king screams at them, saying, bow down or burn in Babylon’s furnace! The three men still refused, so they were thrown into the fire.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego knew that their God was able to save them from the blazing furnace. They really didn’t know what would happen to them. They didn’t even know what God would do for them. But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had a real kind of faith; a faith that doesn’t pretend that nothing bad ever happens to God’s children. They didn’t know God’s ways; they didn’t know if their lives will be spared, yet, they remain completely faithful to God. They said to Nebuchadnezzar, “Even if God does not save us we want you to know, O king that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. They didn’t know what their God was going to do for them, yet they continued to have the faith to serve and worship the one and only true God.
The king was surprised to see four men walking in the midst of the fire and they were not hurt in any way. The fourth was like the son of God. So he asked the men to lift them up from the fire. The officers found that the fire had no power over their bodies. Their hair was not burnt nor where their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them. The king on looking at them spoke “saying, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who sent his angels and delivered, His servants. Who trusted in Him. He further said, that there is no other God, who can, deliver like this.
Do you have the faith like the three friends of Daniel when problems strike your doorstep, when someone in your family is seriously ill and is at the point of death. The doctors might have washed off their hands saying they cannot save his life, will you lose your faith in God when you go through financial crisis and think everything has come to an end in your life, will you still remain faithful to God, who considered you very precious and gave His very life for you? Will you remain true to God even though you really do not know how He can help you? Or deliver you either from your disease of financial crisis. Just Trust Him. He expects blind faith in Him then He will deliver you no matter how critical your problem might be. Increase your faith in Him like the three friends. God bless you. Live for Jesus.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord for teaching us through this message about the kind of faith we need to have in order to be blessed. Help us to be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Teach us to be bold when we are pressurised by the government or higher authorities to do what is wrong in the sight of God. Give us the strength to stand boldly for the glory of God rather than bow down to please men to receive cheap benefits from them.
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 for you today is from the book of Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
From the above context we learn that God wants us to seek Him and His righteousness that we may be blessed. Jesus has just told his followers not to worry about material things such as food or clothing, as God will provide the needs of his followers. Jesus presented a discussion on how one must not pursue wealth and material things more than God. Not one word in the Scripture is superfluous. Jesus having taught His disciples to pray to the Father in faith, gave a long dissertation on the futility of fretting, the fruitlessness of worry, and the anxiety that is caused when our primary attention is on how we can provide for our own temporal necessities of life.
Through a series of beautiful examples, Jesus points out that both birds and lilies do not fret for their food or clothing, but are graciously cared for by God, pointing out that His children are infinitely more precious to Him than pretty flowers or feathered foul. But then comes the important teaching that instead of futile fretting and needless worry, our principal thoughts and prime pursuit should be on the eternal kingdom of God and the righteousness that flows from Him.
God knows that worry entraps the heart and fear fractures faith, which can cause a believer to fall down into a pit of despair. He also knows that we have daily needs and He has given many precious promises throughout the Scripture that He will be our Provider for all the needs and necessities of life – if we will but simply trust in Him. Instead of seeking first the things of this world, through our own effort, God urges us to seek Him first – to develop a right perspective, to exchange natural thinking for godly thinking. So as we trust Him to fulfil His promise to provide for our needs, remembering that He is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, let us take the words of Jesus to heart to seek GOD first, and make HIM our main focus, today and every day.
This message was specially prepared for you, as many of you who are reading this message are worried over many things. You are worried over your husband who is ill or because he is a drunkard. You do not know how to control him. You wish deep in your heart, how good it would be if only your husband doesn’t drink. You may be married for more than seven years and until now you may have been childless. As a result you are going through a shameful life. You never attend any function, because your relatives might hurt you. You think when will God bless me with a child, then I can proudly show my child to others. When will God clear all my debts? How will I pay back all the creditors. Will God make a way for me? God will surely make a way for you and turn all your sorrows into joy when you seek God and His Righteousness, then He will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches, in Christ Jesus. Kindly look to Jesus. He will solve all your problems. He will set you free from every difficult situation. God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord for teaching us that we need to seek God and His kingdom, and not the things of this world. Loving Father, we know that too often due to lack of faith in Your promises of provision we have sought after the things of this world by ourselves. We confess that this is because of the lack of faith in You and we pray that the eyes of our heart would be focussed on You, from this day forward.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen
