I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. I take this moment to wish all the mothers in this world, “A happy Mother’s day”.
The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of Proverbs 31: 10,15,16 , “’Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far more than rubies. She also rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household. She considers a field and buys it. From her profits she plants a vineyard.’’
The above verse is often cited in praise of wives and mothers. And is among the most popular and familiar texts from Proverbs. From the above verse king Lemuel ‘describes “’the virtuous wife” by the tremendous amount of work she does for her family. She also rises while it is yet night. And provides food for her household. She is not afraid of the snow, and all her household are clothed in scarlet. God says, it is part of what a truly valuable woman will do. Paul an inspired apostle of Jesus Christ expects the younger woman to be discreet, chaste homemakers, good and obedient to their own husbands that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
What Apostle Paul and King Lemuel speaks through the Proverbs, is that God wants women to work for their families. Lydia, for example, held a job. A valuable woman works with her husband rather than challenging his authority or doing him harm. The Bible says, the heart of her husband safely trusts her. So he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not evil, all the days, of her life. Lemuel speaks of the husband being well respected in the community due to his wife’s support and work behind the scenes. In God’s ideal family, husband and wife are a team working together to overcome problems, strengthen one another, and raise godly children.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, If a house is divided against itself that house cannot stand. And when woman refuse to work with her husband, it is no wonder why so many homes are broken today. A valuable woman works with and supports her husband, despite his failings. And knows that the peace from submission is far more valuable than always getting her way. A valuable woman works for the Lord. The Godly woman’s work is not just for her family it is also for her God. She extends her hand to the poor, yes. she reaches out her hands to the needy. The passage concludes with a grand note saying, Charm is deceitful, and beauty is passing but a woman who fears the Lord she shall be praised. There are many things that a woman can do for the Lord in a better way, than men can. Dorcas was one such woman who was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did. She made tunics and garments for many of the widows in Joppa. God appreciates such hard work and promises to reward. When life is done, and we look back over our lives, our focus will not be on how many ladders we climbed or the size of the pay cheques we earned but on whether we worked for the Lord. Valuable woman realize the importance of God’s work. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Thank You Lord for teaching us, as to how a valuable woman ought to be. We thank you for women like Lydia, and Dorcas who set a good example of valuable woman. Teach us Lord to work united with our husband and build our family and also serve the Lord together. Help us to be patient and tolerant with our spouse. May we realize the importance of God’s work in our lives and strive to work for God.
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 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.
