My dear Brothers and sisters in Christ, 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 1:45, “Blessed is she who believed.”
The book of Luke begins with an illustration of a couple, “Zechariah and Elizabeth.” Zechariah was a priest during the reign of King Herod. His wife was also of the priestly family of Aaron. They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. They were well advanced in years. Zechariah and Elizabeth had been praying for a child. But they did not have one. Now they were almost very old. They had almost forgotten their prayer request. But God remembered them. Zechariah was a priest in the temple. While He was serving as priest before God and when he was burning incense he went into the temple of the Lord. Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “Do not be afraid, for your prayer is heard and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. And you shall call his name John. Zechariah asked the angel, “How shall I know this? ’The Angel replied I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of God and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. Behold you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place.”
Since Zechariah was quite old he had lost hope, but Elizabeth believed that God would bless her with a child. Her faith was honored. Though God delayed in answering their request, He answered their prayers. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy spirit. Elizabeth’s full-time came for her to be delivered and she brought forth a son. For with God nothing will be impossible. When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown mercy to her they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him by the name of his father Zechariah. But Zechariah asked for a writing tablet and wrote saying, ‘’His name is John.”All the people marveled. Immediately his mouth was opened and tongue loosened and he spoke, praising God. Zechariah was filled with the holy spirit, and prophesied saying , “ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,. And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us. In the house of his servant David.” So the child grew and became strong in spirit. The Bible says, Commit your ways unto the Lord trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass.
My dear Brothers and Sisters, it is highly important to believe in the promises of God. When God tells something through the angel of God or the prophet of God one ought to believe in their words. One must have faith in the Lord.
Zechariah doubted so he became mute and remained speechless. But even though Elizabeth had passed the age of childbearing, she believed and therefore she conceived and brought forth a son. May the Lord increase your faith in God.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord may my children learn to trust in God without wavering. Increase their faith in You Lord. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. So Lord help my children to walk by faith and not by sight. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet and bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of 2 Kings 4:32-35, “When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
In this passage we come to understand that the Shunammite woman was a wealthy, married woman. In order to honour the Prophet Elisha, she set up a guest room acknowledging him as a true prophet and holy man of God. She often constrained him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by that way he used to be taken care in a good manner.
Elisha in return wanted to show some favour to her. So he called for her through his servant Gehazi, She came and stood just before him by the door. Gehazi told Elisha, that she actually had no son and her husband was rather old. So Elisha said to her, “About this time next year, you shall embrace a son” And just as he had said, the woman conceived and bore a son when the appointed time had come of which Elisha had told her. It is through the prayers of this prophet that she got a baby boy and he grew up as a lad. All of a sudden the boy developed a high temperature, and the boy passed away.
What the Shunammite woman did was amazing, She took the dead body of her son and placed it on the cot in the upper chamber which she had prepared for the prophet and even without telling her husband she ran to mount Carmel in search of Prophet Elisha. As soon as she conveyed this incident, Elisha gave a staff to his servant Gehazi, and directed him to lay it on the face of the child thinking that the child would wake up at once. But she was adamant. She refused to leave until Elisha agreed to accompany her. She knew that only the words of the prophet will perform a miracle.
Mean while Gehazi went ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child but there was neither any voice nor hearing. Elisha entered the chamber where the dead body of the boy was laid on the cot and he shut the door behind the two of them. He stretched himself out on the child and looking up to heaven he prayed earnestly. When he lay over the child the flesh of the child became warm, The Child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes. Elisha called for the Shunammite woman and said “’pick up your son”. She fell at his feet bowed to the ground and she picked up her son and went out cheerfully. God answered the prayer of the prophet and brought life into the boy. The Bible says, The effective fervent prayer of a righteous avails much. Elisha prayed earnestly and God heard his prayer. The Bible says, in 2 Chronicles 20:20, ” Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established. Believe his prophets and you shall prosper”. So the Shunammite woman and her son prospered because she honored the man of God the prophet
My dear brothers and sisters, God has anointed and appointed men of God, to pray for the children of God. Whenever the problem goes beyond their control people approach me for prayer. When I pray the Lord speaks words of prophecy through me by His word. They take hold of the word that proceeds out of my mouth and it turns out to be a blessing for them. I praise God for His mercies and glorify His name. Surely God will be with you in your difficult times. Do not be worried.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for appointing prophets who can pray for the people. I humble myself and thank you for using me for Your glory and helping me to be a channel of blessing to the brokenhearted. Bless everyone who have meditated your word today. Be with them and prosper them. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
Dearly beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, 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 Psalms 37:4, “Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Today the Lord is going to answer all your requests. You may have many hidden desires in your heart, and God is going to fulfill all your desires. God promises that if you delight in Him He will give the desires of your heart. Taking delight in the Lord means, that our hearts truly long after God. In fact you should seek your happiness in God Himself. In His being, His greatness, His glory and His power.
Nehemiah says, “’The joy of the Lord is my strength.” The word delight means “to gain great pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness.’’ By reading the word of God , by singing and praising and adoring Him you receive happiness. God should always, be revered and adored. He should have our utmost respect. You should strive to adore God on a daily basis. Ecclesiastes 2:26 says, “God gives joy to a man who is good in His sight. God will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him”. So to obtain your requests you need to be good before the Lord and fear Him too at all times.
You might have prayed to the Lord and submitted your requests some months or years ago. You might have been worrying that you have not yet received a reply. Today, the Lord is going to fulfill all your desires.
While I was in prayer, God showed me a vision. I saw the requests and prayers that you had submitted at the feet of the Lord. He has categorized all your requests and desires into three files as pending file, urgent file and emergency file.
Emergency file is the file that contains requests that are very critical. Urgent file is the file that needs to be checked immediately. Pending file is the file that contains requests that God thinks that He can grant it to you when you are mature enough to handle the blessings. He will release the blessings one by one only when He knows that you will be able to retain it. I asked the Lord as to why those blessings were being withheld and delayed. God replied saying, “I will give maturity to those children who are immature, and will shower all these blessings upon them. ”
My dear brothers and sisters, the Lord will firstly grant you maturity to handle the blessings and then He will bless you. A man can delight himself in the Lord when he is content with the blessings that the Lord has blessed him with. You need to thank God for every situation in your life. Only then the Lord will be able to bless you abundantly. Your happiness is very precious to the Lord. Thank God and adore the Heavenly Father for His goodness. Amen. Praise the Lord.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord my children are in need of many good things in this world. Please be merciful to them and grant them their desires. Teach them to fear, and adore you. Give them the longing to have an intimate fellowship with you. May they enjoy your presence in their life. When they follow these principles, Lord please give them the desires of their heart. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
My dear Brothers and sisters in Christ, 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 Hebrews 4:12, ” For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing as under of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”.
The Bible, which is the word of God , contains the mind of God and His will for each one of our lives. God surely listens, understands and knows the hopes and fears you keep in your heart, for when you trust in His love, miracles happen. There is power in the word of God. The word of God has life and is active. We serve a God who thinks about our lives, our world, and His creation on a completely different level than even the smartest human has the capacity to think. Not one of God’s good promises has ever failed.
He whom God hath sent speaks the word of God. God performed a miracle as per Joshua’s words and stopped the universe. Joshua prayed: “O sun stand still over Gibeon, O moon over the Valley of Aijalon”. God sent His word and performed a miracle for Joshua. God worked a miracle for Gibeon and saved Israel. The LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. God had the sun stand still for a day. God exercised His power during the days of Joshua.
To illustrate the power of God I wish to make mention of how God performed a miracle for a brother who attended Anbarin Padhathil Oru Naal, Fasting Prayer Meeting. A brother named Srinivas shared his testimony . He had been working in an IT sector for four years. He was the only earning member in his family. None of the siblings had a job. They were all studying. His father was sick. The family was totally dependent on his income. So he shed tears in the prayer meeting. He heard that he was about to be sacked in his office so he was very disappointed. Finally when he came for the individual prayer , God gave him one word through me. God said , “I will make you the head and not the tail.” He held on to that word and departed from me.
Next week his team leader had called him and told him that he was being shifted to a new project and he was blessed with a promotion. This came as a surprise to him. The Lord will fulfill every word that proceeds from his mouth. One word that I gave him each time he came to the prayer meeting brought about a great change in his life. When he came to meet me for the second time , God said, ”I will increase you to your left and to your right. The next month God blessed him with a great increment.
The Bible says, “So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it”. Thus God performed miracle for Srinivas who had great faith in God.
God will send His word and perform a miracle in your life too.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Perform miracles for my children through your word for we realize that your word has power. Incline your ear and hear our prayers. Reveal your greatness to us from your word. Revive our hearts with your word. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
My dear Brothers and sisters in Christ, 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 1 John 4:12, “If we love one another, God abides in us ,and His love has been perfected in us.” God expects His children to love one another and dwell in unity and harmony. To such people God would command his blessing, even life for evermore.
In the Bible we read about Easu and Jacob. God wanted to bring unity between the two brothers Easu and Jacob. So He urged Jacob to return to his home land, to his father’s place. So Jacob having become a wealthy person decided to return to his father’s place , along with his wives, children and cattle. He was on the other side of Jordan. He went to Haran with a staff, but God had blessed him with two companies. He was a wealthy man of God. He was afraid to meet his brother Easu who was beyond Jordan with four hundred men. If he crossed Jordan and went to meet his brother he knew that trouble awaited him. Their enmity lasted for years because Jacob had cheated his elder brother twice. Once he had taken away Easu’s birth right cunningly and later he had grabbed all the blessings of Easu from his father Isaac. Therefore he was afraid of meeting his brother.
Now Jacob was prepared to lose anything in order to renew his relationship with his brother. So he divided the flocks and herds and camels into two companies. He prayed to the Lord to deliver him from the hands of his brother. For he was afraid that he would attack him and his family. He put the maid servants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. Then Jacob crossed over before them and bowed himself seven times when he came near his brother.
But Easu ran ahead and met Jacob and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept. Thus God reunited the brothers. Jacob said to Easu, “If I have found favour in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God” It was a moment of great rejoicing.This is what God expects of His children. Relationship is so important in one’s life. You cannot afford to lose relationship for it causes deep pain. The Bible says, “A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city.” Therefore remove all bitterness from your heart. In case there is some misunderstanding between you and your siblings then take immediate steps to reunite with them. When you renew your relationship with your siblings and dwell in unity then God will bless you abundantly from heaven.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord take away the spirit of separation from my children. Help them to live in oneness of mind and unity. Renew relationship between parents and children, husband, wife, and siblings. Help them to be humble and submissive to each other. In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
