Happy New Year Friends.....

GOD BLESS YOU.............................

Death bed Visitor.....

Brittany Bakenhaster was a precocious 3-year-old. She sang a lot in church. She knew her ABC’s. She knew Bible scripture and loved life, full of life. That all changed one morning when her mother Jamie heard a strange noise coming from Brittany’s room.

“It was a biting and almost choking noise. Like a gurgling, can’t breathe, struggling,” Jamie said. “And I ran to her. I immediately picked her up and said, ‘Oh, God, touch her.’”
 
Brittany was having a grand mal seizure.  Her parents rushed her to the doctor and Brittany was diagnosed with epilepsy, a condition all too familiar to Jamie.

“I understood it, because I had them myself. And I thought she would be just like me. I’d get her on medicine and everything would be all right,” Jamie said.

It wasn’t that simple. Brittany’s doctors started her on the first of many medications, but the seizures just got worse.

“She couldn’t sit up and she couldn’t look at me to focus; and when I’d call her name she was just totally out of it, just totally gone,” Jamie said.

“As a mother you feel so responsible. They’re your flesh; they’ve lived in you. And when she would pull at me to help her and I couldn’t,” Jamie said. “I blamed myself a lot; I thought, ‘I’ve given my daughter this sickness.’”

Over the course of the next two years, Brittany’s illness took its toll on her parents.

“Physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, even financially,” Jamie said. “One bottle of medication would cost $50 and we couldn’t afford it.”

“She needed 24 hour-a-day care. It didn’t matter if it was night or day, the seizures continued,” said Bruce, Brittany’s father.

Her seizures got so bad that Brittany had to wear a helmet to keep her from injury. Her parents found comfort in God’s word.

“God gave me my promise in Psalm 37:4, 5. He said, ‘Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart,’” Jamie said. “God said, ‘Don’t look at what you see, look at what you don’t see. Tell me and speak what you want.’”

“I put her in the car and started down the road and I ended up at a school playground.  And I said, ‘God, that’s what I want. I want my little girl back, normal, like those kids I see that are running and playing. And He said, ‘It will come to pass,’” Jamie said.

On the outside, things just got worse.

“She had been in the hospital for almost three weeks and they had tried everything; there was nothing else to try,” Jamie said.

“They ran one more brainwave and they said, ‘Her whole brain is seizureing, so we can’t even take out that part of her brain or put a shunt in to help her; there’s nothing else we can do.’ They just said let her go home where she’ll be more peaceful in her own bed. 
I knew she was close to death. But I thought, ‘Lord, you said you would bring it to pass,'” Jamie said.

Jamie spent a sleepless night praying for her daughter’s recovery. In the morning, Brittany began to speak.

“She kept saying, ‘Jesus, Jesus.’ And I could tell from the look on her face. Well, she’s responding and she hasn’t responded or talked to me in a good year at all. So when she could look at me and describe Jesus, with eyes like fire and the bright lights and the angels; who could tell a five-year-old child that? I knew that she had encountered Christ,” Jamie said.  

They took Brittany back to the doctor.

“They just looked at her and they said the same thing, that they saw the healing in her eyes,” Jamie said. “They just knew. One of the nurses said, ‘It’s a higher power.’ And I said ‘Yes, it’s Jesus. He healed her.”

A couple of months after Brittany was healed, Jamie began having headaches.

“My doctor thought it was just the stress I went through, but every time I’d take my medicine, my headaches would be stronger,” Jamie said.

Jamie’s neurologist performed an EEG and found out why.

“He said, ‘A miracle has taken place. Your brainwave’s now clear. Would you like to come off your medicine?’ And sure enough I did. I have been seizure free and drug free for 18 years,” Jamie said.
 
Brittany is now in college, studying to be a psychologist. She still loves to sing in church. And she still remembers her encounter with Jesus Christ.

“The glory of God shone all around Him and angels were all around Him, in front, behind, everywhere,” Brittany said. “And you just felt so peaceful, so at ease. All I can say is there’s nothing like it and I’ve never experienced anything like it on this earth.”

Today, Brittany and her mother are both completely healthy.

“God kept his promise,” Jamie said. “And he will. And he does.”

- CBN700

Song of the Week...

Hi Friends.. A very special song at the end of the year... It reminds us to Give thanks to our Most Awesome God our Father for all things He had given us throughout this year..... Let us join this song, introspect ourselves and give thanks to HIM and HIM alone...

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"
Give thanks

We give thanks to You oh Lord
We give thanks

Let us Love one another....

Hi Friends.. What a joy and excitement it gives me to meet you at the end of a year 2012.....  You should also be excited about it... 

Space shuttles are propelled out of the earth’s atmosphere by a solid fuel mixture producing millions of pounds of thrust.Indianapolis race cars travel at speeds averaging more than 200 mph, powered by a highly volatile fuel mixture.

What fuels us as followers of Jesus Christ? What gives us the power to love as He loved? Only the indwelling Holy Spirit can motivate us to Christlike deeds of compassion, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice.

The apostle John wrote, “If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us His Spirit”.

A mother asked her young son to clean her shoes. He worked on them diligently until they were spotless and shiny. To show her appreciation, his mother gave him a dollar. When she went to put the shoes on, she found something wadded up in the toe of one of them. It was her dollar wrapped in a note that read: “Here’s your dollar, Mom. I done it for luv.”

Fueled by the Holy Spirit, we too can serve others, motivated by Christ’s love.

God bless you.. Have a nice and enjoyable new year 2013 ahead.. Meet you in the new year friends....

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross..

Christmas Wishes...

Song for the Week....

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ... is a beautiful song to enjoy especially during this Christmas season...Let us receive God's blessing....

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.

Long time ago in Bethlehem, so the Holy Bible say,
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

While shepherds watch their flocks by night,
they see a bright new shining star,
they hear a choir sing a song, the music seem to come from afar.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.

For a moment the world was aglow, all the bells rang out
there were tears of joy and laughter, people shouted
"Let everyone know, there is hope for all to find peace."

Now Joseph and his wife, Mary, came to Bethlehem that night,
they found no place to bear her child, not a single room was in sight.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

Oh a moment still worth was a glow, all the bells rang out
there were tears of joy and laughter, people shouted
"let everyone know, there is hope for all to find peace".

Testimony of the Week

It was a hot day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Baseball practice was in full swing. Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Aldy had just run to second base, when suddenly , he collapsed.  His father Dennis, who was also his coach, stood just steps away.

“I glanced over towards shortstop for no apparent reason, was just looking around the bases, and I noticed Jonathan lying on the field there motionless,” Dennis tells.

Spectators thought Jonathan had fainted from the heat.  One of the player’s moms, who was a nurse, walked over to check out the situation.“He’s lying on the ground there, and she begins to do mouth to mouth. She was instructing me in chest compressions.”Jonathon’s heart had stopped beating.  Many people, including his brothers, started praying.“My sons were kneeling there on the baseball field around him, crying out to the Lord [to] heal Jonathan.”Dennis was also praying. “’Bring him back, Lord, bring him back.’ So my heart was just devastated.”The paramedics arrived about 10 minutes into the ordeal.“The ambulance is there, and they’re shocking him. The first shock, there’s no response. A second shock, there’s no response. So on the third shock, I think a heartbeat of about 30 beats per minute, and they instantly put him in the ambulance and were rushed to the hospital. It was a 28-minute period of time there that he had no oxygen.”Jonathan’s mother, Dara, met them at the emergency room. She recalls, “I’m a mother of seven. What was on the altar first was, ‘Will I be a mom of six? Will I be the mom whose son collapsed and died?’”

The doctors prepared Dennis and Dara for the worst.“Twenty-eight minutes without breathing,” Dennis says. “There are no statistics past 20 minutes of CPR in an out of hospital cardiac arrest. If you survive at the 20-minute mark, you’re a vegetable. You’re sustained with life support and you may or may not go home. It was the next day after he was in the intensive care that a neurologist came by. Her story was actually, we’ll believe that God can do something, but you need to know that he has very little chance at all to have a brain. It’s basically impossible that someone could go this long without oxygen and their brain ever function.”

Dennis and Dara run a prayer ministry called the International House of Prayer of Hattiesburg. People across the city prayed around the clock for their son.

“Every three hours we got to go in to the ICU. I anointed him with oil every time I went back there. I was big enough I could have pretty much reached his body and from his head to his toe. I just prayed for him. ‘Lord, life. We speak life into this boy’s body, into our son’s body.’”

Soon they began seeing answers to their prayers.

“After 30 hours of being unconscious, Jonathan woke up and he looked at us,” Dara said. “At first his eyes did not track us. He was just kind of glazed.”

“At that 40-hour mark was a time when we were back there and his eyes were open,” Dennis said. “He actually focused on me, because I would go in and I would get directly over his face, and I would say, ‘Jonathan,’ because as a father, I wanted him to know his dad’s here. So I finally said, ‘Jonathan, if you hear me at all, smile at me or something.’ He attempted a smile, and his mom and I just bawled, wept at the joy that Jonathan was in there.”

Within days of the incident, Jonathan began to improve.

Dennis continues, “On day three, they allowed him to try to walk in the ICU there. He walked about 10 steps around in a circle and came back down. The doctors thought that was incredible.”

By now people all over the country were praying for Jonathan.  “We were seeing him do things that the doctor said he couldn’t do for months or years or maybe never.”

Dara says, “By day five, all the tubes were out, everything. He was totally unhooked. He walked around the cardiac care unit, and the doctors couldn’t believe that on day five, after such an event, that he was walking around.”

On day 10, Jonathan went home.“I believe that Jonathan was not only spared the effects of not breathing for 28 minutes or not having a heart beat,” Dennis says, "but he was healed of whatever caused it. So it was like two miracles, because they could find absolutely nothing wrong with him.”

Still the doctors recommended he should not play sports for a while.

Jonathan says, “I love the competitiveness of sports.”Within six months, Jonathan returned to playing baseball and basketball.Dr. Ralph Kahler says, “Even the people that make it out of the hospital,  some of those have neurological damage. They’re never quite the same after that, but to see Jonathan playing drums, driving down the road, it’s just nothing short of miraculous.”The Aldys believe that God heard their prayers and healed their son.Dennis says, “Through this experience, my biggest things are the preciousness of life obviously, the reality of a God who is in charge and does care.”

“The biggest lesson is that God loves me and that God cares for me,” Jonathan says. “My friends and my family love me [and] care for me.”Dara agrees, “There are moments where my heart returns to the miracle and the gift that God gave us when He returned Jonathan back to us, overwhelming gratitude to the Lord. His goodness envelopes me. Prayer changes things."

----700 club.

Merry Christmas....

 

Hi Friends.... What a joy it is to be back with you after quite some time... Here it is the much awaited Christmas time keeping us busy with buying brand new clothes, decoration of our places and churches, bringing in the Christmas tree to our houses and hanging bells and cards on them.. Oh. lots of fun and lots of happiness.

“Christmas is such a unique idea that most non-Christians accept it, and I think sometimes envy it. If Christmas is the anniversary of the appearance of the Lord of the Universe in the form of a helpless baby, it’s quite a day. It’s a startling idea, and the theologians, who sometimes love logic more than they love God, find it uncomfortable. . . . It is either all falsehood or it is the truest thing in the world. It is the story of the great innocence of God, the baby, God in the power of man. And it is such a dramatic shot toward the heart that if it is not true, for Christians nothing is true. So even if you have not got your shopping all done and you are swamped with the commercialism and the frenzy, be at peace. . . . The story stands.”

Perhaps you have been feeling the stress and anxiety that are so much a part of the Christmas rush. If so, take a few minutes to contemplate again the miracle of Christmas: God came down to earth as a baby to become our Savior. Focus on that message today and every day. It will help to slow you down and keep the right perspective on Christmas. Let us share this joy of Christmas to each and every one just as the shepherds could not hold their enjoyment. Have a Merry Merry Christmas ahead... God bless you richly and abundantly..

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross.

Important Update

Hi Friends.... Due to certain technical issues, the blog will be a sunday blog starting from 23/12/2012 upto the 15th of January 2013. After 15th January, 2013, the blog will resume to be a daily blog. Thankyou for your patience and support. God bless you.

update

Hi friends
          The blog will resume on 20/12/2012

Peacemaker...

Hi Friends.. Greetings to you... What a wonderful week lies ahead of us as we are moving towards Christmas. It was the night before Christmas in 1870. French and German armies faced each other on the field of battle in the Franco-Prussian War. A French soldier started walking toward the German lines. His comrades watched breathlessly, expecting to hear at any instant the crack of a rifle that would end his life. As he neared the enemy lines, he stopped and began singing, “Noel, noel! Noel, noel! Born is the King of Israel!” No shot rang out.

Slowly the Frenchman returned to his ranks. There was silence! Then from the German side came a lone soldier to that same spot and sang the German version of the same song. After each stanza both armies united in the chorus. For a few minutes Christ brought peace to that battlefield.

God is a peacemaker who always takes the first step. Jesus came as a baby, and when He grew to manhood He preached peace to a warring world. Then, in the greatest peace initiative this world has ever seen, Christ made peace between God and man by dying for our sins.

Peacemaking efforts may be rejected, but the alternative is continued hostility. God didn’t settle for that, nor should we. Let’s take the first step in healing a broken relationship, even at the risk of being “shot down.”

Song of the Week

Hi Friends.. Here is a wonderful song along with the lyrics for you to sing along and enjoy the presence of the Almighty God.

As The Deer

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after Thee
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship Thee

(Chorus)
You alone are my strength, my shield 
To You alone may my spirit yield 
You alone are my heart's desire 
And I long to worship Thee 

You're my friend and You are my brother
Even though You are a king
I love You more than any other
So much more than anything   

Chorus

I want You more than gold or silver 
Only You can satisfy 
You alone are the real joy giver
And the apple of my eye 

Testimony of the Week - A Visit to the steps of Heaven

Deerinda Lowe never saw it coming. A semi-truck ran the red light and plowed over the top of her car.  The 18-wheeler barely missed her head but practically severed her arm.  Her legs were caught underneath the engine.  The car literally collapsed around her, trapping her inside.

EMT Jay Scott describes Deerinda’s condition when he arrived on the scene. “We could tell right away that both of her arms were broken. We knew at least one of her legs was broken and possibly the other one. Plus we were pretty sure she had some internal injuries to go with that.  It was a low percentage on whether she was going to make it or not.  She definitely had life threatening injuries.”

Rescue workers tried for 45 minutes to get Deerinda out of the car. Finally, she was life-flighted to Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Dr. Renn Crichlow says, “It was very grave. She had lost a lot of blood when she first came in. The fractures that she had were all very serious. Then when you throw on top of it that she had all these injuries and all these other lacerations and tears in the skin... she had a ruptured spleen and a ruptured liver. She was in a very, very serious condition.”

For two weeks, doctors tried to put Deerinda back together.  She had to be resuscitated twice and suffered a massive stroke.  She had seven different surgeries, but remained in a coma.  Doctors offered little hope for her survival.  Deerinda’s mother didn’t move from her daughter’s bedside. Even though she wasn’t a Christian, she begged God to save her life. 

 “When I first woke up,” Deerinda shares, “the only thing I remembered was seeing God. I was on the stairway of heaven, and we were standing at the bottom and God was holding me in His arms. I was held like a baby. I can remember hearing the voice behind me talking to me saying, ‘It’s okay. You’re fine. You’re safe now.’ I knew that God was there. I just knew it. I did not see His face, but I knew He was holding me in His arms. I knew He had saved me. I needed it. I was never saved.  I wasn’t a Christian. I never knew how to actually ask God to forgive me for all of my sins.”

Deerinda had a long and hard physical recovery ahead of her. She remained bed ridden at home for three more months.  She had to learn how to do everything again.

 “I was just so scared. I thought I would never walk. I had a physical therapist at home that worked with me and stuff. So I learned to walk on a walker.  Then on the 24th they took the walker from me, and I was walking on my own. They were watching me and I just couldn't believe it. I was crying, like ‘Oh my gosh, I am walking.’”

Deerinda has surpassed all expectations for her recovery.

 “They said that I would probably never use the right arm ever again. They didn’t know for sure if I would ever walk right again. But, I do walk and I do use my right arm.”

Dr. Renn Crichlow says, “A lot of times we see patients with bad bone and joint injuries. But to see somebody with a number of bone and joint injuries and the abdominal injuries that she had, the belly injuries and the stroke, to have come back like this, it’s really phenomenal. It is an exceptional recovery.  Absolutely.”

Even more than a second chance at life, Deerinda is thankful God saved her for eternity.

“There is a God out there. He will listen to you if you want to talk to Him and have Him come into your heart. I’m lucky that I’m here and I got a second chance that I did not die, and got to accept Him into my heart. He forgave me for all my sins.”

 Praise God.

- CBN 700 Club

Be bold....

Hi Friends… God bless you abundantly on this Holy Day that He has made for us.. What a week we have been having through His Grace. Let us be thankful unto Him….

In July 2009, Gospel for Asia-supported film team members Bhanu Singh and Mareechi Malik were showing a Christian Film in a remote village in India. About an hour into the film, several anti-Christian extremists wandered into the meeting area where about 200 villagers were paying close attention to what was happening on the movie screen. The agitators became angry when they saw how interested the villagers were in the missionaries’ film, so they decided to damage the team’s equipment. They overturned the team’s generator, completely destroying it. The extremists then began to beat Bhanu and Mareechi for trying to share the Gospel. Villagers saw what was happening and rushed to defend the two men. They later escorted the missionaries safely home. "Persecution will happen, and people will get hurt” said Daniel Punos of Gospel for Asia. “But at the same time, the people who do the persecution are often the very first ones who come to Christ”. Do not be afraid of sharing your faith in Christ, even when you face possible persecution. Today in prayer, praise the Lord for His Gospel and seek to share it with others. Therefore do not be shy or ashamed to tell other what the lord has done in your life which could be the greatest testimony of all times. Let us relish and enjoy the gladness that we have obtained through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Have a wonderful Holy day and enjoy the rest of the day in His presence. God bless you..

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross..

Trust in the Lord......

Hi Friends.. Greetings to you...

A 6-year-old son was reading a book one evening when he suddenly whispered in his mother's ear, “I want to know how to be a Christian.”

His first-grade teacher had been talking about salvation at school, and he wanted to get the matter settled. So he put aside the book and got down to business.

Since he had heard the story of Jesus all his life, it wasn’t hard to explain salvation for the mother. Soon he was praying and asking Jesus to save him.

A little later, after he had run and told Mom the good news, he resumed his reading. Suddenly he looked up and said, “I feel all happy inside.”

That’s a good way to describe the peace and contentment that Jesus gives to us as Christians. It’s a peace that comes from knowing that the penalty for our sin has been taken care of . We have the assurance that we have been chosen and predestined to eternal life . We have the seal of the indwelling Holy Spirit who guarantees our future. And nothing can take us out of God’s hand . When bad times hit, we can call out for God’s help as one of His children.

What else do we need to be happy inside!

Have a great day ahead. God bless you...

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross..

Be Courageous...

Hi Friends.. Greetings to you...

It was a morally dark night in Babylon. Darker than your workplace, school, or community. King Belshazzar had willfully blasphemed God by desecrating the sacred goblets looted from the temple in Jerusalem. Now Babylon and Belshazzar were about to face God’s judgment.

Yet in the midst of this gross darkness shone the light of a single witness: the prophet Daniel. Because of his reputation as a man with “the Spirit of the Holy God” (Dan. 5:11), Daniel was summoned to interpret the mystifying message on the wall.

Daniel could have softened God’s warning to give it a meaning the king and his court would rather hear. He could have omitted the part about judgment and death. But instead of muddling the message to please the king, Daniel remained true to God. Standing alone before Belshazzar and his drunken court, he boldly spoke the whole truth.

It took enormous courage for Daniel to do that, but the threat from an earthly king was nothing compared to his allegiance to the King of heaven. Daniel feared Belshazzar so little because he feared God so much.

When we share Daniel’s heavenly perspective, we find that God gives us the courage to stand alone too.

Let us be courageous because the Holy Spirit is within us to guide us and face the daily challenges. So cheer up...God bless you..

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross.

Beware of petty sins...

Hi Friends ... Hope you are in good health .... I read about an incident. It was a shocking tragedy. A 15-year-old boy was strangled by the family’s pet. The slender youth had gone to an upstairs bedroom to play with an 11-foot Burmese python. Nobody is sure how it happened, but the supposedly tame snake turned into a killer that took the boy’s life.

Why play with a powerful snake that can turn into a horrifying agent of death? Why even bring such a potentially dangerous creature into the house? This news story changes the old adage “Don’t play with fire!” into a flashing warning signal.

This warning applies even more to the hazard of playing with sin—some “small” thing that seems merely to give pleasure without hurting anyone. At first it seems harmless, but feed it, let it grow, take pride in it, and a trifling sin can become a terrible tragedy that “brings forth death”.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we must check even the smallest evil the moment it springs up in our heart by confessing it to the Lord and asking Him to help us overcome it. Toying with a pet sin is like playing with a deadly pet. Sooner or later it will turn on us.

God bless you...Have a good day..

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross...

The finishing line...

Hi Friend Greetings to you.

Eighty years ago, Eric Liddell electrified the world by capturing an Olympic gold medal in the 400 meters—a race he was not expected to win. Liddell was the favorite at 100 meters, but he had withdrawn from that race after learning the qualifying heats would be on Sunday, a day he observed as one of worship and rest. Instead of lamenting his lost chance in the 100, he spent the next 6 months training for the 400—and set a new Olympic record.

Paul used a sports metaphor to emphasize the Christian’s need for spiritual discipline. “Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things”, that is, goes into strict training. “Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.” Paul longed to remain faithful to Christ because he wanted to bring the message of salvation to others.

Throughout Liddell’s life, he disciplined himself spiritually each day by spending time in God’s Word and in prayer. He remained faithful until he died of a brain tumor in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Strengthened by the grace and power of God, Eric Liddell ran well and finished strong in the race of life. And so can we.

Have a nice day,,,God be with you..

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross....

Hidden treasures....

Hi Friends ... Greetings to you.... Hope hope you had a fine day today. For our late meditation, I would like to attract you towards digging for treasures kept by God for us.

A British treasure hunter discovered a huge stash of Roman coins buried in a field in southwest England. Using a metal detector, Dave Crisp located a large pot holding 52,000 coins. These ancient silver and bronze coins, which date from the third century AD and weigh more than 350 pounds, are valued at $5 million.

While Crisp’s treasure may cause us to dream about somehow finding similar riches, we as Christians should be on a different kind of treasure hunt. What we seek does not consist of silver and gold. Rather our quest is to gather the precious gems of insight so that we might gain the “full assurance of understanding . . . , both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” . The hidden treasure of knowing the Lord more completely is found in the Bible. The psalmist said, “I rejoice at Your Word as one who finds great treasure”.

If we read the Word of God hurriedly or carelessly, we will miss its deep insights. These truths must be sought earnestly with all the attention of someone seeking hidden treasure.

Are you eager to find the treasures stored in Scripture? Start digging!

God bless you.. 

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross

We are Victors...

Hi Friends.... Greetings to you... Hope you had a wonderful weekend.. Praise and Thank God for having been with us through the last and enabling us to step into the third day of the last month in this year.... Even today God reminds us to be victory makers and overcome evil.

In Greek mythology, Nike was the goddess of victory. Nike fought on the side of the Olympian gods, gaining a victory over the mighty Titans. As a result, she became a symbol of winning. But Nike’s alleged powers were not just limited to warfare. She also became a favorite goddess of athletes who wanted to win in competitive sports. The Romans adopted her into their worship and gave her the Latin name Victoria.

In the Greco-Roman world where Paul taught, victory was highly valued. So when he expressed Christian truth, he used words his audience could understand. In his letters, he described Christ as the One who leads us in a military procession of triumph  and compared the Christian life to someone training for the ancient Olympic games.

Paul also used the word for victory in reference to our struggles with those who intentionally hurt us. “Overcome [be a victor over] evil with good” . This may mean returning kindness for spite or respectfully setting limits on evil behavior. In either case, an attitude of love cannot be generated in our own strength. But in Christ, we have divine power that ancient pagans could only hope for. Jesus Christ is the genuine God of victory.

God bless you... God protect and guide you throughout this week.

Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross

Heaven and Hell... Part 1

 

Hi Friends….

                    It is a great necessity and mandatory for every one of us to know that there is Heaven and a Hell existent. There is no doubt about that. But you might be wondering what might be there. We all know that Heaven is a place of joy and Hell a place of agony. We visualize Heaven as a place where God is seated at the throne and we standing before Him.. But my dear friends, remember this is an eternal place and the almighty God would not have designed Heaven for us just to stand and stand and stand. There are lots more to it.. There are houses as He had promised, streams, valleys, mountains, trees with life and the list goes on… On the other side, we visualize Hell as a place of fire. Although fire exists, it is just not fire alone… everyone who are destined for Hell are not directly taken into Hell. They are subjected to torture at different places according to the deeds that they have done on earth and the final destination is the lake of fire… So let us have a broad view of both these places… Many people have gone to Heaven and Hell even while they were on this earth by God himself so that their lives could be transformed once forever and also that they could tell us what they have seen for themselves… Here is a brief experience of Rev. Howard Pittman for you.. 

        On August 3, 1979, Howard Pittman, a Baptist minister for 35 years, died while on the operating table during surgery and had a near death experience. After angels showed him the second and third Heaven, he was taken before the very throne of God where he was given a message to share with the world. Howard Pittman preached "Hell, fire and brimstone" for many years before his experience. During his near death experience, his beliefs in the nature of God and Heaven were put to the test.

The Angels first lifted his spirit out of his body and carried it to the Second Heaven and he finds himself in a entirely different place and contained numerous spirits like the sands in a beach. Rev. Howard believed that the angelic escort with him would take him to the Third Heaven where God was but to his dismay they were traveling in the wrong direction where he learnt many things about demons. As each type of demon was pointed out to him, he quickly discovered a social order or rank among them. The top rankers resemble humans and down the order as half human and half animal.

   

The top most is the warring demon. They were eight feet tall and colored in bronze and all the other demons appeared to be subject to them. They had a human face except that they were giants.

    

      The second group of demons looked to be ordinary people and the chief of them was the demon of greed containing the sins of hate, lust, strife.

 

  The third group of demons as seen by Rev. Howard looked to be in mixed shape and powerful and they were specialized in witchcraft and related areas. 

Down the order, he observed the demons taking all possible shapes and dealing with sadism, brutality, murder. He record nauseating sensations as he observed un imaginable shapes of demons coming down the order.

 He also recalls the demons of the fifth rank as the demon of lust

He was able to make one stunning discovery that " NO LOVE EXISTED AMONG DEMONS".                            --- to be continued

 

                   My dear friends...  Hope these excerpts from his visitation was quite useful to you... His experiences of Heaven on the other side will be brought to you next week... Have a blessed time..