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You are Unique Creation of God : Bro. Saji

“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” – Galatians 4:19.

 

In the book of Galatians St. Paul speaks about Abraham’s two sons; Isaac and Ishmael.  Isaac was the promised son, but Ishmael son of a slave woman.  Family of Abraham can be divided into three; children of Sarah, children of Hagar and children of Kethura.  If children, then heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Rom.8:17).  If we are children there should be a spiritual growth in our life.  St. Paul calls the believers of the Church of Galatia as “my little children” or babes.  With a great lamenting he says, they started in spirit and ended up in the flesh.  There are stages of sonship; babes, sons, children, man, perfect man etc.  When we accept Jesus Christ and receive the born again experiences we are known as “babes”, but after we receive the Holy Spirit we are known as “children”.  Babes will take only milk, but as we grow step by step we take milk and strong meat too.  “For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Heb.5:13-14).  We will not give the car key to a small baby but when he is grown up and matured, we will give the key and will say you drive.  After the spiritual birth we should grow to the stature and fullness of our heavenly father (Mat.5:48; Eph.4:12-13).  You may have different weaknesses and failures in your life, but a glorious experience is in you, which you may not know.  St. Paul says, to attain the growth in us he travail in prayer.  In order to have an overcoming life, New Testament church is travailing (Rev.12:3-4). 

Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac but to others some gifts.  To Ishmael he gave a piece of bread and water.  In those days usually give wine but Abraham gave only water to his son.  This is the difference between the understanding of our church and other churches.  It is the common mockery saying by other church people about TPM that “they (TPM) says they are the Bridal group”.  We are not claiming but travailing for that.  New Testament Church or Bride got many nick names like dove, first fruits, enclosed garden, house of God, Lamb’s wife, man-child, Sun-clad woman, body of Christ, etc.  We are travailing to become the heirs of New Jerusalem and Zion, as joint-heirs with Christ.  Until we attain the perfection of Christ, He is waiting. 

To Ishmael God gave a piece of bread and water but to Isaac he gave all that he had.  What you want from God?  Some people follow Him for the earthly needs (I Cor.15:19).  We have to become the man-child and that is our only goal (Rev.12:5).  Some people are like “dead-mobile” and they must activate themselves.  Isaac means “he laughs” but Ishmael means “he make others laughs or mocker”.  When people of God fill in the Spirit and rejoice in His presence one group like Ishmael sit and mock at them.  They are like “temple-cat”, no fear of God. 

We are born to win –

Formula of ABC is that

A = attitude to win (change)

B = born to win

C = condition to win

In boxing / wrestling the condition to win is that if they fall, they will count 1 to 10 and within that period if he get up he can continue the game.  There may be fracture and other problem, but he should get up within that period.  Find out your falling and get up before God’s count finishes.  When a person commit any robbery or murder police take finger print and other such things and they are unique.  Nobody’s finger print will be like yours because you are unique.  Solomon says, you are unique among all other brides (SS 6:9,10).  We have this message from God to the last generation.

Birth of Isaac is unique in four ways, which are just opposite of the birth of Ishmael.

Ø      Isaac was born by faith through a free woman, whereas Ishmael through unbelief by a bond woman.

Ø      Isaac was born out of prayer, faith, waiting and promise.  Time comes Ishmael and Hagar was to be separated through fiery trials (Gen.21:8,9).

Ø      Isaac was a weaned child whereas Ishmael a mocker.

Ø      Isaac born after the spirit but Ishmael born after the flesh.

These are the conditions to win. Are you becoming like Isaac or Ishmael in the house of God?  On the day of His coming, if we are seen like Ishmael we will be left behind and face the persecution of Antichrist.  You change your attitude.  You are born to become the heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. You are born to practice and win Christ. God’s count for you to get up from your falling will be over very soon.

There are four aspects of faith –

• faith by hearing (Romans 10:17)
• faith worketh by love (Gal. 5:6)
• faith kept in good conscience (1 Tim.1:19)
• faith grows through sufferings (Lk.17:5; Rom.5:1-5)

But Ishmael took a short-cut to get the inheritance.  He was not willing to wait patiently for God’s time.  When you go for doctors and medicines for your healing, you take a short cut but it is not the will of God.  You may receive a bulky strong body but your body will always resist the spiritual things and the truth of divine healing.  Let us decide to go through the sufferings and do the will of God because we are unique.

Isaac is born from a free woman.  We should enjoy this freeness in our spiritual life.  Because our mother New Jerusalem which is above is free (Gal.4:30,31).  Eagles fly in high and it will move freely without any struggle.  Rest in the Lord and go forward is the experience of Isaac.  

You Are Very Good : By Pastor Thambidurai

“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” – Genesis 1:31

A wonderful verse for the human is in the bible, “In the beginning God created the heaven(s) and the earth” (Gen.1:1).  No other religious book says very vividly about the creation of universe.  Mankind can be divided into two; creationists and evolutionists.  People who believe that everything on the universe is created by a Creator are known as creationists and people who believe that the things are evolved from one thing to the other, they are evolutionists.  Nevertheless, most of the people believe God, but very few believe a Creator God.  God who created the heavens and the earth is the true and only God, He is a living God.

Recently there was a small article in a news paper saying, without woman man cannot be existed and hence woman is first, but bible refutes this illusion.  As there is a saying, whether mango or mango tree is first; without woman there cannot be a man and without man woman too and none is able to give its answer.  But the holy bible gives correct answer about the creation of everything.  God created everything beautifully and wonderfully because He is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.  

The earth which was created by God as saying in Gen.1:1 was beautiful but since the fall of angels the earth became void and without form (Isa.14:12).  This can be compared like bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  After this disastrous, those places became unusable for human habitation.  The earth was filled with waters and the darkness was covered the earth.  

However, Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters with a great faith that He can bring everything in the original form.  He alone can restore it.  First of all he recreated or changed the form of the earth and then He created all things which we now see in the universe.  He created all things for the sake of man and every day He found it as good.  He created not in one day, but it took six days.  In our life also God does things step by step.  Each day God saw His work and found good and at last He found everything very good.

The work of salvation in the life of fallen mankind can be compared to the creation of the universe.  With a great faith, Spirit of God started a good work in the life of each one of us; first he transforms and then He creates certain things in our life.  In each step he look and says, it is good.  He should say this testimony about our life and ministry every day.  

God created 3 things, made 3 things and commanded 7 things;

Verse 1 – created the heavens and the earth

Verse 21 – created great whales and moving things in the water and fowls in the air

Verse 27 – created man

Verse 7 – made the firmament

Verse 16 – made the two great lights and the stars

Verse 25 – made the beast and cattle of the earth

Verse 3 – commanded light

Verse 6 – commanded the firmament in the midst of the waters

Verse 9 – commanded to separate land and sea

Verse 11 – commanded to come up grass, herbs and trees on the earth

Verse 14 – commanded lights in the firmament of the heaven

Verse 20 – commanded moving creatures in the sea and fowls in the air

Verse 24 – commanded creeping things, living creatures and cattle on the earth

He commanded then created and made certain things.  Ten times it is written, “God said” v.3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28.  He said 7 times “it is good” (verses 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31).

Friends and others looking at you may say, you are ugly, you are foolish, or anything else, but looking at the inward beauty God says, you are good.  Every day Spirit of God does certain works in our life and say it is good.  We should allow the Spirit of God to work every moment in us and also sit at His presence every morning and evening so that God may give his testimony.  Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused (1 Tim.4:4).  God hath made everything beautiful in his time (Eccl.3:11).  What all God created are useful for many, in this world and for the world to come.  

In order God to create good things in our life we should humble ourselves and say like Abraham, I am dust and ashes.  David says I am dead dog.  St. Paul says, I am chief among all sinners (1 Tim. 1:15).  We should confess our true state to God.  Then God will work wonderful things in our life and at last He will say you are very good.  Enoch walked with God for 300 years daily and God found him very good.  We should obtain such a testimony from God (Heb.11:5).

God wants to sanctify our whole body, soul and spirit by His blood, word and Spirit.  He wants to remove all the darkness from our life and enlighten us.  He wants to transform us like unto Himself.  On the sixth day at last He created man in His own image and likeness (Gen.1:26).  Finally God says, it is very good, i.e. good square, which means your present life as well as eternal life is good; your physical life and spiritual life is good.  Your personal life as well as your ministry is good.

Don’t worry about things occurred in the past.  Past is past, it was Satan’s.  God wink at those things (Acts 17:30,31).  Present is yours and future is God’s.  God is taking care about your future (Mat.6:34).  Your past is defeat and failures and discouragement, but how you are now?  You alone know your present state.  You alone can submit your life to God who takes your future.  In past we were dark (Eph.5:8), in past we were formless; in past we were in horrible pit and miry clay.  But your future is very good.  For that we should work out our salvation with fear and tremble.  Don’t be lazy.  God says, is there anything too hard for Me?  God who created the ends of the earth neither faint nor get weary.  There is no searching of his understanding (Isa.40:28).

When you accept Jesus Christ as your personal saviour, God says you are good, but people around says, you are mad or foolish.  When you obey to the waters of baptism, when you received baptism of the Holy Spirit, when you stand for the truth of divine healing, when you live a life of separation, when you live a faith life, when you talk about the salvation of Jesus, God says you are good, but people around you says you are fool and many more things.  Satan also will bring all the past failures and evil deeds before you and say your state is like this, why you do so?  You therefore enjoy the world which is now kept before you.  Satan blinds our eyes of understanding lest we see the glorious gospel of Christ (2 Cor.4:4).  Even you yourself may say that I am not good.  But your soul is precious and its value is more than the value of the whole world.  God knows its value and would like to preserve it for Him.  That is why you are very good in His sight.  He makes all the crooked state of your life straight.  With a great purpose God is doing a wonderful work in each and every one of us and once the work is completed, He will say you are very good.

You Shall See No More Evil : By Pastor Samadhanam

“The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more” – Zephaniah 3:15

God`s promises are unchanging on this earth as well as in heaven.  Children of Israel experienced this promise literally and we are going to experience it in heaven too, but now we have to experience these promises spiritually.  These are spoken to the people of Jerusalem and Zion, when He showed compassion upon them and gathered them, this promise got fulfilled in their life.  Therefore, these are applicable for the spiritual Jerusalem and Zion as well as heavenly Jerusalem and Zion.  Tabernacle of God will be in their midst and He will be their God and they will be His people (Rev.21:3; 2 Cor.6:15-16).  Therefore this promise was fulfilled upon the children of Israel when He showed compassion upon them and gathered once again to Jerusalem.  

Therefore, it is necessary to see how this promise can be fulfilled in our life spiritually.  There are four promises in the above verse, and we will see last two points  –

• The LORD hath taken away thy judgments
• He hath cast out thine enemy
• The king of Israel is in the midst of thee
• Thou shalt not see evil any more.

Thou shalt not see evil any more – “EVIL” means sin, sickness, pain, famine, death, sword, besiege of the city by enemy, losses, etc.  But for the New Testament people of God, evil means entire “defeat”.  It does not mean that a child of God should not have sickness, famine, death, reproach, losses, sword, etc. but in all such occasions, God shall command victory.  People should not see the evil but always see as victors.  Jesus overcame all these and became victor and He will help us to become victor if we trust in Him.  He has kept victory for His people.  Our God is not an ordinary person or a beggar or weak, but He is the Creator of the whole universe, Mighty and King over His people.  He is in our life, in our houses, in our work place, in our colleges and schools, and in our ministries to give victory.  

When God is in our midst, what all things happen?

a)                  God walk in the midst of the camp in order to deliver or save us – Salvation or deliverance got different stages.  When we believe and accept Jesus Christ as our personal saviour, we receive the salvation.  There are different stages of salvation; saved, being saved and will be saved.  We are awaiting for the final salvation, which is the redemption of our body.  In original Greek word “sozo” is used for salvation which means perfect salvation.   Christ is able to save us to the uttermost (Heb.7:25).

b)                 He shall give up your enemies in your hand (Deu.23:14).   He will not destroy them, but surrender to our hands and we should destroy them.  Who are those enemies?  While children of Israel went out to inherit their promised land, they had to subdue seven nations and 31 kings (Deu.7:1; Josh.12:8-24).  The seven nations are Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.  Thirty one kings are – King of Jericho, king of Ai, king of Jerusalem, king of hebron, king of Jarmuth, kingdom of Lachish, king of Eglon, king of Gezer, king of Debir, king of Geder, king of Hormah, king of Arad, king of Libnah, king of Adullam, king of Mekkedah, king of Bethel, king of Tappuah, king of Hepher, king of Aphek, king of Lasharon, king of Madon, king of Hazor, king of shimron meron, king of Akshaph, king of Taanach, king of Megiddo, king of Kedesh, king of Jokneam, king of Dor, king of Goyim and the king of Tirzah.  Children of Israel had to fight against these nations and kings and got victory step by step.  In our life, spiritually these are the evil characters in us, and we should find them out and bring them under our control.  They had to go through the giants but in Egypt they had no experience of fighting.  It was the will of God that they should practice battle in order to get victory over their enemies.  

c)                  He will take sickness away from our midst (Exo.23:25).  He shall bless our bread and our water.  It is not that sickness will not come to the people of God.  He is our healer (Exo.15:26; Psa.103:2,3).  You should pray and eat.  When God bless our bread and water, Son Jesus Christ forbids sickness from us.  When we are sick Triune God cannot take rest in heaven, they come down and work for us.  He removes the sick-bed from us.  People of God forbid Him and His angels, and go to hospitals.  If God is in your house, at the time of sickness also He will be with you.

d)                 Your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.  “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee” (Zech.14:1).  Satan might have taken away many of your valuable things received from God; your gifts, talents, prayer life, holy life, faith life, victorious life, and so on.  He is a strong man armed and keep his palace, and his goods are in safe, but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he take from him all his armour wherein he trusted and take back the spoils (Luk.11:21,22). When God is in our midst, He will help you to get back all the spoils taken away by Satan.

e)                  When God is in our mist, He will preserve a small group of afflicted and poor, so that they must trust in His name (Zeph.3:12).  Least or afflicted speaks the servants of God (Mat.25:45) and what all you do for them, you do it unto God.  Poor means poor in the spirit, and theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Mat. 5:3).  As having possessing all things, yet possessing nothing.  David gathered silver and gold but he gave it to the work of the Lord.  They have all things, but don`t experience them.  This is the quality of a believer.  However, about the servants of God we read that “poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things (2 Cor.6:10).  

Let us renew our spiritual life, arise from the sleep and fill us with the power of the Holy Spirit.  However, for God to dwell in our midst we should be careful.  Our camp should be holy (Deu.23:14).  Put away all evil from your midst (Deu.13:5), put away cruse from your midst (Josh.7:3), fulfill the vow in the midst of Jerusalem, take away the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity (Isa.58:9).  Don`t allow any strange love or human love upon your neck, do not be a salve to anybody.  When you put forth a finger towards someone your three fingers are putting back to yourself.  No vain talk, jesting, etc. in our mouth.   Each words of our mouth is monitored in heaven.  Heaven is built by our words of faith, words of encouragement, words of grace, etc. but by our vain words, boasting words, jesting words hell is built up for you.  Gates of hell cannot prevail over His church.  Cursed things should not be in thy dwelling place.  You make vow and fulfill it in the midst of Jerusalem.  Don`1t make vow in one place and fulfill it in another place.  

When we do all these things, God will be in our midst.  When He comes we will be caught up with Him in the mid-air.

Christ is coming soon.  Let us prepare to meet Him.

Your God is With You Always : Bro.Koil Pitchai

“For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.” – Deu.2:7.

God had been with the children of Israel in the great wilderness journey for 40 long years.  He led them, fed them, preserved them and blessed them.  We too are in a journey through wilderness, looking to our promised land.  We are walking by faith and not by sight.  We have faith in our God who called us will be with us.  This way is new for us.  We knew not this way and do not know how to go through it also.  God only opened this way for His people (Heb.10:19,20).  So, in order to reach our destination without err in our paths, our God should be with us.  In order to God with us in all through our journey, there are various aspects.

In order to walk with God, we should be united with Him.  Enoch walked with God.  Prophet Amos writes, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos.3:3).  To the extent we have the fellowship with God, that extent our life will be blessed.  Unity speaks the “same mind”.  What type of mind we should have?  Here the prophet speaks about “Two” relates to we and Christ.  When two men unite and go both will accept the advice of the other one and go forward but in our spiritual journey Christ only knows the way and He only know how to journey through.  Therefore, we should completely surrender our mind and heart to Christ and follow Him.  St. Paul says, we have the mind of Christ (1 Cor.2:16).  This path is a holy path and only those who have faith in Christ can travel through.  In Isaiah 57:17 God says, “he went on frowardly in the way of his heart”.  Our mind should be one with God and should not expect that God’s mind should be united with your mind.  We should serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear (Heb.12:28).  If you have a willing heart, then give to God.  David says, I walked before God uprightly (Psa.56:13).  When we say oneness of mind, let us consider how the mind is prepared and have fellowship with God.  All those who desire to do His will, should have His mind (Jn.7:17).  Those who have a willing heart are united with God.  We should have a firm determination to be united with God and live in this wilderness journey.  God knows our path, but whether we are united with God and walk or goes as our heart desire?  St. Peter says, “gird up the loins of your mind” (I Pet.1:13).  Those whose heart is united with God, their mind gets renewed daily by the working of the Holy Spirit (Rom.12:1). 

Be prepared to walk wherever He leads - If we are walking with God having one mind, certain this are to be followed –

as the other person walk, we should walk

in all the paths he goes, we too must go

wherever he stay, we should stay there

whatever he eat, we also should eat

whatever people he meet, we should meet them

whatever people avoid, we should avoid them

This type of determination Ruth had while she decided to follow her mother-in-law, Naomi (Ruth 1:116).  But Jonathan and David had one mind for some time but later on when David went to the wilderness, Jonathan returned to his palace and it was caused for his pathetic end (I Sam.18:1,3; 20:11,42).  God has kept a destiny for us and in order to reach there, we should walk in the way He goes.  144000 who are seen on the Mount Zion alongwith Lamb are “they which follow the Lamb withersoever he goeth” (Rev.14:4).

We should always depend upon the strength of God.  While walking with Christ, many obstacles, problems and afflictions we have to face continuously and for that we need apt strength.  We should run this race walking with Christ.  If God would like to be with you, we should wait upon Him and renew your strength very often as eagles (Isa.40:31).  It speaks our prayer life.  Such shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint.  We should leave certain things and run.  Eagles sit upon high rocks and mountains watching around.  All of a sudden whirlwind comes but still it watches at the wind.  Finally the whirlwind comes against the eagle and as it comes near it makes a special sound and fly joining with the wind.  In our life all of a sudden such whirlwind like destruction, distress and anguish may come and as if it will take away from on this earth (Prov.1:27).  Love of God lifts us up where we belong far from the world we know up where the clear winds blow.  But don’t forget God’s ways are even in the whirlwind and grievous whirlwinds.  Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind (2 Kgs.2:1,11).   Job says, whirlwind comes from south (Job 37:9).  God talked to Job out of whirlwind (Job 38:1).  Like that eagle we should fly up in the sky through such trials.  This mourning you might have discouraged and fainted because of the problems you are facing, but with a renewed heart, you fly up, because God is with you in that whirlwind.  Can you say, I and my God walk together in this wilderness path?  In whichever direction He turns, we too must turn with Him, otherwise we will miss the goal.

We should be willing to turn towards North.  God told the children of Israel through Moses, “Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward” (Deu.2:3).  All those who turn and travel towards north receive God’s blessings.  Psalmist says, “Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south” (Psa.75:6).  Verse 7 says it is from God.  “the sides of the north is the city of the great King God (Psa.48:2).  This side of the north Lucifer desired (Isa.14:13).  This is our eternal habitation called New Jerusalem and Zion.  We are traveling towards this north.  Therefore, all those desire God to walk with should turn towards north.

For Christ’s sake we should become blind.  God to walk with you, you should become blind in His sight.  God says, I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known” (Isa.42:16).  The path in which we travels have not known to us and we knew not.  St. Paul says, we walk not by sight but by faith (2 Cor.5:7).  Those who walk by faith is blind.  If you desire to walk by sight you cannot walk with God.  One believer family saw a dream.  In that they saw, in a path many people gather certain black packets which are scattered on the road.  This sister also took one for her.  In that vision God asked her, why you have taken that black packet?  This is dropped by Satan.  Satan will scatter many burdens and cares (tares) which we should surrender upon Jesus and walk (Mat.11:29) and then we will have a perfect rest in us.

We should maintain a father-son-relationship : Abraham and Isaac walked together to offer sacrifice unto God.  On the way son asked, “we have everything, but where is the lamb?”, Abraham replied, “God will provide” (Gen.22:7,8).  Son blindly believed and followed his father joyfully.  Such people only can say, “who can separate us from the love of Christ?” (Rom.8:31).  Let us meditate the great things He has done in our past life and rejoice in it.  God will never takes us halfway.    He is able to save us uttermost (Heb.7:25).  God has lead hitherto beautifully and He is able to lead us further.  God know the way and already walked before us.  We should cling unto God and follow.

We should hearken His voice.  If you want to walk with a person, we should hear his voice and obey it.  “To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts” (Heb.3:7,8).  His voice will exhort us, comfort us, and correct us.  We should be prepared to hear His voice.  At times His voice may be mild voice.  Our ears should practice hearing God’s voice.  His voice says from behind, “this is the way, walk in it”.  Those who are lead by the Spirit of God are the sons of God (Rom.8:14).  His voice says, “Fear not, I am with you”.  Jesus said, my sheep will hear my voice (Jn.10:1-7).

Do not provoke Him to angry by your deeds.  In that wilderness they provoked God and many got perished in the wilderness.  If we walk with a person, we cannot provoke him.  All of a sudden hills, valley, river, wild animals, enemies, and sickness may come.  We do not know what will happen hereafter.  If we provoke the companion how we will expect apt help?  In all our deeds we should please God.  God please in our strong faith.  Without faith it is impossible to please God.  May be all others will forsake you, but still you are not alone.  God is with you (Jn.16:32).  “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.  Blessed are all that put their trust in him” (Psa.2:12).

Keep an open heart with God.  When we walk together, there will be a perfect intimacy and understanding each other.  They will reveal their hearts each other.  They will converse about their problems and all secret matters.  God to walk with you, you must strive in prayer with God alone.  Jacob strived with God all through the night and received blessings.  Moses was alone on the mount with God.  When we do the will of God, we see alone with God.  Your life will be a peculiar for others.  God has called to do the will of God (2 Cor.1:; 2 Tim.1:1; Col.1:1).  About Israelites Prophet Balaam says, “Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations” (Nos.23:9).  In order to walk with you, God will create such loneliness in your life.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15).  In order to walk with God you must have a firm trust in the other person that he will never mislead you.  “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is” (Jer.17:7).  They says, “O God, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded” (Jer.20:7).  God says, “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her” (Hosh.2:14).  This is how God persuade us and we are being persuaded.  When we look to His face, our faces get enlightened. 

Holding faith and keep good conscience and rest in God.  We are traveling through a sea in our faith-boat and in all the tempest and waves Christ is with us.  At His rebuke waves and sea get calm.  He will take us to the desired haven (Psa.107:30).  This is a path of sufferings.  As Christ suffered in his body, we too must suffer whether it is in our body or in our mind.  All our sufferings are going to be ceased.  Our trials are only for 10 days (Rev.2:10).  Very soon it will be over and we will reach our desired haven.  We should humble ourselves like Him to suffer for His sake (Phil.2:5-8).  We need such a mind in order to walk with God.  When suffer joyfully, He gives His grace to endure.   “Holding faith, and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck” (I Tim.1:19).

It is the fact in the ancient days in Palestine even time comes all the shepherds gather at the foot of the mountain and sing songs and praise God saying, hitherto God has helped us, then they depart to their respective places.  In our life also, while we depart from this world, we should depart from here in this manner.  All the saints will gather around and praise God for all His wonders and go to our eternal abode.  That day is fast approaching.  Let us unite with God and walk.

Titus Thayappan- My Cry And Joyful New Life

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