Trust more Fear Less –Part 2

God’s Love:

The word says “Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear.”-1John 4:18

Many of us have a fear saying God is angry at us. Somewhere, sometime, somebody would have said that God has a whip behind His back and will punish us when we go too far from Him. This is so wrong.

Our Savior’s Father is very fond of us and He only wants to share His love with us. He is a God who is filled with compassion, He feels hurt when we His children get hurt. We serve a God who says that He is waiting for us, ready to embrace us, even when we screw up things so bad under pressure. No matter we succeed or fail.

He doesn’t force Himself to enter into anyone’s heart. He comes into our hearts like a gentle lamb and not as a roaring lion. And when He enters our lives His promises are not only a source of joy but they are also the foundation of true courage. He guarantees that our sins are filtered through, hidden in and thrown away only by the pure sacrifice of blood He shed on the Cross.

Trust More and Fear Less

I wanted to share, since I was inspired by the book written by Max Lucado.The book is a 40 day devotional and was given to us during the lent days.The Gospel lists about 125 Christ – issued imperatives.Among these 21 urge us to “not be afraid” or “don’t fear” or “have courage” or “take heart” or “be of good cheer”.The second most urged command will be , to love God and our neighbor and this appears like about 8 occasions.Having quantity as an indicator,Jesus really takes our fears seriously.The one statement used more often is “don’t be afraid”.

Bible words says “When I am afraid,I put my trust in you”.-Psalm 56:3

Just as how Jesus endured the terror of the crucifixion by going first to the Father with His fears.We all should practise to do the same. Do not avoid life’s gardens of Gethsemane,enter them,just do not enter them alone.While there,be honest.Pounding the ground is permitted.Tears are allowed…Be specific.He knows what we need.

Also the word says”If God is for us,who can be against us?”.-Romans 8:31

All can answer the question Who is against you? Disease,Inflation,corruption,exhaustion,calamities confront ,fears imprison and many others….Were Paul’s question,” Who can be against us?” we can list our foes easily than we could fight them.But that is not the question.The question is, If GOD IS FOR US, Who can be against us?

No matter what you do and no matter how far you fall, God is always for us.People may have forgotten you and people may be ashamed of you;but within reach of our prayers is the maker of the oceans.God!

We might have heard a numerous amount of messages about “not to fear”.But still fear seems to be bothering our lives.I was personally touched by this book which reminded me that the antidote of fear is no other thing but to trust Him more.I hope that these words would have touched your heart.Let’s keep our gaze on Christ.

Where is your heart tuned on???

I would like to ask the above question to every believer who does radical things for God.

Often times we tend to think that being faithful to God will give us all the blessings in this world and we tend to forget the eternal blessing, God hath kept for us. We tend to forget the SPECIAL CROWN which God would give us in the Heaven. Because of that we do blink or sometimes get deviated at the cross roads of our life.



Let’s look at the life of Moses as an example. Moses was appointed and anointed by God to guide the children of Israel to the promise land. When you meditate on those passages where God explains about the promise land, I challenge that you would really be tempted to live in that place!!!

Hence half way through the Journey, Moses succumbs to the anger of the Lord which resulted in the Lord saying to Moses in Deuteronomy 3:26, 27 that He would not enter in to the promise land.

That would have hurt me very badly if I was in that place. To walk through wilderness for such a long years and being faithful to God all these days and then finally forbidden by the Lord to enter the promise land that flows with Milk and Honey.

But Moses was different. He was still faithful to God in keeping His commandments and guiding the children of Israel.

This is because he loved God with all his heart and He was not carried away by the promise land that flows with milk and honey. Rather he knew the greatest blessing of ETERNITY that God has for His chosen one.

So let us join with Apostle Paul in saying,

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day -- and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." - 2 Timothy 4:7,8



God Bless.

Calling and Election

Calling is ironically God’s Call on someone for the sole purpose of the establishment and the expansion of God’s kingdom .The Bible says in Mark 12:15 “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation”, So it is the mandate of every believer to spread the Gospel. Hence, every one has a Calling from God.

The Bible says in 2 Peter 1:10” be all the more eager to make your Calling and Election sure”. Apart from Calling there is an Election that one must be identified with .The Calling and Election are different, an Election can be the some sort of a sub division for a Calling. Knowing one’s Calling and Election is very important in identifying how we could be used in the work of the Kingdom by God. The Bible says in Ephesians 4:11,12 ”It was He who gave

1. some to be apostles,
2. some to be Prophets,
3. some to be Evangelists,
4. some to be Pastors
5. and some to be teachers,

to prepare God’s people for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up”. For example Apostle can be the Calling and missionary can be the Election.

The True meaning of CHRISTMAS

Long back at the Creation God created Man - Adam and a suitable partner for him from Adam's rib bone- Eve. They were in the Garden of Eden; there were specifically two trees found in the garden, the tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil .Adam and eve were forbidden from eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But due to the temptation they ate the fruit and God was not happy as they had sinned by disobeying His command and they were sent out of the garden to toil to make their own living.

The purpose of the creation of Man was to commune with God, Which they lost. Therefore God planned redemption of Mankind through His son Jesus.

Christmas was the day on which Jesus Christ was born of a Virgin by name Mary who was engaged to A Jewish Carpenter by name Joseph, who wanted to leave Mary silently without embarrassing her.But, he was told by an Angel not to leave her but to accept her as his wife.

At The time of His Birth there was no room for them in the inn and so was born in a Manger. The shepherds were the first to know this from an Angel who appeared to them, they had also gone to visit The Son of God lying in the manger in the city of Bethlehem where He was born.

There was a bright star that led a few wise men to the place where the Manger was. They also presented Him with gifts of Gold, Incense and Myrrh.

The Main Purpose for Jesus Christ to be born in the world was to restore the lost communion of the Whole Man Kind with God .But it is each Man's choice to accept this Gift for communion.

Christmas is all about giving as God gave His Son to Mankind…..

O Unbelieving Generation Believe!

Then JESUS said “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”(John-11:40)

Most of us are not able to see the glory of God in our lives simply because we don’t believe. We steadfast in our prayers when situations are not favorable and we are pressed hard on every direction. But it lasts only for a moment till our prayer reaches amen. Definitely God’s glory cannot be revealed in such lives. ”If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer”(Matthew-21:22).

It’s not a matter of how good we sing like ‘God will make a way were there seems to be no way..’, but for God to do so, we need to believe. If we believe in our heart and confess with our mouth and persevere then we can be rest assured that God can open any locked doors, HE can provide water from the rock, HE can move the mountains, HE can provide streams of water in the middle of the desert, HE can heal, HE can change water to wine, HE can bless the little you have, to produce abundance because HE is able and nothing is impossible for the creator of this whole universe. We should not forget the fact that most of the Israelites even after tasted God’s redemptive power and HIS mighty works in every day in and day out ,were unable to enter the Promised Land because of their unbelief (Heb 3:19).

Are you a believer in CHRIST JESUS? , then throw away your unbelief and just believe in HIS words.

If we are one among this unbelieving generation let us plead and ask God to help us to overcome our unbelief and escape the condemnation. Let us believe and prepare ourselves for the great and glorious moment, the day we are going to meet our LORD and to be taken up with HIM forever and it’s not too far………

What little do you have?

Many of the youngsters in today’s Christendom just shrug off their responsibilities when it comes to work for the cause of the Gospel by saying that they cannot speak properly by quoting scriptures or pray properly or they cannot play an instrument to glorify God because they are not that very talented and the excuses given are numerous.

Beloved, it is the faithful ones who are ready to give what little they have for God to glorify HIM in every possible way. HE is looking at this act of complete submission and it is HIS duty to add, multiply and produce the abundance with the little you have submitted to HIM for HIM.

If God can use a stammering person like Moses to lead HIS people, if God can use a shepherd boy like David to rule HIS people as a King, if God can use a person full of doubts like Gideon from the weakest clan to save Israelites from the hand of Midianites, if God can use Ruth, a widow to fulfill HIS purpose in whose line Jesus was born ,if God can use a person like Amos who was a shepherd and grower of sycamore figs to be a prophet ,If God can use a person like Peter an illiterate to be HIS mighty apostle; Can HE not use you?

It was only through the little boy’s 5 small loaves and 2 small fish that Jesus was able to multiply and feed the 5000 plus people. Try and check, you are well fit to do some work for our LORD, but you might never know how many are going to be blessed when you are ready to do what you can by using the little you have, for our Master.

God is well aware of your ability; He will give you the needed grace and strength to reach greater heights. The talents that God gives differ from person to person, but if you think, you have the least then don’t dig a pit and put it inside (or don’t bury it),Irrespective of how many they are, just do your best and use them for HIM.HE honors those who honor HIM.

                                     Don’t delay!!