God Can, When We Believe!

The Miracle Of Transformation

By Abraham Israel

When God originally created the whole earth, the Bible says that all the angels sang and rejoiced for what God was doing in His perfect time (Job 38:6-7). All the angels including Satan who was the most beautiful, wise, anointed, talented and favored of them all were part of the team who rejoiced when God created the planet earth. Satan was perfect till the day iniquity of five "I will" to fulfill his own desire made him to transgress God's command, which was to become a guardian for men who were about to be created next on earth (Ezek 28:14-15, 17, 3; Isaiah 14:13-14).

Satan was in the garden of Eden initially when God created the heavens and the earth beautifully in His perfect timing before chaos ever came in to our earth (Gen 1:1; Eccl 3:11; Ezek 28:13). But I believe when Satan understood that humans will be created in the image of God and therefore they will be closer to God than him, and that he has to become a servant to them, he did not like God's plan for him to serve them and be a guardian for all humans (Gen 1:27; Heb 1:14). God himself calls Satan as "O covering [i.e. guarding] cherub", because he was created with a purpose to guard the earth (Ezek 28:16, 14). Because "the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable" (Rom 11:29), God allowed Satan to continue to do the job in spite of rebelling and also taking one third of angels along with him to be like God and form his own kingdom on earth by influencing men who were in the image of God (Rev 12:3-4; Luke 4:5-6). When God was asking Satan, "Where do you come from?", he said that I am just doing my job of guarding the earth by going to and fro around it (Job 1:7). But Satan's heart was filled with bitterness against God and his children internally.

When Satan told Eve, "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Gen 5:5), Satan was telling the half truth of how she will become like God to take decisions independently apart from God, but not the consequence of the break of fellowship with God. This lie which he projected as truth was his initial wicked desire when he fell from the highest heaven, which is described in the Bible as Satan's first desire in which he desired to "be like the Most High" (Isa 14:14), for which he was thrown out of the highest heaven. Satan knew that once humans break the commandment of God, God will not be able to help them directly because of sin, and as a guardian of them Satan himself could become the chief director of all humans and will become their god eventually (2 Cor 4:4). God formed Adam and Eve in His own image, and seeing them finally together as male and female, God himself felt that it was all "very good" (Gen 1:31).

When Satan was jealous of God's idea to create humans in His image he rebelled in his heart first and therefore in his craving to keep the highest power over all created things as he was next only to God (1 John 4:4), he felt jealous over humans and prideful in the splendor of his outward appearance, as a result he corrupted his wisdom which God had gifted to him (Ezek 28:17). To feel proud is not to submit to God's designated authority and to do one's own will apart from God's will. He was thrown out of the highest heaven the moment he desired to be like God in exalting himself above the other creations of God and desired the worship they give which God the Creator only deserves (Isa 14:12-15). But then Satan used his power along with the one third of angels, who also decided to follow him for better life under his regime. Together they destroyed and brought the plan of project earth to come to a grinding halt forever. But little did they realize that our God is infinitely wiser than them all and that he is also omnipotent to do what ever He desires (Isa 46:10-11).

So when God went ahead in recreating the chaotic earth, sin of lawless was lurking over the head of man because of the rebellious Satan and his demons who were already living in sin (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8). They wanted to entice man to also sin so that they could take the authority from them and use it to destroy them (Gen 4:7). Sin did not set foot on earth until the day Adam chose to obey Eve and also disobey God's command (Rom 5:12). That day sin deformed man and crumpled his God-image, he began to be crushed by its evil perversion. Satan's plan of a separate kingdom apart from God's universal kingdom began to be projected to humans as an alternative way to live life on earth. In this way Satan took authority over all humans who sinned and began to live independently apart from God, he considered those who sinned as the legal supporters of his kingdom on earth (Rom 6:16; Luke 4:6).

So at that time there was no hope for humans who lived under the tyranny of Satan. He began to kill, steal and destroy the humans; as a sadist he hated the image of God in which they were all created (Eph 2:12; John 10:10; James 3:9). Angels are actually created to be servants to humans under God (Heb 1:14), they never had the image of God in them but just the glory of God over them to serve God and his purpose (Psa 104:4).

The word of God says, "8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Rom 5:8-10). In other words, if Christ had not come as a human to save us from all our sin of lawlessness (1 John 3:4), we in our sinfulness under Satan and his demonic clutches of wickedness would have forever been lost away from God's Presence and would have ended up in the hell which is the wrath of God for those who reject Him (Matt 25:41). But thank God for dear Jesus who chose to suffer on behalf of us and secure salvation for all of us. We shall be saved in this life through our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who will now transform all the believers who choose to trust in the word of God through Him (Rom 12:2).

For all those who have received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior have now become a new creation and the old deformed image of God have been regenerated and they have become true child of God (2 Cor 5:17; John 1:12). All these believers have been given a supernatural ability to show the true image of God to the whole world around them again, just like Jesus did when he was on the earth. Never again can sin threaten to cause bruises and wounds to us, for God has promised to each one of us that "sin shall not have dominion over" (Rom 6:14) us because we are not under the law which had only the ability to tell us that we are wrong when we sin, but did not give power to overcome sin. Now through Jesus Christ our Lord we can overcome sin which deforms and mars the image of God in us by its wickedness and perversion that accompanies it. Praise the Lord! WHAT WE COULD NOT DO BY OUR ABILITY AND EFFORT, JESUS DID IT ALL AND HAVE INVITED US TO JOIN THE PARTY TO CRUSH SATAN AND HIS SINFULNESS UNDER OUR FEET (Rom 16:20)! Amen!

Overcoming the Storms of Life

Storms Makes Us When We Dare to Speak Against It

By Abraham Israel

Storms in life are something nobody would happily go through until they begin to understand that God allows it for a reason beyond our temporal comfort to prepare us for eternal reward. We cannot avoid the storms that comes in to our life because we are not omnipotent like God to stop before it comes to us. But when we realize that the storms of life and the trials that comes to us are custom designed by God and tailored to prepare us to be empowered with much patience which makes us perfect and complete spiritually, we will start to count all of our trials as an opportunity for eternal gain with an earthly bonus of blessedness that comes at the end of our trials as a gift of satisfaction for now and a guarantee of our future reward from God (James 1:2-4; 5:10-11).

Storms are opportunities given to us by God to prove our faith that our God is bigger than the storms we face. One thing we must realize is this, storms are temporary but the spiritual blessed inheritance we gain through it are eternal in nature. When we go through trails humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God, God will have His hand on the spiritual thermostat to allow only the intensity of hardship which we will be able to handle in our lives. He has promised not to allow us to be tempted through the storms of life beyond our ability (1 Cor 10:13). God always keeps us safe through the storm, whether we fail to understand it or stand in faith to declare it with a victorious cry (2 Tim 2:13). When we go through the storms of life with much fretting, fuming, grumpiness and grouchy demeanor with much unbelief, we will lose what we could have gained spiritually for eternity. When we face the storms with a positive attitude, knowing that it is an opportunity to prove that our God is bigger than our storms, immediately the joy of the Lord will become our strength to face all of it with much grit.

When the devil asks the Lord to sift you like wheat as he did to Peter the Apostle (Luke 22:31), if you are not ready for it, the Lord will say, "No Satan, you have no permission to touch my child for now." But when our Heavenly Father knows that you have grown to a level where you have the ability to face it, He will say to Satan, "Have you not seen my servant walk perfectly before me, now you go and tempt if you want." This is the reason we need not get too pre-occupied with what the devil is trying to do in our lives, all we need to do is to stay focused on the Lord always and be thankful, praising and reverently worship Him. The one thing that is needed to qualify us to face all the storms of life is to stay close to Jesus like all the men and women of God did in the past. When our eyes are upon Jesus, we will have faith to walk on the water like Peter the Apostle did, but he began to sink in to the stormy sea once he took His focus away from Jesus and set his eyes towards the stormy waves that were coming towards him (Matt 14:28-30). By taking our focus away from Jesus we will allow fear to reign in us and faith to get depleted through doubt (Matt 14:31). Keep your eyes on Jesus to face the storm and come of it unscathed and victorious.

Some times God wants us to pray to Him asking for protection from evil when we do not have the ability and faith to face temptation, trials and storms of life that comes our way. Like a dad loves to protect his child at the time of danger, God our Heavenly Father would love to rescue us from such dangerous times that have the potential to kill and destroy us (Matt 6:13; Psa 50:15; 68:20). Other times when He knows that we have the ability of humble dependence on God's power to defend ourselves from the Satan's snare of evil, temptation, trials and storms that he brings, God expects us to speak against the storms that come our way. When Jesus saw the storm trying to sink their boat in to the sea, he simply rebuked it and it became calm (Matt 8:26).

Here is the greatest secret of faith that Jesus shared to all of us I believe, "21 ...“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”" (Matt 21:21-22). In other words, Jesus is teaching us to pray to God first, asking Him to fill us with His faith and then once our hearts are filled with this God-kind of faith, Jesus is encouraging us to speak without doubt against the storms of life, mountains of problems and the words of discouragement that swells up from our soulish heart during the trials that has the potential to weigh our heart down in depression. Once this is done, a supernatural hosts of God will start to intervene on behalf of our anointed command that have come through our mouth and will bring a heavenly rest to the earthly chaos.

Are you ready? You are asking me for what, not to speak to God how big your storm is but to speak to your storm how big your God is. You have a seed potential of faith that can do things much greater than what you can ever imagine with you mind, if you will only dare to speak it towards the storms and mountains that comes and tries to block your spiritual visibility. God is not limited by any factor of inability on His side but is limited only by how big you think He can achieve and do on behalf of you.

Speak to your storms with faith! All things are possible when you and God are in partnership!

Now Command the Storms and Mountains that are standing against you saying, "In JESUS name I command all the storms of life to stop and become calm in all areas of my life."

Now pray to the Lord saying, "Thank you Lord for helping me to speak with faith and perpetually increase in this kind of divine faith so that I will be able to glorify you and work for you in a powerful way. I praise you for who you are, what you have done and how you are working together all the good and the bad in my life to bring out a good and a expected end which you have pre-planned and destined it for your GLORY!. Bless you for all the things you have done to me and only you are worthy of all my honor! I choose to live by faith for your glory. Amen!"

“When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly have a lasting foundation [in God].” - Proverbs 10:25 (NLT)

"Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown." — Thomas Becket

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Prayer of Jabez

A Prayer That Changed Destiny

By Abraham Israel 

The Old Testament of the Bible contains many mysterious passages. In 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, we find a short prayer uttered by an obscure man:

"9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested."

I believe that the mother of Jabez must have gone through tremendous struggle of labor pain for prolonged period and went on to near death experience before bearing this son, so she named him Jabez which really means the pain causer. In the Jewish society, name is one of the most important part of the parental heritage to one's well being and the identity in which a person will thrive in his life.

But think about Jabez, when he was called as 'Jabez' each time by someone, his name must have reminded him of the atmosphere of gloom, suffering and pain that he brought to them. He must have been made a topic of mockery for all. He must also have been a lonely and depressed guy because of the hate with which many must have hated him for no reason except his name.

Jabez must have got deeply wounded in his heart for all the hate his family members and all those people around him showed to him even when he was more honorable in the midst of all the family members, but he tried his best to thrown away their mockery and love them honestly from his heart.

I know of many people who go through the same problem of hatred from other people for no reason of their own. People mock them for their poverty, color, name, facial appearance, character, holiness, godliness and etc. We can clearly see the wounds that makes their heart bleed for love, acceptance and identity just like Jabez.

But one thing Jabez knew was that the God whom he believed was the God who allowed these things to happen and he firmly believed him to be a good God. He did not look to his wounds and curse God, parents and his circumstances as many people usually do and gain nothing out of it but more rejection and hate towards God and people.

Jabez believed that the good God has the power to turn his destiny in to a blessed one. How did this understanding would have come to Jabez? When the whole community mocked him and rejected Him, he must have went on to his roots and searched for the Creator God whom they believed to be righteous. There in the word of God, he derived his faith about this righteous God of Israel who helps the weak, powerless and hopeless individuals.

Once faith came in to his broken heart, it gave him the confidence to pursue a relationship with God who is righteous and not like men who always reject the weak and the unfortunate people. Then a beautiful prayer flowed out of his lips that caused God to move on behalf of Jabez. The same thing applies for all of us who are rejected by the society and are hopeless for no reason of ours. We should seek the righteous God for our destiny to be changed as He is the only able person in the universe to do it for us. When we seek the Lord with a true heart of faith, He will be pleased to answer our prayers just like He did for Jabez.

We should note the main points of his prayer in our heart so that it will bring blessings of God to us in the same way it brought to Jabez. Jabez asked the Lord to bless him and tangibly enlarge his territory which to us in our context means, 'Lord bless me in such a way that I will be able to see your tangible increase in the area of relationship, favor with God and men, financial increase, good physical health, joyous and a peaceful soul and a steadfast spirit to follow you always.' Such prayer of faith will believe that only God has the power to make a difference in our hopeless lives. God will definitely be pleased when we are believing Him in such a way.

Then Jabez wanted the hand of God to be always with him and keep him from evil. This is a great and a thoughtful prayer from Jabez because he knew that even though the blessings of God would come to him, he had no power to keep it safe from the prying eyes of jealous and evil men who would hate to see him prosper. Jabez knew that unless the power of God keeps him safe, he will again be mocked as pain giver when he loses the blessings of God. We must also understand like Jabez that unless God protects us from evil by the hand of His power being with us always, we will again lose the blessing of God as fast as we have gained it. Then again the same taunt and mockery will start around us, so be wise to ask the help of God's mighty hand to protect you from evil always in your life.

If there is one thing that Jabez hated, it was the name pain-causer. He prayed to God desperately to change his profile as blessed in spite of people calling him Jabez the pain-causer, God granted the request of his dear hopeless child of His who by then proved that he was a sincere seeker of God with a true heart. The same thing will happen in your life too when you seek God desperately, seeking His blessing and His mighty hand to protect you. When you do not hate and blame people or God for the circumstances you are in, but choose to proactively and desperately seek God to change your destiny profile in spite of the name, face cut, color, region, family that cannot be changed, God will hear your prayers to make you live a blessed life on earth because of your faith. The destiny-changer will change the pain-giver profile of yours in to a blessed profile. Today he likes to change your life as He did it for Jabez. Are you ready for destiny, favor, power and blessing of heaven to overtake your life in God? If you are ready, God has already set Himself in hearing your prayer and answer it in His time soon as you keep seeking Him and live for Him. The blessing of God increases perpetually when we choose to walk by faith. So keep walking by faith and not by your sight to inherit all the promised blessings of God!

Pray with me saints : Dear God, I thank you for opening my eyes through the life of Jabez. He was a proactive man who did not blame You or his surroundings for his hardships in life. Instead he believed that You are able to bless him in spite of all the circumstances that remain unchanged around him. Lord you did hear him and have honored him in your Bible to be remembered forever. I pray “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” I thank you for granting me my request in JESUS name! I am now blessed because you have put your name over me from this time on (Num 6:27). Help me to live this blessed life from now on in Jesus name I pray. Amen and Amen.

Peace Reigns in the Midst of Storms

Peace Over Storms

By Abraham Israel

Peace is the most precious gift that God has given to every one of us who believe in Him. Before Jesus came there was more external peace with the people of God than the internal peace which they required in their day to day lives. External peace depends on our circumstances to be calm and without war. But internal peace which comes from God is not dependent on the external environment to be always calm. When we become God's child, God gives us peace with Himself permanently saying, "You are my child forever because of what I have done through my Son Jesus to save you from sin, sickness and death forever." Peace with God opens up a avenue of confidence in God, which makes us to go to Him when ever lives burden overwhelms us and just pour out all our burdens to Him and in exchange receive the peace of God in our hearts.

Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) and "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33). In other words Jesus is saying, do not depend on the outward circumstance to be always peaceful in you life. But always depend on the internal peace to make you understand that I am always with you and is working towards your good expected end which God has planned for you beforehand. From the world system of governance, always some sort of affliction, trial, distress and suffering will come because Satan holds the reign over this world. God has allowed Satan and his demonic cohorts to tests one's endurance, patience and faith, so that they we might be trained up for a higher purpose of God in our future. The only thing that Jesus wants us to have always is the peace that he has given in our hearts to keep us intact spiritually.

The opposite of peace is not violence in the spiritual world, but it is fear which creates confusion and destroys the peace of mind. Peace is essentially spiritual. Beginning in the book of Genesis and continuing throughout the book of Revelation, God reminds us to “Fear not.” Almost every book in the Bible has a "fear not" in it. When God says "Fear Not" once, it is more than enough to make us understand its importance to our day to day lives. But when He says again and again, it means that He is re-emphasizing it to make us understand that it is the one and only way of the enemy of our soul to destroy our spiritual lives. So according to Jesus, one should not allow our heart to be troubled and become afraid of the storm that comes to us externally. What matters is whether we have the peace that Jesus has given us in our hearts in the midst of the storms of life.

The devil cannot take our peace until we make a wrong choice to allow fear to control our lives. The other way we can destroy this peace of Jesus is when we are lethargic and complacent enough to not to take our little problems in our day today lives to Jesus consistently. When we continue to live like this, over a period of time our little problems will become great storms in our lives to make the wonderful, abundant and peaceful life that Jesus has given to us to be destroyed by it.

One day when Jesus was traveling in a boat along with His disciples, a great and a severe storm arose. Jesus was asleep in the midst of the storm. But the disciples saw that the boat was covered with the waves and began to panic, not realizing that the great Creator of the whole universe was sleeping with them peacefully. Then when they cried out for Jesus to save them, He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea. Then there was great calm and peace on the outside. The first question that Jesus asked the disciples was, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" (Matt 8:23-27). In other words, Jesus was rebuking them for allowing fear to control their lives. Times like these come sometimes when we fear of the storms we face and cry out to Jesus to save us, in such situations He calms the storms we face. But remember saints, Jesus will still not be pleased with us if we like those disciples of His will let fear control us, instead of keeping the peace He has given us to control us in the midst of storms. When Jesus sees us peaceful in the midst of storms He will be pleased with us, automatically His power will act through us in such a way that when we command the storm and rebuke it, the storms will obey our command of faith. Only this will bring Glory to Jesus!

Still at other times, we see that Jesus did not rebuke the storms of life to cease immediately. We read in the gospel of John that Jesus loved Martha and her Sister and Lazarus, yet when He heard that they were facing the storm of Lazarus being sick unto death, He stayed in the same place where He was for two more days and then He wanted to go to Lazarus house. By the time He reached the home of Lazarus, he was already in the tomb for four days. Here we see that Jesus calmed the heart of the family that got disturbed by the death of their family member. When the whole family was completely hopeless but was still believing for something good and comforting for Jesus to say to them, then suddenly Jesus raised the dead Lazarus and calmed the storm that raged until then fiercely (John 11:1-44). No time is too late for Jesus, when He is present in a place all our tempest flees away seeing Him. Many times he calms our heart to work a miracle in our life for the Glory of God! So the next time you feel that the storm continues to rage in your life in spite of praying to Jesus fervently, just hold on to the peace of God and know that He will calm you first and then He will work a miracle in your life. Jesus knows that the calm heart is the foundation bed for miracles to be worked out for the Glory of God! By the time Jesus intervenes, you yourself will become the miracle that you and all were looking for until then. For Jesus nothing pleases more than a peaceful heart that trusts Him in spite of the storm, such people will see miracles of Jesus consistently for the Glory of God!

Pray with me saints : Dear Jesus, Now I have come to understand that some times you will calm the storm that comes to me immediately and at other times you will calm my heart in order to work a greater miracle through me for the Glory of God! Help me to hold on to your peace no matter whether you calm the storm or you allow it to rage in my life. Give me the wisdom and faith to speak against the storm and calm it when it is needed, and also give me the strength to face the storm peacefully when you allow it to rage through in my life. Help me understand that all things [i.e. whether good or bad] that happen in my life is happening for my good, because you are constantly working it all to be turned favorably for my future good. Thank you for your glorious peace that keeps me always safe all the time. Bless you and praise you for it all. Help me to be grateful to you always. Amen and Amen!

One Day At a Time!

Live Your Present and Change Your Future

By Abraham Israel

There is a beautiful adage that says, "Don't cry over spilt milk." In other words, it is no use for us to keep thinking of the past events that we have foolishly done and have failed. We need the past to learn how to avoid the same mistakes from happening again. Other than this, there is no use to store this garbage in our mind which saps the energy out of us and also makes us worry more about what we cannot change.

Do you know that even God cannot change you past, only He has promised to work together your useless past for the good of your future if you continue to love God and live for Him (Rom 8:28). See, you cannot change you past, you do not know your future, but you can choose to live in the "present". It is rightly called as a "present" because it is a "gift from God".

One thing that always amazes me is that, God himself has designed for humans to live one day at a time. This is the reason God's mercies are not given newly for a year though He can if He has chosen to, not even for a month at a time but each morning His mercies are given anew (Lam 3:23). And also the anointed Psalmist David beautifully wrote, "...Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." (Psa 30:5). David had learned to live the abundant life of God even in those times of Old Testament itself. This is why in his understanding, he knew that all the troubles he faced each day will last until the night which might cause him to weep for it. But the next morning he had trained himself to look to the Lord and his word to receive fresh joy to start his life anew.

David when He was caught up in the chastisement of God for his sin of adultery and murder in his life, God struck the child of Uriah's wife ill which she bore to David illegally. David really with all his heart pleaded for the child with God by laying on the ground all night. He would not let himself go from that wretched position even when his servants wanted him to let go of this fast citing and worrying about the king's health. So seven days David was immovable and stubborn in asking God for a miracle for the little child. When the child died, his servants feared to tell David of the news fearing the harm he might do to himself (2 Samuel 12:15-18).

But hear what happened further, "19 When David saw that his servants were whispering, David perceived that the child was dead. Therefore David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” And they said, “He is dead.” 20 So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate. 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” 22 And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ 23 But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”" (2 Sam 12:19-23).

What can we learn from this man David who was called the man after God's own heart by God Himself (Acts 13:22). We can learn the way He shifts his mindset when he knows that nothing more can be done to the child of his as he has already died. In other words, he knew that he cannot waste his precious time on earth crying much for some one dead. But he renews his mind to hope immediately, through spending time in the presence of God and says I will not cry for the dead baby anymore but "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me". He knew that he should eat well to stay healthy if he had to live an abundant life in the present, so he did that. David knew that fasting and praying for a particular thing is good as long as the final answer doesn't come from God, because God in His mercies might change his mind to show mercy to the undeserving like himself. But once the answer comes whether yes which was expected or an unexpected no, nothing could be done further up.

I have known people who have wasted their lives completely by living in regret for losing their mother and father. All these people really did not have hope that they will go to see their mother or father one day in the future, and that they shall not return to them anymore. This is the difference that can come to a person who lives a life of faith in God and the other who is a believer but is living a worldly life. Most people have great regrets, anger against God and man, unforgiveness, wrath, malice and chaos in their lives because they have chosen wrongly to live in the past rather than in the present and look to the future with much hope according to the word of God. So we should learn to renew our mind based on the word of God and live in the present and look to the glorious hope that God has given through His promises in the word.

Season's change, weather change, people change, places change and everything on planet earth changes to makes us understand that we too should change our mindset each day and live depending on the mercies, grace and love of the Lord each new day. Great and exemplary apostolic men like Apostle Paul did only one thing, forgetting the things which were behind them and reached forward to those things which are ahead (Phil 3:13). Because he lived like this, he was able to say at the end of his life that he fought a good fight and was ready to go to heaven, he was sure that he had fulfilled all the will of God for his life (2 Tim 4:7-8). If we too like this wonderful Apostle Paul fight to live our life in the present, we will not only be joyful everyday now but also we too will be able to say the same thing at the end of our lives for the GLORY OF GOD! It is not easy, but it is worth it. Fortune favors the brave who chooses to throw away their past and live in God's gift of present grace that comes anew everyday.

Pray with me saints : Dear Heavenly Dad, I now realize that you want me to throw away all my useless past which causes unforgiveness, anger, malice and all kinds of evil things to clog my beautiful mind that you have given me. It completely saps out my spiritual health and causes great grief in my soul. I pray now and release all the old things of my life in to your hands, heal all those wounds and scars which I cannot change with my own strength. I know that you will work all these bad things that have happened to me to work together for my good in the end because I love you with all my heart. Now from today I choose to live in the present time, one day at a time. Help me to receive your mercy of forgiveness, grace of overcoming power and the comfort of your love every morning afresh. Let your joy bubble out of my life as you have promised (Phil 4:4). In Jesus name I pray. Amen and Amen.


Much Blessings......

Who is a True Prophetic Leader?

True Prophetic Leaders

By Abraham Israel

An American Indian legend talks about a chief at the end of his life who called his three sons to his side, and he told them, “My life is coming to an end. Someday, one of you will be the next leader. Before that happens, please go to the holy mountain of our ancestors. Take something beautiful and expensive from this place. Only the one who takes the most valuable thing from this mountain will be my successor. “

The sons went to the mountain to fulfill the wishes of the father. The first son brought a beautiful flower. The second son brought a precious stone. The third son said, “Father, I have brought nothing. But when I was on the mountain peak, I saw the other side of the mountain. I saw lakes, green pastures, a river with crystal waters, and many herds of bison. I think that our people can go there and live, because over there, life will be more prosperous.”

The chief said, “Son, you will be the tribe’s leader. You have brought a very expensive thing: vision. Vision of a better life. More beautiful life to your members and brotherhood. “

This legend speaks of what character a leader must have. A leader must first look for the good of the people, not just for his own good. And leaders must also know how to bring this to reality. The first two sons were only thinking about how they would take power. But the third son was not looking for power but for the progress and prosperity of the whole community. He was the only person according to the wise chief who was fit enough to be a leader of the whole pack of this household tribe.

What can we learn from this? True leaders of God are those who always have the progress and prosperity of the people of God as their prime priority and aim in life to promote and live for. They always have a godly vision for the people of God to look forward to when the world around them becomes increasingly more and more gloomy and dark spiritually. They will not seek to promote their own family, relatives and their own purpose to get fulfilled, but with their whole heart will try to take their own Cross and live a selfless life. In blessing others they get blessed. Those who want to build their own empires in the kingdom of God rather than fulfill the desire of the heart of God will never be used as true anointed leaders of this generation.

Where there is no [revelatory] vision, the people [who live in connection with such people] perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he (Pro 29:18). In other words, God will choose leaders and will anoint to use them in His kingdom only when they choose to please the Lord through keeping His commandments because of their love towards Him and the people of God (John 14:15). God will see their faithfulness in their walk with Him and will slowly day after day will unravel the vision through them for the Church of that generation in which they are living. To such good hearted loving servants of God, He will without fail reveal His vision for their family and through them to all the families of the earth (Gen 12:1-3). It all starts with the vision for our own family which is primarily a physical family and then the vision goes to God's Household of Faith which is the Church in which He has placed us to be a part of it. Hear what God says of obedient Abraham, "And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing…" (Gen 18:17) and He will make sure to keep His word which says, "Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7) to us all who are obedient to the Lord just like to Abraham of old. True servant leaders who live to please the heart of God will always be prophetic visionaries in their life. They know the true vision of God which He has planned for the generation in which they live and God will also never hide it from them.

But for those who want to build empires of their own using the name and anointing of Jesus will lose their reward for eternity which is more real and important to all leaders than their present life that ends soon. But Satan and his demons can blind the leaders in such a way to make them become completely illusioned of eternal treasure which they speak about as reality in the platform every Sunday after Sunday, but do not live with those values in their heart. Their heart have been darkened through girls, gold and glory of the world. What a sad thing it is? God is going to be more strict in this regard towards His leaders and judgment will come immediately as in the first century to all the leaders and elders who will lead people in this end time generation (James 3:1). At the same time for those servant hearted faithful leaders who will only live for HIS GLORY will be exalted greatly by God in these end times. Supernatural power of God and His favor will rest on their lives tangibly.

God wants to raise up a passionate Joshua generation in this end time that will have leaders who will not just speak about faith but will operate in a completely different spirit of faith that will make them please God every day of their lives (Num 14:24). These leaders will follow God wholeheartedly and will lead the people of God to the promised land of heavenly life and glory in the midst of all evil darkness that is engulfing the whole world (Isa 60:1-3). This will be a apostolic generation of leaders that will follow Jesus the true Joshua wherever He goes and will not be afraid to lose their own lives for the people of God (Rev 14:4; John 10:12-13). God is going to do mighty things through these self-less vessels that He is preparing for our generation. Ask God now to make you a godly leader and as a result bless the world in this end time generation and also ask His help to walk humbly with Him daily. I bet you will be blessed enough to reach the world before you realize it!

Are you ready? You are asking me for what, to join in the stream of the godly vision that He has for this generation and truly please the Lord with all our mind, soul, strength and body. The Lord is on the look out for such people even in this last hour before it all gets closed off in the New Covenant of The Church. The Church age is at the end, we ought to open our eyes to taste the best wine of the Holy Spirit which Jesus has prepared for the end of end times (John 2:9-11). Truly we are in the verge of entering the spiritual Canaan in our end time generation. Tighten up your seat belts and look forward with faith for the exciting journey ahead! Live a selfless life of cross-carrying to be the leader that God wants you to be.

Pray this prayer with me saints :  "Dear Abba Father, Thank you for creating me for such a time as this in the end of end times. Truly I know that spiritual darkness is covering the earth day after day, but help me to live as a godly person in its midst and show forth your glory to this whole generation. I pray, help me to walk humbly day after day with you. Help me to carry the custom designed cross that you have prepared for me already and exhibit your heavenly character to my family, relatives, city, nation and the whole world in the coming days. Help me to be a self-less kingdom builder and deposit all my riches in the heavenly account that you have for me. Keep me from deception and darkness in the soul which is worse than any physical disease that I can name now. Thank you for your faithfulness to train me up as a prophetic leader in my family, Church, workplace, school and college and in the place where you have placed me to show forth your light. I praise you for your goodness shown towards me in this regard and help me fulfill all the plans that you have for me as a leader in this generation. Amen and Amen!"

Much Blessings......