Seeing Believers Vs Blind Unbelievers?

Once I Was Blind, But Now I See!

By Abraham Israel

There is an old story of three blind men, who were arguing over exactly what an elephant might be. One of the men was up front, holding onto the elephant’s trunk. He said to the others, “An elephant is a long, round, muscular animal.”

The second blind man was standing alongside the elephant. He felt the tremendous mass on the side and he said, “Absolutely absurd. Elephants are vast beyond comprehension.”

The third blind man was standing behind the elephant, holding onto the elephant’s tail. He said, “You fools, don’t you know that an elephant is a small, tough, and hairy animal?”

They could not resolve their argument because they continued to hold to their individual points of focus. A fourth man was sitting nearby with his eyes closed. They asked this man what an elephant was. The man, without even opening his eyes, said: “It is simply the idea of an elephant that I carry in my mind.”

What do we learn from this story, the unbelievers who are not born again are like these three blind men in the story, if you ask them what God is like? One will say, He is like a Elephant, other man will say God is there but we cannot find Him but only can be a slave to Him and still another man will say that there is no God because He cannot be seen with our natural eyes. What these men say are their preception of what God may look like, but only those who are born again believers can really understand what God is like, so that even with their physical eyes closed they will be able to given an answer (John 3:3,5-8).

We see a blind man in the Bible who was healed by Jesus for the glory of God. The popular belief of Jesus' days said that all those who sin will have sickness as a curse from God and also because of the sin of parents the children born to them will also get sickness as a curse from God. Having been stirred by this wrong belief the disciples asked Jesus when they saw the blind man, " 2 ....saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him." (John 9:2-3). This conveys that sickness can come as a result of sin, unforgiveness and unrepentant attitude. But not all sicknesses and diseases are a result of sin in a person's life. The good news is, no matter what is the reason for our sickness, Jesus has promised to heal us all through His stripes if we hold on to Him in faith (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus made a mud spittle of clay and anointed it over the eyes of that blind man, and finally instructed and sent him to go to the pool of Siloam and wash his eyes. He sent, and the blind man washed and came back seeing (Matt 9:4-7). Praise the Lord!

Again many people were amazed seeing that the former blind man was able to see, and many doubted whether he was that real blind man. The religious pharisees who didn't like Jesus because he was a radical follower of God rather than a traditional follower like them. So they questioned the healing of the blind man and hoped to find something wrong in the healing. Immediately they put on their religious spectacle to scrutinise the healing of the blind man, just like the blind men in the above story were ready for an argument over exactly what an elephant might look like. Some pharisees pointed out that this healing was not from God as Jesus had healed on the Sabbath which is the breaking of God's fourth commandment (Deut 5:12). Still others with a little logical soulish mind were saying , “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them." (John 9:16). This is a classical case for a blind religious unbelievers who were not born again.

Again they asked the former blind man what was his opinion about Jesus, he told them that Jesus is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe until they called the parents of the former blind man to verify the healing as genuine. When their parents who were also religious Jews, told the truth of the healing of their son and further said to the Jewish religious heads to ask their son futher because of the fear of being ostracized from the synagogue. When they again called the former blind man and said to him to give God the Glory and also know that the man [i.e. Jesus] who healed him was a sinner according to their righteous law, this blind man suddenly became a great and a bold evangelist and said, "Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see." (John 9:25). The same answer is what a believer can give to any unbeliever regarding the existence of God.

If someone asks me, please come with me to debate to unbelievers regarding the existence of God so that they might understand and come to the knowledge of salvation, I would say to them to forget it altogether. No man on earth should ever waste their time debating with unbelievers regarding the existence of God. The unbelievers are blind spiritually and need to be born again by a supernatural miracle of God in which their inner spiritual eyes will open up to see the awesome reality of the existence and salvation of God (John 3:3). All we can do is to pray to God so that the unbelievers might be convicted by the Holy Spirit, so that they come to realize that they are spiritually blind and ask God to save them from sin and give eternal life instead (John 4:10; 16:8-9). True blindness that is a curse to man is not even a physical one which can be healed by Jesus easily (Mark 2:9-12), but a spiritual one which needs one to realize that they are blind (Matt 13:13-16). Spiritual blindness will make a person to think that they can see spiritually right, this is the greatest deception of the enemy of God, Satan and his demonic cohorts. Because of this deception Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” (John 9:39). In other words, those who think that they can see God spiritually well without the help of Jesus are deceived because their assumed god is not the real one, but those who feel that they are blind spiritually because of sin and come to Jesus for the answer, will come to see the real God and have friendship with Him forever. THE BELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO WILL WILL BE ABLE TO CARRY THE IDEA OF GOD SPIRITUALLY IN THEIR MIND, EVEN WITHOUT OPENING THEIR PHYSICAL EYES. This is why in the past 2000 years many physically blind people have been born again and have received their spiritual sight to see God and His kingdom, and finally go to heaven after their death. Even the exemplary famous Helen Keller was one among this group of believers. Praise the Lord!

So the next time a unbeliever or an atheist argues with you regarding the shape of God or the existence of God, don't be disturbed or get angry with them. But rather feel compassionate like Jesus had compassion on the blind man, so that God could have the space through you to heal the spiritual blindness and also physical blindness of people for the Glory of God (Luke 4:18-19). Do not expect a blind person to tell the shape of the elephant, if you do, it is your fault. Instead pray for all unbelievers to be saved from spiritual blindness, so that they will be able to finally see the true God, which is inline with the will of God (1 Tim 2:1-4). Your prayers made now for the unbelievers will make eternal destinies to be rewritten for the Glory of God, because our God delights to show mercy to undeserving people rather than to judge people immediately (Micah 7:18-19). NEVER GIVE UP PRAYING FOR THE SALVATION OF UNBELIVERS, FOR YOUR REWARD IS GREAT IN HEAVEN!

Much Blessings.... :)

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Armor of God

Are You A Active Warrior For God's Kingdom?

By Abraham Israel

In our generation God has given a lot of translations to make us understand the nuances of the word of God and rejoice in the Lord. I love certain verses in certain translations that brings great light to a particular verse. J.B. Phillips version is one such translation that gives light on certain New Testament passages greatly. Here is the J.B. Phillips translation regarding the section of verses which we usually call as the spiritual warfare verses,

"In conclusion be strong—not in yourselves but in the Lord, in the power of his boundless resource. Put on God’s complete armour so that you can successfully resist all the devil’s methods of attack. For our fight is not against any physical enemy: it is against organisations and powers that are spiritual. We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world, and spiritual agents from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore you must wear the whole armour of God that you may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when you have fought to a standstill you may still stand your ground. Take your stand then with truth as your belt, righteousness your breastplate, the Gospel of peace firmly on your feet, salvation as your helmet and in your hand the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. Above all be sure you take faith as your shield, for it can quench every burning missile the enemy hurls at you. Pray at all times with every kind of spiritual prayer, keeping alert and persistent as you pray for all Christ’s men and women.” (Eph. 6:10-18, J.B. Phillips New Testament).

The unseen power and spiritual agents that controls this dark world from the very headquarters of evil that is in the first heaven of atmospheric air (Eph 2:2), are operating as organisations and powers structures that are spiritual in nature. When people in our family and surroundings boil against us and get angry, understand that it is a evil and don't be reactive. We are not fighting against people, but the spirit's that work wrong attitudes behind them. Love people after they have acted bad, but hate and reject the attitudes displayed through them. This is a mature mindset and true spirituality. Certain times when we least expect it, the evil power pops up unexpectedly in its day of power through our soulish self and also through others who are close to us to cause division and strife among the family unit and also in the bigger family of the Church. At other times these attacks will not be powerful enough to be able to touch our lives because of the hedge of God's angelic protection over our lives (Psa 103:20; 104:4). But God allows these evil times and expects us who are His children to successfully resist all the devil’s methods of attack by putting on God’s complete armour.

The Armour of God is something that we must consciously put on over our spiritual lives and it will not automatically come over us. Just like a good soldier who practices to put on the armour time after time and keeps himself protected from the enemy, we ought to wear the spiritual armour of God day after day, moment after moment to protect ourselves from the attack of Satan and his demonic cohorts.

Truth and integrity of your heart before God and man holds our spiritual weapons upright like a belt around our waist and a lie will make all the weapons to slip down from our waist. The righteousness that does not work but believes on Jesus who keeps us always just as if we have never sinned even when we manytimes act as equal to ungodly sinners through our old nature is needed to keep our spiritual life alive and well with the life of Godbeating within us (Rom 4:5). This righteousness always acts as a breatplate to protect our spiritual heart healthy. Our very own righteousness which are like filthy rags are of no use when it comes to real spiritual battle to fight against our enemy Satan (Isa 64:6). Truly we need to maintain the righteousness of faith which comes freely to us as we keep believing the finished work of the Lord on the Cross of Calvary.

The Gospel of Peace is the power of God's transforming message and the testimony of Jesus which we have. We are embodiment of the message of Jesus which we carry around and wear like a shoe. When we testify to other wordly people of what the Lord has done for us, every oppurtunity to meet people becomes a appointment to touch their lives for Jesus and not get unclean by the wordly values they carry on in their lives. When we speak about the peace of Jesus which He has given us, either the worldly people will start to hear the message or hate it to leave the place and also want us to stop speaking it. Either way we keep ourselves busy in the Lord's work and also keep ourselves clean from the impurities of the world.

The assurance of salvation acts as the spiritual helmet to keep our head from fatal injury of the evil one. When we are accused of sin by Satan, the very confession that we are saved by the blood of Jesus makes Satan's accusation useless and ineffective (Rev 12:11).

The sword of the word of God must be quickened by the Holy Spirit and used against Satanic doubt constantly. We should store the word of God in our heart and give the oppurtunity for the Holy Spirit to quicken the word of God in us. SPEAK THE QUICKENED WORD OF GOD AND THE DEVIL WILL FLEE (Matt 4:10-11; James 4:7). The quickened word is a offensive weapon and very powerful to cause injury in to the evil heart of Satan. USE IT!

Whenever your heart is filled with fear and all doubts of Satan, just stand in faith believing the power of God and His soveriegn control over your life. In those times of distress, just remember one thing, your God in whom you believe is the one who controls the whole universe and sustains it. Faith is the shield that can keep all the evil missles of Satan to be thwarted from reaching us, when doubt and fear has the ability and negative potential to cause severe damage to our spiritual lives.

If we keep praying at all times in tongues and with understanding, using all types of praise, thankgiving and joyful prayer toward the Lord, all these armour of God will start to work in us. Prayer is the means through which we put the whole armour of God in to position over our spiritual body. We do not have power to oppose Satan in our flesh, but our weapons are mighty in God (2 Cor 10:4). Once we pray, we will be actively destroying all the plans of Satan and his minions.

Don't give up praying even when you feel like you can't handle the evil statergies of the devil anymore, stay patiently expecting the power of God to act on behalf of you and your circumstances. Before you realise, YOU WILL BE PROVEN THAT YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR AGAIN AND AGAIN BY THE POWER OF GOD THAT WORKS IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU FOR THE GLORY OF GOD (Rom 8:37). Pray for all Christ’s men and women who are working to fullfill the purpose of establishing the kingdom of God in all the earth along with you. When you do it, you will be blessed greatly by God. God is interested and active to fullfill only His purpose at all cost (Jer 1:12). When you are aligned in His purpose through praying for all saints of God, you are bound to succeed in all things because heaven will be behind you as you work towards His purpose and fullfillment of it.

Much Blessings........

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Bringing God's Good Plan In To Existence

How to Bring God's Good Plan In To Existence?

By Abraham Israel

God's word says, "The LORD is good" (Nah 1:7). But have you experientially tasted and have seen that the Lord is good in all types of circumstances you face (Psa 34:8)? When was the last time in the midst of all your problems you were able to say, "I praise you dear Lord because you are always good." This is the real test of faith we face in our day today lives. Remember, every time we are tested for faith, the whole of heaven will be watching in awe of how we will react to our problems. In the days when Job lived, the same happened, the man of God Job who faced problems of financial lose and death of loved ones in catastrophic proportions. But he began to bless the Lord in the midst of all the ruins. God testified before all the angels and Satan, "In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong." (Job 1:22). Then a little while later Job was completely stuck by Satan with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head, which made him take a pot-sherd to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of ashes (Job 2:7-8). In the midst of all this deterioration of health, Job did not sin by speaking against God. Instead Job began to worship the Lord being grateful for what he has already enjoyed from the hands of God in the past!

Satan had power over Job's wife to kill her by God's permission (Job 1:12), but he did not do it because Satan like he had reached and deceived Adam through Eve in his weak moment, he tried to reach Job through his wife cunnigly, and eventually Satan made her speak to Job saying,“Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. (Job 2:9-10). In other words, Job with his limited knowledge of what is happening behind the scene in the heavenlies, he thought God has sent some adversity his way, so why not accept adversity when the same God has been so good to him in the past. It was not God who was good sometimes and bad some other time. It was Satan who desired to afflict Job because he had a foothold of spiritual pride in the heart of Job, but God used it for the lifting up Job to greater heights spiritually with Him by allowing the affliction in His sovereignty. Job's faith was tested by God and was proved to all the heavenly hosts that he was not following God just because he was blessed by God in all areas of his life. He followed God because of his love towards him. In this God Himself testified that in all this Job did not sin, what an awesome Testimony! In these days of false spirituality, we should learn what it means to be truly spiritual. Praise the Lord! To be really spiritual is to stay in faith and say, "God is good even though I do not feel an iota of goodness in my circumstances all around me." To say something like the above in the midst of all our trials and storms glorifies God greatly and reinstates the unchanging goodness of the Character of God and His good intentions towards us all individually in this planet earth. In the midst of the barrages of Satanic lies that deceives men all around us in the world which only believes God as long as all things goes good, God is looking for someone who is ready to stand in faith in the midst of all impossibilities of unbelief like Job and declare the unchanging goodness of our God and Saviour.

We can easily find out people's spirituality in the midst of the unsolvable problems they face. A spiritually mature person will not grumble against God or the situation when they face problematic storms in their life. Spiritually poor people like the Israelites, saw the miracles God did for them and forgot it as fast as possible because of their carnal living without faith. When again some impossibilities came to them immediately they started to grumble against God and did not believe His goodness in the midst of storms they faced (Psa 106:12-15). God's blessing will not be experieced in one's soul when such a spiritually shallow life of false spirituality is promoted and lived by the carnal Christians who think that they are spiritual. The bottomline is, "DECLARE THE UNCHANGING GOODNESS OF GOD IN THE MIDST OF IMPOSSIBILITIES OF LIFE."

Good Plans of God and The Need For Maintaining Right Attitudes

God has good plans for each one of us. God has promised in His word to each one of us who believe in Him and love Him unconditionally, saying, "9 ...“ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God." (1 Cor 2:9-10). Here in the above verses we find the true secret to develop all true spirituality. When we start to love God irrespective of the circumstances we go through, the Spirit of God starts to reveal all the secret things of amazing miraculous plans and purpose that God has planned for our lives. When we tell some carnal people that God has a great plan for their lives, they will say with a big shout, 'Yes I do believe what you are saying. Amen!' But when God tunes up their spiritual themostat to make some small changes in their comfort zone, immediately they will start to grumble, murmur and begin to question God about His goodness. Those who question God whenever they go through a test of faith will stay in the same place without growth at all. Why? God starts the spiritual lessons where a person fails to progress and then He takes them higher spiritually. God will never bypass a spiritual lesson just because we continiously fail to learn it. God waits patiently until we choose to pass the spiritual test and walk along with Him forward.

We can never go higher spiritually than our attitudes we exhibit during the hour of the storm. God is there in the heavenlies to test us as our spiritual mentor, we are here on earth as his student to trust Him in the midst of all the so called seeming impossibilities of life. I have seen believers who have been in the Church serving the Lord in some capacity, who have failed to grow spiritually because of resisting the lesson that God was trying to teach them. I have not seen them blessed and they pass this attitude to their children, who also become affected with such spiritual stubbornness resisting God and godly authority in their lives too. May we ask God to help us maintain our thankful and praising attitude during our stoms of life so that we might grow spiritually more and more mature.

Godly Association and The Unfolding of God's Plan

Some times we think what seem to be good are God's plan for our lives. It is a spiritual deception to think that all that seem good are from God. Some times people learn spiritual lessons from God and his servants only until they become financially blessed. Once a lot of money comes in to their lives they start to think that it is based on their own righteous lifestyle that God has started to bless them, forgetting the source from which they were blessed. When you are associated with a man who walks with God and have the promise of God behind him, you are positioned to be blessed abundantly in your life. This happened to Lot who was the cousin of Patriarch Abraham. When God told Abraham to leave His family and father's family to go the land that God has promised to show in the future, Lot his wife's brother accompanied him in faith (Gen 12:1-5). As a result of believing the promise given to Abraham, Lot prospered greatly (Gen 13:5). Once extreme riches came to Lot by godly association with Abraham, he forgot the godly vessel through which he became prosperous and thus became proud enough to lose his spiritual balance (Gen 13:7). The strife that came between the herdsmen of Lot's livestock and Abram's livestock was because of Lot losing his spiritual balace through pride of false spirituality. He could have easily told the herds men of his to value the men of Abraham's livestock more than themselves, because it is through their Master's obedience to God that they are altogether blessed by God. But the attitude of Lot became so wrong and unteachable that the Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land (Gen 13:7).

Abraham was such a good man that he told Lot who was much younger than him, "8 ..., “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”" (Gen 13:8-9). Actually Lot was a young fellow and just a cousin, yet Abraham respected him in such a way that he said, "we are brethren." What a humility! God will bring his good plan to fruition step by step only to people who are humble and are spiritually stable enough to think and value others highly than themselves, even though they might be in reality or not (Php 2:3). Abraham at this point realised his mistake that he cannot take all of his relatives and family against the will of God and expect them to be blessed along with him. So knowing the shallow spirituality of Lot, Abraham wisely gave him a choice to depart. He knew that keeping Lot with him just because of blood relationship will make their enemies to rejoice and take over their land by seeing the strife and quarrel that comes between their herdsmen, because of Lot's bad attitude. Greedy man as Lot was, chose the best land of the plain of Jordan which was well watered everywhere and pitched his tent towards the properous city life and comfort (Gen 13:10-11). If Lot was really a teachable spiritual man, he would told Abraham that it was because of staying with him that he became prosperous and so would not depart from him. From this we should understand that good is the enemy of the best plans that God has for our lives. Many so called things that might seem to be good might be a test of God to see what we will choose, Money or God, selfish-ambition or fullfilling the will of God. When we choose God and His will, rather than what might seem to be good to our eyes and feelings, God will honor our choice to fullfill all His good plans for our lives. By rejecting the man of God Abraham who was the vessel of blessing to Lot, Lot rejected the will of God for his life by his own spiritual pride. May we never neglect the man of God whom God has given to us for spiritual guidance by our own foolish spiritual pride and lose the blessings of heaven.

Don't Forget Who Blessed You 

It is easy for God to bless His people, but it takes time for Him to train them and make them spiritually stable, so that they can enjoy the wealth which He gives and use it completely for His purpose to be done on earth with thankfullness in their lives. God Himself said the same thing and warned Israelites not to let the prideful attitude of religiosity to come in to their heart once they become rich, and as a result of it abort God's plan that He has for their lives.

When we forget God who is our blessor, then there is always a danger of getting lost in our own prideful fleshly plans which God hates and resists. Here is what God says to us as much as he said to Israelites, "10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. 11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ 18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God." (Deut 8:10-20).

When we are filled with prosperity from God, there is a danger of forgetting God who has blessed us. There is a big danger of forgetting the servants of God whom God uses to bless us. This is the reason God takes us through spiritual storms, wilderness and trials to test us and keep our heart attitude humble before God and men. When we are filled with the good things of life and prosperity, it is given so that we might be thankful and live in the attitude of gratitude to bless the Lord in each and every living moment of our lives. When material prosperity comes to us, say we build a nice home as the Lord blesses our work or buisness, we should be careful not to forget our Lord by starting to walk in our own way and complacently stop seeking to find the will of God for every situation we face (Matt 6:33).

When riches increases in property and gold, rich food and in cars, good jobs and in social influence, do not set your heart on it (Psa 62:10). When you do, your heart will be lifted up and you will forget the Lord who has unconditionally forgiven your sin and have taken you from the house of bondage of the slavery of Satan's darkness (Acts 26:18). When you have walked in the spiritual wilderness where demonic spirits of snakes and scorpions were present, the Lord gave you His very own power over it and have protected you through out your journey (Luke 10:19-20). So it is God who has given you the power to prosper spiritually, soulishly, physically, financially and socially. It is God who makes you wealthy because He has desired it for you (Psa 35:27). When he has prosperd you in His time, it is without adding any sorrows of the world to it that he has prospered you (Pro 10:22). So stay stable in your spiritual life by being humble and loyal before the Lord as always when you are rich and sufficient.

God does not want you to live like a hermit and live a ascetic lifestyle, but he wants you not to set your heart on any riches when it increases. He wants you to wholeheartedly use the riches to store riches in heaven by using it for helping poor people, extending His kingdom work, by supporting para-Church ministries on the internet and for Churches to be planted around the world (Matt 6:19-21, 33; 19:21). We are clearly instructed in the Bible by the great Apostle Paul to set our minds on things above and no on things on earth (Col 3:1-2). In other words, the purpose for which Christ laid hold of us, for the same purpose we should lay hold on to Him tightly so that we could fullfill His plans for our lives through His strength and power working through us (Php 3:12; 2:13). We cannot serve an idol and also our true living God. In our New Testament times, the word idol represents money mainly and it is clearly expressed that "coveteousness...is idolatry" (Col 3:5). We cannot serve and worship both money and God at the same time (Luke 16:13). We ought to be careful in this regard and live only for the purpose of God to be fullfilled in our lives, so that the Lord will continue to proper us and will bring all the good plans of His to fruition in our lives. THE BOTTOM LINE IS, DON'T FORGET WHO BLESSED YOU! Hurray to our good Lord who works out His good plans continiously!!

Walk in Nothing But The Spirit of Faith

Even though God saved all the Israelites from Egypt, many of them were destroyed in the wilderness testing time itself because of lack of faith and unbelief (Jude 1:5). Even though many believers are born again to be taken from the slavery of Satan's clutches, very few believers enter in to Caanan land of the restful heavenly spiritual life of abundance (Heb 4:1-3; Matt 11:28-30). Because spiritual leaders like Caleb and Joshua were having different spirit of Faith in them (Num 14:24, 30-31), God was pleased with them and took the little ones along with them, who were told by their parents that they will become victims in the wilderness (Num 14:31). From this we know that if we are grumpy enough to complain against the Lord and test Him again and again even after seeing the glorious salvation, forgiveness of sins, provision and protection of God after we are born again, we will die without any further spiritual progress in our lives.

This is the sad state of many believers in our times too. But if we choose to live by the different spirit of faith which says that we can reach the spiritual Canaan of God's perfect rest if the Lord delights is us and if we do not fear our spiritual enemies as we continue to walk with Him, and keep believing that God's plan for our life is good and prosperous only even as we do not see it in our times of storms and wilderness walk (Num 14:7-9), then all the good promises of God and his good plans that He has for our life will very soon come to pass. And like Joshua one day at the end of our earthly lives we too will declare with a victorious cry, “Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you [and me]. All have come to pass for you [and me]; not one word of them has failed." (Jos 23:14).

Knowing that God is working all things for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28), we should continue to walk in faith. We should expect the best even when all we see is giants standing before us. We should speak positively based on our faith and the Lord will be very pleased to see and hear us walk in this different spirit of faith (2 Cor 4:13). We have a great God who will lead us step by step in to our destiny as we continue to walk in the spirit of faith. The heavenly life of rest and refreshment will increase more and more in our lives as we keep on walking in faith. NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE UP, BECAUSE GOD HAS NOT GIVEN UP ON YOU AND HAS PROMISED TO NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU AS YOU KEEP WALKING THE FAITH WALK OF VICTORY (Heb 13:5)! It is we who have the potential to fullfill God's good plan by walking in faith or breaking it by our own complaining and unbelief.


Pray with me Saints : Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for being always good. Help us to face storms of life with faith and speak faith like the man of God Job did in His life, yes it was for His spiritual good that you allowed such spiritual storm to hit His life, so that he could be blessed more than all. In the same way, all the storms we face, give us the courage to stand for you so that your name might be glorified through us. Help us to recognize humbly the godly association you have set for us and value the men and women of God whom you have given to feed our spirit spiritually. May I never forget you when you start to bless me and then help me use my blessing to extend your kingdom, thus collecting my treasures in heaven where the moth does not eat it or any thief can steal it (Matt 6:20). Help me to walk continiously in the spirit of faith and live positively, speaking forth your purpose in to existence. Thank you and praise you that you will bring all your purpose and plans that you have for me, my family and Church in to existence and fullfill it to fruition. Help me to fullfill the GOOD PLANS even to the end of my life. In JESUS MIGHTY NAME, Amen and Amen!

much BLESSINGS....

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Can We Really Rejoice All The Time?

Rejoice in the Lord?

By Abraham Israel

Many people who think that New Testament speaks a very higher standard of living and so commands like "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say rejoice." (Php 4:4), which really means that we should choose to be happy and release the joy that God has put inside our spirit-man 24/7/365 without fail, are impossible to keep.

But guess what the Old Psalmist declares with a shout, "Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name." (Psa 97:12). Praise the Lord! He says tha same thing even in those times to the saints. So, the Old Testament is New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is Old Testament revealed.

The Psalmist knows that the righteous people will face a lot of trouble because Satan works as the god of this age [i.e. world system of governance] and acts as the prince of the power of the air around the world to influence it and also to make the wordly people to do things opposite to what the saints believe (2 Cor 4:4; Eph 2:2). As a result of all the unhappy faces under the demonic influence of the world system of governance that manifest themselves openly seeing the righteous lifestyle of the saints, can only be expelled and not be allowed to weigh the heart of saints when they choose to receive the supernatural joy and happiness from the new spirit-man which was given to them when they were born again. This spirit-man acts as a supernatural conduit to receive heaven's joy continiously.

So the Old Testament saints tried to rejoice always by faith and dreamed to do it continiously but did not have the priviledge to make it happen in reality as they had no new spirit man unlike all the New Testament believers. But still we have received a supernatural key of how they rejoiced in the Old Testament times, which has been revelaed in the same second part of the verse where the Psalmist gives out the secret saying, "give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name".

Each time we remember the name of our Lord Jesus we should give thanks for it. Each times we use the name of JESUS we should give thanks for it to God. Each time we bless God, we should give thanks to the Holy name of our Lord JESUS. This will make us to continue to rejoice in the midst of the world system of thinking that acts opposite to what we saints believe and live. So if the Old Testament saints tried it even when rejoicing was not fully and continiously available spiritually, how much more we as the New Testaments saints fully loaded with the ability to rejoice because of a supernatural quickening done inside us when we were born again in our spirit. Surely with Paul I REJOICE and reaffirm to say, "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say rejoice." (Php 4:4). I say this because this is the only way for the saints to live healthy spiritually and take a instant supernatural vacation each time they choose to REJOICE!

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The Mysterious Faith

Faith Knows And Says, 'God Will...'

By Abraham Israel

We all fall down in our journey of life now and then. There are two types of response that we can give to such incidents that happen in our lives. We can either believe God and say that these too will go away with faith in our hearts or else live in unbelief saying that life is not good enough to keep me happy.

The first response will make the God of heaven and earth to work for us, the second type of response to our problem will make devil to make us get discouraged in our lives. Once we get discouraged God will not move on our behalf because we will have no faith to carry on. God will never be moved by our tears but can easily be moved by our faith.

God has given promises to us personally through His eternal word, so that those times of discouragement could be overcome if we keep tuned to hear the voice of His word in our inner spirit-man. Great men of faith are simple men who are disciplined enough to keep themselves in the word of God, thinking, sleeping, eating and loving the word of God more and more. God and His word are one, when we believe in His word, we are actually tuning ourselves to live a positive God glorifying life of victory through faith.

Not Only God can, But He Will 

Faith not only believes that God can, but God will because His Word never changes. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away." (Matt 24:35). This means that all material things which God created through His word will one day be all vapourised in to nothing from which it came in to existence for God's purpose to be fullfilled (Heb 11:32 Peter 3:10). But the word believer in whom God's life dwells will never pass away because again they will have an after life in their supernatural glorious bodies that God has prepared for them (Heb 10:5; 1 Thess 4:16-18).

A bird sings after the storm is over, but God wants us to sing by faith even when we go through the storms (Php 4:4; Jam 1:2-4). Actually each storms makes us to be what God has purposed for us to be. You are getting closer to God's purpose and destiny fullfillment through each trial. You got to be joyful because the God who has promised you is working through each trial to complete that which He has promised to fullfill in your life. WITHOUT TRIALS THERE CAN BE NO TRUE SPIRITUAL PROGRESSION.

A Change Unseen

When faith makes you walk in to the unknow mysteries of God, walk with joy or else God can never be pleased with your so called religious walk. Be a man and a woman of faith. Religion puts a grim face to its religiosity and will always boast about the sacrifice made for God by its own strength. God hates it when we try to boast about our spirituality which is a pure gift from above.

Faith brings a unseen chage in to our heart, where we will start to rejoice in the confidence that God is on our side and is working for our good destiny to be fullfilled day after day. The unseen chage is actually a deposit of God's presence that get settled in to our bones and marrows. Saints don't forget, each trial we face by faith and rule over it, we are actually inheriting and bringing in to our heart the unchanging character of God's blessed Spirit and a eternal inheritance that will last for eternity ahead.

A Flow of Divine Satisfaction

When the faith walk is done by God's strength, you will know that you will know that you will know that you are in the midst of God's will for your life. If you are not satisfied in your life, check whether you are living in faith relationship with God or have been living in religious rountines which never satisfies the soul of any human.

FAITH CARRIES YOU WHEN ALL OTHER THINGS SEEM TO FAIL. Faith strengthens you in your time of adversity. One of the greatest faith-man who lived supernaturally natural is Apostle Paul who said about the Patriarch Abraham, "20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform." (Rom 4:20-21). God promised Abraham that he will have a son through his wife Sarah who will become his legal inheritor (Gen 12:1-5; 11:30). But nearly twenty five years passed before God showed up in Abraham's life to fullfill that which He has promised. Think about it, a son at the age of ninety nine for Abraham and ninety years for Sarah (Gen 21:5; 17:17)? A medical impossibility, but a spiritual possibility when some one had been walking in faith with God.

Abraham was one man who never got disheartened seeing his grim circumstances and sulk in to it, but because of a strong relationship with God in faith, began to praise Him and give Glory to God! The more faith came in to him and increased as he continued to live the lifestyle of praises towards God for all things and circumstances. The more he started to be fully convinced that God is able to perform His promises, he began to live as though he already owned it all, no matter what may come his way. Faith strengthens you in such a way, you will praise God for what He is going to do in your life. You will also begin to live as though God's promise is already yours in possesion and will act like you own it.

Through all our toils, pains, successes and failures, the flow of divine satisfaction that floods our soul will come by faith to strengthen us and to help us keeps our eyes focussed on the power of God's unfailing promises. Our confidence in the power of God that is able to perform miracles increases by this flow of divine satisfaction.

Say It Like You Mean It and Live It Like You Own It Already

In my life God first spoke to me in a vision saying, "Do my work, I will bless you...." At that time in my life I was young and naive, so I wished that it was not the voice of God because I had all the plans for my life worked out already. Then I started to declare to all people that the Lord had spoken me to work for Him. So many people tried to tell me that I need not do full time ministry for the Lord, but can work in a profession and do God's work along with it. I thought it as a good idea because I could independently work for God and not live in great faith to carry out the ministry of God. I also told God that I will give much of my income to the ministry and God simply told to me, "Am I a beggar to receive money from you, it is I who own all the earth and all things in it. What can you give to me?" I was very much bewildered at what God said to me. Then I told God that He must give me faith and along with it, keep providing all the neccessities that comes in my life. Till today I can tell you that God has not even failed once. All my needs have been fullfilled and I am blessed more than all!

All the good things started in life when I started to say it to all people by faith the things that God had told me. I said all the things God told me and called it in to existence by faith as though it were already real (Rom 4:17; Mark 11:23-24). To many who heard me it was like a joke to them because I was telling what the Lord has told me purely by faith, even though I did not see an iota of evidence of what God has promised to me. But slowly I began to get convinced that God is able to perform all things that which I am speaking by faith. Things have already started to move in to fullfillment in my life and God is constantly giving surprises everyday of some fullfillment that happens supernaturally.

Then I started to live like the son of the King of Kings. God provided more and more needs without fail, the mindset inside me would be very much blessed as I lived like this. When ever the mind would get attacked with the world's way of thinking, immediately I would struggle to accept all the fact that I have been declaring and living. At such times there would be great suffering in my soul and depression would engulf me for a atleast half a day even upto two days.

Then God taught me how to fight the battle against the enemy of our soul. I would take negative thoughts captive by bringing those thought before God and saying, "I take this thought captive to the obedience of Christ my Lord." (2 Cor 10:5). Immediately all the negative thoughts would flee and faith will rise up in my soul greatly. Then I would renew my mind with the word of God which began to transform my soul in to the kingdom way of thinking (Rom 12:2). Once the mind would be renewed with the exact opposite of the thoughts of unbelief, faith would saturate me and would help me retain the blessedness of soul continiously. Praise God that I took much effort to do these basic things, but then something started happenning, the things that I did consciously, the Holy Spirit started doing it seeing my desire and willingness. O what a blessedness to know the thoughts of God continiously! The Holy Spirit himself would replace the right Kingdom thinking from the memory in which the word of God is stored. Even when I would rise up in the morning, God's word would flood my soul and bring joy to my heart. If the first thoughts were soulish some days, immediately I would start to renew my mind with the exact opposite truths of the word of God. Exactly if only we would do the basics of what we can, the Holy Spirit would do what we cannot do in our natural earthly state.

We cannot keep ourselves in the constant state of heavenly thinking because the Bible says that only the Spirit of God knows the things of God which are hidden to all created beings (1 Cor 2:11). When we are aquainted with the Holy Spirit, the heavenly thinking will supercede all natural thinking process and would give a deep knowledge of the unknown mysteries which are necessary to building our life of faith higher in God (1 Cor 2:2:12-13). In the morning or in the night, all the time God will begin to speak through the inner voice of our spirit-man, dreams and visions, circumstances whether good or bad and then through simple things of life that are present in our environment. The more we start to hear God and walk in His ways, the clearer His voice will become to us. In the kingdom economy, faith is the only lifestyle that is acceptable and pleasing to the Lord.

Are you ready? You are asking me for what, for growing up to live with the kingdom thinking constantly, to live a lifestyle of faith which pleases the Lord, to reach for the higher dimension of living supernatural naturally in our everyday life and to give GLORY TO GOD!

Pray With Me Saints : Dear Loving Heavenly Father, Thank you for your unconditional love. Help me to be positive all the time by giving me strength to make decisions according to the word of God that is kept in my heart. Give me the strong confidence that not only you can, but you will do all the good things of your plans that you have for me. Help me to rejoice and praise you through all circumstances, no matter whether it is stormy or serene, let your mighty faith rise up in my heart and keep me intact in your unchanging and unfailing lovingkindness. Help me to realize that a poisitive change is happening in the spiritual realm of my life everytime I walk in faith. May the consciousness of God's Presence that stays permanently for eternity ahead be deposited in a tangible way in every fibre of my being (Heb 13:5). Let the flow of your divine satisfaction increase to bless me with your ability consciousness that comes with the knowledge of your power. Help me speak the faith language and live the lifestyle that keeps me immortally blessed more than any royal mortal existence. Thank you for your assurance, you will fullfill all your good plans for YOUR GLORY! In JESUS name. Amen and Amen!!

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