GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US IN JESUS CHRIST

One of the best way to live Christian life is never to forget but remember that our Saviour Jesus is always with us. We can not see Him with our naked eyes as God is spirit. But He is always with the believers in the Holy Spirit( read Matthew 2018-20).He always help, guide and protect the believers. He is with us – He sees what we see and do, good or bad. He hears what we think, good or bad.He watches us all the time. He loves and cares us.

Jesus says “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” (John 14:1)

Therefore -

1.     Let’s trust not worry in any situation, because He cares for us.

2.      Let’s trust Him and rely on Him totally.

3.     Remember, Jesus died for our sins and gives us forgiveness and made us God’s children.

4.     Let’s thank Him everyday for His love and kindness as well as for all His blessings.

5.     Let’s confess every wrong we do and ask His forgiveness.

6.     Let’s study the Bible daily and always pray.

7.     Let’s pray for us and for others and tells about His love for us.

By living daily life as stated above, we become more careful and commit less wrong. God will also certainly help us grow spiritually everyday, our life will become more fruitful and pleasing to us and God will be pleased, too.

Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ

“ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 

For He(God) chose  US (you and me) in HIM (Jesus Christ) before the creation of the world TO BE HOLY and BLAMELESS in His sight.” (Ephesians 1:3 - 4)

Praise the Lord.

Friends in Jesus, God chose you and me in Jesus Christ to be Holy and Blameless in His sight. But, are you or me blameless, at least in your or my sight?

–  What I do some times are :-

1.   DECEIVE even my beloved one (to avoid quarrel – but is ‘deceive’).

2.   Consumed too much meat, fruit, sweet, Sour, etc. that  HARM my stomach

3.   Watch my favourite movies too long to please our mind but HARM my eyesight.

4.   SCOLDED my dearest ones when approach to get my help if and while I am busy

5.   Many more wrongs

May be you also do at least one of the above. Then, it is out  of question about HOLY and BLAMELESS in God’s sight.

Let’s better ask forgiveness to God and ask His help.

“Lord, forgive me. I am a sinner, filthy rag in Your sight. Please forgive me. I ask your forgiveness and to consider me holy and blameless as my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has already washed away all my sins when He died on the cross to cleans all my sin and has made me Your child. Forgive all my daily blunders and help me through the Holy Spirit to live a good life as Your child. I pray in Jesus name, Amen.”

FOR YOUR BENEFIT, FORGIVE OTHERS

 “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Colossians 3:13)

Forgiving others is one of the best ways to get peaceful mind. If you forgive, the benefit is for you, never the loser. The one you hate never bear so much burden as you do. That bitterness only rob you of your mental peace. Many lives have been spoiled by bitterness and a lack of forgiveness. Many go through physical and emotional breakdowns because they refuse to forgive others. The longer we carry a grudge, the heavier it becomes. We cannot afford to harbor bitterness in our soul. Knowing this fact, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, out of love , tells us to forgive others.

So, forgive those who hurt you, as Jesus has forgiven us and follow the teachings in the Bible. Please read :

^“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colosians 3:12-17)

Love your Boyfriend or Girlfriend in the Lord

Young boys and Girls, Love your Boyfriend or Girlfriend in the Lord (cf. Ephesians 6).

If you really love him/her and want to marry - Take care  that you and your beloved  have ‘Life in Jesus’. Always ask God in prayer to bless you two. Pray that both of you can live good life, pleasing to Him, that you two may become one in the coming day without any problem and can live a happy married life and a true Christian family with the help of God through the Holy Spirit in Jesus name.

I have seen many of friends during youth, due to some mistake could not live a happy married life and Christian family. Some even have broken family.

Study the Bible daily, a chapter or one topic at a time and always pray. Pray for you and for your beloved; for your family and for the family of your beloved. Besides, pray for your friends. Pray in Jesus name.

THE FAITH OF MARY AND MARTHA

Friends, God bless you and help you have FAITH like Mary and Martha.

Mary and Martha believed “Where there is Jesus, there is no dead! Because, Jesus is ‘the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” The two also confessed their faith. Therefore, the Lord blessed them beyond their believe by ‘raising their dead brother Lazarus from the dead.”

 Lazarus was sick. His two sister Mary and her sister Martha sent word to Jesus. On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him,

 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”

When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Jesus  said, “Where have you laid him?” and  came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

 “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked up and prayed to His Father in Heaven. Then, called in a loud voice,

 “Lazarus, come out!” 

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. (John 11:1-45)

Friends, Jesus is alive even today and forever. He still raised the dead and heals sick and will do forever. Have faith in Him and confess your total faith as done by Mary and Martha. Call on Him now in prayer. He will answer you.

THE WORDS OF GOD ARE OF THE SPIRIT, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND BY NATURAL MAN

The Words of God are of the Spirit and are difficult to understand by natural man. We need the help of God through the Holy Spirit to understand.

Read the following with prayer :-

JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE :

“Then Jesus declared, “I am the BREAD OF LIFE. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.  All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the BREAD that came down from heaven.” 

…………“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God. ’Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the BREAD OF LIFE. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the BREAD that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the LIVING BREAD  that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This BREAD is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his  FLESH  to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the FLESH of the Son of Man and drink his BLOOD, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my FLESH and drinks my BLOOD has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my FLESH is real food and my BLOOD is real drink. Whoever eats my FLESH and drinks my BLOOD remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the BREAD that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this BREAD will live forever.” 

MANY DISCIPLES DESERT JESUS

On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The WORDS I have spoken to you—THEY ARE FULL OF THE SPIRIT AND LIFE. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” 

For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 

He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

 (John 6: 25-70)

FRIENDS, let the answer of Pater be ours, too. For that let’s  repeat saying what Peter said  - “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD

Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.   So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Lazarus is dead. But let us go to him.”

On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”

 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 

When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 

Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 

When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 

 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

 Jesus wept.

Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

 “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

So they took away the stone.

Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. (John 11:1-45)

Friends, Jesus is alive even today and forever. He still raised the dead and heals sicks and will do forever.

Call on Him now, He will answer you.