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God’s Provision for the Dark Seasons
In recent times, there has not been a darker season throughout the world than now, given the current covid-19 pandemic. These dark times are surely not easy to tread through alone, but with God they always have a purpose and a place in our lives to edge ever closer to Him. The devil might have planned to use these dark times for evil but in God’s hands they would only serve as a catalyst for having a fresh revelation of our Lord! The Bible captures several night (dark) times, their implications and their results in quite dramatic ways. One of …
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God’s Perfect Christmas Gift
Christmas season is usually attributed as the season of joy, giving, family time and much more. But what makes it different from other seasons or festivities is the very reason behind it. God had to sacrifice His only Son so that you and I can enjoy an unbroken relationship with Him. Nevertheless, we humans have a free will to accept Jesus – God’s perfect Christmas gift, as our Savior and Lord. The Bible says, “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and …
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God’s Timing is Perfect
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son…” Galatians 4:4 God sent His Son to save us from sins which is the central theme of this season. No wonder, we as Christians proclaim “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” There is a Season for everything. King Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Infact, this entire chapter talks about times and seasons. In today’s modern world, when we want everything to happen overnight, it might seem reasonable to expect God working through …
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Christ Died and Brought Us Life
The very first verse that God spoke about Jesus Christ was about His cross (Refer Genesis 3:15). It’s that Christ would crush the devil’s head and the devil would bruise Christ’s heel, which was symbolic of the cross, the kind of death He is going to suffer all because of Man’s sin. That was the first promise after man’s fall. What a peculiar way to introduce Christ to mankind in words. Eve ate the forbidden fruit and blamed the serpent. Adam was clever to blame both Eve and God at the same time (Refer Genesis 3:12,13). Both went into a …
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For God, with God and of God
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.” Ecclesiastes 1:14. ‘Am busy’ or ‘I don’t have time’ has become a cliché these days and majority of the time it’s rightly so or at the least feels so. Because, this devotional’s writer too perceived that way and so wrote this at the last hour. The Preacher in Ecclesiastes, taken aback by man’s never-ending business, laments and pours out his indictment at its unending cycle and meaninglessness. The Preacher though the wisest the world has ever known, is lost …
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3 Steps for Overcoming Sin
“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1 John 2:1. Overcoming sin is the battle faced by all Christians every day. Christians are not immune to sin but that doesn’t give us the license to sin. Romans 6:14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Being Christians, we are no longer walk according to the law but by the grace of God poured on to us …
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Never be worried about Persecution
Today, churches all around the world commemorate the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that He spent his last moments in anguish. The hardest part was that He knew everything beforehand. It is not fair comparing our problems with that of the Son of God. However, let us contemplate our stance in our hard situations as such. The Calvary teaches us about the states of mind of an unbeliever and a believer. The Bible talks about two thieves were punished according to the law along with Jesus. Both were hanging near Him but each one’s thinking was completely …
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The Love of Christ
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Romans 8:35 The love of Christ is genuine. Whenever this love touches a human heart, the person is completely transformed. Christ’s love is celebrated around the world among born-again Christians for this reason. However, we have to analyze ourselves whether we always truly exhibit the His love. The world is now experiencing chaos and cataclysm. This might be social, political or even naturally occurring. What is the Christian stance in this situation? How should a Christian respond to these? A person who abides in Christ will approach all situations with the …
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Jesus is Our Friend
“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing: but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you.” John 15:15 One of the most commonly asked questions to a little child that has just joined school would be “How many friends have you got?” or “Who are your friends?” etc. As a society, we would love to stay connected and have realized the need to have a support system in a friend right from the very early age. In …
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April 2017
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” 1 John 4:18 The world sees Christ in many forms – a Good moral teacher, a Good man whose life was cut short terribly, a Saint, a Messenger from God, a Prophet and so on. But the Truth is that Christ is the Son of God who came down to earth, lived and died for us. That’s how we all believed and were saved by His Grace through faith. But after knowing Him as our Lord and Saviour, as time goes on how do we perceive Christ on …
