Apostolic Quotes

Å℘◎﹩☂øł☤ḉ ℚυ◎тℯṧ : "When you are truly blessed, you cannot keep yourself from blessing others." — Abraham Israel

Art of Living #24

Åґ☂ ◎ḟ ʟ☤√ḯη❡ #24 : ‎"I will bless thee... and thou shalt be a blessing." (Gen.12:2).

Ѧ℘☺﹩☂◎łḯ¢ €ϰ℘øüηḓ : In my life at the time of my early twenties when I finished my Engineering, I wanted to become a computer programmer and leave for the west. I went to a south Indian metro and joined in a company as a trainee. As I was about to get in to the main stream companies, something severe happened. At that time my body grew very weak as I was already having hyper hyperthyroidism three times more than normal level. During my college days I represented my college once for a body building competition and was extremely healthy with a very strong body. So I was always self-confident and never thought that I would ever get such a problem in my body. This problem was there for nearly three years before that time, but it had been undetected because of my self-confidence to cover it. I started my way back home and became totally dependent on people to help me. This was the time I realised that I need God desperately and needed to trust Him at all time which includes both my good and the bad.

Then as I was taking medication, I was extremely weak. I would often eat to satisfy the hunger pangs caused by this disease and would immediately go to sleep because of extreme tiredness. I would keep my Bible near my pillow at that time and would read it for some time and then would go to sleep. I did this because only reading the Bible would bring inner peace to my weary soul and body. Then one day while I was sleeping in the afternoon, I heard a voice speak to me saying, "Do my work, I will bless you....". At first I struggled to come to terms with it. When I was young I always had a great desire to be a complete man at 25 years of age, means to be completely blessed in all areas of my life. But I wanted to pursue thing in the world to attain it. Thank God for His grace, he turned me in the opposite direction and made me walk through the path of suffering to reach it. Around 25 years of age when I joined in a small Bible college, God reminded me that I was blessed as I had been thinking and desiring in the past. I was not able to understand why God said to me like that at that time, because I was still partly under medication, great financial stress, shattered dreams and uncertainity about my own future. But praise God, now I have realised that God had said rightly that I am blessed even at that time, only now I am truly able to understand that spiritual blessing is the greatest of all of God's blessing and out of it will flow soulish, physical, financial and social blessing. Today I am so blessed to be a blessing to many.

Abraham believed God's promise and he became a friend of God. The same promise is also a promise to you and me, if we keep believing this promsie of God, very soon people will begin to see that we are blessed in our life by God. The ultimate reason God wants to bless us is to make us a blessing to every one around in our sphere of influence. In other words, the highest blessing we have receive from God is when we become a blessing to others. Stagnant water very soon starts to stink, but flowing water always stays afresh. The same hold for spiritual blessings too. When we bless others, we stay fresh with heavenly daily loads of blessings. When we try to gather it for ourselves, we very soon begin to stink. BE BLESSED AND BE A BLESSING! Blessings....

Great Quotes

Ḡґℯαт ℚυø⊥εṧ : "Since no man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is open to all. There is nothing else to hinder us from entering, but our own unbelief." — John Calvin

Apostolic Quotes

Å℘◎﹩☂øł☤ḉ ℚυ◎тℯṧ : "We are not saved by our behaviour, but by our belief that we are sinners in need of a Saviour who is Jesus Christ." — Abraham Israel

Art of Living #23

Åґ☂ ◎ḟ ʟ☤√ḯη❡ #23 : "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever." (Eccl.3:14).

Ѧ℘☺﹩☂◎łḯ¢ €ϰ℘øüηḓ : In my life, the confidence of salvation came very late. But I was saved at the age of seven. I know of that day, I sat in our Church which was a makeshift thatched roof arrangement we had, because the big thatched Church we had before that time was set on fire by some miscreants just some months before. I began to pray in the afternoon time, but that was a unique day I can never forget. I was praying and a clear understanding came to me that I was a sinner in need of the Saviour Jesus, who I had heard our aunties speak regularly in the Sunday class and in the Church meetings, as I was born and brought up in that very place.

Then I felt a great remorse come upon me, I clearly understood at that time that the reason Jesus died on the Cross was because of my sin which I commited against God. Then as I continued praying for a long time, the very picture of Jesus Christ hanging upon the Cross with wounds on His hand and feet, and blood oozing all over the wounds and His whole body appeared in a vision just before my eyes. It broke my heart still deeply and I prayed and prayed until a great joy came to me, filling my childish heart with peace that cannot be described. Later my mother told me that I prayed until late night and that she called me to come and sleep, but I refused and continued to pray till I fell asleep.

But as I was a naughty guy when I was young, I then continued in my life as usual. We used to go to so many retreats and children's camps regularly as Dad was a missionary Pastor. At that time because we were children, the teaching of the commandments would be the prime thing that they would teach. According to their teaching if we again start doing some evil things, we would lose our salvation. So I would attend the spiritual meetings and feel like I was saved and then after I would come back to home and the normal life starts, then the so called salvation experience received during the retreat would dissipate in to thin air. This went on till the days of my late teens in which I became a hypocrite. But praise God, one day when I was hearing and singing a simple song which said, "Lord, you are changing me....", something supernatural started to happen inside of me as I kept singing it softly over and over again with a broken heart for my hypocrisy towards the Lord. Exactly at that time the Spirit of the Lord touched me and the assurance that I was was changed forever came over me. My dad who saw me how I would act well after retreats and revert back to the samw old life said this time, "Let us see, how long this will continue....". Hallelujah! But things changed that all the people who had seen me before were surprised at the sudden change that the Lord gave me in many areas, one of which was extreme anger which would always lead to unforgiveness. No turning back, the Lord has continued to change me from faith to faith by giving me grace upon grace to reach one level of glory to glory! Praise God whatever the Lord does shall be forever! Blessings.....