Special Purpose Zone

In Jeremiah 7:1-15 we read the context of 'False Religion worthless’.we may ask ourselves what do I believe these days? Or in other words who is my God? Beware of False teachings and false teachers around you.So much of Deception around us these days.Jeremiah challenges the heathen thinking in Jer10:10 in giving a contrast picture with idols made by human hands and the Living God.He thus boldly declares that our God is true, living and he is the one who makes the earth tremble.Wow!What an awesome and Omnipotent God the Bible describes. He lives and reigns forever above all other Gods. There is no rival for Him.Alleluia! In Jeremiah 7: 3, 5 it talks about the reformation that God expects.Reformation in three areas mainly (Thought-Word-Deed) Reformed Thoughts What’s on your mind? A precise practical book by Merlin Carothers challenged me during my student days. It is difficult sometimes to have a clean mind. But Gods Grace with our efforts it is possible to have a victory in

Col 2:6,7 ‘So then just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness’.(NIV) Are we like hollow blocs looking strong outside and hollow inside? If we observe today’s most of building constructions hollow blocs are been used. We also notice that the work is done overnight very quickly. But it makes us to think how strong will it be? But to my findings hollow blocs are good for building small and medium sized houses. This analogy goes well with our spiritual health check. How is our inner lives built in this post modern days. Are we spending enough time at the feet of the Lord praying and reading the word or our devotions very quick and fast every time? Facetiously someone said that believers today are called watch watching believers, very much conscious of the time we give to God. Let’s remember there is no short cut for spiritual growth. We grow only in spir

Unsullied love Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners. That is why, if we are looking for a definition of love, we should look not in a dictionary, but at Calvary. (First Paragraph is excerpted from John Stott’s “The Cross of Christ” –P 212) Unfailing love In a distressed, disappointing, false promising world the one true love that will not fail us is God’s love for us. You can ask will he not fail me unlike other human love. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Come to him with your broken heart and he will make it whole again. Don’t just try him, but trust him.His love will never disappoint you rather it will always comfort you. Demonstrative love Oh what a love that its depth not be understood fully in words which he demonstrated for us on the cross. We were not present on Golgotha when this took

What is to be filled with the Spirit? Ephesians 5: 18 – ‘Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the spirit.’ (NIV) Being spirit filled in another words is being spirit controlled. No matter what temperaments we have, are we allowing ourselves to be controlled by his spirit? If not let’s contemplate the literal meaning of the phrase ‘be filled with the spirit.’ The tense of the Greek is present imperative.Paul could say ‘I have been crucified with Christ’ (Gal 2:20), and yet he died daily (1cor 15:31). Surrender is done, and yet it is never done –It is a continual yielding. It is important to point out that surrender is not once and-for-all; surrender must be continuous. Likewise we need to be continually filled with the Spirit. Thus D.L Moody prayed like this “Lord am a leaky vessel which needs your filling every moment”. We receive the Holy Spirit at the time when we hear the Gospel of truth and accept Christ as our personal Lord and Savior

I came across this nugget of truth while reading a book. A simple story but what a profound truth! Ephesians 5:1, 2 reads like this. “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (KJV) The believer follows God, first by becoming a follower of God. This is a very important decision that a person makes in his life. It means that he is gonna be loyal to a person of Jesus Christ the rest of his life. He can then sing aloud that I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, the world behind me and the cross before me. Thus he makes himself get detached from the things of the world and get attached with God. It’s a matter of detach and attach. Where is our attachment today? Secondly, by loving as Christ loved. His love is pure and selfless. The hardest thing for any person to do is to deny his selfish desires and offer his life as a sacrif

Love letter to my Jesus… All my teen and tween have gone Jesus.Twinkles have gone wrinkles have come.Am becoming old but not cold,Am not sad am glad that you’re in my life.Jesus its you holding my hand and guiding me thus far.In every hurdle and in dark times you were with me ,embracing me with your arms of love.Your unconditional sacrificial love(Agape) to this sinner is too marvelous and too generous (Jer31:3).I really cannot comprehend how much you love me.Your love is really extravagant.Jesus you’re my stronghold, my helper in trouble, my constant companion in times of loneliness, my refuge and my hiding place when threatened by enemies,my strength when am weak , my confidence when I am afraid.And you’re much more to me that I cant limit you in my words. Jesus I love to say always that you’re my everything.Sorry Jesus many times i went through slippery ground, but its your love that carried me through.Its your love that brought me back to you. I came to know you personally in my

Faith,fervency and faithfulness.. Faith in prayer It is looking beyond our possibilities. Christian walk is best understood as “a walk by faith and not by sight.” The Bible again and again portrays people who fashioned their lives by faith. Hebrews 11 is just a small list of millions who lived by faith. Do we have faith in God like those witnesses who gone before us? Do our prayers reflect the faith element? Situations may look impossible to us but truly it is Him-possible. Fervency in prayer Prayer is a deep sigh to God. Christ himself is our model in fervent prayers. His prayer in Gethsemane is one such – a Prayer offered at his breaking point. Most intense prayer comes when we are in the threshold of taking critical decisions. Oswald sanders says that prayer is a paradox – an agony and ecstasy in itself. It needs lot of fervency or in other words passion while praying. Are we really passionate to pray? It’s not a monotonous repetition of phrases. It’s a deep cry to God. Fait

I was contemplating on the topic blood in these recent days and thought to write on this. My sincere prayer is that God will meet with you as you read, reflect and respond to the below lines. Why blood we may think? It sounds weird, violent and sometimes even disturbs us too. We see the blood stain as we come across every day life. It may be human blood or an animal blood. What feel it gives to us as we look at blood? Some even faint by seeing the blood. In Hebrews 9 verse 11 onwards we see the blood of Christ. It’s too marvelous to contemplate how the precious blood of the lamb (here Christ as lamb) takes away the guilt of human conscience. Let’s take individual responsibility to understand and marvel at this truth. This shadows the OT practices of animal sacrifice as a sign of atonement which they do as an annual reminder for the remission of their sins. We read in Leviticus 23:12. Christ the perfect Lamb offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice. We read in Heb 10:14 “ because