Stay with God at all times...

Stay closer to God at all times.Our relation with Christ should not be spasmodic.

We should give cardinal importance for Christ in our lives.Its common that when things are going bad we will get closer to God and when every thing is all right we might forget him.We are supposed to trust 'more' in him,at the days of our happiness.

How can we get closer to Him??

Christ came to this world and showed us a perfect archetype.So we have to live a life worthy of our Caller.We have to set an example to others through our life...

Be zealous to seek His face.The best way to seek him is to fast.What a true fasting should be is given in Isaiah 58.We should not fast for our material benifits.We should fast only for our spiritual life and to stay with Him.In Mathew 9:15, He says " A time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them;then they will fast".

Most of us will check our email messages every day.But are we consistent in checking the messages given to us by God through the Bible??

In most of the times,satan deceives us through our thoughts.So always spurn over all the bad thoughts coming to our mind at that instant itself..

2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.(KJV)

Pray to Him and He will give us Holyspirit who will help us in everything we do and also to get more and more closer to Him.Then we can boldly say

"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME"

Remember when we try to get closer to Him,He will also get closer to us.I am sharing this from my life experiences...

Psalm 23 for the students

Psalm 23 for the students is actually written by Prof Sam Skariah,Vice Principal,Wilson College,Mumbai,India.I'm just posting it because i think it will be very useful for the students.

Psalms 23
[For the students]

The Lord is my real mentor, and I shall not want.
He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me
He gently reminds me to pray and do all things without murmuring and complaining.
He reminds me that he is the source of my ability
He restores my sanity everyday and guides my decisions that I might honor him in all that I do.
Even though I face deadlines for my submissions, pocket money cuts, gossiping friends, discriminating teachers, non cooperative bus drivers
Still I rejoice in the lord!
For he is with me! His presence, His Peace and His power will see me through
He raises me up, even when my teachers don’t promote me
He claims me as his own, even when the college threatens me to let me go.
His faithfulness and love is better than any college awards
His placement plans beats the best placement plan any company can offer!
When it’s all said and done, I’ll be working for him a whole
Lot longer and for that
I BLESS HIS NAME!!!

Fruit and Gifts of the Spirit

What is the fruit of the Holy Spirit?
What are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Fruit of the spirit is love,joy,peace,patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness,gentleness and self control.[Galatians 5:22]
Gifts of the spirit are written in 1 Corintians 12[v 1-11].9 gifts are mentioned there.

Look at the difference between gifts and fruit.9 things are mentioned in both.But the fruit is a singular term and gifts are plural.It means one should have all the nine qualities in order to say that he has the fruit of spirit.

Gifts are from god.Its given by god as he determines[1 cor 12:11].But one has to possess all the 9 fruit of the sprit mentioned above.Because in John 15:2 he says
"he cuts off every branch that bear no fruit,while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be more fruitful"
So fruit of the spirit is more important than the gifts of the spirit because gifts are from god given to us only when he wishes and fruit is the one which we are supposed to possess .

So if we claim to be a christian,WE MUST BEAR FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

DO NOT WORSHIP GOD FOR MATERIAL BENIFITS

In these days most of the christians are worshiping God for material benifits like healing,deliverance,for better life ...etc.
Are we supposed to do that??
If we are doing that,what is the difference between us and a nonbeliver,who works for the nourishment of his life?A nonbeliever works for his material needs.By worshiping god ,in these days,we are indirectly having an intension of getting a material blessing.

But we can have spiritual blessing because it will reduce the distance between us and God.
We should worship him because he is the only one who is WORTHY TO BE PRAISED.And of course he'll give us material blessing.That's his part.He'll do it.

Mathew 5:46 says"If you love those who love you,what reward will you get?Are not even tax collectors doing that?"
So we should have a difference from a nonbeliever.

Worship him,expecting spiritual blessings only....

Intresting sms

Yesterday, I got an sms from one of my friend it was like this:

A professor told that Every thing in this universe was created by God;so evil was also created by God.

After a moment of silence a student replied
There is nothing called cold;Its the only the absence of Heat,
there is nothing like darkness;Its actually the absence of Light,
Similarly Evil does not exist;Its actually the absence of Love,Faith and True belief in God

Its really inspiring........

About Berea[Acts 17:10]

I want to show a fact about Bereans.In Acts 17:10,11

"Now the Bereans were of more noble characters than the Thessalonians,for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures everyday to see if what Paul said was true"

By this act of Bereans , Holy spirit was satisfied.And Holy spirit is telling us that we can satisfy him by the same act.
That is rethinking and examining the scripture portion we heard.

My testimony:IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN GOD THAN TO DEPEND ON HUMANS

At that time,i was doing my 12th standard education in united arab emirates[UAE].

Some of the subjects were very tough.especially chemistry.really tough[for me].
except me and one guy,all the students were having tuitions for many subjects.

after a terminal exam i got really bad marks.
I failed!!!

So i decided to go for tuition for chemistry.i enquired about tuition sir to my friend.
that night i prayed to god about this,my poor marks,and my situation.
after praying i opened my bible
i got this verse
IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN GOD THAN TO DEPEND ON HUMANS
i really got amazed by this scripture portion.i understood that god wants me to depend on him.so i dropped my plan of going for tuition.

God really strenghtened me when i was weak..
days passed...
same exam result..bad marks..
But i got more and more closer to god after exams..because of my bad results..
i was confident in god.
pre board exam came..still bad marks..
i was really crushed by my feelings those days .i cried more and more to lord..
My board exam came..
On the chemistry exam day morning i was not happy and confident about my studies.i went to write exam.my Mom and some aunties from our church prayed for me while i was writing the exam..
I FELT LIKE WRITING A SIMPLE FIRST STANDARD QUESTION PAPER.
I thanked god so much while i was writing my chem paper.
i was greatly relieved.

my exams got over.i was so sure that i will get 100% for chemistry..
i came back to india to appear for my entrance exam.it was also good.
BUT after the exams my routine got changed.
early morning i'll go for playing,and return for lunch.again at evening playng till sun set,come back getting really tired.
before some months i will take 2 hours for praying.but that time got reduced to an hour,30 min,5 min,1 min,and some day i didnt even pray because i was very tired.
at the day before my result got published,i really prayed to god for hours..
results came..i was shocked..i got only 62% for chemistry.i got better marks for other subjects.for this subject i got the least mark..
i understood that it was gods plan because i was away from god after my exams..how else could i get 62% instead of 100%.i really expected 100%.
but that mark didnt affect my future because i got admission through entrance exam for electronics and communication..

i understood one thing
whether the situation is good or bad,we have to be closer and closer to GOD.........

PROMISE OF GOD WILL NEVER FADE...

Some days back i went to ATM to take money.I was standing in a queue.i saw an old lady sitting at the steps of that ATM centre.i looked at her,she gave me a feeble look.She was really tired.my mind was moved seeing her pathetic condition.She was not a beggar.A beggar will ask money to everyone.she was sitting there quitely.
As the queue was moving i got closer to her.when i got near her she told "Can you give me some money to have food,i didn't had anything".
i took my purse and took a 20 Rs note and gave it to her.i took my food before 2-3 hours.But she.. she was starving for many hours ....i don't know.But she looks really tired.
she only asked me for the money and not to any one else. I don't know why...
That night i prayed to god and i cried for her,for her pathetic situation.
i cried so much to lord.
There are so many people like this around me..But what can i do??
I cant help all of them giving money because its not my money i'm using but my parents' money.I am not earning anything..because i'm still a student..

That day i decided to do something to the poor people around me.
I prayed to god about this.Suddenly i remembered a promise God gave me some years back..that my family will become a missionary family and we'll do help poor people..He is really caring me and know my thoughts..
Thank You my Father in heaven....for such a promise...

I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU

Today i played badminton...
since i am not a good player no body wants to play with me..
i feel really depressed..when i came back i was really desperate,but lord strengthened me by reminding the verse 'i will never leave you nor forsake you'
Friends and family will not be there for us always.Situations will come when we'll be really left alone..But my heavenly father will be there with me always..

CHRISTIAN LIFE-A bed of roses???

No,absolutely not..
dont think that if we lead a christian life, we wont be having any problems..

If we turned to God from our sinful ways,satan will try tempting us to turn back to the old ways. Satan's failure occurs when we live according to Christ.
God will not tempt us..Satan is the only one who will tempt us.
But God will give us trials to bring us closer and closer to God.

God wants us to be closer to him at all situations,whether it is a good time or bad time.
We humans have a problem,in our difficult situation we'll be closer to God but when we are happy or when we dont have any problem we wont be closer to God.

No,God wants us to be closer to him at all times........

"If anyone would come after me,he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me"

i have found this verse in three places in the bible
1)Mathew 16:24
2)Luke 9:23
3)Luke 14:27

In Mathew Jesus said this to his disciples.
In Luke 9 it is written "then He said to them all:"
In Luke 14 He said this to a large crowd[verse 25].

So He said this to all type of people.This is what He wants us to do.
He didnt force anyone to follow Him but he told 'if any one would.......'
Are we living according to His desires??
Are we faithful to Him?
Are we just Christian or any thing more than that??

We do have to follow him because he gave His life for us.......

One person with Christ is not a minority but its the majority

Sometimes situation will come where there wont be anyone with us if we decide to stand for Christ.Don't look at the human face but look unto the lord he'll help you because we stand for him.......

If we are taking a step for Christ,don't worry He'll be with us.
He will always be there helping us...
for that he gave us a counsellor "HOLY SPIRIT"
He will comfort us in all the difficult situation.He will guide us always through the right path.