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Jesus said; "It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!" (Luke 17:1-4).

God has never promised that we will never go through hardship but to be with us when we pass through hardships. The Bible says: "When you pass through the waters, I shall be with you; when you pass through the rivers, they shall not overflow you; when you pass through the fire, you shall not be burnt nor shall the flame scorch". These are the three various levels of trials which we have to go through in our personal encounters in different facets. The first one is the minimum level of trials without much beneath flow but the second one is worse than the first but the third one is the worst experience.. however The Lord says, that He will take care of us in whatever the situation we are in even in the worst scenarios. .

Jesus here warns us that we are not spared from being offended. In other version it says; ‘it is impossible that the stumbling occasions should not come’ (ASV). In all these above passages we visualize that we will have to encounter with unfavorable situations such as criticism, challenges, allegations, adversities and false accusations etc. But Jesus said, rejoice when you are falsely accused for My sake; for greater is your reward in heaven! (Mathew 5:11).

Offense can be dangerous and can cause life long stigmas if we are careless and without much discerning. It can break up relationships and friendships and can even divide congregations. It may break the families apart if we do not handle them carefully. God wants us to be wise in all manner of conversations while interacting with people who are with different nature of temperaments, attitude and character.

Although we are the victims of offense in the past, yet many of us are not aware of defending ourselves from being offended. The Bible warns us to take enough precautions as the chances are higher for a child of God to be offended. Offense is considered to be an aggressive strategy by the devil to keep the child of God distracted from God rather than walking closer with Him.

The closer the relationships are, the deeper can be the wounds once offended. According to the Bible, offense is related as the hidden dangers or a hook of a fishing boy where in with the dangerous part of the hook is covered by the prey that attracts the fishes. Every child of God must carefully discern the very purpose behind the offense and the after effect of the same. The offense can cultivate unforgiveness and bitterness in our hearts which would ultimately destroy our personal relationship with our God the Father. (Mathew 6:14,15). If we are not right with men, we can not be right with God. Although many of us pretend to defend ourselves as though we are right with God, we find it hard to face the people who had offended or insulted us in the past.

Beloved, God is impartial and can not hate you because some one hates you. The enemy knows the divine Character of God although many times we fail to comprehend the knowledge of Satan about God’s Divine Character. The devil knows that if there is hatredness among the believers, God can not be pleased among them and He can not answer their prayers. The root cause of the divisions among the body of Christ and among the family members are due to the lack of our understanding the craftiness and the schemes of the enemy.

Offense is a well planned input by the devil which he uses to break up close relationships. Breaking closest relationships are always painful as a result it causes resents, grudges and bitterness and even dark spots in our hearts for years. (Psalms 55:12-14)It also would remain as a parasite in destroying our own spiritual life causing dryness and spiritual bankruptcy even with physical infirmities.

Offense can originate through the act of breach of trust or a word of insult or even a word which is spoken with different meaning or a different sense. It is hard to contain or tolerate when there is such an incident from the people whom we never expect to act so. Our words can harm a person and it also can heal a person. It may not take much time to harm a person but healing is a long time process as restoration is a must, which requires a longer period to work through.

In the passage given above, Jesus warns us that we have no exception from being offended but our attitude would determine the consequence. Jesus was offended several times by His own people. He was betrayed by His own friend. He was blasphemed by the Pharisees and they called Him "Samaritan"(John.8:48)! However, He was never stumbled by any of their schemes! He knew His betrayer earlier. However, He had never disclosed about His betrayer (Judas) to the other disciples! Oh! What a Divine Love! He also gives us the remedy to overcome the offense which is through forgiveness. He said, if your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If He repents, forgive him. This passage does not mean that we ought to forgive our brother only if when he repents.

The invisible attribute of God’s Forgiveness is the Forbearance and these both are interrelated. Forbearance is the determination to release Forgiveness in which we need to maintain the attitude as though our brother is not wrong. In Forbearance, we are the giver and in Forgiveness, our brother is the receiver. When Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled the requirement for the forgiveness of the whole mankind in which God maintains forbearance till the sinners turn to God through Christ. However, it becomes forgiveness in our life only when we accept our failures and believe on what Jesus did on the cross. In other word, forgiveness is an experience when we accept the death and the resurrection of Jesus!

We will not be able to accept others unless we discover and accept our own failures and short coming within ourselves. When we accept ourselves, it becomes easy for us to accept others as well. Like wise, God wants us to forgive one another as though it never happened or as though they had done no wrong in the past.(Rom.3:24-26). When we release forgiveness and God too would release forgiveness in which we are also forgiven.(Mat:6:12). My dear sisters and brothers, what is our attitude today against those who speak against us and who fabricate stories which are untrue? Jesus said, Father forgive them for they do not know what they do! Let us look unto Jesus for His Grace and Mercy.(Hebrew;12:2)

God has never promised to keep us away from hardships but to be with us when we pass through hardships. John knew the scripture and was aware that The Messiah is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He also knew that Jesus (Isaiah 61: 1) that Christ will set the captives free. However, John became doubtful about Christ, when He himself went through the same what he believed but not seeing the promise fulfilled in his life. Beloved, we too become confused when we don't see the miracles in what we preach about. Most of our prayers were answered by God at the early part of our faith life. However, we don't see many miracles as we grow spiritually closer with God. This does not mean that God never does miracles today but He delays in order to teach us His ways that we are not yet seen! When we pray for others, they are healed. But when we fall into sickness, we are not healed! Why does that happen to us? The bible says, Job 30:25, 26 did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Why does such thing happen to us? This is what happened to John while he was cast into into prison.

We do understand from Mathew 11:1-6 that John had an expected Jesus to set him free from the prison. While his expectation did not happen, he began doubting if he whom John baptized was Christ? While he sent the message to Jesus that if He is Christ or shall we wait for another, Jesus replied, directly to what he thought of Jesus from the Scripture and thus warning him that blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. God's great concern is not how we began our life or what we did in our past life but how we conclude our life. God does not want us to run the race longer or shorter than He has designed thus saying, I fought a good fight for the Lord this much of years. Let it be for a single message or let it be a day but let us be there where God has placed us. Many of us are running the race probably more or better than others. Remember, we are important to God more than our doings! But the question is about the track where God has placed us! Beloved, it is easy to light a lamp but to keep the light from being put out is expensive.

God does not want us to conquer the world in a way that will forfeit out eternity. He does not want to take up the challenges if God is not in it. God does not want us to start some thing if that would finally end up with our loss. There is nothing in the world that can compensate to our Privileges in heaven. We can not reach Heaven even if we win millions of souls except we remain focused on our target. For example, If one of us become lost of our child, the millions of children of this world will never become a substitution to our child and there is no alternate to our dearest ones. In the same manner, the bible says, we are the dear children of our Lord and if we become lost, there is no replacement for us in heaven rather, we will be eternally missing. The heaven will never be happy even if there are millions instead of you and me. The heaven will eternally miss you and me if we don't run the race on God's divine prompt. This is the reason why Jesus warns us that we shall not build up the house on the sandy land but upon the Rock. The branch we hold on will be shaken but the Rock we stand upon will never be shaken. For this is the Rock of ages!!

John the Baptist was sent to baptize Christ and he did so. He did introduce Christ to many who were around him. He left his traditional inheritance of being the son of a high priest. He left all his privileges of being brought up in the temple with his father Zachariah. God knew the sacrificial life of John while he was in the wilderness thus living a life in which he abstained from all unlawful practices so that he would be a sacred vessel like virgin Mary so that he would baptize Christ in due course of the appointed time. God does not want us to fall from the Grace for the sake of this worldly applause nor pleasures of this world. He wants us to be sustained in the faith till last moment so that we would glorify Christ even through our death. The bible says, Psalms 116:15; Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints

Beloved, Are you doubtful about your calling? are you at wavering as there is no answer for your prayers? Remember, if God remains silent, God has allowed it to happen in your life. However, He will look after your life when things may seemingly go wrong while you walk within the plan of God. He has a prime purpose concerning you and me. Although, John had preached the repentance, yet the prime calling about him was to introduce Christ to the public and to baptize Him at the river of Jordan. It does not matter whatever we do for the Lord before or after that period, God does not want us to miss that Prime calling. Oh! it is glorious! Let us look upon Christ and His submission to the complete will of His Father. He was tempted by the enemy not to hold Him back from healing the sick or from casting out the demons or from opening the blind eyes. But was tempted to prevent Him from laying down His Life on the cruel cross for the redemption of the human kind. Yes, The Bible says; He humbled Himself to the point of death even until the death on the Cross! (Philippians 2:8).The Prime and the crucial part of the Ministry of Christ was to be a sacrifice for us by laying down His life on the Cross. Satan never objected Christ in all that He had done except the crucifixion. Fer he knew, If Jesus dies, He will rise again. Dear brothers and sisters, when you are tempted, persecuted, objected, oppressed, the enemy knows you are fulfilling the Will of Your Father and in which he is going to loose but we are going to win.

Let us therefore not miss this target!! Let us look unto Jesus; The Bible says Hebrew 5:5-9;Christ, in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.

Posted on 15/04/07

The Bible says in the book of Hebrews 11:7; "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith".

When God planned to destroy the whole human kind from the face of the earth, He granted His favor upon Noah since he was found righteous before the eyes of the Lord. The Bible says; when Noah was warned by God of the things that were not yet seen, He made an Ark for his safety and his family. According to Genesis 6:11-16; God commanded Noah to make an ark by giving him the complete revelation about the same and how it had to be made. This implies that Noah may not have seen an ark until that day and that must be the reason why God gave him the complete details about the ark and its design.

We must carefully observe the plans of God concerning His children. The whole scriptures reveal the uniqueness of God’s plans, His election and His miracles.

God never repeats the method of doing things that He had done before. If Noah had a little knowledge about the ark prior to the revelation from God, He would have tried to drag it down to the waters for a "test drive" to see if it will balance upon the water. This is why God never allows us to see what is He going to accomplish through us ahead of its time. When man tries to discover something new, he always has the tendency of test drive in his mind.

"Test drive" is an important fact in the human methods as he wants to trust his products for the reliability and trustworthiness. This is the weakness of men in comparing to the matchless knowledge of God! The medicines that are newly discovered are tested in animals. The weapons for battles are test fired before their induction into the army. The ships, and the jets and all kinds of carriers and every product of men do undergo test drive or trials. When God wants us to do things as per His prompt, He does not require a test-trial from us rather He wants us to implement His Will and Purpose as it is! The Bible says; Mark 11:2, when Jesus asked two of His disciples to bring a colt; He specified that "the colt upon which no man had ever sat". This wonderful plan of God exhibits, that God does not require human training for what He has chosen! When Jesus turned the water into wine (John 2:6-9), He had never asked the servants to take a little wine for a sample taste. His works are Perfect and Accurate. He alone is excellent in counsel and mighty in deed. The Bible says: Romans 11:33-35; O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who hath been his counselor? Who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

Since the fall of Adam, Christ was the first person who walked upon this earth exercising the full power and authority that were given to Adam.(Gen;1:26-28). Jesus had the dominion over the fish and the sea. Jesus gave a great catch of fish when it was impossible for Peter to catch.(Luk.5:1-11). Jesus proved His Power by bringing the first fish to Peter’s hook while the Apostle had to pay his Tax.(Mathew 17:24-27). Christ proved His authority over fowls and birds while He kept every birds in Jerusalem quit until the cock that was supposed to crow to remind Peter’s denial of Christ.(Luke 22:60-61). Jesus proved His dominion as He rod into Jerusalem upon an untrained donkey. (Mark11:2.)

Beloved, are you experiencing uncertainty in your life? Remember, God always has new plans for us which are untold and unrevealed. His ways can not be comprehended by human understanding. There is a reason why He always keeps us away from reaching His divine plans before its ordained time. God does not want our little human knowledge to incorporate with His divine master plans. He knows our nature and remembers that we are weak vessels. But He always provides the best for us every day. The bible says: Hebrews 12:2,3: Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

All of us are anxious to know the Will of God about each one of us. Many of us try to do many things in the name of God and for His glory, contemplating as though "it is the Will of God". However, most of our doings end up with failures or disasters. What are the root causes of such failures? Some of us fail to comprehend the ways of God at this area. Let us examine what the Bible talks about the Will of God.

Jesus taught His disciples to pray; (Mathew 6: verse 10.) "Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven". When Jesus taught on this prayer, He knew about The Will of The Father concerning Himself that was planned in Heaven.. Jesus Knew His Ministry ahead of Him and always wanted to make sure that He walked within the plan of His Father. This is what the importance of pleasing God. In this regard, we will not be able to please men but God alone. People who are fully submissive to the voice of God and His Will always face difficult times to adjust to the human standard. There were number of occasions where Jesus was tempted by Satan to win the world without sufferings. But the bible says, He did overcome the strategies of the enemy as He discerned the voice and the hands of Lucifer behind the temptations. Jesus discerned the voice of the enemy even through Peter when he rebuked Jesus that he should not suffer. There were times when the chief priest sent the soldiers to lay their hands of him. Yet they could not touch Him as His time was not yet come to suffer but He slipped away from their hands. It was impossible for them to lay their hands on Him before the assigned time by His Father in Heaven! Once Jesus knew the people around him were planning to elect him as a King over Israel. However, He denied to be the King, for He knew the Will and Purpose of His Father that he must suffer and die for the sins of this world on the appointed time. He also knew that He will be nailed on the cross and will be resurrected from the death on the third day. He never sought to avoid what the Father had purposed in His Life.

Let us go to the garden of Gethsemane, and meditate upon the crucial moments that Jesus spent over there! It was indeed the painful battle between the death and the life. Yet He wanted to accomplish the Will of His Father at any cost, He cried out "Father if possible, take away this cup from me. But, not my will, let your will be done" .The Bible says; an angel was sent to strengthen Him so that he could endure the excruciating moments! Beloved, when we encounter with situations that are seemingly impossible for us to cross through, The Lord will charge His angels over us to withstand such situations!

The death of Christ was planned in Heaven in the ageless past eternity within the Godhead Body even before the foundation of this world (Rev:13:8). Jesus came to accomplish the purpose of His Father that was designed in Heaven. Yes, He was nailed on the cruel cross to die a miserable death for you and me. Even on the cross, He shouted victoriously; Father, Into Thy hands I commit my Spirit. His lifeless body was buried in a Tomb. But on the third day, He rose up from the death and lives forever. He knew all that were going to happen to Him ahead of the time. It was impossible for the corruption to touch His body.

Beloved, It does not matter what happens in your life while walking on the track where God has placed you. He will take care of all that happens in your life. This is what walking in the Will of God.

Although we are all eager to listen to the voice of God.. many times, we don’t hear him speaking to us. The reason we don’t hear Him is not that He cannot speak to us. He is the unchanging God who never changes as the world changes. God speaks today!! The only reason why we do not hear Him is only because we are not prepared to go reverse to our schedules and our determinations when He asks us to go. When we are prepared, we will start hearing him clearly speaking to us. God speaks to us through many ways.. but ultimately through His Word..

God wants us to be in a place where He can speak to us and thus we can hear Him speaking to us. When Jesus taught the prayer " Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven", He manifested the secret of God’s Will that God has already drafted about concerning all of us. The Bible says: Genesis 6:1-22.. When God commanded Noah to build up an ark for the safety of both Noah and family.. He revealed Noah about the size and the structure of the Ark. When Noah accomplished the work of ark according to the voice of God, God took control over all situation for such a long period without failures even while it floated on the water for many days. None of the living being lacked anything neither did any of them die in the Ark .The reason that sustained the Ark without any failures on the waters was because of the obedience to the voice of God. In other word, The Blue Print of Ark was already designed in heaven before it took shape. When God revealed the outline to Noah, He accomplished it without alteration and dilution to the direction given by God. This was the secret behind the protection of Noah and His family.

Again The Bible says Hebrew 9:23..it says, Moses accomplished the work of the Tabernacle which were the copies of the things in Heaven!!! God showed him the pattern of the Heavenly Tabernacle (Exodus 25:40 and exodus 26:30),He accomplished the same accordingly in the wilderness. (Exodus 40: 33 and 34) Then the glory, The Shekeniah and the cloud came and dwelt upon the Tabernacle. The Glory and The Cloud that remained above the Tabernacle controlled the movements of the people in the wilderness. Oh.. What a glorious experience it is when we are led by the presence of God!!! It does not matter who you are.. but it does matter where you are. The Bible says, God was with Joseph, while he was thrown in to the pit, while he was in slavery, in the prison and even in the palace. The Lord is an unchanging God!! (Malachi 3:6)

Beloved, had our life been built up according to the designated plan of God, our destiny would have been different from what we are today..!! He has already divinely planned the whole structure concerning our life upon this world. Are you anxious about your tomorrows? Is there some care about your needs that worrying you? Do you ask, how can these mountains go away from me? Can I come out of my financial crisis? Can I see a bright future? Yes my beloved, He can change your tomorrows into different from yesterdays! The Bible says; He is able to change the times and seasons (Daniel 2:21). He does not shift like the shifting of the shadows (James:1:17).And again it says, "yeah though I walk through death’s dark valley, yet I shall fear no evil, for Thou are with me" . Remember, While adjusting your life to voice of God in order to walk on The Divine Will and Purpose, He will take control over your needs, sickness and even on the time of our death...(Psalms116:15 and 68:20) and He will be responsible for your life.. And nothing shall exceed beyond your limits of tolerance.

The Lord has planned the outline (Shadows) of your life in heaven. Which we need to bring down in reality (substance) upon this earth while listening to His voice through His Word in our day today life.

The Bible says, Gospel according to John 13:7; What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this. This Jesus spoke while washing the feet of Peter, in response to his asking, Lord, are you washing my feet?

We all go through similar scenarios which we do not understand what the Lord is doing in our life or why He is allowing things which are contrary to our expectancy. The disciples did not understand many of the teachings of Christ until they received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

When God chose Saul as the first King of Israel (1Samuel 10:1), He led him out of his father’s house through the ways beyond his understanding. The Bible says; when his Father Kish lost the donkeys, he sent his son Saul along with a servant in search of the whereabouts of the missing donkeys. He kept on wandering for the lost donkeys for three days. (1Sam 9:5) When they came near the town called Zuph, Saul almost gave up his plan from continuing their journey, as their efforts became failure.

Saul was unable to comprehend what was ahead of him. He decided to give up searching for the lost but to return to his father, as he presumed his father is worried more about the missing son than the missing donkeys. He never knew as each day he passed, he was coming closer to his divine call! Finally, on the third day, he came to the city where God had designated for him to have the encounter with the Prophet Samuel. However, he some how wanted to give up as he experienced discomfort which prompted him to return to his father as he was not aware about what was awaiting ahead of him.

Beloved, many times we too feel being fed up and frustrated when there is no answer for our prayers. When all our efforts become failure, we might even think that our patience is being tested we are pushed to the borderline where we don’t see the sign of hope. Remember, God may allow us being fed up for a while to hold us back from going further so that He could turn you to the right destination. The Bible says, whenever you turn to the right hand or turn to the left hand, your ears shall hear a word from behind you saying, this is the way walk in it(Isaiah 30:21). We may not know how close we are to the Divine plan of God and therefore He puts us on hold from moving further. However, we feel always comfortable as long as we are in the plan of God despite being longer and hectic our journey is. But feel always empty and guilty when we take one step further contrary to the plan of God. In such scenarios, The Lord is not asking us to return all the way back to our origin but to where we lost our comfort and peace with The Lord. In other word, let us return to from where became off tracked.

The Lord allowed Saul to experience the discomfort not because as he went further in search of the lost Asses or he went far away from his own father. Of course he came out of his home in search of the missing animals. There was a divine purpose that he was brought out for! And God never wanted to disclose to him about the purpose prior to its fulfillment. Although Saul was sent to restore or reclaim what they lost, he did not return home as he went but returned as the King of Israel. Now, Soul would not have been even worried, had not found the lost Asses! He would have been worried had he not listened to his servant. Beloved, God wants us to have an ear of listening and the heart of understanding. For God speaks to us through different ways. Many of us keep struggling to reclaim what we lost in the past but may know not why it happens to us. We might even think, where is God when I lost my belonging? Yes, He may allow the crisis in various aspects to bring us out from our comfortable Zone to reveal His Divine plans to beyond what we could describe. My dear brothers and sisters, He knows our tomorrows. The Bible says; Let not your hearts be troubled but rejoice in the Lord always and give thanks in all circumstances. Remember, Jesus who rose up from the death is seated over the throne of Grace. (Hebrew 4:16). As long as Christ is seated over the Throne of Grace, He shall turn all our problems into all right.

On the first day of the week Mary, the mother of Jesus and the others went to the tomb of Christ seeking His body. The Bible says according to the book of Mark 16:1-4 and Luke 24:1-4, these women were concerned about how to get into the tomb as they knew there was a huge stone laid at the mouth of the tomb where His body was laid. Although, they had love and sympathy towards Christ, yet they were greatly perplexed, as they did not find the body of Jesus. The Bible says, God sent two angels to the women who were searching the body of Christ at the tomb and asking them, why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here,but He is risen!

Jesus had never delegated anyone to go to the tomb and confirm His resurrection on the third day i.e., on the first day of the week. What had then caused these women (including the mother of Jesus) to go the tomb early on the first day of the week? Remember, God never leads us into the wrong place nor does He move without a divine purpose or Plan. The voice of angels were not their own but from God! The angel of God is never allowed to speak from his own but to carry out the message from God whom he worships in Heaven. It is clearly seen from the scripture that these women were not prompted by the Holy Spirit but were led by their tradition. The Leading of the Holy spirit and the leading of the tradition are entirely different. The power of the tradition is strictly based on the footprints of the ancestors or forefathers but the power of The Holy spirit is strictly based on the Promises of God. Jesus said, when the Holy spirit has come, He will not speak on His own authority but He will take of what is mine and declare it to you (John 16: 13,14).

The Traditions are the methodologies of following the footprints of the ancestors in which once we chose to sit where the ancestors sat. And we chose to eat what they ate. We chose to pray where they stood and prayed and whom did they prayed to. We preferred to drink what they drunk and always chose to bow down to where they bowed down and whom they worshipped. The Bible says, Ephesians 2:2; we once walked according to the patterns of this world. These practices of following the footprints of the ancestors will end up in their tomb. But remember, The Holy Spirit will never take us to the dead nor to the tomb but to the Resurrected Christ! This is what the difference between following the footprints of the ancestors and the Guidance by the Holy Spirit! The foundation of Christianity is not based upon the Empty tomb but upon the risen Saviour! It was His Resurrection that caused the empty tomb but not the empty tomb that caused His resurrection! For it was impossible for the death to hold Him (Acts 2: 27). The scripture reveals that when you walk under the shadow of This Almighty, no matter if thousand fall on your side and when ten thousands fall on your right hand, The Lord shall uphold you.For He has inscribed you in His palms Isaiah 49:16.

The only power that is able to set us free from the power of tradition is the power of the blood of the Lamb.1Peter 1: 18 and 19. Although The mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and Salome had their affection and sympathy towards Jesus and His suffering, they were led to the wrong place in search of the right person. Because Christ was already risen from the dead at that time! Had they gone to see the risen Saviour, they would not have carried the spices to anoint the body of Jesus or had they believed the words of Christ, they would not have gone to the tomb in search of the body of Jesus. It was the Jewish tradition or custom that led them to the Tomb. It is sad to see that the tradition still prevails upon the Christians and even upon the born again believers too. The Bible says in the book John 8: 31-36 in those Jews who believed on Jesus were under the bondage of tradition. Jesus warns us that it is not the background of a person makes him eligible to the Kingdom of God but our faith in the death and the resurrection of the Son of Most High!

My Dear Brothers and sisters, are you bound to the tradition today even after being born again? Are there any areas in your life still dominated by the power of tradition? Remember, traditions are the strategies, which the enemy has wisely planted into your life with his subtlety, which are seemed to be spiritual but tragic. When the Israelites were led out of Egypt into the land of Canaan, God had an easiest way for them to reach the Promised Land, which was the incoming root of their ancestors from Canaan into Egypt . God always takes us through the ways that are unknown to the human understanding. They did never have to ask any one to find their way to Canaan although they had not been through that way before. The prime reason was, They were led out of Egypt through the covenant and promise of Passover. The Lord strictly commanded them to sprinkle the blood of the lamb over the lintel and upon the two doorposts. (Exodus 12:7) What you see out of the blood mark from the lintel on the top and both the doorposts by the side, is the sign of the cross which was the symbol and the shadow of the cross of Christ! Yes, if you are led out from the shadow of the cross, remember, there is nothing can confuse you nor misguide you in your life. There is no power that can conquer you while He is on your side. Let us therefore cling on to the promise of God and consider the old rugged cross upon which Jesus took our shame and our reproach and upon which He carried our sorrows and pains and all our allegations and our infirmities and sickness and disease! (Mathew 8:17).Thus He has liberated us from the power of darkness and from the power of tradition and brought us into the Kingdom of God through the power of His Resurrection.

Posted on 15/04/07

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We must carefully observe the plans of God concerning His children. The whole scriptures reveal the uniqueness of God’s plans, His election and His miracles.