Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dare to enter the inner journey of our master


In Mark 2:17 Jesus says I have come to call the sinner. Actually the sinner needs no qualification to receive grace and healing. It is a free gift. But it is so different with the one who brings that grace and healing to the sinner. Jesus goes through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the 40 day fast and temptation in the dessert and only then brings healing and forgiveness of sin to others.

No wonder there is so much powerlessness in the Christian world today. We all want to see miracles without entering the inner journey of our Master that would automatically release this power through our lives.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How does one create a miracle opportunity for God to act?



It seems to be that when we follow the leading of the Gospel concerning life, then we create an opportunity for God to act. The leading of the Gospel is summed up in the verse from the book of Isaiah.

"and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings".
(Isaiah 58:10 -12)


But the question is how can we care about the poor when we are lost in the struggles and desires of our own needs? We have to meet the one who gave His life for us; The one who became poor to make us rich.

This encounter with Jesus Christ makes us loved and cared for enough to be inspired to abandon ourselves into His hands and His mission of loving, seeking and saving the lost.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Open the eyes of my heart Lord!


As I was praying this morning the Lord was teaching me of the darkness that surrounds us in the world we live in. We so easily fit into it and begin to think and feel like others do and even worse go back to our sinful past nature. How can we escape it? The Lord speaks to people as He came out of the desert at the beginning of the ministry and says, "repent, for the kingdom of God is near you".


That means heaven and the Kingdom of God is a parallel world that is right now amongst us! All we have to do is to repent of our sin, and offer the truth of what is happening in our hearts to the Lord in the second step. Suddenly, the inner eyes of the spirit are opened by the Spirit of God, and we see and feel the presence of Jesus in us and all around us! How do we know when this happens? The fruits of the flesh as mentioned in Galatians 5 such as anger, lust, resentment, revenge, fear and insecurity is replaced by the fruits of the Spirit as mentioned in Galatians 5:22, the peace, love and joy of God moves in us, and are hearts sing and dance to the now visible tunes of joy come from the kingdom of God!

May this become real in your life too.