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You have been justified and called righteous by God. And no man can point at you and bring you down. When God Himself has spoken these words, why do you condemn yourself for the wrong you did? Yes! Repent and turn. We have been called even before the foundation of this world. It’s God who chose us, and eventually In the course of time we go running to Jesus. And no man, no power, can separate us from His great fathomless love. If God is for us, who can be against us? Always keep in mind and never forget, God is for us, God is with us and God is in us!

Even while Paul was facing trials, no man could find fault with him and condemn him. Even Jesus was not found guilty. He Himself gave up for us so that God could make us righteous! Wow! How boldly we can go to Him at His throne of grace!
No man pointing fingers but just His wide stretched arms at the throne of Grace inviting you and me to Him! What a great privilege and honour we have which all of us should take advantage of !The perfect Father to His perfect children.
– Sara

This LOVE is about the amazing love of God for us(1Cor 13).
Very recently I came across a quote “DON’T JUDGE SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY SIN DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU DO”. Beautiful and so true.
I have come across many people who do exactly this. After listening to their ‘Judgements’ on others, my mind gets a clear picture of who they really are. I know many people who praise, worship and easily judge other people. I have one question for them… Does your conscience prick you when you sin? If not, you need to be on your knees!! Or have you taken the grace of God in your life as a license to sin?
If we love God , we will love others with their wrongs and repeated mistakes. It works vice-versa too.
Let me tell you one thing – NOBODY is perfect without Jesus!!

The Bible says , “Love keeps no record of wrongs”. My dear ones, if you want to love and please God, watch your tongue! Your tongue can either ruin or build you and your generations. Your life might seem perfect now but wait! …You want to enjoy a peaceful life? You want to see your generations blessed? WATCH YOUR TONGUE!! It’s very easy to say what you want but a wise person will use his/her tongue wisely because the Bible says ‘you will eat the fruit of your mouth’.

Do you want to know if you have a good heart? Then Listen to your OWN words. The Bible says, ‘out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks’. You can know it by the fruit that comes from you. If you are always judging and discussing other people’s mistakes and how they don’t do things your way, let me tell you one thing – YOU urgently need God’s help!!
GET UP FROM THAT JUDGEMENT SEAT COZ ONLY GOD DESERVES THAT PLACE!!

A person thinking and doing differently from you doesn’t mean that he or she is wrong . If you can’t accept that, you need to change and have a heart big enough to accommodate them. You are trying to hide your mistakes by pointing at the speck in the other person’s eyes. I can assure you one thing – ask Jesus to heal your hurts and forgive your sins and the Holy Spirit will help you love others and overlook their sins. He will surely help you love others with their shortcomings. Jesus can help us coz He loves us with our weaknesses. He didn’t come to love HOLY people. He came for sinners . If Jesus could come down for us , let us get up from our ‘I AM PERFECT’ seats and love that person who has hurt us and be a blessing to them. Let’s forgive others EVERYDAY and live a life of Love. Live to love coz Jesus loves you !

P.S – This was not written because I am perfect but because only Jesus is.

– Raunaq & Sara

Fasting, our ‘feasting’ time!

When satan tempted Jesus asking Him to make bread out of stone after His forty days of fast, Jesus answered: “it is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ “(Matthew 4:4 )

Yes, for forty days Jesus was actually ‘feasting’ on the Words that proceeded from the mouth of the Heavenly Father! Even though His outward man was not eating for forty days, His real inner man was feasting on the Words of God!
We who are born through the Word and Spirit of the same Father God, can live an overflowing and radiant life, just like Jesus lived on this earth, by being fed on the same Words that proceed from God towards each one of us personally all the time!
Jesus defeated the devil with the knowledge of the written Word, but lived the extraordinary life by being fed on the Words that were proceeding out of the mouth of God! We must

learn the written Word thoroughly so that we can stand against the wiles of the enemy. Jesus once said: “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures ( written Word)or the power of God.”(Matthew 22:29)

But this knowledge of the Scriptures alone cannot bring life in us. We have to hear and receive into our spirits the life giving ‘Rhema ‘ word which is the food of the inner man! “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”(John 6:63 ). In this verse Jesus is using the present tense, which means that He speaks to us all the time. Let’s listen to Him. Inorder to listen, let’s sit with Jesus just like He sat with the Father during His fast and also everyday early in the morning. He taught us to pray: ‘ give us our daily bread ‘!

Yes dear ones, we have our bread delivered to us daily; not weekly nor just on Sundays.
We never forget to feed our stomachs thrice daily and our minds with loads of information; but many a times our real personality, the inner man- the born again spirit is starving even though the feast is ready all the time!

– Dr. Thomas Abraham
( Thomaskutty brother)

PRAYER is not begging unto God, but an invitation by God almighty, to fellowship with HIM with the help of the Holy Spirit who searches the deep things of God and reveals it into our hearts. Prayer is a weapon by which a believer takes authority over every circumstances and situations in love. Let us be filled with all the fullness of God and walk as men and women full of power and faith. As we pick the weapon of prayer, we must also pick up and activate our weapon of fasting. Prayer and Fasting work together to penetrate – to breakthrough – the resistance that the enemy had built Fasting strengthens and intensifies our prayers. As we fast and pray before God, we will be able to claim victory and breakthrough over every circumstances. The fasting that God honors is the fast that begins with the attitude of heart, turning unto HIM with total surrender and humbling ourselves. Fasting is not simply a matter of not eating for a specific time but it involves humbling ourselves before God with a fruit of repentance that we walk in the perfect will of God ,loving HIM blamelessly and walking worthy of HIM and loving HIM unconditionally. As we prepare for the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we must first set aside our minds and hearts to set aside times to pray and fast and turn away from everything that is displeasing to God. We might be doing many things for God but what God needs is us to be in HIS presence, loving HIM and serving HIM.
Bless you all in Jesus name.

Tangu Brother

Jesus was on the most important mission of His existence, carrying His sacred sacrificial blood to the Father for the eternal redemption of mankind.It was for the remission of sins of all mankind from the past, the present and the future including ours.
And there she was, a woman,in the middle of the night who was crazy enough to go out at that time, not searching for Jesus, but His body.She was soo much in LOVE with Him that she wanted to see Him even in that state. But the tomb was empty. Her heart broke, she didn’t realise that He rose again.
“Why are you weeping woman?Whom are you seeking?”, she heard a voice from the back.She thought it was the Gardener.She asked him if she could have the body of Jesus if he had taken it.
It was Jesus Christ Himself who had asked her.
There He was, carrying His sacrificial blood.He was going to ascend to his Father and His God now. And there is this woman who was clinging on to Him with her LOVE, stopping Him from going to the Father. You can read the rest in John Chapter 20.

The only thing that can make Jesus stop is your Love for Him. Jesus was on His most important task but even then, He stopped for someone He loved. Even today, He is the same Jesus who will come running to you if you say, ‘I love you Jesus.’ Cling on to Him, make Him your own with your Love . He never wanted to be the founder of any Religion or wanted a God-devotee relationship.He just wants fellowship and Love from you and me.
How many are ready to stop Him and keep Him with your love? – Raunaq &Sara

If you go through the Bible there are over 5000 promises which are ours as children of God . Each promise which are God’s direct words for you and me are operational all the days of our lives when we trust and spend time in His presence. Since we have Jesus as the Lord of our lives, or have him as our chief Shepherd leading us, we have become His Responsibility for the Glory of God. Even though we may not know these 5000 plus promises, each one of them is Yes and Amen for us as Jesus is our Lord.

“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.”(‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭1:20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ ).
The following verses in Psalm 91 are few of those promises which we can reflect upon on a daily basis. These are Absolute Truths that are operational for us.

Psalm‬ 91‬( ‭MSG‬‬) –
“You who sit down in the High God’s presence, spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow, say this: “GOD, you’re my refuge. I trust in You and I’m safe!” That’s right—He rescues you from hidden traps, shields you from deadly hazards. His huge outstretched arms protect you— under them you’re perfectly safe; His arms fend off all harm. Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night, not flying arrows in the day, Not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon. Even though others succumb all around, drop like flies right and left, no harm will even graze you. You’ll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance, watch the wicked turn into corpses. Yes, because GOD ’s your refuge, the High God your very own home, Evil can’t get close to you, harm can’t get through the door. He ordered his angels to guard you wherever you go. If you stumble, they’ll catch you; their job is to keep you from falling. You’ll walk unharmed among lions and snakes, and kick young lions and serpents from the path.

“If you’ll hold on to me for dear life,” says GOD, “I’ll get you out of any trouble. I’ll give you the best care if you’ll only get to know and trust me. Call me and I’ll answer, be at your side in bad times; I’ll rescue you, then throw you a party. I’ll give you a long life, give you a long drink of salvation!””
Hallelujah!! What more can we ask for?
So, Don’t Worry…

…He’s got your back, you are safe!!

– Raunaq & Sara.

Everything happens for the good of those who love the Lord.

Some times things don’t go according to our plan, but it goes according to the plan of our Heavenly Father.

Sometimes the Father lets certain things happen in our lives. It doesn’t mean that He is trying to hurt us. No! He is our loving Father and just as no earthly father would want any bad thing to happen to their children, our Father in Heaven who lavishes His love on us does only good. When circumstances come, He is teaching us certain lessons from it and when others face difficulties we will be able to understand them deeply. When Jesus walked on this earth ? He had faced many trials and temptations . So when we are going through them, He understands our feelings and will help us overcome it.

What we need to do is, proclaim the word of God! It is living and will create. Speak as you believe.I believe therefore I spoke(2 Cor 4.13). We have received the same Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit.

When God started speaking, He said, let there be light! Today the same Spirit is living in you. Nothing will happen until you speak. As we grow in Christ, we will grow in all things- Spiritually and worldly.

When we say it out loud , our faith will increase as our mind itself is listening to what we are saying. Devil does not know the thoughts going on in our head.It is only when we say it,that he knows it. So proclaim the word of God out loud and let him know who the boss is! But as for Jesus,He knows our every thought and even our slightest heartbeat. Jesus knows our heart more than anyone else in this world.
So don’t regret and be sad of your mistakes but press forward as Paul says, trusting our Father, who works everything( even your mistakes) for your good.

– Sara & Raunaq

Romans 3:24 also tells us that His righteousness is free and we received it by grace. Ephesians 3:23 & 24 say, ” and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” Here, verse 24 says that our inner man (the new man) is just like God . Now only our minds need to be renewed. God is righteous and we were created by God in righteousness and holiness. In John 17, Jesus prays to the Father saying that He has given us His glory. Jesus has given it to us and when we believe it, we receive it. We are beholding His glory here on earth and representing God. God transformed us who were sinners, to be carriers of His glory. So, now we are not mere men but men who carry God inside us. We metamorphosed from a sinner to a carrier of God because of His righteousness.

Romans 4 is all about the righteousness that Abraham received from God. How did Abraham become righteous? He believed God’s Word and that was credited to him as righteousness. Romans 4:16,17 says, “Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;”. The Word that God gave Abraham did not agree with Abraham’s situation but he believed that God was still able to fulfill His promise and that faith was credited to him as righteousness. He hoped against hope and did not believe in his circumstances. He was so sure that if God has said it , it will happen! That is the confidence a righteous person has.His focus was on what God said. He did not consider anything else. Romans 4:25 says that Jesus rose again for our justification.

God has justified us and made us members of His household. Now we who are made righteous should live in the liberty that a child has in his father’s house – we should be righteous-minded. We have received a Spirit of sonship that calls Him, Abba Father! Romans 10:10 says, ” For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Romans 8:30 says,”Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”
God has predestined us, justified us and has given us His glory so that He could prove to the world who the righteous are! Let us be righteous-minded and keep in step with the Holy Spirit and God will demonstrate His glory through us to the whole world and the world will know that Jesus is alive through us the righteous ones of God ! !

– Tangu Bro

God loves a thankful heart. When Jesus fed the 5000 people with bread and fish, he did not look into the small portion of 5 loaves. Instead he gave thanks for the small portions and then the miracle happened. It multiplied, feeding the thousands who were hungry.
If Jesus who came from the bosom of the Father gave thanks, how much more should we!

When thanks arise from our hearts.,there is no pride or ego inside of us. We are submitting ourselves completely to Him. We are letting go. And His grace is sufficient for us in the time of weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)

It is said in the bible , Do not be anxious of anything, but in every situation, by prayer, and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to god. (Philippines 4:6) be it any situation, always be thankful. Miracle is sure to happen.
Thanking God pleases Him.

When you feel that you don’t know what to pray and how to pray,look into your daily life. Imagine- you woke up this morning healthy and happy, you have food on your table, you have shelter above your head. How much more grateful can you be.

I’m sure He will bless you even more when thanks arise from your lips. It’s my personal testimony.

From the smallest to your biggest needs.. He knows.. the things you’ve taken for granted, it’s not taken for granted by the Lord. He makes sure it’ll be done. If Jesus won’t do it for us His children, then to whom would He do it for?

Whatever may be the situation, Jesus will do it. And if you think it’s delayed, thank God it is. Because only good will happen to those who love Him(Romans 8:28). Our Father in heaven does only good to His children and only wants to do us good . So, with a thankful heart, present your request to God. He knows your heart more than anybody else in this world. He is our loving Father. Trust in Him!

– Sara Mathew

Romans 3:21 says,” But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,…”. In the Old Testament, the laws had to be obeyed from A to Z in order to make a man righteous. And Deuteronomy 28 says that only a person who obeyed the Law fully would be blessed. None other than Jesus could obey the whole Law and fulfill them. But what a beautiful provision God made for us ;now when we believe in Jesus, all those blessings come to our lives freely through Christ. Further down, Romans 8:3,4 says, ” For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

It says, that what the Law could not do, God did for us. How did God do it for us? He did it by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh for our sins. Jesus became sin for us that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us . And it is fulfilled in us, when we keep in step with the Holy Spirit and not according to the flesh. The righteous requirement of the Law was to obey the Law fully and now a person who believes in Jesus and who is led by the Holy Spirit has this requirement fulfilled in him. Righteousness came as a gift from God.

Let’s read Romans 2:4 where it says ,” Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” which means that the riches of God’s goodness always leads us to repentance. When Jesus gave Peter a humongous catch of fish that overloaded 2 boats, it led to repentance in Peter. He didn’t go after the catch, but instead fell at Jesus’ knees and cried out,”Depart from me, for I am a sinful man , O Lord!” This shows that as God’s goodness in us abounds, the more it leads us to repentance.We are not blessed because we are good, but because He is good.

– Tangu Bro
(to be continued…)