Day: May 17, 2023

“The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out  by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them”.  Micah2:13

            The power of God is revealed through this promise. God is a barrier breaker( chain breaker), a strong hold destroyer and a way maker.Micha prophesied that Israel’s sins were going to bring God’s stern discipline upon them. This is a warning for us today.Sin brings judgement.But the good news of the Gospel is that our Heavenly Father would appoint a person to be the people’s king who” passes on before them”. This king would lead God’s people out of  captivity. We can call this king” the breaker—the one who opens the breach”. He will lead His army out from captivity.This is God’s promise of salvation for His people.

                  Sometimes we have to go through some challenging experiences. The king who breaks through and goes on before the people, is none other than the Lord Himself. What Micah prophesied hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ. He was born to set the captive free .”The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor: He hath sent  me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised”. Luke4:18

    The king , our leader goes ahead of us to remove the hurdles in our path. He has wisdom ,power and strength to remove the obstacles in our path.

“….Christ the power of God,and the wisdom of God “.  1Corinthians 1:24

He is both king and servant.He had walked the paths of suffering,leaving us an example.

       The opening of a door needs Faith.Jesus proclaimed Himself as the gate to everlasting life, the door to salvation.He is an over comer and expects us to be an over comer.Every difficulty or challenge is a gate or door that the Lord breaks open for us. “ Jesus saith unto him,I am the way the truth and the life:no man cometh unto the Father,but by me”. John 14:6

  _{We have to be patient. He will send His angels to help us, to break through in tight situations. We would be careful not to rely on the opinions of others or compromise with the world but to rely entirely on the promises of the Lord.}

          Father God give us wisdom, power and strength to endure the challenging experiences patiently and to rely only on your promises. I pray in Jesus name, Amen

Sol. Gigi Jacob

Understanding and submitting to the Perfect will of God

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24

What do we understand about crucifying our own passions and desires. Many times we have a big question in our lives what is the will or purpose of God in my life or am I leading my life as per God’s will.

The bible says in 1 John 5:14

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

In our prayers we have to identify whether I am praying as per the will of God or as per my will own will or desire to be fulfilled.

Some of us may think or quote the below verse and say I have not asked anything wrong or sinful to God.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:3

Our prayer maybe about good things and not evil things but all good things may not be the will of God in our lives. Without this understanding some times we move astray from God’s will and work on our own desire and sometimes feel frustrated and sad when these things  don’t happen the way we expected.

A bible teacher once quoted on how to find the will of God. When we have a good relationship with your husband or wife and spend more time with our partner we tend to know their will in the same way when we spend more time with Jesus and have a good relationship with Him we can understand the will of Jesus in our lives.

In my life when I was searching for a bride for my marriage I had a lot of confusions in mind since my marriage was getting delayed. I had the faith that God will lead me to the right person but had a tough time to find out who would that be.

A relative of mine guided me to submit myself completely to God’s will and let go of all my desires. I used to watch a lot of movies before my salvation and I had a lot of things in mind which was inside of me secretly desiring to want those. In the outer I had no much interest on that but inside my heart it was still there expecting me for those things to happen. I have attended a lot of weddings before and heard a lot of things about marriages which was there in my mind which lead me to a fix a criteria and to pray for that expect rather ask God what he wants.

When I understood this I submitted to the perfect will of God and crucified all my own desires. I wanted my wedding to be in a big church and to be in western style and I wanted all to boast how good all the arrangements were made. I wanted my wife to be of noble character but at the same time good looking. But when I submitted to the perfect will of God I let go of all these desires, crucified it in The Cross and asked The Lord please guide me the way you want my wedding to happen and I am letting all of my desires for you to take away from my heart. But to my surprise God gave me everything I previously desired for but the change is this time I didn’t want it happen yet God gave me. God always gives us the best in our lives but we should be careful that we may not always claim the blessings only to happen in our lives but to submit all our desires to God.

Whether you are buying a car, a house or even doing ministry or even daily things in your life always submit to God letting go of your own desires. God will guide you in the right way cause He is our Father and he knows what is best for our life. So how do we know we have let go of all our desires and submitted our selves to God’s will. When we dont have perfect inner peace we have not submitted to God’s will completely. When we die for our self and crucify all our desires we will have that perfect peace in us God will lead us according to His will. When we see a graveyard there will be a common word written on it. RIP (Rest in Peace). The same way if we die for our self we will have the same peace in and no unrest in our hearts.

When we take out all our own desires one by one and crucify it in The Cross there will be inner peace. And God will place His will in our hearts one by one when we take out ours one by one.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13

Sol.Leo