Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. 

Jer 33:6

On 08.12.2019, the Lord spoke the above verse to the Church in India.

The Church in India is spread across from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Thanks to the mercies and benevolence of the Lord, He raised many pastors and evangelists in nation for the past 25 years. They worked hard and churches have been established throughout India, from head to toe, from South to North, from East to West, in all the States.

The then position of the Church in India was shown by two examples.

 ‘From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.’ Isa 1:6

1. Church in India was compared to a human body. It was the Body of Jesus Christ, but it was full of sores. The Lord examined it and healed it.
2. The Church in India was compared to a building. In 0 A.D., Holy Spirit started building it on the foundation of ‘Jesus Christ’. For the past 2019 years, starting from the Apostles, Paul and others have on it. Innumerable people have worked on it. In this generation we are recruited for the same.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 1Co 3:10 
‘Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 
each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 1Co 3:12,13

For the Indian Church from 2014 are the days “fire test’.
The material with which each one has built, is exposed to fire test . Those portions built with worthless materials are to be demolished and removed from the building. Those portions built with straw and hay will be burnt with fire. Those Churches built on prosperity gospel and superficial teachings will be tested and will be removed if found worthless.
One pastor was sharing his experience with me,
‘I am running a Church for 23 years. The daughter of one of the believers ran away with a Hindu boy. He was the first believer of my Church and he has been with me all these 23 years. When I went to console the parents and pray in that house, to my surprise, the parents were justifying what their daughter did.
I think I have to make an analysis of my ministry I am doing.’
Let us humble ourselves and intercede for the Indian Church.

Let us surrender our Church to Jesus Christ with all its sores.

Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel?

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Isa 1:5
The Lord is promising two things to the Church.

The Church will be cured of all its sicknesses.

Hereafter the Lord will see that the Church has enough resistance power.

Prayer:

Abba Father, Let our whole Church, each believer enjoy the peace and truth which you have promised. Amen.

Sr. Angelica AOJ

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

Luke 19:14

His citizens hated him

Graham Staines, was a 58-year-old Australian Christian missionary. Who worked among the lepers in India, with selfless work and dedication. The very people he served burnt to death Graham Staines along with his two sons – 10-year-old Phillip and seven-year-old Timothy – on the night of 22nd January..

His subjects or countrymen – the Jewish people, who professed to be subjects of the kingdom of God.

Hated him — despised him for the meanness of his birth, his crucifixion and for the holiness of his doctrine.

Sent a message after him —His discontented subjects, fearing what would be the character of his reign, sent an embassy to remonstrate against him being appointed as the ruler.

Matthew 2:22 Archelaus went to Rome to obtain from Augustus a confirmation of his title to reign over that part of Judea which had been left him by his father, Herod the Great. As this fact was “fresh” in the memory of the Jews, it makes this parable much more striking.

John 1:11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, would not submit to his government, and, a short time after this, preferred even a murderer to him. No wonder that those who murdered the Lord of glory should prefer a murderer, one of their own temper, to the Redeemer of their souls.

The nobleman is representative of the Lord Jesus Christ and the judgment at the end is worse than death — it is eternal judgment in hell and then the Lake of Fire. Rejection of Christ in no way changes who or what Jesus is. It does sentence the rejecter to eternal torment.

“To a graceless neck the yoke of Christ is intolerable, but to the saved sinner it is easy and light…. We may judge ourselves by this, do we love that yoke, or do we wish to cast it from us?” (Spurgeon)

Prayer: – Dear Lord I surrender myself to you. O Lord, help me that I may not be judgmental but understand the depth of your love.

Sol. Pratibha AOJ

Luke 19:7 

Word of God says that Jesus Christ appeared one arth to save the sinners.

Timothy 1:15

As far as Jews were concerned, in their flesh, they expected a Messiah who will appear as a king and save them from the captivity of Roman Empire.
Even John the Baptist seemed to have the same question within himself. Mat 11:3
Only those who have received the spirit of God can understand the plans of God..

Rom 8:5

Today those who are called by God miserably failed in understanding God’s mind and His plans.
We, God’s people have not fully understood what we should do to establish God’s Kingdom on Earth. This is the reason why there are still vast areas on the earth where Gospel has not been proclaimed.
Through the Army of Jesus the Lord revealed His plan to start a training for the drug addicts in a Rehabilitation Centre called Redemption Recovery Care. Some of them questioned this plan of God and concluded that it would be useless. They thoughts were like this.
1.The drug addicts cannot understand Bible
2.Most of them are uneducated
3.Their mindset will not be conducive to sit and concentrate on the deep truths of Bible etc.

But as per the plan of God, I was appointed as the Coordinator for this training.
The Lord miraculously did a lot of things among them.

 A great change happened in their lives. Many were convicted by the Holy Spirit, repented and confessed that they had spoiled their own lives and they wanted to be restored.

The classes in the syllabus would start from 5.00 am till 10.00 in the night. The syllabus covered Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Many who did not know true God came out of their bad habit, drug addiction . Even some became teachers who could teach Word of God to others.

Let’s take John 4:1-14. Here Jesus was sitting at a Christian traditional well. . As per God’s plan a Samaritan woman who was an outcast in the society came to draw water . Through her the whole village came to salvation.

Human mind cannot understand the people whom the Lord chooses.

Only those who have the Spirit of God can understand His plans.

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In this last days, God’s Kingdom will be established through many who have been branded as outcasts, sinners, and thus rejected by the society.

Sol. Paul Vasanthan AOJ

For because you did not do it at the first, Jehovah our God made a break on us, since we did not seek Him in due order. 

1Ch 15:13

The Lord made 3 accusations against His children here.

1.They did not carry the Ark of the covenant. (1 Chro 15:12)
2.They did not seek God
3.They did not seek Jehovah in due order.

In another version, the words used are “God attacked us’ instead of God made a break on us.
Will the loving Heavenly Father attack us?

The Word of God says ‘Yes’ when we fail in duty. 3 duties of human beings are mentioned here.

Jesus Christ is living in us and we are the carriers of Jesus. As the donkey carried Jesus when He entered into Jerusalem, we are carrying Jesus wherever we go. He said this to the Samaritan woman in the following words,

“Believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither worship the Father in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth”. Joh 4:21,24 

Now is that hour. Without knowing this, I continued worshipping Him in statues, holy places, holy articles, (relics) even believing in holy men, holy river, holy pilgrimage, holy land etc. ‘Holy’ the name was associated with only with heaven and God Almighty till the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. From Rev. 5:10 onwards, the word ‘Holy’ is associated with the 2nd person, the ‘slain Lamb’.
Nothing else is ‘Holy’ in this world. It should never be attached with human beings.
We, carry this Holy God, Father and Son within us (Jn 14:23) wherever we go. Visit your Constituencies, when you are carrying Jesus and Father, their thinking, insights, outlook, hopes, expectations, likes and dislikes will be manifested through you. They will use your eyes to see, your ears to hear, your mind and heart to perceive et. The truths and facts about your constituency will be revealed to you.

Is there a punishment for not seeking God? Yes. Seeking Him is the primary duty of human beings. Seeking Him in everything, every minute,
seeking His opinion, His likes, His wishes, His decisions, His plans, His expectations, His ways, His orders, His ambitions, etc. For many people Jesus is medicine. When they become sick or meet with danger, they seek Him. One boy studying 12thstd asked me in one of the classes, “Why should I worship Jesus and Him alone’. I could not answer it to my satisfaction. Anyway Jesus spoke to him that night. He explained it to him through the example of a mixy. If the mixy does not work properly, we throw it and get a new one. Just like the purpose of a mixy is grinding,

Human Beings Are Created Only To Worship Him And Him Alone.

If they don’t do, they are of no use to Him, the Creator has every right to throw him away.

Many of the prayers done in our Churches or prayer rooms are not answered. What is surprising is, believers are not bothered about it. Whether they get an answer or not, they go on praying.

Just like a child talks to its father, and the father answers positively or negatively, every prayer should bring an answer, positive or negative. But some of our prayers don’t because they are displeasing to God.

‘Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.’  You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

Mar 7:7,8 

Abba Father, Teach us these 3 things. To carry Jesus throughout India, from one end to the other. To seek Him and worship Him the way He wants.

Sol. Teena

SALVATION

Jesus said to Zacchaeus, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham”.

Luke 19:9

Zacchaeus believed in the Lord Jesus and repented for all his sins. He then showed the works of repentance by giving half of his possessions to the poor and if he cheated anyone, he would pay them back four times.

Jesus then told Zacchaeus that the Salvation had come to his house.

How do we get Salvation?

Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.

Acts 16:31

Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith.

Philippians 2:12 Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

We are once saved by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, however to continue that salvation, we will need to work towards it.

James 2:26 Faith without works is dead.

Faith = Belief in Jesus + Works

James 2:19 Even demons believe that Jesus is Lord.

What is the difference between the belief of a demon and a child of God?
Demons believe that Jesus is Lord but will not have any works accompanied to its belief.
Wherein the child of God has the works accompanied to his/her belief.

What works should we do?

1. Sitting and learning at the feet of Jesus
2. Great commission – spread the gospel – spread the troop churches – train people in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, etc.
3. Love one another
4. Help the poor

Zacchaeus showed the works of salvation by being generous to the poor and taking a strong decision in not going back to the old life.

That was the reason, Jesus said he got salvation and he was called the son of Abraham. Abraham also obeyed God and did everything what the Lord had told him and this had made him called the Father of Faith.
So, we also need to do the works of our salvation just like Zacchaeus and Abraham.

When we were in the institutional church a few years ago, we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ but we never used to do any works for His kingdom. Every Sunday we used to spend one hour in the church and the rest of the days we lived according to the world.
We came to AOJ in 2016, since then we started doing works for the Kingdom of God through Troop Churches, gift schools, etc. Now we can see the real salvation in our lives.

Our Father in heaven, please help us not only just believe in you but also to do the works of salvation also. In Jesus name. Amen.

Sol. Theodore AOJ

THEN IT HAPPENED THAT HE COMMANDED THESE SERVANTS, TO WHOM HE HAD GIVEN THE MONEY TO BE CALLED TO HIM.

Luke 19:15

The servants mentioned here is the disciple, who must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; and give an account of themselves to God.

Money mentioned here is a gift or talent given to us by God.
When you read 1 Corinthians 12:8 – 11 and GALATIANS 5:22-23 as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
Angels will be employed in gathering all the people to him.
Responsibility of the servants is to spread the gospel to all the people as mentioned in the words

Mathew 28:19
GO, THEN, TO, ALL PEOPLES EVERYWHERE AND MAKE THEM MY DISCIPLES…
God will guide us in this process, as he said in

Mathew 28:20

I HAVE COMMANDED YOU AND I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE.

It is the testimony of Apostle Paul that he has fully preached the Gospel of Christ. Just imagine there were no means of transport available in those days. Think about ourselves. We are standing at the last moment of the end of the world. We should give an account to our God. Why did the Master call the servant? To find out how much he has earned.

Luke 19:15 He assigned three of his servants to invest his money. Luke 19:13 Among them two of them took the risk of investing their master’s money. They earned handsome returns. So he rewarded the two servants who multiplied the money for him. He promoted them to high positions. In the same way, the Lord our God also will reward his true disciples in heaven. The third servant was afraid to take risk, so he put the money in a safe place. So the master punished the servant who kept the money safe but unproductive. In the same way, the Lord also will punish the false disciples who are un[productive who does not engage themselves in the Kingdom work. They are the disciples who are not bothered about the Kingdom work. From them God will take away all the gifts and it will be given to the true disciples as in Luke 19:24. 

When you are planting a tree initially we should care for it daily and later it produces fruit of its own. Same way if you live for Jesus and for His Gospel, your family and society will grow and keep growing after you have gone. In order to live with Jesus Your mind should be filled with good thoughts. Should be filled with verses from scripture. Should be filled with the Spirit of prayer. Should be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.

PRAYER :

Abba father, make us good servants of Yours. We should not run for the worldly things . Help us to run for our eternal life. Make us always remember that we have to give an account of Your gifts given to us, Lord.

Sol. ANU (AOJ)

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” 

Luke 19:10

This verse is spoken by Jesus at the house of Zaccheus. The background story as we know is Jesus visiting Zaccheus’ house as his guest. He was eager to see Jesus and received Jesus joyfully.

In his confrontation with Jesus there occurs a sudden change in this man and he confesses before the Lord that he is ready to return whatever he had forcefully and unlawfully extracted from people.

He committed before Jesus that the amounts will be returned fourfold.

His repentance of sin and readiness to make amends was proof of his accepting Jesus As His Lord And Saviour.

He was ready to leave his old ways just as Abraham was ready to leave his father’s house hold and relatives trusting God fully. Jesus declared that Zaccheus had become the son of Abraham as he trusted God to follow Him. That would be a blessing for his entire household. The very purpose of Jesus’ coming to earth is fulfilled in that man as

He came to earth to seek and save that which was lost. That was His mission.

Jesus tells about how He goes looking for the one lost sheep leaving the 99 sheep with the co- shepherds and how he rejoices when he finds the lost one.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:7

The woman searching for the lost coin look for it and finds it. When she finds it she rejoices with her friends. The father who kept waiting for his lost son celebrates his son’s return with a grand feast. All these parables illustrate the purpose of the Lord’s coming to earth.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He tells that He did not come to earth to be served but to serve and to lay His life for them. What a wonderful saviour we have ! Let His Name be glorified !
John 3:17
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:32

Apostle Paul says:
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Jesus is our saviour who left the glory of heaven and came down to earth for our redemption. Believe how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly. He will come back for us, the church, those who wait for Him earnestly. Today is the Age of Grace. Come to Him and become a part of His family. I Timothy 1:15

When a person is born again in the Word of God and the Holy Spirit there’s is a great change in him. His perspective of life changes and that starts it’s manifestation in his behaviour and talk. Matters which were considered valuable in his old self are no longer of preference in the new life. This is the testimony of anybody who has accepted the saving grace of Jesus.It’s the same with me too. I started studying and meditating the Word of God with greater passion and enthusiasm. God is using me speak His Word to many. I thank the Lord for that. Let His Name be glorified.

Acts 10:36‭, ‬38‭, ‬40

And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”

Acts 10:42‭-‬43

Let us get ready to be caught up in the Rapture which may happen anytime now.

Sol. Salomi Kurian

So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’

Luke, 19:13

We are all in this world for a purpose and we are not an accident, in our family, in our nation, we need to serve a purpose, till our LORD JESUS, returns. 

Luke: 19:13;

“Do business till I come, is the Command of the Nobleman It’s an order to be followed by the Servants.

we are the servants of Our LORD Jesus Christ, we are given the command to follow by His servants. This is for those who are responsible for the business, till His coming on clouds. Our job is to be busy doing the assignment. But we are else were doing something that is not our assignment and we are caught up in our own business and unnecessary problems.

We are the stewards of our talent, one day we all will be giving the accounts of our assignments, talents, our assignment is to share Gospel, make disciples if we are faithful in doing this, we will hear ‘Well done my faithful servant.’ At the same time we are given talents to complete our assignment, but the question is how we use them, what we do with them, are we wise servants, are we faithful servants?

I would like to share the testimony.
Recently I met a Muslim woman married for 27years, but her husband left her 18 years back, then I was moved with the power of the Holy Spirit, and started praying from 18th of Dec. And on 2nd February he called his wife saying I’m coming back to you all. The best part is, they all say only one thing, that JESUS CHRIST has done this, All glory to JESUS CHRIST.

Today the question is for you and me are we into the father’s business whole heartedly or half-heartedly or nothing at all?
If at all we feel that something is lacking in us then we need to repent, we cannot be in the bad books of our Master.

Prayer:
ABBA FATHER, I want to serve you once again please rejuvenate fire within me, LORD JESUS please give me your grace, and I’ll never be the same, sweet HOLY SPIRIT take complete control of me and use us for your GLORY, in YESHUA HAMASHIACH NAME I PRAY.

AMEN.

Sol.Theresa Cabral.(AOJ)

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba ….

2 Ch 19:4 

King Jehoshaphat dwelt in the capital. 

The place you stay is the headquarters from where the Lord  wants to operate in the Nation.  

From there you have to go round in your Constituency to see its present status. 
Prophet  Ezekiel wrote about his experience,

 Eze 37:1,2 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley  which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 

When you walk around your Constituency physically, or in prayer daily, village by village, towns, cities, families, the demographics, you will come to know the hidden sins committed there.

 Witchcraft, human sacrifice, religious superstitions, atrocities committed  in the name of tradition,  culture etc. and the people affected by them. 
What are the lifeless dry bones?
People living in desperate conditions, who are suffocated due to various reasons.
 
Can we have a look at them? Farmers? Children? Students? Mothers? Fathers? Teachers?
Youngsters? Govt Officers? Industrial labourers? Media workers? Journalists? Politicians? Veterans? Businessmen? Policemen? 

King Jehoshaphat went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

You are to travel to & fro many times  in order to bring the people of  your Constituency  to Jesus Christ, to turn their hearts to Jesus Christ. 

Ezekiel says, ‘The Lord  caused me to pass by them (the dry bones) round about’ for bringing the dry bones back to its original position (soldiers of an Army) 

He prophesied the Words which  the Lord put in His mouth. 

” Dry bones! hear the Word of the LORD.  So says the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live. And you shall now that I [am] the LORD.” Eze 37:4 -6

We know that Ezekiel did it literally.  

So  I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. 

As you prophecy over the dry bones, an  Army will rise up from your Constituency, an exceedingly great Army.
They will stand for the Lord and fight for Him. Amen.

Sol. Benovin Samuel AOJ

What is the thing which is keeping you away from eternal life

When Jesus heard these things, He said to him, ”You still lack one thing, sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in Heaven and come, follow me”

Luke 18:22

The man here is very wealthy. He followed God and throughout his life was obeying all the commandments of God religiously as he understood. The rich man is all about following the rules and making up points and not about firmly connecting to people and God.
Jesus showed him how imperfect his life was. He could show him how selfish and earthly were his thoughts.

Mt 19:21 Jesus said to him, if you want to be perfect, “go sell what you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come follow me .
Sell all that you love so dearly and give all to the poor and take up the cross .
He thought the wealth is the sign of approval from God. But he was not satisfied, something made him to seek more. His focus was on wealth and may be on society, how society would look at him. That’s why Jesus said ‘sell all that you have’.
Many a times we follow Jesus and do all the good things, prayers, giving, ministry, etc. and God blesses us with wealth, we think we have God’s approval and our focus is on Prosperity.
We are caught up with so much in our work, business, family, etc .but we are not happy from inside, no joy, no satisfaction, contentment.
What is the one thing that is pulling me down?
Mt 6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasure on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Today as we see people so busy accumulating wealth, busy trying to be someone, so much competition around.
Pro 23:4 Do not over work to be rich because of your own understanding cease.
I remember many years back, out of some people known to me, some went on the wrong path and accumulated lots of money.

One person was rich. Last year he died at a young age without keeping anything for his family.
In life we have to be joyful, helpful, satisfied, content with life.
Last year towards the end of the year, I was not very happy and I realized I had to give up something. Immediately I found that peace, which earlier I didn’t have. there was joy and I was dancing, dancing without music, it was like I was flying in the air.

Sacrificial giving towards others assures us of treasures that can never be lost.

Sol. Arvind Dias AOJ