Gratitude Brings Heaven In To Your Lives!

The Poor Family's Gratitude

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As a poor, pious man was sitting by his little fire one cold evening, with his wife and children, he said to them, “I have been thinking a great deal today about that part of Scripture, ‘The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head.’ How wonderful it is, that we, who are so sinful, unworthy, and helpless, should be more favoured than he was!”

“It is wonderful, indeed, father,” said the eldest girl; “for though our house is mean, and our food scanty, compared with the houses and way of living of great folks, yet it seems that Jesus Christ was not so well provided for as we are.”

“I am right glad to hear you speak in that way, Sarah,” said the wife. “How happy we all are in our little dwelling this cold night; and as soon as we wish, we have beds to rest ourselves upon; wherein, sharp and piercing as the frost is, and bleak and stormy as the wind blows, we shall be comfortable and warm; and yet the Son of Man, as your father has just told us, ‘had not where to lay His head.’ O, that this thought may make us thankful for many mercies!”

"Tommy”, said the father, “reach that hymn, which our dear minister gave you last week at the Sunday School; and as our hearts are in a good frame, let us try to keep them so by singing it.”

The whole company, father, mother, and children, then, with a glow of sacred ardour and pleasure, sung the hymn entitled, “The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head.”

Here in the above story we see how a thankful heart towards God could be inculcated and be contagiously made to spread to all those around for what we have, when we compare ourselves to those who even do not even have what we have. Such gratitude of thankfulness could give us all great contentment for what we have.

At the same time when Jesus said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” (Matt 8:20), it does not mean that Jesus described how poor He was to not even have a place to rest or buy a pillow and a mat to sleep. Instead Jesus used a figure of speech to convey to the certain scribe who came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go,” that when he wants to follow Jesus who does the will of God all the time according to heaven's instruction, then he has to forget about having a permanent place to sleep and a comfortable bed time. Implicitly Jesus was saying to that scribe who was very excited about following Jesus, that in the will of God, persecution might come and he will have flee from place to place, they might catch hold of him and bring him before kings and governors as a testimony for God, then from time to time food will not be placed in a table to be eaten and a time when no proper place to rest also might arise at certain times. And to another disciple who wanted to follow him, Jesus clearly expressed that in the will of God he might have to leave his father and mother and his fleshly family and relatives to go away to fulfill the will of God for his life. Sadly both of these above people did not follow Jesus further because they felt that the cost of the discipleship was great and that they were not able to leave their comfort zones.

But if we are thankful to God in the will of God with a gratitude for giving life as a gift to experience and not just hold on to our bodily comfort as the prime priority even above obeying the voice of God, then we will be very happy, joyful and content like the family above to experience heaven on earth again and again. Then we will also be followers of Jesus and his true disciples in the world as long as we are present. May God help us to be the true followers of Jesus!


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The True Valentine!

Will You Be My Valentine Too?

By Abraham Israel

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I am not ashamed to say that Jesus is my valentine today,
Because He first was not ashamed to call me as His lover and loved me first even before I ever thought of loving Him;

When heaven was watching with bated breath about the group of sinners living on earth and the destiny of their progeny to come,
The righteous judgment of God's law that would condemn humanity to eternal condemnation of sinners den where the fire never quenches and worms never dies;

Love became human in Jesus and sacrificed Himself for the cause of the one to be loved which openly hated Him to death,
Grace blossomed and truth set the humanity free and it made me feel that I am a privileged one chosen by a Love so Divine;

God smiled on humanity who believed His love to embrace the lover sent by Him to rescue them,
Today I am privileged to be part of the family of God because of MY VALENTINE JESUS who loved me to death;

Today I live yet not I but My sweet Valentine who lives within my heart has called me to die to my self life,
In exchange He has promised the heavenly life of heaven more and more for each step I take to deny the world and die to my self;

If you have not yet found Love in your life, today the sweetest and the most loveliest of all bids you to come to Him,
He is Sweet Jesus the fairest of all who is asking you, "MY SWEET LOVE, WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE TOO?"


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When You Die To Yourself, Your Dream Will Come True!

The Three Trees

Once there were three trees on a hill in a woods.


They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, "Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty."

Then the second tree said, "Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull."

Finally the third tree said, "I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me."

After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees.

When one came to the first tree he said, "This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter," and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.

At the second tree a woodsman said, "This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard." The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.

When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true.

One of the woodsman said, "I don't need anything special from my tree so I'll take this one," and he cut it down.

When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals.He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for.

The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying kings had come to an end.

The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in the dark. The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams.

Then one day, a man and women came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time.

Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said "peace" and the storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the king of kings in its boat.

Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it.

The moral of this story is that when things don't seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. When you die to yourself and give in to the plan of God that He has for your life, all your dreams might seem like it has gone dead, but suddenly when the appointed time of your life comes, all your dreams will resurrect itself, and you will be used mightily for the glory of God in such a way that you cannot even imagine in your wildest dream to fulfill it all with your strength or might even if you have lived a million years twice and have gone by your own way or will.

God will keep your dream in spiritual incubator if you feed yourself with faith and desire to fulfill it sincerely in your life, before you can realize the dreams will become a reality supernaturally because God's life will break forth out of which was formerly lifeless and just an idea until its appointed time for fulfillment comes. So keep believing the big dreams you have regarding serving God in a BIG WAY, one of these days it will become a reality in your life because God is behind it to fulfill it fully. Praise the Lord!

Much Blessings....

Receive Medicine Of Joy!

Rejoice! Rejoice!

I pray as you read the following humorous look at some questions & answers relating to events written in the Bible, I believe "He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing." (Job 8:21, NKJV). Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice is one of my most favorite verse in the Bible, which always when applied will without fail bring heaven on earth (Php 4:4). The Bible says that a "happy heart is a good medicine", so take these joyous good medicine and get well to de-stress yourself from any of your distress about anything in your life (Prov 17:22).

Q. What do they call pastors in Germany?

A. German Shepherds.

Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?

A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone
else was in liquidation.

Q. Who was the greatest female financier in the
Bible?

A. Pharaoh's daughter. She went down to the bank
of the Nile and drew out a little prophet.

Q. What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible?

A. God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden
in a "Fury". David's "Triumph" was heard throughout the
land. Also, probably a "Honda," because the apostles
were all in one "Accord."

Q. Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?

A. Samson. He brought the house down.

Q. What excuse did Adam give to his children as
to why they no longer lived in Eden?

A. Your mother ate us out of house and home.

Q. Which servant of God was the most flagrant
lawbreaker in the Bible?

A. Moses. He broke all 10 commandments at once.

Q. Which area of Palestine was especially
wealthy?

A. The area around Jordan. The banks were always
overflowing.

Q. Who is the greatest baby sitter mentioned in
the Bible?

A. David. He rocked Goliath to a very deep sleep.

Q. Which Bible character had no parents?

A. Joshua, son of Nun.

Q. Why didn't they play cards on the Ark?

A. Because Noah was standing on the deck.
(Groannn...)

KEEP SMILING!!!! GOD LOVES YOU BUNCHES AND BUNCHES!!!!

Much Blessings....



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Are You Ignorant Of Satan’s Schemes?

Do Not Be Ignorant Of Satan Schemes!

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Three apprentice devils were being trained by Satan.

"What are you going to try today?" asked Satan.

The first apprentice replied, "I’m going to tell people that there is no God."

"Well," says Satan, "you can try. A few fools will believe you. But the universe shouts the existence of God. There is evidence all around, and you will not do very well.

Indeed, even in the secular twenty-first century – you may find yourself witnessing the slow death of atheism. Any other ideas?"

The second apprentice answered this: "I’m going to tell them that there is no judgment."

"That’s a better idea," says Satan. "You will persuade more people of that, especially some of the clergy. But human beings have a gut sense of accountability – that actions have consequences. They know what it is to feel guilty, even when their therapists tell them not to. So I think you’ll find it an uphill struggle. Anyone else have an idea?"

A third apprentice piped up, "I’m going to tell them that there is no need to hurry."

"Brilliant!" says Satan. "That is just what you need to say. You will have great success. Let them listen to the Word of God, and then whisper in their ears: This is good stuff. One day you ought to do something about this. But tomorrow will do."

What can we learn from this? Satan knows that the sin of procrastinating is something unique to deceive people easily in to lethargy and lack of spiritual progress because these days everybody thinks it is cool to say, "I will do it tomorrow." Tomorrow is only in fools calender and it will never come if not for God's mercy, so take God's help to do all things that edifies you spiritually today. When you take care of today with God's strength, God will take care of your tomorrow. As God has clearly said in His word that today is the day of His salvation, tomorrow may be too late or you might have missed much (2 Cor 6:2). Today is the day, use it as best as you can with the help of the Holy Spirit who is personally given to you by Jesus as a stand by support whenever you feel weak to fulfill or fail in your duties, if you are ready to acknowledge Him, He is ever available to support you with God's strength!

"So that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes!" (2 Corinthians 2:11). 


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His Love Saves Us

Trinity Before Eternity Began!

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Think about this beautiful scene in heaven dear saints. There was nothing but only God was there. God was planning to create angels to help Him serve to bring the ultimate creation of a tribe on a planet named earth in which He had been thinking to create sons and daughters in His own image and likeness. God was excited about it all. Father God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost were discussing and were creating a blue print for the future of mankind in their eternity past in which they were having fellowship and intimacy with one another. But then the biggest risk was to be given as a choice to man in order to be in the likeness of God, which is exercising a individual choice, and also upon their own will the power to choose God Himself as their guide which will help them stay in His perfect likeness and image or else be disobedient to bring upon themselves a imperfect marred image of God. As God was dwelling on these things, Father God clearly spelled without any apprehension that if His image was marred in humans, the only way to redeem them back will be nothing but one of us becoming like them to make them regain our likeness and image. And Father God said that if we do not decide this now, we can never go ahead with this plan of blue-print any more, so who wants to go to earth and become like the one we are going to create in our image. A moment of silence prevailed and Jesus joyfully with great love in His heart for these people who might need His help, stepped forward before the Father and said, "I want to go and be one among them if they ever take the wrong choice and become marred in their image of us." Immediately Father God embraced Jesus and said, "I will send the Holy Spirit to help you invisibly fulfill all these endeavors but you have to be a bond-servant to fulfill all my commands without fail. At the end of your life, you will be killed and then because of you all those imperfect humans will be made perfect again when they will choose to believe you as their Lord and Savior." Jesus agreed and jumped with joy because of His love for all humans who are going to come, and regain the image of God even if they become marred by their own poor choices! The rest is His-Story.....

The above discussion is not a story but was a reality and that is why Jesus prayed this following prayer before dying on the Cross, "20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”" (John 17:23).

In short, the Triune God loved us and wanted to share His love for us and that why we are here today. Jesus built the bridge which was broken in the beginning back for us to have friendship and fellowship with God again through His death and resurrection. Praise the Lord! The glory of God which was restored to us through Jesus is nothing but the very image of God and the reflection of His character within us. No human can love others unconditionally, unless the Love of God flow within him. The more we look in to the face of God the more reason we will find that our very reason for existence is to be loved by God, to love God back and reflect that love to other humans who still have not yet found the reason for their existence on earth.

May God overwhelm us all with His Love and make us to realize that His love is an everlasting and unconditional love towards us as we are His loving sons and daughters born and born again to serve Him for HIS GLORY! Praise Jesus!

Much Blessings.... :)



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A Pastor's Cat

God's Sense Of Humor

Whoever said the Creator doesn't have a sense of humor? Please do read this!

A preacher recently told a story about the pastor of his church.

He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down.

The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.

The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and pulled it until the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten.

That's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke.

The tree went 'boing!' and the kitten instantly sailed through the air - out of sight.

The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, 'Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping,' and went on about his business.

A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. This woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, 'Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?'

She replied, 'You won't believe this,' and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, 'Well, if God gives you a cat, I'll let you keep it.' She told the pastor, 'I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won't believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws outspread, and landed right in front of her.'

Jesus revealed the secret of answered prayer by saying, "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matt 21:22). This faith of this child is so sincere that God immediately heard that prayer and set up a answer to it from heaven. Never underestimate the Power of a sincere prayer of faith towards God and His unique sense of humor in fulfilling it. May God help us to pray believing so that we will receive God's answer in His own time and way, may be sometimes miraculously and humorously like in the story above.


Much Blessings....




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