A Woman Inspires

From Rags To Riches In God!

Mary Bosanquet was the daughter of a wealthy English merchant. She belonged to the elite. She wore the finest and the most expensive clothes and jewelry. Her father knew all the "right" people. Whatever Mary lacked she only needed to buy. What more could she want? But something like a bombshell soon exploded in the Bosanquet home. Mary was invited to attend meetings held by the Methodist Society. Without telling her father, she went to a service, then more services.

Then it happened! Wealthy Mary Bosanquet was converted. She felt as though she were floating on clouds. Oh, the joy of it! She told her father. He was ashamed that she was dropping out to join the Society of Methodists! How cruel, how ungrateful!

What was more, Mary invited her brothers to the meetings and spoke to them about their souls! She began to dress plainly like people in the Society of Methodists. That added insult to injury, and one day her father came to her with a demand.

"Mary, there is a promise I require of you. That is, that you will never, now or hereafter, try to make your brothers what you call ‘Christian’."

Mary replied, "Father, I dare not consent to that."

"If you refuse to consent to that, you force me to put you out of my house!"

"According to your view of things, I will do."

Her father chided, "You don’t appreciate what I provide for you; you wear the plain clothes of those people!"

How could poor Mary explain that she really loved her father and appreciated his interest and provision? But she was resolute in her reply: "When I think of the word ‘holiness’, or of the adorable name of Jesus, my heart seems to be on fire for God more than ever before. I cannot go with you any more to places of amusement; neither can I wear the expensive clothes you buy me. I must be God’s and His alone." Imagine a young man or woman being uplifted by the thought of holiness or the name of Jesus!

Mary’s father was furious and told her to pack her things. He summoned the family coach and soon Mary, with her belongings in one trunk, literally left home to follow Christ. Her young maid and companion, who was also a Christian, was allowed to accompany her. At the parting, Mary told her father of a promise God had given from Revelation 3:4.

"God has promised me that I shall walk with Him in white."

From the homes of the rich, finely gabled and terraced with servants’ quarters and lush, beautiful gardens, the coach traveled to Laytonstone where the homes of the poor stood. Mary’s new residence had two rooms, with a dismal view of chimneystacks and the filthy yards of her neighbours. She had not brought candles, and she borrowed a table and two chairs. But she had "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Philippians 4:7)

Mary was driven to her knees many times, and there she found Jesus, the "fairest of ten thousand". The Lord reminded her with the words of the psalmist: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up." (Psalm 27:10) The Lord kept His promise; He never failed her. Mary often said, "Why, I am brought out of the world, and I have nothing to do but to be holy for God: holy in body and in spirit. What a happy soul I am! Truly my abode is a bit of heaven."

Prayer meetings were held in Mary’s new home and one woman after another asked to join. Their numbers grew to such proportions that Mary appealed to John Wesley to send them a preacher for Sunday services, which he did. Mary took a number of children into her home, and about thirty adults. They depended wholly on the Lord for sustenance. God, the Father of the fatherless, never failed to supply their needs.

Mary’s father put her out of the family in 1760. Some 37 years later, Henry F. Lyte was born in Scotland. While Lyte was preparing for the ministry in Ireland, Mary was still ministering to the poor and outcasts of Laytonstone and Hoxton. Young Lyte (later the Vicar of Lower Brixham) heard Mary’s story. Inspired by her courage and purity of life, he penned this lovely hymn:

Jesus, I my cross have taken.
All to leave and follow Thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shalt be;
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought and hoped, and known;
Yet how rich is my condition,
God, and heav’n are still my own!

Let the world despise and leave,
They have left my Saviour too;
Human hearts and looks deceive me;
Thou art not like man, untrue;
And while Thou shalt smile upon me,
God of Wisdom, love, and might,
Foe may hate, and friends may shun me;
Show Thy face, and all is bright.

Much Blessings...


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And That's All I Want!

Is Jesus The Shepherd Of Your Soul?

A Sunday school teacher asked her group of children if any of them could quote the entire twenty-third psalm. A golden-haired, 4 ½ year old girl was among those who raised their hands. A bit sceptical, the teacher asked if she could really say the entire psalm. The little girl stood up, faced the class, made a little bow, and said: "The Lord is my shepherd, that's all I want." She then bowed again and sat down. She may have overlooked a few verses, but that little girl captured the message of Psalm 23.

Here is my reason why the little girl hit the bulls-eye of Psalm 23 in a clear and precise way.

"The Lord is my Shepherd", that's Relationship!

"I shall not want", that's Supply!

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures", that's Rest!

"He leadeth me beside the still waters", that's Refreshment!

"He restoreth my soul", that' s Healing!

"He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness", that's Guidance!

"For His name sake", that's Purpose!

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death", that's Testing!

"I will fear no evil", that' s Protection!

"For Thou art with me", that's Faithfulness!

"Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me", that's Discipline!

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies", that's Hope!

"Thou annointest my head with oil", that's Consecration!

"My cup runneth over", that's Abundance!

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life", that's Blessing!

"And I will dwell in the house of the Lord", that's Security!

"Forever and ever", that's Eternity!

His provision is impeccably perfect, His love is perpetually everlasting, and His mercy is unshakeably enduring. He gives inner peace to calm emotional storms often encountered on life’s journey and makes us leap with joy as though we are victorious even before the test ends, and supplies abundant strength that’s more than enough to meet every challenge we face in this lives journey. His marvelous attributes that are benevolently expressed towards us are without end everyday!

Dear saints, I hope that you have got the point. When the Lord Jesus Christ is our Shepherd, that is all we will ever want. Sometimes God teaches elders by revealing His wisdom and glory through childrens. Isaiah the prophet wrote prophetically , "...a little child shall lead them" (Isa 11:6). The bottom line is, it is not what we have with us that matters, but who we have with us as our shepherd that matters the most in this life and also in the life to come. If you have Jesus Christ as your shepherd, praise the Lord! If you do not have Him, make Him as your Lord and Savior of your life by inviting Him in to your heart today and He will become your shepherd forever.

No matter what trials or tribulation comes our way, the shepherd of our soul will be by our side when it matters the most. Our shepherd Jesus knows every weakness and flaws in us, yet He always sees only the best in us. He sometimes chastises us for the improvement in our spiritual life, yet with the trial His comfort overflows in to every fibre of our being.

If you have Jesus as your shepherd, please do read and let the lyrics sink in to your heart, then sing towards the Lord and meditate from within your heart and mind the following awesome song 'Shepherd Of My Soul',

Shepherd of my soul I give you full control,
Wherever You may lead I will foll-ow.
I have made the choice to listen for Your vo-vo-ice,
Wherever You may lead I will go.

Be it in a quiet pasture or by a gentle stream,
The Shepherd of my soul is by my side.
Should I face a mighty mountain or a valley dark and deep,
The Shepherd of my soul will be my guide.

Shepherd of my soul Oh You have made me whole,
Where’er I hear You call how my tea-ars flow.
How I feel your love how I want to se-rve
I gladly give my heart to You O – Lord.

Be it in the flowing river or in the quiet night,
The Shepherd of my soul is by my side.
Should I face the stormy weather or the dangers of this world.
The Shepherd of my soul will be my guide.

Much Blessings....


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Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

Nick Vujicic On Why God Made Him Limbless

Evangelist Nick Vujicic was born with neither arms nor legs, and questioned God for eight years why it was so. The answer changed his life, and through him that of tens of thousands of others.

Read on further to be blessed....

Nick Vujicic, a man born without arms or legs, is the author of the new book Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life.

For the now 30-year-old Nick, founding president and CEO of the nonprofit organization Life Without Limbs, the most important thing in life was to understand why God made him without arms and legs.

Speaking at Pastor Rick Warren's church in Lake Forest on Sunday evening, the inspirational speaker said he spent eight years asking God, "Why? Why was I born this way? I don't understand how can You say You love me when You allow me to stay in this pain."

Vujicic, who has been living in California since 2007, was born in Brisbane, Australia. His parents – Pastor Boris Vujicic and nurse Dushka Vujicic – were not given any medical explanation or warning about his birth with neither arms nor legs. But Nick got the answer to his desperate prayers.

John 9:1-3 spoke to him in a special way. The New Testament portion reads: "As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.'"

The Life Without Limbs author described his feelings after reading these verses. "I got goosebumps on my skin I don't even have," he told the congregants. "And I had faith because I understood something. You see, all I wanted to know was that God knew what He was doing with me."

By the age of 19, Nick started to fulfill his dream of being able to encourage other people and bring them the Gospel of Jesus through motivational speaking and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future and a hope.
The desire to have arms and legs has remained, Vujicic admitted. Initially, he thought, "Lord, if you give me arms and legs, I'll go around the world and share your power with the world." He said he still has ups and downs in life. "I am just like you."
Vujicic said he has failed God every single day, but has relies on Philippians 1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

Vujicic recalled he and dozens of his Christian friends once prayed for 90 minutes for his arms and legs in a farm in a jungle in India. They made arms and legs with clay, and prayed it turn into flesh and bone. It didn't happen, but he had peace in his heart as he saw an eagle soaring in the sky throughout those 90 minutes. He said it was as if God was smiling, and was happy he had the faith to pray.

"Please give me arms and legs. But if You don't give me arms and legs, I trust You." This has been Vujicic's prayer. He said his commitment to Jesus is "to want His plan, and not my plan ... even when I don't understand."

You are praying for something, but what if God says "no" to that? he asked. "Is He still God? Yes. Will He waste your pain? No." He quoted Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Vujicic, who has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of people, said he's grateful to God for saving him from the two biggest disabilities: sin and death.

He said when he was 10 he wanted to commit suicide, and wanted to see someone like him so that he wouldn't be alone. Five years ago in California, he finally met a baby named Daniel, who too was born without arms and legs ... "exactly like me." "Not getting a miracle, I can be a miracle to Daniel ... an older brother of Daniel his whole life ... encourage him."

Nick said if he truly lived without arms and legs throughout his life "just so I can hug Daniel in heaven, it's all worth it."
"I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire," he says on his ministry's website. "If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!"


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What The Bible Will Do For You?

Read The Bible And Let The Bible Lead You!

I love reading my Bible always. Whether I do it through hearing or reading in my cell phone, through my computer, paper back, leather bound or through any other possible means.

I know that each word of God gives me life within and cleanses me each time I read it.

Ever time I choose to habitually read and meditate on the word of God, I receive more and more revelation of the gold ore of truth in a purer and deeper way within the gold mine of Holy Scriptures.

I believe, "As believers we understand the importance of the BIBLE. It is God's inspired, infallible, inerrant Word. It is authoratative in all matters to which it speaks, for it is the very Word of the Almighty God of the universe. It is not enough, however, to speak of its importance.

We must learn to read it, study it, memorize it and apply it to our lives. When it comes to studying the Word of God
it is important that we handle the text correctly so that we "rightly divide the Word of Truth."" (II Timothy 2:15).

I also beleive, "The Bible is the only Book by which you may know certainly the future; It is the only Book that satisfactorily answers the questions, 'Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?"

Every question I had in my life, I have found the answers to it in the word of God.

I have received abundance of joy, peace and righteousness through knowing the Scripture deeply down in my heart and meditating upon it day after day, night after night.

Will you make a decision today to read, study and understand the context of each Scripture to draw near to God and to intimately know Him, His will through it and walk pleasing to Him. If yes, I am speaking a special blessing today upon your life.

Much Blessings...


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I Wish You All A Happy Teacher's Day!

World Teachers' Day

The United Nations' (UN) World Teachers' Day celebrates the role teachers play in providing quality education at all levels. This enables children and adults of all ages to learn to take part in and contribute to their local community and global society.

The United Nations' (UN) World Teachers' Day commemorates the work of teachers and their contributions to society. It is observed on October 5 each year.

On this auspicious day we must thank God for all the teachers who have taught us in school, college and further to make us grow intellectually, and more than that we must thank God for all the spiritual teachers who have taught us and still teach us the word of God to make us grow spiritually which will benefit us for now and for eternity ahead (Eph 4:11). Let us also remember our teachers and say a word of appreciation for what they do or give them a gift to acknowledge their work which they have done and still do today (Gal 6:6).

Teachers are more like candles, they burn themselves by sacrificing their time so much to give us the right healthy information that we need to grow. The teacher of all teachers is none other than Jesus Christ.

The Bible says, "Jesus began both to do and teach" (Acts 1:1). From the above verse we know that Jesus never taught anybody what He himself never practiced. Because Jesus taught his followers by doing what He spoke and inspiring them with his life testimony, they always called Him as "Rabbi" in Aramaic which means Teacher. Jesus never denied that He was primarily the true teacher of the word of God.

Thus the day before He died for the sins of all His followers, Jesus washed the feet of His students and said to them, "12 ...., “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them." (John 13:12-17). What can we learn from our Lord Jesus who is Teacher of all teachers? When we learn good things from the teachings of our Lord Jesus, that in itself carry a blessing along with it (Rev 1:3). But then there is a ultimate blessedness that comes over our lives when we do what we learn from the teachings of Jesus. Jesus washed humbly the feet of all his followers to teach them that only when they become a bond-servant to the people whom they teach on behalf of God, they can really become God's voice of being a Teacher to them.

In the first century society, foot-washing was reserved for the lowliest of menial bond-servants. Peers did not wash one another's feet. But Jesus instructed His disciples who were arguing jealously to find who among themselves is the greatest of all once Jesus leaves them, were made to learn the truth that in the kingdom of God the one who serves all people by washing their feet is the one who is the greatest of all people (Luke 22:24-27). So from this we learn that we must have an inner attitude to be ready to wash the feet of all those who are peers and subordinates to us, as a mark of great love. In serving people, we actually serve God.

Refusing to follow the example of Jesus is to exalt oneself above Him and to live in pride of the evil one (John 12:26), so we must learn day by day to not only understand more and more of Jesus' teaching, but also do what we learn in humility which will make us receive the grace of God to fulfill it all easily (James 4:6, 10).

Most importantly we must thank and praise Jesus for having given His heavenly teaching in a practical day today simple way to apply it in our lives. May God help us all to grow spiritually through all the teaching's of our Lord Jesus which He has given as a gift to us all.

I wish you all a "Happy Teacher's Day", by now you may be thinking am I a teacher really? Do not worry, every Christian is a teacher by calling because the great Apostle Paul said, "teach these [Bible] truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others" (2 Tim 2:2, NLT). May God help you to hear all the truth and live and then teach to as many people as possible in the coming days.

Much Blessings.......


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A Heart Bigger Than Titanic!

The Lord is Our Strong Tower

The story of Harper, a great Baptist minister in Glasgow, is a very interesting one. There is a church still named after him - the Harper Memorial Baptist Church somewhere in the south side of Glasgow. Well, Harper drowned and died on his way to America on the Titanic, in 1912. But the story of his death is very edifying. The ship Titanic, as you know, hit the iceberg and began to sink at a terrific rate. It was the biggest and most luxurious ship ever built, up to that date. And some of the people who were serving on it, they said, "Even God Almighty cannot sink this ship!" They were boasting of it, and its watertight bulkheads. But they were so careless they didn't even worry about icebergs, and they skimmed across the iceberg and it just was like a penknife cutting right through the metal at the level just under the water - and it went down at a terrific rate, as everybody knows. There was terrible loss of life. The cause for the sinking of Titanic is not just the iceberg but human pride.

Well, Reverend Harper was offered a seat in one of the lifeboats. And as he turned round, he saw a poor drunkard beside him, and Harper said, "No." He said, "Give my seat to this man. I'm ready to meet God. This man isn't," he said. And the next thing is this beloved Baptist minister found himself in the water - cold, icy water. And there were lots of them swimming around.

As Harper came in the water to a man beside him, he cried out: "My friend, are you saved? Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!" Thus saying, Harper went down and was drowned and died a heroic death. But this other man was picked up, mercifully! Not many were, but he was! And he was taken to America and he testified: "Mr. Harper the faithful and beloved man died courageously, and as he was dying, he was preaching still to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ!"

How does a man get that courage? How can a man offer another person his seat when it's certain death to do so? How can a man be preaching confidently of Christ when the waters are coming over his body and mind, almost over his soul? The answer is: he has a strong tower - the Lord Jesus! He knows that God is with him! He knows that all the trials of life cannot destroy him! And his instinct is to flee to God. "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." (Proverbs. 18:10).

 Much Blessings...

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Apostolic Inspiration

Unflinching Faith That Always Gets The Reward!

"Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." (Mark 11:24).

The first step to receive whatever you need from God is to pray believing that you will receive what you are going to pray for, and then once you have prayed for it, keep believing that you have received what you have asked God. It is faith that you have received through that believing prayer that stays with you after your prayer have been done, then it is how you hold that faith will decide whether you will really receive what you have prayed for. If you continue to hold on your faith, you will have what you have prayed for (Mark 11:13-14, 20-21).

Once you have the faith of God, speak with faith against all the mountains of unbelief that the devil will bring against you to stop you from reaching what you have asked from God (Mark 11:23). God always without fail sends His angelic host of heaven to fulfill the command of faith that His children have spoken (2 Cor 4:13). Until it will be fulfilled in the natural, they keep working on behalf of the children of God who have continued to believe what they have spoken by faith. The moment a person fails to hold on to the faith that God has given to them, they fail to give permission to God's supernatural intervention to be fully fulfilled in the natural. Many miracles are aborted half way and before the set time of God, because many have failed to endure and hold on to God's promise until the end. God has His own appointed time for your miracle to be released in to the physical realm. So it is one thing to believe, but it is totally another thing to believe patiently until we have fully done the will of God to receive the promise of His reward each time in His appointed time (Heb 10:35-36). The key to the success of our prayer of faith is in how we endure till the reward for our faith arrives. Some times instantly the answer will come, other times it might take some time and still at some other instances it might take years for the fulfillment of His promise. But no matter what time the reward for our faith arrives, when we receive it from God we will be so blessed through it forever because God would have already got so pleased with our lives.

If you let you faith overcome by doubts, you will lose what you have prayed for (James 1:6). Faith is to believe what you have not seen, but the reward for your faith is to see what you have believed (Heb 11:6). When you cannot believe for what you need, it is not wrong to ask God to help your unbelief (Mk.9:24). God will surely do a miracle to restore your faith in Him and His mighty power. To acknowledge that we cannot believe for something in our own strength is not weakness, but a real humility which will bring great grace of God to release a mighty faith in to our life (James 4:2, 6).

Much Blessings.....


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