5 S’s to Develop your PR with God !

I think whoever has a Personal Relationship with God, I mean somebody who knows & understands God’s heart and seeks His face for everything and in every situation can have a life of abundance. Whether he / she is alone or in the midst of a crowd, his / her face sparkles with overflowing joy. He / she doesn’t have to declare that ‘I am a child of God.’ His / her sparkling face makes this fact clear to everybody.

Guilty consciousness for anything hinders us to have a good relationship with God, with others and even with our own self. We cannot have a life of Joy if we have a guilt conscience. We need to have a clear conscience to be at peace with God, with others as well as with our own self. A Personal Relationship with God gives us the sense of good and bad, so that we could have a life without blemish and also without guilt conscience. We can lead a joyous life.

There are few people in the Bible like Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, and Paul etc., who had walked in peace with God and with others in their whole lifetime. They had never spent any moment of their lives in guilt consciousness, because all of them had a wonderful personal relationship with the God Almighty.

How is your relationship with God today? Is there even a relationship exists with God? If the answer is NO, then I want to disclose few secrets of developing a good relationship with God in our daily lives as under:

1. Spending quality time with Him in Prayer.
2. Studying His word to know Him better.
3. Shedding all your tears only before Him.
4. Saving the first Place for Him in your life.
5. Sharing your Joy with others to magnify Him.

Dear friends! He is eagerly waiting for us to take the first step. Let’s build up a fresh relationship with God and be joyous & in peace with the Almighty, with others and with our own self.

How do I avoid temptation? – James 1:12

The first is to love God, which in the greek is agapao, meaning to be devoted. So we must counter temptation and sin by spending a huge amount of time thinking about God. Reading His Word, in prayer, making God a major focus in our life.

The second one is the importance of enduring. Just keep going, stay
on the path, being determined not to give up, even when other have departed. Stand firm!

The third one is to reduce the affect of temptation, is to desire the crown of life. The crown is a reward given by a king, and that king is God, and the reward ceremony will be in heaven! This is something we really need to work on, desiring our reward in heaven.

And the final one is to yearn to be blessed. Blessed refers to God’s favour, of God working through our life in amazing and wonderful ways.

So how do I reduce the affects of temptation in my life? we must seek to be devoted to God, to endure through the hardships, to desire after a reward in heaven and to yearn to be blessed. Praise God!!

"Christian fasting - what does the Bible say?"

Scripture does not command Christians to fast. God does not require or demand it of Christians. At the same time, the Bible presents fasting as something that is good, profitable, and beneficial. The book of Acts records believers fasting before they made important decisions (Acts 13:4; 14:23). Fasting and prayer are often linked together (Luke 2:37; 5:33). Too often, the focus of fasting is on the lack of food. Instead, the purpose of fasting should be to take your eyes off the things of this world to focus completely on God. Fasting is a way to demonstrate to God, and to ourselves, that we are serious about our relationship with Him. Fasting helps us gain a new perspective and a renewed reliance upon God.

Although fasting in Scripture is almost always a fasting from food, there are other ways to fast. Anything given up temporarily in order to focus all our attention on God can be considered a fast (1 Corinthians 7:1-5). Fasting should be limited to a set time, especially when fasting from food. Extended periods of time without eating can be harmful to the body. Fasting is not intended to punish the flesh, but to redirect attention to God. Fasting should not be considered a “dieting method” either. The purpose of a biblical fast is not to lose weight, but rather to gain deeper fellowship with God. Anyone can fast, but some may not be able to fast from food (diabetics, for example). Everyone can temporarily give up something in order to draw closer to God.

By taking our eyes off the things of this world, we can more successfully turn our attention to Christ. Fasting is not a way to get God to do what we want. Fasting changes us, not God. Fasting is not a way to appear more spiritual than others. Fasting is to be done in a spirit of humility and a joyful attitude. Matthew 6:16-18 declares, “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

"Power of Repentance"

He who covers his sins WILL NOT prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them WILL have mercy. (Pro 28:13)

… "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (Matt 3:2)

Humbling ourSELVES and repenting isn’t a shame-faced, weak-spirited attitude, for God commands we come trustingly and boldly to His throne of grace. (Hebrews 4:16) Instead, repentance is a broken–hearted, sin-sorry, spiritual POWER returning us to our rightful, higher place WITH God. And, furthermore, it’s through repentance—the remission of our sins—that our Father grants his obedient children the “knowledge of salvation” (Luke 1:77) we need for breaking free of every hindrance blocking His blessings from our lives. And because Abba wants us freed from Satan’s snares even more than we do, He’s ordained His power of repentance as the key for unlocking those chains, in Jesus’ name!

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, "Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant." (Psalm 35:27)

~ ON WINGS AS EAGLES ~

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching
long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait
for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that
that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the
storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it.
The eagle does not escape the storm, it simply uses the storm to lift
it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm.


When the storms of life come upon us, and all of us will experience them,
we can rise above them by putting our faith in God. The storms do not
have to overcome us. We can allow the Lord to lift us above them.
God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness,
tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives. We can soar above
the storm. Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh
us down, it is how we handle them.


"But those who wait for the Lord (who expect, look for, and hope
in Him) shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift
their wings and mount up (close to God) as eagles (mount up close to the sun);
they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired."
(Isaiah 40:31)

Is it acceptable to repeatedly pray for the same thing?

In Luke 18:1-7, Jesus uses a parable to illustrate the importance of persevering in prayer. He tells the story of a widow who came to an unjust judge seeking justice against her adversary. Because of her persistence in prayer, the judge relented. Jesus’ point is that if an unjust judge will grant the petition of someone who perseveres in a request for justice, how much more will the God who loves us—“his chosen ones” (v. 7)—answer our prayer when we keep praying? The parable does not teach, as is mistakenly thought, that if we pray for something over and over, God is obligated to give it to us. Rather, God promises to avenge His own, to vindicate them, right their wrongs, do them justice, and deliver them from their adversaries. He does this because of His justice, His holiness, and His hatred of sin; in answering prayer, He keeps His promises and displays His power.

Jesus gives another illustration of prayer in Luke 11:5-12. Similar to the parable of the unjust judge, Jesus’ message in this passage is that if a man will inconvenience himself to provide for a needy friend, God will provide for our needs far more, since no request is an inconvenience to Him. Here again, the promise is not that we will receive whatever we ask if we just keep asking. God’s promise to His children is a promise to meet our needs, not our wants. And He knows our needs better than we do. The same promise is reiterated in Matthew 7:7-11 and in Luke 11:13, where the “good gift” is further explained to be the Holy Spirit.

Both of these passages encourage us to pray and to keep praying. There is nothing wrong with repeatedly asking for the same thing. As long as what you are praying for is within the will of God (1 John 5:14-15), keep asking until God grants your request or removes the desire from your heart. Sometimes God forces us to wait for an answer to our prayers in order to teach us patience and perseverance. Sometimes we ask for something when granting it is not yet in God's timing for our lives. Sometimes we ask for something that is not God's will for us, and He says “no.” Prayer is not only our presenting requests to God; it is God’s presenting His will to our hearts. Keep on asking, keep on knocking, and keep on seeking until God grants your request or convinces you that your request is not His will for you.