Christmas Gift

Dear beloved, today I would like to present to you the greatest Christmas gift :
Luke 1:26-30
" REJOICE highly FAVOURED one, the LORD IS WITH YOU; BLESSED are you among women!..You have found favour with God."

1 ▪ REJOICE my friends! Just as the angel brought a special greeting of joy to Mary so we are also greeted with the same joy from heaven. Hallelujah! We know that the Joy of the Lord is our strength. Apostle Paul said in Phl 4:4 (Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!) 
- Ps. 33:1 (Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful.) 
Let's rejoice with music, songs, dance and celebrate Jesus with all our hearts, not just on special occasions like this but daily. 

God wants you to rejoice because : 
2 ▪ You are Highly favoured one.
- Ps. 30:5 (His favour is for Life, weeping may endure for a night, 
But Joy comes in the morning.)
- Luke 1:30 declares that you have found favour with God. - Amen!

If you are highly favoured one, than for sure...
3 ▪ The Lord is with you. His glorious presence is with us!
- Luke 1:31-33 (He'll be called Jesus, Son of the Highest...)
His name is JESUS - He will save His people from sins. He shall be called Immanuel - "God is with us." ( Matthew 1:21-23)

If God is with us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31). We are truly a blessed generation. 
4 ▪ Blessed are you my dear friends. 
Why do you think Mary is called "blessed"? It's because in Luke 1:34-35 it's written
("...The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.")
Likewise if you believe in this Saviour Jesus, you too are blessed.
- Acts 1:8 (Jesus said: "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.")
We are amazingly blessed because of the divine gift of the Holy Spirit to be God's chosen ambassadors on earth.

Beloved, as we celebrate the birth of our King of kings and Saviour Jesus Christ our LORD of lords,  let's receive: His gift of Joy and shout 'Rejoice!'; His unmerited Favour that will help us to show favour to the needy; His Presence that'll reveal Christ in us to others and His awesome Blessings that'll overflow from us to the world He loves.

"Joy to the world the Lord is come, let us receive the King of glory...
Blessed Christmas & have a Favour filled New Year!"
with love Rev.B.Kumarathevan - Josephine & kids (Judith, Kenrick, Joash & Joanna)

Let’s Proclaim Liberty! (Part 1)

EVERY human being yearns to live in freedom. Countries which ones lived under colonial rule, celebrates their independence day so grandly each year because of the joy obtained after many years of sufferings.

Nobody wants to be in slavery. In fact it’s not God’s intention to keep anyone in bondage either. But because of the human’s sin nature, he or she is under the clutches of Satan who constantly keeps them bound to sin, sickness and death.

Anyway, the good news is, we don’t have to be subjected to any kind of bondages if we believe in the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross. When we put into practice what we read from the Word of God, we too can live in total liberty and set others free.

Lev 25:9-10 MKJV

(9) Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth of the seventh month; in the Day of Atonement, the trumpet shall sound throughout all your land.

(10) And you shall make the fiftieth year holy, one year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you, and you shall return each man to his possession, and you shall return each man to his family.

The word “Jubilee” comes from the Hebrew word yobel meaning a trumpet or ram’s horn – the Jews proclaim the great Day of Atonement with the blast of a ram’s horn (shofar). Jubilee also means “to move around”. All Jews who sold themselves into slavery or in debt were released from their bonds and given freedom.

Jews still practise the blowing of shofar. It is also practiced in many churches as an act of prophetic declaration of liberty. We can still be released from our bondages – bondage of habitual mistakes or becoming enslaved to a certain type of habit with the help of Jesus Christ who is our atonement. He sacrificially died on our behalf as a penalty of our sin and thus united us with God.

As it is written in Eph 4:8 (When He ascended on high, He lead captivity captive, and gave gifts to men). Yes, I truly believe that Jesus our Messiah who defeated death and has ascended on high will certainly deliver those who are in captivity (slaves to sin etc.) and lead them (march them out as Captain of Host) to be captives/slaves of righteousness in Christ.

Paul wrote: (2Co 5:21 MKJV) For He has made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

(Rom 6:16 MKJV) Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

(Rom 6:19 MKJV) I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

On the Day of Atonement, a momentous once-in-a-lifetime occasion the shofar was blast to declare liberty.

Friends, we don’t have to wait for a particular season or time to act upon God’s word. If we believe who we are in Christ and our position in the Kingdom of God, we should unite our hearts to proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.

Be assured that you have been given the authority by God through Christ to declare freedom over your family, church, city in which you live, community around you and your beloved nation.

It shall be a jubilee to all of us and we shall return to our possession and establish the family unit in righteousness according to the Word of God. NOW is the TIME!!

Let’s declare: “We no longer bound in any kind of slavery or in debt; we were released from bonds and were given freedom in Christ Jesus our deliverer, amen!”

…to be continued

By: B.Kumarathevan

BLESSED CHRISTMAS 2010

Christ Jesus-the greatest love story,

Hosanna to the King of glory!

Rejoice O heaven and earth,

Immanuel! God with us to bring

Salvation and peace on earth;

Truth and grace revealed through Jesus Christ,

Messiah was born to give us life;

Arise and shine for your light has come,

Share His goodness and mercy to all mankind.

Amen.

Let’s celebrate JESUS the reason for the season. God bless you and your entire family and church abundantly. Shalom!

with LOVE: rev.Kumarathevan-Josephine & family

Gua Musang, Kelantan, Malaysia.

RUN WITH JC (Part 2)

Earlier in Part 1, I started the article with the story of Jesus at the age of twelve. Now, since we have run so fast, we are almost at the end of JC’s ministry.

Jesus began His powerful teaching and preaching ministry followed by signs, wonders, miracles and healings at the age of 30.
(Luke 3:23 ASV And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age...)

In three and a half years, JC ran with such a speed to fulfill His divine assignment on earth.
The success of Jesus’ ministry on earth was not ‘how big His church was’, or ‘how many followers or supporters He obtained’ or even ‘how many souls He saved’ etc but His success was in OBEYING the voice of the FATHER and being led by the HOLY SPIRIT.

Beloved, the beauty about this race is we are not running against our adversary the devil and his foes by our own strength or effort but God our rock and strength runs together with us.

Though, I know this truth for many years but it came to me like a revelation and confirmed my believe after I watched a glimpse of the remarkable father-son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt, and their inspirational journey together in a triathlon and life itself on U-tube.

More than twenty years ago, Rick Hoyt ran a 5 kilometer while pushing his disabled son in a wheelchair. After the race his son told him that while racing he did not feel disabled. They have since competed in over a hundred triathlons and marathons together. This video clip is truly remarkable and highly inspirational.

In the first place, why do we need to run?
1Co 9:24-27 MKJV Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. (25) And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (26) So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air. (27) But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

Friends, can you see the passion that Paul the apostle had to be part of the great race. He proclaims that he treat his body severely and make it his slave (not to sin but to obedience to God) in order to win the challenge.

I believe, you can agree with me that we are not trained just to ‘run for fun’. However, we ought to run the race to achieve something valuable and to receive an incorruptible crown. Run in such a way to win. I mean, we got to be focused and not run with uncertainty.

In the recent reality TV show ‘The Biggest Loser Asia’, one man called ‘king David’ became the winner after he managed to lose a substantial amount of weight and out beating many of his contenders. At his victory, he said that he definitely couldn’t have won this challenge without a proper training and motivation by his coach.

Just imagine, if a man and his contenders can put so much effort with the help of their coaches to win a particular challenge, how much more we should trust our Great Coach who runs with us to win the spiritual race set before us.

1Jn 4:4 MKJV You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1Jn 5:4-5 MKJV For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. (5) Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1Co 15:57 MKJV But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.


July last year (2009) the LORD challenged me to run with JC and to expect great and glorious results in three and a half years. I am taking this challenge and want to challenge you as well:
“How many of you wanted to make history in your own ways with the help of God in 3 ½ years from now? You got to make the choice.”


Conclusion:
Isa 40:3-5 MKJV The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God. (4) Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth; (5) and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
29-31 He gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength. (30) Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; (31) but those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Saints of God, if we choose to run along with Jesus on the track that has been prepared for us, God will empower us and increase our strength so that we can run and not grow weary or faint but be able not just to run with such a speed but to soar on wings like eagles to fly high.

We ought to be victors!

The end.

1 WAY JESUS - ROAD SIGNS TO LIFE

STOP! LOOK! GO! :

"Road signs" are essential. If you don't follow..life is at stake.
Life's journey can be rough and tough at times but with proper road signs and clear directions it can make things pretty easier. Don't take your life for granted. If you follow the signs correctly, you can be at your rightful destination on time. When you know the WAY, you can lead others in this wonderful Journey of Life.
(Permission: You may download this to use it as an evangelistic tool. Please credit the creator/publisher. Don't change the contents without written permission. TQ)