YOU ARE MINE, MY CHILD

Is there any hope?

I wondered when I felt it was all over...

Will there be a bright future?

I thought when everything seemed dark...

Is there a chance of victory?

I thought when I met with failures every moment...

Will I be useful anymore?

I thought when I found myself useless...

Will there be a forgiveness?

I thought when I went away from God...

Will a mighty change happen?

I thought when the circumstances were against me...

Is this the end?

I thought when I found myself at the pit...

At the dejected moment, I asked God..

Do you love me still? I asked Him, when I hated myself..

Jesus Christ Smiled and answered..

"I thought of you when my disciples fled away from me..

 I thought of you when I was nailed on the cross...

 I think of you daily at all times as you are in the palm of My hand..

 I loved you and I will love you not because of your ability..

 But because of My grace and the price of blood I paid for you on the cross..

 My dear beloved child, I love you just as you are....

 YOU ARE MINE..!"

FAITH OF A LITTLE CHILD(A True Story)

Tess was a precious eight year old when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew  was that   he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to  an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn't have the   money for the doctor's bills and our house.

Only a very costly surgery could save him now and it was looking   like there was no-one to loan them the money. She heard   Daddy say to   her tearful Mother with whispered desperation, "Only a miracle can save him now."

Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from   its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out   on the floor   an counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be   exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing   the coins   back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the   back door and   made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door.

She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention   but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted  her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing.!!!

She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good.

Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!  "And what do you want?" the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice.

"I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages", he said without waiting for a reply to his question.

"Well, I want to talk to you about my brother," Tess answered back   in the same annoyed tone. "He's really, really sick... and   I want to buy a miracle."

"I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.

"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So  how much does a miracle cost?"

"We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but  can't  help you, " the pharmacist said, softening a little.

"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough,  I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs."

The pharmacist's brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does your brother need?"

"I don't know," Tess replied with her eyes welling up. "I just  know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my  Daddy  can't pay for it, so I want to use my money".

"How much do you have?" asked the man from Chicago.

"One dollar and eleven cents," Tess answered barely audibly. "And   it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to.

"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and  eleven   cents exact price of a miracle for little brothers."

He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped  her  mitten and said "Take me to where you live. I want  to see your   brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of   miracle you need."

That well dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon,  specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed   without charge   and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well. Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events  that had  led them to this place. "That surgery," her Mom whispered. "was a real miracle. I  wonder how much it would have cost?"

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost... one  dollar   and eleven cents ...... plus the faith of a little child.

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation  of  a higher law...... Believe in Jesus Christ and He will perform miracles in your life.

SORROW AND SIGHING SHALL FLEE AWAY

My dear friends,

            Bible says in Isaiah 35:10 “...Everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

“My dear child, your sorrow and sighing will flee away and I will fill your life with everlasting joy. You will obtain joy and gladness” says Holy Spirit to you in this New Year

Whatever the sorrow that you have faced in 2011 will flee away. As Bible says in Isaiah 60:20, surely your days of sorrow will end.

You might have walked in the path of darkness; you might have crossed the previous year wish so much of tears and pain; you might have lost all the hope of blessings in your life. Don’t get discouraged, my dear friend. God will remove the sorrow and sighing from your life. As God promises in John 16:20, your sorrow will surely turn into joy. Jesus Christ will wipe away all your tears. Not only that, He will also fill you with you an everlasting joy. If you clearly study Isaiah 35:10 you can understand that God will not fill you with joy momentarily but He will fill you with an everlasting joy. The joy that Jesus is going to give you in this new year will not be removed by anyone. No evil power or manly power can remove the joy that Jesus is going to place in your life in this New Year.

Let me share with you an incident that happened in my life and end this short message. One day in the year 2001 when I was studying my diploma final year I got a severe stomach pain that I would not able to bear at all. Soon I was diagnosed by a doctor and was told that I had big stones in my two kidneys. So my kidneys have enlarged and that caused me a severe pain. Doctor advised me to go for surgery. It was a very important year in my studies because whatever the percentage I am going to take in my final year alone will be counted for my diploma grade. Also I have to study well that year to pass in a government college entrance examination which was due on the next year. But because of the pain I could not able to concentrate on my studies at all. Sorrows and sighs filled my life. I began to hate my life to the core. As days were passing by, I was sitting in the early morning New Year 2002 service. I prayed with tears to God to give me a promise verse that will carry me through the New Year. Jesus answered my prayer by giving a promise from Zechariah 9:12. God says in that verse like this: “...Even today do I declare that I will render double to you.” I was overjoyed when I heard from God that He will give me double blessing. I placed my faith on Jesus and trusted Him with my whole heart. As He promised, on May 15, 2002 after a thorough check up doctors were amazed to see that my kidney was crystal clearly clean without even a small piece of stone. They couldn’t able to believe it and said that even surgery cannot remove stone like it was removed in me. Not only that, on June 2002 God enabled me to clear that government college entrance examination and graciously He gave me a B.Tech degree seat in that government college itself.

My dear friends, God removed sorrow and sighing from my life and filled me with everlasting joy. Medical studies state that the person who got kidney stone once in life will have the highest possibility to get it again. Doctors also thought that the same. But we serve a God who fills our life with everlasting joy. Now as I am writing this message today, ten years have been passed. But I never got any pain in my kidney till now in this ten years.

Our God Jesus Christ who removed sorrow and sighing from my life will do the same in your life too. You might have been struggling with sickness or sin. Don’t worry my friend. Bible says in Isaiah 59:1 “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” Our God is all powerful God. He will save you from the clutches of sin. Whatever be your sorrow, God will remove it and fill your life with His everlasting joy. Trust in Jesus Christ. You will receive miracle in your life. His peace will abide with you in this New Year. Have a Joyous new year, my friend.

“Your sun shall no more go down; neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of YOUR MOURNING SHALL BE ENDED.” – Isaiah 60:20

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CHOOSE JESUS AND BE BLESSED

YOU ARE WORTHY(TAKEN FROM INTERNET)

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill in his hand. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well, what if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still, the hands went up.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But, no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value in God's eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless.

Thought: The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we are, but in WHOSE we are. Remember one thing: JESUS IS YOUR FATHER AND YOU ARE HIS CHILD. THAT ALONE MAKES YOU WORTHY AND NOT ANYTHING ELSE.

DO YOU CARRY YOUR UMBRELLA? (TAKEN FROM INTERNET)

As a drought continued for what seemed an eternity, a small community of farmers was in a quandary as to what to do. Rain was important to keep their crops healthy and sustain the town people’s way of life. 

As the problem became more acute, a local pastor called a prayer meeting to ask for rain. Many people arrived. The pastor greeted most of them as they filed in. As he walked to the front of the church to officially begin the meeting he noticed most people were chatting across the aisles and socializing with friends. When he reached the front his thoughts were on quieting the attendees and starting the meeting. 

His eyes scanned the crowd as he asked for quiet. He noticed an eleven year-old girl sitting quietly in the front row. Her face was beaming with excitement. Next to her, poised and ready for use, was a bright red umbrella. The little girl's beauty and innocence made the pastor smile as he realized how much faith she possessed. No one else in the congregation had brought an umbrella. 

All came to pray for rain, but the little girl had come expecting God to answer. We all have something to learn from this young girl.

FAITH IS ALL IT TAKES

There was a woman who had suffered terribly from severe bleeding for twelve years, even though she had been treated by many doctors. She had spent all her money, but instead of getting better she got worse all the time. On those days of desperation and agony, she had heard about Jesus.

One day as Jesus came to preach in her town, she came in the crowd behind Him, saying to herself, “If I just touch His clothes, I will get well.”

She touched the cloak and her bleeding stopped at once. (Mark 5:25-29)

She just laid her hands on the hem of Jesus’ cloak, but she was healed. Her little faith in Jesus was very strong. She ran through the crowd that was keeping her away from Jesus. She might have had a difficult time reaching there; she might have fallen and hurt herself even more. But in her heart, she believed that if she could just reach Jesus, if she could just be a hand reach away from Him, if she could just touch the cloak of Jesus, she would be healed.

Yes sometimes we don’t realize that maybe just a little or an inch of faith is all it takes. There are many among us who have been suffering from long term illnesses. Some with cancer, some with heart diseases, some with diseases which never stop, like those whose eyes keep tearing, some who have dry coughs, some who has knee pains almost every day, some who can’t stand for long.

 Have you consulted with the doctor who gives life; the doctor who died for you; the doctor who still waits for you to come to Him and to call to Him?  

Jesus is not only waiting for the physically sick but also for all those who are spiritually down.Those who can’t give his or her full trust in the Lord, those who think that God doesn’t really have a part in their life, many others who just walked away because they had many negative incidents in their life. Sometimes we feel if there was a God, He wouldn’t have let this happened. But everything that happens in your life is a plan of God; A plan to bring you more nearer to Him. 

My dear friend, you may be physically or spiritually sick today. You might have lost all the hopes on people and on yourself. Turn to Him, for He is waiting with his hands stretched out for you.

All Jesus wants us to have is a little faith in Him, and trust Him.  If that woman believed that Jesus was all it takes for her to get healed, why not you, why not every one of us??

Turn to God; for He is your salvation, He knows what you’re going through. He is always ready and willing to heal you, call to Him.

Just a little faith is all it takes.                                                                                 

LONGING TO HAVE YOU BACK IN MY ARMS-LETTER FROM JESUS

My Dear Child,

            You had not come into this world by accident. I had created you in your mother’s womb with a great purpose for you. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. I had covered you in your mother’s womb. I clothed you with skin and flesh and had fenced you with bones. In my book all your days were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there were none of them. I carefully placed you inside my hands. It is my hand which brought you into this world out of your mother’s womb.

          From then on, I carried you at all times. I always looked at you with so much affection and loved you all through the years. You were safe in my arms. When there was a path of thorns, I lifted you onto my shoulders. It is I who walked on the path of thorns, not you. Even when I was hurt, I was happy that, you my child were safe.

            I loved to hear from you, your needs, desires and your feelings even though I know all about those before you speak them out. I provided you with all the good things from my storehouse in heaven. I loved you so much. Yet if you still feel and say that you need more love, I am ready to give myself once again on the cross for you. That is my love for you.

        But yet, desiring the worldly love, you left me alone. My heart was broken. With tears overflowing and longing to have you back, I stretched my arms and called you to return. My child, but you rejected my love again. Today at this moment, I am crying badly hurt not because you rejected me, but you have lost your peace and joy you had before. You are moving towards a dangerous path, lost in your desires without realizing that you are going to perish.

More than 2000 years before I came into this world and bore the pain of crucification, died and rose again for the condemned souls. Surely there can’t be any greater love than giving the life for someone. I shed every drop of my blood, tread the path of affliction and gave my life entirely only for you, my dear child. That’s my love for you. I love you really so much. Words can never describe my love I have on you.

            That is the reason why I decided to lay my life for you to save you. Don’t feel guilty because you moved away from me. My love for you has not reduced and it never ever will. Come back to my arms, my child. Even now if you still want me to prove my love for you, I am ready to come and die for you again. I can’t bear seeing you suffer without me. Return to me now, my dear child before it gets too late. I love you so much. I am waiting for you with wide open arms. I am not far away from you. I am just a word of prayer away. Longing to have you back in my arms and to hear from you.

With love words can’t express,

Your Ever Loving Dad,

JESUS CHRIST.

REMEMBER JESUS AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS

This morning I read a story on the web of a woman who was out Christmas hopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable. And after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the elevator with her two kids.

She was feeling what so many of us feel during the holiday season time of the year. Overwhelming pressure to go to every party, every housewarming, taste all the holiday food and treats, getting that perfect gift for every single person on our shopping list, making sure we don't forget anyone on our card list, and the pressure of making sure we respond to everyone who sent us a card. 

Finally the elevator doors opened and there was already a crowd in the car. She pushed her way into the car and dragged her two kids in with her and all the bags of stuff. When the doors closed she couldn't take it anymore and stated, "Whoever started this whole Christmas thing should be found, strung up and shot." 

From the back of the car everyone heard a quiet calm voice respond, "Don't worry we already crucified Him." For the rest of the trip down the elevator it was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. 

Don't forget this year to keep the One who started this whole Christmas thing in your every thought, deed, purchase, and word. If we all did it, just think of how different this whole world would be.

ONLY GOD KNOW HOW MUCH A PRAYER WEIGHS(INSPIRATIONAL FICTION TAKEN FROM INTERNET)

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food. John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store.

Visualizing the family needs, she said: 'Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can."

John told her he could not give her credit, as she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocerman that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family.

The grocerman said in a very reluctant voice, "Do you have a grocery list?

Louise replied "Yes sir"

"O.K." he said, put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries."

Louise, hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed. The eyes of the grocerman and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.

The grocerman staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, "I can't believe it." The customer smiled and the grocerman started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more. The grocerman stood there in utter disgust.

Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement. It was not a grocery list; it was a prayer which said: "Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands."

The grocerman gave her the groceries that he had gathered and placed on the scales and stood in stunned silence. Louise thanked him and left the store. The customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to John as he said, "It was worth every penny of it."

It was sometime later that John Longhouse discovered the scales were broken; therefore, only God knows how much a prayer weighs.