In His Time.......... with P.Ramachandran

  For the next two week, I will be doing the Great Commission Module for the HighPointe Life Leadership Training Centre. There are 12 lessons in this module. We have about 29 participants, including four from Sikkim. Thanking God for the opportunity. Happy to see Pst John Rahul and Depark after some time.

This morning I spoke from Matthew 3:11 -    "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. I suggested   three important ways the Spirit is like a fire in the life of a Christian:  ·        The overwhelming Presence of God. The overwhelming Passion for God The overwhelming  Perseverance for  God    For the full message go to:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuPobASKaWE&t=400s F

Rejoice with us. My heart is overflowing with joy. Finally we were able to get some updates from our CPs in Myanmar. The current political upheaval has made travel and communications extremely difficult. In spite of the political crisis and the Covid pandemic, the work of God is still moving on. These places are in remote areas where Covid has not reached. But the military has beaten and imprisoned some of our CPs.  But you can see the work of the Holy Spirit even through difficult times, just like in the Book of Acts. Some pictures from the workers in two different places in Northern Chin state: and Paletwah region.  Extremely grateful to PEC Coordinator Pst John Phongshar  and  his wife Seng Mai Serah for all the hard work done through this partnership.   To God be the glory.

Psalms 19:14  - May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart   be pleasing in your sight,   Lord , my Rock and my Redeemer. Most of the prayers we make are often the “bless me” ones and it includes and entourage people we are accustomed to or the basic necessities in life.  But the prayer that we read above, can only be made by a person who is really after the heart of God. Many times I have read this verse, prayed and sung it too but never really understood the significance of this prayer. This is because if one is honest with oneself, we will find that in our lives our words and our thoughts always fall short of God’s standard. That is why this a often a dangerous prayer to make. While David puts the mouth and heart in sequence, Jesus revers the order when He said in  Luke 6:45  -  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth...

Matthew 16:25 - Then Jesus said to his disciples,  “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.  Jesus made this statement after Peter's revelatory  understanding, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God,” and the subsequent harsh rebuke by Jesus when Peter tried to dissuade the Master from heading to the cross. Jesus was dead serious about His cross and He expects us to carry our own, if we want to be His disciples. The point is as disciples, each one of us has a different cross to carry. The cross that I carry may not be the  same  as yours. Yet we can draw some lessons from the statement Jesus made: Jesus was focused on the Purpose of His cross.   The Lord knew what He was on this earth. He knew His time was short. But no matter what that purpose had to be fulfilled. And nothing could discourager Him from achieving His purpose. His cross was always at the centre of  His journey, every...

Lamentations 3:22-23 - Because of the  Lord ’s great love we are not consumed,  for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;  great is your faithfulness. Lamentations in Hebrew is "Eikah" which means "How." It is believed that this book was written by the prophet Jeremiah. The book contains five poems that laments over the condition of the city of Jerusalem. The people of Israel and Judah failed to regard the many warnings the Lord made, asking them to repent of their sins. But they did not. The city was burnt to the ground and utterly demolished by the Babylonians in 586 BC, in contrast to the magnificent splendour that it once possessed.  The reason for God's chastisement on the people of Judah and on the city of Jerusalem are spelled out in the form of an appeal made to God to remember the great suffering of his people. In spite  of the terrible situation in captivity, the prophet was still able to see the heart of God ...

Ezekiel 9:4-6 - and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem  and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.” 5  As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.  6  Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.   I see God segregating those who have grieved and lamented over all the detestable things that are done in the city. These people will not be destroyed. But the rest are to be slaughtered and it started from those in leadership. As I reflect this scripture with the current situation, I see God trying to look for a group of people who will grieve and lament over what is going around us .  So many things are happening...