Read :   Psalms 51: 1-12  “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” - Matthew 5:8 According to the Scripture, “heart” refers to what goes on in the core of our being. The heart is more than just a seat of emotions. It is the source from which all thoughts originate. In Matthew 15:19, Jesus said, “For out of the heart come evil thoughts - murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” The heart is the storehouse of both the good and evil

Read : Matthew 16: 17-19 “How can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? ...” - Matthew 12:29 Jesus has given us the authority to demolish the strongholds of Satan. In order to defeat Satan, we need to do two things. First, we should use the name of Jesus. Before the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, because He is the Lord. (Philippians 2: 9,10) Every demon from hell knows the authority of that name. Second

Read : Matthew 6: 25-34 “... Each day has enough trouble of its own” - Matthew 6:34 Joni Eareckson writes as follows: “Don’t grasp for the future, Joni,” my dad used to say, “Pay attention to the present.” That’s the way my daddy lived, and that’s the way he worked. Whenever my dad would build stone walls on the farm, he wouldn’t rush. He would pick up a rock, brush off the dirt, turn it over in his hands and line it up this way and that, trying to place it just right. He

Read : Psalm 14:1-5 “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God. ...” - Psalm 14:1 “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God. ...” (Psalm 14:1) Bishop Thorbum was once crossing the Indian Ocean in a boat in which two British women were travelling. Every day they used to argue about atheism with Bishop Thorbum. As the journey neared its end, one of the women said, “Bishop, we do not wish to be impertinent, but we wonder how you could listen respectfully to our argument

Read : Daniel 10:2-14 “Pray continually.” - I Thessalonians 5:17 “Prevailing prayer is the prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives away all the opposing forces of Satan and secures the will of God,” writes Wesley Duewel. Why should we prevail in prayer? Firstly, to oppose Satan in his battle for souls. When we pray for an unsaved person to yield to Christ, we are praying in harmony with God’s will. But we are praying in direct opposition to

Read : Matthew 4: 1-11 “... Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.” - II Corinthians 2:11 Satan uses many devices to attack God’s children. First, he chooses his own time of attack - the weaker moments in our lives. Satan tempted Jesus when He was fasting in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights. Satan considered this as the best time to tempt Jesus because of various reasons as follows: Firstly , after Jesus was baptised with the Holy Sp

Read : Romans 3:22-26 ; John 3:16 “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” - Romans 3:23-24 At the Cross, God’s love and His justice meet each other. Imagine you are going very fast on a highway, breaking the speed limit, and you are caught by a policeman, who also happens to be your close friend. If the policeman lets you go without punishing you, he would fail to exerc

Read : Deuteronomy 7:3-16 “Therefore, come out from them and be separate,” says the Lord.”  - II Corinthians 6:17 God calls us to live a separated life. In Scripture, separation is not isolation. God commanded Abraham to leave Ur and go to the land that He would show him. On reaching that place, Abraham was allied with some of his neighbors, and together they defeated the invaders and rescued the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet, Abraham never lived as his neighbors did,

Read : Mark 11:12-14 & 20-25 “... whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” - Mark 11:24 When Jesus was leaving Bethany, He was hungry. He approached a fig tree which was full of leaves. The presence of leaves could mean the presence of fruit. So hoping to find figs, Jesus drew near it, but He could not find any fruit there. He cursed the tree saying, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” The next day, when Jesus and His

Read : Titus 1:7-9  “(Be)... blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.”  - Philippians 2:15 The last command which Jesus gave His disciples was to preach the gospel throughout the world. Accordingly, they went in different directions and proclaimed the Word. And Thomas was the one who came to India as a missionary carrying the gospel of Christ. These men of God and those who came af

Read : Jonah 3:3-10 “A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed - without remedy.” - Proverbs 29:1 Nineveh was a cruel, violent, idolatrous city, ripe for divine judgment. God commanded Jonah to go and warn Nineveh that God’s judgment would fall upon it. But Jonah refused to go because he knew that Assyria was the enemy of his own country Israel. Therefore, Jonah was reluctant to carry the message to Nineveh which, he thought, might avert G

Read : Nehemiah 2: 2-9 “The One who breaks open the way will go up before them, they will break through the gate and go out. ...” - Micah 2:13 William Carey, as a young man, wanted to go to India and preach the good news. A senior Baptist minister in the committee said, “Young man, sit down. When God wishes to convert the heathen, He’ll do so without your help or mine.” Carey was unmoved. He was willing to step out in faith, willing to take the risk, trusting in His God. Th

Read : Nehemiah 1: 4-10 "... I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.”  - Nehemiah 1:4 On hearing the news about the city of Jerusalem, Nehemiah, who was at the time in the palace at Susa, developed a deep concern over the affairs of the city. He could not immediately do anything to alleviate the problem. He mourned. He wept. But he did not stop with that. He took a decision to FAST & PRAY before the God of heaven! Nehemiah started fasting where he was. He

Read : Acts 11: 21-27 “... And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  - Matthew 28:20 There are certain other important guidelines for effective evangelisation and for soul-winning. First, “Be immersed in prayer.” Jesus’ life was immersed in prayer. In Matthew 14:23 and Mark 6:46 we read that “Jesus went up on the mountainside by Himself to pray.” We read in the gospels that Jesus spent even the whole night praying. In Matthew 26:41 Jesus advises us to

Read : Acts 11: 19-21 “... Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.” - Mark 16:15 The following are the guidelines for effective evangelisation. First - Be sure that you are saved. A person cannot give others something which he does not have! Ephesians 2: 8,9 says, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that none can boast.” If you have not received this free

Read : I Corinthians 9:16-23 “... My Father will honor the one who serves me.” - John 12:26 In Matthew 28:18-20, God has given us the Great Commission. This Great Commission is the command given to all, to everyone who is saved, not just to pastors and full- time Christian workers, everyone irrespective of who we are and what we do. We may be students, businessmen, professionals or housewives - that does not matter! We need to share the gospel - ”That Christ died for our

Read : Psalm 119: 89-96 "Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God." - John 1:12 We hear God when He speaks to us through the Bible, His Word. In it, He says certain important things about our identities. For example, God says that we are created in His image. (Genesis 1:27) With loving care, God formed each one of us as a unique person, each with exquisite details that give us an identity unlike any other p