Vision Alive

  When you count your blessings, it means you’re being grateful. It helps you recognise and admit God’s favour and mercies even over little things in life, that would’ve possibly been overlooked. It makes you more and more positive and optimistic. Simply because, you can’t be pessimistic and grateful at the same time. You can’t be murmuring and thanking simultaneously. God led the people of Israel miraculously out of the land of Egypt. Their eyes saw wonders that no one had ever seen before nor after till date. ·        The Red Sea was parted so they could cross over the dry land, the same Red Sea drowned the Egyptians. ·        God fed them with manna throughout their journey in the wilderness. ·        He was their pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by day. ·        Lifting of Moses’ hands brought victory to Israelites from the Amalekites. ...

Acts 27 is a familiar chapter that talks about the shipwreck of Paul. Paul undertook three missionary journeys in his lifetime. This is Paul’s fourth and final missionary journey to Rome, where Paul was taken as a prisoner and would be tried before Caesar. Along with 276 other prisoners, Paul was travelling in a ship from Caesarea to Rome. This missionary trip is largely different from the other three. During the other journeys, Paul chose to travel to places he wanted so he could further the gospel. Not so this time; he is now a prisoner and had to go where he was taken. And the bad news is that the ship would soon go through a storm. These three verses are easy to ignore, because they are full of some names, names of places and names of men. However, these verses point to the favour of God that was so extensively available for Paul in the midst of the hardships that he was going through. Every individual mentioned here were not there by chance. You will find that God had specia...

If I told you that iron could float on water, I bet you wouldn’t believe. And if I told you, the sun and the moon wouldn’t revolve for a day. You would call me crazy. And if I said, a fiery furnace cannot burn you although you are in the midst of it. You wouldn’t dare invite me into your house again. But you know they are true, God did them in the past. But to believe that He could do the same thing today is so difficult! Most of us don’t have a problem believing what God already did. We have a problem in believing that God can do it now. In our life. In our families. In our children’s lives. In our workplace. There are certain laws of nature that pervades through the entire universe. And, although, the crown of creations, human beings are equally subjected to these laws. But, not our Creator! He can reverse the law when he feels like. He can pause them when he wants to. He can undo them. Or even delete them. Because He is the one who coded them. B ib...

Two days back, while watching news on Television, my five-year-old daughter suddenly came up to me and asked me something. What she asked kind of surprised me. She said, “Why mama, everywhere and every time, it is all about corona, corona, corona…. “ The impact that this invisible organism has caused is tremendous. It’s across age groups, across geographical boundaries, across economic status and it transcends all man-made divisions. The question to us is as Christians, what should be our response or our reaction in a time such as this. I just want to highlight two things from the scripture today: 1. GOD IS IN CONTROL Ps 99:1 – The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; Psalm 47:8. God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne. These two verses remind us that God is supreme. And that He is in control. Although this is totally unprecedented, God knew it would happen. He knows why this is happening. And he also knows exactly how long this is going ...

It is very human to expect miracles to happen in the usual way. You think of something exciting and hope things would happen the way you planned. But remember miracles are miracles because they do not happen the usual way. They happen the God's way. Are you facing a touch situation in your life and waiting for a breakthrough? Do you know for certain that only a divine intervention can solve your problem? Moses was in a similar situation. The thousands of Israelites cried against Moses, because they were tired of eating manna for days together. But what else could they find in the wilderness, other than that divine provision? Where would Moses go to get meat for the murmuring and craving people? Annoyed, Moses felt he was a failure. He sought death rather than facing that situation. At that juncture, God promises to do a miracle. Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearin...

I don’t know if there is anyone who likes to wait. Do you? Waiting is hard, frustrating and at times can test our faith. Desires we long for, prayers we’ve been praying about or news we’re waiting to hear can tempt us to be impatient, to be discouraged, to worry or to even wonder if God really cares. When God tells us to wait, trust Him. Trust Him completely. God has your best interest in His mind. Here are three things to remember even as you are waiting. 1.  God prepares you inwardly to receive the blessing or in other words God is working on your character God uses your waiting periods to prepare godly character in you. Interestingly in ladder of faith that Peter writes about in 2 Peter 1:6, godliness follows perseverance. Godliness does not follow faith or knowledge but it follows perseverance. When you wait, you develop patience and thereby godliness. The period of 40 years, from the time Moses received the vision from God to when it was actually f...

You host a party. Who would be in your invite list? Family. Obviously! Friends. Oh. They are the must. Else, what’s the fun? VIPs. Of course, they add to the nobility of the party. Neighbours. Why not? Strangers. Why would you? Random people for no reason! Definitely not. They don’t deserve your invite. But if there’s one invite that transcends all boundaries, be it ethnicity, religion or socio-economic status, it is the invite from the Man on the Cross. The Lent Days reminds us of this Great Invitation. Invitation to the troubled and the weary world (Matt 11:28). Invitation to approach the throne of God boldly, through His work on the cross (Heb 4:16). Invitation that washes away our sins and offers us a new life in Christ (2 Cor 5:17). Invitation that gives us joy and peace (John 14:27). Invitation that promises us ‘exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can ask or think’ (Eph 3:20) Invitation that offers us rest (Mat 11:28). What a...