The tears I shed at your feet are the sweetest of all the tears I shed!
The words I speak in secret closet with you, Lord, are the truest of all I ll be proud of in eternity!The hunger I experience when I seek you, Lord, is the most beneficial than all the world's experience.
O Lord of Mercy! Consume me completely!
Let me be broken, my tears from a contrite heart be like sweet incense at your court!
I ve found the greatest of all joys when I cry and empty my heart at your feet.
O Lord, Give me more of this!
Let all tears n joys of this life I live, be with You!
Let me not be away from you for a single second!
Let not a day pass by, without spending time with you!
You are the closest friend of all humanity; which humanity could never imagine to grasp what a great gift it is to them.
I celebrate tears for your comfort is tangible!
I celebrate life for in it, I ve found You!
I celebrate trials for it brings this wretch closer to You!
I ll celebrate death for it takes me to You!
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Real Men of faith!
Hear these words,
"We never lost hope because up there there’s God Almighty and I have a lot of faith in Him, and I knew He was going to help us... We prayed together all the time"
"We were born again," he said. "This has been a miracle from God because we never lost hope."
Do you wonder who told these words? Three mexican fishermen in Times newspaper and Los Angeles Times.
Do you want to know their story? click this link and be inspired!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2315617,00.html
Faith in action and perseverance of fellowship, bible reading and prayer in hopeless real life situation.
If it cant inspire you,then.....?
"We never lost hope because up there there’s God Almighty and I have a lot of faith in Him, and I knew He was going to help us... We prayed together all the time"
"We were born again," he said. "This has been a miracle from God because we never lost hope."
Do you wonder who told these words? Three mexican fishermen in Times newspaper and Los Angeles Times.
Do you want to know their story? click this link and be inspired!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2315617,00.html
Faith in action and perseverance of fellowship, bible reading and prayer in hopeless real life situation.
If it cant inspire you,then.....?
Monday, August 14, 2006
Information or truth?
Have you heard some one preach and it was not just clappy clappy, applause oriented thing, but hits hard in the inside of you and makes you ponder on what it means. It happened yesterday in church to me.Yesterday, I had a very good teacher preach to my church. Many of what he preached struck a chord within me.
One striking words he spoke were,' Truth said and not lived out becomes just information'.
How true!
People know lots of stuff biblically and spiritually but if it's not good enough to be lived out. What they have at end is just information and not truth.
He further asked,' Are you presenting truth or just information?'
One of my favorite quote is by St.Francis d'Assisi:(paraphrased)
'Preach every second , seldom with words if necessary'
I love this quote, Its easy man, to do the talking part but its the doing part is what really needed for everyone.
Let me not be the one who does away with the words!
One striking words he spoke were,' Truth said and not lived out becomes just information'.
How true!
People know lots of stuff biblically and spiritually but if it's not good enough to be lived out. What they have at end is just information and not truth.
He further asked,' Are you presenting truth or just information?'
One of my favorite quote is by St.Francis d'Assisi:(paraphrased)
'Preach every second , seldom with words if necessary'
I love this quote, Its easy man, to do the talking part but its the doing part is what really needed for everyone.
Let me not be the one who does away with the words!
Friday, August 11, 2006
Can I be frank?
Is it right? Recently, I heard a random saying in a movie, 'To be frank is to be foolish' . I wonder.. is it?
Some judge.. very frank words. Some advise that it is wrong. To maintain an image (a christian image)... you should say only polically correct statements. You cant say words, feelings which are not right to be said... I ve heard so many different advices on the same issue. Sometimes, it overwhelms, I say to myself... I dont have the wisdom to judge what to say and not to say. I ll take time off and I ll find my one place.
There is one place, where I can go with no fear of these advices and judgements. Where, I ll not be judged for what I say but judged on whether I m true to myself when I say those words.
When I go to the feet of Jesus, I dont have to worry of anything about this stuff. I can be perfectly honest.
Jesus, I feel so down today,... I feel so tempted.....Jesus, I missed and made a mess.....Jesus, I feel ....; I can be as frank as possible.
I think with God, I can be utterly honest. You dont have to worry of anything, You can pour your heart. I find Psalmist pouring his heart at times with full anger on his enemies to God.
Few experiences made me aware, People love cliches rather than honest and frank words. Sometimes, frank open talk offends, hurts and does so many unwanted things. (the converse is true sometimes, who knows when to open up or remain closed).That leaves me to seek God, to whom I can be 100% open...
God prefers honesty and frankness than cleverly engineered words or superfluous cliches.
But with God, I can say what I feel and ask help.
Some judge.. very frank words. Some advise that it is wrong. To maintain an image (a christian image)... you should say only polically correct statements. You cant say words, feelings which are not right to be said... I ve heard so many different advices on the same issue. Sometimes, it overwhelms, I say to myself... I dont have the wisdom to judge what to say and not to say. I ll take time off and I ll find my one place.
There is one place, where I can go with no fear of these advices and judgements. Where, I ll not be judged for what I say but judged on whether I m true to myself when I say those words.
When I go to the feet of Jesus, I dont have to worry of anything about this stuff. I can be perfectly honest.
Jesus, I feel so down today,... I feel so tempted.....Jesus, I missed and made a mess.....Jesus, I feel ....; I can be as frank as possible.
I think with God, I can be utterly honest. You dont have to worry of anything, You can pour your heart. I find Psalmist pouring his heart at times with full anger on his enemies to God.
Few experiences made me aware, People love cliches rather than honest and frank words. Sometimes, frank open talk offends, hurts and does so many unwanted things. (the converse is true sometimes, who knows when to open up or remain closed).That leaves me to seek God, to whom I can be 100% open...
God prefers honesty and frankness than cleverly engineered words or superfluous cliches.
But with God, I can say what I feel and ask help.
Friday, August 04, 2006
When my inside spoke few lines
Have you ever been in a situation like this? You are doing your ordinary chores of life. You start to think of God.. Thoughts upon thoughts, gradually intensifying inside you.... Then words start appearing which make a sensible line or two.....Then lines upon lines flow.....
You speak them out to yourself.....
One such incident happened to me, which gave words to the churning inside. I put those lines out
Money, I dont need but Character, You give, I need
Fame, I dont need but Humility, You give, I need
Its not enough of me knowing about you, I want to KNOW You intimately
Its not enough of me speaking about you, I want to TRANSFORM into You
All my thirstings and hunger be for You
All my yearnings and dreams be for You
You should be my life. Nothing else...
You should be my ALL. Nothing else
Let everything fade away in my life but You.
Oh Changeless, Unfailing Loving God!
Nothing else deserves any worth but You.
How can all words in the world be enough to touch a glimpse of You!
How can all songs written be enough to praise You of which You are worthy of!
I realise, I m a baby babbling ......
You speak them out to yourself.....
One such incident happened to me, which gave words to the churning inside. I put those lines out
Money, I dont need but Character, You give, I need
Fame, I dont need but Humility, You give, I need
Its not enough of me knowing about you, I want to KNOW You intimately
Its not enough of me speaking about you, I want to TRANSFORM into You
All my thirstings and hunger be for You
All my yearnings and dreams be for You
You should be my life. Nothing else...
You should be my ALL. Nothing else
Let everything fade away in my life but You.
Oh Changeless, Unfailing Loving God!
Nothing else deserves any worth but You.
How can all words in the world be enough to touch a glimpse of You!
How can all songs written be enough to praise You of which You are worthy of!
I realise, I m a baby babbling ......
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Fellow ....s..h..i..p!. Do we need it?
My past few months, i found some acceptable excuses for not being there in fellowship and other activities. My heart reminded me of so many scriptures regarding fellowship in the bible, 'Do not forsake the gathering' and Psalms 133, 'How good and pleasant is brothers living in community' etc.. I argued that I have another fellowship in my house so I can cut church fellowship on those subtle excuses. Then I felt so bad.... like something important is not there in my life.
That made me to attend after nearly two months, my church fellowship. How can I express what happened there fully?
It was conviction.... I felt so bad... Every words my fellow friends spoke were like God speaking into my life what I need to do.. I found of glimpses of Jesus speaking in and through all of them to me. Ministering, encouraging, exhorting, building each others faith. Oh, What big a loss for me to be without it for a month?
The conviction which started was complete, when my fellow friend in Christ, prayed for me. Oh, What can I say? Its as if exactly my life was examined through God's eyes and the friend prayed in Spirit exactly what I was needed. I never told her to pray for issues. But as she started to pray, i felt so strongly convicted and helpless but to cry as she was praying for all the things i needed but i never prayed for.
I cried. I m 100% sure in seeing God's work thro' His people.
Fellowship - Its the place, where God speaks to You, where God speaks through You.
Its where God prays for you through others, and God uses you to pray for others.
We are the body of Christ together, individually we are hands, or eyes or legs, we are meant to coexist and live in codependency and never meant to be alone.
I learnt it in a real way, where I saw God act and speak to me.
Experience is a costly teacher, but its lessons are invaluable.
That made me to attend after nearly two months, my church fellowship. How can I express what happened there fully?
It was conviction.... I felt so bad... Every words my fellow friends spoke were like God speaking into my life what I need to do.. I found of glimpses of Jesus speaking in and through all of them to me. Ministering, encouraging, exhorting, building each others faith. Oh, What big a loss for me to be without it for a month?
The conviction which started was complete, when my fellow friend in Christ, prayed for me. Oh, What can I say? Its as if exactly my life was examined through God's eyes and the friend prayed in Spirit exactly what I was needed. I never told her to pray for issues. But as she started to pray, i felt so strongly convicted and helpless but to cry as she was praying for all the things i needed but i never prayed for.
I cried. I m 100% sure in seeing God's work thro' His people.
Fellowship - Its the place, where God speaks to You, where God speaks through You.
Its where God prays for you through others, and God uses you to pray for others.
We are the body of Christ together, individually we are hands, or eyes or legs, we are meant to coexist and live in codependency and never meant to be alone.
I learnt it in a real way, where I saw God act and speak to me.
Experience is a costly teacher, but its lessons are invaluable.
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