Last night as I was lying on my lonely bed, wonderful thought of God’s Blessing strike my mind. I began to think how marvelously I have been blessed. His love, His caring hand, His grace, patience, kindness upon me inspite of all my mistakes, God is really GOOD. He is good. He placed me in the midst of all loving and caring people, my family, my Pastor, my youth leaders and my friends.

I used to share all these wonderful thought to my close friend Deepa, who used to sleep beside me. But now a days she is out of station and I am really missing her. She has always been my companion, my spiritual partner. We pray, talk, eat and share everything to each other.

So, today I want to give a special thanks to Jesus for giving me a friend like her. I wish you were with me tonight…….God Bess You Dear.

Act 4:29 “Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness”.

Last Saturday in Bible Study Pas. Daniel taught us about Persecution in Jesus name. The word “persecution” seems very dangerous or scary. But, as a Christian we have to face persecution if not than there is something wrong in us. If we see Peter, John and other disciples of Jesus, none of them died a normal death. They were all martyr for Christ’s sake. Sometimes they were put in prison, beaten up, burned but they never stop. Instead they prayed to God to give them more boldness to speak His word, to do more miracles, to open more ways to reach out to more people.

Though in these days we don’t face such kind of physical persecution, but we are persecuted everyday mentally, spiritually, emotionally and sometimes even physically. Persecution is a kind of test for us to make us more strong in our faith and walk with God. No matter how hard our life may seem, God cares for us and He will take care of us in every situation if we all BELIEVE in him and endure untill the end. Let us also prayed to God to give us more strength, more boldness to speak HIS LIVING word and stand firm in HIM.

Its great to be in His presence everyday and its more great when we really get to”smell” Him closely. It can be possible when we will be having a intimate relationship with Christ. And the greatest and most powerful tool to get close to God is PRAYER. That’s sounds Yammyyyy. You know why???……….when we really get the answer of our prayer and that’s where our faith grows with experience. And per I think when we pray we should pray in HOLY SPIRIT because that is the only language that the devil can’t understand. But we should also pray with the sincere heart and also according to God’s will. Prayer in my sense is just to speak with God about anything. So we should keep praying in every situation to utilise the riches stored for us in heaven and also used that talent for God’s purpose. Let’s do it and taste the wonderful answers each new day!!! God Bless You

Matthew 22:37 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”.

Millions and millions of people live in this world but only a few know and believe in Jesus. Among those few people we are included. Isn’t it great to know that God, the creator of the Universe, the owner of everything, the giver of our live, the Mighty King of all loves us and chooses us to be His beloved child, live with Him in his Kingdom forever. We just have to love Him back and live for HIM only.

In spite of our dreadful sins, He cleanse us with His precious blood and give us a new life in HIM. He loves us just as we are. So, let’s just love Him back with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind.

” God is always ready to meet people wherever they are, no matter how dreadful their sins may seem” Jim Cymbala ” The Life God Blesses”

Psalm 100:4-5 - Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

How many times in our lives we forget His kindness and all His love to us. Sometimes we are just too busy with all our activities and programs, we put God in the queue. People used to say that we tent to forget God when we are healthy and happy, but we would come to God when we are sick or when we are down.

But what is happening most of the time, we were just too busy in both of the situations. When we are happy and healthy, we were to busy to arrange our schedule and all the appointments, it is very easy for us to forget Him when all our needs are fulfilled. But in the other hand, when we were sick or down, we were just too busy to have pity on ourselves, complaining to God why these things happened in our lives, busy to find the way out and busy to weep and cry.

Psalm 100 doesn’t tell us to enter His gate with thanks giving when we are happy and healthy, neither it tells us to enter His gate with thanks giving only when we are down. We have to give Him thanks in all situation whether it is up or down.

We have to thank Him for His love and His faithfulness endures forever. We have to thank Him in many ways, there is no limitation in giving him your thanksgiving or praise.

Luke 10:41-42 “And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

I still remembered the lesson which I had learn in Bible study last year about the visit of Jesus to Mary and Martha. It was from the book of “Living Logos”. The lesson’s name was “One thing is needful”. Initially, I couldn’t understand about what is this things which Jesus said needful. Finally Jesus open my mind and now I understand the most needful things and that is “our relationship with God”.

As we have seen, when Jesus visited Mary’s house, Martha (Mary’s sister) was busy in cooking (may be she wants to prepare some special dish). She was so lost in her work that she doesn’t even have time to listen what Jesus was saying. On the other hand, her sister Mary sat on the foot of Jesus and listen to HIM. Seeing this Martha got annoyed and told Jesus to ask her sister to help her in cooking. Jesus answered her “Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Yes, it really makes me realized how important is to have time with Jesus. Sometimes we are so busy in ourself that we called to Him only when we need help. Many time we are busy in serving like arranging crusade programmes, church activities, and so on. I don’t mean that these are least important. Yes, Of course its important. But the most important to have a time with HIM. To have a wonderful relationship with Jesus. And this relationship can be build only when we give time to Jesus, just listen to him, talk to him in Prayer. Just like Mary lets just sit before the Lord with humble heart, pray, talk and listen to HIM.

“God is a speaking, communicating GOD but someone has to be listening on the other end” Jim Cymbala from “The Life God Blesses“

Since Jesus changed my life from upside down, from old creature to new creature and called me his BEST friend, I can’t stop myself from praising, loving, thanking and dancing for HIM. I am a DANCER for Jesus. I love to dance, praise and worship HIM.

I was baptized in 15 years and received Holy spirit (speaking in tongue) in 20. God filled my heart and my mouth in such a miracle ways that I spoke in tongue and move my body like a mad. Jumping, shouting and dancing all over our church floor. It was the MOST memorable and wonderful experience in my life I ever felt. But since then God renew the joy in me everyday..The more I praise, the more He become adorable. I feel like an angels dance around me when I dance for HIM. So I’ll keep on dancing, praising and worshiping HIM as long as He give me strength.

We will have another Crusade in February 2008, this will be the 3rd UPC Kolkata Crusade. We really hope that all of you would come and join us in this service.

We know that the devil doesn’t like this program and he will do all he can to disturb our preparation, please pray that God will lead us and give the wisdom to overcome any type of problems.

Bro. James Corbin and his team will come and minister during the Crusade. We really appreciate Bro. Corbin and his family for their love for Bengali speaking people. We know that God is working in this city to draw people nearer to Him. Amen!

Hebrews 6:6 (New International Version) - if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

Last Sunday, Sis. Deepa was our worship leader during our service. There was a sentence which she said which really touch my heart, “Are we going to crucify Jesus over and over again?” I kept thinking about this sentence for the whole week. I think God just want to remind us to live in the way that God wants to us live.

Sometimes we may be forget to live in the live which Jesus has shown us. But little do we know that when we sin, we are crucifying Jesus in our live again.

Let us live according to the Words of God, in this way… we can glorify God in our lives.

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