Det Proverbs 5

1. Money cannot give life but can shine the life.
2. Life is a blessing. A blessed person might not be a blessing.
3. Adoption makes you parent in a day, but pregnancy takes nine months. Patience makes the difference
4. Humbleness is possible without obedience and obedience without humbleness.
5. Egypt-sufferings will go if God minds us, wilderness-sufferings will go if we mind Him. 
6. When you pray, you receive from whom you expect. Same is true with your alms.
7. Idol worship shortens the days of enjoying your portion.
8. Not just talents and gifts, you need God's orchestration for your development. 
9. Promises are fulfilled by possession, blessings are possessed by submission.
10. Holy Spirit concerns our sincerity. 
11. Seek peace until you find it, pursue it after you found it.
12. Promises of God are like a fish in the water sometimes. They do not appear until they are caught to the hook.
13. Bible says that Elijah is same like you and me and it never said that he prayed same like you and me. 
14. Some are born from the blood of the martyrs. Got no time even to sweat for the Savoir.  
15. When God asks for the fruits of the seeds he sown in you.Do not show him the fruit of the seeds you have sown.
16. Miracles that happens in your ministry may not be the confirmation to the call He gave you. 
17. Diseases are the limbs of the death.
18. God said to David that he will have more battles since he sinned and he didn't say he will lose in the battles. 
19. Being good outside to achieve bad inside of you, makes you a hypocrite. Being good outside to kill the bitterness in you, makes you a peace maker.
20. The size of the God's Kingdom around you depends on the size of the God in you. 

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Voice of the Lord

God's voice was heard by Adam and Eve when they actually disqualified to hear it. It was God's grace even from the time of creation. First he initiates his voice and we need to continue it. Disciples on the way to Emmaus did not expect the voice of the Lord but was talking about him. The Lord himself came there and talked to them. (Lk. 24) He initiates. After a while they wanted to stop but he seems to be walking. Now its their turn to continue the talk. They beseech him to stay with them so he did. 

God talked to Cain when he committed sin. Its possible. It doesn't mean the Lord will continue. If he wants to hear it again, he cannot just wait but he need to learn to beseech. After all that is what he failed in. We are like Cain some times. We need to ask God and wait. Often times we do knock the door of the neighbor and then wait for them. When it comes to God we wait without knocking. Its not right. 

Hagar was in the wilderness with her son. Her son has no food or water. Now she could not see his death. She cried. The angel said that God heard the voice of Ishmael her son. Gen. 21:17. I don't think Ishmael addressed Jehovah while he was crying. Yet God heard his voice. Ishmael was not the son of the covenant but connected to the man with whom was the covenant made. If God can hear the cry of those who are connected to you, how much more he inclines to you to whom the covenant was made?

His voice is for teaching and to discipline us. (Dt. 4:36)
His voice is some times not for the ear but for the eye to see. God said to Elijah that he commanded a widow to feed him. Actually she never heard a voice from the Lord. We could see that it just came to happen. She fed Elijah. 

Wherever you are God provides.

God is the provider. People who ate from his hands usually do not recognize it. Israelites openly said to Jeremiah that they ate well when they worship the stars. Jer. 44:17. God brought them to starving. Jer. 52:6

Jacob said that the angel who fed him will bless Joseph's sons. He knew that God sent angel to provide him yet he doesn't say that there is an angel god. He knows that God sends through angels. 

• Elijah was at the brook. God sent birds
• Elijah was in the wilderness. God sent an angel
• Elijah was in Zarepath. God sent a widow

Wherever you are, God sends some one to provide you. It seems that Elijah never worries about food. He did not say that birds provided, angel provided or a widow provided. 

When Elijah was at the brook, the brook was dried up after a while. God allows it that the brook may not become his god. In India, some of our brothers worship rivers. Some people say that they are independent. What they do mean is that they don't depend on any one but upon God. But i want to tell them that if they depend on God, they are not independent but dependent. Its actually a blessing. 


Its not only about the food. Its about your every need. God is the provider, wherever you are. 

Ex. 34:30

When God was said to be a lion, people were excited. When Holy Spirit was compared to a dove people understood. When God was said to be the Father, people are slow to understand. People understood when you compare The Lord to animal and to a bird, but they do not understand when He was compared the to human being.

God sent Moses and he could not reveal the Father. God sent Elijah and he could not reveal the Father. Only Son can do this. So the Father when he was about to send the Son, he paused. It's because If there was a father and if he was cruel to his son, then if you go and tell that particular son that the God is like father then he would think that God is cruel. So the Father in heaven wanted the fathers to turn to their sons and sons to their fathers. Some one has to go ahead of Jesus and do this. This job was given to Elijah. 

Some people squeeze out their battery to the job, friends and to certain people and when they come home, they use the home as battery recharging socket. They do not come a bit of battery left in them. They supposed to keep some for the family because God can take it into his notice.

Salvation was given to us by Christ but carrying it to the end was a job given to us. You have to continue it with fear and trembling. It's an unavoidable battle. How am I standing, because I always have a fight. Body against the spirit and spirit against body. As long I have this battle this shows to my Lord that I am hungry and thirsty for the righteousness, and I will be satisfied. This battle may be heavy today and may be very light tomorrow but you can not get rid of it. This fear is not for punishment it's a passion to keep up the righteousness. This fear is ok. 

Time accountability

God gave a time to three people. Those three are Ahab, Elijah and his disciple.

1. Entertain- Ahab's time

Elijah told Ahab to eat and be merry. He was given time to celebrate. 

2. Educate-  Elijah servant's time

Elijah told his servant to go and check if there is any cloud. 

3. Execute- Elijah's time

Elijah was executing in prayer to see the promise visible. 

Dad

God doesn't need any king, prophet or the priest. A father is every thing. If every father takes care of his family right way, the whole world will go in peace. A king partially resembles God, a prophet partially resembles God and a priest partially resembles God. But a father can resemble God to the final extent. That is why we needed Jesus who had king, prophet and priest in him to resemble God the Father.

The anointing of a king can cease, the anointing of a prophet can cease and the anointing of a priest can cease but the anointing of a father will never cease, and a father is a father always. When I offend my dad, it actually offends the Father in heaven.

God made fathers. He believed them. If they could take care of their houses well, the whole world can be fine. But they failed, so floods came. What was the job of a DAD?

1. Dominion
2. Assurance
3. Divinity

After the floods, since they failed, God divided their job and made this job as three offices and gave it to the kings, prophets and priests. When Moses felt it was difficult to rule, God distributed the spirit on Moses to the 70 leaders. Ruling is a father's nature.1Tim. 3:4-5. Speaking future is a father's nature. And paying for children's mistake is also a father's nature. Job 1:5. Ultimately king-prophet-priest is his nature.

Family needs to be restored before the kingdom is restored. Mal. 4:6. Christians look for business principles in the bible rather than family principles. It is because they are more concerned of their own kingdom than the kingdom of God.

When Abraham was in Ur, God told Abraham to leave his people but not his father. Act. 7:3. So he took his father Terah with him to Haran. After his father died God appeared to him again and told him to leave his father's house. Gen. 12:1.

A disciple came to Jesus and asked if he could go to his father and bury him and come back. I don't know if his father was actually dead or he does mean that he wants to go and stay with his dad until his death. Jesus didn't say no. Or may be Jesus does mean a no. Whatever it is a "disciple" is a disciple. He was not a first admission to ask like Elisha asked Elijah. A disciple has been there and now he cannot turn back after laying hand on a plow. Luke 9:62

I leave my parents to be a part of building the  kingdom of God. But if leaving parents is the kingdom of God, then I don't want such a kingdom, because I miss my God the Father there.

Better Covenant

Elijah was privileged to have a great invitation. God sent him fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses.

John the Baptist got the same spirit but he did not get the fiery chariot but fiery sufferings. He was beheaded. 

Which one is the better invitation? the former or the latter? What do you think?

There are some people "tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life." (Heb. 11:35)

New Testament is better than the Old one. It is unique by its sufferings for the One whom we loved. I am looking for a better resurrection. Do you?

Me and Elijah

Bible said that Elijah is same like you and me. Then why i could not do the things he did? Yes he is same like you and me but he did not pray same like you and me. He said to Ahab to go and eat but he Fasted and prayed For rain even after the Lord told him that he is going to send rain! We raise up prayer after God tells us that he is going to send rain.

Hey, you can do it. Just like Elijah do not give up until you see your vision coming true.

(Jas 5:17-18 [NET])
Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.