Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Mary's question:  How can this be? Mary was thinking in the natural, it is impossible in a natural sense.  Many of us are worried about "How can this be".  God is telling you it will be alright when what happened to Mary happens to you.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  God is telling I have a plan for your future.  His plan doesn't stop in this world, He has already planned about our eternity.

Today, God wants to give you that prosperity, hope and future.  Are you desperate for something at this moment?  God can do it for you, because He has a plan about you. You need to come to Him and find out what is His plan concerning you.

Many times when we go through difficult situations, we feel that the little strength that we have is lost. We feel powerless on many occasions. 

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Listen to the sermon to find out the reason why we feel strength-less and find a way on how we can find strength during such situations. 

We hear the word "Missionary" in our lives. Who is a missionary? They're the ones who are sent into the World to share the Gospel. Missionaries are the ones who are called by God to fulfill a vision. They carry a burden for the souls and proclaim the love of God. 

Who are these God's Missionaries that are sent into the world? Listen to the sermon to find out. 

This world is a temporary workstation where the dross out of us is removed.  This world is a crafts man's work bench to chip and chisel the junk out of us. We are just work in progress until we live to be made a masterpiece of His own image.

Today we have everything, we struggle to get a degree, struggle to find a job, struggle to come up in life, settle down in this country.   But never forget that we need God's favor to succeed. 

What is God's favor?

God's favor is the key for our blessing on this world. 

If you are given a house with all furniture, all facilities and all provisions and if you are not given the key to enter into the house, the blessings are of no use.  The key is to get God's favor. 

Listen to the sermon as Pastor Balan teaches on God's favor and how we can obtain it in our lives. 

Now the risen savior has all the right to say that "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth".  With that power and authority Jesus is telling the disciples, three instructions which the church must obey.

1. Go and make disciples of all the nations
2. Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
3. Teach them to observe all that I have taught you

God is asking our church, that is, every one of you to become disciple makers.

Take someone in your life, follow with him or her and make him or her to follow Christ like you do.

This sermon talks about three aspects of giving our best to God as based in Malachi Chapter 1:

- Our second best does not honor God (Verse 6)
- Our second best does not please God (Verse 8)
- Our second best to God does not satisfy us (Verse 13)

We need to give the best to God. 

 

- Our God removes sin from us
- He forgives our sins
- He forgets our sins

Forgiveness brings physical healing!

Any area of our heart or mind that is not surrendered to Jesus Christ is an area vulnerable to satanic attack. We have a constant fight going on within us between flesh and Spirit, darkness and light, evil and God.  This fight will be on until we live in flesh.  Until our death.  The desires of our flesh sets our mind to do sin. 

Romans 8:6 6 (NIV) The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.