Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

General | Prayer for Personal Revival

Psalm 51: 1-19, Romans 12 (Living Sacrifice), Hosea 14:2, Hebrew 13:15

As David prayed this Psalm, we realize he knew how to pray for revival in his life. Let us keep this as a guide and focus for our lives. The moment we go away from God, let us read this Psalm and God for revival. God will talk to us more about this in the coming days as He will take us into revival. Amen! 

General | Five blessings of Isaiah 58:11

Isaiah 58:11 The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

General | Gymnastics - the most Challenging Sport

Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. As a gymnastic they dedicate their whole lives on training and focus on excelling in their field. Gymnastic is the most difficult sport on the planet for both men and women, both mentally and physically. 

Listen to the sermon to know more about how God wants us to a winner. We must develop what those athletes did for the world, but for the sake of heaven. Heaven will rejoice as we achieve things for God. 

General | Setting Boundaries

Setting boundaries is an important step of a healthy christian life on this Earth. 

A boundary is a dividing line, sometimes visible, sometimes imaginary. Geographically a boundary marks the end of a property/ jurisdiction and the beginning of another. There are boundaries in inter-personal relationships in order to operate in their domains. 

God is telling us to draw a boundary of holiness. 

 

General | Forget not all His Benefits

Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: ³ Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, ⁵ Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

General | Eternal Hope

1 Corinthians 15: 1- 58 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, ² by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. ⁷

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General | The Hope of Resurrection

The resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is the hope of Christianity. If Jesus Christ had not risen from the dead, there is no meaning for what we do today. We would have no hope of eternity. 

Today we know that there is hope in our Lord Jesus Christ as our savior. Listen to the sermon to gain courage in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and find hope in His resurrection. 

General | Procrastination

Procrastination is an act of willfully delaying something that should be done in a specific time in our lives. 

As a child of God, He expects us to do certain things in a certain time of our lives, or we will miss it. Psychologically procrastination is either a conscious or inconspicuous decision to delay a task. It can be very destructive in our life and will put us in guilt. God wants us to set these things right in our life. Accomplishments do not come in our way, if we delay things or work. Procrastination is a big problem in our society, we have to deal with this problem in our life and focus on God-given goals for us. 

General | Vessels of Honor

Jeremiah 18:1-6 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: ² “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” ³ Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. ⁴ And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

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General | Two Types of Branches

John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

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