My diary on 19-12-2010 reads,
Mark 11:23-24 Truly, I tell you, if you say to this mountain , “Be taken up and thrown into the sea” , and if you do so not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it; it will be yours.
‘Believe that you have received it and it will be yours’.
A very true positive statement which gives us a challenge to trust, the very statement and more on the person who has promised it. It is very difficult to accept impossible challenges as human. But the faith we place in the hands of God or in simple words, ‘obedience’ is all that is enough for this promise to work in us.
On the most difficult task that lies ahead for us, i.e., our challenge in life, the way to go about it is, first submit it to the Lord in prayer. Next, we must do our part in fulfilling our efforts as per the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The result of this will be our actual test of faith. Faith in God is directly propotional to the outcome of a believers healing/blessing. The healing could be in the part of affliction, in the body or in his spirit. But always a healing from God is complete. Amen.
May 3, 2012
Isaiah 49:1 He called me before I was born, while I was in my mothers womb He named me.
“Congratulations, Praise the Lord, you have a baby boy,” said mummy on the other side of the phone. “Praise the Lord”, I replied. Reactions were mixed for a moment , my mind went from Thank you Jesus and then hows Jijo(my wife) and then what must I do next.
Messages, calls all came through the whole day. But what mattered most to me was the Lords promise, fulfilled. Yes, the Lord has been faithful. I put my trust in Jesus, when the hands of this world denied us hope.
The Lord spoke to me clearly in 2010, the year of our crisis, that we would have children and gave me their names. We had been in and out of hospitals, met the best of doctors in India and Kuwait. They all told us its impossible to conceive naturally. We were very depressed, just as any couple would be. Our agony turned to prayer requests for many. Many prayed for us everyday.I was operated upon for a brain tumor on 25th October, 2010. I had a month of radiotherapy in Feb-Mar, 2011.
But we had taken a very important decision in January, 2011, that we would not take any treatment for conceiving. We prayed on, but my wife kept getting her problems back from time to time. She had been through ovarian cysts and couple of surgeries in the past. This time when she missed her periods for long we thought, we had to get the doctor and get a scan done and take medicines to regularize her hormones. As usual we had to do a precautionary pregnancy test.
I tested her blood that August 2011 morning and was shocked. Her result came out positive. We were in tears of joy. We waited more than 5 years for this blessed day, we rose up to witness the Lord, he continued His abundant grace over us all through the past 9 months.
On 2nd of May, 2012 , Joel was born, Lord is God.
Today we have the Lords promise to us fulfilled, and His witness lives among us. Nothing is impossible to God if you truly submit to His name.
Are you seeking a blessing in your marriage? Get on your knees, open your bible, turn your tears to prayers. Look unto the Lord who gives life. He will show you the way.
Do write back to us, we will pray for you and your family.
There is no boundaries in the Kingdom of Heaven and no boundaries between people of God.
Benoy John Varghese
Kuwait
4th May, 2012.
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