FLAG FREE DAY CARE CENTER FOR THE POOR CHILDREN

We have entered our 3rd Year. Thanks a lot for FLAG and others who are supporting and praying for this work. 

It was great to hear form the parents that 

1. Children started to talk English words
2. Disciplined in their life
3. Improvement in their behavior
4. Parents are encouraged to teach them further
5. Parents feels secure to keep them here for the whole day so that they could do their work peacefully.

Continue to Pray and support for this work....God bless.

Enjoy preaching right.

Enjoy preaching right

7 Steps to Study the Bible so that you could preach rightly. God bless.

Suffering of Highest degree

Suffering of Highest degree.

Jesus Suffered the highest degree of pain a person can go through. Crucifixion is the most cruel way of death penalty that is practiced at any point of time in the history of the world to incur maximal pain. The magnitude of pain He suffered is studied widely.

Jesus had to go through both emotional and physical pain. Both were equally painful.

# Flogged 39 times with whip which consisted of small pieces of bone and metal attached to a number of leather strands. This brought Jesus to the point of death. Flesh came out of Jesus’s body exposing mass of muscle and bone. Extreme blood loss occurred during the flogging.

# A crown of thorns was pierced into His head. The thorns were of 1 and 2 inch long. The blows on His head drive the thorns into the scalp causing severe bleeding.

# Even though His physical condition was so bad, He was forced to carry a heave cross. Many times He fell with the cross. He was almost at the verge of death and totally disfigured.

# Crucifixion process Jesus went through was utterly painful. Jesus was laid on it. Nails of 7 inch long were driven in the wrists causing extreme pain. Feet were nailed with knees bent.

# By this time Jesus suffered loss of blood and dehydrated state and lost all strength.

# When the cross was erected there is tremendous strain resulted in the dislocation of joints of shoulders and elbow joints.

# Jesus found extremely difficult to breath because of hangging position on the cross which resulted in severe cramps. Shallow breathing caused lung to collapse. Heart is stressed and eventually failed.

Some truths about the truth

We are living in a time where we are bombarded with lies all around although it was there from time immemorial. Now there is new way of teaching, spreading and convincing people that a bluff is true.

Before people used to say ‘camera can’t lie”, but now we get morphed images. News paper, News magazines, news channels were considered to be truthful. But they too are misleading the people. There are people who stopped reading newspapers now. Fake news is spread like wild fire. Social media and communication apps have now become agents and factory of spreading lies. In excitement, without checking, we too tend to spread the lies. We too become agents of spreading lies. Government is another major organization that gives out lies and manipulates the people. Religious people, teachers and  historians are also spreading deception without finding facts. Political parties does it with ease.

Question is “Are you a truth poster or truther?” A truther is someone who does not believe the generally accepted explanation for an event or situation and thinks it is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people.

There is power in true truth. What stands against the power is truth. Truth brings true freedom, otherwise the power manipulates the people with lies and people live as slaves of lies and power. Without truth there is no freedom. Truth can set you free. But it is important to know the truth. Let us seek truth and follow truth and spread the truth. Be a truther. 

The Prayer of Faith Part 3

1. Hear the Word of God
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom 10:17). As we hear the promise of God and meditate upon it, plant it in our hearts, faith starts to come regarding the reception of the promise. This is the very faith that will be released when we pray the actual 'prayer of faith'. The answer is conceived in the believing heart before the prayer even passes the lips.

2. Receiving the promise
As faith develops we must receive the promise we are meditating upon, and personalise it. Jesus for example did not just die for the healing of the world in a general way, He died and received the stripes on His back so I could be healed; "I am healed by His stripes". Apply this principle to whatever area you intend to pray for. Find the promise of God in the Word, and make it your own.

3. Believe it is true for you
This is the most vital step. We have developed faith in our heart through the Word, and received it as a promise for ourselves. We now must believe that it is so. We are no longer 'hoping' that it will one day belong to us, it actually belongs to us right now. Hebrews 11:1 says:

"NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]."
(Heb 11:1 AMP)

Someone with the title deed actually owns the property they have the deed for, even if they have not yet seen the property. It is theirs, because the deed declares it so. They no longer hope for it, it belongs to them. It may even be some time before they actually set foot in the place, but nevertheless, even during that waiting period, the house or property is theirs all along. God's promise is the title deed to the manifestation of the promise. When we believe and receive it as such, we pass from merely hoping to possessing the promise in the present.
Jesus said 'believe you receive when you pray', not 'when you finally see and set foot in the property'. When we pray we receive.

Just because we cannot necessarily see or feel the answer right now is beside the point. It is only in the natural that we don't have it at present. In the spirit it is ours right now. To bring that reality in the spirit into the natural realm, God has given us the prayer of faith. Faith reaches into the unseen realities of the spiritual world, and pulls them into the natural realm.

The Prayer of Faith Part 2

Jesus taught His disciples:

"For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." (Mark 11:23-24 NKJV)
"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.""
(Matt 21:22 NKJV)

This kind of prayer has several steps.
They are as follows:

1. You must hear the Word of God
2. You must receive the promise
3. You must believe its true - for you
4. Ask God for what you want (based upon the promise believed & received)
5. Stand in faith until the answer manifests

Next time we will look at each of these prayer keys in detail...

The Prayer of Faith- Part 1

Faith is required for all forms of prayer, so in some ways to classify a particular prayer as 'the prayer of faith' is a little contrived.
Lynne Hammond rightly points out in 'the Master is Calling':

"Some people have tried to separate the prayer of faith and put it in a category all by itself. They've said, "This particular kind of prayer is the only one in which you release faith." But they're mistaken. Every kind of prayer requires faith. It doesn't matter whether you're praying the prayer of faith, the prayer of agreement, worship, intercession, supplication, or any other kind of prayer, if you're not releasing faith you're not going anywhere."

In many ways the prayer of faith is simply a confident request made of the Lord, based upon His promises, which is requested and received by the believer by faith. We include it here because the Scripture has much to say about this simple yet profound form of supplication.
Mary Alice in Effective Fervent Prayer says of the prayer of faith:

"The Prayer of Faith is based on asking and receiving according to the promises of God in His Word. It has its foundation in everything Jesus has already done for us through the cross and the resurrection."

The promises of the Bible belong to us through Christ, and can be received in our lives by praying this prayer.
Next time we will look at just how to pray this powerful form of prayer.