Dear brothers and sisters,
Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Today let us see about our Lord who answers all our prayers.
When we are not having a child of our own and feel very much desperate
to have our own child, since God has all powers on earth and heaven
easily he can speak to us and give a child. I am speaking for
both about the physical and the spiritual children since bareness
is a curse and God has called us to be a blessing to others. Are
we not desperate today to have a child of our own? I mean both
the physical and spiritual children since the bible condemn bareness.
God can select and call the people who are barren if they are
really righteous. When this servant of God Zechariah was chosen
to serve the lord by His divine will as in Luke 1:9, “he
was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood,
to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.” He
was silently praying for years in his heart for his wife to have
a child of their own. So the lord who sees all sends an angel
to say your prayers are answered. Do you have a desperate prayer
before the almighty God? I like to remind you that we are having
a prayer answering God. Soon you will name the child whom God
has given unto you..
If you ask me why God has selected Zechariah for this holy service
to stand before God for all his people of his time?
Both the husband as well as the wife lived a life according to
the word of God which was pleasing before the Lord as in Luke
1:6, “Both of them were upright in the sight of God, observing
all the Lord's commandments and regulations blamelessly.”
We must live a similar life for the lord who see all things and
judge properly. Let us live a life according to the word of God
so that God who sees every thing may consider us also to stand
before the lord pray and intercede for the people of our time.
When we live a righteous life as per the word of God we will get
the answer for all our prayers as in Isa 59:1 & 2, “Surely
the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too
dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will
not hear.”
Why God gives us a child as an answer to our prayers? Do you
think God also has a purpose when He gives a child to you?
This is mainly to make us to do or contribute something for the
kingdom of God. So we must have a heavenly vision to get and raise
a child for God as per His will on earth. Let us see the purpose
of God behind giving a child and it will give us also a heavenly
motive to raise a child for the glory of God:
1. When we do the will of God the child whom God is giving unto
us will bring only the joy of God to us as well us to all as in
Luke 1:14, “He will be a joy and delight to you, and many
will rejoice because of his birth,
2. God will give us a child who can do great things for the great
almighty God as in Luke 1:15, “for he will be great in the
sight of the Lord.” Do we believe our children can do great
things for the lord?
3. There is a cost to pay and a divine condition to fulfill. When
we get a child from the lord we must raise the child as per the
conditions given by God in the word. There must be a real dedication
to raise the child as per the word of God as in Luke 1:15, “He
is never to take wine or other fermented drink,
4. He will have the anointing of God right from the birth so that
the child can also like the parents can live a life of deliverance
and right things from the birth without deliberately sinning like
other children of his age so that he will not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God who is living in him as in Luke 1:15, “and
he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.”
5. The child must do the will of God and fulfill the purpose of
God and that is to bring the worldly people back to the kingdom
of God so he will be a great contributor to the kingdom of God.
Godly parents must have this type of vision about the kingdom
of God rather than raising a child for their own benefits as in
Luke 1:16, “Many of the people of Israel will he bring back
to the Lord their God.”
6. This must be the desire of all the parents that my child must
stand for the will of God and work for the lord as in Luke 1:17,
“And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power
of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children
and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—
7. God will use our children to prepare the way for the coming
of the lord, since He is going to come very soon before His coming
there are certain things we have to complete, so that He can come
quickly as in Luke 1:17, “to make ready a people prepared
for the Lord."
May the lord bless each on of us as we pray and wait for a divine
answer from the lord today. Amen.
Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev.
Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam
Web-site: www.barodabibleclub.org
e-mail: marcusbbc@yahoo.com
Mobile: 91-9327243600 ,Church 3096882 / 5540651.
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