Saturday, April 25, 2015

A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah


What we often think that only influential people in a village or in a particular place can bring the difference. We often neglect the way God looks at the things, he considers us great when we ourselves doubt.

The Woman at the well is a well known story in the Gospel of John. But when we look into it in detail, God reveals us that it was not just an accident that Jesus pass through Samaria and the woman meet Jesus - The Messiah. What then happens is History.

This story breaks down some of the most important aspects of our life:

Its not an accident that Jesus wanted to pass through Samaria:


Jesus asks the Woman for Water and Explains the River of Living Water:
This way Jesus makes her understand that the Water which she drinks will be required as she will thirst, but the water Jesus spoke about was the Living Water - There will be no thirsty.
Revelation 7:16 NIV
Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them,' nor any scorching heat.

Jesus asks her to come with her Husband, but we know what she responded. But the point is that even before she could tell Jesus anything, he knows it. Yet he made that choice to tell he to share the Gospel to that place.
1 Corinthians 1:27 NIV
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

Worshiping in Spirit:
There is no limitation of space for worshiping God. That is what Jesus meant. Because the Women's perception is that Worshiping God in a particular place is the only way and that they followed on one way (On the Mountains) and they believed others (Jews) worship in Jerusalem. But Jesus confirmed that God is Spirit and whoever worships him has to worship him in Spirit and truth.

The Disciples - In the act the Disciples were not there, and when they came back from their purchase (to buy food) they saw Jesus talking to a Women. This is not so new, even in today's culture people perceive different things when they just see and not understand. The people had a prejudice that only Jews should talk to Jews, Men should talk with men and the list goes on. But Jesus broke all the rules.




John 4:1-45English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[a]
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testifiedthat a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Some most important questions of Life




Questions of Life:

Can a Christian forgo his Spiritual life for the sake of this earthly life? -

1 Corinthians 15:19 NIV
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.


God has indeed given us everything we ever wanted, this Life itself is a gift, each and every moment. We cannot create anything, but we can experience it through Christ. He gave us sight not only to see, but to have Vision. To see the future.

2 Peter 1:3 NIV
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.


The above verse states that we are not suppose to say that God did not give me something in life that I went astray, or we cannot have any excuse for our wrong behavior or wrong doings. One of my favorite verse is James James 4:17 NIV If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.

A Christian Depress about life, Is it Okay?
Well I see this way:

Some of the deepest feeling of Human kind is shown when they really wanted to Quit life. This is what most of the people said in the Bible, we find it strange. When we read about their unshakable faith we appraise them, but it is God who will give us strength in our weakness.
Job 3:3 NIV

"May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, 'A boy is conceived!'

Job 3:11 NIV

"Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?



I am giving these examples not that we should also say things like this, but showing that God is the only way for our solution. We may try different things, Man found thing, but all will end at certain time. But what God does will last for eternal.

Revelation 3:8 NIV

I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.


Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Birds of the Air - Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?



Matthew 10:29 NIV
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's care.

The above passage comes pretty much close to when Jesus said whom to fear about. But it is also about God's Caring and Love for us.

Fear God

26 “Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper,[i] proclaim on the housetops. 28 Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul;rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny?[j] Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.[k] 30 But even the hairs of your head have all been counted. 31 So don’t be afraid therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows.


When we see that a sparrow and its worth(a penny). We also see that when Jesus said about the "Birds of the Air". and its worth...

Matthew 6:26 NIV

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?



The Birds in fact are an amazing creature:
The Parrot which dictates the words - 
There is controversy about whether parrots are capable of using language, or merely mimic what they hear. However, some scientific studies—for example those conducted over a 30-year period by Irene Pepperberg with an African grey named Alex and other parrots, covered in stories on network television on numerous occasions[45]—have suggested that these parrots are capable of using words meaningfully in linguistic tasks.[46]
Some in the scientific community are skeptical of Pepperberg's findings, pointing to Alex's communications as operant conditioning.[47] Critics point to the case of Clever Hans, a horse whose owner claimed could count, but who instead was actually understanding subtle cues from him.[48] In another case, Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee was thought to be using language, but there is some debate over whether he simply imitated his teacher.[48] Dr. Herbert Terrace, who worked with Nim Chimpsky, says he thinks Alex performed by rote rather than using language; he calls Alex's responses "a complex discriminating performance", adding that in every situation, "there is an external stimulus that guides his response."[48] However, supporters of Alex mention that Alex was able to talk to and perform for anyone involved in the project as well as complete strangers who recorded findings unassisted and during first contact with the bird, making the arguments of rote learning and operant conditioning difficult to substantiate.[49]

Scientists in France and the Czech Republic have also had some success in teaching African grey parrots to label items referentially using human language, albeit using a different teaching methodology to that of Pepperberg — which was found to be ineffective in the case of the particular birds within the study.

The "V" shape in Birds - 
A V formation (sometimes called a skein) is the symmetric V-shaped flight formation of flights of geese, ducks, and other migratory birds. V formations also improve the fuel efficiency of aircraft and are used on military flight missions.The V formation greatly boosts the efficiency and range of flying birds, particularly over long migratory routes.[1] All the birds except the first fly in the upwash from the wingtip vortices of the bird ahead. The upwash assists each bird in supporting its own weight in flight, in the same way a glider can climb or maintain height indefinitely in rising air. In a V formation of 25 members, each bird can achieve a reduction of induced drag by up to 65% and as a result increase their range by 71%.[2] The birds flying at the tips and at the front are rotated in a timely cyclical fashion to spread flight fatigue equally among the flock members. Canada geese are a common example demonstrating the V formation.
The "V", or "Vic" formation is a basic flight formation for military aircraft in many air forces.
The Vic formation is also common in ceremonial flyovers and airshow flights.

Air Mobility Command, which accounts for 20 percent of federal fuel usage, is experimenting with autopilot changes to find the best tradeoff between the reduced drag of 'vortex surfing' and the resulting 'ride qualities' of flying through another aircraft's wake.



The Migratory Birds -  When many of us think about migration, the image of geese winging their way south in their wrinkled V-shaped flocks is one that often comes to mind. The migration of geese is an example of the annual, large-scale movement of birds between their breeding (summer) homes and their nonbreeding (winter) grounds.



There is this part of the book of Jobs, where God questions about various aspects of life. Here we find in the verse - 26 where it says:
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?


Job 39 King James Version (KJV)

1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

The Heart of The Matter

The Heart is know for the purification of the Blood. When the Heart itself fails or when it itself is unclean from where shall the living Blood be cleaned?

Some say the Heart of the matter is the Matter of the Heart. Each and everyone of our lives - Our heart is broken at one or the other part of time. The volume and the heaviness of the pain may be different, but God is the solution. When we have a consoling person in Jesus Christ, we can go with our broken hearts - He mends it, corrects it, cleanses it.


This Broken pieces of heart is what God wants, because he know how to fix it.
Psalm 51:17 NIV
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.


Nothing but the Blood of Jesus can clean the Heart.


Love him Whole Heart -


Render your heart and not your garments:
Joel 2:12-14Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

God’s Call for Repentance
12 Even now—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
turn to Me with all your heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
13 Tear your hearts,
not just your clothes,
and return to the Lord your God.
For He is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger, rich in faithful love,
and He relents from sending disaster.
14 Who knows? He may turn and relent
and leave a blessing behind Him,
so you can offer grain and wine
to the Lord your God.


How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?” - Oscar Wilde

Monday, April 6, 2015

Resurrection Sunday

Jesus rose from death. It is a significant event in the entire history of mankind. No one has ever come to life from Death like Jesus, all those whom Jesus bought from death, Dead again. But Jesus rose again to live forever and the only reason he died on the cross was to clean our sins and to take our punishment of death.

Two significant things for Jesus' Resurrection:

1 Corinthians 15:17 ►
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Holy Week - Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday is a great act of service that Jesus did before the Passover meal on Thursday before the day of Crucification.

This act clarifies a lot of question regarding the Leadership and the most important aspect of life in Jesus Christ. Service - Servant hood.

It also is for us to recognize that our life should be that of sacrifice


Romans 12:1 ►
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God--this is your true and proper worship.


and serve others -

John 13:1-7Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

13 Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.[a]
2 Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God. 4 So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. 5 Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The Holy Week And Some most important Questions






When I was still a born again Christian, I had enormous doubts and questions, One of the Question was - Why Did Jesus allow one of his Disciple to Betray him, In fact he could have chosen one from the worst sinner who never knew Jesus or a Pharisee or sadducees.

Btu the answer is that - God allows each and every human being a free choice - Judas story is much like what happened in the Garden of Eden, He knew what he was doing was wrong. In deed it took his so much courage to betray his friend, Savior, Jesus. He indeed sold himself with that thirty pieces of silver coin. An exchange that could not be brought back. Today is Holy Wednesday - As I was reading about this day - (In the Biblical History it says that Just after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered together and plotted to kill Jesus, even before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As they sat at the supper table, a woman named Mary anointed Jesus' head and feet with costly oil of spikenard. The disciples were indignant, asking why the oil was not instead sold and the money given to the poor. But Judas wanted to keep the money for himself. Then Judas went to the Sanhedrin and offered to deliver Jesus to them in exchange for money. From this moment on, Judas was looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
In reference to Judas Iscariot's intent to betray Jesus, formed on Holy Wednesday, the day is sometimes called "Spy Wednesday") (Source - Wikipedia)

The betrayal of Judas for the Thirty silver coins is also linked to the amount that Joseph was sold by his brother in the Old Testament. Even in Proverbs there is a verse very much relates with what Judas did to betray Jesus. Proverbs 27:6 NIV Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.


The Other Question is about the Three Days for Easter. Where was Jesus when he died on the Cross on Good Friday, then On Saturday before the resurrection on Sunday Morning?
In fact if you look at it, it becomes only two days(Friday and Saturday night) to Sunday Morning Resurrection. The answer is:

Jesus said three days:
In fact the First day starts on the Thursday only, because Jesus said, "My soul is troubled even to the point of death" -

Matthew 26:36-46English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” 37 And taking with himPeter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.38 Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch[a] with me.” 39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” 40 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 42 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.” 43 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 44 So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. 45 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on.[b] See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
In the Gospel of Luke, Luke says that, "Jesus' tears were like drops of blood".-
Luke 22:44 NIV
And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Matthew 12:38-45Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The Sign of Jonah

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it,because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and look—something greater than Jonah is here! 42 The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

43 “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any. 44 Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ And returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order. 45 Then off it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”

John 2:19-21King James Version (KJV)

19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

Acts of the Apostles

Acts 1 English Standard Version The Promise of the Holy Spirit 1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to ...