How to think positive

We all know positive thought like positive energy produces much fruit, but the problem is how to think positive. There are so many ways to get distracted in this life. Each and every area of life has been contaminated. But they who fear God will never find it difficult to think positive. Look at Jesus - Just before his Crucifixion he said to forgive those who humiliated him. He washed his Disciples feet and he never got angry or weary. He took the cross, He cried out to the Father in heaven, asking if it is his will be done, though he suffered a lot, he said "may the cup of suffering be removed, not according to my will, but your will.

He Prayed for us, He lived a life of example for us, thinking of no name or fame for him, no position or honoring, he made himself available, he gave every one opportunity - The women in the well, the women who touched his garment to the woman at the grave searching for the master. He made available for the little ones. He made available for the sinners and pharisees, the rich and the poor.

How did he manage such a great responsibility, it is by positive attitude towards life.

He always remembered the good things, He always thanked Father before anything... He always asked the Father, "If it is your will.... Let it be done...
He knew what the Father God always wants... So he says, "Father, as according to your will...

His parables are of a great significance to show us how we can think of his good nature, where he always said "to be aware, to watch, to be ready, to never give up, to help others, to save the lost.....

To the woman who was about to be stoned, he saved her, this way he did everything and it is possible because of his positive thinking.... He never gave up thinking that the situation has bought him to doubt about the human conditions are greater in leading to misery or distress, but with wisdom and knowledge of God the Father, he was able to rightly Judge the timing.

Positive attitude is all about timing, Know that he said to his mother, "My hour has yet come", note that he said to the Heavenly Father, "Father, For this hour I have come".....

Those who were not able to understand God's timing missed his amazing character of his attitude...
The storm at the sea and all his disciples were afraid and feared death, When Lazarus was dead, everyone said "you should have been here". Remember when he said about the coming of the Holy Spirit? He said let not your heart be troubled neither be it afraid.

When our mind is filled with what God wants, his will, willingness to do everything according to his word, obeying him we shall be sure of having a positive attitude, because God always wants us to have a positive attitude.

Positive attitude creates opportunities, it shorts the way for destruction and leads the way for life.

Its a force for change, its a message for deliverance, Paul when he was intervened by Jesus, he was completely changed and his optimism was very clear, that when he was in prison and in various trials and temptations he was able to think the right thing. He wrote God thanks letters, not because he was in prison or he was in distress and in difficulty, but because God was with him and his attitude about the situation was always positive.

Joseph was another example of how a person with limited knowledge and power could change things around him by having a positive attitude, how to overcome temptations, by saying the right answers, though he was arrested after denying potiphar wife's  request, he was happy to think positive in prison which let him to interpret the dreams and again regain everything he lost and even more.


Positive Attitude creates positive atmosphere. From the above examples, though outwardly it appears to be a different locations like prison, persecution, or even death, these people who had hope in thinking positive never failed. God wants us to think positive all the time, it is not what happens in our lives that matter, but how we perceive that and how we interpret and use it for the future that matters.

Wisdom is positive thinking....

we create a world around with our thinking, so if we were to create it with positive attitudes that no matter what happens, we know that God is with us, so we don't have to worry about anything, we don't have to fear about anything, the circumstances and people will not affect us anyway, Say Jesus had this perspective about life, he created that positive world, that is when he said, Forgive, Thirsty, Submit.... on the cross and even before.


Positive attitude will bring success...

You See David, What made him to go against Goliath? It was his positive attitude towards God, his remembrance of how God saved him from the Lions and beasts which came to attack the cattle, how God helped him to save cattle from the Lion's mouth.

HAve A PosITive AttItuDe MindSeT

All I wanted is to be like Jesus

Jesus Christ life is one of the most inspiring and motivating of all times, For thousands of year he has been the source of strength to the weak, he is the guide, the master. He has let people's life from utter hopelessness to complete hope.

Following his footsteps is very crucial to know the way to God, As Jesus said: "I am the Way, Truth and Life".

But there is a cost that each and everyone has to pay.

Matthew 16:24 NIV
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.


To Seek his Kingdom First:
Matthew 6:33 NIV
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.


Loving God and others:
Luke 10:27
He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"


It should be our prayer, Our hope, Our life.... to follow him.

saying and believing - "Jesus you are the way, The truth and the life. There is no one like you.

You are the inspiration of all times you are the friend in the times of my distress, you are my hiding place, my hope, my redeemer.


In him most distressed moment of time he never gave up his mission:

Just before the night he arrested, in the last supper, He washed his disciples foot and set us an example.

At the cross when everyone humiliating him, He said,"Father, Forgive them for they does not know what they are doing".

Philippians 2

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Imitating Christ’s Humility

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

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Understanding God's Will for our lives

God always will for our good. When things does not happen our way, when we fail in something we should understand the meaning and message behind that incident. If it is God's will then it would have happened, God will make us understand things which are not according to his will and things which are his will.

He is more than will to help us in our needs and wants, but if we fail to understand the true meaning and message of his Grace we will miss out great opportunity to realize his true love. It is not by any of the worldly things that we will have true satisfaction and realization of his Grace, but by understanding his sacrifice and death on the cross. That one incident that changes our perspective on life itself.

If we were to see one man who obeyed unto the point of death and have never sinned, it is Jesus. So, we have to learn from him the will of Father for our lives.

Hebrews 12:2

New King James Version (NKJV)

2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

It is God's will for to save everyone:
1 Timothy 2:4 NIV
who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

For it is God's will that we should do good: We should never go in search of name and fame, but because of his will we have to do good, that it may even help us to silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
1 Peter 2:15 NIV
For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.


Though God is not needed of anything out of our work, we have to work for his will for our life to save our souls from sin.
Acts 17:25 NIV
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.


We have to come to him with a broken and contrite heart:
Psalm 51:17 NIV
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

It is God's will for our lives to surrender our spirit:
Luke 23:46 NIV
Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.

1 Peter 4

New International Version (NIV)

Living for God

4 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. 2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you. 5 But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.

7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

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Body Of Christ - The Church

Church is a wonderful place for worship, for fellowship. God's word says that we are temple of God.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

King James Version (KJV)

16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

1 Corinthians 6:20 NIV

you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

2 Corinthians 6:16 NIV
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

Since Christ has redeemed us from our sins, He also calls us to be Holy.
"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:13-16)


We have to honor him with this body, this body is not for any other purpose. Not for food, but for God's will:
1 Corinthians 6:13 NIV
You say, "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both." The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

John 4:34 NIV
"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Church is a place for worship, Prayer - A House of Prayer:

Matthew 21:13 NIV
"It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it 'a den of robbers.'"

Christ is the head of Church, So we ought to obey his words rather than any others word:

Colossians 1:18 NIV
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

Acts 5:29 NIV
Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than human beings!

Ephesians 5:22-33

New International Version (NIV)

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy,cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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God's Master-plan for our lives

The Lord is sovereign. Psalm 135:6 NIV
The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.

If we are to pray for anything, We need to understand it from his point of view and not from our needs. Because sometimes our needs overwhelms us to think, "If God is good for me, if he is good he will do this for me". This taught has to be broken into his wish. Jesus himself prayed to the Father this way.
Luke 22:42 NIV
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."

One of the greatest achievement in human history is that they discovered that, by changing the attitude we can change our lives. Our needs are important, but what is more important is God's plan for our life. His plan will always be the best.

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 


God's sovereignty is revealed in his act of kindness and compassion,

Romans 5:8 NIV
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

When all our plans fail, when our prayers are not answered, we will have to understand one thing that God wants us to teach us something. Either he makes us to learn the patience or he allows us to understand that it is not his will for our life. If we ask him in his name believing in him that he will do for us anything, he will do. But even before we ask him anything he knows what our needs and wants are. He will never let us down in not providing, only if it is harmful he will deny. So, understanding his master-plan for our life is to look everything from his perspective, asking him to do everything according to his will.

His master-plan being always good, if something doesn't happen as according to our way, we will have to submit and surrender it to him, Saying as like the Lost son:

Luke 15:21 NIV
"The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' 

His master-plan for our lives is to be like him and to be with him:

John 14:2-3

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2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

The Source of Our Strength - Jesus

Jesus' life is not only an example for us to walk through faith, but it is the only way to the Heaven. It is the only way to know the truth, its the only way to live.

Matthew 11:28 NIV
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

The true strength of Jesus is giving us the hope. Those moments where there is no hope, where there is no peace. Jesus lifted us up from such little discouraging moments through his words. His words are life giving words, that has power.

The source of our strength is Jesus' word:

John 6:68

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

The source of our strength comes from the life of Jesus.

Learning to be disciple of Jesus is knowing what all steps he took, obeying the Father. Doing everything as according to the Father's will and how he lived a sinless life. That life of Jesus is an inspiration where we draw our strength from, when going through rejection - We ought to see what Jesus said and most importantly when he was rejected.

Luke 4:14-30

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Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19     to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[a]

20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.
23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”
24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[b] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Our Strength comes from his might power.

When the Samaritan woman asks  “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

But Jesus answers: “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

Then again confronting Jesus, the women asks: “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”


Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4

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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

The book "My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers" also gives us an understanding about the woman drawing from the well,...

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Where then do You get that living water? —John 4:11

“The well is deep”— and even a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! (John 4:11). Think of the depths of human nature and human life; think of the depth of the “wells” in you. Have you been limiting, or impoverishing, the ministry of Jesus to the point that He is unable to work in your life? Suppose that you have a deep “well” of hurt and trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says to you, “Let not your heart be troubled . . .” (John 14:1). Would your response be to shrug your shoulders and say, “But, Lord, the well is too deep, and even You can’t draw up quietness and comfort out of it.” Actually, that is correct. Jesus doesn’t bring anything up from the wells of human nature— He brings them down from above. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering only what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and also by saying, “Of course, I cannot expect God to do this particular thing.” The thing that approaches the very limits of His power is the very thing we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish and weaken His ministry in us the moment we forget He is almighty. The impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus for Him to be our comforter or our sympathizer, but we refrain from approaching Him as our Almighty God.

The reason some of us are such poor examples of Christianity is that we have failed to recognize that Christ is almighty. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment or surrender to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying, “Of course, He can’t do anything about this.” We struggle to reach the bottom of our own well, trying to get water for ourselves. Beware of sitting back, and saying, “It can’t be done.” You will know it can be done if you will look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

The Strength of God will enable us to open up red seas, will enable us to dream great things and to interpret it, to discern the right things and to do the right things, will enable us to obey his words and do everything according to what it says, it enables us to kill Goliath's like things which make us stumble in our faith, will move mountains, will make us to believe in God almighty, will make us understand his will for our life and to say "let your will be done, not mine".

Nehemiah 8:10

New International Version (NIV)

10 Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” 

Healing the Wounded Soul

Soul wounds when it is hurt by the most, When things happens suddenly, When the loved ones leave or when they reject. Jesus suffered such a one.

The best way to heal a wounded soul is Jesus. Because he has suffered even to death and was resurrected by the power of God.

Ephesians 1:19-20

New Living Translation (NLT)

19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.

Matthew 26:36-38

English 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 him Peter 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.”

Healing a wounded soul takes time. It is an effort to put trust in God. We need to make them understand that this sufferings are for a little time and then comes the everlasting Joy.

Romans 8:18 NIV

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

This sufferings are for a reason, that we may know that God is the provider, the need of the hour. This sufferings are for all the believers throughout the world and it is to see that we stand in firm in the faith, resisting the temptation to fall or to have self-pity.

 Peter 5:9 NIV

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

1 Peter 3:18 NIV

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

God changes everything

Daniel 2:21 NIV

He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Psalm 147:3 NIV

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me - Luke 4:18

When Jesus’ Public Ministry was started, he first read from the book of Isaiah 61, Which is given in Luke 4:18.

Luke 4:18

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set free those who are oppressed,

In fact when John asks his disciples to question, if Jesus is the Messiah or shall we look for someone else. Jesus said all about this prophesy which is in Isaiah:

Matthew 11:1-6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

John’s Questions

11 When Jesus had finished [a]giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and[b]preach in their cities.

2 Now when John, [c]while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples 3 and said to Him, “Are You the [d]Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?” 4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you hear and see: 5 the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear,the dead are raised up, and the poor have the [e]gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he [f]who does not [g]take offense at Me.”

Jesus' Public Ministry started with this Spirit led prophesy filled message from Isaiah 61. Thousands of years before Jesus' birth, God through the Spirit inspired Isaiah to prophesy what Jesus would do. It is one of the most important lesson for our lives too. When we follow the footsteps of Jesus, we are to follow as what he says, We have to do what he commands us to do. We have to obey him.

The First thing that Jesus says that he does is, is to preach the Gospel to the poor.
1) To Preach the Gospel to the poor.

In the sermon on the mount, Jesus said,
Matthew 5:3 NIV
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

The end comes when the Gospel is preached to the whole world.
Matthew 24:14 NIV
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Feed My Sheep means to Preach the Gospel.

John 21:17

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

17 He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you [a]love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to himthe third time, “Do you [b]love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I [c]love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.

Jesus here says he has been Anointed by the spirit of the lord to preach the poor.


The Second thing that Jesus says that he does is, is to proclaim release to the captives.
2) Sent me to proclaim release to the captives -

The whole world is captivated by the Sin. And Jesus says he proclaims to release from Sin - Remember that saving a sinned one is saving him from most of the sins that he may commit.

James 5:20 (KJV)
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.


... For the Joy in heavens over one sinner who has repented...
Luke 15:7 NIV
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Luke 15:10 NIV
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

The Third thing that Jesus says that he does is, is to recover the sight to the blind.
3) Recovery of the sight to the blind... Opening of the heart from unbelief, from blocking of spiritual misunderstanding...
It is not just recovery from the physical blindness, but that of Spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV
However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who love him--


The Fourth thing that Jesus says that he does is, is to set Free those who are oppressed.
4) To set Free Those who are oppressed - from pharisee type of people who are proud, who cannot themselves hold anything with their fingers, but fill oppression on others...
Matthew 23:4 NIV
They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
 if they were not able to achieve anything in life, due to fear, laziness and worry they want other to feel the same about life and they want others to live in misery. But what God says is this:
2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

We know the oppression of the Egyptians on Israelites and how God delivered them. God now sent Jesus to free those who are oppressed.


HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED DAY AHEAD