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Jesus : Welcome to heaven. You know it is the year end. It is time for your spiritual appraisal. It is time to evaluate your spiritual walk. You know your manager speaks always to you about your KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and likewise your pastor always speak about KSLI- Key Spiritual Life Indicator. As you know this appraisal is a two way process. I like to hear from you about your KSLI and then I like to give you a feedback. Let us begin, Your pastor thinks you have a great spiritual life. He considers you as one of his best believer. He praises to others that you have good knowledge of bible, you pay tithe, You are able to lead all kinds of spiritual matters. It seems that your pastor feels that you have a great spiritual life. What do you think about your spiritual life? Believer : Jesus I really love you. As my pastor said I have a fantastic spiritual life. I pay tithe. You know many Christians go to the church only on Easter day. But I went to church on most of the

Matthew 5:14-16: You are the light of the world-- like a city on a mountain, glowing in the night for all to see.  15 Don't hide your light under a basket! Instead, put it on a stand and let it shine for all.  16 In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.             Who You are? We were under darkness. Our minds were blind. God opened our heart and removed darkness from our mind and life. Devil has no more any authority over us. Light indicates all God given revelation about Christ and the life change and blessing that has brought to our life. God made us light. Our light comes from  Christ who is the Light of the world. We are now like a city on a mountain. We are light for those who are still in darkness like light in the night. This is the purpose of the light that God has given to our lives: share the light to others. Where is your light? We know that we are the light in this world. However, we

God visits us. It is very precious moment of our life. We all have very special moment of God’s presence in our live. God appears to us in special ways. Sometimes his presence is tangible and other times intangible. One of the peculiarity of our God is that he appears in the form of human being. Even Bible describes God using anthropomorphic words. Here God appeared to Abraham in human form (Gen 18).       1. Receptiveness and Sensitiveness to God’s presence (V.2) Abraham saw God. Even though he is very old man, he stood and went out to receive God’s presence. It is very important to leave our tent in order to receive God. We may have different comfort zones but sometime we need to leave them to receive God. God wants to draws very close relationship with us. He likes to come near to man in intimacy. But man should be sensitive to God’s move and also should be receptive. 2. Humbling Yourselves in worship (V.2) Abraham bowed low to the ground before God. It is an act of wor

1. Putting trust in God When Abraham gave up the wealth offered by a king in trusting God and gave tithe to God (Gen 14), God appeared to Abraham and said "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward"  ( Gen 15:1).  God has relationship with Abraham which here specified as “your shield” and “your …reward.” When Abraham put his trust in God in front of king Sodom and gave tithe to God, God assured to Abraham these things. Shield indicates protection and reward indicates blessings . God is ready to give reward to faithfulness of Abraham and his trust in God. When we put our trust in God, God will be our reward. He will be never ashamed us when we trust in him.   If he takes the reward of the king it will limit only to him but when Abraham put trust in God, God given rewards went beyond him to his generations . Psalm 127:3 identifies the inheritance of children as a “reward” given by the Lord. He is our protection too. Jesus said I am with you

Our lives are conditioned by several factors such as our family, job, education, place of living and so on. We live out everyday a conditioned life. It is important to make sure that a Christian’s life is conditioned by God. Paul is an example for this. Let us look at Paul’s life and see how his life was conditioned by God. 1. Condition your life with final destiny He was ready to forget what is behind him. He had very prestigious background. Such background can give him good confidence in flesh. But Paul had no confidence in the flesh (3.4-6). He did not hold his prestigious background or position when he met Christ. He sacrificed what was profitable to him according to the standards of the world in order to know Christ (3.7). He was ready to lose the world to gain Christ (3.7). His priority was to be found in Christ (3.9). He depended upon the righteousness that comes from God (3.9) rather than self righteousness. He was like a runner in the track. He forgot what is behind

These are some of the thoughts that can lead and guide our minds with respect to our church. What is God doing around us? Jesus said “I will build my church...” (Mt 16.). He is doing right here in your place through you. The building and providing growth to the church is completely God’s work. It is God-sized program which any human being may not able to do unless God equips someone. However, the beauty is that God likes normal human beings to participate with such God-sized program. What should I do? It is our responsibility to join with God in his work which specially manifests around us. We need to learn to jump into the place where God is really at work. In order to participate in God’s work around us, we need to adjust our life (time, relationship, finance, work and all other life activities) to God’s plan,  purpose and work. How I should participate with God? Nehemiah might be a good example to answer this question. 1. Fill our hearts with burden for perishing