Sanctify yourself

21 days fasting prayer started on 4th Jan. This years theme was "Be Holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight". For the study we took Book of Ephesians as the central part.

Paul wrote this letter to Saints(Ephe 1:1)
He is stressing the importance of being holy and blameless.

A. Why we should be Holy?
In old testament times, God's presence came down into Tabernacle.Its an unchanging law and command of Lord that the tabernacle, altar, all instruments used inside the temple and all persons/priests must be holy
Exodus 40:9-16

In new testament, God's presence resides in our body, which is His temple. So this temple must be holy. Every organ and part of our body must be holy.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17

B. How we can become holy?
1. By the Holy spirit
Isaiah 6:1-7
Here Isaiah confessed himself his sins/inequities after seeing the Glory of Lord.Even though he was a prophet, that does not prevent him from confessing ", Woe is me! For I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah"(Isaiah 6:5)

Then seraph sanctified his lips and tongue.
Our tongues needs a sanctification
Ephe 5:1-4

2. By the Word of God.
Exodus 19:4-6
When we obey Word of God, we will become holy.
Another thing which God wants us to do is Sanctify yourself. Ephe 5:25

Exodus 19. God asked Moses to tell people that let them sanctify themselves for 3 days. Then come near to God, God will come down.

C. What is the benefit of becoming Holy?
God's presence and glory will come down and reside in us.
Exodus 40:9-16
God asked Moses to do sanctify tabernacle, instruments inside, Aron and his family.
Exodus 40:33
Moses did exactly as God commanded.
THEN, cloud covered the tent

So Be HOLY, BLAMELESS and UNREPROVEABLE

Sunday school annual day

It was an exciting day, not only for the Sunday school kids, but also for the parents and audience.
Revival Centre AG church Sunday school celebrated its annual day of 2008 on 4th January,2009.

It was a day full of activities which started with various competitions around 2PM. Add to the excitement, we had fully professional puppet show by Br:Joel and Sis:Rebbecca.

For the last 3 weeks , lot of competitions happened inside Sunday school. The rest was completed today. That includes Solo, Group Song, Story telling and Elocution.
These competitions brought out the hidden talents of our guys and gals. It was amazing to see the confidence of our tiny tots and juniors.
Let us hope and pray that these young one's will take the charge tomorrow with a great zeal for Lord.

After the competitions we had various programmes performed by our kids starting from class 1.This includes action songs, Choreography, skit, group songs.
Later our chief guest Br:Jojo gave an inspiring message addressing the three groups, viz students, parents and teachers.
And lastly the most exciting event, prize distribution. Every student one or more prizes. It was real joy to see the tiny tots running to receive prizes.

Kudos to Pastor, Sis:Feba and all teachers which includes Sis:Mercy, Sis:Rathy Vinayakumar, Br:Kiran, Sis:Sheeba Regy, Sis:Aju, Br:Ejan, Br:Jinse John, Sis:Valsamma Varghese. And special appreciation to Br:Alwyn and RayS.

God bless you all.

Happy Anniversary

1. Br:Reji Varghese and Sheeba Reji celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary on December 31
2. Br:Varghese(Banjara Hills) celebrated his birthday on January 1.

We wish Reji and Sheeba and Varghese a blessed year ahead

Further details will be announce by them. Contact directly.:)

New Year Wish - Be Holy,Unblameable and Unreproveable in His sight

2008 became history. This December 31st our New year service started at 8:30 PM with worship lead by RayS. After the spirit filled worship, all individuals along with family testified about the God's grace and providence in their lives for the whole year. Those testimonies are really exciting, especially of those who come to the Lord this year and attended such a service for the first time.
Later Pastor Mathew George gave the new year message centered around the theme "Be Holy, Unblameable and Unreproveable in His sight(Colossians 1:21-22) ".
God wish every believer to be
1. Holy throughout his Life - 1 Peter 1:14-15
2. Unblameable - Jude 1:24
3. Unproveable Romans 12:1-2

Because His coming is very near.

The worship was concluded with Lord's table by around 1:30 AM

Why we should be regular in Bible meditation?

Last Friday(21st November 2008), famous bible teacher R.Stanley(founder of Blessing Youth Mission), preached in a revival meeting at SPG cathedral church, Secunderabad.
He was talking about the benefits of regular bible meditation by every individual.
1.The Bible is our daily bread
2. Bible is the highway of holiness
3. Bible is the sword of God
4. Bible is an unshakeable foundation
5. Bible is the textbook on prayer
6. Bible is like a builder's plumb line

More messages/articles of R.Stanley is available at stanleyonbible.com

Christian Life - From Joseph's life

This Sunday(23rd November 2008), Br:Geno(Samuel Varghese) gave the message in the hitec city fellowship at Gachibowli. He talked about Christian life based on Joseph's life

1. Joesph was a man of vision.
Genesis 37:5-10
Every individual, specifically every believer needs to have a vision, a spiritual vision. What ever the be the situation, the vision will come to pass(Habakuk 2:3)
2. Joseph never stops at obstacles when he was assigned a task.
Genesis 37:14-17
Joseph was assigned the task of meeting his brothers by their father. Joseph kept on going till he met them at dothan.
This what is expected out of us also by the heavenly Father.
3. Joseph was accused falsely
Genesis 39:13
Even though Joseph was committed and trustworthy and capable, Joesph went to prison on false accusations.
4.Joseph did not get recognition many times
When Joseph searched and found his brothers, there is no word of appreciation from them.
When Joseph was committed and not willing to cheat his master, he was sent to prison
5. Joseph was not remembered by people whom he trusted
Genesis 40:23
Joseph believed that the cup bearer will remember him and present his case before pharaoh. But that did not happen. And in the end God turned that to be good for Joseph
6. God rewarded Joseph
Genesis 41:39-44
God made Joseph, the second in commandant of Egypt.

And in his position, Joseph acted wisely , and saved Egypt from the great famine. In this hour of crisis across the globe and specifically our duty is to save this society from spiritual famine.

When to operate your faith

This Sunday(September 7, 2008) Br:Samuel Varghese(Geno) gave an inspiring message to the malayalam congregation in Fathe Nagar.
He concentrated on areas like

1. What is the difference between Belief and Faith?
Belief means you are telling that you believe in an idea, but unless and until you see or you confirm you will not really believe it. But Faith is you believe it 100% eventhough there is no sign of it happening and your actions are based on thet balief.

2.When to operate your faith
a. Operate your faith on Promises of God
b. Operate Your Faith on Warnings given by God
c. Operate Your faith when you are under burden