How to develop a personal relationship with God?

How to develop a personal relationship with God?

 In this world where majority of the people live a life without any personal relationship with God, I appreciate your desire to gain a personal relationship with God. I will explain very simply and clearly how to develop a personal relationship with God.

 To develop a personal relationship with anyone, the two most important things are,

To know about the person: If you want a relationship with a person, you want to know the true details about that person such as his likes and dislikes, character and behaviour, name and details, past, present and future life and acts.

To talk to that person: Even if you know the complete biography of a person and don’t ever talk to that person, you will never be able to develop a relationship with that person. Since the day you start talking, a relationship will begin and the more you talk with him, the more you will become closer to him.

 To develop a relationship with God is the same as to develop a personal relationship with anyone else.

 To know about God: To know about God, the best thing you can do is to start reading the bible which can give you all the details about God such as, who is God, where is He and how can we access Him, what are his likes and dislikes, how other people developed a relationship with God, how to please him, the past, present and future about God and His acts.

 So as a first thing, you start to read bible from today with a commitment that you will read at least 5 chapters of the bible in an order, everyday without compromising. To know, How to read bible and what to read? Click here.

 To talk to God: To talk to God is another word to pray. Everyday you spent not less than 15 minutes talking to God about whatever is coming to your heart. Tell him your desire to know Him more and to develop a personal relationship with Him and ask Him to help you. Tell him about the situations you are going through, your wishes and tell what you want Him to do in your personal life, family, profession or business.

 If you can talk to God everyday within a while, you will be able to see the favor and blessings of God in many areas of your life. You will gradually start to hear what God is speaking to you and will also be able to sense the presence and protection of God in your life. To find many points to pray, Click here.

 You may wonder how long it may take to develop this personal relationship?

From my experience by helping lot of people to get closer to God, I would say it will take normally from 3 months to 6 months depends on how strong is your desire, commitment and dedication to know God. If you can read bible and pray 90% of 6 months for yourselves with a sincere desire, I can guarantee that you will assuredly develop a personal relationship with God and will experience and encounter God in your life.

Yahweh, I ask you that this person who read this will make a commitment today and may succeed in developing a very intimate personal relationship with you. In Yeshua’s name. Amen!

Why is it hard for rich man to enter heaven?

Matthew 19:23 "Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven."

It is hard for a rich man to enter heaven simply because it is hard for him to depend God. God love His children to depend Him for each and everything. God love us to depend Him for all our needs which includes all life sustaining needs such as food, water, healing, etc. and all material needs such as dress, footwear, shelter, electronics, vehicle, etc. and mental needs such as happiness, peace, hope, faith and spiritual needs such as salvation, holiness, Holy Spirit, protection, etc. and other needs such as education, job, wisdom, knowledge, etc.

Depending God for all things can develop a very strong attachment with God. The attachment develops in a new born baby to his mother by depending her for almost everything is a very good example. Depending God for all our needs is quite easy and practically possible, when we don't have other options. When we have other options, depending God is not quite easy. Being rich or having plenty of money is an excellent option not to depend God, especially for our material needs. If we don't have any or enough money for our daily bread, we will pray literally from our heart to God to 'Give us this day our daily bread.' When we are rich, our daily bread will be available sufficiently and we don't depend God for the same. Most of all of us are becoming rich day by day. If we notice, we can realize that we do not depend God in our richness as we were in our poverty. Depending God for our health issues in poverty and depending medicines and physicians in our richness is a very common thing. Getting our material needs satisfied instantly by purchasing it with money rather than depending God is another example.

Progressively depending richness bring a person into a situation not to depend God for everything he is able to attain with his money. This will affect a person's relationship with God. It will reduce his trust in God and increase his trust in richness. After all it will bring the person into a situation where he will not be able to trust God for his needs and not in his riches. Let me ask each one of you the same question Jesus Christ asked to the rich man more clearly.

Can you sell Everything you posses today, Trust God and Face tomorrow?

If you cannot, look back to the time you don't posses much riches. Then you will realize that there was a time you were able to do so because you trusted God so much and gradually your trust now changed from God to money. This is the same thing happened with the young rich man. He is not able to trust that God will be able to nurture him if he sell his riches.

Hope you understand now why is it hard for rich man to enter heaven.

To Pray or To Conquer

Prayer is a great method God has placed for us to submit our supplications before Him and to receive our needs. But prayer cannot give answer for all our needs because there are also things God want us to obtain by conquering.

It's quite easy to receive things by prayer because it is like spoon feeding and it's quite difficult to receive things by conquering because we need fight using our power and strength to conquer something. Learning to achieve things by prayer increase our faith, but learning to achieve things by conquering make us warriors. 

After all it's all a part of training by God. A perfect example for this is God leading the Israelites from Egypt. To lead the Israelites from Egypt, God heard their prayer. But in order to acquire the promised land, God wanted Israelites not to pray, but to conquer.

Lack of wisdom and understanding sometimes prevent people of God from realizing when to pray and when to conquer. Basically in order to receive things from God we need to pray. It is simply because it is not practical to conquer and achieve something from God like what Jacob did. Also our God is so good and gracious to answers to those who ask Him. It is clear from the words of Jesus, Matthew 7:11 "how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

But what about the things which is not under the superior control of God or in other words things God has released or given permission to us to go and get by conquering. A perfect example for this is Israelites conquering their promised land, given/released by God for them by war.

Likewise today God has given the permission and authority to conquer our rights, blessings, freedom and healings from all rulers, authority, power and dominion, of this dark world. By the way, the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Our weapons are,

Prayer: To pray and pray until you receive it.

Word of God: Use the word of God to pray and command until you receive the answer.

Name of Jesus Christ: Command in the name of Jesus Christ for your need to be released, to remove everything that is blocking your blessing and to change the adverse situations.

Proclaim: Proclaim to yourselves, others, air, situations, angels and devil what you believe with boldness.

Believe: Believe and believe that all the activities you do by faith will change the situations and hold on to what you believe and proclaim even on adverse situations.

Never Give Up: If you decided to receive something by conquering, never ever give up. Go forth until you receive it.

Do Not Imagine God

What is wrong with Imagining God?

It's quite human and natural to imagine things which we know and don't know. There are only few things which human beings cannot imagine, like the biggest number, the size of universe, etc. But there is only one thing man can never imagine. It's no one else other than Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of everything in the universe. 

Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God. An after effect of imagining God is why we can see today god limited to papers and metals as idols. Limiting God, the creator of whole universe, by creating any idols and thinking that an idol we create represent God on earth is utter foolishness. It's not a sin to think about imagining God. But it is foolishness as well as sin to imagine and conclude that this is God because God is ineffable. Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God.God is too great and too extreme to be imagined. The imagination of all human beings combined and the combination of all super computers ever made are not necessary to came to a conclusion after imagining God.

According to me, imagining God is an example for the limitation of thinking ability of human beings. They are putting limits to their own imagination and their imagination and maturity has not grown enough to realize that God is ineffable. A perfect example is that if we ask children of different ages or same children at different ages, 'what is the highest number?' Small children say 10 and little more big children say 100 and then 1000 etc. That is what they can imagine according to their age. It will take a while for them to be grown up and realize that actually there is nothing like a highest number because numbers are infinite. Similar to that, those who imagine and conclude that this is God or that is God are setting limitation to God by themselves.

This is why bible teach us to call upon the name of our LORD. It's not asking us to imagine God. Also bible makes it very clear that, God is Spirit and the creature cannot create back the creator. Wherever in bible, someone had an encounter with God, they are realizing themselves that God is ineffable and inexpressible. And what they witness as they have seen God is just a part of what God reveal to themselves, because no human can stay alive after seeing God and bible says no one has ever seen God as He is. When we pray, praise and worship God, all God is asking us to do is to do it in the name of God. LORD(also translated as Jehovah, Yah, YHWH) is His name. And other than Yesuva(Familiar as Jesus Christ), for our salvation, there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. In the period of New Testament, we have to approach Father God Yahweh in the name of Son of God Yesuva.

To Whom Should We Pray?

To Whom Should We Pray?; Who do we pray to, the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit?

Answer:

Without knowing to whom we are praying is like talking to a crowd without specifying the person. It is very important to know to whom we are praying and, to pray to whom we have to pray. Praying unlike is also a disobedience to God's commandments when bible makes it clear to whom and how we should pray.

Today people pray to Heavenly Father, Son of God and to Holy Spirit without knowing whom to pray. In bible, Jesus Christ makes it very clear that we should pray only to our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. No one person, No where in the bible prayed unlike that. 

Jesus Christ taught us in Matthew 6:6, When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Again, In Mat.6:9, “This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,...."

Jesus Christ is telling us why we should pray in His name in John 14:13, And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

We can also use the following Names of our Heavenly Father when we pray.

• Abba: "Father" (Mark 14:26; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6)
• El Shaddai: All Sufficient God (Rev. 1:8;  Gen. 17:1)
• El Elyon: The Most High God (Heb. 7:1; Gen. 14:20; Psalm 9:2)
• Elohim : God (2 Cor. 9:7)
• Avinu Shebashamayim: Our Heavenly Father (Matt. 6:9; Luke 11:2)
• Adonai Elohim: The LORD God (Acts 3:22; Gen. 2:4)
• Haggo'el: Lord God Almighty; Lord God of Hosts (Rev. 15:3)

NB: Only major names of Heavenly Father from bible are listed.

Praying to Jesus Christ:

It is very common for all of us(including me) to have a tendency to pray to the Son of God, Jesus Christ because of our love towards our savior who died on the cross for us. But the Better way to show our love towards Jesus Christ is to obey His commandment by praying to God, the Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ name. Because Jesus Christ said in John 14:23 "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching."

Some people confuse us with the oneness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But even when they are one, throughout the bible we can see that the supremacy goes to the Heavenly Father. Some people even says that the difference between Jesus Christ and Heavenly father was only before the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Absolutely No!. It is clear that  
Jesus Christ, Son of God gave supremacy to Heavenly Father even after resurrection from His own words in Revelation  3:12, 'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.'

Praying to Anybody else:

Praying to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ is the only method bible teaches us. Jesus Christ also clearly mentioned that, (Matthew 11:27) "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." If No one else knows the Father other than the Son, there is no other name than Jesus Christ in which we can pray to God.

A sample prayer:

'Heavenly Father, I pray to You that all people who read this article can understand to whom they should pray and the importance of praying to You in the name of Jesus Christ. Please give them the heart to pray likewise. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray.' Amen!

Click Here to read the Prayer Points for Beginners.

Dedicating this answer to the questioner, Ann Vincent.

Sons of God Marrying Daughters of Men

 Sons of God Marrying Daughters of Men

Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Story/History Explained in my own words:

Human beings was increasing on the face of earth. The daughters born to man was very beautiful in those days. Angels(sons of God) which is also known as watcher angels or guardian angels fall in love with the daughters of men. A group such angels decided to leave their position as an angel of God because of their free will and left heaven and heavenly glory and came to earth to marry the daughters of men. They are mentioned in bible later as fallen angels.

When the left heaven, they also lost their angelic body and they transformed to a body like that of human being. (I don't know now if they were able to shift their bodies to human and angelic body according to their wish). Then they married the daughters of men and made sexual relationship with them. The daughters of men became pregnant by the angels of God and gave birth to a new kind of human beings called 'Giants'.

Giants had comparatively larger, mighty, skilled and intelligent than normal human beings. They have great knowledge about heaven, herbs, earth, secrets of earth, etc by the knowledge they received from their fathers, angels. Even though initially things were going smooth, later they became a threat to the pure human beings remained on the face of earth because of their evil acts. Thus God destroyed all the giants and human beings, except Noah and family by the flood and made the first group of fallen angels prisoners.

After a while when again human beings increased on the face of earth, Then the second group of angels fall in love with the daughters of men again and produced giants again on the face of earth. These giants are later destroyed by God by the Israelis after calling them out of the land of Egypt. The second set of fallen angels were also imprisoned by God then.

Angels are sons of God: It is clear from bible that angels are also known as sons of God. The term is found only five times in the O.T and every time it is used of angels.
1. Gen.6:1, 4(Current topic)
2. Job 1:6 sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. (If the sons of God, angels have to come to present themselves before the Lord, they will not be angels who are in the presence of God. Satan is in the face of earth since he is fallen and is also mentioned in Job 1:7 & 2: 2. If Satan have to come with sons of God, those sons of God, angels are also coming from Earth. , Job 2:1 Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord.)
3. Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. (Literally, when the Cherubims sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.)
4. Dan. 3: 25, 28: and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. ; 28 who has sent his angel.
5. We can also see something so much connected to these angels in the epistle of Peter and Jude. 2 Pet.2:4-5: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; 5 and spread not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing, in the flood upon the world of ungodly;
6. Jude 6: And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day. (We can see that Jude compare the sin of these angels as that of the sins of people of Sodom and Gomorrha and it is clear that their sin is fornication. That means the sins of angels are also fornication.)

Sons of God are not human beings or holy men of God
1. Seth did not have a son until 235 years after creation, and his son did not have  a son until 325 years after creation(Gen 5:3, 6, 9) Where did these sons came from? They could not have been sons of Seth, for these marriages took place when men began to multiply in the very beginning of the race before Seth had sons of marriageable age. The term sons of God proves that they were the product of God, not of Seth. They were the fallen angels of 1Pet.3:19; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6-7
2. If sons of God were ordinary men as daughters of men, it is naturally impossible to produce giants for a crossing of godly men and ungodly women cannot produce their offsprings as giants.

Fallen Angels Before and After Flood: Clearly there are two sets of fallen angels. Gen. 6:4 is a clear written evidence for that which says, ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God’

It’s clear from bible that all living creatures except Noah and family is wiped out from the surface of the earth which literally means all giants are dead by the flood at the time of Noah. But we can still see giants after the flood. The possibility of a giant’s seed to remain in Noah’s family or the possibility for some giants to survive from the flood is null for the giants to come again of the face of earth after flood. And it makes it clear that there will be another set of fallen angels after that.

These second set of fallen angels again married daughters of men(from a generation of Noah’s offsprings) and thus the next set of giants started to born on the surface of the earth, who occupied the land of Canaan and nearby lands in advance of Abraham.

Giants were Sons of Sons of God: Gen. 6:4 makes it very clear and answer the question where do giants came from. When the sons of God married the daughters of men as before the flood, giants were again born to them.
1. The fact that  giants, or beings of abnormal size in body, have lived on earth is one of the most clearly stated truths in scripture. The Heb. nephil means giant, bully or tyrant (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33). That there were abnormal in bodily size is clear from the fact that men of Israel(normal human beings) were as grasshoppers in size compared to them. (Num.13:33).

The Anakims were a people great and tall in body (Dt. 1:28; 2:10, 11, 21; 9:2; Josh.11:21,22; 14:12-14). Anak himself was of the giants and if he and all Anakims were so big, we can be assured the other giants were also. (Num.13:22,33)

Ammon was the land of giants, for giants dwelled there in old time. (Dt. 2: 19,20)

The Emims were also great, many and tall as the Anakims. They dwelled in the land of Ammon from the old.(Dt. 2:19-21)

Og, the king of Bashan is described a a giant whose iron bed-stead  was about 18.5 feet long and 8 feet wide. (Dt.3:11, Josh.12:4, 13:12).

Repahim: All these giant nations came from a union of the songs of God and daughters of men after the flood. Beings of great stature, some of them even had 6 fingers and 6 toes on each foot and carried spears weighing from 10 to 25 lbs (2.Sam.21:16-22; 1 Chr. 20:4-8). Goliath whom David killed wore a coat of armor weighing from 10 to 25 lbs. and was about 13 feet tall.(1 Sam.17:4-6)

By the size of bed-stead of Og and Goliath’s height we can image that the approximate size of giants varied from 13 to 18 feet, which are about 3 to 4 times the size of human beings. In some books it was written that the giants among giants used to be of height up to 30 feet.

These are all the best information that can be fetched from the books included in the bible. For better information about the incident and its details, you can read the Book of Enoch which is also a book from which few verses in bible have been quoted and a very good book in my personal opinion. Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of Book of Enoch can tell you the detailed story of fallen angels and giants.

What are Demons or Unclean spirits?

Questions:

What are Demons or Unclean spirits? Are demons real? What do demons do? How are demons originated? Who created demons?

Answer:

Demons which are also known as Unclean spirits are very real and they still exist on the face of earth. The details about demons are very interesting for those who have interest in spiritual things. There are many things we can understand from bible about demons.

Demons are a type of spiritual beings that exist on the face of earth (Mt.12:43). There are many of them and they go from one place to another by walking and they goes through dry places seeking rest (Mt.12:43). They are able to communicate to other demons and human beings (Mt.12:45, Mk.5:8). They have names, groups and specific tasks (Mk.5:9, Mk.9:25, Mt.12:45). They have grades based on wickedness and have unity with each other (Mt.12:45, Mk.5:12).

They are not visible to human eyes (Mk.5:9). They are able to go inside and abide inside a human being or an animal (Mk.8:8,12). Many of them can abide inside one human being or animal as well (Mk.5:13). They cannot do things in the physical world themselves. They can do things in the physical world and communicate by inspiring and controlling a living organism after entering inside it (Mk.5:3,9). They can affect the common sense of a human being and even increase the physical strength of a person when abiding in them (Mk.5:4,5,15).

They know very well that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and they even worship Jesus Christ (Mk.5:6,7). They know Jesus Christ will grand them what they beg(Mk.5:7,12,13). They know they will be tormented by Jesus Christ in the appointed time, which is the judgement day and they also know when is the appointed time (Mt.8:29)

These are the important information about demons from bible. If you found it interesting, it is even more interesting to understand what are these demons, how did they originated and why they remains.

Demons are first originated in the time of Noah. They were created by the death of giants who were born by the mating of human beings and fallen angels. We will get a partial understanding about this from the bible and clear understanding from the Book of Enoch. (Book of Enoch is not included in bible, but quoted in the bible, Jude 1:14, Deut.13:2,3)

The summary of what happened is as follows. A group of angels(sons of God) of God, fall in love(lusted upon) with the daughters of men who were fair and they decided to go down to the earth from the heaven. Angels have spiritual body which is kind of invisible for normal human beings and can transform into material bodies which is like similar to human bodies. They married the daughters of men.

The daughters of men who were conceived by the angels of God produced a new variety of human beings called giants. They were bigger, stronger and skilled than normal human beings. The spirit of these giants were different from that of human spirit which God created. Their spirit was neither human spirit, not the spirit of an angel, but a cross of human and angel spirit. They started doing lot of evil things with strength and skills better than human beings and wisdom and knowledge from their fathers, the fallen angels.

The whole earth became wicked because of them. So God decided and destroyed the first set of giants(produced by the first set of fallen angels) by the flood he made at the time of Noah. Then God destroyed the second set of giants(produced by the second set of fallen angels after flood) by his army of the people of Israel and gradually all of them are destroyed from the face of earth.

Thus physically they were destroyed and decomposed to earth as any other creature, but their spirit remained. God let their spirits to be on the face of earth until the day of judgement, for it is neither pure human spirit,  nor pure angel spirit. These spirits of giants are called demons or unclean spirits. In simple words, demons are the spirit of dead giants who once lived in earth.

The demons have similarity with human spirit which help them to abide inside human beings and to control them. With divine authority from Jesus Christ, it is possible to cast demons out from the possessed human beings. We cannot destroy them or send them to hell with that authority as some people suppose. Also demons are not fallen angels and both of them are different.

Demons cannot do anything in the physical world themselves because they are spiritual beings. They abide in human beings because of that. Their primary wish is to destroy human beings.

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More information about this can be found in the Book of Enoch: I'm quoting the main chapter below.

Chapter 14 : 1. And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to ⌈⌈the Watchers of heaven⌉⌉, who have sent thee to intercede ⌈⌈for them: "You should intercede"⌉⌉ for men, and not men for you: 3. Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? 4. And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those ⌈also⌉ do who die and perish. 5. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6. But you were ⌈formerly⌉ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. 7. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. 8. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. 9. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; ⌈they shall be evil spirits on earth, and⌉ evil spirits shall they be called. [10. As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] 11. And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, ⌈but nevertheless hunger⌉ and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded ⌈from them⌉.

When God Do Nothing

Question: What to do when God Do Nothing? Will God give us more than what we can handle?

"When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future." -Ecclesiastes 7:14

There are good times and bad times in all of our life. In a positive way, good and bad times together make our life, real life. The simplest way of describing good times is as in Psalm 23:6. Wherever we go, whatever we do, blessings, prosperity, happiness, peacefulness, power, health, satisfaction etc follow us. Blessings will come out of adverse situations, we get many folds that what we expect and we will be a blessings to the life of many others.

But all of us have some worse time in their life. Bad times in our life is like, wherever we go, whatever we do, problems like a curse, poverty, sadness, worries, sickness, dissatisfaction etc follow us, one after other. It can be via disasters, death, diseases, financial crisis, personal, family, business, professional or educational issues. Mostly the victim alone and rarely the family only knows the severe pain through pass through the period of bad times. Currently I'm also going through bad times, a period of severe crisis in life one after another.

What make my situation worst is God I know living, loving and almighty act like a stone, doing nothing. If I didn't know God, I can easily imagine God is a myth and start to move on. If I don't know God much, will already come to a conclusion that God does not exist. But for me I'm more sure than myself that there is a living God. I have seen Him, interacted with him, heard His voice, felt Him in my body many times just like we can feel a fellow human being. I know Holy Spirit very well and I've the spirit of God and His anointing in me. Such a God I know when act like a stone for no reason or for some unknown reason is makes me and all who are going through so uncomfortable and bad in this situation.

I'll explain how I feel when going through this worse time in my life: I feel I'm losing all my hopes, aims and dreams about life, as something in my hands slipping out. I'm not able to even think about tomorrow because of severity to struggle today. There will be terrible and sudden mood swings often. Sometimes feel to quit all commitments and go to some lonely place without return or to die peacefully or to be taken to heaven by God like Enoch. Sometimes feel it would be nice if I wasn't born and will think what's the purpose with such a life. Even if laughing and smiling outside in front of others, very sad and crying inside thinking about the situations, fear of losing all dreams and hopes. Usually when alone it will outflow as loud or soft cry. There is no interest to do any kind of activities such as to go outing or for parties or to watch films or to play or social networking or eating, etc. The most satisfying things are to be alone(especially in bed or by looking unto infinity), crying by hugging pillow, making achievements by day dreaming. Lack of interest in eating and drinking healthy food affect physical strength. Emotional pain sometimes affect body by and feel it difficult even to take breath. The worst of that is the feeling that I'll collapse and finish(die) while walking or standing.

Not feeling much to pray, praise or worship thinking where was the answer of all prayers. Still pray like Hannah because of sorrowful spirit, by only moving lips and no voice heard. Many times feels like that prayer is what keeping the breath still inside making me alive. Not angry, but mad at God like a small kid mad at parents for not giving him something he wish and want badly.

Great men of God in bible went through such times. The best example might be Job even though there are other people such as Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Hannah, David, John the baptist, Paul and so on. The words of Prophet Habakkuk, 'Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.' Nothing in this world can inspire a person who is going through these situation like the book of Job.

Sometimes people try to help us by advices wise or stupid. It's easy for them to come and tell us the things which we already know very well, like the friends of Job came and told him. Whoever tell us whatever only we who going through the same know what we are going through. I've good knowledge in all these things and sometimes I get irritated when people advice things like we do not know all these. As we all know, it is easy to know and tell things, but difficult to practice and apply in life. Still I've decided to hold on to few very important things and to share that to those who are going through the same.

1. Not to Deny God
Job's wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” But Job said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?”

We should not only hold on to God when we receive the good things. May be we can not praise or thank God in adversity as much as in our good times due to our sadness, mental agony and so on. But if we do not deny God, that is the greatest thing we can do. We can consider all the good things and moments God provided in our life such as our life, food, water, air, relations, friends and so on. When Job was going through the worst situations, God always noted that Job did not denied God.

And if in case at an awkward moment, if you denied God, still God like you to come back to Him and He tries to restore you as well just as He restored Peter. Peter one among his 3 favorite disciples, who saw Jesus in flesh, revelation and glory, saw most of all the acts of Jesus denied Jesus and Jesus restored Peter with His love and He will restore you as well.

2. Release your Emotional Pain
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Share your emotional pain to God. If you do not feel to share it to God, give first priority to share it to your life partner and second priority to your children or to your close friends. If you don't have anyone to whom you can share, speak it our to yourselves. There is no point in holding your emotional pain, tears or loud cry inside you and there is nothing wrong in speaking it out. We can see Job released his emotional pain likewise and releasing the pain is always better than getting more irritated mentally by holding it inside.

3. Do not end yourselves
Paul said 'God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able'. I do not agree much to that because Paul himself said later that 'we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life'.
What I've to say is, no matter how worse our situations are, it won't last forever. Surely a day will come in which our situations are restored and good times again. The worse period can last for few minutes or hours or days or weeks or months or years or even few decades. No body knows exactly how long it will last, but everyone knows that if we end our life in between, we can't see those good days. Also this life in us is not ours to take and we should never take what we cannot give. Sometimes even I feel that I'll collapse and finish due to the mental agony. If so, let it be. But it's not right to take it.

4. Do what you can do yourselves
Many things we depend in God are things we can do ourselves with the resources God provided. Almighty God is not deaf and slow. If we prayed once or twice and it was not answered, there is no point in waiting for an answer without doing what we can. Suppose you are sick and you prayed for the healing and nothing happened, do not put yourselves on hold and make your sickness worse. Try to get the best available treatment you can as soon as possible and at least use the resources which God provided you. When God heals, He'll provide instant healing or a very progressive result because all the healing God did while He was in earth as Jesus was likewise. I just mentioned about disease as an example. You can do what you can in all cases if prayer was not answered.

In case, if you do not have anything to do, just hold on for God to act. I'm now waiting for God to act. I don't know how long it will take and I don't know how long I can be like this.

I wish may this post help all its readers to find peace if they are going through or when they go through hard times in their life.

Is eating shrimp a sin against God?

Is eating shrimp a sin against God? Did God Change the Law of Clean and Unclean Meats?

Eating shrimp is Not a sin. God explained and made it clear in the New Testament what to eat.

Jesus Christ very simply and clearly tells us about eating food. Mark 7:15-23 "15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” 17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. 18 So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?” 20 And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”


Jesus said it so nice and it has great logic. Jesus also tell us even if we eat unclean food, it get purified when it goes through the process of digestion. This means we can eat any food shrimp or prawn, pork, hare or meat of anything they like.

Some people consider some food not pure. Titus gives a good reason for that. Titus 1:15, "Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted.

In Acts there was a voice from heaven saying, Acts 10:15 "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

I hope you understand it clearly. What are you waiting for now? Go and have a Marvelous Dish of Prawns. It's so Yummy !!!