Today is that day!

“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24

‘This is the day’ is one strong and enforcing statement. Like a command, a straight forward push; an excited win declaration.

The Psalmist starts with all kind of statement, a mixture of praise, thanksgiving, helplessness, hopelessness and then reaches down to “This is the day….”

There are many reasons to cry and crib about – the helpless state, ever hunting enemy, thick sorrow, and hopelessness. But it seems the Psalmist is struck by a strong and firm determination, a sudden infinite assurance, when he says “this is the day”. As if God has now spoken aloud that there is this day, He Himself has ordained, prepared and purposed it. A day to rejoice and be glad.

A day you will wake up with all your errands and prayers but that day God has predestined and called it your day. Everything in this day is called to work for you. The events lined up to surprise you, bless you; someone would visit you and speak that word of deliverance that even you haven’t noticed at all. Money withheld for years would just come rushing over you.

An enemy who has been hurting you and bothering suddenly vanishes. That anxiety is simply removed from your mind like the change of a carpet or a garment. You wake up as usual but the battle you’ve been fighting for months has been won. Someone has fought and laid the victory crown before your doorsteps.

Everything is miraculously favouring you. You haven’t moved an inch, but every inch around you is moving. God has spoken to everything around you to usher you, put smile over you, be joyful, fill you, and love you. It’s a day of joy dancing around you.

This day you are crossing-over a five years bridge in just one single day. The Lord has chosen it to be your day and every particle in air will work for you. In your favor, your enemies will surrender and give way to you!

God has designed days for you, that your help comes from around you. The paralytic man couldn’t move, but had friends who put him in the right place of healing. you may be helpless but your situations will carry healing and restoration. When your God is on-site, there’s just celebration!

If in one day everything collapsed for Job, everything can also come together in a day, just like that. God’s power is stronger. A small portion of God’s goodness is greater than all the best of worst thing put together.

Today is that day: A day of celebration, Joy and peace. Day to reap for what you haven’t sown. Day to recieve what is not yours. Day to shout for what you didn’t struggle, and yet is yours. You didn’t run the race and yet the crown is yours. You didn’t even strike your sword but a thousand has fallen to your left and right. Everything of God is giving you everything!

Stand ye today and see God do His best wonders just for you. Would you believe if I say to you, this is your day? Rejoice and celebrate now. Everything is going to reposition for you. Today, they will work while you rest and celebrate! Eat and drink, your season is here!

-Joseph Suhas

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‘Find me here’

I look not for a long life, but a full.

I look not to stand on top of the highest peak, but to stand tall and humble before God.

I look not for riches, but to be rich in God’s nature.

I look not for fame or name but all for His Glory.

I look not for a great life, but a life useful to God and a blessing to others.

I look not for comfort, but to comfort others.

I look not to selfish gain, but for a selfless life.

I look not to have, but to give.

I look not to be here, but to be there, in His presence.

Here is where I’m found. Where all my fear is gone.

Here is where I sing my heart out, it’s where I be myself.

Here is where Joy is surrounded; where peace abounds, where my heart is at rest.

Here is where everything God promised, is undoubtedly mine.

Find me here O Lord, on my knees – my eyes firmly gazed upon you; for to behold you is to behold life!

Keep me close to thine heart, and because it will never stop beating, I’ll never stop loving you!

– Joseph Suhas

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The Power of doing Good!

He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” – Gen 18:3-5. 

It was a sunny day; the sun was at pitch hot. After a day’s busy chorus of attending too many things of his own, Abraham was resting at the entrance under a tree. At a very unusual timings, He saw three men standing before him. Abraham quickly got up and rushed to greet and, serve them.

He was super quick to respond and show kindness. In doing so, he actually welcomed God in his tent, gave that honour, and served Him! For they were from the kingdom of God. 

There are a numerous times just as here, God knocked our doors, or passed-by us; came as stranger, or stood next to us. But we missed to recognise him. We didn’t attend to him. We were so busy with our own stuffs. We had our own share of troubles and storms, and were busy with it. some of us are too busy celebrating, and we didn’t even bother to help or have a heart towards our neighbours. And we pray and seek help from God. Irony, and painful truth!

What justice are we serving when we expect God to help us when we’re not willing to help our neighbours? We don’t wanna take that extra mile, step out and reach them; Love them, do good to them.

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” – Hebrew 13:2

Abraham simply wanted to serve them, bless them and send them back on their journey. He wouldn’t really ask something in return. How many of us truly do good without expecting anything in return? 

“Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.” -Hebrew 13:16

The Children of the Most High will carry HIS heart of doing good to anyone and everyone. Even so, unto your enemies. Yes, it takes our effort, time, energy, money and everything. But that’s what God is looking in us. He wants to see His nature in us. Do we carry His nature in us? His goodness and mercy will not cease to follow us for the rest of our lives. How about yours? 

God won’t credit some blessings on you because you’ve done some good deed. Nope! Whether you do it or no, it is in His nature to do good to us. And He will do good despite it. That’s what He is. His goodness walks before Him. 

While they ate, he stood near them under a tree. “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. – Gen 18:9.

While you are busy serving strangers, God is thinking about you, your family and your life.

If His eyes are on the sparrow, are you not more than that? You are more than His own life, and it costed God His son Jesus for you!

He will spot that area of your life that need His touch, that need His healing. He will begin to involve in every area of your life. That storm that you’re in for years, He will walk into it to calm. He will walk to that area you’ve been struggling for years for victory. He will attend to your needs while you attend to the needs of others!

 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son. – Gen 18: 10.

There is an exchange that happens when we are busy serving His people. God is drawn to stay with you until He releases His Word and activate that breakthrough in your life. His Blessings will flow unto you and follow you! 

Goodness attracts Goodness. Show goodness to people around you, it will in-turn attract the goodness of God in a greater measure over you. Strive to do good in all manner and at all time and to everyone.

Don’t wait for someone to knock your door. Be alert and sensitive to serve, and do good.  

For Christ came to serve and not to be served. And therefore, God the father now has Christ Jesus seated with Him at His right hand forever!

Do you want God to have His dwelling with you? Be ready to serve, and do good. He will be attracted to pass-by you. When God comes, He will fill every incompleteness of your life, and His goodness will forever rest over you!

– Joseph Suhas

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God and me, together!

He works when I sleep,
we work together when I wake up.

He plans when I sleep, we execute together when I wake up.

He sorts out my every mess when I sleep, we create new together when I wake up.

He fights when I sleep,
we win together when I wake up.

He sings over me when I sleep, we sing together over each other when I wake up.

He orders silently when I sleep, we open the suprise together when I wake up.

He loves watching me when I sleep, we adore each other together when I wake up.

He is eternal, I’m but for a time. When I’m asleep, dusted and gone, He keeps watch over my bones until I wake up again and live with Him “together” forever!

-Joseph Suhas

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Beware of the Easy-cosy, Comfort life – Lesson from the Life of King Asa!

Every Great men of God was driven to their nothingness and compelled to pursue God. The perseverance in which they sought God attracted Him to visit them. It is our state of wilderness that often creates an unparalleled urge to leave everything and seek God. Sometimes comfort turns out to be your greatest barrier.

King Asa had a great zeal for God. He was blessed with many years of peaceful reign. But eventually, Asa lost the habit of depending on God during those years. When the calamity hit him, he woke up to resolve it to himself. He left God from where he picked up the peaceful reign. God silently watched his steps. Instead of looking up, king Asa bent down and took the help of King Aram. God had given Asa a great victory when he had faced a huge army before. The Lord fought his battle and give an astonishing victory. but now a smaller problem has turned Asa upside down. Asa depended on external source for help. God was upset. Asa failed to seek the face of God and enquire of Him. Eventually King Asa grew cold, independent, and walked away from the Lord his God. Even in his sickness, he did not return to the Lord till his last breath.

“Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word” – Psalm 119:67

Little do we realise that our storms are the very things that actually push us closer to God. They keep us intact to God. I thank God for all my storms, challenges and problems. It kept me depending on God. It still is. It pushed me in a way closer to Him. My pains paved way to voice out to God. If it isn’t for them, I might have lost track of God.

If you haven’t thanked God for all your troubles, you should be doing it now! Well, it is still the one which is making you hold on to God! An easy life may lead you astray, your blessing may take you away from Him. A comfort life could blind you to the realities of life, and make you less dependent on God, and someday you will walk so independent, you’d not even realise that you’ve lost God on your journey!

Everything that helps us draw closer to God is a blessing in a way. And it is not the comfort and easy going life but the storms of our lives, the pain and agony, troubles and challenges.

The book of Psalm is full of cry, wailing, pain, running away and then thanksgiving, praises, and adoration as an answer. If there’s no pain, there’s no cry. If there’s no cry, there’s no need of help, no help – no praises. You see, if the psalmist had an easy, nice on-going life, he would probably never write the book of Psalm.

Ask King David, He’d probably tell you how his life is a roller coaster, and yet no one has experienced grace and love of God like him. All his victories won were in the rigorous battle and troubles of his life but a day of rest and comfort opened the door of sin with Bathsheba.

Ask Jacob, the one who wrestled with God for blessings; his life had been full of pain, twist and turns, and yet, it is here he found God. Seventy years of captivity did not bring God into picture. It is the fiery furnace that brought forth the son of God in the nation of Babylon and shifted the call for worship towards the God of Israel.

Beware of trouble free, calm or easy life. It is a trap, and the nature of man is to forget God, and learn to live life without Him. The danger is, you walk out of life into darkness and vanish not finding your way back.

The life of King Asa serve us all an important lesson. Don’t seek for a trouble free life. That’s not what you need. Seek for a life with Jesus, through the storms and raging seas, He shall keep you and you’ll be amazed as to how you still have peace and rest amidst them, even with all the noise around you! God bless!

Joseph Suhas. B

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The God of Covenant: the lights spoke!

It was 7:40PM, the passengers filled in, the ushers rushed us into our seats as the flight prepared to board. I buckled my seat belt while the air hostess made her way through to finish her instructions. The flight was all set. The plane took off, attained it’s altitude and got in pace. Lights went off one by one. The cabin turned calm and the fellow passengers dozed off. Sitting next to the window, I slowly turned to see through it. For a moment I wondered where I was. My eyes beheld the most beautiful sight ever! The whole of the land displayed the multitude of colorful lights that filled the horizon of the earth. Mesmerized, I looked and starred to capture this spectacular wave of bright shining lights: The reflection of sky beneath! They were like stars but a multitude of them. What beauty it adorned, what delight it held, what joy it filled. It was more beautiful than the sky itself. A sky above, and a sky beneath!

My mind went back to the scripture God spoke and the promise He made – “Abraham, look at the sky and count the stars. If you are able to count them….your offspring will be that numerous”.*
Gen 15:5&6.

Gazing at this plight, I was seeing the promise that God once spoke years ago. I was seeing what He saw back then. It was as if I stood right there as He spoke, a witness.

The glorious sight displayed His Word. His spoken promise still echoing; His Spirit still working; His Covenant still held; His Word still alive; His Sign still remain. It’s all over the earth! Abraham died, Generations passed, centuries gone, time flew, seasons rolled, all is old and history is sold, earth changed but He didn’t. His Word didn’t. His Covenant didn’t. His Promise didn’t!

Every time God looks down, it reminded Him His covenant and it reminds us of His faithfulness.He looks down and see His covenant, we look up and see His faithfulness. Abraham is no more but the covenant lives today. The sign still speaks His promises. No matter what, God will keep it. You can run away, hide under a bushel, and would want to close your ears and ignore them but everything around you will speak His promises, and shout them atop. His promises in your life will surely come to pass. Look around you: the sky, the rainbow, the mountains, and everything thereof in it, they all speak of His faithfulness.

That is the God of covenant and Promise we serve. He is faithful and full of love. He never changes. He is still the same yesterday, today and forever. And He will always be!!!

The next time you ever doubt His promises, get up, dust yourself from your doubts; look at the sky, open your ears, and listen. You’ll hear His promises echoing everywhere. He’s working them for you!

– Joseph Suhas

(From the archives of 2017 diary)

Heaven’s Voice of Restoration

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TRUE SIGN OF GODLINESS!

Godliness is having the form of God; being conscious, sensitive and in constant awe of who He is!!

True sign of Godliness is having your heart in the right place; and with God in you, everything in and around you fades away.

True sign of Godliness is when you start hating sin and detesting the things of the world.

Signs of Godliness:

1. Godliness will take away the mode of vague and unnecessary talks.
2. Godliness will take away the desire of delighting in the things & entertainment of the world.
3. Godliness will fade in you the taste for sin and remove every sinful nature in you.
4. Godliness will uproot ungodly relationships and destroy every bit of unrighteous nature.
5. Godliness will release a sense of fear of God and His presence around you.
6. Godliness will create a sense of newness, clean heart and consecration in you.
7. Godliness will take us into God’s will.
8. Godliness will turn us into the likeness of God inside out.
9. Godliness is the essence of God in us.
10. Godliness is the transformation into God’s very nature and likeness.

Joseph Suhas. B

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Price, Sign and Measure of our Spiritual growth.

A lot of Christian have a mindset of doing good things, living a life on the edge of commandments, and walk your life to Joy. That’s the life we live. We don’t go one extra mile above to this. 

Apostle Paul says, we’re only babes when we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Our actual growth begins in the spirit. Our spirit man must not only be quickened, but need to grow stronger day by day. The Lord is Spirit. The spirit of God abides in the spirit of man, and that’s where the spirit of man begins to grow. 

1. Price of Spiritual growth:

Make no mistake; your spirit doesn’t grow simply because you’ve one time accepted the Lord Jesus; you go to church and give your tithe. Never! 

When you accept the Lord, you’ll need to die to self first. 

Peter writes: “So get rid of all evil behaviour. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech”. – Eph 4:31

One must get rid of all this evil behaviour, and unholiness. Strive to be Holy and righteous through the help of the Holy spirit desired by you. You need to have the desire to get ride off these things and carry Holiness. It is almost impossible for God to do anything with you and in you, if you’re not clean and Holy. This criteria cannot be compromised. If you’re struggling with being Holy, then you’re far from the Fullness of God’s gift of His life for you. 

Those who are born of God doesn’t not continue to sin! if you’re struggling with it, then you still need to do away with sin yet. 

Die to self everyday, train your body to obey your spirit, as Paul does. And walk in Holiness. That’s the price of Spiritual growth.

2. Sign of Spiritual Growth:

1 Peter 2:2: “Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment“.

When you’re done with paying the price of Spiritual growth(walking in the spirit), there’s a sense of hunger that you develop automatically. It’s like you’re out of fever,  and back to normal. The appetite you lost, is regained back. 

There is a craving for the Lord. An unusual hunger and thirst for the Lord. This is the next phase of Spiritual growth. The hunger facilitates a believer to feed more on the word of God, seek Him more through prayers with an undying desire for the Lord.

These are sure indication of Spirituam growth. They will create an appetite that allows you to feast on God until your spirit is full. It’s the hunger of your spirit.

Remember, any unholy thing that you feed on during this phase will take you back to nullifying the appetite of your spirit for God.

3. Measure of our spiritual growth:

The Spiritual growth is often measured by the fullness of His Spirit in us.

When Jesus went into wilderness to be tested,

1. He overcame the first stage of dying to self. 

2. He had the hunger for father, an appetite that kept Him away from all evil plots and temptations. 

3. After this, He came out of the wilderness ‘Full of the Holy spirit’.

Stephen was testified as the Man full of the Holy spirit. for he had reached that fullness and could pray that prayer of forgiveness even in the jaws of death.

One of the other illustration could be Ezekiel 34, the level of water raising from the toe, feet, ankles, heels, stomach, neck and finally submerge totally. 

The current of water has the strength to take you anywhere the current flows. In the fullness of Holy Spirit,  it is often the Lord who takes over. It is a very deep level of intimacy and complete dependency on God. 

This is exactly what God wants each of us to have:- “The Fullness of Holy Spirit.”

God gave Himself to us in full measure. He didn’t withheld anything, but gave up everything for us. It is with us as to how much we take hold of Him, and how much we let Him take hold of us!

– Joseph Suhas

Voice of Restoration.

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I Declare… (Speak your victory) – I

“When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.” (ESV) – Nehemiah 4:15

(Speak it aloud over you!)

Who are you?: I’m made in the image of God, clothed in power and strength of the Holy Ghost. I’m called to operate in the capacity of God. I speak and call forth the plan of God to establish over my life in Jesus name.

Taking charge of the enemy: I declare and decree every plans of my enemy is nullified. I speak confusion in the camp of my enemy. Every scheme of his shall work to entrap the devil himself. Let distraction walk his way, and take him down by force. The God of my life shall frustrate the plans of my enemies. Not one will prevail, not one will pass. Everything will come to halt and turn to nothing.

Everything that went by me, that which I missed in my yesteryear I call them out back to life, and back here. Back in Jesus name in double fold, with double interest. I declare in Jesus name that the blessing which is held, and is stuck for long shall be released, at my command you’re to come back to me; come running and join the will of God for my life. I break the chains and shackels that has withheld any and every blessing over my life to be released, unleash over my life and my family in Jesus name.

‘Victory’ I claim it loud and clear. I’m the chosen vessel of God. I will stand and declare the works of the Lord that is being established over my life.

The hand of God over my life has crushed the work of the enemy, his bones are crushed, and his plans thereof shattered. Hallelujah!

I’m under the saving hand of God that protects me, shields me, and preserves me.

I remain under the banner of Jesus name. As for me and my family, we stay under the hand of God, forever. Amen!!

I recieve it, walk into it and experience it! Glory Glory Glory to Him who sits on the throne, forever and ever. Amen and Amen!!

Joseph Suhas

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BEHOLD I RESTORE: LORD

“FOR THERE IS NOTHING WHICH GOD IS NOT ABLE TO DO” – LUKE 1:37

“BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS VERY THING, THAT HE WHO BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST” – Phil 1:6

I’m going to restore it, the things that is lost, and gone, I shall bring it back to you again. It shall be overflown. The joy shall be full. I’m restoring broken relationships, erasing black spots; working on them to turn it into a beautiful picture of your life and your family. This restoration will began from here. It shall start from here, and from you. Hear me: I will begin to make all things new. This will be my doing. I will instigate and stir to begin what I have purposed to do and to bring into action, the prophetic movements, the bestowed visions and dreams. I shall call those things that are not, as if they were; and they shall stand before me. When I can make the crooked paths straight, I can also do the vice-versa: I will unsettle the settled, disturb the comfort, make the even uneven, remove the foundations of the old, familiar, and known; I will reframe-reshape-realign and pause everything and everyone – just for you, if you are ready to believe, I’m just one thought away from moving over you in my capacity of limitless power. I’m the Lord, and there is none besides me. There is nothing that I cannot do. I’m the Lord of Restoration!

“On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles and they were read before the king.” – Esther 6:1

There will be rattling sound around you, a restless and unsettled movement that will call into picture for the need for restoration. The work of the Lord shall be established, and none can stop it. The enemy is bound and confused and is defeated, but the Lord will reign as always in every story and in every page of History. His people will always get to see wonders. When they sleep in rest, they shall sleep with those glorious memories, and the works of the Lord shall they carry to their graves. He will not let His anointed be in darkness, there will be light and sound of restoration, for He will manifest to them that which is impossible. Everything that will result to the sound of celebration, them He will call it forth, like a thunder that strikes and brings in rain. He will do it, for His sake, His name sake and His children’s sake. They will experience the goodness of God, His love and His grace!

I will orchestra things no man would dare imagine. You won’t find patterns to my ways, or can frame them. I will call them from ends of the earth, I will weave them, knit them together and bring forth beauty out of ashes. It is me who calls seasons into picture. They do as I command. It is I who lifts the humble, and walks with the lonely. It is in my hands to exalt a man and to make him great. I will bring it to pass every word I have spoken, and I watch over it to perform. I make beauty out of ashes and trade sorrow for Joy. I forgive and extend mercy to those who I want to, and I will fill your barns with laughter and Joy! I have spread mercy over you, and I will not take it back. I will withhold no good from you, I have declared, and I will bring it to pass. It is over, It is finished, the night is gone, the light has come. You will see the goodness from now on!

Go, Arise and Shine!

– Joseph Suhas B

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