Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Today we have everything, we struggle to get a degree, struggle to find a job, struggle to come up in life, settle down in this country.   But never forget that we need God's favor to succeed. 

What is God's favor?

God's favor is the key for our blessing on this world. 

If you are given a house with all furniture, all facilities and all provisions and if you are not given the key to enter into the house, the blessings are of no use.  The key is to get God's favor. 

Listen to the sermon as Pastor Balan teaches on God's favor and how we can obtain it in our lives. 

Now the risen savior has all the right to say that "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth".  With that power and authority Jesus is telling the disciples, three instructions which the church must obey.

1. Go and make disciples of all the nations

God is asking our church, that is, every one of you to become disciple makers.

Take someone in your life, follow with him or her and make him or her to follow Christ like you do.

This sermon talks about three aspects of giving our best to God as based in Malachi Chapter 1:

- Our second best does not honor God (Verse 6)

We need to give the best to God. 

- Our God removes sin from us

Forgiveness brings physical healing!

Any area of our heart or mind that is not surrendered to Jesus Christ is an area vulnerable to satanic attack. We have a constant fight going on within us between flesh and Spirit, darkness and light, evil and God.  This fight will be on until we live in flesh.  Until our death.  The desires of our flesh sets our mind to do sin. 

Romans 8:6 6 (NIV) The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

There are areas in your life, you are not able to come out because we need a supernatural release of God's blessings in those areas. 

May it be sickness, may it be financial struggle, may it be the debt situation, may it be depression or unemployment, or fear or lack of something. The solution for your problem cannot be natural.  It has to be supernatural.

What are the 5 areas in your life that need God's supernatural release? 

Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Unfortunately faith is not just believing in God, but faith is also putting what we believe in action. 

Faith without action is dead faith. James 2:17 

You and I don't have the ability to see, but God's Word has promises which haven't come true in your life. 

Because faith is  taking God at His word.

We found three things in blind Bartimaeus that brought healing to him

1. Bartimaeus was blind, but he was focused on Chrsit

For a miracle to take place:

• You need to have concern over someone

Five important truths:

1. Don't send them empty/hungry, give them something to eat