Daily Word of God

Daily Word on 17th Oct 2023

Jesus said, ‘My food is to do the will of the One who sent me.’

Lord is asking us to repent and believe in the Gospel. Many of us put the ashes on Ash Wednesday or on Monday in Eastern Catholic Churches on our forehead to remind us we are sinners. Genesis 3:19 (NJB): ‘For dust you are and to dust you shall return.’ Lord is asking us to repent and come back to Him, that is what He wants from us. 

John 4:33–34 (NJB): So the disciples said to one another, ‘Has someone brought him food?’ 34 But Jesus said: My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work. 

Jesus was with the Samaritan woman and Jesus was jealous of her soul and to lead her to salvation. But the desciples were worried about the material food which they were gone to bring from the town. Jesus was having something precious in his mind to save a sinner. He says that is what his food, which is the plan of Heavenly Father has entrusted to Jesus His only Son. That is why Jesus saying, my food is to do the will of the Father in Heaven!

Lord, we are unworthy servants. Make us the servants of your heavenly garden. 

The Light and Darkness

PART XXIII 

Lord, let Your grace will empower us come to closer to You and live in Your grace 

  From many of the trials tribulations I was realised that there is only one way to Jesus is the love of God. This is the important thing, which is lacking in the spiritual persons, which we are looking for. It is difficult to find a genuine spiritual person leading a holy life in true wisdom and knowledge in Christ Jesus. But by the grace and mercy of God, I was gone only through the Catholic spiritual centres. I did not know anything about Mother Mary in my early life. (The first thing I heard about Mother Mary was from a non-Catholic friend. He was the one who took me to Marthomite Church to attend the Sunday Masses in the 70’s and 80’s while I was working in Muscat. One day he shared some spiritual things to me and showed me a picture of Mother Mary (The Perpetual Succour) from his Bible. He was telling, he usually asking her intercession on so many things and God granted all his prayer requests. While he was telling this he was crying. I was wondering how a Marthomite Christian could have the faith in Mother Mary. I was thinking why he was crying and he didn’t tell me the reason. This was my first inspiration for seeking the truth in the Catholic Church and Mother Mary.  Then I started thinking about Mother Mary and her intercession. After so many years I understood that my friend was cried because of his love towards Mother Mary.) But I was pondering these things in my heart since gone through this encounter with Mother Mary. Still I was not happy with that knowledge. There was no true faith in my life at that time. But there was something  always haunting me whenever I do sins. 

   Then I was going through my worldly way of life. But I never gave up my hope in Him. I was praying hard to Jesus to reveal me the real path. After our marriage I was attended so many retreats I got some healing for my soul. Then I was thinking; am not worthy to receive Jesus in my heart. One day my wife to attend a retreat which will enhance my spiritual thirst. But at last I told Jesus I will go a retreat which my wife told me attend. I went and attend this retreat as this retreat will be having very poor facility. I was impressed by it because very few will come to this retreat. My thirst for Jesus was quenched and I met Jesus and Mother Mary in a night exactly one month after at my home. 

  We should discover and acknowledge we are unworthy servant of Lord, this will lead us into his light that is aura of grace. Only grace will empower us come out of darkness. When Elijah was told God, he is the only one remaining in Lord, but God told him there will be a remnant group of people will be there to follow our Lord and God. How God differentiate them only through the grace. Romans 11:4–6 (NJB): And what was the prophetic answer given? I have spared for myself seven thousand men that have not bent the knee to Baal. 5 In the same way, then, in our own time, there is a remnant, set aside by grace. 6 And since it is by grace, it cannot now be by good actions, or grace would not be grace at all! Lord always kept a seperate chosen people for the glory of God 

The Light and Darkness

 

PART XXII

We all will be taught by our Heavenly Father 

The truth is a treasure is hidden in Jesus Christ. The more we seek it, the more we find it. Only through the grace of God we can find the truth, know the truth and experience the truth. The more you closer to Jesus to seek the truth, you will be rewarded abundantly from His Kingdom. The ultimate truth is the Word of God. The word of God has a tremendous power. ‘Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth’ Jon 17: 17. It is the Truth that leads us to eternal life. Jesus tells us: ‘I am the way; I am the Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’ (Jon 14: 6)  With out Jesus the Truth we cannot approach the Father. When the real Truth comes into our heart the real light will come into our spiritual life and the darkness will fade away. 

  This was the truth I was looking for, and I discovered it when I looked for it. First and foremost, I was eager to discover the reality of the faith. There were numerous denominations in my ancestral family and among my friends. My parents were constantly misled by various forms of spirituality and teachers, and they were frequent visitors to my home. However, I never liked or paid attention to them. This was always on my mind: which is the true church and faith? Or my mind was wondering who the true deity is in this world; everyone believes that their deity is the true God. Then I married a Catholic girl, which was also part of God's plan. That is something I am extremely grateful to God. 

Then, in 1991, both of us decided to attend a retreat at Divine Retreat Centre. The first withdrawal had no effect on me. The following year, we attended the second retreat, and as a result, I quit smoking and drinking totally. I visited numerous spiritual centers and retreat centers to discover how to approach God. God has helped me to learn so many spiritual topics and many ways to approach Jesus. According to the Bible, we all will be taught by God .  John 6:45 (NJB): It is written in the prophets: They will all be taught by God; everyone who has listened to the Father, and learnt from him, comes to me. In the same way when we listen to the Father in Heaven by obeying His Commandments will meet our Lord in His appropriate time to lead a holy and perfect life..            

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Daily Word On 11th Oct 2023

Worship the Heavenly Father in Spirit and truth

John 4:23–24 (NJB): But the hour is coming—indeed is already here—when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind of worshipper the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and those w ho worship must worship in spirit and truth.

The hour has come as Jesus says how to worship God the Father. God loves to worship Him Spirit and Truth. Jesus says they are the the true worshippers to worship God with true devotion along with Holy Spirit and reading Word of God, the Truth, who is Jesus Christ our Lord! Practice the prayer along with reading and meditating the Word of God. Read the Bible everyday and constantly. Constancy in spiritual excercices is very important in our spiritual life. 

Let us pray to our Lord to make us humble and gentle to worship Him in a worthy manner! 

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Daily Word on 7th October 2023 

The true Baptism of Jesus is in the Holy Spirit

John 1:26–27 (NJB): John answered them, ‘I baptise with water; but standing among you—unknown to you— 27 is the one who is coming after me; and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandal.’

John Baptist brought to make a way for Christ and he is one who baptise with water and John says he is worthy to loose the strap of Jesus’s sandals. He knew his is unworthy to serve Jesus. Here we can understand the baptism which Catholics has more precious than any other sects of Christianity. Again when a grown up child get the 1st Holy communion she or he  might be anointed with the holy oil as a sign of receiving the Holy Spirit. 

John 1:32–33 (NJB):He saw the Spirit come down on him like a dove from heaven and rest on him. 33 I did not know him myself, but he who sent me to baptise with water had said to me, “The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is to baptise with the Holy Spirit.”

John 1:33 (NJB): The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is to baptise with the Holy Spirit.” 

Here John the Baptist saying about the Baptism which Jesus is going to give. His baptism is with fire and Holy Spirit. This is the sign of Jesus’s death amd resurrection. After the resurrection Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to his apostles and his disciples, whiich was his promise to them. The Sacrament of Confirmation is the sign of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. By admitting his nothingness, John the Baptist became humble in front of the Lord. 

The Light and Darkness

Part XXI

We are from God, and we are living in His light

   When we glorify God in everything we do, we will not fell into darkness. Giving glory and praise to our Lord will be the way to the light of Jesus. When we are choosing the evil ways to fulfill our ambitions our days will be darkened.   Jeremiah 13:16 (NJB): 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God before the darkness comes, before your feet stumble on the darkened mountains. You hope for light, but he will turn it to shadow dark as death, will change it to blackness. When our Lord is with us death will not approach us. We should always strive for the light which is very near to us. We all are aware that we are from God. But we should know that whole world is under the influence of evil one John 5:19 (NJB): We are well aware that we are from God, and the whole world is in the power of the Evil One. Evil has no authority over the faithful people of God. 

   Jesus is saying we are chosen race to work for the Kingdom of  God. 1 Peter 2:9 (NJB): But you are a chosen race, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, a people to be a personal possession   to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. We all are called out of darkness by Jesus our Lord to experience and live in his light. We are children of light and the children of the day. In day time there is no place for darkness, always there will be light. 1 Thessalonians 5:5 (NJB): 5 No, you are all children of light and children of the day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness, 

 

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Daily Word on 4th Oct 2023

Lord, give us the Living Water, then we will not be thirsty. 

John 4:9–10 (NJB): The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘You are a Jew. How is it that you ask me, a Samaritan, for something to drink?’—Jews, of course, do not associate with Samaritans. 10 Jesus replied to her: If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me something to drink,’ you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water.

Jesus saying he will give the living water which is coming from the Spirit of God. Invoke the Holy Spirit while we are doing anything for the Lord. What is living water here is the Word of God and Holy Spirit to Lead a holy Spiritual life. Jesus wants to give this to all humanity and nations and race. Lord has no partiality to do any good things, he is the Lord of all. 

Happy Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Yesterday  was a special day for all of us in the Gulf Region as Franciscans are Custodians of the most of the churches in this region. They all works with the spirit and enthusiasm of St Francis. As I have in this region about 43 years and I have experienced the legacy of the holy Franciscan priests especially their commitment towards the Church and the faithful people. Mt 5:3, 8 Blessed are the poor in spirit, the Kingdom of God is theirs, Blessed are the pure in heart they shall see God.  Our special gratitude for Bishop Emiratus Paul Hinder as he was served us for long eighteen years in Southern and Northern Vicariate. 

Lord, give us your grace and peace, through these we will learn humility and faithfulness!