REALITY OF TODAYS CHRISTIANITY (PART1)

Hello friends,
For the first time I'm going to start my articles on reality series. Some of you may get offended or irritated if you don't like the light of reality shedding on you, so please kindly read no further if you are scared to see the reality. God bless.

Revival meetings, Holy spirit anointing, Fasting prayers, Worship concerts, Conventions and so much happening around, every single day many people are coming forward and giving their life's for God. Many are getting baptized and spirit baptized. Well we need all this, and I'm not against all this. But sadly the real state of Christianity cannot be judged just by looking at this crowds. Christian life is not over with a conference, Worship is not over with an exciting time of singing, shouting and dancing. holy spirit anointing is not over after falling down on floor, Spirit baptism is not over with speaking in tongues. We need a genuine anointing, genuine worship, genuine Christian revival.

THE WORSHIP DHAMAKA

A preacher friend of mine who do go around to share the word/ assist worship leaders in worship, 7 months back he was invited to share the word in this popular youth conference held up in a place close by. He went there and they gave him a seat in the special guests row and the worship started, smoke started ascending all the way down from the stage to heavens and there was beautiful music, people were rejoicing the presence of the Lord it went on and on and on. The meeting was scheduled for three hours and the worship became dancing and shouting and jumping around, the preacher waited for his turn to share the word but no one came forward to him finally the worship leader who is an exciting young man in the field of music and the organizer discussed things as the time was already running out, they called up this preacher friend and told him to shrink his sermon to 5-10 minutes moreover the worship leader gave this statement "here after there should be only dancing and shouting and music for Lord, no need for the word and sermons, boring man, come on we are called to have fun in the Lord". The preacher got up from his seat joined his hands and said Praise the Lord and Thank you and left without a word.

Do you think that is anointing?! Do you think that is the kind of worship God wants? There can be music, there can be dancing! but what all these things gonna do without the word of God? We are turning away from the basics, we are being hyped and in a very false emotional experience and claiming it to be a genuine presence of God. The presence of God is not something that comes down from heaven during the worship and goes away after that! Its something that should stay with us all the way. Many times our worship sessions are becoming nothing more than a music concert. There is nothing wrong with music or attending a music concert but don't confuse yourself with a music concert and a time of worship. Dear friends let us check ourselves in the light of the word, are our worships bringing glory to God? are feeling the same even after it gets over? or we are just having the excitement for the time being?! Worship leaders we all need to learn one hardcore truth, this goes to you and me and everyone else in the field of worship "DO NOT USE JESUS TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC OR TO PROMOTE YOUR TALENTS OR TO BECOME FAMOUS" give glory to God. Don't lead the people blindly to an emotional experience rather lead them to the Lord, Give glory to God and let them do the same, never ever try to use God to attain fame or glory.

With this I'm concluding my words and want to attach a note to worship leaders by Lee Grady. See you soon with more on this topic.

1. Give us something to shout about! In most countries I visit, worship is an exhilarating workout. In poor countries where people struggle from hand to mouth each week, praise is so energetic that the congregation quickly moves into the aisles to dance. Yet here in the United States our worship is often stiff and way too sophisticated. What we lack in genuine zeal we substitute with technology, orchestration and hype. It’s a pitiful tradeoff.

Worship leaders must stoke the fires of spiritual passion. Don’t let the people’s hearts remain cold or stale. Exhort them to go higher. Say like the psalmist, “Praise the Lord! …Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their king. Let them praise His name with dancing. …Let the godly ones exult in glory. …Let the high praises of God be in their mouth” (Ps. 149:1-3,5,6) NASB.

2. Please give us content. Most of us packed away our hymnals 30 years ago and discovered the liberty of free-style choruses. Yet I get tired of singing the same phrase over and over—especially if that phrase has questionable theology. And we are cheating people if half of a song consists of lines like “Ooh, Ooh, Ooh!” or “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

There’s a reason “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” is a classic. Its words inspire deep worship in a way that simpler songs can’t. The best solution is to mix up the playlist with both new and old songs—as well as old songs with new arrangements. If we only sing today’s trendy Top 40 we will forget where we came from.

3. Spare us the concert. True worship leaders lead rather than perform. We want you to play skillfully, but we don’t want the focus to be on you. Point us to Jesus!

Some worship leaders shift into extended periods of spontaneous worship. That’s great until you look around and realize that the congregation is sitting down while the worship leader has his eyes closed—oblivious to the fact that most people got lost 10 minutes ago. That’s not corporate worship. That’s a stage show.

4. Don’t run a song into the ground. Maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine: When a worship leader announces, “Let’s sing it one more time!” and then proceeds to sing a chorus again and again and again and again (and again and again), this is a form of lying. This happens especially with certain choruses that are like broken records—they never resolve.

If a song is so repetitive that it’s annoying, or if you can’t figure out when to stop it, just retire it. No one will ask why you don’t sing it anymore.

5. Please don’t burst my eardrums. I have a high tolerance for noise and I love rhythm. But I have been in churches where the music was so loud that my head rattled for the rest of the day. God can open deaf ears, but I don’t think we should manufacture the deafness. Have mercy on us. God doesn’t want us to drown out the sound of the people’s voices with bass guitars and subwoofers.

6. Show us the lyrics. Memo to the technical crew: We don’t have hymnals, and we don’t know the words by heart. Please don’t wait until we have sung the second verse of the song to put those words on the screen. (It would also be a good idea to have someone proofread the song lyrics. I was in a church where we were supposed to sing “Praise Him for His mighty acts,” but the Power Point slide said, “Praise Him for His mighty axe.”)

7. Honor the Word. There is nothing ruder than a worship leader who walks off the stage after the last chorus and then disappears to a side room to eat donuts. When the praise team vanishes from the church and never comes back, it sends a message to the congregation that these people don’t need to listen to the sermon. Not! Worship does not end with the last song; the last song sets the stage for the next act of worship.

-Lee Grady

(Editor, Charisma Magazine)

Shhhhhhhhhhh Top Secret!!!!!!

*I want all my dearest friends out there to read this full post*

Many times we hear this popular saying "pour your heart out if your heart is heavy", "talk to someone"!! Yes true, we gotta talk to someone if we are heavy and there is nothing wrong with sharing our burden. It's absolutely fine, but we gotta know something before we start pouring or opening it out.


Turn with me to 2 kings 20:12-20 There was this king Hezekiah, who after receiving some mails opened up his treasure and showed all his secrets to the foe in disguise. The prophecy came to him as a result of his foolish act everything he shown to him including things he didn't show up and all his people will be taken captive and will be carried away to other country. This prophecy is a warning not just to king Hezekiah but for you and me as well.

Many times without any second thought we tend to open our mouth and pour out all the secret to others without discerning who they are!! Youngsters and especially women used to pour out things, pour out their family problems, personal histories to people in disguise. Beware!! I did the same mistake and I'm reaping for that today! Beware of to whom you are pouring out your secrets!! You are more likely to be threatened, gossiped, slandered. Don't open your mouth without knowing the other person. In olden days there are confession rooms its still functioning in some chapels where people go and confess their sins to Padre where in turn he will stand as a mediator for their sin before God. Even in those times they used to put a cabin and separate the man who confess sin from the padre so that he cannot see him.

Also please beware of to whom you are showing your weakness too! You are likely to get attacked straight at the weak point. Woe to the counselors and the ministers who go around gossiping others personal things which they told you confidentially!! Bible warns and strictly condemns it. If you cannot keep the earthly secret of your own friends how will God reveal the heavenly and divine to you?!!

The only safe person to whom you can open your mouth and talk freely is God, next is your pet and the third is parents! if you want to share things share it with the right persons, even if they are friends think carefully before opening up your personal secrets. May God give us wisdom to discern. God bless you all!

BETTER THAN HUMANS!!

Many times we look for unconditional love on humans, at times it will seems like yes we got it but at the end of the day it is not what we are looking for. Married men and women will long for their partners to welcome them back home with unconditional love, but the reverse is happening in most homes. Some people scared of coming home and used to spend a lot of time at work since they started to believe that stress is far more tolerable than the home war. But every time I used to get back home apart from humans the other creatures used to give a real and a very warm welcome. From my doggie to fishes in the tank, I used to feel that unconditional innocent warmth which I miss in many humans. Bible says " All creatures knows who he is" Yes indeed unlike humans they don't go killing its own race, backstabbing, doing all sorts of evil. "ANIMALS MAKES THEIR LIFE SIMPLE BUT WE PEOPLE DON'T!" God used animals as his servants in many instances in the Bible, especially I love the Balaam incident where God atlast spoke to him through an animal.




sometimes animals can be the best friend you've been looking for. Most people don't take enough notice of just how much animals devote themselves to our services. They don't understand how much love and protection they provide for us ALL. Animals are the most loyal living creatures ever made and why some people don't see that, I don't know. I am just one of the many lucky people who do see through their sharp teeth and long hair. When I see animals it is a natural reaction for me to want to show the affection that they are always willing to show us. WELL WHEN I BROWSED THRU SOME PAGES I FOUND OUT THIS WONDERFUL POEM ABOUT ANIMALS..WRITTEN BY KATHERINE JONES!! THE CREDIT GOES TO THAT WONDERFUL WOMAN!! Animals are loyal, loving and obedient. Caring and affectionate, Gorgeous as can be! Animals are friends, Best friends to me. Always standing by you, As willing as can be. Always underestimated, But still they exist. Nothing will ever hurt them more, Than hatred and mistrust. Always there to talk to, Although they don't reply. You see it in their eyes, And know that they'll stand by. They save life's, And help the blind. But still we do not see, That animals weren't made as slaves, But as friends for you and me!!!
They don't have a spirit, they neither sow nor reap they neither stock or rush around for a huge bank balance yet God takes care of them all! I believe they know God better than us.
LOVE AN ANIMAL IT WILL SHOW YOU ITS 100% LOVE TO YOU!! THEY GOT INSTINCTS JUST LIKE HUMANS!! THEY DON'T HAVE THE SIXTH SENSE BUT THEY GOT THE SEVENTH!! ITS TRUE!! GOD BLESS YOU! G'DAY :))

SATANS BIGGEST LIE NO.1

Thank you all the readers who prayed for me and who listened to me and who comforted me personally in messages and through phone calls and through comments after reading my last post. Things was going out of order in the last couple of days full of betrayal and gossip and pain. I tried sharing it with people through facebook. Recently a famous women preacher and pastor came on the way and she lashed out certain comments most of her comments are the universal beliefs of fundamentalists and biggest lies of Satan with which he deceiving thousands of people.
The comments she made and the common beliefs are parallel that is "EVERY TIME SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO YOU ITS GOD WHO IS MASTER PLANNING, CRAFTING, USING PEOPLE TO TEACH YOU A LESSON, TO BREAK YOU TO MOLD YOU AND ITS YOUR MISTAKE ALL THE TIME YOU GET ILL, GET INTO BLUE." well I'm not arguing that God never breaks and molds us or God never gives and takes away. But at the same time blaming God for everything bad that is happening in our lives is totally unscriptural and anti Christian. Last week a pastor called me and cried that when his son ( 2 years old) fell sick a senior minister told him to confess his sins because of the sins God is punishing the innocent child! What a foolishness! The same message came to me when I was in the mess, certain person I told above came and told its because I'm bad, I'm a sinner, I'm wrong so I'm receiving the punishment and all when I was crying out in despair. Let me prove you all how false and how dangerous this doctrine could be!
Let us turn to well known verses in Genesis 3:1-4 Do you know the first thing satan did is he portrayed God as an "evil, arrogant, imperialistic, control freak" which is false. It's sad to see that he is dispensing the same lies among our brothers and sisters. We sing God is good all the time, We say God is holy and without holiness you cannot see God, we speak and stress about holiness! How a holy God will break and mold you by allowing unholy things to happen in your life?! Indeed God breaks us he molds us but not all the bad thing that happens in our life is planned by God. Just because if someone betrays you, backstabs you, steals something from you it doesn't means God is motivating that person to do that. "God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone". It's not the God of heaven who does that but its the God of this world, God of darkness, God of all evil Satan who is coming up against us. Remember we are in a spiritual warfare against the kingdom of darkness.
The next things we should be aware of is we are living in a fallen world. Not all things are being operated supernaturally. If you drive faster than usual and got hit you cannot blame God or Satan its you!. If you eat a lot and yet don't do anything about burning calories you are likely to get diabetes. It's not some supernatural punishment. If your spouse or parents or brothers or friends turns their face down its not God who is influencing them its natural for humans to have all kind of mood swings. Stop blaming God! Stop this excuse! Let us all get real!
Many of us are giving this as an excuse whenever people get hurt, whenever nations get shaken by natural calamity. That God is destroying that nation God is hitting that brother, God is teaching them a lesson. Let us beware! If God is going to teach everyone a lesson this way then honestly we would have been perished. At the same time there is another thing we gotta notice that "We will reap what we sow" that is a different thing I would like to discuss in another note.
Dear friends if anyone is hurt, injured or bleeding in their heart, if anyone is facing storms in their ministry, family or workplace. If you can go and comfort them, console them, help them to get them back to their feet. If you can't! Then don't give any post match analysis or go around scanning their wounds, wipe the tears before you know what happened! Do the first aid before surgery. If you can't or if you don't know to, don't ever open your mouth and judge a wounded brother or sister! You are called to be a "good samaritan". God bless you! :))

WHEN YOUR BROTHER STABS

Hello friends, I'm back again to write ma blog, I'm writing this with so much pain to be honest. I want everyone who calls themselves as Christians to read this. Do we feel at times secular world and secular people are far better than the so called spiritual and religious?! When I first stepped into ministry I felt a warmth, a great warmth, a warmth that made me feel like I was in heaven, the days rolled by and things started rolling outside in than inside out. As I started to grow up the people who are so called men of God started to show of their real faces.
Today I'm seeing politics running in the ministry like never before, there can be misunderstandings, it was there even if we date back to apostle Paul, but today I'm seeing politics, caste-ism, politics that is worse than the secular politics. Cult style manipulation and mind control and intense gossip about others. Crafting others fall perfectly and stabbing them on their back and successfully finishing the job. Open your eyes dear friends in ministry? are we working for God? are we running for lost souls? or are we running to seek fame? gain a huge crowd? What are we running for?


I want you all to read these two verses from the Bible these verses will speak for itself!

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Don't console yourselves that Lord is working through you, he will but not for you but for the innocent sheep's you lead astray! If we are still fooling around with our charismatic circus tactics and running around betraying, gossiping, doing all politics and yet praying and doing miracles we can be sure we will are the evil doers. Shame to see people who are calling our believers of other churches and going there and creating all sort of confusion and gathering a crowd and coming out and starting their own! is this "multilevel marketing"?! Open your eyes!! What are we doing?! We have a judgment to face!! We have to stand before the great white throne! Are we thinking its all over with the earth?! if that is true we are certainly not anywhere closer to God.

I was totally broken in the last couple of weeks, totally heart broken with so much of backstabs. I started wondering whether I should throw up all the ministry and move back to the secular life. I'm being frank with you, "Satanists and Secularists and traditionalists are so ethical and loving compared to this so called spiritual Christians. I'm not condemning anyone with this statement this is my real life experience. If any unbeliever is going to notice what is happening on the inside he will never ever become a Christian. For the last two months I couldn't spend time with God, couldn't spend time reading the word, I was so hurt. My own friends and brothers in ministry did everything craftily to push me out, some people even started talking ill and gossiping. Then God started speaking to me one fine day when I was laying in my bed alone and almost about to cry.

God told me one thing, When Jesus was on the earth he had no enemies!! surprising? eh?! Ye it is true. He had no enemies but he had all betrayers and his own brothers and people raising up against him. Romans didn't kill him, pagans didn't plot evil against him. Its his own people who did all that. Same with all the prophets, same with men of God. Dear friends some of you may facing the same situation today! You may be wondering your secular friends are far better than your spiritual ones, you may be wondering why people who call themselves Godly hurt, back stab, gossip and bully most than normal secular people. Do not worry, our savior faced the similar situation in our place. Don't loose faith on looking at this people. They have their day on their way and we have too. At the end of the day you will see a difference! God bless you!