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Thursday, 18 July 2019

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Tuesday, 30 August 2016

The High Calling




Every Believer Has a High Calling
Once on a Sunday morning, I heard a message from a new speaker who was a missionary, who had left his wealth to serve the Lord on the mission fields, a very commendable thing to do.  During the course of his sermon, he started rebuking the people in church saying that the people in church were all living in comfort zones by working in secular jobs and every Christian should leave their jobs and join the mission field.  The whole sermon was a tirade of rebuke.  I think the poor preacher forgot that if all Christians left work to join the mission fields, there would be no Christian doctors, teachers etc.,  and also no one to support missionary outreach!  Also, he forgot that there has to be a call from God to serve in missions.

One does not randomly leave everything and join missions.  Many, many people have fallen very badly because they joined missions feeling it was a good thing to do, but they were not called to it and their fall was hard.  The Lord calls us to even specific geographic locations according to His plan, but we have to hear His voice to follow His plan.

The truth is even in ministry, we may be walking far from God, and many have fallen into devious sins just due to the assumption that we are doing God's will so have curried His favor so just get mechanical about literally everything and sometimes suffer from spiritual superiority which is a sin.

There is no dividing line between the sacred and the secular because wherever the Lord is present, that place becomes holy.  We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and the secular becomes sacred if the Holy Spirit is in us.  Even in our homes! 

We can bring powerful revival even in our homes, among our children, our spouses, relatives, workplace, and people that we encounter in life if we are in a walking talking and obedient relationship with the Lord.

In this, we are walking in the Fire of the Presence of God and then miracles happen and we can make a difference to the world wherever we are, evoking change and revival, just walking in the Fire of the Presence of God.  We do not have to leave our jobs and join ministry to do so, just wherever we are, abide in Christ so that we remain in the Fire of God's Presence!


Every child of God born of His Spirit has a high calling.  "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." Peter 2:9.  

Wherever we are, be it cleaners, cooks, housewives, doctors, government ministers, police, army, hospitals, CEOs of companies, trainers, receptionists, secretaries, teachers, whatever jobs, we are to be the salt and light of the world, lamps shining in a dark world and bring the sweet savor of Christ to all.

One does not have to join a formal ministry for this to happen.  -You can be present where you are, in whatever you are doing and carry the Presence of the Lord who will bring that change and lead you in pathways you could never even dream of.

He is the great I Am, the God of the Present, wherever we are, by abiding in Christ, we can be powerful messengers for the Kingdom of God and help to deliver people out of darkness into His glorious light.

Rita Farhat Kurian

Friday, 26 August 2016

Unexpected Intrusions



 Isaiah 14:27 says, “What the Lord has purposed, who can annul?” This means that God has a purpose for your life. He’s already planned out your days.  He even plans our unexpected intrusions!

When you’re on a detour, don’t get upset or frustrated, it is just one scene in your life. When it all comes together, it’s going to work out for beauty and good.

Time management stalks the world today. While managing time is important, can reduce stress levels and helps us to stay on top of things, we have developed a hostility to any intrusions in our time management schedules.

Someone knocks on our door, we may feel our world shatter as that little knock broke our well-planned schedule into pieces!

Whenever we got resentful of an intrusion, our stress levels are high and we are miserable…

Years ago, a couple got married.  The bridegroom's family was staying at a nearby hotel.  The day after the wedding, the parents of the bridegroom  knocked on the door of the pastor who was probably preparing a message for another conference he was attending.  The parents were not very wealthy, in fact quite poor but they knocked on the door to give Rs. 2000 to the pastor.  The pastor thanked them, took the money, and sharply shut the door on their face.  They were saddened at his rudeness and even thought about it over the years!

Jesus always welcomed intrusions and never chased anyone away.

There is a secret blessing when we take intrusions as sent by God to bless us.  Then, we will be enriched in a deeper way.

Sometimes, an unexpected visitor drops in our home, and then we did drop our well-planned schedules.  By the end, we do feel happier, richer and more relaxed as we go with the flow.. as in a river.

We are blessed in our intrusions when God in a mysterious way actually brings intrusions to us.  So go with the flow as in a river and you will receive wonderful surprises along the way!

Rita






Friday, 10 June 2016

Revival Fires Can Happen Today



Spiritual Revivals Blessed Nations:  Today nations suffer due to lack of prayer with a dwindling number of people who walk in the Fire of God's Presence.  The devil hates humans, who are made in the image of God…so warfare is a big battlefield in the entire world with many struck down and he is trying his best to keep everyone in a back-slidden zone or far away from God where they will never walk with God.

With this NOT being about prosperity, there is a connection between the Presence of the Lord and a blessing falling in all spheres of our lives in His Presence...In the past, I could not help but observe that Britain in the 1800s rose to be a world power and went through a glorious age called the Industrial Revolution.  During this time, spiritual awakening shone over England, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Smith Wigglesworth, Charles Spurgeon later and many others brought winds of change in England which spread to world and the economic prosperity of England flourished during this time.  Maybe a couple of centuries later, there are no spiritual revivalists in Britain, churches are empty and many in Britain say that the Muslims bought the churches turning them to mosques as churches were lying vacant and unused.  In Britain today, Islam has overtaken Anglicanism as the dominant religion as more people attend mosques than the Church of England and today, Britain is no longer the dominant powerful world power as in the past and over the years, the economy has gone down as compared to the past.

Again, America went through winds of change of revival around the same time.   The principles of the Bible ran very strongly through the early part of American history and over time, great evangelists rose in America, in fact many tent evangelists and many Christians walked in the Fire of God's Presence and did great and marvelous things.  I do believe God blessed America to become the most powerful nation in the world.  Though there is a powerful remnant of believers in America, today many have rejected Christ, and created new laws to keep Christ out of schools and even Christ is X-massed out of Christmas, popularizing Santa Claus widely and commercially.  In this rejection of Christ, I do believe America is sliding down slowly, and financially is facing more troubles than before.  Before, in the Great Depression, Americans had wonderful testimonies of how the Lord cared for them through it, but today, there is more rage and anger in the many of the people against the financial fall they are facing.  At the same time, because of the remnant of praying powerful believers, the blessing of America is still not completely taken away!

During the time of Sadhu Sundar Singh, Bakht Singh and many others in India in the early 1900s...villages turned to Christ, people got healed supernaturally and many wonders happened..which is why Christianity spread in India and all this happened because of the mighty Presence of the Lord.  Today, perhaps we do not see such though of course there is still great things happening, yet not in the proportions of a revival which awakens a nation to God.

A Communion Walk Changes Everything
The reason why the storm brews and the pot starts to bubble again is because the majority of us Christians do not have a "communion walk" with the Lord.  This means we get up in the morning, pray, read the Bible, read a devotion and then start the day.  Throughout the rest of the day, we rarely speak to the Lord, the fire in the soul is cold.  Over the years, this condition continues, the soul is cold, and one dark day, things get really bad.

Abide under the Shadow Of His Wings to Deliver us the Storm
As believers of Christ, when the storm hits so hard that there is no time to even pray or if we are in deep emotional pain or shattered, there is only one thing that can protect us beyond anything from that ugly wrecking storm and that is hiding in the shadow of the Lord's presence.

As we abide in Christ, in His presence, wonderful change happens.  The great secret is that even if we spend hours in prayer and the moment we walk away from prayer and live in our own thought patterns without connecting to the Holy Spirit, our lives start to feel empty very soon, our cup is half full and we live in carnality without compassion and love for others.  It is not that I am underestimating prayer, but if our prayer does not continue in fellowship, we are disconnected from the Lord.  It is really abiding continuously in His Presence with constant communion that fills our cup to overflow with richness and blessing to others around us as well as ourselves and our prayers are powerful and mighty on Earth.


Throughout the year 2015, the words" shelter of His wings" brought great release and comfort in my times of meditation.

Under that shadow, we are deeply protected.  Peter dwelt in the Presence of God, and when his shadow fell on the people, they got healed!  Such change can happen when we dwell under His Shadow.  Then revival fires can blaze through the nations again, once again, before the return of Christ, before the end-time prophecies will be fulfilled...(the final ones like the rise of the anti-Christ, not yet revealed and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem) if we start learning to have a communion walk with the Lord....again, the greatest revival today that we need is a repentance revival, not a miracle revival.....

Rita.....

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

The Land of the Scales



Ever experienced this?  Someone you knew from your yesteryears who was on fire for God, empowered to serve…then down the road you meet them again, to find out they are atheist or in another faith, whatever.  I mean when you knew them those days, they were powerfully born again.. so what happened!?

I had good old friends from school days and college were on fire for the Lord always telling me what the Lord was speaking to them while I myself was not saved during my school and college days, so I was interested in their progression of growth, and watched from the sidelines.  Years down the road after I was saved, I met them again and talked about Jesus never imagining for a moment they stopped believing and they smiled sweetly and said "Oh, we were so immature those days, it is like a dream now!"  I was stupefied and mystified.

The questions looms, did they lose their salvation?

Truth is once you are saved, there a dozens of verses to confirm that God will never let us go..He holds us on the palm of His Hand and no one can snatch us out.

Then there can be two answers to this mystery.

The first is this:
Either a person was never born again in the first place.  The person may have just had a wonderful emotional response to God which faded over time.  Salvation is a spirit to spirit experience, the Spirit of God awakens the human spirit to spiritual life and saves the soul.  Yet, if there is an emotional response to the Gospel, over time, emotions change, flicker and fade.  Nothing in the realm of emotionalism is stable.  As water and oil do not mix and the oil of the Holy Spirit never can anoint and bless a soul if the soul is filled with water figuratively speaking and the water of the world washes away spiritual truth offshore where their spirit never really had a spirit encounter with God.  Flesh, emotions and spirit do not mix if not in balance and harmony and in right order as oil and water do not.

The second is this:
I know a young man who was so on fire for Jesus he wanted to serve Him in ministry and start a Bible study and read the Bible cover to cover along with tons of Christian books.  Then one day, he had a series of bad situations happen in his life and he hated God.  He professes today he is an atheist; he roars with anger at the mention of God and is a very angry man.  He even stopped working..and stopped speaking with most people and is living in isolated misery.  He is a mystery, because he was "more" born again than many born agains, better than most!


I believe that he has not lost his salvation, but right now is living in the Land of the Scales.  Satan has temporarily blinded him and covered his eyes with scales.  A person who is really saved will always have the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sin, even if it is at the tail end of their lives.  Today, he has rejected God, and the world says he is on the road to hell.  But somewhere, the Holy Spirit is there, quenched, but waiting to convict him of truth, one day.

To the world it may look as if such people have lost their salvation.  The truth is even on their deathbeds, the Holy Spirit will bring them to repentance.  Because once we are saved, we are sealed with the deposit of the Holy Spirit, sealed means never leave..we quench, we reject, but still one day, conviction will flood such people again.  Even during spiritual revivals, where the presence of the Holy Spirit is especially strong, hundreds and thousands of people get convicted and return back to the Lord, or come to Him newly.

 Once we are saved, blood-bought and redeemed through the Blood of Christ, we cannot lose our salvation.  Jesus' Blood is so powerful and precious.

More often than not, this kind of walking in the Land of the Scales where a believer cannot even remember he or she was once saved or remember anything of God is a supernatural work from the devil, many times, even black magic does these strange things to "ex-believers."

We need to stand in the gap and pray and intercede for such.  Then, even on their deathbeds, the Holy Spirit will bring all to remembrance and the scales will fall off their eyes and He will deliver them out of the Land of the Scales.  But we need to pray for them and not give up, and not say they are doomed forever, they need intercession....they were blood bought and that is never lost...to a soul.

Again, if a person once saved never returns to Christ....back again.. this verse holds true Matthew 10:33 But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.

But then the question looms, did they really know Christ in the first place...going to church and doing ministry does not necessarily make one a true follower.  Judas was in the presence of Christ, taught by Him and walked with Him, and still he walked away...did he really receive Christ, did he really know Him?   On the other hand, Peter denied Christ, but came back...the come back is the crux.  That has to be...

Rita...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

The New World Power To Rise



The New World Power To Rise 
Today, terrorists loom at large.  We are rightfully waiting for Christ to return, but in the interim, wrongfully nor praying or praying very little for world events not realizing our prayers can shape history!  Some Bible prophecy teachers now claim that Islam will become the end time world religion of the anti-Christ. But this is not what the Bible says!

The rise of the Sunni Jihadis of the ISIS believe that if the infidels (that is everyone who is not Islamic) are to be annihilated as this will hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam and for this reason, terrorism is on the pathway of destruction of all the nonbelievers to hasten the 12th Imam's arrival and "purify" the world to birth his arrival and rule. If noticed, an Islamic terrorist is not asking for any material wealth or trying to strike a treaty.  Their goal is eradication of other races simply to prepare the way for the 12th Imam

As some Bible prophecy teachers now claim that Islam will become the end time world religion of the anti-Christ, this teaching comes from the fact some Muslims are waiting for a Messiah called the Mahdi or the 12th Imam, and because of this, the theory rises that the Muslim world will rally to the anti-Christ when he appears, thinking that he is their 12th Imam. This is what is causing the Jihadis to kill non Islamics with a fury that all of us infidels are polluting the world and delaying the arrival of the 12th Imam.

The Arabs according to the Bible will attack Israel in the end times trying to take Israel's land and in Ezekiel 35:6-7, 15, God will make the Arab lands desolate.  Yet God has a plan for the Arabs too, and during the Tribulation, a remnant of the Arabs along with the Jews will turn their hearts to the one and only true God, Yahweh (Jeremiah 12:14-17).  Even today, many Muslims are turning to Christ, through the decades in very supernatural ways through even dreams and visions of Christ!

A prophecy concerning the future salvation of an Arab remnant is in Isaiah 19:16-25. Isaiah says that when the Lord strikes Egypt and Assyria, they will turn to Him and He will have compassion on them and “heal them.” Isaiah then presents an incredible picture of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel living together in peace, worshiping the same God!

While some of us may think the anti-Christ is a Muslim, the Bible teaches that the anti-Christ will be of Roman descent and will rise to power in Europe. The book of Daniel clearly states that the anti-Christ will come from among the people whose armies destroy the Temple.

"A ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple" (Daniel 9:26, NLT).

The city and the Temple referenced in this passage were destroyed in AD 70 by Titus and the Roman legions, but Titus was not the ruler spoken of in this verse. Daniel 9:27 describes the ruler as one who will make a seven-year treaty with Israel, put an end to the sacrifices and offerings, and set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration. These are events that will occur during the life of the anti-Christ.  The book of Daniel says that the anti-Christ will come from among the people who destroyed the Temple. Therefore, we can be certain that the anti-Christ will come from among the Roman people.

Daniel 9:26 refers to the power base from which the anti-Christ will operate. The book of Daniel clearly states that the final world empire before the establishment of Christ's millennial kingdom will be a resurrected form of the Roman Empire. The anti-Christ will be the ruler of a revived Roman Empire, which will "devour the whole earth," and in this way, Christians will be able to recognize him as the anti-Christ. The Bible teaches that the initial religion that the anti-Christ will openly profess is Catholicism.  This is seen in Revelation 17 where the religion of the end times is represented by a whore who is “drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus” (Revelation 17:6). This religion is pictured as being seated on “seven mountains” (Revelation 17:9). This imagery which, in the apostle John’s time most certainly is referring to Rome.  This identification is affirmed at the end of the chapter when John states that the woman is also “the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth” (Revelation 17:18). Definitely, in John’s time, this could only be a reference to Rome.  The Muslims at large would never accept the anti-Christ's world religion and as they are "radical and intolerant" would never accept another religion or worship someone claiming to be god and they will never bow before a European either if the anti-Christ is Roman, so they too will suffer during the tribulation and accordingly many will turn to Christ.  Even today over the decades, we see, millions of Muslims are turning to Christ the Savior.  Their testimonies are unusual either seeing Christ in a dream or some even accepting Christ due to the rising violence seen in Islam today.

Some Bible scholars believe that the anti-Christ will use Islam as his world religion.  But not so, as in the Tribulation, possibly at its mid-point, the anti-Christ will turn against the Catholic Church and destroy it, (Revelation 17:16). He and his False Prophet will then create a new religion that will mandate the worship of the anti-Christ as god on earth (Revelation 13:11-17).

The Muslims who do not accept the anti-Christ's religion will undergo persecution along with the Jews.  The result is a war in Revelation 6, probably nuclear, Revelation 8 and 9 and these wars result in the death of half of humanity during the first three and a half years of the Tribulation.

The anti-Christ will be the only dictator in the world who ever had control of all the people in the nations at one time having “authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation” (Revelation 13:7).  A third or more of the earth will be ruined and one-half of humanity left alive will suffer nuclear poisoning and left in a half alive condition with sores that never heal in Revelation 16:2 and 11.

At the middle of the Tribulation, the anti-Christ will desecrate the Temple in Jerusalem and declares himself to be god, the Jews will reject him, and he will start annihilating them during the last three and a half years of the Tribulation (Revelation 12:13-17). He will be successful in killing two-thirds of them (Zechariah 13:7-9).

While killing the Jews, the Bible says that his worldwide empire will start to fall apart as Asia will revolt against him, sending an army of 200 million to overthrow him  in Revelation 9:13-18, Revelation 16:12, and Daniel 11:44-45.

It is evident from this that it is Rome under the rise of the anti-Christ initially adopting the religion of Catholicism and later on the anti-Christ wants to establish his own religion of worship of himself.

Here, we see Islam does not figure as a world dominating power, but rather another one who will rise in Rome and start his rule in Europe initially to spread to the world.

So, today, let us pray for the Arabs and Muslims that the Lord may touch and turn many to Him.  Let us not hate and judge them as God has a plan for them too, to turn to Him and to accept Christ as their Savior.  Already, many Arabs are turning to Christ!

We forgot how to pray, how to plead prayers for ourselves, for families, friends, for countries, and for nations.  Prophesy will happen in the very end, in the Last Battle between God's Kingdom and the Kingdom of Darkness, but in this intervening time we have left, much evil can be prevented as we fall down on our knees and intercede, we are still not at the very end.  God's clock is different from our clock.

There were great intercessors in the past who pleaded before God, to hold back the judgment and instead pour down mercy, and God did it.  Exodus 32:11-14New International Version (NIV)  11  We could pray that millions of people would come to Christ, to experience His forgiveness, the joys of His Presence and be in Heaven one day.

Let us prepare for the day of the rapture of the church, so many more can go to Heaven, and many more can escape the more evil tribulations to come on Earth...

© Rita Farhat Kurian


Thursday, 14 April 2016

The Rage of the Body, Soul and Spirit - Gay conflicts......




This is a battle between body, soul, and spirit.  Which one will win in the end?  If you put up a fight and learn the principle of being "dead" to sin and learn to walk in the Spirit, you will win.  There will be a double reward from God for your efforts!

If you are an ex-gay or even a gay seeking to be free from homosexuality, you can put on your heavenly armor and be ready to fight, and you will win!  When you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, this sin is atoned for by the Blood of Jesus and God is on your side when you want to fight this battle and this battle can only be won by seeking to walk in the Holy Spirit everyday!

Homosexuality needs a spiritual deliverance and many, many have gotten out of it through deliverance ministries, prayer, and the Word of God healing them.  It is clearly not natural and does need a deliverance.

Is is Wrong or Right?

The premise of homosexuality has to be first understood before we can deal with it.  The world lashes out fire and fury at the "old-fashioned" word "sin" and people are forced to use euphemisms to replace the old stony hard word "sin."  The word "sin" in Greek is called hamartia and means "missing the mark" or "to err."

While we may say that Jesus never spoke against homosexuality, we fail to realize that Jesus' 30-year ministry on earth was for the "lost house of Israel" and He did not have to address the Jews on homosexuality because they did not have homosexuality in Israel in those days as the Old Testament condemned it so strongly.  Later, Paul whose ministry was to the Gentiles had to address the Gentiles of homosexuality as it was prevalent among them.  In II Peter 3:15-16, Peter gives weight-age to all of Paul's epistles as Scripture. Romans chapter one being part of an epistle written by Paul, is considered also as scripture! According to the original Greek translation, in Romans 1, Paul addresses the issue of the unnatural affection (physical union) between people of the same gender.  Romans 1:26 also refers to this affection (physical union) as against the very design of nature.  Romans 1:27 referring to this physical union, men working out physical with men that which is unseemly (KJV).


The Bible is spiritually inspired and has never changed...and clearly defines it is not to be done.   The Bible is written by 40 authors over spans of centuries from different fields of profession, they never met each other once nor read each other's writings, yet it is the same consistent thought and teachings as if it were one person, which is a marvel. It is spiritually God inspired Holy Book with no contradictions.



Many Gays were Sexually Exploited as Children
Today, the homosexuality theory of it being in one's DNA is not really true.  The truth is that many young boys or girls were sexually exploited ruining their sexuality and many turned gay later on.... I have seen that trend and history and it even runs through family lines.  It is an subtle evil that no one was identify clearly, thinking they were born that way, but really it was a trend of rape and incest in some family lines, and in others, familiar known people inflicted this ruin on children to destroy them forever.  They think they were born gay, but many were exploited at so young ages they can barely remember it.

Many homosexuals are entrapped in it, so react in anger if people address them for this sin.   Those who are walking in darkness and souls entrapped cannot see the Truth, they cannot perceive the Light and the things of spirit are dead to them, so we need to promote the Truth of God in love and not hate and need to pray much more for the souls entrapped and for deliverance, for them to see the Light and be set free.

I knew of a young man in Bangalore who was a homosexual and struggled with this.  Then one day, he accepted the Lord Jesus as his Savior and something literally lifted out of him and he felt washed and lighter within him.  He got a whole new life and was virtually delivered.  He started a ministry to help other homosexuals, and many got delivered, and got out of it, some through a lot of prayer and deliverance.  Today, this young man is married; he has a wife, a woman, to be precise.  


God is a God of love, but His holiness precedes His other attributes.  His holiness demands righteousness and purity.  His sense of justice and righteousness are satisfied by Christ's death on the Cross. Our sins are atoned by the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ our Savior, on the Cross, but in order to receive that righteousness and purity, one needs to come to Jesus, who forgives and delivers people from besetting sins.


Why Homosexuality is Wrong
1.  Goes Against God's Institution of Marriage:  Marriage is instituted in Heaven, established by God in Paradise for our first parents, Adam and Eve.  In Genesis: “God created man in His image; in the Divine image he created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.’” (Gen. 1:28-29)

The same was taught by Jesus Christ: “From the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.” (Mark 10:6-7).

2.  It Is Not In Harmony With Natural Law:  When something is not harmonious in nature, it breeds bad consequences and disaster for a nation.  Natural law is universal and immutable, never changes and applicable to humans equally man and woman.  Even animals were made male and female and the species goes on…. So likewise, God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, the famous idiom.

In the unnaturalness of it, it harms a nation, a family, children, and self.
Nation:  A nation grafted in an open culture allowing homosexuality has actually brought more disaster on itself with its open willingness to accept right as wrong.   Do not want to mention nations, but have observed the patterns of falls in nations who deviated from Truth, and the disaster that has hit nations in the past when they walked away from Truth in open rebellion.  This is in history.  The decline is moral, social, and even economical!  The grace of God has nurtured these nations due to the prayers of remnant Christians which has protected them from further disaster.

Family:  Many a time, a man or a woman suddenly came and told his or her partner they were gay out of the blue.  This has shattered the family.  At times, the partner wanting to be brave took it in their stride and did not kick up a fuss and the children fell in line, but they were suffering and bleeding inside, children have even committed suicide due to the trauma it has played in their minds.  The homosexual seed is passed through generations.  Family lines have homosexuality passed on through generations as the offenders carry it through each generation.  There are homosexual demons living within a family line that are passed from generation to the other.  There is an incident of a father who found out he was homosexual, and later found out his daughter too was gay.  It made him wonder whether it was genetics.  It was not; it was the family demon acting up, because in time, this man got delivered and got straight and in fact, started a ministry to help other homosexuals.

One may ask about the veracity of the claim about homosexual demons.  The truth is that homosexuality is only helped through deliverance and prayers, nothing else.  No hours of counseling or medicine can help, and the struggles they face are very strong, it is not easy to get out because this is so entrenched in the soul that it needs a supernatural deliverance.

There is another man who got delivered from being homosexual and now helps others out of it.  His name is Tye Gamey and he lives in Canada.  Likewise, there are many, many others.

Children:  The hard truth is many, many young boys were abused by men or likewise young girls by older woman.  This destroyed the sexuality of those young boys and girls.  When molested at younger ages, they had their sexuality charred and ruined and when they came into adulthood, felt their DNA was naturally gay.  The truth is they were made gay.  Thus the root of child abuse has its fruit in homosexuality.

Self:  There is a lot of mental disturbance and inner struggles in a gay's life.  Study the reports.  They are not in harmony with the natural so in disharmony, there is always in an inner pain struggle.   Also, the rise in deaths from AIDs has arisen from the gay rise, though today, we have better medicine to help them.

3.  Children Suffer From Same-Sex Marriage:  With the new law allowing same-sex marriages, allowing them to adopt children is on the way, and already started.  Today, it is learned that healthy family structure is for children to be raised by both a mother and father and not a father-father or a mother-mother.  Children may receive love from same-sex marriages, but despite the love, confusion and chaos arise in a child's world due to the unnaturalness of same-sex marriages.  Definitely, children pay heavily for this unnatural union. 

After many, many years of research, the ideal family structure for children is a two-parent, mother-father family where children raised in such normal families do much better mentally, psychologically, and physically than children brought up in other family structures.

Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable and while two women can be good mothers, neither one can be a good father, the same goes vice versa.

When children are in a family structure with both sexes early in life, they can relate and adapt well to both sexes later in life.

It will always deny a child either a father or mother in their lives.  A child brought up by a same-sex couple will always be brought up by someone with no blood relation to the child.  The child is without personal choice.  The child will necessarily be raised by one party who has no blood relationship with him. He or she will always be deprived of either a mother or a father role model.

4.  Something Morally Wrong Is Turned into A Civil Right:  While there are many civic and equality rights over the ages fought for, like right to equality against the caste system and many other rights pertaining to the human race, gay rights do not fall in line because these relate to gender and sexuality. In the garb of tolerance and acceptability, a government starts to enforce a legal right which is morally wrong and harmful. 

If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the present step in gender freedom, tomorrow, new rights will rise up, like incest, (sex within family blood relations) bestiality (sex with animals), pedophilia (sex of adult with child), and other forms of unnatural behavior.  Today, we see these aberrations in the world as never before and tomorrow, these can be legalized as part of one's right to freedom, constitutional right or personal choice!  How crazy is the world becoming!

What the Bible Says:
Romans 1:26-27 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Leviticus 18:22 "'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

1 Corinthians 6:9. Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men.

Hebrews 10:26, 27:  If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27: but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

God Delivers and Restores
If we really love God, we will honor His Written Word and strive to obey God.  If we are weak and cannot obey and are falling into this sin, we can cry to God, and He hears our cry.  We just need to recognize it is sin, and wrong or a demonic stronghold in our lives, and God will rise up in our defense as we walk to walk in His Highway where no unclean thing can walk.

Certain "Secrets" That Help:
1.  Since it can be a demonic entrenchment in the soul, the deliverance ministry has been very effective in setting homosexuals free.  There are testimonies of hundreds of people set free from homosexuality in deliverance ministries, but again, these people need a lot of help even after the deliverance.  They need to read the Bible aloud.  The spoken Word has supernatural power.  The demons residing or hanging around a delivered soul needs to hear the Word and flee!  The demons cannot bear the spoken Word.  Also, as the ex-homosexual speaks verses from the Bible loudly, those words seep into the subconscious mind and flow into the soul like healing balm and the healing is more powerful and rich, just through the spoken Word of God.

2.  Another secret that helps is listening to the Spoken Word by anointed men and women of God who have a very powerful clean walk with God.  The very anointing breaks the yolk and sets people free.

3.  Go to a church which has a deliverance help ministry, which will be open to help a homosexual and walk them through, have people to pray with them when they need, and also people they can meet up with to share and walk and talk them through their struggles, like a group of people who have similar pasts.  This can be very, very powerful in setting ex-homosexuals free from any new entrapment that seeks to devour them.

4.  An ex-homosexual needs to learn warrior prayers to pray for him or herself.  This means applying the covering with the Blood of Jesus Christ every single day, binding any demons hovering around, casting out powers of darkness into wherever, usually the wilderness and binding them so that they cannot return.  If they do this daily, they will experience mighty miracles beyond their understanding.

Usually after a homosexual gets deliverance and after a couple of glorious victory years, they slip back into limbo land, not praying much, and of course, no warrior praying at all, hardly read the Word of God, so loud Bible reading is not even considered, and never draw near to get help, so it is not surprising if they get Hit by the Return.  It has happened.  Remember I Peter 5:8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Once we personally can recognize this as sin, we are on the roadway for help and deliverance!



© Rita Farhat Kurian


Wednesday, 17 February 2016

A Song In The Storm


In the midst of a dark gloomy night, when all hell breaks loose and things go wrong, it is very difficult to even look to the Heavens to pray.  Either we go into a frantic mode of endless doing and rushing around or go in a retreat mode of slinking into a dark corner, some hide under the comfort of a blanket and shut out the world because situations may become too overwhelming.

Whatever we do, there is a little small thing we can do. it may start as a small little whisper, and then shrill into some noise, but we can start, and when we do, it is potent and powerful.

Years ago in 2008, I was perhaps drowning in a dark waters of which I thought would be no return!  I found it even difficult to pray and even open my Bible.  One night I had a dream.  I dreamt I was in a place which was dark and full of slimy creatures, demons.  In my dream I kept rebuking them, and they would slink away, but they kept coming back after some time.  I was finally exhausted in this dream.  Later, in my dream, I finally started to sing a song.  I first sang a song I knew but later, I started singing words of a new song.. which were made instantly.  In my dream, my voice rung out loudly…and then the little demons started to flee!  Suddenly the sky turned a beautiful blue and the air around me became clear and clean and beautiful.  In my dream, I could hear my own voice singing and as I awoke, I could still hear echoes of the song resounding.  I got up with an amazing clean pure feeling as if I had met with the Lord in a special encounter in that dream.

I do feel that Jesus revealed to me the secret warfare of the songs of praise that have the power to dissipate demons.  There is a verse, Psalm 149:6 "May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands."

From that day on wards, I found a breakthrough in my situation and I started to come out of the dark waters and my situation started to change, more importantly something changed within me. 

In the next few days, I opened the Bible and the verse fell on my eye very clearly as if the Lord was speaking to me directly, " And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD" Psalm 40:3



Amazing things happen when we learn to sing in dark times, it may start as a weak whisper, but will some become a powerful torrent under the Holy Spirit and bring forth mighty miracles!

Rita Farhat Kurian


Thursday, 21 January 2016

The Wonderful Amazing Power Of The Cross

 
The blood of Jesus washes away the deepest darkest dirtiest chambers of the soul when we simply have a change of heart and recognize His sacrificial death on the cross.  The Cross is no magic charm, but it does symbolize sin's atonement, the very symbol that puts enemies of the cross in fear.

There was a true incident of a Christian lady who was having marital problems and went to a Hindu pundit for help.  The help that was needed was actually stop her husband's extramarital affair that he was having at that time, and some pundits are good at breaking such alliances with their white magic. The old pundit looked at the golden cross that she wore around her neck on her golden chain and told her "take it off or my magic powers will not work!"  The lady suddenly realized the power of the cross in its symbolism to the unseen world.  Though white magic seems good in its cause, it still relies on the help of spirits that gain entrance into our lives to later on cause more damage.  The lady stood in awe of the cross around her neck.  Over time, she gave her life and heart to Christ and became a very committed believer.  Her husband later on became a strong believer of Christ and of course learned to love his wife and be faithful to her.  Their marriage changed dramatically for the better and now stood on a firm rock.

The past, present and future are atoned for by the Blood of Jesus when He died on the Cross.  There was once an argument among Christians about the song "Jesus' love for us held Him on the Cross" saying that at the moment, He was in such agony, He could not think beyond His pain and His mind was only on His Father who separated from Him due to the sin covering Him at that moment.  This is not true because the very words of Jesus "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" reflects supernatural love, the very love that has the power to forgive and wash away and transcend every sin.

In the 1970s, there was a case of a serial homicidal killer who used to rape and kill women.  He finally raped and killed a young lady, his last, before getting caught and put in prison.  While in prison, the young lady's Christian mother kept getting that inner voice from Jesus telling her to forgive him.  She could not, but after a long battle, finally came to say weakly to herself "I forgive him."

The next inner voice kept telling her, "Give him a Bible."

"Of course not Lord!" she snapped back trying to shut out the voice.
Finally, after a long struggle, she mailed a Bible to him.  After some months, she got a letter from the homicidal killer who was in prison.  He thanked her saying he read a bible for the first time in his life and it revolutionized his life and he was born again and he now had a new life and heart because of Jesus.  He truly was a transformed man, as the mother later found out.  She eventually went to meet him!  She too had a transformation in her soul in her forgiving act.  Something wonderful happened within her.

The man started sharing his faith with all around him and helping, sharing and caring.  (I cannot remember his name, but I have read this story from the Guideposts years ago in the 1980s), but I do remember that he was eventually released because of dramatic turn around and change of behavior!  All we can know is, this is the transforming and liberating power of the Cross.  Anything extraordinary can happen in a person's soul.

I Peter 2:24 "He himself bore our sins" in His body on the Cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by His wounds you have been healed."

Rita Farhat Kurian


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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

The Pathway To Heaven


David Bowie slipped from life to eternity.  Some of us may wonder where he is… no one will really ever know, because no one knows what transpires in the heart at the end of life.  One thing we do know, in his life, he was always on a spiritual quest, he tried different pathways, then, he went through Nietzsche, Satanism, pretty much went through the long and winding road to find nothing much in the end, or so it seems.  In Heaven, though, we will get many surprises.  Perhaps in the very end, he found God Almighty..this is something between him and God.

Why was it so hard for him and many others, on a spiritual quest to find nothing really much, maybe some bits of comfort and here.  Yet, we come across testimonies of thousands of people who found salvation in a moment revelation.

Salvation is a Truth encounter of the soul/heart combined with the illumination of the Holy Spirit.  It is not an intellectual encounter.  A person needs comes to a place of purity of just wanting Truth, nothing more, nothing less.  This makes the Salvation encounter so easy and not a difficult maze.  This is why millions of hungry souls never find the way, because they use intellectualism, occultism, and much more in the bargain, and got lost and more muddled up in the maze.

That moment of our illumination is a simple belief in Jesus, who bore our sins so we can enter Heaven.  This will decide our destiny.  At the time of this illumination, a fire is put within us never to leave us, this is the Holy Spirit, dwelling within.

We may fall and fail, and grieve the Holy Spirit and sin, but Jesus Himself will ensure that the fire inside will rise up again and again and convict us and keep bringing us back to the fold.

Once a person is truly born again, they can never lose their Salvation.  Jude 1:24  "Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy."

When we meet with Truth , all the complications roll off and life because beautiful and rich with Truth.

We are now walking on the pathway to Heaven.  Finally, one day when we leave this Earth, the Lord will take us up beyond to a glorious eternity.  This pathway to Heaven never depended on us, but on Him, who is faithful to keep us from falling.  The pathway to Heaven is Grace and not Works.  We can never do enough good to reach Heaven.  Salvation is never works.  The grace within us given by Christ does wonders and miracles to live a pure holy life, so we should never be afraid we will not make it.. yes we will, in Christ!


Rita Farhat Kurian



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Sunday, 10 January 2016

Out of the Wells of Depression


When depression hits, it can take a person to the unbelievable lows, sometimes to even take one's own life.  When we know depression is drowning us in its hungry river, we need help and should seek it immediately, never ignore it.

Anyone can become depressed.  Often the most successful people in life suffer from depression!  Sometimes with counseling and medications, (due to low serotonin levels in the brain) people become better and sometimes, it can be a spiritual attack.

Like any other illness, when we are ill, we take medicines, depression is the same.  It often is caused by low serotonin levels in the brain which can be corrected by take medicines for a year or a few years, and then the serotonin levels in the brain normalize.  It is not a psychotic illness at all, and it really never means a depressed person is an abnormal person.  There are many wrong concepts about depression and people are afraid to admit they are depressed for fear of judgment that they are not good enough or they are abnormal!  Well, nothing could be further than the truth.  

I had a friend for many years who often even as a teenager was hit with waves of unbearable depression.  She would drown into sinking sands of depression in those seasons.  I met her many years ago and never found her speaking about her depression, so I finally asked her what happened about her depression spells.  She told me that a few years back she went for a large conference in the United States and met a known pastor, a family friend in the conference, and he had prayed over her with his hands on her head.  She suddenly saw something very black fly out of her and immediately felt a great release and lightness.  From that time on wards, she never got a depression attack again.  It was a spiritual oppression.

When I was a teenager and was hit by depression. I do believe that at that time, it was a spiritual attack because it literally flew away with no counseling or medications and I got delivered from it instantly overnight.  The Lord can heal us supernaturally or some of us need to go through the medication pathway, just like any other illness.

One more thing, if someone wants to commit suicide, they will only take the torment with them when they go to the next life...so it is really not worth the effort.  I did try it when I was a teenager and when I was slipping from life to death and on the edge of that transition, I did see a gray kind of place with rats and burning red hot iron kind of cages.  It was a miserable place without God.  I can say today that this was a kind of hell, separation from God.  I did cry to Jesus to save my life and I would serve Him!  (which I did not fulfill until maybe many, many years later!)  He did get me out of the mess and I became alright within a few minutes and the depression left me and the next morning on wards, I had this amazing, wonderful, supernatural peace.  I share this because I want all to know that suicide takes the torment along with it to the other side, we cannot escape our problems with suicide.

- When depression drowns, get help, try to find something you really love to do, and do it, surround yourself with positive people, read inspiring books, listen to powerful preachers and teachers, but most important, run to the Lord.

-  Nature has a way of healing.  Get close to nature.  God, the Creator of nature breaths His breath and refreshing upon nature, which in turn brings healing and calm to our soul and centers our soul to be more connected to Him.

- Run to the Lord, call on Him – pray  - Jeremiah 33:3 "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."  As we call on Jesus, He will start to deliver us and show us mighty amazing things, revealing great things to us, to help in our deliverance process.

- Bind and cast out the spirit of depression.   Matthew 16:19, "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."  When we take up our spiritual authority in Christ and rebuke depression, anger or anything within us in Jesus' name, Jesus will loosen its hold over us and cast it out.  This has worked time and time again, it is very powerful.  Depression many times is a spirit, and it can claim a legal right to our soul unless we challenge and reject its authority over us and it has to depart in Jesus' name.  We never think of rebuking it, so it happily remains within to torment our emotions and mind, which is the seat of our soul.

- Surround yourself with songs of worship and start worshipping the Lord yourself.  In the presence of worship, that spirit will leave, and also your spirit will start to rise in joy over time.  It may not happen immediately, but be consistent and you will be rewarded.

- Abide in Christ, in the Holy Spirit:  In the presence of the Lord, joy returns.  Psalm 16:11 "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."  We experience wonderful joy in the Presence of the Lord, and the more we commune with the Lord and listen to Him, the greater our joy will be.


Indeed, we will experience a great deliverance from drowning in the wells of depression and actually rise to ecstasy and joy when we simply practice the above.  Psalm 32:7:  You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance."

Rita Farhat Kurian


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