Dwelling in the secret place of the Most High

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. “

Psalm 91: 1 (New King James version)


I looked up the dictionary for the meaning of the word Dwell. And here is what came up , “to live or stay as a permanent resident; to live or continue in a given condition or state “. Wow ! To Dwell in His presence ! Imagine that . That is what we ought to be doing. Forever just dwelling in Him. In all that we do or say its all Him. When we wake up its all Him. Our very first though should me ‘Lord I just cant wait to spend that special time with just You and me.”

We read in Matthew 6:6 , “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to Your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

For those wondering how my day went yesterday , it was fantastic by the grace of God. It so evident that God is in control. I have no words to describe how great the day went. Just imagine flying a plane yourself Vs just having to give God the controls and let Him steer you in the right direction and take you where He wants you to go. In addition to that God has blessed me to step into another year today by God’s grace. Its so amazing.

And this is my prayer as I step into a new year … Lord may I dwell in Your secret place. May I always stay in Your presence and never wander. May I permanently have my heart always drawn to you and to You alone.

You want to know the beauty of His secret place ? Its an open invitation waiting just for us to accept and step in .

I pray that this be our prayer together as brothers and sisters in Christ. May we dwell in the secret place of the Most High. And you know what happens when we do that ? We abide under the shadow of the Almighty !! Wow ! Imagine that ! Living every day and every moment knowing that we are living in accordance to His Holy will , knowing we are under the shadow of the Almighty ! May that be our desire today


To dwell in the secret place of the Most High

God Bless

Mixed up priorities

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

Matthew 6: 33 (New King James version)

Yes a very familiar verse J We’ve read it , we’ve sung it in songs , we know it by heart. Question we need to ask ourselves “Do we live it out?”

When we read the preceding verse we read Jesus telling the people don’t worry about what shall to eat or what shall to drink or what shall to wear . When we go back even further and start reading from verse 25 onwards we read in the latter part of verse 25 “Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Why do we really put in 200% effort into our work ? Better careers, better money , better living standards… What is this really going to get us at the end ?

Don’t get me wrong. It is good to work hard in our careers, it is good to invest our earnings wisely.. however what is our priority ? Honestly , how many of us woke up this morning with the thought “Wow Lord , another day by Your grace and for Your glory . Here I am . How do you want me to live this day?”

How many of us woke up thinking ‘Oh I need to wake up at this time so that I can do this and this and this… This needs to be sent out by this date ..’ , ‘I need to contact this person for fixing this’ , ‘ I need to go early to take care of that’

How many of us woke up knowing exactly what our bosses or our family expected of us today vs how many of us woke up knowing exactly what God wanted us to do today ?

In my case today I just transitioned into the next day still working . But our God is so amazing . For some reason I glanced out through the window and saw the gentle snow fall and went “Lord you are awesome ! Thank you for this whole new month”. Sometimes even when we get busy He is so loving to gently remind us , its all about Him.

I am right now on a business trip and the past few days have been hectic. And as I prayed this morning , the Lord reminded me that I have been so wrapped up with work that I haven’t been focusing on Him. The best part is this, when we give Him our first and our best everything EVERYTHING everything automatically just falls so beautifully in place. Things which take 5 hours get done in an hour. That’s how amazing our God is. I really wonder why we tend to forget so easily.

The word of God says He knows the things we need even before we can ask of it. So forget about worrying and striving hard for things of the world and in the bargain get our priorities mixed up. May He be truly our everything.

And this is a testimony that the Lord wants me to share for someone… I have a hectic day ahead of me , haven’t slept much the entire night. But then realized whoa .. my priorities have been really messed up these past 3 days. I know how the past few days have gone. I have put in my best effort first and then committed it to God. Its gone good-ok. Today is going to be the reverse. I commit everything to Him. Seek His face, rejoice in His presence and now shall put in my best effort in continuous surrender to Him. I know its gonna be a victorious day ! His word is living and powerful ! Will update you on the day when I get back from work :-)

God Bless

Do we seek Him?

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.”

Psalm 32: 8 (New King James version)

Picture this with me… (I love using the tortoise and hare illustrations). There is an obstacle course race conducted by God . And God talks to the tortoise and the hare and says ‘here is a staff each . Now go and if you ever need anything just ask and I’ll help you’. The hare as always zooms ahead and reaches a big rock on his path. He uses the staff God gave him and moves the boulder. And he is all happy . The hare asks God ‘ok what next ?’ and God gives Him couple of huge and heavy wooden planks. And as the hare gets the wooden planks he sees the tortoise slowly coming up the road having moved his boulder too. And so he zooms ahead with the wooden plank. Minutes later he finds the planks really heavy and starts saying “God doesn’t know what he is doing. Why should I have to carry this ? I would have gone way ahead if I didn’t have these. What’s the point of all of this !’. And as he keeps running he wonders if he should ask God or not what to do next. He sees a board “Shortcut ’ and sees others strolling around happily without the weight of the planks. He thinks “I can make it without this’ and he runs leaving the planks on the side of the road. The tortoise on the other hand diligently carried the planks. He asked God ‘Lord I know its heavy , but you gave it for a reason. Show me what I should do’. God hands him nails , a hammer and a rope. The tortoise thinks “Hmmm I asked God , I thought it would get lighter, but its gotten heavier instead..but lets obey the instructions after all who else knows the race better than God’. As he goes ahead the tortoise sees a river the only way to go to the finish line. He uses all that God gave him , builds a raft and sails happily to the finish line. As for the hare ? He never made it to the finish line. After all , there’s only One Way !

Couple of things …
· God is always ready with open arms to instruct us and teach us in the way that we should go. Do we seek Him ?
· You cant use the staff given yesterday for the needs of today. God might be having some planks for you instead ! :- ) Every step of the way His guidance and His instructions are beautiful. Don’t rest on Sunday’s prayers and anointing to get you through till next Sunday. Its an every moment surrender and yielding and seeking Him. Don’t miss what God has to tell you today !

. He designed the entire universe . He is the Alpha and the Omega. He knows best ! If you have surrendered completely to Him and if He allows something and takes you along a path you don’t understand , its ok. Lean not on your own understanding ! Proverbs 3: 5-6 , “Trust in the LORD with all your heart. And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him. And He shall direct your paths."

God Bless

Taste all the way

“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!”

Psalm 34:8 (New King James version)

I love ice cream. When the weather is cold , I feel like eating ice cream all the more J One of my favorite ice creams are the ones which surprise you with a chocolate bar in the middle. Its like ‘where did that come from ! ‘ Yummy double flavored ice cream with two layers and an even more yummier centre :)

Now here is the interesting part, if I just showed you the bar of ice cream , you would just see the layer on top which is yummy. But you gotta dig deeper ! The more you get through the first layer you reach a whole new flavor which is yummier . And it doesn’t end there … the more you go on there is more.

Knowing God and growing in His word is a little like that. Our God and His word is just so indescribable. So many infinitely wonderful flavors. Here is the thing, don’t stop at just the top layer ! Dig deeper ! Draw closer to Him every day !

Now say for example if you had just had only a taste of the top layer and I said describe the ice cream to me , and then to another I ask him to take a full bite of all the layers and then describe it to me. I would get two totally different descriptions.

So is our walk with Christ . Oh , taste and see that the Lord is good !

Psalm 42: 1 , “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.” Its not about “oh I spend half an hour in His presence that’s enough” , “oh I spend an hour every day’ ‘Oh I spend 5 minutes”… No no no , its not about that. Its about every cell in your body crying “wow I cant wait to read His word … “, “Lord in everything I see Your hand” , .. its about in everything our heart cries out in love and adoration to the Lord most High. Its not about having spent ‘sufficient’ time in His presence . Its about realizing no matter how much time we spend it is never sufficient . He is the Lord of lords, the Alpha and Omega. How can we sit back and describe Him as vanilla ?

The more we grow closer to Him, the more we taste and see how amazing He is … the more our soul longs for Him. Its about personally experiencing Him in every aspect and every moment of our life. And the more we do that , we learn to surrender truly all to Him ! ALL !

Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

God Bless

Just ask

“So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him , “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”

Matthew 20: 32-33 (New King James version)

I had just parked my car in my sister’s office and was waiting for her to come . I had driven through quite a stormy rain to get there. She had a test the next day and wanted to reach home a little early. I was thinking to myself , “We are going to take 2 hours easily to reach home !” . I had seen the traffic, the flooded roads and the torrential rain on my way over there. I was like “Lord , she wants to get home early and now this is an impossible task… its going to take us hours to get home.” You should have seen the traffic , it was bumper to bumper stand still traffic along with rain pouring down like buckets of water splashed against your windshield. And at that moment I heard a gentle voice ,” why don’t you just ask “.

Its little strange , we know God can work wonders. But when it comes to standstill traffic that we have just seen with our eyes it seems impossible to even ask Him of it . I had forgotten that our God who parted the red sea, can also work wonders with city traffic .

The strangest thing happened after I asked God to get us home early. From the time we started , the rains stopped , we had minimal traffic jam and 80% of the way we were cruising through . And these are areas that are generally so jam packed, and I had just driven down most of the same roads just to get to her office ! We reached in 45 minutes . A journey which on any other day takes me an hour and a half ! Praise the Lord ! And from the moment we stepped into the house the rains resumed.

Sometimes we just don’t ask!

We read in Matthew 20 : 29-34 that as Jesus was passing by two blind men cried out to Him. While the multitude warned them to keep quiet they started shouting even more louder “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!”

Here is the interesting part , Jesus asks them “What do you want Me to do for you?” . You would think its obvious . They are blind men , of course they want to be healed. Jesus knew they wanted to be healed . The point is did the blind men have the faith to confess what they wanted in the midst of people who disregarded them.

It didn’t matter how silly they looked or how impossible it sounded . They said it out loud ‘Lord that our eyes may be opened’ . And Jesus healed them .

Have faith just ask ! We serve a loving compassionate Father. Is there a need on your heart today ? Just ask ! Lift it up to Him and have Him work on it .

God Bless

We are on His side now

“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”

I Corinthians 15:55 (New King James Version)

Do you know when you would ask such a question ? When you have total confidence about where you are. Imagine this, you have one person chasing you and you are running running running. And as you run you see your friends up ahead with 10,000 military troops with all their armored trucks and weapons. Now you stand with the entire troop and look at the person chasing you . I am sure you would go “HA HA! Now what are you going to do !! “

We read in verse 56 , “The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.” Jesus conquered it all on the cross !! We read in Romans 6: 14, “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Wow ! We get to look sin straight in the face and say ‘you have no dominion over me !!’

While temptation to sin always lurks around like a lion waiting to pounce we need to understand the reality here … Christ conquered it already on the cross. Freedom is ours. The devil is a liar . He will trick you into bondage and fill your head with lies like there is no hope for you , you are forever lost in this sin. Tell him ‘Sin has NO dominion over me !! I am under grace ! “ This is the living word of God !!

Know where we are now … ransomed by His blood , saved by His grace , called His own … We are standing on the side of Christ now.

God Bless

Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold

“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.”

Romans 12 : 2 (New King James Version)


I remember reading this on a t-shirt ‘Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold', I could not help but smile thinking about it. It is so easy to get influenced by the patterns of this world. The weekend is just around the corner, the world says ‘Phew ! Finally weekend to get some rest , relax , watch a couple of movies and chill … probably hang out in a mall and go shopping’. If that is all we have planned for the weekend then we have been influenced by the world.

The word of God says in James 1: 27 , “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” :-)

Have our lifestyles and plans become so conformed to the ways of the world ? I pray that we will submit ourselves completely to Him, every aspect , every moment to Him and by the renewing of our mind we will test everything and only do what is His will which is always perfect and good.

God Bless