GOD’S VOICE
It is not merely by our faith that we are able to follow the life journey God has planned for us, but it is by listening to His Voice.
There are many examples in the Bible of God’s Voice telling people of His mighty and at times unusual plans for their lives. Biblical events often demonstrate that God loves to break His own natural laws to show that He is supreme. No one can walk on water, but Jesus did. No one can just rise up into the sky, but Jesus did. Even regarding his people, when He wants something done in their lives, He just goes ahead and does it, surpassing all human thought restrictions! Some Biblical examples are as follows:
God spoke to Zacharias through the Angel Gabriel, telling him that his wife Elizabeth would bear a son and that they were to name him John. Both being beyond the ages of productivity, he did not readily believe God. For this, God caused him to be mute until the time of John’s birth.
God spoke to Mary through the Angel Gabriel, telling her that she was to be the virgin mother of His Son. In her simplicity, she questioned the angel, but did not disbelieve God’s power and authority. It happened to her according to God’s Word.
God also spoke to Joseph (to whom she was engaged to be married), through an angel, revealing to him the mystery of her conception.
God spoke to the three wise men who followed the star to Bethlehem, instructing them not to return to Herod.
God spoke to Cornelius (Acts 10) telling him to send for Peter. God also spoke to Peter telling him to go with the men whom Cornelius had sent to get him.
God spoke to Elijah (1Kings) telling him to go to Zarephath and meet a widow who would provide him with food. God also spoke to the widow about Elijah. On reaching the place where God sent him, he saw a woman gathering sticks. He knew in his spirit that it was the widow and spoke to her.
When we are attentive to God’s Voice and always obey it even though it may be contrary to our own logical plans or way of thinking, we find ourselves at the right place at the right time. When God has a plan for our lives that involves another person, He speaks to that person as well. Praise the Lord!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
OUR MINISTRY
The ministry of THE MASTER’S TOUCH HEALING CENTER is best described in Isaiah chapter 53, verse 5, that says “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” When we speak about healing, we refer to a three-dimensional healing of spirit, mind and body. Mark chapter 2, verses 1-12, describes the healing of the paralyzed man who was lowered through the roof by his four friends and landed right before Jesus. Verse 5 says, “When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven you.” By calling him ‘Son’, Jesus healed his mind, restoring His relationship with the man. By forgiving his sins, Jesus healed his spirit. When He said in verse 11, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go your way to your house,” Jesus healed his body. All 3 aspects of our person are dependent on each other and therefore, complete healing has to touch all three levels. Praise The Lord!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
NEWS
Pastor Robin has just finished conducting a 5-day retreat for the Church in Israel. There was a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit on every participant, all of them being visibly touched by JESUS. There were mighty miracles of healing and deliverance and loud expressions of joy and love. He left India on the 7th of October and will be in Israel for about a month, building up and consolidating the Israel branch of “The Master’s Touch Healing Center.” Praise the Lord!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
NEWS
From August 31st to September 4th, Pastor Robin will be conducting a retreat for 50 church members whom he will train to be leaders. This 5-day retreat will be held at Madh Island, away from the hustle and bustle of Mumbai city. The emphasis will be on the Anointing of The Holy Spirit, growth in spiritual life and leadership. Praise The Lord!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
NEWS
Pastor Robin has just returned from his third visit to Israel. This trip lasted over a month as the Lord did wonderful things through him and used him mightily. He was invited to minister at seven different Churches and was also invited to lecture at the Zoe Bible College, founded in Holland.
The most exciting news for The Master’s Touch Healing Center, India, is that a branch of this Church has been established in Israel! The address is: 11 Sokolov Street, Herzliya Center, Israel. At present, services are being held every Saturday and Tuesday. Pastor Robin will be returning there very soon in order to build up this newly founded Church. Praise The Lord!
The most exciting news for The Master’s Touch Healing Center, India, is that a branch of this Church has been established in Israel! The address is: 11 Sokolov Street, Herzliya Center, Israel. At present, services are being held every Saturday and Tuesday. Pastor Robin will be returning there very soon in order to build up this newly founded Church. Praise The Lord!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
LOVE AND HAPPINESS
In our last article, we said that God is perfectly happy because He is LIGHT and in Him there is no darkness. There is complete TRUTH in God. Complete light and truth enables God to love in perfection. That’s why we say that God is LOVE.
We human beings are all born in darkness and inherit the LIE (sin) in its variety of forms. The pure, unconditional, selfless love that gives us perfect happiness and which God intended us to have when He created us in His own image and likeness, was stolen away by Satan. That’s why human love is always conditional, self-seeking, need based and often brings pain and tears. Because we human beings lost contact with God due to sin, we create our own gods and fall into idol worship. We may even seek to quench the longing of our hearts for God in a person whom we idolize. People often marry on this basis and sooner than later, experience disappointment, dissatisfaction and frustration.
God our Father, in a supreme act of pure, sacrificial love, gave His only begotten Son as a sacrifice for us. Jesus, in a pure act of sacrificial obedience to His Father, loved us and gave Himself up for us, to bring us back to God’s original plan and purpose for our lives. What was the power behind God’s ability to make this supreme sacrifice? It was the emotional fulfillment that He constantly experiences in Himself because the Love between the Father and the Son exists in complete light and truth. It is so powerful, that it generates a third person in God, the Holy Spirit, Christ. It is this constant emotional high of pure love in God that generates God’s powerful, energy-packed activity of creation and supreme control over everything that exists. This love (a constant emotional high with His Father) was the power in Jesus that enabled Him to perform the miracles He did and finally to endure the kind of suffering and death He went through for us. With this same power, God raised Him up in triumph and glory!
It is only when, through the Blood of Jesus, we get back into fellowship with God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, that we can truly love as God loves and enjoy true fellowship with one another. (Read 1Jn.1: 3-4). The pure, unconditional, sacrificial love that we inherit as “sons of God” enables us to give and receive true love from each other that adds up to the fullness of joy that John speaks about (1Jn.1: 5). When he commands us to love one another (1Jn. 2:8), he is actually telling us that we have the ability to do this “because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.” The lie (sin or darkness) from our minds is passing away because of Jesus the true light!
When we come across commands in the Bible given by The Father, His Son Jesus Christ or chosen and appointed men of God like John, we are not expected to obey that command on our own strength of will. That in fact is impossible. A Divine command is always an invitation to enter into the fellowship of God, the only position in which obedience to Him is possible. Apart from Him, we live in the dark. Darkness, as we explained in our earlier article, means the absence of truth or lies running in our minds that give birth to hatred. This situation is described in 1Jn. 2: 9-14. Hatred is actually a result of unforgiveness or fear that could be so deep rooted that it may be difficult to recognize, but causes much suffering and also ill health of mind and body. John says that there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears has not been made perfect in love (1Jn. 4:18)
Jesus, who alone is perfect love, can cast away the darkness and fear in us and bring us back to the ability to love as God loves us. 1Jn. 4:19 says, ”We love Him, because He first loved us.” This means that it is impossible to love God without first being cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. 1Jn. 1:4 says: “And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” Lasting happiness and joy comes from genuine fellowship first with God through the Blood of Jesus and then with our brothers and sisters in Him, in light and truth. Praise the Lord!
We human beings are all born in darkness and inherit the LIE (sin) in its variety of forms. The pure, unconditional, selfless love that gives us perfect happiness and which God intended us to have when He created us in His own image and likeness, was stolen away by Satan. That’s why human love is always conditional, self-seeking, need based and often brings pain and tears. Because we human beings lost contact with God due to sin, we create our own gods and fall into idol worship. We may even seek to quench the longing of our hearts for God in a person whom we idolize. People often marry on this basis and sooner than later, experience disappointment, dissatisfaction and frustration.
God our Father, in a supreme act of pure, sacrificial love, gave His only begotten Son as a sacrifice for us. Jesus, in a pure act of sacrificial obedience to His Father, loved us and gave Himself up for us, to bring us back to God’s original plan and purpose for our lives. What was the power behind God’s ability to make this supreme sacrifice? It was the emotional fulfillment that He constantly experiences in Himself because the Love between the Father and the Son exists in complete light and truth. It is so powerful, that it generates a third person in God, the Holy Spirit, Christ. It is this constant emotional high of pure love in God that generates God’s powerful, energy-packed activity of creation and supreme control over everything that exists. This love (a constant emotional high with His Father) was the power in Jesus that enabled Him to perform the miracles He did and finally to endure the kind of suffering and death He went through for us. With this same power, God raised Him up in triumph and glory!
It is only when, through the Blood of Jesus, we get back into fellowship with God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, that we can truly love as God loves and enjoy true fellowship with one another. (Read 1Jn.1: 3-4). The pure, unconditional, sacrificial love that we inherit as “sons of God” enables us to give and receive true love from each other that adds up to the fullness of joy that John speaks about (1Jn.1: 5). When he commands us to love one another (1Jn. 2:8), he is actually telling us that we have the ability to do this “because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.” The lie (sin or darkness) from our minds is passing away because of Jesus the true light!
When we come across commands in the Bible given by The Father, His Son Jesus Christ or chosen and appointed men of God like John, we are not expected to obey that command on our own strength of will. That in fact is impossible. A Divine command is always an invitation to enter into the fellowship of God, the only position in which obedience to Him is possible. Apart from Him, we live in the dark. Darkness, as we explained in our earlier article, means the absence of truth or lies running in our minds that give birth to hatred. This situation is described in 1Jn. 2: 9-14. Hatred is actually a result of unforgiveness or fear that could be so deep rooted that it may be difficult to recognize, but causes much suffering and also ill health of mind and body. John says that there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears has not been made perfect in love (1Jn. 4:18)
Jesus, who alone is perfect love, can cast away the darkness and fear in us and bring us back to the ability to love as God loves us. 1Jn. 4:19 says, ”We love Him, because He first loved us.” This means that it is impossible to love God without first being cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. 1Jn. 1:4 says: “And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” Lasting happiness and joy comes from genuine fellowship first with God through the Blood of Jesus and then with our brothers and sisters in Him, in light and truth. Praise the Lord!
Friday, May 28, 2010
BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME (Philippians 4:4)
God is happy all the time because He is LIGHT and in Him there is no darkness (1John.1: 5). Mankind was created in God’s image and likeness (Genesis.1: 27). So mankind was created to be happy all the time. Complete light in one’s life means complete truth in one’s mind – a state of complete happiness. Satan, the father of lies, introduced a great big lie into Eve’s mind and she passed it on to Adam. The light of truth in Mankind was immediately extinguished. Consequently, there was darkness and unhappiness, pain and suffering, sorrow and tears.
God sent His only begotten Son into the world, Christ, given the Name JESUS at His birth. He came as LIGHT itself. Whoever believes in Him and receives Him as Savior, receives the opportunity to return to God’s original plan for us to be happy all the time. To bring us back to this original state, Jesus had to offer His own body as a sacrifice for us, allowing Himself to be beaten, His flesh to be torn open, kicked, spit upon, crowned with thorns and finally nailed to a heavy wooden cross that He Himself was made to carry on His shoulders. He poured out His blood for us to the very last drop, unto death. Having completed His sacrifice, He was buried, but on the third day He rose triumphant from the tomb, back to His glorious life in and with God His Father.
All of us are born in darkness and with a whole lot of lies running through our brain. Since the brain controls every function of the body, the darkness and lies in it causes us to suffer from sicknesses, diseases, accidents and uncontrollable anti-social behavior that is called SIN. Despite great advancements in science and technology, psychiatry and psychology, we see the situation of sin, unhappiness, chaos and suffering in the world growing worse and completely out of control. The basic problem and solution is in mankind’s mind. However, it cannot be solved on a mere human level. Politicians, police, psychologists and moralists struggle and strive towards a solution, but soon reach a dead end.
Only the blood, shed by Jesus, that we now access spiritually and by faith, can completely wash away the sin and lies from our brain and only the Divine Counselor (Holy Spirit) whom Jesus puts within all those who believe in Him, can restore the light and truth in us (John. 16:13). Jesus’ body was brutally wounded, that our bodies might be healed (Psalm.103: 2&3; Isaiah.33: 24; Isaiah.53: 4&5). Jesus described Himself as the Way, the Truth and the Life (John.14: 6). There is no other way to get back to God our Father except through JESUS. Only JESUS can restore us to truth. Only JESUS can give us that full, healthy, happy life that we were created to live.
Let us always remember that negative emotions are due to faulty notions. So whenever we experience negative emotions, let us recognize the lie running in our minds, ask Jesus to wash it away with His precious Blood and ask The Holy Spirit in us to replace the lie with His TRUTH. We should lay this burden down at Jesus’ feet (Mt. 11:28). Then we can light-heartedly continue our journey through this life, walking in the light and truth of Jesus, being happy in Him all the time! PRAISE THE LORD.
God sent His only begotten Son into the world, Christ, given the Name JESUS at His birth. He came as LIGHT itself. Whoever believes in Him and receives Him as Savior, receives the opportunity to return to God’s original plan for us to be happy all the time. To bring us back to this original state, Jesus had to offer His own body as a sacrifice for us, allowing Himself to be beaten, His flesh to be torn open, kicked, spit upon, crowned with thorns and finally nailed to a heavy wooden cross that He Himself was made to carry on His shoulders. He poured out His blood for us to the very last drop, unto death. Having completed His sacrifice, He was buried, but on the third day He rose triumphant from the tomb, back to His glorious life in and with God His Father.
All of us are born in darkness and with a whole lot of lies running through our brain. Since the brain controls every function of the body, the darkness and lies in it causes us to suffer from sicknesses, diseases, accidents and uncontrollable anti-social behavior that is called SIN. Despite great advancements in science and technology, psychiatry and psychology, we see the situation of sin, unhappiness, chaos and suffering in the world growing worse and completely out of control. The basic problem and solution is in mankind’s mind. However, it cannot be solved on a mere human level. Politicians, police, psychologists and moralists struggle and strive towards a solution, but soon reach a dead end.
Only the blood, shed by Jesus, that we now access spiritually and by faith, can completely wash away the sin and lies from our brain and only the Divine Counselor (Holy Spirit) whom Jesus puts within all those who believe in Him, can restore the light and truth in us (John. 16:13). Jesus’ body was brutally wounded, that our bodies might be healed (Psalm.103: 2&3; Isaiah.33: 24; Isaiah.53: 4&5). Jesus described Himself as the Way, the Truth and the Life (John.14: 6). There is no other way to get back to God our Father except through JESUS. Only JESUS can restore us to truth. Only JESUS can give us that full, healthy, happy life that we were created to live.
Let us always remember that negative emotions are due to faulty notions. So whenever we experience negative emotions, let us recognize the lie running in our minds, ask Jesus to wash it away with His precious Blood and ask The Holy Spirit in us to replace the lie with His TRUTH. We should lay this burden down at Jesus’ feet (Mt. 11:28). Then we can light-heartedly continue our journey through this life, walking in the light and truth of Jesus, being happy in Him all the time! PRAISE THE LORD.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
NEWS
Pastor Robin Almeida is back from a very fruitful outreach at Gujarat. The people of Gujarat eagerly received the Good News through Pastor’s anointed preaching, were healed of many sicknesses and many were delivered. On the morning of the 1st of January 2010, he ministered to a group of 3500 people at Songard. That same evening, he ministered to a group of 3000 people at Gamlagaon. On the 2nd morning, 1800 people received the Word and were blessed with healing and deliverance at the site of the Narmada Dam.
As the state of Gujarat has a history of violent reactions toward the preaching of the Good News and many preachers have been killed, we praise and thank the living Lord Jesus and our Father God, that no anti social elements were able to disrupt any of the services. We pray that the seed sown will penetrate deep into the hearts of those who attended and that they in turn will be powerfully used by the Lord to spread the message throughout Gujarat.
As the state of Gujarat has a history of violent reactions toward the preaching of the Good News and many preachers have been killed, we praise and thank the living Lord Jesus and our Father God, that no anti social elements were able to disrupt any of the services. We pray that the seed sown will penetrate deep into the hearts of those who attended and that they in turn will be powerfully used by the Lord to spread the message throughout Gujarat.
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