Lynda Randle with the Gaithers. These video songs – God on the Mountain, One Day at a Time, He Touched Me and many more will minister to you when you are going through storms and valley-like situations and testing of your faith which is required by all Christians who want to become Christ-like. The album is by the Gaithers. Listen and be edified.
Author Archives: IAN D'SOUZA
The Bible Speaks Today – Inspired Scriptures
“All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim 3:16-17).
As a younger Christian, I would often wonder how the above claim that “all scripture is inspired by God” could be true when at the same time it was clear that many human authors actually penned the various books in the Bible. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today – Recognizing His Voice
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me,” (John 10:27)
There are many voices in our world today calling for our attention. There is the voice of the thief, the voice of the wolf, the voice of worldly philosophers, the voice of politicians, the voice of peers, the voice of new-age techniques, and the voice of God as well. There are voices telling us the problems as well as the solutions. There are many voices clamoring for our attention and calling us to follow and none of them are without significance. But the voice of the Sacred Scriptures is the voice of Christ (John 1:1). That voice spoke in the beginning, spoke right through history, through prophecy and still continues to speak even in heaven. The voice of Christ still speaks today offering salvation, security and eternal life to all who have ears to hear. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today – God Promises To Guide Us
“Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105)
God’s Word is represented as a lamp for the feet. It is a “lamp”, not a blazing sun, nor even a lighthouse–but a plain, common lamp or lantern which one can carry about in the hand. It is a lamp “for the feet,” not throwing its beams far and wide, but shining its light only on the little bit of road ahead on which the Christian’s feet are walking. The law of divine guidance is, “Step by step”. One who holds up a lantern on a dark village-road at night, sees only one step before him. If he takes that step, the lantern also moves forward, making the next step plain. In this way, finally he reaches his destination in safety, without once stepping into darkness. The whole way was shown to him, but only one single step at a time. This illustrates the usual method of God’s guidance. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today – God Is In Charge Of Your Life
“Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness (patience.) And let steadfastness (patience) have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1:2-4).
It almost seems like life was easier before we came into a personal encounter with Christ. For no sooner did the initial honeymoon time with the Lord fade off, than it appears as if “all hell broke loose” soon afterwards. Trials from within and without seemed to be the order of the day, often driving the young Christian to despair. But as James says, patience is one of those golden virtues that God develops in us using trials as the means. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today…. Anxious Anxiety
(Read Mt. 6:24-34) “No one can serve two masters……..you cannot serve God and mammon*. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat and what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing …….But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things shall be yours as well”. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today – Flavourless Salt
“You are the salt of the earth: but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. (Mathew 5:13)
Salt is a flavouring agent used to make food taste good. It is easily available and has many uses besides being a flavouring agent in food. It is used for removing certain kinds of stains, it is a good preservative, it has many healing uses and removes offensive odours. Continue reading
Let This Cup Pass – The Passion of Christ
Let This Cup Pass – The Passion of Christ – talk given at the Passion Retreat, Mumbai CCR, 2013
The Personal Prayer Walk – 2
(THE PROGRESSION OF PRAYER)
In part – 1, we saw the beginnings of prayer which was much like the honeymoon time enjoyed by a couple in love and 
quite often extends from months to years. But then as the honeymoon period began to wane, there arose the difficulties of a receding love for God and a cooling desire for prayer causing much anguish and perplexity in the life of the young Christian. What the newly renewed Christian has failed to realize, is that just as in a marriage, the honeymoon time was only the starting point of the Christian walk. His Christian walk had only just begun and those first ecstatic months or years were only a foretaste of God’s love. He does not realize that it is these very same young and genuinely growing Christians that are moved to the next stages of growth. Continue reading
The Bible Speaks Today – Abiding in the Vine
(Read John 15:1-8)
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me (John 15:4).
The quality of the fruit of the branch depends upon the quality of the life of the vine. Neither quality nor quantity is the product of the branch, for the branch merely receives what is produced by the vine. It is useless for the branch to struggle and strive to produce, for that is not its task. In fact however hard it may try, it will produce nothing. On the contrary it is the task of the vine to supply all the sap (life) needed; it is the task of the vine to produce the fruit at the end of the branch; it is the task of the branch to just abide quietly in utter dependence and obedience where it has been placed. Continue reading
The Beacon 