This time of the year, yes, lent season, time to go to church every evening.
This whole process began in the year 2008 when our church pastor announced that during the 40 day lent season, we all will gather at the church premises and spend some time praying.
Then with the suggestion that only praying for an hour and a half would be too tedious, pastor added 30 mts songs, 30 mts of Bible meditation and 30 mts of prayer time.
The journey of Bible reading began in 2008 when we all started with the book of Genesis.
Everyday people would take turns to read and explain one chapter from the Holy word of God.
Initially, we were only 10-15 people who would attend it religiously, but as the years went by, and as new people started coming in, and as young people starting becoming old, and as children who attended the sunday school classes started growing into young men and women, the interest in this season sprouted...
Enough of flashback, lets come to 2016.
This year, surprisingly, the church is getting filled before we begin the service. There are more than 100 people who rush to sit inside the building to sing, listen to the word of God and to pray.
Though it might be tough to make people sit through the list of names being read from the books of Ezra, Nehemiah etc, people are so interested that they are reading the stuff before hand and are coming prepared to the church.
Surprising, the Bible says that in the last days, there will be apostasy, but also there will be a mighty outpouring of the Spirit. We are witnessing that everyday in our church.
Well, let me come to the topic. We started meditating on the Book of Esther from the Holy Bible.
It has always been my favorite book of the Bible, right from my childhood days. I love the way, things move and I love the way it is written. There are many anomalies in the book, many things that makes ones blood boil and many things that can be made into a classic movie, but above all, we can see the PROVIDENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD though the name God is not mentioned in the entire book. There are 10 chapters, 167 verses and not even once any spiritual matter is mentioned, but surprisingly, we find every chapter the hand of God guiding the circumstances.
All through my life, I have been encouraged by the events happening in the book.
In my next blog post, I will write about each and every character found in the book,
for now, its time to read it...
You can read the 10 chapters in just 27 minutes.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=NKJV
Come on now, click the above link and start reading,
and if you are not the electronic guy/gal, take the Book in your hands and start reading, you will not regret the decision.
Come back and lets do the character studies ...
see you till then...
This whole process began in the year 2008 when our church pastor announced that during the 40 day lent season, we all will gather at the church premises and spend some time praying.
Then with the suggestion that only praying for an hour and a half would be too tedious, pastor added 30 mts songs, 30 mts of Bible meditation and 30 mts of prayer time.
The journey of Bible reading began in 2008 when we all started with the book of Genesis.
Everyday people would take turns to read and explain one chapter from the Holy word of God.
Initially, we were only 10-15 people who would attend it religiously, but as the years went by, and as new people started coming in, and as young people starting becoming old, and as children who attended the sunday school classes started growing into young men and women, the interest in this season sprouted...
Enough of flashback, lets come to 2016.
This year, surprisingly, the church is getting filled before we begin the service. There are more than 100 people who rush to sit inside the building to sing, listen to the word of God and to pray.
Though it might be tough to make people sit through the list of names being read from the books of Ezra, Nehemiah etc, people are so interested that they are reading the stuff before hand and are coming prepared to the church.
Surprising, the Bible says that in the last days, there will be apostasy, but also there will be a mighty outpouring of the Spirit. We are witnessing that everyday in our church.
Well, let me come to the topic. We started meditating on the Book of Esther from the Holy Bible.
It has always been my favorite book of the Bible, right from my childhood days. I love the way, things move and I love the way it is written. There are many anomalies in the book, many things that makes ones blood boil and many things that can be made into a classic movie, but above all, we can see the PROVIDENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD though the name God is not mentioned in the entire book. There are 10 chapters, 167 verses and not even once any spiritual matter is mentioned, but surprisingly, we find every chapter the hand of God guiding the circumstances.
All through my life, I have been encouraged by the events happening in the book.
In my next blog post, I will write about each and every character found in the book,
for now, its time to read it...
You can read the 10 chapters in just 27 minutes.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=NKJV
Come on now, click the above link and start reading,
and if you are not the electronic guy/gal, take the Book in your hands and start reading, you will not regret the decision.
Come back and lets do the character studies ...
see you till then...
