Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

In Psalm 71, David is painting a picture of life to portray how Praise is involved in all the phases of life right from birth till death. God wants us to praise Him continuously. Living Praise lives along with us all through our lives. Psalm 71 can be sectioned as below. • Miracle of the Past - Start praising God for creating you, your children,----more---- the unborn, still not conceived, those w...

Zechariah 9:12 Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you. In this year 2021, God is extending an invitation for us to return to the stronghold, that is God Himself. Also God is declaring a double restoration for us. ----more----If we return to the city of refuge, the Stronghold, we will see God's favor in our lives as He is going to res...

Life is all about coming out of the house of bondage, traveling through the wilderness, reaching our earthly Canaan, living there until time comes to go the heavenly Canaan. As we are about to enter into the New Year, • God wants us to know there are tests on our way, it doesn't matter if we are in the wilderness or in Canaan. ----more---- • God tests us in our wilderness to see if we humble ourse...

A Christmas Message.

Advent is a season of hope for tomorrow. We have our hope on Lord Jesus Christ because, 1. He is Sovereign - Advent reminds us that Jesus is Sovereign, He works beyond our limitations, there is nothing that could stop Him and nothing that could ever surprise Him ----more---- 2. He is a Hope Giver - When hopelessness and despair abounds around us, Advent reminds us to look at the one who gives us h...

Advent reminds us the coming of the Lord - the birth of Jesus, birth of Christ within us during salvation and the second coming of Jesus. Advent is the season of expectant joy and let the source of joy be Christ alone. This joy comes to you by knowing your relationship with Jesus. Today, you may be missing some of your dear ones who may not be with you right now. ----more----During Advent, your ex...

Advent reminds us the coming of the Lord - the birth of Jesus, birth of Christ within us at salvation and the second coming of Jesus. The coming of the Lord reminds us the labor and pain associated with His birth into the world. • That pain was upon the children of Israel in Egypt until a deliverer came ----more---- • It was upon Mary and Joseph as they were struggling to lodge and deliver the bab...

One side we see people enjoying their lives in sinful pleasures who don't seek God and on the other side we see multitudes living in sorrow, pain and agony who need God every moment. This has been the mystery of the ages.----more---- We see the contrasting actions and reactions of people as they were confronted with, either the pleasures and the celebrations of this world or the sufferings, persec...

Are you tired of weeping in the night? Your morning is already coming. Experience the joy of the morning by doing the following. 1. Be found in the presence of the Lord 2. Be filled with the Holy Spirit 3. Be joyful in the day of the Lord 4. Be delighted in the Book of the Law

If you are broken, wounded, silenced, rejected, aborted, ill-fated, and currently suffering in your life, this sermon is for you. Please listen from I Peter 5:8-10. • Remember the enemy is walking like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. ----more---- • God wants you to resist him by standing firm in your faith. • The devil is causing such sufferings among other families too. • But God allow...

God is calling the church to shepherd the flock. The kind of shepherd God is looking for is according to John Ch.10 where Jesus portrayed himself as the true Shepherd, the Good Shepherd and the Shepherd who knows His sheep. We learned the following truths about shepherd from John 10. ----more---- • Truth#1: Shepherds must be legitimate and must remain true to their call to be a shepherd. • Truth#2...

We never bother to take time to understand the heart of God. Lack of many good earthly fathers make us to reject the love and care of our heavenly Father. We captured the heart of God through "The parable of the prodigal son" or "The Parable of the Lost Son" as recorded in Luke 15:11-32. ----more---- • Our heavenly Father's heart is so Gentle • Our heavenly Father's heart is so Accepting • Our hea...

We were taught on the topic of "Knowing Your Call" in a very practical way. We categorized the call of God into three major types/levels. Called to Save, Called to Serve and Called to Leave. Listen to the sermon to know more on these calls and to know how to recognize His call. We ended this sermon with the practical questions. "God is calling us to save, serve & leave. Are we ready?" ----more----...

Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: Here are the 4 truths about "Living Through the Seasons" 1. No matter what season you are in, its not going to last for ever 2. Prepare for the next season 3. Once happened, but now it doesn't happen, because you are in a different season ----more---- 4. Seasons may begin and end, but life continues God wants...

Luke 5:33-39 (Parable of New and Old) Jesus said, no one puts a patch of new cloth on a old cloth. If someone does that the new makes a tear on the old one and the new patch doesn't match the old one. No one puts new wine into an old wineskin. If someone does that, the new wine will burst the old wine skin, the wine will spill and the wineskin will be ruined.----more---- At the end of the sermon w...

There are so many obstacles we face today to live our dreams. More than external obstructions the internal obstructions are more powerful and unknown for us unless told. It is worth taking time to find the obstacles that are inside so that we can live the dream we have for our lives. As each obstacle is explained, do not fail to take action to destroy these obstacles.----more---- Obstacles & Actio...

We understood that "our situation doesn't matter" from the life of Daniel. For a child of God, when you are in the middle of an adverse situation, your situation doesn't matter for you. Because you are in God's hands. We structed our sermon as below. 1. Your Situation Doesn't Matter for You    a. Daniel Was Trapped (Daniel 6:4-9)    b. Situation Did not Change Daniel (Daniel 6:10-12) ----more----...

This is what we learned through this sermon: • Faith without action is a dead faith, we must put our faith in action. • Law cannot justify anyone, but faith followed by work or action justifies. • We will not see the breakthrough unless we put our faith in action • Jesus didn't heal the blind man instantly by his faith, healing took place when he put his faith in action by walking towards the pool...

In Jonah Ch.4, he was upset, angry and went out of the city to isolated himself. He was further upset and angry when the shelter that he made and the shade that God had given were taken out of him. In those moments of frustration and disappointment, God works in our lives to show what kind of people are we and what kind of God we serve.----more---- We make shelters around us such as distraction an...

In times like this, it is easy for anyone to get discouraged. You don't really need to do anything to get discouraged. You just give into the situation, listen to the news and analyze the statistics, you will see discouragement building up within you. God wants us to refuse to be discouraged. If we don't refuse to be discouraged, discouragement is going to have very serious consequences in the liv...

Psalm 19:7-11 is the most comprehensive statement regarding the Sufficiency of Scripture. Scripture is complete in itself, has everything that is needed for one's spiritual life. Here are the highlights of this sermon. • There is nothing else that needs to be revealed to humanity about God or His plan for the human race other than what is already revealed in the Book. ----more---- • The Bible is a...

The Apostle James is giving guidelines on how to plan for our future in James 4:13-16. We are totally incapable of planning for our future as this life is passing and we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. James is advising us not to predict tomorrow, instead we ought to say that I don't know my tomorrow and I am totally depending on God.----more---- Trying to plan our future based on the...

We are living in a time when we get easily discouraged if we look at the things which are seen. Paul is urging us to look at the things that are unseen. We need eyes of faith to see the things that are unseen and eternal in nature. Paul is also warning about the deceptive nature of our senses and the temporary nature of what is seen.----more---- Let us understand as Paul talks about the 1. Perishi...

God wants us to see what is happening around us, sense the time that we are living in and respond to the needs of people. As there are many out there living in hopelessness. Be the one who provided hope of eternity to those who are living in darkness. Listen to the sermon to understand the way Jesus was ministering to the paralytic as he was brought to Jesus.----more---- Four men saw the paralytic...

When Jesus performed the miracle of feeding 5000 plus people, Bible says, after the miracle took place, the disciples gathered twelve baskets full of fragments that remained. Fragments are the result of breakage. Any kind of breakage leaves fragments. Life events are capable of breaking our lives and leaving fragments. God wants to do something meaningful and beautiful with the leftover fragments...