A Glimpse into Our Destiny of Greatness

UV3243/10000 A Glimpse into Our Destiny of Greatness
Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look closely, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome and conquered! He can open the scroll and break its seven seals,”
Revelation 5 v 5

Jesus is described in this uni-verse as the Lion of Judah, the Root of David even though history records that He like David was born as a descendant of Judah, the eldest son of Jacob. He who is the root of David is also our good Root. As He has overcome and conquered sin and death and suffering, we too will overcome and conquer. He holds the key to our future and our eternity. He is possessed of complete knowledge, complete wisdom, complete power and complete love. As long as we are rooted and built in Him, we too have access to His complete knowledge, complete wisdom, complete power and complete love. God does not share His glory with anyone but He does share His greatness with us. Our destiny of greatness is not a distant dream but it accompanies us each moment of our lives as long as we stick to the Lord like leeches.

We need not weep, mourn, regret anything in our lives as Jesus as Lion of Judah has the power to reverse, restore, revive, redeem us. As we are continually connected to the Good Root through the Holy Spirit, the sap of His wisdom and knowledge and love is always rising in us, turning into the praiseworthy decisions, relationships, actions, results of our lives. As a member of Judah or praise, we offer all the praise, glory and honour to the Lord. He has declared us more than conquerors as we do not have to fight to conquer. We just need to be still, know that He is God and acknowledge and trust Him in all our ways. We are more than conquerors like King David or Alexander the Great as we do not have to marshall armies to conquer. We are more than conquerors as we do not suffer defeat or eternal death. We are more than conquerors as the weapons we carry give and enhance life and do not take away life or take away from life. Hence, we have many reasons to rejoice, as many as the moments we live, as many as our thoughts, as many as our days on Earth, as many as the promises of God in Christ.

A scroll in ancient days contained the decrees of the King. Till it was opened it remained secret and confidential. The Lord holds the seven scrolls or all that He has decreed for each of us individually as well as all of us collectively. He is sovereign and has the right and power to open the scroll of decree regarding our lives at the time of His choosing. We only need to submit to His royal decrees, His sovereign will knowing that He wants to give us hope in the present moment and a future in eternity.

Gainful Losing Versus Vain Gain

UV 3242/10000 Gainful Losing versus Vain Gains
Whoever finds his life (in this world) will (eventually) lose it (through death), and whoever loses his life (in this world) for My sake will find it ( that is, life with Me for all eternity).

Matthew 10 v 39


From our early childhood, we develop a zeal to gain things for ourselves. But this uni-verse asks us to develop the zeal to loosen the grip of such zeal and focus on losing things from our lives that Christ does not want us to have. Christ focused on losing His life in this world to redeem the whole world. In response, we need to focus on losing the things that He wants us to lose- our anger, our lust, our selfishness, our greed, our fears, our lack of sensitivity and gratitude, our discontentment, our hatred of others and our excessive love of ourselves, our pride, our egos, our desire to proven right all the time, our refusal and stubbornness in accepting correction, our foolishness, our hastiness to speak, take decisions and regret later.


When we develop this Christ-like laser focus on losing the things the world has conditioned us to accept, He will restore to us the true, new and eternal life that Jesus gives. He will add to our lives the things that we should gain- the nine fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit, our true spiritual calling or office. Like St Paul we will consider the things that we have lost as garbage. Garbage out, God’s grace in- GIGO. We will be focused more on contributing, , sharing, giving, serving, edifying others and not on shoring ourselves up, on feathering our own nests.

Losing is a lot like pruning. The parts of our lives that are not fruitful are subject to pruning. We submit ourselves willingly and cheerfully to the Holy Spirit to examine us and to remove from our lives any dross of all that contaminates, all that displeases the Lord. Our bodies need an annual or biennial medical examination but our souls need a daily examination by the Spirit of God.

Unchanging Love, Irrevocable Authority, Constancy of Faith

UV3241/10000 Unchanging Love, Irrevocable Authority, Constancy of Faith

For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,” says the Lord who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54 v 10

The way the Lord has configured nature and our lives, some things are constant, stable and unchanging while some other aspects are variable, changing. His will is irrevocable, His authority is unshakable, His love is constant even if our circumstances of life are changing. No part of our lives is irredeemable in His love. Our covenant based relationship, His commitment to us is unalterable. His word is unchanging and powerful beyond the grasp of our three dimensional world. The peace He gives is like unchanging and unshakable rock. The world cannot take away the peace of Christ. Even in the midst of turmoil, the believer of Christ has perfect peace.

The authority the Lord has given us as kings and the grace or favour He has given us as His priests are unshakable, irrevocable. The constancy of our prayers and praise are the spiritual sacrifices and worship we offer up to the Lord in return for tasting of His grace, love and peace. Prayer is the equivalent of breathing in the spiritual realm while the word or scripture is the equivalent of food. As we fill our nostrils with the breath of God and fill our spiritual bowels with spiritual food, we are strengthened in the inner man and nothing can shake our faith.

The uni-verse says that everything else in this universe can be shaken. The Lord can flatten great mountains or obstacles in our paths. We only need to be consistent in our commitment to our covenant relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Son. He knows the gaps in our knowledge, understanding and faith even as the enemy knows the chinks in our spiritual armour. Even if we have an iota of faith in His everlasting love and compassion, Jesus defends us against the accuser and remains as chief intercessor on behalf of our souls. The more we know Jesus and understand His incomprehensible love, the more we are set free from the bondages and burdens of this life, the more His love, grace and peace are manifest in our lives.

Transforming Zeroes into Heroes

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I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the renewed heavens and lay the foundations of the renewed earth, and to say to Zion( Jerusalem) , “ You are My people.”
Isaiah 51 v 16


The Lord puts words in our mouths according to the situation and He keeps us under His protective hand. He uses us to establish His kingdom on Earth. The earth when viewed from outer space appears as a tiny white dot against the infinitude of stars and heavenly bodies to prove the insignificance of human life that is unrelated or unconnected with the Lord God. We become significant only when we are in a personal relationship with the Lord. He uses us to lay afresh the foundations of wisdom of the Earth and of the kingdom of God. He affirms us by saying to us that we are His people. He adopts us through His first born, Jesus and pours on us the Spirit of adoption who enables us to call Him, “Abba, Father.” To be called His people, the people of God, His beloved is the greatest privilege, honour, blessing we can ever receive. God’s grace through Christ enables us to ace our lives. He will undertake for us, He will establish us in the right orbit as He has established the various heavenly bodies. His gravitational pull will keep us revolving around Him so that we neither fall like a meteor nor become a black hole so absorbed only in our own happiness, or a shooting star or comet that shines briefly and quickly dies. Instead of being a zero indicating insignificant in the whole scheme of creation, we become heroes or significant in the eyes of God. We will be a signboard of Jesus pointing all glory to the Lord and all people to the Way, the Truth and the Life eternal. We will simultaneously be the message, live the message and be a messenger from God. Our beginning and end lie with God while what lies in the middle is our responsibility.

We need to live and move and speak as if we obtain everything from our Heavenly Father. He is the one who shields us with His hand of favour upon us. He gives us wisdom to take the right decisions. As someone once said, with His help we can “positivise, prioritise and prayerise” everything in our lives. We do not express ourselves unless He puts words in our mouths. We invite the Holy Spirit to continually renew our minds in Christ. We are to be prepared by Him to be citizens of heaven, of the New Jerusalem.

Jesus is the Lion of Zion or the ruler of the kingdom of God. The enemy is described as the “roaring lion” who appears menacing but the Lion of Zion accomplishes His will quietly and gracefully, without much ado. Our submission to Jesus is out of love and unlike with other rulers – not with fear. As a sign of our submission, our obedience and our discipline, we should hold His word in our hearts and mouths. His word becomes the new sword or weapon in our mouths to deny the enemy victory and to claim victory for ourselves. This is the reason the human tongue is described a the source of life and death- we are to proclaim death for the forces of death and proclaim life for the forces of the new life.

Security in An Increasingly Insecure World

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“And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; They will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, For I am with you always to save you and protect you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 15 v 20

Religion and identity politics are the number one threat to national security and international peace in this post modern world. Soon after the Christchurch brutal massacre, I had warned my kith and kin in Australia and New Zealand that reprisal attacks on churches would happen soon in different countries across the world. The serial suicide bomb attacks on Sri Lankan churches and hotels killing more than 350 people and wounding more than 500 people, most of whom were inside churches during Easter services is one of the most brutal attacks on innocent people in history. Against the backdrop of terrorism stalking innocent lives world-wide in the name of religion and race, the uni-verse promises that the Lord will make us a fortified wall of bronze, that they will fight against us, but they will not prevail over us for the Lord God is with us always to save and protect us. The carnage may leave us wondering how the Lord allowed this massacre to take place. Here we should recall that satan is described by Jesus as a killer, thief and robber. He plants the idea of revenge and massacre in the minds of the most unlikely persons, in the Sri Lankan case even a very affluent business family. The word tells us that the death of His saints is precious in His eyes, implying that the Lord would welcome them into the eternal realms and reward them duly for their faith that caused them to be martyrs along with all who have been slain for their faith beginning with Abel.



It is apparent that we are living in dangerous times. We need to believe and claim the complete 360 degree protection of the Lord. We need to be covered with the two wings of protection of prayer accompanied by the Word. The Lord promises that those opposed to us or those who hate us without cause will not prevail over us. We should not give in to hate and violence by consciously or unconsciously subscribing to the ideology of hatred. I myself being a survivor of the world’s first recorded human bomb assassination of a national leader can testify to the truth of the uni-verse of how He was a fortified bronze wall around me as a flail of steel pellets hit the people around apart from the lethal shock wave and direct impact of the powerful blast. When one survives such a traumatic and terrible experience, he understands the need and the possibility of hiding always in the shadow or presence of the Lord.


When we exercise our faith in the many promises and assurances of protection, preservation and deliverance of the Lord contained in His word, we are building the wall of bronze around. Bronze is an alloy of different metals. Likewise, we tap the power of prophylactic prayer or preventive and protective prayer in different high risk situations by alloying or mixing our faith with prayer and the word of God. The Lord is faithful to His promises. We need to hold it consistently and firmly as we would a bronze shield to protect us from the assaults of the enemy of our souls. Only our physical bodies can be killed and therefore, even if we are allowed to be killed, the Lord has decreed ultimate and complete victory for His children. Even though we are traversing the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord is with us. That being said, we also need to be careful and take physical measures for security. A mere awareness of the threat or risk often wards off such evil for the enemy likes surprise and once we are aware, spiritually armed and physically careful, he stays away.

Learning From Affliction

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Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of oppression, yet your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will (constantly) see your Teacher.

Isaiah 30 v 20

Adversity is a greater teacher of mankind than prosperity. Our pain, our loneliness, our sorrow, our sheer helplessness drives us in times of adversity to seek answers to such questions as to why it is happening to us, what is it that we did right or wrong for it to happen to us, how do we get out of it. At such times, the Teacher, meaning either Jesus or the Holy Spirit appears to us and He will walk us through the affliction, giving us answers as we go. We will hear His quiet voice whispering behind our ears, “ Take this path or that path.” The pain and the tears clears our vision and we begin to see the Teacher. We set aside our pride, our disbelief, our doubts, our fears to continually communicate and relate to the Teacher.

Extreme adversity causes us to pray without ceasing. The weakness of our flesh, the reluctance of our minds to believe and pray is overcome by the heavy odds of the reality we are facing- an encounter with death, a debilitating disease of a loved one, a financial crisis with no end in sight, bereavement and so on. Jesus who was called Rabbi or Teacher during His sojourn on Earth is the Wonderful Counsellor. He counsels us on what we should do. He sends us the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity as our Comforter and Remembrancer of what He has taught us.

Jesus does not promise us a rosy or utopian future. He told us that “ In this world, you will have many troubles but you will overcome even as I have overcome.” Jesus overcame by the power of God, of the Holy Spirit. Likewise, we too can overcome our troubles and trials and emerge victorious, better and not bitter as the enemy would like us to be. I do not believe in the make believe of religion but I do believe in "realigion" where God is a real, active partner and constant friend and guide with me in facing all of life’s challenges and difficulties. He equips me in real time, He teaches me to lean on Him and learn the lessons of life and of eternity through all the pain and suffering of afflictions as of good times. He imparts wisdom at a practical and real level. He gives me supernatural help and imbues me with supernatural grace or strength. He gives me the confidence and peace that however things go, it will end well either here on Earth or in eternity.

Being BUSY for God

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You are my King, O God; Command victories and deliverance for Israel.

Psalm 44 v 4

We acknowledge God as our eternal King, our Ruler, Our Sovereign. We attribute all praise and thanks to Him. He is the One who commands victories and deliverance for us in all our struggles on Earth. We only need to approach Him and trust His promises to deliver us whatever be our crisis or challenge. He gives us the spiritual strength of a bull though we may be physically frail. We can trample down those who rise against us without cause or provocation. We do not trust in weapons or physical prowess. He will surely save us, rescue us from our spiritual and personal enemies and put them to shame. We are both soldier and commander. He is both shield and sword.

People have two options in life, encrypted in the word- BUSY. We can Be Under Saviour’s Yoke or Be under satan’s yoke. Being Under Saviour’s Yoke ensures we are victorious in our lives. Being Under satan’s yoke implies we are defeated, troubled and humiliated. All our lives we need to be BUSY for God. His hand or His power is not limited to help us overcome. We shall overcome all our life’s challenges by the grace of Christ Jesus in us. The yoke or burden He gives us is not only light, it is powerful, effective, productive, amazing, victorious. Among all the biblical and historical personalities, Jesus faced, endured and overcame the greatest challenges any human has ever faced and overcome. He obtained victory over sin, over satan, over death. These are the ultimate victories for all other victories are either Pyrrhic or in vain for eventual death annuls all glory of the victory. Hence, He is given the sovereign right to ordain victory for any other human being. He anointed His followers with the words, “You shall overcome even as I have overcome.” The cross, the symbol of ultimate humiliation became through Christ, the symbol of ultimate and absolute victory. But just as there is no cross without nails, we will have to endure pain and suffering in the process of commanding victory and deliverance for ourselves and others.

We are viceroys of God on Earth for the word “viceroy” means “in place of the King.” We represent Jesus, the King of Kings on Earth. We speak and act on His behalf. We can command victory and deliverance with the authority of the Author of Life and of Salvation of all mankind. The enemy is not put to rout in one shot like a knock out blow but in several bouts. We should start strong in whatever we are attempting, plod on in faith and finish well. The Lord can give us victory against many or few and with many or few on our side. He is not odd but He is the God of Impossible Odds. When the situation seems hopeless, He turns it around. We are not fighting our battles alone. He is by our side, fighting it in the spiritual realm while we do whatever lies within the realm of our responsibility. If required He commands His army of angels to come to our aid. He sends the Holy Spirit to empower, remind, comfort, strengthen us.