Friday, 15 February 2013

GOD OF ALL COMFORT


GOD OF ALL COMFORT

 

Dear children of God, today we need comforts from every side of our life. But we live in sorrow without any comforts from every side. The world looks for a comforter to comfort in the sorrowful and critical situations. Mankind wants to come out from mourning, weeping and wailing. No one has to comfort them in the sorrow and mourn and no one has to help them to come out from their mourning and distress conditions. When we lose our dear ones and loved ones, then we look for someone to comfort us in those situations. Sometime we left behind without any comforts. Today friends I like to introduce a God of all comforts, who came down from heaven to become a man to understand their sorrows, mourning to give comfort and peace. He is the man of sorrow and he was despised and rejected by men and acquainted with grief. Surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows. He is our Lord Jesus Christ. He says that blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comfort. Mourning means the expression of deep sorrow. Jesus came down to bear our grief and sorrows and carried away on the cross to give us comfort and peace


COMFORTS IN DISTRESS:- David had cried unto the Lord and said, the snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. The cords of encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my cry, and my voice to him reached his ears. His rod and his staff, they comfort me. When I thought, my foot slips, your steadfast love, O Lord, help me. When my cares of my heart are many, your comforts cheer my soul. Dear friends do not afraid, let not your heart be troubled, though you walk in the midst of trouble, God of all comforts will preserve your life. Again King David cried and said, Lord, my enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made to sit in darkness like those long dead. Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled. God of all comfort led him on good ground without stumbling. God of all comforts comforted David in his distress and trouble and helped him to increase day by day in the midst of his enemies. Today the same god of comforts is ready to comfort you to rise up from the distress, shame and trouble in the midst of your enemies. When Joseph came to the prisoners [baker and cup bearer] in the morning, he saw that they were troubled and distressed. Joseph as a comforter asked them, why are your faces downcast with distressed today?  We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them. Joseph has introduced a God who comforts them in distressed and troubled. God of all comforts revealed their dreams to comfort them in their distress and trouble. Dear friends, today we have a God who is able to comfort you in your distress and trouble.


COMFORT IN MOURNING:-  our God is a God of all comforts in our mourning situation. Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near the gate of the town, behold a young man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. She was already distressed, because she was a widow, now only hope of her only son was dead, and she became comfortless. No one was able to comfort her. She was weeping and wailing behind the bier. When the God of all comforts: Jesus saw her and her comfortless, distressed condition. The comforter Jesus said to her, “Do not weep”. Then he came up and moved with compassion, touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And Jesus said, “young man” I say to you, arises. And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to her. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, a great prophet has arisen among us! And God has visited his people. Dear brothers and sisters, our God of all comforts has visited us to give comforts to wipe away our tears and mourning. Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, “thus says the Lord: set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover”. Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, God of all comforts, and said, please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight. And he wept bitterly and said like a swallow, or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove.  God of all comforts saw his mourning said comfortable words, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. He was healed and restored from his sickness, on the third day he went to the house God to give thanks. Dear brothers and sisters, because of your sickness your doctors may have discouraged you by saying settle yourself and house, you shall die. But today a God all comforts says that I have seen your moan, your tears. I will heal you, this is the comforting words. So do not worry.



COMFORT IN SUFFERINGS:-  Even if you should  suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, being prepared to make a defense to anyone, who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing well, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil. Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he is able to comfort them those who are in sufferings. Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trail when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and God rests upon you.

Beloved brothers and sisters, blessed are the God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and God of all comforts, who comforts us in all our afflictions and sufferings. So that, we may able to comfort those who are in any affliction; with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If you are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. Paul experienced in Asia, affliction that they were utterly burdened beyond their strength that they despaired of life itself. They had received the sentence of death. But that was to make them rely not on themselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered them from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver them.
Dear beloved ones, the God of all comforts, declare that comfort, comfort my people, speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended. Today your warfare of distress is ended. Today your warfare of mourning is ended. Today your warfare of sickness is ended. Today your warfare of affliction and suffering is ended. Today your sorrow is turned into joy. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. God of all comforts says that your days of mourning shall be ended; so rejoice in the Lord. Jesus said that I will not leave you as orphans or comfortless; my father will send in my name the comforter [Holy Spirit]. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because the hour has come, but when she has delivered a baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for the joy that human being has been born into the world. Your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. If you are comforted by the God of all comforts, kindly share with others and send a word to my email ID. revsjc@gmail.com, revsjc12@hotmail.com, johnchelliah857@yahoo.com 

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