Independence Day

Today is the 75th Independence Day, the 15th of August. 75 years ago India got its independence from the British's rule. This day did not come without a heavy price of martyrs' blood and freedom struggles. This is the day of freedom for secular India. But is this the real freedom  for an individual, an Indian? 

Surely, man has fallen and is under the bondage of Satan, sin, and the world. Outward freedom could be achieved with struggles, hardships, and martyrdoms. But none can achieve freedom from Satan without the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Only the redeeming blood of the Son of God can bring  full freedom to the fallen humanity. Therefore, the real freedom, in the strictest sense, is possible only in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Today, as the country celebrated its 75th Independence Day, I was addressing an online meeting and released the burden the Lord gave me on Dependence Day.  Every human being needs God. God is the Creator of the universe and the source of all lives in the universe. This God, in His creation, has a definite plan in creating man. The plan of God is to create man in His image and likeness that man may express Him. He also gave man His dominion over all the other created things to represent Him on the earth. But for this, man needs to receive the life God. And to be able to receive that divine life, God created man with three part; body, soul, and spirit. 

Genesis 2:7Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

1 Thessalonians 5:23And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 9:23In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory.

Once man receives God, God as the Spirit (John 4:24) comes into him and dwells in him to be his content, to express Him and represent Him. This is the plan of God.

For man to continually express and represent God and fulfil God's plan, he need to be dependent on God all the time. Therefore, every day of a Christian's life must be a "Dependence Day." This was message for today God gave me on Independence Day, a Dependence Day.

The practical way to be depend on God is by daily coming to the Lord at least on three things. Firstly, to breathe Him in, moment by moment by calling upon the Lord's name and be in the spirit of prayer as much as man physically needs to breathe air to live.  Secondly, to eat Him in the word of God as spiritual food day by day as much as man eats three meals a day for his physical health. And thirdly, to pray and drink the Lord as the Spirit in prayer as man drinks water to quench his thirst and live. By these three practical ways, man can depend on God and live by Him moment by moment, and day by day.

On the 75th Indian Independence Day, the word of God is on the urgent and perpetual need to depend on God. An Independence Day to a Dependence Day; from secular to spiritual, is the need of the day. This was the message God gave me today. This was also the first meeting I addressed a group of Hindi speaking believers whose main "leader" I have been in fellowship with for the past one year or so. A new beginning indeed for the Lord move among the local Hindi speaking people in Gurugram and North India!

God bless India! God save and bless the people of India. Independence day for a dependence day on God. Jai Jesus!