From the desk of the Presbyter in Charge Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ!
If He will be our source, the situation will never fail us (whether hill or valley). Extra ordinary faith Almighty God enabled us to witenables us to transcend our cirness one more triennium in our cumstances. ‘For everyone born of lives. We need to be thankful to God overcomes the world. This is God for His blessings and guidance. the victory that has overcome the He had been with us in our life world, even our faith’. 1 John 5:4. journey and enriched our experiFaith can change any situation. No ences by His presence. His presence matter how dark it is, no matter made things possible and more what the trouble may be, a quick meaningful. We need to introspect lifting of the heart to God in a moourselves and have to proclaim ment of real, actual faith in Him, along with the Psalmist `This is the will alter the situation in a moment. Lord`s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes` Psalm 118:23. Faith is a God-given facility which when exercised, brings the unseen As Church, families, individuals into plain view and by which the this is a time of thanksgiving for impossible things are made posHis bestowed grace upon us and sible. Faith turns the promise into is also a time of submission. `A a prophecy. While it is merely a thousand may fall at your side, ten promise it is contingent upon our thousand at your right hand, but cooperation. But when faith claims it will not come near you` Psalm it, it becomes a prophecy, and we 91:7. `You will not fear the terror have a feeling that it is something of night, nor the arrow that flies by that must be done because God day, nor the pestilence that stalks cannot lie. Faith is walking in the in the darkness, nor the plague that dark with God, only prays Him to destroys at midday` Psalm 91:5,6. A clasp its hand more closely. Faith new triennium is not our merit, but says not `I see that it is good for it is a gift of God and His mercy. It me, so God must have sent it, ` but is a symbol of His pertaining pres`God sent it and so it must be good ence upon us in the past. It also ex- for me`. Faith requires uncondiemplifies that our God is gracious. tional belief in His faithfulness. God wants us to trust Him apart ‘It is a land the Lord your God from all feeling, resting His own cares for; the eyes of the Lord your word and on His faithfulness to His God are continually on it from the promise. Faith is moving beyond beginning of the year to its end` our understanding. Deuteronomy 11:12. The gracious pledge of our heavenly Father is an Mary and Martha could not underassurance of His care and concern. stand what their Lord was doing. 2
Both of them said to Him, ‘Lord if you had been here, my brother had not died’. Their inner thought sounds like this ‘we do not understand how you could let death come to the man whom you loved’. To them Jesus replied, `You may not understand; but I tell you if you believe, you will see`. Abraham could not understand why God should ask the sacrifice of the boy, but he trusted. Joseph could not understand the cruelty of his brothers, the false witness of a perfidious women and the long years of unjust imprisonment. But he trusted and saw the glory of God. Likewise in our life too, we may not be able to understand the devious ways of God and sometimes we may ask why plans and purposes that seems good to my eyes should be baffled. God does not expect us to understand them, but we need to believe in Him. We need belief beyond our circumstances, then only our faith will remain as glory to God. We need to believe beyond human comprehension, then only our faith would challenge the circumstances. In the new triennium, may God enable you to stand firm in your faith and be uncompromising to practice faith. Yours in Christ, Rev. Jerin Thomas George Presbyter-in-Charge