Glory Orgnisation & Outreach Development

17/02/2017

Seeing to tomorrow” is beyond our view. Sometimes we even struggle to see or understand what life is throwing at us today. The Bible tells us, “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” (James 4:14).
Amen

22/10/2016

10/09/2014

good night every one

07/01/2014

Many years ago God gave his people, the ancient Israelites, a specific goal and with it an unbeatable formula for success. The goal was to claim and possess the Promised Land which, in time, became the country we know today as Israel.

If we want to be successful—that is, in the eyes of God, we also need to discover our God-given life purpose and, with God's help, be totally committed to fulfilling it, and in the process be sure to live in harmony with God's instructions for wholesome living.

It seems to me that far too many people drift through life mostly allowing "life as it happens" to direct and determine their future, rather than specifically choosing the direction and future of their life. To avoid the former, it is imperative to have a clearly defined life purpose with specific goals to fulfill that purpose.

Psychologists have been telling us for years that if we are to be successful, we need to have well defined goals. Furthermore, Victor Frankl, the Viennese psychiatrist, says that "not having a goal is more to be feared than not reaching a goal."

If you want to be truly successful, make sure that you have a clearly defined life purpose and goal that is both realistic and worthwhile. Be sure to get the training you need to be able to fulfill your goal, and determine a plan for fulfilling it. The beginning point is to discover your life purpose-goal, put it into writing—with a specific plan to fulfill it—and commit this to memory and review it constantly. Doing this will program it into your subconscious mind that will help your mind to automatically work on your plans even when you are asleep.

As another has wisely said, "Success is the ability for formulate a worthwhile goal and then employ all of your powers for the achievement of that goal."

Joshua 1:7
Hebrews 9:27

25/12/2013

we wish you a very happy Christmas to you all my beloved ...
We have been praying for you all .
pastor prasanna Kumar gotukula

12/12/2013

If I were to give you nine compliments and one criticism, chances are that that one criticism would affect you much more than the nine compliments I gave you. This is because most of us don't have a perfect self-image. If we did, criticisms would rarely bother or upset us.

Psychologist Dorothy Briggs wisely pointed out that the way we feel about ourselves affects our entire life: our happiness, marriage, work, personal relationships, creativity and stability.

In other words one's self-concept is the mainspring that steers every child and every person to success or failure as a human being. A healthy self-concept and self-image is therefore one of the greatest gifts we can find for ourselves and pass on to our children.

The self-concept is basically comprised of three parts: (1) The self-image; that is, how we picture or see ourselves; (2) Self-esteem which is how we feel about ourselves; and (3) Self-worth, that is, how much we value ourselves. All of these add up to one's level of self-acceptance, which is how well we love and accept ourselves in a healthy way. Unfortunately, as long as we don't love and accept ourselves, it is very difficult to believe and feel that anyone else loves and accepts us.

God's design for each of us was to learn self-love and acceptance when growing up through unconditional love from our parents. However, if we didn't receive this then, it is essential that we receive it now. And how do we do this? First, realize that we can only ever feel fully loved and accepted to the degree that we are known. Second, we thus need a loving, safe, and trusted person, group, or counselor with whom we can be totally open and honest confessing all of our weaknesses, failures and sins—as well as our strengths—and be known, loved and accepted for whom we truly are. Third, through such supportive friends and their unconditional love and acceptance, little by little, we learn to love and accept ourselves in a healthy and non-conceited way.

Finally, we also need to learn to love and accept ourselves in the same way that God loves us. He knows us fully and, no matter what we have ever done or failed to do, He loves us unconditionally as we are. At the same time, however, he loves us too much to leave us as we are, because His plan for each of us is that we grow to become whole and mature in every area of life.

Psalm 103:17

04/11/2013

Have you ever had one of those days when you had a very important phone call to make and you received a "voice mail" machine answer that after a brief recorded message you were put on hold … then you got the run around … put back on hold … seemingly ad infinitum until you got a real live person to talk to? I'm sure you have. I did this morning.

As a friend of mine suggested, "What if when we called on God in prayer we got the following answer: 'Thank you for calling Heaven. Your prayer is very important to us. Please stay on the line and your prayer will be answered in the order it was received. Or, if you would like to leave a prayer request, press '2', and after the sound of the harp state your message clearly, the date and time of your call, your prayer-phone number, and we will reply to you as soon as it is convenient. Have a 'God' day!'"

Thank God it isn't so. As God's Word says, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him."2
1 Thessalonians 5:17.
1 John 5:14-15

28/10/2013

Leo Buscaglia, "professor of love," once talked about a contest where he was asked to be a judge. "The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child whose next-door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

"When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry.'"

Rare is the friend who knows how to weep with those who weep! Such a friend we all need to have. But first of all, such a friend we need to be!

Romans 12:15.

25/10/2013

When Robert Louis Stevenson was a young child, as dusk was turning to darkness, he had his face pinned to the window at the front of his house fascinated by the lamplighter coming down the street lighting the old-fashioned gas street lamps.

He called out to his nana saying, "Nana! Come quickly. There's a man coming down the street punching holes in the darkness!"

Wherever we are and wherever we go may God's love shine through us so that by our manner of conversation and life we, too, will "punch holes in the darkness"—the spiritual darkness that surrounds us.

No matter how small you feel your "light" may be, remember that all the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of one small candle—or that of one ordinary Christian

Matthew 5:16.

22/10/2013

We know that we need to forgive all who have hurt or offended us, but are we to be reconciled to them? Wherever possible this ought to be our goal, but it isn't always possible as reconciliation is dependent on both parties.

Primarily we need to be reconciled to God. We do this when we confess our sins to him and receive his forgiveness. However, for our own wellbeing it is imperative that we forgive any and all who have hurt us. This can be extremely difficult if the one involved won't even admit what s/he has done. This, then, makes genuine reconciliation almost impossible.

According to some folk we can't forgive this type of person. If this is so, some of us are going to carry grudges for a long time. In these instances forgiveness is a choice. We can choose to forgive or we can cling to our hurt and anger and hurt ourselves.

To genuinely forgive we need to get rid of our hurt and anger by expressing these feelings, not necessarily to the one who hurt us, but to an understanding person to rid ourselves of these bottled up destructive emotions. Once we do this, forgiveness becomes possible even if there is never any reconciliation.

Keep in mind, too, that forgiveness doesn't mean that we allow the person who hurt us to hurt us again. With these people we need to have healthy boundaries to protect ourselves. Remember, too, that meekness is not weakness. Lack of healthy boundaries is.

2 Corinthians 5:20.

14/10/2013

Even Jesus was disappointed when he healed ten lepers and only one returned to say thank you and give praise to God. "He asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?' Then he said to him, 'Rise and go; your faith has made you well.'"2

One of my constant prayers is that God will give me a thankful heart, not just at Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, but every day of the year.

No matter what trials I am going through there are always many things to be thankful for: food, clothing, shelter, friends, family, for life itself or to put it this way:

I love the gift of life, Dear God,
with all its beauty everywhere:
Blue skies, white fluffy clouds,
green trees, rocky mountains,
open meadows, the restless timeless sea,
the black bird on my window sill…
But most of all I love dear friends,
and if you will, please give to me
a greater love for you —
my dearest friend of all.3

Luke 17:15-16

07/10/2013

In a speech in August of last year a well-known woman of color shared the following: "A little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham—the most segregated big city in America," she said. "Her parents can't take her to a movie theater or a restaurant, but they make her believe that even though she can't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter, she can be President of the United States. And she becomes the Secretary of State [of the USA]."2

The speaker's name? Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, a committed woman who knows first-hand the values that make a nation exceptional and what it means to live the American Dream!

From time to time I receive requests from overseas young people who want me to help finance them to come to America and receive a college education. And how do I help them? I do it by telling my story as I came from humble beginnings in Australia. My father made me quit school at the age of 13 and work full–time, insisting that I give every penny I earned to help support our family of four siblings.

Did I become resentful of other kids whose parents allowed them to go to high school? No. I believed in hard work and always worked diligently. By age 15 I was put in charge of a department where I worked in a radio factory. By age 16, while working full time, to learn a trade I put myself through a five-year, part-time course at a technical college. When I felt called to Christian ministry and wanted to come to the U.S. for training, I never asked nor received a penny from anyone to help me. All I prayed for was that God would give me enough work so I could earn all I needed to come to America to study, and that when I got here that He would help me to find part-time work so I could pay my way through college. God answered these prayers. I never lacked finding work and accepted any type of work I could get … including scrubbing floors and more. In the summer time I worked three jobs at once—one full-time and two part-time—seven days a week.

Sadly today, however, we are living in an ever-increasing entitlement society where too many believe that the world owes them a living and where too many government leaders are supporting this societal-self-destructive way of life. At the local pier where I live there is a notice that says. "Don't feed the birds. It will make them over-dependent so that they will become unable to take care of themselves."

Yes, I believe in helping those who genuinely cannot help themselves (including those who simply cannot find any kind of work), but when we do for others what they can and need to do for themselves, we are NOT helping them, but keeping them over-dependent, immature and irresponsible.

Remember that opportunity comes to those who prepare themselves and are ready for it when it appears! They know that it comes to pass—not to pause. As basketball coach, Bobby Knight, stated, "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me to realize that while I was not responsible for my initial background, I am totally responsible for what I become and for what I do with my life. Deliver me from the sin of expecting others to be responsible for me and help me to prepare myself for all opportunities that come my way. And help me to live a fruitful and productive life and always do so for your glory. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus' name, amen."

1. 2 Thessalonians 3:10