Imrah Ministries

By Sidharth Mohandas

Couple of week’s back my grand mother, 83 years old, had a fall causing one of her discs to be compressed. We took her to the hospital the very next day and the doctor recommended 3 weeks of bed rest. We brought her back home that day itself. But that evening as I went into her room to see how she was doing, I saw her tear off all her clothes and just screaming and saying utter nonsense. I was shocked to see her do this. When we asked her why she was doing it she started accusing us of things, and then she went on to say that we were trying to murder her. All of us were in a state of shock. We didn’t know what to make of it. At times she’d calm down a bit, but still detached from the world. We found it really hard to do things for her out of pure love because she kept saying things that really hurt us.

One time while I was holding her hands, she started folding my fingers, and I asked her what she was doing and she said, “Folding the clothes”. Every night she’d tear off all her clothes and scream. We prayed and did all we could do, but there was no change. A few days later a dear friend of mine came home and shared with us how it was with his mother and that the only cure for what she was going through was God’s love. That night my mother and I experienced Gods love in a very supernatural way. We literally felt Gods love flowing out of us as we took care of her. I opened my mailbox and saw my friend PJ had sent me a devotional of how “Love never fails”. I had heard those words so many times, but that day it put on new flesh and I told myself, “His love can’t fail in this one either”. Others told me that things would only grow worse and some said it was the beginning of Alzheimer’s. But we refused to accept it. My mother and I would sit beside her and love her by singing for her, praying with her and talking to her. In one or two days, the visual hallucination decreased to only the evenings, and a few more days later it decreased to only nights. We have seen only positive signs from here. Making her sit was something impossible. She’d throw tantrums and curse when we tried to make her sit, but now she has started walking using a walker. Releasing God’s love into our circumstances is so powerful!

Dear friends, you may be facing something similiar, or probably something different. Whatever it is, I challenge you to trust His love. Ask the Lord and tell him that you want to experience His love in a different way and seek Him till He does.

By Robert Pennington

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

Right now it is pretty cold where I live (NE Texas), and so I have had to chop firewood to keep it warm enough in the house. Well, in order for me to provide enough firewood I have to spend quite a bit of time outside working. So on Tuesday (I think) I went out early in the day and spent about two hours getting enough firewood. For the next several days we had enough, and it was a good thing because I was too busy to get any more. On Saturday I needed more firewood, but only had a little bit of time. I was able to collect enough to keep us warm, but by the end of the night there were only a few twigs left. That was fine too because I knew that after church on Sunday I would be able to gather enough to keep warm. But after church we stayed and helped a family build part of their shed, and so we ended up getting home about thirty minutes before dark. That sounds like enough time, but I still had to feed eight horses, and help take care of about thirty-five dogs (really). So I ran about my business and just before I wouldn’t be able to see I ran to collect enough wood to keep us warm. And you know what? I was able to chop and cut an abundance of firewood in about ten minutes!

You see, the Lord knows what we desire, and what we need (Philippians 4:19). He doesn’t overlook the tiniest detail (Hebrews 4:13) and loves us with incomparable love (Ephesians 2:7). And since He even pleases us in the “small” things like gathering wood, don’t you think that He is watching out for the things in your life that our towering over you and seem to crush you? If you question that, then think about this; Christ is over everything in existence (Ephesians 1:22), and we are in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:23)! So, instead of thinking about how big and bad the waves are around you, know that God is taking care of things, and His will is being accomplished (Ephesians 1:11). Trust Him.

 “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.“ Matthew 12:6-7

By Robert Pennington

This is an insight that the Lord gave me into the life of Joseph. Now, we all know about Joseph, he has probably been a favorite Sunday School topic for hundreds of years, and so I need not go into explaining how much his brothers hated Joseph, that is a given, but I would like to present something that the Lord showed me about Joseph that we can learn from.

I have always tended to think that when Joseph was told to check up on his brothers (v. 13) he went there naively and without even a thought in his head as to what they might do to him, but the more I thought of Joseph’s personality, the more I realized that there was no possible way that Joseph could have thought his brothers would receive him kindly. I bring this up because in verse 13 we read that Israel (Jacob) tells Joseph to go to his brothers near Shechem, and when I thought about it I realized that Joseph was being sent away, alone, about 50-60 miles from his home to a group of men that hated him so much that they never even spoke one nice word to him (v. 14). With this hatred in mind, listen to his answer to his Father’s request in verse 13, “Very well.” What I see in Joseph’s answer is not some clueless naïve kid that thought his brothers were his chums, but a man that placed all of his trust in the Lord. The Lord had told him in two dreams that he would rule over his brothers, and he didn’t doubt the fulfillment of that prophecy even to the point of kicking out his fears as to what his brothers might do to him and obediently saying (basically), “Very well Father, I will go to them and even though they hate me and could kill me, because I trust the Lord and I know that his promises will never fail.”

Joseph’s faith in the Lord carried him through every trial and tribulation and brought to fulfillment God’s plan and purpose for Joseph’s life.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust In the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;