This year, we celebrated our elder son's birthday on the 24th of April. It was a great day for us as we thanked the Lord and prayed for him. He cut the cake in front of the guests, and everyone congratulated him as he received the gifts. He then said to me, "Papa, I want to ask you a question." I replied, "Yes, definitely ask." He asked, "I have been with you for 12 years. How do you feel? Explain your feelings." Upon hearing this, I was shocked and surprised. The room fell silent. It was indeed an interesting and worthy question. I began to reflect on the past 12 years from his birthuntil the present day, as each year brought different feelings for him.
Suneel Barkat
Pastor Barkat is a graduate of Punjab University. After receiving a call to ministry in 1999 he attended Gujranwala Theological Seminary, graduating in 2003 with a Master of Divinity (His thesis covered a Biblical model of house churches.) Upon graduating he started pastoral ministry with the Anglican Church and was ordained in 2004, working within that church in different positions until mid 2015 when he got the opportunity for a short training program on Pneumatology from South Korea. Suneel currently is a visiting teacher in an evangelical Bible College empowered by Korean Mission in Pakistan, as well as doing independent teaching and preaching ministry. He has established many Bible study groups and has the passion to preach in remote areas of Pakistan.
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Many people, when thinking about a good church, have an idea of a beautiful church building with good seating arrangements, good parking, and a lawn where I can walk. This kind of person does not care about the service or the sermon. That kind of church, they think is an ideal church. This is not the picture of a true church. The Book of Acts tells us about the picture of a good church, but before we discuss the virtues, we need to know what the church is.
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When we look at the nature of God, we come to know that He is a loving God and always keeps his fellowship with human beings because He created them in His own image. Man has the skill to speak, listen, and time to adopt silence.
What will happen when God is silent in your life?
Today, I want to share my anguish in my experience of God’s silence in my life at various times.
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Almost every religion in the world has the concept of fasting. Muslims keep thirsty fasts in the year and Jews keep twenty-two fasts in the year Christians keep forty days of fasting in the year and the Church calls this season lent. Lent means the spring season, which means fasting brings a new spiritual spring into the life of believers, and they enjoy it, but Christians can keep fasting anytime in the year.
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Prayer is the most important part of the Christian life.
Prayer was also an important part of Jesus’ life, and prayer is the backbone of the Christian life. We cannot survive without prayer, as fish cannot survive without water or a bird is nothing without air. In the same way, Christian life is nothing without prayer.
Sometimes we wonder why we should pray? When God is looking at us and knows our misery, we might think that He should solve our problems without prayer, but this is not the Christian attitude. Prayer increases our confidence in God. We may not really know what is prayer. In this article, I want to describe what is really prayer.