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Thu Feb 11, 2010
Mathav's fairy tale
Mathav is Vani’s husband. Chrish has already blogged about Vani here. On 30th of December 2009, we had the opportunity to visit their home. Actually they do not have a home for themselves yet and are accommodated in the home of another believer. The occasion was a thanks giving prayer meeting and the event was Mathav obtaining his visa. If you remember the previous story you would remember that they had to obtain their Australian visa before Dec 31, 2009 since after that day they would have to leave the country until their visa is approved. You would also remember that Vani had accepted Christ Jesus into her life during this period and how she told Chrish the following points.
1. She knows that God is in control of her life
2. Whether they get the visa or not should not make any change in her attitude to life since she has "real" joy in her and circumstances cannot change that joy
3. The fact that God controls her life means that she can relax and let God work the way He wants to in her life.
Here is someone who has just committed her life to Christ Jesus and has started to read God’s words, the Holy Bible. I am a sure that she was not familiar with passages like:
Mt 6:31-33 Don't worry and ask yourselves, "Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?"
Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these.
But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.
Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
John 14:27 I [Jesus Christ] give you peace, the kind of peace that only I [Jesus Christ] can give. It isn't like the peace that this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.
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Fri Jan 08, 2010
Are you a servant-king?
You would have heard the phrase "Servant-King" in relation to Christ Jesus. Yes, Christ Jesus is the King of kings but still during his first advent on this earth he came to serve mankind. He came to receive us to His glory & for that He humbled Himself as a servant (Phil 2:7) & went to the cross (Phil 2:8) to secure us Salvation. In the whole history, it is only in Christ Jesus the two contrasting positions Servant and King co-existed. It is true that He is always the King but during His first advent He showed Himself only as a servant. But one day He is going to come again and this time not as a servant but in glory & power to rule this earth. (Revelation 1:7)Are you ready to meet Him?
The Holy Bible also tells us to have the mind of Christ (Phil 2:5) and that Christ has left us an example for us to follow (1 Peter 2:21). We are asked to be servants like Christ Jesus in that we ought to reach out to the people perishing around us. We are not called to be selfish like the rest of the world always thinking of making our life comfortable, amass wealth for ourselves or further ourselves in this world. Instead we are asked to spend our time, energy, resources and everything else at our disposal primarily to spread the Good News of the Gospel (that Christ Jesus can give us forgiveness and freedom from sin and get us back to God and give the real purpose to live on this earth). Most of the time believers in Christ Jesus think that this is their secondary duty. No, this is our primary duty. Our daily choices should be based keeping this in mind. Jesus Christ kept on giving to others and never received anything good from anyone. All He got in return were accusations, false charges and finally a cruel death. Can you list one selfish act (to further Himself) that Jesus ever did when He was on this earth? But if we look into our lives how many times we have made decisions based on our selfish needs and not based on the Kingdom of God (Mt 6:25-33). God has called you with a purpose and that is the only purpose for your life. If you are not in the center of His purpose for your life, you are no better than an unsaved sinner in this world. Here is a simple test to determine if you are in the center of His purpose for your life.. How many minutes a day do you spend worrying about your job, your studies, your future, your family, about what you are going to eat, about what you are going to dress tomorrow, about how you could have a good time during the weekend, about your future, about your family etc? Now calculate how many minutes a day do you spend thinking about how to reach out for God today, to whom you could share the Good News today, for whom you could pray today etc?
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Wed Nov 25, 2009
Vani transformed
This is the life transformation story of a girl named Vani, who I met at our local fellowship. I had been talking to her now and then. The first time I met her, many weeks ago, I realized that Vani is not a born again believer. I guessed that she is coming to worship service because of family compulsions. Hence I shared the Gospel with her but Vani did not pay much interest though she tried to be polite & listen.
But last week I encountered a different Vani. Vani asked me to pray for her TR visa since they had some issues with the documents & that the time is running out. I promised to pray but at the same time told her that she too could pray to God if she had established a relationship with God through Christ Jesus. I reminded her about my initial conversation about forgiveness of sins and restoration of our relationship with God through Christ Jesus. It was then that Vani (who by birth is a Hindu) told me that she had indeed tasted God and had found Him so good. She said that she used to come to worship service only because her family wanted her to. She did not want to commit her life to Christ because she is addicted to movies and TV programs and she knew that she cannot do these things and such other worldly things once she became a child of God. But lately she had come to know the Lord personally and what God has given her cannot be compared to the TV and other worldly things. She has come to the realization that all the worldly things are nothing compared to the love of God. She said that when she reads the Bible now, God is speaking to her so much (earlier she used to read the Bible just like that but never understood anything).
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Thu Oct 29, 2009
Why I do not blog about technology
I just completed my first blog about technology. Actually when I started my blog I was hoping to blog technology too. However I soon realized the vanity of technology. By the time I decide to write on some topic and finish writing it the topic is outdated. So almost always (except today) I never get to blog technology.
Those who know the happenings in IT would know that Microsoft is getting ready to release MOSS 2010. (For those of you who do not understand this acronym, it stands for the latest Microsoft SharePoint release)
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How to migrate SharePoint (WSS, MOSS) databases?
I was asked to do a migration of a wss site database from Windows Internal Database to SQL Server 2008. Well this is not my area of work but since I had some free time my assistance was requested.
There were many articles on the internet describing how to move the content databases but all of them advised not to move the SharePoint Config and Admin Content databases. The proposed solution was to delete the farm and rebuild the farm (so that new Config and Admin Content databases would be created) and attaché the old content databases. But this is a difficult, time consuming exercise which would also involve losing all the configuration data. After a lot of research and scanning the registry and the SharePoint databases, I was able to achieve my goal with minimal effort and all data secure.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009
Visit to Sri Lanka & India
We left Melbourne on the 19th August and flew to Colombo via Malaysia. We had a day's transit in Malaysia where we opted to stay at the Concorde Inn hotel. The variety and the taste of food served was fantastic the best I have had in a hotel in my life and worth mentioning. More...
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Tue Jun 30, 2009
Photo Contacts Pro v5 Review
I have tested almost all the software out there to make my Windows Mobile Phone function closer to a phone. We all know that Windows Mobile Phones are great to have but they are more of a PDA than a phone. I have known several people who grab a Windows Mobile Phone for fancy and later regret because they only wanted it as a phone but it would definitely fall short of it.
I have used Pocket PCs for a decade now and I preferred to use it only for PDA functionality. But in late 2007 I decided to try out a Windows Mobile phone and bought the HTC Kaiser (TyTN II). The first thing I realized is that the phone functionality of the Windows mobile is still in it's infancy. Especially I have got addicted to the timed profiles, customized rings & fast dialling (dialling a contact with just one press of a button) in Nokia and the ease of accessing the contacts and answering calls. But now I had to deal with the complete absence of profiles and the tiny buttons for contacts and answering calls. I started trying all the applications in the market and finally settled on Photo Contacts Pro.
With Photo Contacts Pro now my Windows Mobile performs better than a Nokia phone for the following reasons.
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Thu May 07, 2009
Congratulations Lucky
Congratulations to my brother-in-law Lucky (Lawrence), a medical doctor, who has obtained a job in Melbourne. Most of you know that he is currently in Wodonga about 350 Kms from Melbourne. He was planning to move to Melbourne sometime next year. This is the first job interview… More...
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Fri May 01, 2009
Visit to Sydney during the Easter weekend
The Christian believers at Sydney had organized a Church Gathering (called the Holy Convocation) during the Easter weekend. That gave us an opportunity to visit Sydney for the first time.
We decided to drive to Sydney (900 Kms from Melbourne) since that would enable us to be flexible in our plans as well give us mobility in Sydney. Our original plan was to break journey at Wodonga where Chrish's brother resides. Wodonga is about 350 Kms from Melbourne and on the way to Sydney. However due to the last minute change of plans we ended up driving all the way to Sydney in one stretch.
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