The Ones You Cannot See

This series, கண்ணுக்குத் தெரிவதைவிட அதிகம் (More Than What You See), spends five Sundays on what is real in your situation that your eyes are not counting, one story and one memory verse each week. Last Sunday we sat with the widow at Zarephath. She had a handful of flour, a little oil and two sticks of firewood, and she had worked out exactly how long that would last: one more meal, and then she and her son would die. Her count was right and her total was wrong, because she counted the jar and left out the God who had spoken over it through Elijah. The jar never filled up; it simply never emptied (1 Kings 17:16). He sends what we need daily, not in a heap, and often through a channel we would not have chosen. That was a question about supply. This week the question is whether we are safe, and the fear it answers is the one most of us only say quietly: மனுஷர் எனக்கு என்ன செய்வார்களோ என்ற பயம், I am afraid of what people can do to me.

The servant's count was correct. There really was an army. He counted everything he could see, and everything he could see was against him. Elisha did not argue with the count. He prayed for the eyes.

"So he answered, 'Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.'" - 2 Kings 6:16 (NKJV)

"அதற்கு அவன்: பயப்படாதே; அவர்களோடிருக்கிறவர்களைப்பார்க்கிலும் நம்மோடிருக்கிறவர்கள் அதிகம் என்றான்." - 2 இராஜாக்கள் 6:16 (TAOVBSI)

The Count Was Right · கணக்கு சரிதான்

Last Sunday a widow counted her jar. This Sunday a young man counts an army. Both of them counted correctly, and both of them reached the wrong total for the same reason.

Some of us did that count this week. We keep a list of the people who have risen up against us and the things that are working against us, and we go over it: what can these people do to me? It may be the house owner, and what he might do with the rent. It may be the person who employs you, and whether the salary goes up or down or stops. It may be a scan report, or what the doctor said at the last visit. None of that is imagined. When a doctor hands you a report, he is not showing you something that is not there; they scanned the body and found what they found. It is really there, and it really is bigger than you.

So the fears are honest and the counting is accurate. The total is where it goes wrong, and that is what this story shows us.

The word Elisha uses in verse 16 is rabbim (רַבִּים): more, many, greater. The word is worth repeating until it settles in the mind. Elisha does not tell the young man the army is nothing. He does a count of his own, and his answer is that ours are more (நம்மோடிருக்கிறவர்கள் அதிகம்).

The Morning at Dothan · தோத்தானில் அந்த அதிகாலை

Each week of this series we take one event from Scripture, read it, and ask what it teaches. This one begins with the king of Syria at war with Israel.

Think back to where Israel started. Once, the greatest power in their world was Egypt, and Pharaoh was the biggest man there was; it was out of his slavery that God brought them into Canaan. Now Israel deals with Egypt almost as a partner, the kind of nation you could pay to send horses and chariots. And the kings who come against Israel now are bigger than Egypt ever was. They scorn Egypt as a reed that a man can step on and snap in passing (2 Kings 18:21). Our lives run the same way. When the Lord first brings us out, we think the trouble He delivered us from is the biggest problem in the world, the way Israel once thought there was nobody greater than Pharaoh. Then we go further and find there are bigger problems still. Things we once thought were enormous become ordinary, and as soon as one problem is settled we tell ourselves that nothing worse can come. Something bigger always does. So we keep our hands holy, lifted to worship the Lord and not put to the things they should not touch.

The king of Syria calls his officers together and plans: we will go in this way, slip in easily and win. When his men get there, Israel's soldiers are already standing ready, letting nobody through. Fine, he says, not that way; we will go this way. They go, and men are standing there too. Then we will take the back route. Men are standing there as well. This happened not once or twice but many times (அநேகந்தரம்), because each time the prophet Elisha sent word to Israel's king: do not pass that place, the Syrians are coming down there.

So the Syrian king is sure there is a traitor in his tent, someone who listens to his plans and runs to tell Israel first. He demands to know who it is. One of his servants tells him the truth: it is none of us. There is a prophet in Israel named Elisha, and he tells the king of Israel even the words you speak in your bedroom (பள்ளியறை). However big the room and however secret the council, Elisha knows.

You would expect the king to stop and ask what kind of God Elisha has. He does not. Like Pharaoh, he reasons the other way: catch this Elisha first, and then we can walk in and destroy Israel. People who come against us often do the same. They can see that we have some protection, that the Lord is with us, and almost none of them stop to think about that. They only look for a way to trouble us a little more.

So the king finds out where the prophet is, at Dothan, and sends horses, chariots and a great army, by night, to surround one town and take one unarmed man. A whole army for one man. When Saul hunted David, David asked him the same question: whom are you chasing, the king of Israel with all these men? A flea? (1 Samuel 24:14). It takes four people, at most, to catch one man, one on each side, the way you corner a hen in the yard so it cannot fly off in any direction. Nobody sends an army for that.

There is a secret here for the children of God. When the Lord is with a person, the enemy does not come alone; he cannot. It takes an army. The king sent an army because God was with Elisha, and even so, the truth that God was with Elisha was hidden from his eyes. That is how it goes with us too. Because they cannot see that the Lord is with us, people come against us like a roaring lion looking to swallow us. But those who come against us one way will flee seven ways. And turn it around: if only small problems ever come at you, if only one person ever comes after you, if you are being crushed as easily as a flea, it is worth asking whether the Lord is truly with you. We are always as small as a flea; it is only when the Lord is with us that they have to come in companies. Without Him they would simply step on us and walk on.

Right Count, Wrong Total · கணக்கு சரி, முடிவு தவறு

"Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city." - 2 Kings 6:14 (NKJV)

"அப்பொழுது அவன் அங்கே குதிரைகளையும் இரதங்களையும் பலத்த இராணுவத்தையும் அனுப்பினான்; அவர்கள் இராக்காலத்திலே வந்து பட்டணத்தை வளைந்துகொண்டார்கள்." - 2 இராஜாக்கள் 6:14 (TAOVBSI)

"And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, 'Alas, my master! What shall we do?'" - 2 Kings 6:15 (NKJV)

"தேவனுடைய மனுஷனின் வேலைக்காரன் அதிகாலமே எழுந்து வெளியே புறப்படுகையில், இதோ, இராணுவமும் குதிரைகளும் இரதங்களும் பட்டணத்தைச் சுற்றிக்கொண்டிருக்கக் கண்டான்; அப்பொழுது வேலைக்காரன் அவனை நோக்கி: ஐயோ, என் ஆண்டவனே, என்னசெய்வோம் என்றான்." - 2 இராஜாக்கள் 6:15 (TAOVBSI)

The army came in the night and sat down all round the hill where Elisha was staying, and neither Elisha's servant nor anyone in the house knew. In the morning the young man gets up, yawning, and wanders out, probably to brush his teeth. Something is out there. Those of us who wear glasses know the feeling: you cannot see anything properly while brushing, so you go back for the glasses, put them on, and then it comes into focus. An army. Horses, chariots, swords, a ring of steel round the whole city (பட்டணத்தைச் சுற்றிக்கொண்டிருக்க). And out comes the most honest sentence in the chapter: Alas, my master! What shall we do? (ஐயோ, என் ஆண்டவனே, என்னசெய்வோம்). He would not have said it calmly. It would have come out as a cry.

Notice what the servant did not get wrong. He did not imagine the army. It was there: horses, chariots, a great army, round the whole city. His fear (பயம்) was built on facts.

And notice what he does next. He is looking at what is in front of his eyes, and the rest of him is already looking for a way out. Think of the moment you find a cockroach in the house, or a lizard drops in from nowhere. You shout, and then you look wildly around: is there something I can grab and hit it with, somewhere I can get to before it climbs on me, a way to run? The servant was doing the same. Even as he said what shall we do, his mind was running through every route by which two men might escape that army.

We do the same when trouble lands. A scan report arrives, or a letter that says you are about to lose your job, and at once the mind starts racing: Lord, what will I do? Shall I go there, or there, or there? When we visit cancer patients, we see how many questions they carry into every scan, long before it is taken. Has it grown or shrunk? Has something new appeared? If this has happened, should we see that doctor, go to that hospital, go to that town? The servant's mind would have been just as full.

Most of the fears in our lives are not needless fears. They are as plain to see as your own finger in front of your face. That is the reality. Many of us carry some fear about the future, though fewer will admit it than carry it. Men in particular rarely raise a hand for anything; they look composed and dignified from outside. Inside, a crowd of fears keeps running, because everything is theirs to carry and settle: what to do next week, next month, next year, what to leave for the next generation. Everybody has some fear.

This is where most of our fear lives. Not in things that are not real, but in things that are real and are all we can see. The bill is real. The diagnosis is real. That person's power over you is real.

His mistake was in the total, not in the count. What did the servant count? An army, horses, chariots, swords. Four things. He added them up, drew a line, and wrote underneath it: therefore we are finished. We draw the same line. The doctor names a disease and we total it: that is the end of my life, I will not be alive much longer, how will the children be educated, what will become of them? The job goes and we total that too: nobody will respect me, nobody will give me money, even at home they will call me a good-for-nothing eating free rice (தண்டச்சோறு). We go on doing sums like that all day. Last week the widow made the same error with a jar. Same arithmetic, same missing line.

"What shall we do?" (என்னசெய்வோம்) is the question of a man who believes the outcome depends on him and his master. There were only two of them, he and Elisha, and nobody else in sight. If that is the whole sum, his despair is correct.

The Bible never answers fear by telling you the danger is imaginary. Scripture never says that, and Elisha never says it. God does not tell you the doctor's report is a lie. What He tells you is that there is a great deal your eyes have not seen. You see the chariots and the horses and the army, and Elisha standing beside you, and that is all you see. The things you cannot see are many, and they are on your side. That is why the Lord tells us not to be afraid before our enemies. The church sang it this morning: உன்னை நோக்கும் எதிரியின் கண்ணின் முன்னே பதறாதே, do not tremble before the eyes of the enemy who watches you. And the song tells you what to do instead: எண்ணி எண்ணித் துதி செய்வாய். However many problems surround you, do not stand looking at them in fear. Count, and count again, and praise.

He Prayed for the Eyes, Not the Army · இராணுவத்திற்காக அல்ல, கண்களுக்காக

"And Elisha prayed, and said, 'LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.' Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha." - 2 Kings 6:17 (NKJV)

"அப்பொழுது எலிசா விண்ணப்பம்பண்ணி: கர்த்தாவே, இவன் பார்க்கும்படி இவன் கண்களைத் திறந்தருளும் என்றான்; உடனே கர்த்தர் அந்த வேலைக்காரன் கண்களைத் திறந்தார்; இதோ, எலிசாவைச்சுற்றிலும் அக்கினிமயமான குதிரைகளாலும் இரதங்களாலும் அந்த மலை நிறைந்திருக்கிறதை அவன் கண்டான்." - 2 இராஜாக்கள் 6:17 (TAOVBSI)

Elisha answers the young man in verse 16: do not fear, those who are with us are more. You saw four things; say you counted four hundred men. Those with us are more than those four hundred. So where is our faith when the business is sinking, when we do not know what to study, when the right job will not come, when we are anxious about the children's future, when people rise up against us, when the body is unwell? Our faith is in this sentence: those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

Elisha did not pray the army away. The first prayer in this chapter is not Lord, remove them. It is Lord, open his eyes (இவன் கண்களைத் திறந்தருளும்). Elisha did not pray, Lord, take this cancer away, there is no cancer. Many people do exactly that. A report comes, they look at it and say, I do not believe this, this is not mine. That is not faith. Praying that the army does not exist, that God should throw it all far away, is not the prayer Elisha prayed. His prayer was: Lord, open his eyes, let him see that those with us are more than that army. The danger did not change. The seeing changed.

Telling yourself the problem is not there is what people call denial (denial mode), refusing to accept what has happened. People who have lost someone they love very much often go through it first. They cannot accept it. They are not gone, they say; they are still here. On waking in the morning they go looking again, in the bedroom where the person used to lie, at the chair where they used to sit. Saying it has not happened is not faith either.

The chariots of fire were already there. Verse 17 does not say God sent them when Elisha prayed. It says the young man saw them when Elisha prayed. All night the Syrian army stood round that hill, and before it ever arrived the Lord had already filled the mountain with horses and chariots of fire. They had stood there all night while he slept afraid. In our lives too, the Lord puts in place all the support we will need before the trouble arrives, and in greater number than what comes against us.

Elisha's word was rabbim (அதிகம): more, many. He is not comforting the boy with a feeling. He is correcting his arithmetic with a fact the boy cannot yet see. Faith (விசுவாசம்) does not pretend the army is small; it counts the line that is missing.

Scripture says this is normal, not special.

"The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them." - Psalm 34:7 (NKJV)

"கர்த்தருடைய தூதன் அவருக்குப் பயந்தவர்களைச் சூழப்பாளயமிறங்கி அவர்களை விடுவிக்கிறார்." - சங்கீதம் 34:7 (TAOVBSI)

"Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?" - Hebrews 1:14 (NKJV)

"இரட்சிப்பைச் சுதந்தரிக்கப்போகிறவர்களினிமித்தமாக ஊழியஞ்செய்யும்படிக்கு அவர்களெல்லாரும் அனுப்பப்படும் பணிவிடை ஆவிகளாயிருக்கிறார்களல்லவா?" - எபிரெயர் 1:14 (TAOVBSI)

This is not for prophets only. It is for those who fear Him. And what does it look like to fear the Lord? It is the person who does not treat the costly salvation of Jesus Christ as a small thing: who reads His word first, does not let go of prayer, does not drop out of fellowship, and keeps a living relationship with the Lord. Around people like that the angels of God encamp and keep watch. David knew it. Again and again Scripture records that the LORD preserved David wherever he went (2 Samuel 8:6, தாவீது போன இடத்திலெல்லாம், கர்த்தர் அவனைக் காப்பாற்றினார்). Wherever he went out against his enemies he won, and at the end of it all, the Lord had kept him. However many rise against us today, however many armies stand in front of us, those with us are more.

So change the order of your prayers. Most of us pray only the second prayer: take it away. Pray the first one first. Lord, open my eyes. Let me see what is with me before I decide what to do about what is against me. And why do we need our eyes opened? So that we know where to look:

"I will lift up my eyes to the hills - from whence comes my help?" - Psalm 121:1 (NKJV)

"எனக்கு ஒத்தாசை வரும் பர்வதங்களுக்கு நேராக என் கண்களை ஏறெடுக்கிறேன்." - சங்கீதம் 121:1 (TAOVBSI)

You can only lift your eyes to the hills if your eyes can see. Only then do you know where your help is coming from. Otherwise you do what the servant did: cry what shall I do? and turn to whoever is standing next to you. With opened eyes you do what Elisha did. You stand without fear and say, look, there are more on this mountain than down there.

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." - 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NKJV)

"காணப்படுகிறவைகளையல்ல, காணப்படாதவைகளை நோக்கியிருக்கிற நமக்கு... ஏனெனில், காணப்படுகிறவைகள் அநித்தியமானவைகள், காணப்படாதவைகளோ நித்தியமானவைகள்." - 2 கொரிந்தியர் 4:17-18 (TAOVBSI)

What is seen is temporary (அநித்தியம்); it lasts a little while. All those chariots and horses down below would not last long. A horse grows old and dies. The horses of fire that nobody could see have no age at all; they go on for ever. The same is true of the problems we can see. Every one of them has an age. Egypt had an age. Egypt can hold you in slavery, and you may not even have the courage to go and speak to Pharaoh, but in a little while Pharaoh too will pass, and times will change so much that Pharaoh ends up as your partner. God never changes.

So where should our eyes rest? Not on the world we can see, not on the problems we can see, not on money or property we can see, not even on people, but on the hills from which help comes. We may love our parents, our brothers and sisters, a husband or wife, and that love is right. But on the day it grows bigger than our love for the Lord, He will break it. If you trust your husband or wife, your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters, your money, your fame, your name, your pride, your looks, your youth or your influence more than Him, the Lord will break those things, the way He breaks the bow and snaps the spear (Psalm 46:9), and afterwards you will find yourself singing I will lift up my eyes to the hills. If you want the people around you to stay close and happy to the end, love the Lord first. Let God be everything and His word be what matters most to you, and they will stay.

This happens to those who follow the Lord, to the people God loves. It does not usually happen to people of the world who do not know Him; for them everything seems to come together on every side. That is why Scripture tells us not to fret or envy when the wicked man prospers in his way (Psalm 37:1, 7). Their plans may succeed, while ours will not prosper the moment we put someone above the Lord. He will take it down two or three steps and say, set that lower. So if you want people, provision and everything else in your life, give first place to the Lord. Read the Scriptures first, pray first, and take God's counsel in every matter, and the Lord will always be with you.

Ours Are More · நம்மோடிருக்கிறவர்கள் அதிகம்

"Then he prepared a great feast for them; and after they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syrian raiders came no more into the land of Israel." - 2 Kings 6:23 (NKJV)

"அப்பொழுது அவர்களுக்குப் பெரிய விருந்துபண்ணி, அவர்கள் புசித்துக்குடித்தபின்பு, அவர்களை அனுப்பிவிட்டான்; அவர்கள் தங்கள் ஆண்டவனிடத்துக்குப் போய்விட்டார்கள்; சீரியரின் தண்டுகள் இஸ்ரவேல் தேசத்திலே அப்புறம் வரவில்லை." - 2 இராஜாக்கள் 6:23 (TAOVBSI)

Then Elisha prays the opposite prayer over the Syrians: strike them with blindness, a daze over their eyes. The whole army comes to Elisha, and he tells them, the man you are looking for is not here; come, I will take you to him. He leads them straight into Samaria, the capital, and stands them in the middle of the city where Israel's whole army is. They came to catch Elisha, and Elisha delivered them to the king of Israel. Then their eyes are opened, and they look around: where were we standing? By the hill, out on the edge. How did we get into the middle of the city? We have no idea how we got in here.

Watch what God does with an army that surrounds His servant. He blinds it, walks it into the capital, feeds it, and sends it home. Israel does not draw one sword. And the last line: the raiders came no more (அப்புறம் வரவில்லை). The thing the boy feared at dawn ate lunch at the king's table.

Elisha will not let the king kill them. The king asks, my father, shall I kill them now? Elisha says no, do not kill them; feed them. And they set out a great feast for the very army that had come to capture Elisha, the whole force that stood against Israel. The man who was outnumbered at sunrise is giving orders about mercy (இரக்கம்) by noon. That is what the second count does to a person: he stops being afraid of people, and only then can he be kind to them.

So our prayers need to change. Instead of praying, Lord, this man is against me, let the earth open its mouth and swallow him, pray: Lord, I want to set a good meat feast (கறி விருந்து) in front of all of them. When the Lord is with me, when horses and chariots of fire are with me, why should I tell anyone, go and die? I can say, come, sit down, you came to kill me? Sit, eat first. What will you have, mutton biryani? Some chicken 65? Shall I put out some prawn thokku, a boiled egg? I will give you all of it; eat, and then go home. There is no need to roll on the floor praying, Lord, let everyone who rises against me be destroyed. Feed the trouble and send it home, and it will not come back.

Paul asks the servant's question with the missing line filled in.

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" - Romans 8:31 (NKJV)

"இவைகளைக்குறித்து நாம் என்ன சொல்லுவோம்? தேவன் நம்முடைய பட்சத்திலிருந்தால் நமக்கு விரோதமாயிருப்பவன் யார்?" - ரோமர் 8:31 (TAOVBSI)

Paul does not claim that nobody is against us. He asks who is against us that can out-count Him. A person who is sure the Lord is with him will not curse others, and he will not be afraid of them. Elisha was neither afraid nor bitter. He did not say, so you came against me? I will show you who I am; you came without knowing who stands with me. He put on no show of strength. He knew who was with him and had no need to prove it to anyone. His prayer was simply: Lord, blind their eyes; I will take them, feed them, and send them home safely. That is how we deal with those who come against us. We pray, Lord, those with me are more; let them come, let them eat, let them go, and we sit down with courage.

The Guard: Stephen · ஸ்தேவான்

We must not read a passage from one side only. There is another side, and it must not be skipped. Elisha's eyes saw the army of God, and another man's eyes saw the Lord Himself. We need to see what happened to him.

"And said, 'Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!'" - Acts 7:56 (NKJV)

"அதோ வானங்கள் திறந்திருக்கிறதையும், மனுஷகுமாரன் தேவனுடைய வலதுபாரிசத்தில் நிற்கிறதையும் காண்கிறேன் என்றான்." - அப்போஸ்தலர் 7:56 (TAOVBSI)

Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God (Acts 7:55-56). Nobody else could see it, just as nobody but Elisha saw the chariots of fire. These were the same opened eyes as Dothan, and like Elisha, Stephen did not curse the men who came against him. Yet the two men came to different ends. Elisha walked away unharmed. Stephen was stoned to death.

So we must understand something very important. There are many with us whom our eyes cannot see. Does that mean we will escape everything, every time? Will I always keep this body safe? Certainly not. God's protection (பாதுகாப்பு) does not always mean nothing happens to your body. We are not called to preserve this body but to keep our spirit and soul. The Lord is with me, but not to guard and pamper my body at every moment. He keeps me in order to keep my soul safe, and to gather me to Himself for ever.

"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39 (NKJV)

"மரணமானாலும், ஜீவனானாலும், தேவதூதர்களானாலும், அதிகாரங்களானாலும், வல்லமைகளானாலும் நிகழ்காரியங்களானாலும், வருங்காரியங்களானாலும், உயர்வானாலும், தாழ்வானாலும், வேறெந்தச் சிருஷ்டியானாலும் நம்முடைய கர்த்தராகிய கிறிஸ்து இயேசுவிலுள்ள தேவனுடைய அன்பைவிட்டு நம்மைப் பிரிக்கமாட்டாதென்று நிச்சயித்திருக்கிறேன்." - ரோமர் 8:38-39 (TAOVBSI)

Nothing, whatever it is, will separate me from the love of Christ. That must be our faith. If our faith is my problems will change, we have not understood what we heard today. If you think, the Lord is with me, so every problem will disappear and I will simply walk away from all of it, then the next problem that comes will end it, and when a death comes, the love that holds us to Jesus Christ will snap. The chariots reach further than this life, or this sermon breaks at the first funeral. We must be ready to say what Paul said: death or life, whatever it may be, who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Many are with us whom our eyes cannot see, and the one thing we need above all of them is that nothing separates us from the love of Jesus Christ.

"Your problem is small" is not the message. Our problems are big, real problems, problems that could swallow us whole. Your problem is real, and it is outnumbered. That is a different sentence, and it is the true one. Whatever surrounded you this week, the mountain behind it is fuller than the ring around you.

Conclusion · முடிவுரை

That morning at Dothan two men faced one great army. Same place, same eyes, the same things in front of them. One said what shall we do and was shaken with fear; the other said do not fear. What separated them was what they could see. One of them saw what could not be seen, and knew that those with us are more.

If you are surrounded this week, you have not miscounted. There may be many things around you, many problems, big questions standing in front of your eyes, and all of it may be true. Everything you can see may truly be against you. But you have not finished the sum, and above all of it, God is with us.

"Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." - Romans 8:37 (NKJV)

"இவையெல்லாவற்றிலேயும் நாம் நம்மில் அன்புகூருகிறவராலே முற்றும் ஜெயங்கொள்ளுகிறவர்களாயிருக்கிறோமே." - ரோமர் 8:37 (TAOVBSI)

Paul finishes the sum for us. In all these things, not after them, but in them. Whatever problems come and whatever struggles come, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Nothing can. Walk through this week in that faith. The song the church sang at the close puts it plainly: மனிதர் என்னைக் கைவிட்டாலும், even if people forsake me, if the flesh wastes away, if all riches perish and I am pushed aside as worthless, இயேசு போதுமே, Jesus is enough for me.

Those who are with us are more than those who are with them. The problems may be no fewer, but those with us are more: rabbim.

Declaration Prayer · அறிக்கை ஜெபம்

பிதாவே, என் கண்ணுக்குத் தெரிகிறதை மட்டும் கணக்குப் பார்த்துப் பயந்தேன். அது உண்மைதான்; ஆனால் அதுவே முழுக் கணக்கு அல்ல. கர்த்தாவே, என் கண்களைத் திறந்தருளும். அவர்களோடிருக்கிறவர்களைப்பார்க்கிலும் என்னோடிருக்கிறவர்கள் அதிகம் என்று அறிக்கையிடுகிறேன். மனுஷருக்குப் பயப்படாமல், உம்மையே நோக்கிப் பார்ப்பேன். இயேசுவின் நாமத்தினாலே, ஆமென்.

Father, I counted only what my eyes could see, and I was afraid. It is true, but it is not the whole count. Lord, open my eyes. I declare that those who are with me are more than those who are with them. I will not fear people; I will look to You. In Jesus' name, Amen.

One Thing This Week · இந்த வாரம் ஒன்று மட்டும்

Before you pray "take it away" this week, pray "open my eyes" first. Name the thing that surrounds you, out loud, and then say the second count out loud too: those who are with me are more. Say it before the fear finishes its arithmetic.