Rejoice Always (2024)

03/11/2023

🍃 The Compassion of God within us (a testimony) 🍃

This is an interesting incident that happened this morning. It brought me to much endearment knowing that the creation of God, us, humans, irrespective of our religion, hold the capacity within us to love even strangers.

I had the privilege of travelling with a cab driver named Rakesh this morning. I was transferring donated blankets to be couriered to the displaced people in Manipur. Noticing the bulk of blankets Rakesh sparked a conversation. I told him who the blankets were for. Consequently, we began to speak about politics and the state of our nation. He expressed his deep sadness with the situation in Manipur.

He was deeply moved after knowing that I and the Pastoral Team were serving as mediators between donors and the displaced people.

We reached our destination, and I offered him the fare for the journey. He immediately denied to take it and said it is his small contribution to the cause. I forced him multiple times, yet he did not succumb.

This may appear minute, but in this day and age I seldom find such individuals. Maybe, it is people like him who inspire others to be better, and love more, and see beyond ourselves. I know I am inspired by him. I hope you are too. And maybe you can be someone else’s “Rakesh” in some ordinary looking day, during an ordinary cab ride.

Whoever is reading this, please take a moment to pray for Rakesh. May God bless him.

~ Ps. Susanta

25/01/2023

Thingphung aphat chomdan: Dehra Dun le Mussoorie.
Pastor Letlal, Delhi
Dehra Dun car or train a iche a nop kasah napen chu ahile ilhun konna thingphung tamtah in eina lamto chu ahi’e. Forest gam kilometers ijat hamkhat kijotpa hin lungthim akipasah lheh in ahi. City munlah a jong iva lele a ahile thingphung adimset in ahile lungthim jong anom chom in ahi. Hiche hin ipi avetsah ham ati a ahile mihem in thingna, louna, le thingphung angaisang a avettup akimudoh in ahi. Gam chu Pathen deilam a eventup uva thingphung tamtah ihinsah uva, thilpha lou poppy, g***a kitiho bollou a gam chu ahiding bang a akoi jehuvin mipiteho in aphat chompi mama uvin ahi.
Phat chompiho tamtah lah a khat le ni chu ahile tui neh boilou in aum uvin ahi. Gamsung weather anom sahin ahile tourist mun in ahung umdoh in ahile mipiteho sum le pai kiholna hoitah aneidoh uvin ahi. Weather le thingna, louna atam jehin International standard a school phatah aum in ahile India keu hilou in leiset adeh a Arab, South East Asia le South Asian akon in chapang tamtah school akaisah un ahile mipiteho ding in employment jong tamtah aum thei in ahi.

Dehra Dun le Mussorie akon a eihon jong ijildoh diu a dei umchu ahile Pathen in eipeh u thinglhang gamhi Pathen deilam a iventup uva thingna, louna le thingphung ho ngailutna le janna ipehuva ahile Pathen in pha asah a ahile hiche jeh ahi mipiteho ding a nehhol na a hung umthei ahi. Hijeh chun gam neihon jong kilose lou in Pathen deilam in thingphung ho satlou in umsah uhitin.
Thinglhang gam Pathen peh ahitoh kilhon in gamhi poppy lei, g***a lei bollou in phatah in ching uhitin semtup ding ngaito leu hen avangpha ding chu Dehra Dun a mipiteho tobang a Pathen le government in development ahinbol a ahile akipah le apha chom ding chu eiho mama ihiuvin ahi.
Haosa honjong kei gam ahi tilou in ahithei a ahile kho chaga hotoh kitho a thingphung le adang dangho vengtup le ngailut a ineithei nadiu joh a pan nalah diu ahi. Thingphung atam jeh’a Dehra Dun le Mussoorie mipiteho phatchomnaho anei tobang'a eihon jong tuineh iboi talou ding, weather jong neolai tobang imu thei kitdiu, gamjong thingna le louna jehin vetnom hung um intin ahile business honjong invest ahinbol uva ahile ichennao gam chu Musoorie le Dehra tobang a Pathen in pha asah a ahile mipiteho le Haosapu ading a kipah le nomtah a neh kiholna ahunghi thei ahi.
Achaina' a kasei nom ahile Pathen in gam le go eipeh uhi Pathen deilam in vengtup uhitin hiute.

23/01/2023

SUNDAY SCHOOL APOIMO DAN
Pastor Letlal Haokip, Delhi.
Dwight Lyman Moody@ DL Moody hi aneo lai ahi Pathen thu ngaisah behlou mi anahi in. Amabou k*m le lha ahung kihei in ama hinkho hi ahung kikhel in ahi. Ama hinkho ahung kikhel kipatna ahile anu Betsy a hung kipan ahi. Anu hin aneolai ahi Pathen thu ana simkhum dan jui anahi in ahivang a amahi lunglut behlou in aum in. Anu Betsy hin Pathen thu a muchi anatu in ahinkho ahi. Anina ahi Uncle Samuel Holton ahi. Amahin shoe store anei in. Nikhat hi Uncle komma nang dukan a katohnom e ati a ahile; Uncle chun natoh ding a ahile thilni nanop ngai ahi. Khat chu ahile Uncle natoh danjui ahi natoh ngai ahi. Anina chu ahile Pathenni/ Sunday taseh le Sunday School nakaingai ahi ti chu uncle in angeh ahi in. Hiche hin avetsah chu ahile Uncle hin DL Moody Lhagao hinkho hi ahetchet jeh’ a pohnatna anei in ahi. Aman jong ima seibe lou in ahung nom in hitichun Uncle shoe store a atoh toh kilhon in Sunday taseh le Sunday school ahung kaipan tan ahi.
DL Moody hi chapang cha ahi apat lungtup thupipen chu ahile “Sum haoding” chu ahi. Nikhat hi Sunday school teacher Edward Kimbell hin Uncle shoe store a na atoh laitah achu ahung kimupi ahi. Ahung kimupi toh kilhon a DL Moody chung ahi akhut angap a Pakai Jesu Christa chungthu le ama Lhagao hinkho chu ahung seikhum ahi. Ama in kahinkho ahi hitobang thilsoh katoh kha naipon ahi. Hoitah a eihet jong hilou amabou keima ngailutna le kachonsetna akon a eipui doh nading’a Pakai Jesu Christa mingailut na mitlhi longpum a ahung seichun… keima jong kahinkho ahin hitobang ahin mitlhi long’a kakana kanei khahlou ahi ati leu in. Chomkhat jou in Pakai Jesu Christa ahin kisan tan ahi.
Sopiteho, adeh a Pastor le Houbung lamkaiho komma kasei nom chu ahile Sunday School hi importance pehngai ahi. Sunday school teachers a pangding chu ahile “Penthahna dihtah” nei le Edward Kimbell tobang a chapang Lhagao hinkho ngailu ho bou Sunday school teachers a pansah ding ahi.
I houbung amachal theilou na ahilou a ahile khantou theilou na khat chu ahile; Sunday School hi Pastor hole houbung lamkaihon thupi a kila behlou ahi. Leiset a organisation 4/14 Window hon researched abolnao akon a kihedoh chu ahile USA ahi 70% Penthahna neihohi k*m 4-14 kikah a Pakai Jesu Christa kisan ho ahi. Eimiten chapang ministry hi ima thupi ajong kilalou ahijeh ahi houbung hi k*m 100 ival vang uva hi “Tahsa le Lhagao” a kikhelna dihtah hi umthei nailou ahi midang hotoh ikite kah a ahile.
Tukhang hi leiset pumpi hi “Global Village” kiti a kihe ahitoh kilhon a technology khang ahi in nang le kei sang ajong chatehohi hiche lampang ahi ahetnao hi sang jo ahitah jeh ahi Sunday school teacher ding jong hi Penthahna dihtah nei, Bible thu he le technology lampang a chapangho hilthei oja kingai ahitan. Eimitehon chate ministry hi ima a igellou jehuvin teacher jong mi athanom chu imoh pansah sahuvin ahile chatehohi Sunday school a thanopna neilou tam cheh cheh’u ahitan. DL Moody teacher Edward Kimbell tobang a Pakai Jesu Christa ngailutna nei le Huhhingna gelkhoh teacher kingaicha ahitai.
Sunday school chapang “Penthahna” dihtah neilou a baptised kibol jong hi tukhang ahi ngahphat ahitai. Penthahna dihtah anei a ahilou a ahile baptised jong k*m 14/15/16 alhinman a bollou ding. India khopi munlah ahi College admission a kingaicha ahijeh a kimoh boljonghi ngahphat ahitai.
Thuchihbu/ Proverb 22:6, “ Chapang chu achena dingdol lampia khoukhah-in; chutile ama ateh teng jongle hia kona chun kiheimang taponte.” DL Moody anu Betsy, Uncle Samuel le Sunday school teacher Edward Kimbell ho ikitho khomuva DL Moody achena dingdol lampia a khoukhah jehuva DL Moody in Pakai Jesu Christa ahin kisan a Pathen Lhagao in ahin manchah a, amajal a mi tamtah in “Huhhingna” akisan ahi.
Tuni ajong taona toh thon nu le pateho, houbung lamkaiho, Pastorho, Sunday school teacherho i pankhom lou uva chatehi Pathen deilam a achena dingdol lampia khoukhah lou uva ahile maban hi "Tahsa, Lungthim le Lhagao hinkho" hi iboi cheh cheh diu in ahung um in ahi. Amaho aboi ahile nu le pa, houbung le society jong boithei ahijeh in chateho Lhagao hinkho hi top priority a ikoi diu in asim jouse komma Pakai Jesu Christa I-Huhhingpu min a tepna le ngehna kahinnei ahi. Kakipah e.

23/01/2023

SPEND TIME WITH YOUR CHILDREN
Dear Parents, before you regret, please spend time with your children.
"Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching; indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head and ornaments about your neck. —Proverbs 1:8-9
The final “S” in this acrostic for parenting with S-U-C-C-E-S-S is this: successful parents SPEND time with their children.
There is no verse in the Bible that says, “Spend time with your children.” But all the parenting principles we have looked at this week require not just quality time but a quantity of time with your children. Did you know 100 years ago the average parent spent 54 percent of his waking hours with his children? Today that figure is only 18 percent. In fact, one study said the average father spends only eight to ten minutes per day with his children. No wonder when our children run into problems and temptations, parents are among the last to whom they turn for help.
In the Old Testament, Eli was a faithful and successful priest. He was successful in his work and successful in his ministry. But Eli was not a successful father–his sons were very rebellious. In fact, the Bible calls them “worthless men” (1 Samuel 2:12). They stole from the Lord’s altar and committed acts of sexual immorality. Verse 17 says of Eli’s sons, “the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord.” So how did Eli respond when he heard about his sons’ sin and rebellion? “Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. He said to them, ‘Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?’ . . . But they would not listen to the voice of their father” (vv. 22-23, 25). God judged Eli and his sons for their unrepentant sin. As a result, when we think of Eli, we don’t think of his success in his work. We only think of his legacy of failure as a parent.
Parents, if you fail your children, you lose everything. That is why it is so important that we apply these biblical parenting principles. What we do or we fail to do as a parent does not just stop with our children, but it reverberates through generation after generation. You see, when we leave this earth, our likeness will continue to appear again and again in the children and the grandchildren we leave behind. And that is why it is crucial that we learn to parent with success.
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Today’s devotion is excerpted from “Parenting with S-U-C-C-E-S-S” by Dr. Robert Jeffress, 2009.

20/01/2023

NAMPI KULPI SEMPHA DING KOI HITAM?
Pastor Letlal Haokip, Delhi.

Chin/Kuki/Zomi/Mizo hi koima achom jong akium pon ahi. Pathen in sopi a eihin sem u ahi in amabou lamkai khat le ni jeh’a ikitha, ikimat jehuva michom dań in akium lotan ahi. Adeh in hiche holah ahin Kuki leh Zomi hi “Nam Kulpi chu achim” in ahileh namsung ahin kitona le lungkhat a long deldel a thil bolkhom le nehkhom leh chenkhom hi til tobang in aum thei tapon ahileh, namsung ahin damna aum thei tapon ahi.
I-kulpi u achim toh kilhon'a semphat nading ahi Bible a kimu tobang a pankhom, taokhom a kithokhom ngai ahi in ahi. Jerusalem Kulpi chu achimtai ti’a Nehemiah in ajah phat chun Ezra toh akitho lhon’in ahileh tahsa le Lhagao a kulpi chu semphat in ahung umin ahi. I-Kulpi'u semphat nading ahi pan ilah khom u ngai ahitai. Nehemiah hi Pakai Pathen ngailu keu hilou’a, Jat le Nam ngailu le ahung kondohna jachatpi lou mikhat ahi jeh’a “Jerusalem Kulpi Chim” chu apohnat ahi. Ama hinkho apat a ivet diu points phabep hochu ahile;
1. Pengthah mi hon houlim lim sang’a Nehemiah in abol tobang ahi panlah phat ahitai. “Thuho kajah phatnin katouvin kakapmin, chule ni ijat-ham lunghemin kaumin, chule an kangol-in van Pathen henga kataovin.” (Nehemiah 1:4). Tulai Pakai tahsan chatehon i-Kulpi u achim tai ti i-het vanguvin koima Nehemiah tobang a pohnatna dihtah nei’a munkhat a thipbeh a tou’a Pakai ang’a kappumma, anngol a Pa-Pathen komma kulpi achim semphat nading a taona neihi aum lou jeh’a hiti’ahi ium u ahitai. Hijeh chun houbung le Namsung ahin kingailutna, kijana, kitona, long deldel a chenkhomna lungthim Kuki/ Zomi chateho kikah a ahung umdoh thei nading ahi Pakai chatehon pan ilah khom u ngai ahi. Adeh a Pastor leh houbung lamkaihon Pakai a tahsa leh Lhagao a sopi kahi ti’a panlah khom ngai ahi.
2. Nehemiah tobang a anngol’a, taona toh tho a pan ahung kilah tengle Leng(King) le lal ho lungthim a Pathen Lhagao in na ahintoh panding ahi. “Vo Pakai kangeh nahi, tun nasoh taona lama hin nanakhang hindon, chule nasohho taona namin janachu lolhinsah-in katao nahi, tunin nasoh keima hiche mipa mitmuhin lungset tah-in hepina neipen, ajehchu keima lengpa khondoma panga kahi, ati.”(Nehemiah 1:11). Nehemiah jong chun kappum’a anngol a taona aman jehin Lengpa komma alunggel chu asei in ahileh Lengpa injong athum sang’a hoijo in abolpih in ahi. Tuni, nang le kei in Nehemiah tobang a tahsanna neipum a mitlhi longpum’a taona toh tho a pan ilah hinam tin kigel uhite. Lungthim pumpi a Pakai komma a'tao jehin Pathen in Lengpa sung’a na ahin tongin ahi ti Bible a akimu in ahi. (Nehemiah 2:1-4: Chuin ahitin ahi, Artaxerxes lengchan kal k*m somni lhin k*m, Nisan lha sungin a-anga lengpitwi aumin, keiman lengpitwi chu kalan lengpa chu kapetai. Tuma sangin amasanga lungkham mel kamusah khapon ahi. Hijeh chun lengpan kajah-a, anala nahipon, namaiso anguinave itidan ham? Imachadang hiponte, lungdonna nanei ahi, ati, chuphatnin kakicha behset jengtai. Chuin keiman lengpa jah-a, lengpa hingsotnin, ipidia kamaiso nguida dingham? Kapu kapate khopi, lhankhuh ho umna chu mang thah-in aum gamtai, kotpiho jouse meijin akagam tan, ahomkeo ahitai, kati. Chuin lengpan kajah-a ipi nathum nomham? eitin, hiti chun keima van Pathen henga kataotai. Chuin lengpa henga Lengpa lunglhai nading ahia, nasohpa nangma mitmu-a hi lungset theidol kahileh, Judah gama kapu kapa hankhuh ho umna khopi-a chun neisolin lang gasaphange, kati.") Lengpa chun aphalpeh keu hilou in Pakai Pathen in asung’a na ahintoh toh kilhon in letter asutpih in ahi Lengpa Asaph komma. "Lengpa gam ngahpa Asaph dingin jong, inpitoh kimat kotpi-a pangding, khopi kul-a ding, chule kagachenna inding thing, eipehtheina dingin lekha neisut peh-in katin ahi. Chuleh ka Pathen khut thahat kachunga aumdung juijin, imajouse chu lengpan eiphatsah pehtai.” (Nehemiah 2:8). Asaph Lengpan jong Nehemiah in angaichat chu ape in ahi.

3. Nehemiah avaikon’in ahileh Pathen Lhagao in achung’a na ahintong in Leng le lal le mipiteho toh pan alakhom uvin ahileh Jerusalem kulpi chim chu sahphat in ahung umin ahi. Isopi Mizo hon a society kulpi asah dan uhi ivet a ahileh kijana, kingailutna, kitahna, pankhomna le lungkhat leh thakhat ahiuve ti lungput anei jehuvin tuchan in kikhenna umlou in pan alakhom thei uvin ahi. Tu laitah injong apankhom jehuvin min kineppina anei uvin ahileh tahsa a isopiu Myanmar le Bangladesh hon boina le hasatna anei utoh kilhon a kineppi tahin in ahinbel uvin ahileh amahon jong Pathen in sopi'a eisem u ahi atitoh kilhon in lungtho neilou in YMA lamkainan akithopi theiuvin ahi. Hitobang ahi i-pankhom tenguleh iheng, ikom honjong eijauva eisuhboi lou u ahi. Tuhin achom chom tobang a min eimu jehuvin minsetna, ahilou a ahileh musetna le noisenan inei uvin adeh'a Manipur a ichenkhompi tamjo hon. Nehemiah jong Jerusalem kulpi sahphat nading a Pathen akon a “VISION” anei in ahileh kineosah tahin Lengpa leh mipiteho komma atao in ahileh Pathen in apanpi in kulpi chim chu sahdoh in aumtan ahi.

4. Nehemiah in Jerusalem Kulpi sahphat ding ati hin adoudal ahung um in ahi. Amaho chu ahileh, “ Sanballat le Ammon mi sottollea pang Tobiah leh Aram mi Geshem, amahohin ajahdoh phatnu chun, eidai chavaijun, nahsahmotah-in eibolun, nathil boluhi ipi hitam? Lengpa douna-a kiphin ding nahiuvem atiuve. Chuin amaho chu keiman kadonbut nin, van Pathen'in eilolhinsah untin, hijeh chun keiho ama lhacha hohi kipat ungting kasahdoh dingu ahi...” (Nehemiah 2:19-20). Nehemiah lungneo lou'in taona toh thon plan hoitah anei in ahi. Mipiteho chu jahna ding mun cheh a ajang in ahileh Pathen vangbohna achanguvin, lolhinna ahinnei uvin ahi. Tunjong eiho Kulpi chim semphat ding, sahphat ding iti nao ahin opposition hung umthou thou ding ahi. Amabou amahohi distraction kibol sahlou a Pathen le eima le mipiteho apan khom a ahileh ima ahahpoi ti lungput neipum a panlah ngai ahi. Bible a kimu chu ahileh Jerusalem kulpi chim chu, “Nisomnga le nini lutnin Elul lha nisomni le ninga lhinin kulbang chu jo ahitai. Chuin ahitin ahi, Pathen helouho leh kamelma teovin, nakitong jouse amutah un, amaho alungthoi lheh-un, hiche nakitonghi Pathen natoh ngei ahi ti ahetauve.” (Nehemiah 6:15-16).

5. Jerusalem kulpi chim sahphat a aum vangin ama in amudoh khat chu ahileh “Mipiteho Lhagao hinkho” sahphat angaidan chu ahi. “Chuin mipi jouse chu mihem khat bang jengin twikul kotpi masang lamlena chun akikhom khommun, chuleh amahon Pakaiyin Israelte dan thupeh Mosi dan lekhabu chu hinpodoh dingin, lekhasunpa Ezra henga aseitaove. 2.Chuin thempu Ezra chun, anumei apasal houkhom ho henga leh ahekhen themthei ho jah ding chun, amasanguva lhasagi na, ani masa nin danthupeh chu ahinpodoh tai. 3Chuin aman twi kotpi phunga um khopi lamlen masanga chun numei pasal leh ahethei dingdol jouse masanga chun jingkah-a pat nin sunkim geijin asimdoh peh in: chuleh dan thupeh chu mijousen anakhang uva lunglut tah-in angaisoh keijun, ahi. Ezra'in Pakai Pathen len chu athangvah-in ahi. Chuin mipi jousen adonbut un; “Amen, Amen” tin akhut hou adomsangun: chuleh alu akunsah-un, amaiju tolla asulut nun Pakai chu ahou taovin, ahi… chule mipi hochu adinnau munna chun ading jingun… amahon danthupeh thu cheng hochu ajah phatnuva mipi jouse chu kap ahiuve.(Nehemiah 8:1-9).

Nehemiah natoh ahileh Lengpa Ju haidom ahi. Amabou ju haidom ahivang a Pakai Pathen tahsan le Jat le Nam ngailutah mikhat ahi. Pathen atahsan jeh a Pathen in Jerusalem kulpi chim sempha ding’a amanchah ahi. Hiche keu hilou a Pathen in apeh lungnengna le mihotoh kihoudan thepna chu aman chah’a mipiteho atildoh’a, kitho uva kulpi chim chu sahphat hung um ahi. Kulpi chim aboipi laitah ahi mihemho Lhagao hinkho jong ahin hetchen toh kilhon a Lhagao kulpi chimjong Thempu Ezra toh pangkhom a ahin semphat a hon ahi.
Tuni a eiho society kulpi chim semphat nading ahi koima kingoh lou in keima kapan ngai ahi ti lungput nei in Nehemiah tobang in Pathen songpum in taona toh thon panlah ding ngaito ding in Pathen in atun lamkaiho le mipiteho Pakai min’a tepna kahinnei ahi. Kakipah e.

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