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The Presence of God Changes Everything
📅 October 5, 2026✍ Life IN Christ Shalom Church
The Presence of God Changes Everything
That was the conviction at the heart of the Sunday worship service led by Pastor Vishwas Masih at Life in Christ Shalom Church, Brampton, Ontario, on Sunday, September 20, 2026. For nearly an hour, the congregation worshipped in Hindi and Punjabi, opening with a prayer of thanksgiving, reading Psalm 1 aloud in full, and singing song after song about one unshakable truth: God’s presence is with His people, and His presence changes everything.
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The complete worship service, led in Hindi and Punjabi with English teaching terms, is available below. Worship along from wherever you are, and let these songs settle into your week.
The Anchor: If Your Presence Does Not Go With Us
“If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.” (Exodus 33:15)
These were the words Moses spoke to God, and they are the anchor of this service. When God’s presence is with you, the service taught, fear turns into faith, confusion turns into clarity, weakness turns into strength, and ordinary moments become extraordinary. The service opened with a reading of Psalm 1, the picture of the believer planted by the waters:
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:1-3)
He Is With Us: The Cloud by Day, the Fire by Night
One of the central songs of the morning declared, “वो साथ है” (He is with us): by day the cloud, by night the pillar of fire, He is with us. Just as the Lord led Israel through the wilderness with a cloud and fire, His presence goes with His people today. The congregation sang it again and again until it became a confession: He is with us, He is with us, He will not leave.
He Will Never Leave
Another song carried the promise of “ना छोड़ेगा” (He will never leave): He never leaves us alone, never, never. He is true to His promises, and He is a good shepherd. In the storms and in the valleys, in the lonely nights of life and in every difficulty, He does not leave. His people are never alone, because He never leaves.
Fill Me With the Spirit
The worship moved into deep longing for the Holy Spirit. “मेनु भर दे रूह नाल” (fill me with the Spirit): put on the robe of the Holy Spirit and become His witness. “रूहे पाक खुदा बंदा तू आ” (come, Holy Spirit, Lord God): come and dwell in body and soul. Then the declaration rang out: when the flames of the Spirit come (“रूह के शोले लपक लपक जब आते हैं”), every bondage breaks and falls. Rain falls from the clouds of the Holy Spirit (“बारिश होगी रूहे पाक के बादल से”), washing clean the temple of the heart from within. And when Jesus comes in the form of the Spirit, Satan falls.
Carrying His Presence Into Your Week
Begin with thanksgiving. The service opened with simple gratitude: thank You, Lord, for Your name, Your glory, Your presence. Start your days the same way.
Read and meditate on Psalm 1. Be the tree planted by the rivers of water. Meditate on His law day and night, and you will bear fruit in your season.
Sing your way through the storm. When confusion or fear rises, sing what this congregation sang: He is with us, He will never leave. Let the song become your confession.
Ask to be filled. Pray the cry of the service: fill me with the Spirit. Ask Him to dwell in your body and soul, and to make you His witness.
Bring Him your bondages. When the flames of the Spirit come, bondages break and fall. Name yours before Him and let Him break them.
See His face and hear His voice. Ask for spiritual eyes fully opened and spiritual ears opened, to see His radiant face and hear His still, small voice.
A Prayer from the Service
Lord, we thank You that You were pleased with our worship. We ask, Father, that our eyes, not just the physical ones, would be fully opened in the Spirit, and our ears opened spiritually, so we can see Your radiant face and hear Your gentle voice. Let the Word You spoke through our pastor settle into our bodies and souls and bear much fruit, and make us a reason for Your name to be glorified. Bless every online viewer, bless every person who came with their hopes and desires, and fulfill them from Your great storehouse. Use us for Your glory. In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
Which song from this service is still singing in your heart, the cloud and fire of His presence, or the cry to be filled with the Spirit? Share in the comments below, we would love to pray with you.
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Does the Double Portion of the Anointing Really Work?
📅 October 4, 2026✍ Life IN Christ Shalom Church
Does the Double Portion of the Anointing Really Work?
That is the question Pastor Vishwas Masih took head on in Part 3 of the Anointing series at Life in Christ Shalom Church, Brampton, Ontario, preached live on Sunday, September 20, 2026. Many believers long for more of the Holy Spirit but secretly wonder whether a greater measure of the anointing is real, and whether it is truly available to them. This sermon answers that question from the life of Elisha, and lays out exactly what it takes to receive it.
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The complete message, preached in Hindi and Punjabi with English teaching terms, is available below. Hearing it in full will bless you far beyond any summary.
The Anchor: Elisha Asked for Double, and Got It
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit.” (2 Kings 2:9)
The pastor read 2 Kings 2:1 to 14 aloud in full. When Elijah was about to be taken up, he asked Elisha what he wanted. Elisha did not ask for money, comfort, or position. He asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit, and he received it: the same mantle that Elijah threw down parted the Jordan in Elisha’s hands. Pastor Vishwas reminded the congregation that Jesus Himself said it: “You will do greater works than I” (John 14:12). The double portion is not a story from long ago. It is a promise for those who will position themselves for it.
Undivided Focus: Do Not Leave His Side
Elisha was tested again and again. At Gilgal, at Bethel, at Jericho, at the Jordan, Elijah told him to stay back, and every time Elisha answered that he would not leave him. Pastor Vishwas taught that receiving the anointing requires undivided focus. You cannot receive a double portion with a divided heart. David became wiser than his teachers and his enemies, Pastor said, because he never left God’s statutes (Psalm 119:98 to 100). Stay where the anointing is. Do not drift. Focus is the doorway to more.
Honor the One God Has Anointed
Before Elisha ever carried the mantle, he poured water on Elijah’s hands (2 Kings 3:11). He was a servant before he was a successor. The pastor taught that honoring your anointed leader, your mentor, your shepherd, is one of the great secrets of receiving the anointing. Moses told the Lord he wished all Israel would prophesy when the Spirit rested on the seventy elders (Numbers 11:16 to 29), because the anointing was never meant to be hoarded. But it flows to the humble, to the one who serves without complaint, and it dries up in the proud.
Guard What You Receive
“We have this treasure in earthen vessels.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)
God puts a priceless treasure in fragile clay. Pastor Vishwas warned that the anointing must be guarded or it spills. He called the congregation to be “above average” in excellence, to filter their speech, their hearing, and their seeing, and to cut back the hours lost to the mobile phone that quietly steal prayer time. “Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it,” God says (Psalm 81:10), but a mouth full of complaint leaves no room for blessing. The anointing breaks the yoke (Isaiah 10:27), yet we can take the yoke back up again if we are careless (Galatians 5:1). Humility and guardedness keep the oil flowing.
The Four Stations: Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and the Jordan
Elisha walked with Elijah through four places before the double portion fell, and Pastor Vishwas taught that each one is a spiritual station every believer must pass through. At Gilgal, the reproach is rolled away (Joshua 5:9): the shame of your past is removed. At Bethel, the house of God (Genesis 28), you learn to dwell in His presence. At Jericho, the place of walls, you learn that no wall can stand against a focused believer. And at the Jordan, you step into the water yourself and cross over into the greater works God promised. Nobody skips a station. Each one prepares you to carry more.
Practical Steps to Receive the Double Portion
Set your focus. Refuse every invitation to stay back. Stay planted where God has put you, like Elisha refused to leave Elijah’s side.
Serve with honor. Pour water on someone’s hands today: serve your leaders and your church faithfully, without seeking a title.
Guard your gates. Filter what you speak, hear, and watch. Limit the phone time that is draining your prayer life.
Aim above average. Give God your best effort in everything, and covet earnestly the best gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31).
Open your mouth wide. Ask boldly for more of the Spirit, because whoever has will be given more (Matthew 13:12).
Walk through every station. Let God roll away your reproach at Gilgal, dwell with Him at Bethel, face your Jericho walls, and cross your Jordan.
A Prayer to Receive
Father, I believe the double portion is real, and I believe it is for me. Take away every reproach from my past like at Gilgal. Teach me to dwell in Your house like at Bethel. Bring down every wall that stands against me like at Jericho. And give me the courage to step into the Jordan and cross over. Fill my mouth with Your blessing, guard the treasure You have placed in this earthen vessel, and break every yoke off my life by Your anointing. My Redeemer lives, and I will carry a double portion for Your glory. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Which of the four stations are you standing in right now, Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, or the Jordan? Share in the comments below, we would love to pray with you.
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Sunday Worship Service: Thirsting for the Breath of God
📅 October 4, 2026✍ Life IN Christ Shalom Church
Sunday Worship Service: Thirsting for the Breath of God
Some Sundays are for deep teaching. Others are for simply standing in God’s presence until your heart is full. The Sunday worship service of September 27, 2026, at Life in Christ Shalom Church in Brampton, Ontario, was one of the latter: nearly an hour of heartfelt worship led by Pastor Vishwas Masih, anchored in Scripture, lifted by song, and sealed with a short but piercing word about the breath of God that breaks every chain.
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Experience the complete Sunday worship service from September 27, 2026, with Pastor Vishwas Masih at Life in Christ Shalom Church, Brampton:
A Prayer for Speedy Help: Psalm 70
The service opened with thanksgiving, and then the whole congregation stood to read God’s Word together: Psalm 70, verses 1 to 5, a prayer for God’s swift help.
“Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul. But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.” (Psalm 70:1-2, 5)
It set the tone for everything that followed: a people crying out to God, and a God who answers without delay.
An Hour of Worship
What followed was nearly fifty minutes of worship in Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi, each song a facet of who God is. The congregation sang of God’s protection, declaring that He Himself takes up their cause against every unseen adversary. They sang of the cross: “mere Yeshu ki qurbani deti hai hamein zindagani”, the sacrifice of Jesus that gives us life. They called down the fire of the Holy Spirit, “rooh ki aag ke shole”, to burn away anger, evil, and every wrongdoing. They proclaimed healing, that the blind, the lame, and the sick receive their healing at His door. And again and again they voiced the thirst of their hearts: “paak rooh hum Yeshu ke pyaase hain”, we thirst for Jesus.
The Word: His Breath Breaks Bondages
Near the end of the service, Pastor Vishwas brought a brief exhortation that tied the whole morning together. He took the congregation to two moments in Scripture when God breathed:
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)
Centuries later, the risen Jesus did the same for His disciples: He breathed on them and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:22). The same breath that gave Adam life now gives the Church power, and where that breath falls, great works begin.
The pastor connected it to the song the church had just sung: “teri saansein khuda ki saansein hain, teri baatein masa ki baatein hain”, your breath is God’s breath, your words carry His anointing. And the promise of that anointing is freedom: “bandhanon se rihaai paayenge”, we will be released from every bondage. Whatever chain is on your life, sickness, oppression, or hindrance, the breath of God upon you breaks it.
A Prayer of Thirst
The service closed in prayer, echoing the psalmist: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God” (Psalm 42:1). Pastor Vishwas prayed that just as David’s soul thirsted for God, every heart present would thirst for His presence and His anointing. He prayed over empty vessels, that the Holy Spirit would fill them until they overflow, and he pleaded the blood of Jesus over every family, every home, every work of their hands, and every finance, that the enemy could not touch them.
Come Thirsty This Sunday
If your soul is thirsty, there is a seat waiting for you. Join us live this Sunday at 1:30 PM at Life in Christ Shalom Church, 355 Howden Blvd, Brampton, Ontario, for Spirit-filled worship, prayer, and the preaching of God’s Word in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Plan your visit to Life in Christ Shalom Church and come as you are.
A question for you: What bondage are you asking God’s breath to break in your life this week? Tell us in the comments below, we read every one, and we are praying for you.
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Guarding the Anointing: How to Keep What Heaven Placed on You
📅 October 3, 2026✍ Life IN Christ Shalom Church
Guarding the Anointing: How to Keep What Heaven Placed on You
Picture the strongest man in the Bible, blind, hunched over a grinding mill, walking in circles like an ox turning an oil press. This was Samson, the man on whom the Spirit of the Lord had rushed with power, the man who tore a lion apart with his bare hands and struck down a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone. How does someone go from that kind of glory to grinding grain in the dark?
That haunting question sits at the heart of guarding the anointing, the message Pastor Vishwas Masih preached live on Sunday, September 27, 2026, at Life in Christ Shalom Church in Brampton, Ontario. Part 4 of his series on the anointing, this sermon is not about how to get anointed. It is about something rarer and far harder: how to keep the anointing once God has placed it on your life.
Before the teaching began, the pastor led the congregation in a spoken declaration of faith, the same confession he invites every listener to make their own:
I declare that my Redeemer lives, and He is victorious over every circumstance in my life. My eyes are set to see His grace and my ears to hear His Word. I will not return empty, but full. I reject every negative word spoken over me. Blessing is part of my life. Every promise in this Bible is for me. I am a child of the Most High God, blessed, forgiven, called, prepared, anointed, and accepted.
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Experience the complete message from Sunday, September 27, 2026, as Pastor Vishwas Masih preaches live at Life in Christ Shalom Church, Brampton:
The Day the Ropes Melted: Samson at Lehi
The sermon is anchored in Judges 15, the day Samson’s anointing was on full display. Three thousand men of Judah had bound him with two brand-new ropes and handed him to the Philistines. Read what happened next:
“As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands. Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.” (Judges 15:14-15)
New ropes. Three thousand soldiers. An entire Philistine army. None of it mattered, because the Spirit of the Lord was on him. Pastor Vishwas lingered on this scene for a reason: it shows what the anointing can do. Then he asked the question that gives this message its weight. The same Samson, the same anointing, ended blind at a grinding mill. What changed? Not God’s power. Samson changed. He stopped guarding the anointing, and the rest is tragedy.
What Does Guarding the Anointing Really Mean?
Most believers misunderstand the anointing, the pastor taught. Many treat it like spiritual immunity, a protective shield that lets them live however they please. “The anointing is not your immunity,” he said plainly. “The anointing is God’s purpose placed on you, to fulfill His mission.”
The Problem: Even the Anointed Can Fall
Samson is not the only warning in Scripture. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve, handpicked and anointed by Jesus Himself to cast out demons and heal the sick, yet his end was destruction. King Saul was anointed king of Israel, yet his story closed in disobedience and despair. Gehazi stood next in line to the prophet Elisha, yet greed ended his ministry before it began. Pastor Vishwas urged the congregation to study where these men fell: “Examine where they fell, so you will know in which areas of your own life you need to be watchful.” Guarding the anointing begins with honest self-examination, not assumption.
The Promise: Hold Fast, and He Gives the Crown
To the church in Philadelphia, the church Jesus never rebuked, the Lord said:
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.” (Revelation 3:11)
The pastor gave this verse his own unforgettable paraphrase: “You don’t have the crown; I have the crown. Hold on to what you have, and I will give you the crown of life.” Add the prophet’s promise, “The least of you will become a thousand” (Isaiah 60:22), and the picture is complete. Our problem, he said, is that we keep asking God for more while letting what we already have drain away. God multiplies what we hold, not what we neglect.
The Practice: Stay Inside the Fence
“Every anointing has its boundaries,” the pastor taught. “Stay within your limits.” When God anoints you, He builds a fence around you, a hedge of His angels, the blood of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. The whole practice of guarding the anointing is learning to live inside that fence and never climb out.
Whatever Is in Your Hands Becomes a Weapon
One of the sermon’s most striking revelations: the power was never in the object. It was in the person. Moses picked up a shepherd’s staff and it became the rod of God that split the sea. Samson picked up a donkey’s jawbone and it felled a thousand men. David picked up a harp, and when he played, the tormenting spirit lifted off Saul.
But Elisha’s miracle-working staff, placed in Gehazi’s hands, became empty and powerless. “The power is not in the stick or the thing,” Pastor Vishwas declared. “The power is in you. Keep the anointing in your hands.”
Pastoral declaration: What God has placed in your hands, a song, a prayer, a simple act of obedience, can become a weapon that tears down strongholds, but only while the anointing rests on the one holding it.
The Three Battlegrounds Every Believer Faces
Why do anointed people fall? Pastor Vishwas showed that every sin on earth fits into three categories named in 1 John 2:16:
“For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, comes not from the Father but from the world.” (1 John 2:16)
Satan used the same three on Eve: the fruit was good for food (lust of the flesh), pleasing to the eye (lust of the eyes), and desirable for gaining wisdom (pride of life). He used the same three on Jesus in the wilderness: turn stones to bread, worship me for the kingdoms of the world, throw Yourself down. Jesus broke every one with Scripture. The pattern never changes, and neither does the defense. Guarding the anointing means building your hedge against all three, because Satan studies you the way a hunter studies his prey. “To catch a lion,” the pastor said, “you don’t put grain before him. You put a goat.” The enemy strikes at your specific weakness, whether money, lust, pride, or hidden sin.
The Fence You Must Never Climb
“Whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake,” warns Ecclesiastes 10:8. The devil himself admitted the fence exists. When God asked about Job, Satan answered, “Have You not put a hedge around him?” (Job 1:10). Balak hired the prophet Balaam to curse Israel, but no curse could land, because Israel dwelt under God’s blessing.
Samson climbed out. David did too. “In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David remained in Jerusalem” (2 Samuel 11:1). Fresh from a great victory, David stayed home, grew idle, and fell. “The anointed must never sit empty,” the pastor warned. Idleness is the devil’s workshop, and the fence only protects those who stay inside it.
He closed this section with a tender illustration from Ecclesiastes:
“Let your garments always be white, and let not oil be lacking on your head.” (Ecclesiastes 9:8)
White garments speak of holiness. Oil on the head speaks of the anointing. Never let either run low.
5 Steps to Guarding the Anointing in Daily Life
Pastor Vishwas made the theology practical. Here are five steps drawn straight from the sermon for guarding the anointing this week:
Study where the fallen fell. Look honestly at Samson, Saul, Judas, and Gehazi. Name the exact point of compromise in each story, then ask the Holy Spirit to show you the same vulnerability in your own life.
Seal every small hole. A village once stood beside a great river, protected by strong embankments. One night a small boy spotted a tiny leak in the dam. He pressed his hand against it, then his cloth, then finally his own back, and sat there all night holding back the flood. One child saved the whole village, because he understood that small holes sink great walls. What is the small opening in your life, the habit, the compromise, the secret sin, through which the enemy is seeping in? Seal it today.
Stay inside the fence. Know your boundaries and live within them. Refuse the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life the way Jesus did, with the written Word. Never sit idle in your calling.
Hold fast what you have. In 1992, an engineer registered the domain tesla.com for free and kept renewing it for a small fee. Years later it sold for 11 million dollars. What looked insignificant became priceless because he held on. “Hold on to what you have,” the pastor said, “your little strength, your prayer life, your faithfulness, and watch God multiply it beyond imagination.”
Win in the secret place. “The victory you see in public comes from your secret places,” Pastor Vishwas taught. “Battles are fought in secret and won in public.” Jesus did His miracles because He prayed in dark, lonely, mountain places. Your victory is in your room, where you pray. The world only sees the result.
You Will Know When It Lifts
Here the pastor spoke with unusual directness: “I do not believe the anointed person doesn’t know.” You feel the weakness in your spirit. Your heart pulls away from the Word, from prayer, from fellowship, the way Adam and Eve knew they were naked. Samson rose and said, “I will go out as before,” but the ropes did not break, because the anointing had already left.
Contrast Paul and Silas, bound in prison stocks at midnight. They prayed and sang, and the chains broke by the anointing. Same chains, different outcome. The difference was never the prison. It was the presence. If your faith is sinking and prayer feels distant, some fence has been broken. Return to the secret place. That is where guarding the anointing is won or lost.
A Prayer of Consecration
The service closed with heads bowed as Pastor Vishwas led a prayer of consecration. Make it your own:
Lord, fill me with fresh anointing. Pour new oil over me so I can do great works for You. And Lord, keep me inside Your fence. What You have placed in my hands, whether little or much, I will hold fast, and I will receive the crown of life You have set aside for me. By the anointing, let every yoke break. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen.
Come and Be Part of What God Is Doing
If this message stirred your heart, don’t keep it to yourself. Join us live this Sunday at 1:30 PM at Life in Christ Shalom Church, 355 Howden Blvd, Brampton, Ontario, for Spirit-filled worship, prayer, and the preaching of God’s Word in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Plan your visit to Life in Christ Shalom Church and come as you are.
A question for you: What is the one “small hole” you need to seal this week to keep guarding the anointing in your own life? Tell us in the comments below, we read every one, and we are praying for you.
