Because we are forgiven and risen with Christ we put off the old man of sin & selfish living and put on the new man that is made in the image of Christ Jesus (Col 3:5-17) and it has a positive, holy influence on all our relations (Col 3:18-25) We are a new species of being in Christ. We learn to make Him pre-eminent in everything we do or say and He takes care of so many things we think we have to take care of. We cast our cares on Him for He cares for us.
It’s hard to think about Jesus praying twice for a man. We expect Him to do it only once because He is the Son of God. And yet he prayed twice for a blind man in Bethsaida. I always wonder about that. Why was it necessary?
Nothing shall be impossible to God. The reason Jesus could say this and prove it is because He was sure of the presence of God wherever He went.
God has given us the gift of faith. We received it when we were born again. Our faith is like a muscle. We have to develop our faith by learning to use it properly.
If you want God to speak to you, learn to meditate until you observe what to do.
Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, ‘what is truth?’ He should have asked, ‘who is truth?’ Truth became personified in Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:1-3 & 14) Emmanuel – God with us. The Word or Truth of God sanctifies us.
Fear is the affection of the mind, arising from what the mind conceives as danger approaches. Fear is not real yet. It is what you perceive might happen.
God chose the foolishness of preaching whereby we can be saved, according to I Corinthians 1:21: ‘it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
There are many people in the Bible who achieved great things through simple acts of faith. One act of faith can change your future, your family’s future, and the future of those around you for generations.
As we make godly appeals it will motivate people from within to comply to divine standards set by the Apostolic appeals in the New Testament and bring reform in the Church that will reform the land.