[John 6:29-31]
Come on, folks who lived in Jesus' day! How many times does he have to do something spectacular? He gave you bread (John 6:1-15). He got across the lake mysteriously (miraculously, John 6:22-25). You've heard about his great healings elsewhere. What will it take to prove to you he is from God?
Oops, all I need to do is change the century, and the story is the same for our day. Jesus has done so many things to bless us today. How many more will he have to do before we truly believe he came from God and he gives us life?
How to make peace
Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.
Prayers
. Dear God, I pray especially today for your servants who are sharing the Gospel in difficult places. Some of these precious ones are imprisoned. Some are facing torture. Others are facing ostracism. Some face firing in their workplace. Please give them strength today. Please deliver them from the evil one's vile intent. Protect them by your mighty hand and deliver them, like Daniel, from the lion's mouth to your glory. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Thoughts
"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgement just what the light within us is." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
"One of Satan's ploys to retard spiritual productivity is getting Christians preoccupied with humanistic philosophy and other bankrupt substitutes for God's truth." - John MacArthur
God’s Sacrificial Love
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
- Ephesians 1:4-5
God wants us as his holy children. That was his plan for us even before the world began. God paid the huge price of our adoption into his family — the sacrifice of his Son Jesus. God's motive in doing this? His desire and delight in loving us.
[Message No: 6346]
Come on, folks who lived in Jesus' day! How many times does he have to do something spectacular? He gave you bread (John 6:1-15). He got across the lake mysteriously (miraculously, John 6:22-25). You've heard about his great healings elsewhere. What will it take to prove to you he is from God?
Oops, all I need to do is change the century, and the story is the same for our day. Jesus has done so many things to bless us today. How many more will he have to do before we truly believe he came from God and he gives us life?
How to make peace
Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.
Prayers
. Dear God, I pray especially today for your servants who are sharing the Gospel in difficult places. Some of these precious ones are imprisoned. Some are facing torture. Others are facing ostracism. Some face firing in their workplace. Please give them strength today. Please deliver them from the evil one's vile intent. Protect them by your mighty hand and deliver them, like Daniel, from the lion's mouth to your glory. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Thoughts
"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgement just what the light within us is." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
"One of Satan's ploys to retard spiritual productivity is getting Christians preoccupied with humanistic philosophy and other bankrupt substitutes for God's truth." - John MacArthur
God’s Sacrificial Love
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
- Ephesians 1:4-5
God wants us as his holy children. That was his plan for us even before the world began. God paid the huge price of our adoption into his family — the sacrifice of his Son Jesus. God's motive in doing this? His desire and delight in loving us.
[Message No: 6346]
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