1. “Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.” 2. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” 3. “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” 4. “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness…
What can you learn from this true and master builder? Listen to this extract of a commentary on 1 Corinthians 3:10-17: “Paul is not making any judgment about any individual’s salvation, for even if anyone’s work fails the test, “the builder will be saved.” This passage is not about the relationship between a believer’s “good works” and his heavenly reward, though it has often been read in that way. Instead, Paul is concerned with the church as a whole and…
1. “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.” 2. “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.” 3. So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting…
Have you not heard that you have to see your miracles before you can receive them? Meaning, you must be a light to see into the spirit of discerning your miracles! Can you see those miracles becoming yours? Yes, you must see what Jesus Christ is doing for you and what HE is capable of in your life – “So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” (John 4:48, ESV). Yes, you must…
Johann Ernst von Holst said: “Just as once, the children of Israel in the wilderness, seeking help from the bites of fierce snakes, looked up to the bronze serpent, so we too would look to the Crucified One, who bore our burden and atoned for our guilt. We would look to him with ever fuller, ever deeper and more grateful faith. But for this, new and pure eyes are necessary. We must beg the Lord for these if we want…
1. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 2. “And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.” 3. John answered them all, saying, I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not…
Have you not heard Joshua Graham saying – “I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”? What is your testimony of the fire of The Holy Ghost? I ask you, when will you allow the fire in you to speak with the thunder of God’s Voice? You are free to say that, “How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged.”? Are your dreams not clustered with thick cloud…
Fulton J. Sheen said: “A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a kingdom.…In the divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into paradise. If our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief’s request touched the reason of his coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard…
1. “To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” 2. “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaims to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” 3. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.” 4. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.”
Yes, this was a mystical message then and now. The impact will always go beyond our usual experiences. Such a message doesn’t make sense in the material world. It requests a movement beyond what the immediate reality can move or contain into a holy mystery for miraculous to happen. Such words ask individuals to believe that God, Jesus, Moses, Elijah, and the angels when in their divine state, pulsate in an intolerable brightness, a heavenly light, which we call the…