Yes, we all have our best – best of capacity, best of talent, best of whatever we need to manifest gloriously. Have you not heard that you need to enjoy the little things in life? Very soon, and you will quickly look back and realise they were the big things! After the miraculous feeding of thousands, Jesus Christ said to HIS disciples, and I quote, “And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover…
Dorothy Day said: “All that the friends of Christ did for him in his lifetime, we can do. Peter’s mother-in-law hastened to cook a meal for him, and if anything in the Gospels can be inferred, it indeed is that she gave the very best she had, with no thought of extravagance. Matthew made a feast for him, inviting the whole town so that the house was in an uproar of enjoyment, and the straitlaced Pharisees – the good people…
1. “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill.” 2. “Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.” 3. “Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.” 4. “I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you…
Where are you going to?… Why, at that point, will you drift farther and farther in these troublesome and laborious manners? There is no rest where you look for it. Look for what you look for; however, recall that it isn’t where you look for it. You look for a favored life in an area that is known for death. It isn’t there for how could there be an honored life where life itself isn’t. With you on the LORD’S…
St. Augustine said: “Return to your heart, O you transgressors, and hold fast to him who made you. Stand with him and you shall stand fast. Rest in him and you shall be at rest. Where do you go along these rugged paths? Where are you going?… Why then will you wander farther and farther in these difficult and toilsome ways? There is no rest where you seek it. Seek what you seek; but remember that it is not where…
1. “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” 2. “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.” 3. “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever…
Whenever I reflect on Mark 11:1-11, I come to agree again with the portability of blessings that Christ Jesus gave us as children of Repentance. Do you remember that the King of kings entered Jerusalem to receive worship and to grant us a marching order to enjoy complete deliverance from Satan, sin, flesh and death to enjoy HIS goodness fully? What a blessing of HIS grace, hallelujah! If the donkey’s fetching is a calling, yes, it is; we have a…
J. Heinrich Arnold said: “When Jesus sent two disciples to fetch a donkey’s colt on Palm Sunday, they had no other task in the whole world more important than fetching it. If someone had said to them, “You are called to greater things; anyone can fetch a donkey,” and they had not done it, they would have been disobedient. But there was nothing greater for them at that moment than to fetch the donkey for Christ. I wish that we…
1. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 2. “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” 3. “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” 4. “And I tell you, you are…
In John 9, 10, Jesus essentially confirmed that HE is the gate, not anyone else. Meaning, HE is the one who decides who comes in and who goes out and who experiences God. Yes, Jesus is the only gate to the true God. In real life, we repeatedly faced with different doors or choices. Some of these may lead to a better life or future, while others can lead to failure, defeat or even death. Attaining to the standard of…