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Contrast Mary's question and Gabriel's response with the question that Zacharias asked Gabriel and the response that he received (Luke 1:18-20). You will find the questions are similar but the responses are totally different.
Both Mary and Zacharias asked how these miracles would occur but it is evident that Mary was asking "how" in faith while Zacharias was asking "how" in unbelief. It is a clear Bible teaching that unbelief doesn't please God (Heb. 11:6), but the Lord doesn't mind us questioning Him for the purpose of instruction so we can cooperate with His will in our lives.
Abram knew that it was God's will for him to have a son but Abram and Sarai came up with their own plan which caused them and the world much grief (Gen. 16:1-6). Abram would have avoided many...
DO YOU HAVE A DREAM? IS THERE SOMETHING YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO OR TO HAVE AND HAVE PRAYED FOR? WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GIVE UP HOPE. HOPE FOR THAT DREAM TO COME TRUE. ROMANS 8:24-25 TELL US A LOT ABOUT HOPE. "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." I HAVE BEEN HOPING FOR SOMETHING FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND I KNOW I HAVE IT ONE DAY. I THANK GOD EVERY DAY FOR IT AND I KNOW I HAVE IT IN THE SPIRIT. I JUST HAVE TO BE PATIENT FOR GOD'S TIMING. HE IS NEVER LATE AND I KNOW HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE. JESUS SAID THAT WHATEVER I ASK GOD FOR, IN HIS NAME, GOD WILL DO IT. I HAVE ASKED AND I HAVE FAITH THAT I HAVE IT.
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Zacharias and Elisabeth were righteous people (v. 6) who prayed for a child for many years. They felt the same disappointments and frustrations that any of us would feel and yet they kept believing God. The Lord finally answered their prayers and sent His angel to announce the good news.
What was Zacharias' reaction? He couldn't believe it! The very thing that he had been praying for was granted and he doubted that it was true. In Zacharias' case he received his miracle anyway. Perhaps his wife's faith pulled him through.
Likewise, you may be praying for the right things. You may even be sincere and earnest, but would you be surprised if those prayers were suddenly answered today? Have you made preparations for your prayers to be...
ARE YOU COMPLETE? WE CAN ONLY BE COMPLETE IN JESUS. JESUS SAID TO THOMAS IN JOHN 20:29-31...
Even the genealogies are inspired by God and profitable (2 Tim. 3:16). Matthew traces Jesus' genealogy through Joseph back to Solomon. However, there was a curse placed on one of Solomon's sons named Jechonias (Jer. 22:24-30), which Jesus avoided by being born of a virgin.
Luke mentions Jesus as being the supposed son of Joseph who was the son of Heli. It was actually Mary who was the daughter of Heli. This was done in other Old Testament instances (Num. 27:1-11; 36:12 with Ruth 4:6). Mary's genealogy was also from David but through Nathan, a half brother of Solomon. Thus the lineage was preserved but the curse bypassed.
These genealogies show the infinite wisdom of God in fulfilling His promises despite...
PLEASE DON'T STOP STANDING ON SOMETHING YOU HAVE PRAYED FOR. I HEAR PEOPLE SAY THINGS LIKE "WELL, I GUESS THAT PRAYER WILL NOT BE ANSWERED." IF YOU HAVE PRAYED ACCORDING TO GOD WILL, HE HAS ALREADY ANSWERED YOUR PRAYER. THERE ARE MANY PLACED IN HIS WORD WHERE HE SAYS "ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU". HE DOES NOT LIE BUT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE AND TRUST HIM TO MANIFEST IT IN HIS TIMELINE, NOT YOURS. JUST KEEP STANDING AND BELIEVING.
The Christian life is not like an insurance policy that only pays off when we die and go to heaven. Every believer has now received the grace of God and the fullness of God. We are now complete in Him (Col. 2:9-10).
When we receive Jesus as our Lord, we are instantly changed in our spirits (2 Cor. 5:17). Many Christians aren't aware of the change that takes place in their spirit. They continue to live within their physical and emotional realms and are oblivious to the new, born-again part of them that has received the fullness of God.
You can't see or feel your spirit. You just have to believe what the Word of God tells you because God's Word is spirit and life (Jn. 6:63). Your spiritual salvation is complete. Nothing can be added to it. In your spirit, you are right now as you will be...
I WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 2019 IS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL AND PROSPEROUS YEARS. I KNOW THINGS SOMETIMES LOOKED BAD THIS PAST YEAR BUT THAT IS GONE NOW AND WE HAVE A LORD THAT LOVES US AND WANTS THE BEST FOR US AND WILL NEVER LEAVE US. LAST YEAR HAD ITS PROBLEMS AND I AM GOING TO TOUCH ON THOSE A LITTLE. SOME OF YOU LOST LOVED ONES, SOME GOT SOME BAD NEWS ON THEIR HEALTH AND SOME HAD FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. LET'S LOOK AT THESE A MINUTE.
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Jesus was not just a man sent from God, He was God.
This is the most important statement of the New Testament. On this truth hangs all other truths.
If Jesus was only a man, then regardless of how good He was, His life could only provide a substitute for one other man. But since He was God, His life was worth more than every human life since creation. Indeed it was worth more than the sum total of the universe that He created.
Any compromise on this point will negate the work of Christ in our lives. Jesus was God manifest in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16)! Yet this Almighty God came to dwell in a human body. He humbled Himself and took the form of a servant (Phil. 2:7).
Christ's humanity truly made Him one of us. He suffered the same temptations and...
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STILL HAVING A PROBLEM WITH KNOWING WHETHER THEY WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN THEY DIE. ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE? WELL, ANSWER THIS QUESTION BEFORE YOU READ THE NEXT SENTENCE. IF YOU DIE TODAY, WOULD YOU GO TO HEAVEN? IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN AND YOU ANSWERED ANYTHING BUT "YES", THEN YOU DO HAVE A PROBLEM. EITHER YOU ARE NOT BORN AGAIN, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE GOD'S WORD OR YOU JUST DON'T STUDY YOUR BIBLE.
SOME OF YOU KEEP ASKING IF YOU CAN LOSE...