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I SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS ON THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER BUT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. SO, DID YOU KNOW THAT NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AWARENESS AND CAREGIVER'S MONTH? PRESIDENT REAGAN DESIGNATED THIS MONTH BACK IN 1983. AT THAT TIME, FEWER THAN 2 MILLION AMERICANS HAD ALZHEIMER'S BUT AS OF THIS MONTH IT HAS SOARED TO OVER 5.4 MILLION. BECAUSE OF THIS, I DECIDED TO USE THIS MESSAGE TO BRING SOME AWARENESS TO THE DISEASE.
Herod desired to see Jesus perform some kind of miracle, and some of the questions he asked Jesus made this desire obvious. However, Jesus did not use His faith to do any miracles for Herod.
Miracles are God's way of meeting the needs of those who seek Him in faith. Miracles will sometimes be used to demonstrate God's ability so that people may believe (Mk. 2:10-11), but they will not happen to skeptics who are tempting God (Lk. 4:9-12).
A miracle is a supernatural intervention of God's power over natural law.
Healings occur within the boundaries of natural law while miracles are not limited to natural law. A person with a high fever who receives prayer and then...
Christ's kingdom is spiritual, in the hearts of men - not physical; therefore, our fight as Christians must not be with carnal weapons but with spiritual weapons (2 Cor. 10:3-5). Spiritual forces cannot be defeated with human weapons.
When we are being attacked for being a part of Christ's kingdom, we must fight with spiritual weapons. Our warfare is not against people, but against the spiritual powers that operate behind the scenes through people. We must realize who the real enemy is and fight with the spiritual weapons the Lord has given us.
We often think that anger will put a person in his place. But "the wrath of man does not work the righteousness...
God's kind of love is not self-serving or self-seeking. Agape love will cause a person to lay down his life for another (Jn. 15:13), because he has literally forgotten himself. Many times when heros are asked why they put themselves in jeopardy to save someone else, they reply that they didn't even think about themselves. All they thought of was the danger to the other person. That's God's kind of love.
God's type of love involves emotions many times, but it is not an emotion. It is an act of the will. We can choose to love even when we don't feel like it and we can always conduct ourselves in a godly manner, when we feel God's kind of love. God's kind of love is a choice.
God's kind of love is also the antidote to selfishness and pride. We cannot conquer...
The truths of God are hidden for His children, not from them. The Holy Spirit has been instructed to teach us all things (Jn. 14:26) and has given us an unction so that we will know all things (1 Jn. 2:20). We only have to appropriate what is ours.
What God desires His New Testament saints to know, that the Old Testament saints could not know, is "Christ in you the hope of glory." The coming of the Messiah was predicted in the Old Testament, but the idea that He would actually dwell in us was beyond anyone's imagination. However, the New Testament is clear that Christ, by the Holy Spirit, takes up permanent residence in all believers. This is a wonderful truth that some fail to fully appreciate....
I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS BEFORE BUT FEEL I NEED TO REPEAT A FEW THINGS. WHEN YOU PRAY FOR GOD TO HEAL YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE AND SAY "IF IT IS YOUR WILL", TO ME, THAT IS LIKE A SLAP IN THE FACE TO JESUS. JESUS TOOK ALL OF OUR SICKNESS AND DISEASES AND BY THE STRIPES HE TOOK FOR US WE WERE HEALED. (1ST PETER 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.) SOME PEOPLE SAY THIS IS TALKING ABOUT BEING HEALED OF OUR SINS, HOWEVER, ISAIAH PROPHESIED ABOUT JESUS DOING THIS SOME 600 YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS EVEN BORN. (ISAIAH 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Teaching and learning in the scriptures, are much more than academic. It involves being guided by God's principles in relationship to others, as well as knowing and responding to God. It calls for the learner to put the Word of God into practice, not just hear it (Jas. 1:22). It involves hearing a word from the outside and putting it on the inside, so that it may be expressed in our every action. Proverbs 2 tells us to incline our ear unto wisdom, apply our heart to understanding, cry after knowledge, lift up our voice for understanding, seek her as silver, search for her like hidden treasures, and then we will understand and find the knowledge of God (Prov. 2:1-7). God says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6), and He...