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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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We have angels assigned to us. Hebrews 1:14 further reveals that their purpose is to minister to us (i.e. on our behalf). In the Old Testament, Psalm 91 teaches on the ministry of angels to God's people.
Some have realized this truth and have taken it even further to say that we are supposed to speak to our angels and they will obey our commands. There is no instruction in scripture to do this nor is there any example of it being done. Many of the angels' protective duties described in Psalm 91 are preventative, and we certainly could not effectively command these activities.
Rather, these angels are dispatched exactly as this verse describes - by looking at the...
I TOOK A LOT OF GRIEF OVER THIS TOPIC WHEN I FIRST WROTE ABOUT IT BUT WAS AGAIN ASKED ABOUT IT AND HAD QUITE A DISCUSSION OVER IT. I TOLD MY FRIEND I WOULD WRITE ABOUT IT AGAIN WITH ALL THE SCRIPTURES AND HE COULD DECIDED FOR HIMSELF. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I HAVE A LOT OF CATHOLIC FRIENDS AND LOVE EVERY ONE OF THEM. I ALSO LOVE MARY BECAUSE...
It is interesting that Jesus used a little child to illustrate humility. Although it is true that little children have a purity and humility that is many times missing in adults, they certainly are not selfless. A child comes into the world totally self-centered, wanting what he wants when he wants it. Parents are to train children out of this self-centeredness.
One of humility's dominant characteristics is a God-dependency and not a self-sufficiency. The truth of humility being the key to greatness or success was not new. Jesus gave this truth new meaning by walking in humility as no one ever had before.
This path of self-denial to greatness is exactly opposite to the world's path of...
HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR JESUS?
AFTER THIS, HE HEARD THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS IN PRISON AND HE LEFT NAZARETH AND WENT TO CAPERNAUM. WHEN WE READ SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WE NEVER CONSIDER HOW FAR THAT IS AND THEY WERE WALKING. ANOTHER EXAMPLE, MARY AND JOSEPH TRAVELED 70 MILES TO PAY THEIR TAXES. THAT HAD TO TAKE FOUR OR FIVE DAYS AND MARY WAS NINE MONTHS PREGNANT. BELOW I HAVE LISTED SOME MILEAGES FOR YOU TO LOOK AT.
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This was quite a miracle. Not only was the money supplied for their taxes, but it was the exact amount needed, and it was from the first fish that was caught.
Although this sets the precedent that God can supply our needs in a miraculous way, it's important to remember that God doesn't counterfeit money. He didn't create money in the fish, but rather he had the fish miraculously find and swallow the exact Roman coin that Peter needed. It's a mistake to just pray and then wait on God to rain the money down from heaven.
As Luke 6:38 says, God uses men (and sometimes fish) to give...
Prayer and fasting do not drive certain demons out. If the name of Jesus and faith in His name won't do the job, then fasting and prayer won't either. Jesus is saying that fasting and prayer are the only ways of casting out this type of unbelief.
An unbelief that comes as a result of ignorance can be done away with by receiving the truth of God's Word (Rom. 10:17; 2 Pet. 1:4). However, the unbelief that hindered the disciples in this case was a "natural" type of unbelief. They had been taught all of their lives to believe what their five senses told them. They were simply dominated by this natural input more than by God's supernatural input (God's Word). The only way to overcome this unbelief that comes through our senses is to deny our senses through...
The disciples' unbelief in this instance was not a disbelief in God's power to produce deliverance, but rather a "natural" kind of unbelief that came from a hardened heart that was more sensitive to what it saw than to what it believed. Jesus said that a very small amount of faith (a "mustard seed") is sufficient to remove a mountain, if no unbelief is present to hinder it.
Jesus was disappointed that His disciples had not been able to cast this devil out. Most people would have had no criticism of these disciples. After all, it wasn't normal to have power...
