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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, May 25, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:We Have Heard for Ourselves Bible Verse:John 4:39-45 (ESV) "Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.” After the two days he departed for Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. " Message:
It is hard to decide which is more remarkable: that the Jewish Messiah spends time and energy in the heathen land of Samaria, or that large numbers of Samaritans are so readily convinced to believe in Him. The Samaritans, remember, were despised by the Hebrews. A devout Hebrew man would not — could not — sit down at a table and eat with an unclean person. And the Samaritans were worse than simply heathens; they were heathens who were occupying Canaan, the birthright land of the Hebrews which was given to them by God. As we just saw, the very well where Jacob drew water was in the center of Samaria and was used by its people for water.
Yet, Christ stays there for days, living among its people and showing them the true light of God; and they accepted Him as their savior.
This might not seem so hard to believe in modern times. On any given Sunday, there are more Nigerians actually attending services in Anglican churches than there are in England. If you were on a mission, who would you rather try to convert: An atheist in the “Christian” city of New York or London, or atheist in a heathen tribe in Africa? In fact, there has arisen an odd (at least in historical terms) phenomenon in the past decade: missionaries from third-world countries coming to Europe and the U.S. in order to spread the Gospel!
People who live in more advanced civilizations or have spent their lives in a higher educational system seem more resistant to the Word of God. Atheists will claim this is because the latter are ignorant and easily fooled, but I think there’s more to it. Educated people begin to think they have all the answers. They are glutted with the pride of their paltry knowledge. As Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their is the kingdom of heaven.”
If a person’s spirit is filled with pride, there is no room for the spirit of God. This applies as much to you and me as it does to any clever atheist. Does my ego feel a bit inflated when I know a Bible verse, which others (in, say, my Sunday School class) do not? If we do not seek the Kingdom of God first, if we let our pride in our knowledge fill up our mind, the Holy Spirit will not find as much room in which to live. Not knowledge, but pride in knowledge.
Christ never said we must be stupid, or ignorant of worldly wisdom. In fact, he told his disciples to be as “wise as serpents.” But we must be always vigilant that our learning does not infect our Spirit with pride.
Meditation : Prayer : Heavenly Father, there are people praying with me, right now, whom I will never meet. I don’t know their names, or what country they live in, or what they may look like, but I will know their souls, for we are brothers and sisters in Christ. I pray that we might be united in the Holy Spirit, and that I will know and feel the kinship and love, in my spirit, of those who share these prayers with me......Amen |
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