To Follow Jesus…

   Jesus told His disciples of His suffering, death and resurrection – I don’t believe that they thought it would be in the next weeks or months…but as most people think, ‘that won’t happen today or in my life time.’   The living God of the Holy Bible knows the future.  He is Omniscient (All-Knowing).  […]

Amazing Substitute! Amazing Savior!

   Christ Jesus told His twelve chosen men that He was going to suffer, be rejected by Jewish leaders, be killed and then raised to life on the third day.  (Luke 9:22)   When I received Jesus as my Savior, it were as if I was crucified with Him.  He took my place on that […]

Step by Step

   Jesus re-directed His twelve disciples thinking about what He would do while He was here.  They knew He was Messiah, the Anointed One of God.  But what He then told them was beyond what they had thought about Messiah. (NASB) Luke 9:22 “…‘The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by […]

Questions…

   Jesus asked His twelve chosen disciples who they thought He was:  “…who do you say that I am?”  (Luke 9:19) Peter answered for himself and probably for the other eleven, “You are the Christ of God!”  (Luke 9:20)  Then Jesus warned them not to tell anyone…why would He say that?   The disciples’ perspective:  […]

Prayer of the Week

(NIV) Romans 11:33-36 “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’ 35‘Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?’ 36For from him and […]

“My Hour Has Not Yet Come.”

   Jesus stated that “My hour has not yet come” when His mother wanted Him to reveal that He was Messiah at a wedding in Cana.  (John 2:4)  Again He stated this twice to His brothers when they wanted Him to go to Jerusalem during a feast.  (John 7:6, 8)  Then again Scripture tells us […]

“But who do you say that I am?”

 “But who do you say that I am?” Jesus asked that question of His twelve disciples. “But who do you say that I am?” Jesus asks that question of you and me. Peter stated, emphatically, “The Christ of God!”  (Luke 9:20) This bold and brash Jewish man, this fisherman, this man called by Jesus to […]

“Who do people say that I am?”

 (NASB) Luke 9:18 “And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, ‘Who do the people say that I am?’”    The disciples answered: John the Baptist, others say You are Elijah, and others say that You are one of the prophets of the past, […]

Satisfaction in Receiving from the Hand of Jesus

   The Lord Jesus Christ’s blessing is filling, full, flowing over and fulfilling God’s will and purpose.   What Jesus gives out from His hands will give satisfaction to all who receive it. What satisfies you?  Is it what others find satisfactory and are you contented with that? Searching and seeking for “whatever” is like […]

What Jesus Blesses

   What Jesus blesses, He uses to meet the hungering needs of people, like you and me. (NASB) Luke 9:16 “Then He (Jesus) took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people.” Jesus […]