When Jesus healed a leprous man He told him to tell no one. Then His next instructions followed the Jewish Law of Moses concerning lepers. Go to a priest. A priest was to ascertain if a person with leprosy was healed. The priest was to give a sacrificial offering in behalf of the healed […]
The dictionary defines leprosy: A chronic, infectious, granulomatous disease occurring almost exclusively in tropical and subtropical regions…it can be non-contagious or contagious… If people with leprosy were contagious they had to live apart from others and shout “unclean” when others were around. Lepers were outcasts for the sake of the many. Such a man […]
Use your name when you read the personal pronouns as you pray: (I, my, you, your) (NASB) Ephesians 3:14-19 “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, […]
The “why’s” and “what ifs” are not always important. The “Because…of Jesus” is all important. Simon, James and John were partners in a fishing business and sometimes they fished all night without any results to show for all their hard work. Because Jesus was in Simon’s boat one day, He asked Simon to […]
Simon and his partners had fished all night…nada, zilch, nothing had been caught… all night long. Jesus used Simon’s boat as a means to speak to a crowd on the shore of Lake Galilee. Then Jesus asked Simon to “Put out into deeper water and let down your nets for a catch.” (See Luke […]
Jesus was teaching a crowd of people from a boat put out from shore and: (NASB) Luke 5:4 “When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.’” First: Jesus finished teaching the crowd. Second: Jesus began a ‘teachable moment’ to […]
(NASB) Luke 5:1-2 “…He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; 2 and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; But the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.” NEED: The people crowding around Jesus could hear Jesus but what about those on the outer edges of […]
If you want to hear a speaker better, don’t you try to get closer and you move forward through the crowd? Others may bump you or push past you, or you may do that to others. It takes work getting around the person in front of you, then the next and the next until […]
This month of December, Christmas will be celebrated by followers of Christ (NASB) Isaiah 9:6 “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” This “child” […]
What is keeping you from continuing on in living a life which honors the living God? (NASB) Luke 4:44 “So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.” Jesus never let well meaning people keep Him from doing God’s will. Are you being kept from obedience to God’s call in your life by […]