Good Morning Truth Seekers! Isaiah 26-26 really are songs of praise considering the destruction we have read in the past few days. Judah will return to the Lord and reap the blessings set aside for righteousness. A strong city will once again be theirs. Verse 12 gives all glory to God for what they have and become. Note verse 19 which speaks of resurrection for those who are in God. 27 speaks of the remnant of Israel that the Lord has preserved. He has watch and watered his vineyard and fruit will be produced. Israel has been chastened but not destroyed completely. Israel will worship the one true God again and him only.
Mark 6: Jesus feeds the five thousand with a small lunch. We see the limitless power of God at work. He provides for those who follow Him. Often times those closes to such greatness misses it. After all that the disciples saw they still did not recognize Jesus as God. What will it take? He has walked on water, healed the sick, and fed 5,000 with the lunch of one. What will it take in your life to recognize the Jesus as Lord? As God?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Isaiah 23-25: Mark 6:1-29
Good Morning Truth Seekers! Isaiah 23-25 represent more of the same; God is going to destroy Tyre. He will use the Assyrians to do it, but it Tyre will rebuild and be the same sin city it once was. 24. Devastation to the earth the Lord will bring. This destruction like before will be because of disobedience (5) but Praise be to the Lord 25 speaks of the restoration that will come to Jerusalem.
Mark 6: 1-29; Jesus is rejected in his home town. often times the people who you love do not benefits from gifts, wisdom or power one might have. Their disbelief was so bad that Jesus could not do many miracles there. I hope that faith overcomes disbelief in your life and mine. The Bible teaches that without faith it is impossible to please God. God no doubt was not pleased with Nazareth. But the work continued elsewhere, and many were healed. Tragically, in 14 -29 John the Baptist was beheaded. You can kill the man but the mission must go on.
Mark 6: 1-29; Jesus is rejected in his home town. often times the people who you love do not benefits from gifts, wisdom or power one might have. Their disbelief was so bad that Jesus could not do many miracles there. I hope that faith overcomes disbelief in your life and mine. The Bible teaches that without faith it is impossible to please God. God no doubt was not pleased with Nazareth. But the work continued elsewhere, and many were healed. Tragically, in 14 -29 John the Baptist was beheaded. You can kill the man but the mission must go on.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Isaiah 20-22: Mark 5:21-43
Good Morning Truth Seekers! Isaiah 20 is a little bizarre but it surely makes the point of what will happen to Ethiopia and Egypt. The Prophet is asked to walk around for three years without his clothes. Sometimes the assignment from God don't make sense, but if we only obeyed when we understood then could never accept his grace or mercy. Because we will never understand why God continues to have mercy on us and to provide for us based on our actions. We should all get the destruction that comes upon Babylon. I hope that we do not take God's mercy for granted. The wages of sin is death. It did not say sins. We have been spared beyond our ability to understand it.
Mark 5: 21-43 is two stories wrapped in one. Jairus a man of rank and power asked for Jesus to come to his house for to heal his daughter, but in the midst of going to see about her he heals a woman. A lowly woman who had been bleeding for 12 years, had faith to believe that if she could just touch Jesus her life would change. Oh what faith! Lord give me this type of faith when I need it; with my health, my family, job, ministry, and finances. Amen!
Mark 5: 21-43 is two stories wrapped in one. Jairus a man of rank and power asked for Jesus to come to his house for to heal his daughter, but in the midst of going to see about her he heals a woman. A lowly woman who had been bleeding for 12 years, had faith to believe that if she could just touch Jesus her life would change. Oh what faith! Lord give me this type of faith when I need it; with my health, my family, job, ministry, and finances. Amen!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Isaiah 17-19 Mark 5:1-20
Good Morning Truth Seekers! It is beautiful snow filled day in Belleville. I hope you caught in your reading. Isaiah 17-19 continues God's dealing with those countries and armies who have come against his people. 17 speaks against Syria and apparently Ephraim. Jacobs glory fading points to the army growing smaller and weaker. But in the midst of destruction there will be a remnant of the faithful who seek the Lord and he provides for. (6-8) Chapter 18 speaks of a people who will beat up on the people of God until he intervenes on their behalf and defend and destroy the enemy. Lastly Egypt will be brought down. But eventually worship of God will even be in Egypt. This is a prophecy that the Gospel will be preached there. We know Jesus goes to Egypt for refuge, and eventually the message is believed there. In that time Assyria and Egypt will get along with Assyria.
Mark 5:1-20: tells of the demons who falls at Jesus' feet and begs him not to send them out from the region or back to where they belong. Jesus grants them passage into pigs and the pigs drown in water. The tragedy is that the people are more concerned with their business or pigs than the man being healed and delivered. Note that Jesus tells this man to go tell what God has done for him, verses before, not to tell anyone. I wonder what has happened to this witness. Is it that we are more concerned with our business rather than the salvation of men? When was the last time you gave a full witness and invited someone to follow Jesus.
Mark 5:1-20: tells of the demons who falls at Jesus' feet and begs him not to send them out from the region or back to where they belong. Jesus grants them passage into pigs and the pigs drown in water. The tragedy is that the people are more concerned with their business or pigs than the man being healed and delivered. Note that Jesus tells this man to go tell what God has done for him, verses before, not to tell anyone. I wonder what has happened to this witness. Is it that we are more concerned with our business rather than the salvation of men? When was the last time you gave a full witness and invited someone to follow Jesus.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Isaiah 14-16:Mark 4:21-41
Good Morning Truth Seekers! It is a snow day and I am on a snow (slow) schedule. I hope if you are snow bound you take this time to catch up on some reading. Isaiah 14-16: After the judgement of Judah or Jerusalem the Lord will have compassion and allow them to return to their land. Some of you are familiar with Nehemiah who is allowed to return with a remnant to repair the walls of Jerusalem. Well, that happened after Assyria and Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and Judah. These chapter tell of God's soon coming destruction of those empires. Additionally, the Moabites will be destroyed because of their unwillingness to assist the Israelites in a time of need. Please do not overlook the prophecy of redemption from David's house. (16:5)
Mark 4: 221-41: Jesus teaches in parables. A parable is a short story used to make a point, or to teach a lesson. I will yield to verse 34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything. Read each parable, spend time with God and ask, What is the point?"
Mark 4: 221-41: Jesus teaches in parables. A parable is a short story used to make a point, or to teach a lesson. I will yield to verse 34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything. Read each parable, spend time with God and ask, What is the point?"
Monday, January 26, 2009
Isaiah 11-13: Mark 4:1-20
Good Morning Truth Seekers! Isaiah 11-13 speaks of Redemption and destruction. Chapter eleven speaks of the coming messiah who will be salvation for God people; Israel and gentiles. He will judge fairly and bring peace beyond measure. Enemies will dwell together, such as the lion and the cow, babies will play near wholes of the cobra. And of course to eliminate any doubt about the prophecy, the messiah will come out of David. Chapter 12 speaks of a song of praise to the messiah for the salvation he brings. Note: This prophecy happens nearly 800 years before Christ was born. Then in chap. 13 God speaks to the calamity he will bring on Babylon. They will be overrun by both the Medes and Persian empires. It happened just as the prophet said it would. Our God is an awesome God!
Mark 4:1-20; What a shame! Jesus teaches in a powerful parable about the word being sown by the sower, but the enemy choking it out. I remind daily that we have the same enemy as Jesus. His job is to keep us from the life changing words that he left behind. Without a fertile foundation of the word in your life, this will be like a fad diet, it will come and go quickly. Therefore, in order to produce 30,60 and 100 fold fruit you have to make a lifestyle change and eat a healthy doze of the word of God. Which seed are you in the parable? Owe I guest you have to read the parable!
Mark 4:1-20; What a shame! Jesus teaches in a powerful parable about the word being sown by the sower, but the enemy choking it out. I remind daily that we have the same enemy as Jesus. His job is to keep us from the life changing words that he left behind. Without a fertile foundation of the word in your life, this will be like a fad diet, it will come and go quickly. Therefore, in order to produce 30,60 and 100 fold fruit you have to make a lifestyle change and eat a healthy doze of the word of God. Which seed are you in the parable? Owe I guest you have to read the parable!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Isaiah 9-10:Mark 3:20-35
Good Morning Truth Seekers! Isaiah 9:6 & 7is a prophecy of Jesus don;t over look it: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders, And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end..... Chapter 10 God will strike down the proud kind of Assyria for not recognizing that it was God who gave his enemies into his hand.
Mark 3: 20-end Often times when people cannot understand or explain something they oppose it or misrepresent it. In this case Jesus is now said to have power of and from the devil. And he rebukes that claim by saying it would be foolish for Satan to come against himself. establishing that he has come to oppose and to dethrone Satan in this world. His own family is confused. And Jesus declares that his family are those that do the will of his Father. I hope that when you are misunderstood and misrepresented you remember to that it happened to Jesus and that we have the same enemy as he did. In Isaiah 7:9b If you do not stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all. I hope today you will be found standing in your faith!
Mark 3: 20-end Often times when people cannot understand or explain something they oppose it or misrepresent it. In this case Jesus is now said to have power of and from the devil. And he rebukes that claim by saying it would be foolish for Satan to come against himself. establishing that he has come to oppose and to dethrone Satan in this world. His own family is confused. And Jesus declares that his family are those that do the will of his Father. I hope that when you are misunderstood and misrepresented you remember to that it happened to Jesus and that we have the same enemy as he did. In Isaiah 7:9b If you do not stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all. I hope today you will be found standing in your faith!
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