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Monday Jul 18, 2016
Monday Jul 18, 2016
Sunday Jul 10, 2016
Sunday Jul 10, 2016
Wednesday Jul 06, 2016
Wednesday Jul 06, 2016
Tuesday Jul 05, 2016
Tuesday Jul 05, 2016
Saturday Jun 25, 2016
Saturday Jun 25, 2016
John 4:7 Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food…
When Jesus shared water with the woman at Jacob’s well in Samaria, he opened her up to the power of his refreshing presence, the living water that satisfies the soul instead of the pursuit of pleasure that simply gratifies the senses. As well as that mystical water there is a mystical food that nourishes and strengthens our heart and mind and even our body, as we share in the supernatural work of the doing of God’s good will to others. The powerful energy of God’s love to others feeds our soul as well as theirs. (Jesus fixes our thirst before dealing with our appetite).
John 4:34. Then Jesus said: “ My food (for strength) is to do the will of him who sent me and to make his work complete” (He didn’t say ‘My duty is to…’)
WHAT WAS ‘THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME’?
The Journey of Jesus and the disciples through Samaria was not plan A for Jesus.
John 4:1 Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism (Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself), He went out of Judaea into Galilee again. 4.And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.
Apart from the fact that the way through Samaria was quicker, it was necessary for Jesus to go by way of hilly Samaria as a safety measure as the Pharisees had become antagonistic to him, and Jesus was not ready for a final showdown with them. This would have likely happened if they took the longer normal journey with more confrontation and provocation through the Jewish villages of the plains between Judea and Galilee. This necessary thing steered Jesus into being where he had to be for the doing of the will of his Father. And Jesus was always ready for that.
The conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well concluded with Jesus saying to her “I Am the Messiah!”
In the meantime she had taunted Jesus the thirsty Jewish man, she had argued with the Jesus the Rabbi, she was captivated by Jesus the prophet, and she surrendered her life to Jesus the Messiah, the Christ, to manage her soul. This was his food - doing the life-changing good will of his Father towards that woman.
Vs.27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?” So the people came streaming from the city to see him.
Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”
But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”
“Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other.
Vs.34 Jesus said, ‘My food (for strength) is to do the will of him who sent me and to make his work complete’
Jesus partook of that ‘food’ simply by BEING with his Father and sharing life-giving water with the woman. And the woman also partook of that food when she shared her powerful revelation of truth and love in the person of Jesus to the people of that Samarian city of Sychar.
HARVEST IS A WHO NOT A WHEN
Vs.35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between seedtime and harvest ’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already white for harvest (The white robed people from Sychar streaming down the hill). The harvesters are paid good wages, and the food they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the sower and the harvester alike! You know the saying, ‘One sows and another reaps. ’ And it’s true. I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest. (NLT)
Amos 9:13 The time will come when there will be such abundance of crops that the harvest-time will scarcely end before the farmer starts again to sow another crop.(LB)
Amos 9:13 Yes indeed, it won't be long now. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. (Message bible)
JESUS WAS ALWAYS READY – Paul also said ‘So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also’. (Romans 1:15)
Ready (Prothymos) means ‘The heart has gone on ahead before the action happens’ - The heart appetite for the good will of God for others. A heart disposition of that kind of readiness becomes our destiny. Destiny is not something that happens to us one day but something that is happening with us at any given time. So even though it is set before us it is not just something for the future only, but something we are always arriving at now in our heart. So the life goal becomes the here and now readiness or disposition to go with Holy Spirit at any crossroad and walk with him into the doing of his good will to others. Our prayer becomes the menu. It is our ‘ready, set, go’.
If we are at one with God (peace) it is impossible to not want his good will for others because that is what he wants. That is the food for our soul. If we wish to withhold his good will to others we starve our own soul. When we feed with faith The food multiplies.
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Wednesday Jun 22, 2016
Wednesday Jun 22, 2016
When we can SEE with the
right kind of seeing, we can begin to HEAR with the right kind of
hearing. Then we can DO with the right kind of doing.
AN ATTENTIVE EAR
2Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments
and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience (hypokuo -
hearing under – attentive hearing) of Christ,
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live;
There is a hearing and a hearing. One
kind goes in one ear and out the other, it has no ground to find root
and it creates no understanding. (Mark 4:12 ‘ Seeing they may see and
not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand),
Another kind of hearing leads to doing.
It comes to an inclined ear, prepared to receive. It changes your will
without willpower but with grace.
Mark 4:2 Then He said to them, “ Take
heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured
to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. For whoever has, to him
more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be
taken away from him. (Not by God)
Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. And
these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they
hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in
their hearts.
PREPARED TO HEAR
There are many ways that we can hear God speaking to us.
1 Kings 18 – Storm, fire then still
small voice. The storms have been battering, the fiery trials have been
purifying, and now in the stillness the voice can be heard. That doesn’t
mean no more storms, or no more fire, but it does mean that finally, in
the stillness, with an inclined ear, people are going to hear, and what
they hear they will be given the grace to do.
Hearing God’s voice is always good. It allows our soul to live
Hearing other peoples’ voices is unpredictable. It can be good or bad.
Hearing our own voice is fairly predictable. It is usually disapproving.
Wednesday Jun 22, 2016
Wednesday Jun 22, 2016
Hebrews2:6 ‘What is man that
you pay so much attention to him, or the Son of Man (Jesus), that you
would bewith him and look out for him?’7. You created him of a lower
spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of
glory and honor and placed him in supreme authority over everything that
is yours.
8. He is in command of everything. There
is nothing that exists outside the scope of his dominion. But when we
see (discern) the apparent disorder of things (What on earth is going
on?) it does not seem that everything is conforming to this rule. (Many
free will agendas out there) 9. But we see (behold) Jesus for who he
really is, created of a lower spiritual order than angels, so that he
could suffer and die as a man and then receive his heavenly crown of
glory and honor - and through the grace and goodness of God, to digest
the poison of death for all of humanity.
10. It was the most noble and upright
thing for him to do, the one to whom everything belongs, and through
whom everything was created. It was so that he could bring the whole
human family, as his brothers and sisters, into the same place of
recognition and standing that he has himself. The pioneer of a whole new
and perfect way of living had to voluntarily live the paradox of human
suffering.
1. We don’t see all things in subjection to God. So what we see and what we are beholding are two different things.
2. What does Jesus see? What does Jesus feel – defeated, worried? What does Jesus know?
3. He sees everything under his feet and
he knows he is in complete command and he is at peace. He is actually
rejoicing and singing (Zephaniah 3:17). We have a happy God. (Holy
Spirit grieves)
TWO DIFFERENT WAYS OF SEEING - TWO MINDS AND ONE HEART.
The left brain is activated when we
analyze the minute details of our situations - the good and the bad, the
correctness or the injustice of them - and it projects us into the
future problems or benefits of them. It also reminds us of past
situations in the same way and sinks us into our story of ‘Why me?’ and
‘What on earth is going on?’ It isolates us. There is another part of
the brain (the right brain) that is activated when we become still (and
know that He is God).
In the stillness of faith we can see
Jesus and behold Him. The veil is taken away and Holy Spirit is changing
us. How do we do this? We cast down imaginations and arguments that
block us off from Knowing God and we bring every thought into captivity
to the attentive hearing of Christ (2Corinthians 10:4.). This is not a
passive state but a very active state of transformation of the soul. We
are consciously IN God with Jesus or IN something else. That is ALWAYS
the difference.
ACCEPTANCE AND THANKS
1Thessalomians 5:13 ‘Give thanks IN all circumstances; for this is the will of God IN Christ Jesus for you.’
The circumstance does not prompt you to
accept it, or give thanks for it. Our perception (the disorder of what
we see) is that it is unwanted and unnecessary.
It is only the beholding of the reality
of who Jesus is that causes us to tap into the acceptance and thanks for
being joined to him who is always at work in the world of the unseen
and works all things together for good.
The peace is within us – it doesn’t come from the circumstance.
JOY AND PEACE
John 16:33 These things I have spoken to
you, that IN Me you may have peace. IN the world you will have trouble;
but be glad and joyful, I have overcome the world.
The pressure makes our humanity feel weaker, not stronger, so this is more than acceptance and thanks.
EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM
Luke 6:23 (When you are hated and excluded) … Rejoice IN that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great IN heaven.
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Sunday May 08, 2016
Sunday May 08, 2016