God's love extends to the full extent of His power, reaching hearts, minds, and souls with the Gospel but stopping just short of forcing people to love and serve Him.
Psalms 36:7 KJV How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Pride kills souls.
Psalms 36:11-12 KJV Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
If you miss a day's food, Jesus hasn't abandoned you. Many people can afford to miss a day or two.
Mark 8:2 KJV I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
Men become more than just trees to us, no longer easily overlooked and passed by, once Jesus touches our lives.
Mark 8:24 KJV And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Mark 8:25 KJV After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Jesus is not just a prophet or another god. He is the Christ, the Son of God.
Mark 8:27 KJV And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mark 8:28 KJV And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
Mark 8:29 KJV And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Some wrongly assume they can dictate God's will. But for the faithful, such as Peter, a humbling encounter with the Lord can graciously dispel this delusional illusion.
Mark 8:31 KJV And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:32 KJV And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
Mark 8:33 KJV But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
You haven't begun to live until you've begun to die.
Mark 8:34 KJV And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 8:35 KJV For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Mark 8:36 KJV For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:37 KJV Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Gospilled Minute #80
Many are ashamed to speak of Christ because they do not know His words.
Mark 8:38 KJV Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
If you understand Esau and the Edomites in contrast to Israel and the Israelites, you will understand many things. Otherwise, you will erroneously refer to both as the chosen people of God.
Genesis 36:8 KJV Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
The LORD bears with the faithful's venting of their pain. However, self-pity is not prayer or praise.
Job 3:1 KJV After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2 KJV And Job spake, and said,
Job 3:3 KJV Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Job 3:4 KJV Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Father, we are weak, but you are mighty. In Jesus' Name, Amen.