Fulfilled in Jesus, Empowered by the Holy Spirit “I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit” (Mark 1:8, ESV) Imagine the excitement felt by those who heard John the Baptist say those words. Now, who knows how many people ACTUALLY understood what John was going on about?
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Jesus Our Lord is Risen! “And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” So, they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.” (Matthew 28:9, NKJV) Rejoice! Jesus, the Risen Lord, greeted His followers with a shout of victory. Imagine the mixed emotion, the exceeding joy going
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Watch and Pray! “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41, NKJV) The celebration of the Passover with His disciples is now over. The Lord Jesus Christ is near the end of His earthly ministry. He was about to be betrayed and be delivered into the hands of
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The Greatest in God’s Kingdom “But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.” (Matthew 23:11, NKJV) It is one thing to find one’s significance, and to aspire to a place of distinction is another. Throughout the history of humankind, we learned that people perform crazy things, if not brutal, just to be
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Broken Before the Savior “And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” (Matthew 21:44, KJV) Two individuals represent this passage: He who believes in Jesus Christ, is he who falls on the stone and is broken,
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Have Faith, Do Not Doubt! “Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31, NKJV) In these four chapters, Jesus has shown and manifested His anointing and power that there was nothing impossible for Him to do. When the multitudes were hungry,
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What’s Next? Transformation After Salvation “Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds” (Matthew 11:19b, ESV). Pause and reflect. If this 7-word sentence does nothing for you, place it against the background of Matthew 11:20-24, ‘Woe to Unrepentant Cities’. If you’re like me (i.e., someone who grew up in Church) and had the “advantage” of being
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The Power to Forgive But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise,
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Be a Wise Builder: Hear and Obey! “Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock; and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for
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Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone Today, we begin our 2021 Bible Reading journey! As we already have established the importance of God’s word in our lives, it is another thing to be fed and saturated with it. Let us approach this endeavor with an open heart and a humble spirit. Pray that the
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