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John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
When you are surprised by someone, what comes out of your mouth is normally the truth from your heart; I’m not talking about being scared witless by someone, but by someone turning up out of the blue for you!
What is your reaction going to be when you see Christ? Are you going to show a great amount of faith like Thomas or Mary did – each in their own way?
Christ wants us to live with Him in this life so we are most prepared for eternal life with Him later. Christ wants us to know the truth now.
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John 20:28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
What are going to be the first words you say to Christ when you see Him face to face?
Thomas did doubt and Jesus was now standing in front of Him. Thomas did not make a clinical search of all the wounds but simply said “My Lord and my God!”
That was the moment he knew Christ had already forgiven him even though his doubt was now plain for all to see.
Christ was not rebuking him or punishing him but simply inviting him to believe fully once again.
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Revelation 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
We live in a time where the Holy Spirit lives among us as our comforter and our guide, but there is coming a time when Christ Himself will once again live amongst us in person!
That time will be when we can live as His own people and He can live as our rightful King over all the earth!
These are not idle rambling of a man daydreaming but promises from God about our future life and the life of the earth. Each and every promise God has made comes to life because they are just that, promises!
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Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
How big is a congregation? The dictionary definition is simply a group of people assembled for worship. The Jews preferred the minimum definition of 10 people gathered.
Here Jesus gives us a new definition; whether it be for worship, business, or whatever reason people gather together, if they gather in Christ’s name, He is with them!
Christ wants to give us guidance and wants to rule our hearts with us so we can live for and with Him; first, we need to submit to Him and allow Him to guide us!
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Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
When we tell people about Jesus and the gospel, we should not just be telling them one part of it; we need to spread the whole gospel story!
Jesus is a part of our bibles. He has been there from the beginning of time and people need to know every part of His life as well as the rest of the bible.
Share God. Share your bible. Do this all full in the knowledge that Jesus has promised to be with us right through the end of time!
But do everything trying your best to obey your God and Father!
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Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—
What does loving God without restraint actually look like or mean to us?
We should be willing to do anything for God at any time! This does not mean He will be asking us to do terrible things to test our resolve! He is Holy, Just and Faithful!
God wants us to be willing to server Him, which means being ready to do things when He asks… which means trying to listen to Him at all times and obeying whatever He asks of us.
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Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
The first, and greatest commandment is that we love the Lord our God with everything we are and everything we have.
To many, this may be a tall order as they struggle to love the people around them or even themselves; which is why Jesus related the love for each other as being as important.
We tend to measure our love for others in one way or another. What God is saying is we should not try to measure it or even think it through – just simply love Him with everything!
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Psalm 37:30 The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.
The closer we draw to God, the more we will be able to rely on His strength and power in our lives. The more we do that the less likely we are to lose it all and go off the rails!
God wants to keep us close so He can look after us, guide us and keep us from evil things. As we grow closer we become more aware of His presence.
As we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us and keep us, we also find we speak more of Him and less of the world; we begin to think more like a child of God than a child of this earth!
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Luke 6:45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Once again Jesus teaches us that our own mouths are going to let us down at some stage in our lives.
He further warns us the things which come out of our mouths will most likely echo what is deep in our hearts; when we get angry, we say things because that is how we actually feel deep inside.
It is sometimes only after we say things we realise what is in our own hearts; then we can make amends and change with God’s help!
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Matthew 15:11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.
How often have you had some sort of bad thoughts about someone just because of what they eat or how they eat? It’s disturbing even if it was only once!
Humans do tend to judge others all the time over silly things and Jesus points this out by saying it is not what goes in our mouths that makes us bad but what comes out of them!
Most of us find it hard to stop saying the wrong things; things which will hurt others or which are just plain evil. They just seem to slip out.
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Jude 1:5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
Parts of the bible may be hard to read because of events where God destroys people when we think He is all loving.
Even the most loving parent has to bring discipline to a child who has gone astray.
God is trying to prepare us through examples; giving us plenty of warning and time to get ourselves right with Him before He once again removes the evil from the earth. We need to listen to Him now!
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Genesis 19:7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
This is taken from the account right before Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, when the people were being so wicked.
Lot lived in this wicked place. He knew the people were wicked and yet he was there and still called them his brothers or friends.
We do need to remind people they are loved by God and that love needs to start somewhere – let it start in you and spread to those around you.
God wants to forgive, but it is His choice to judge the guilty, not ours. We need to follow Christ’s words and love all people.
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Genesis 20:17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again
I’m not sure I would have ended up being as calm as Abimelek seemed to be as depicted here in this chapter!
Abraham was scared for his life and the life of his wife – why he did things the way he did is very human!
We all make mistakes and we all get things terribly wrong – but when we open our hearts and confess our problems to God, His is willing and able to do so much more than we expect!
God answers prayers more than you realise.
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James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Admitting your faults, wrongdoing and sins is never easy, but being able to pray for each other so we can be less tempted and to sin less is always good.
Just as we trust others more the more they tell us the truth, so God will be listening and answering when He knows you are genuine with your requests.
God is faithful to answer our prayers; just how faithful are we with our honouring Him and listing up those prayers?
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John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
It is an amazing promise made here by Jesus Christ that He will do anything we ask when we ask in His name.
This is not to promote Himself as able to do anything but rather to support our sharing of the gospel.
When we tell other Christ is able to do anything, we need to believe it and ask Him to support our telling of the gospel; that way He can answer our prayers and give all the glory to God our Father in Heaven!
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Romans 8:27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Have you ever felt a special spiritual connection with someone else, maybe even thinking you know them better than anyone else in the world?
Well, God knows you even better than this because He knows what is in your heart and spirit.
When we listen to the Holy Spirit we get an insight into God’s will in our lives because it is the Holy Spirit who will be guiding us in God’s will.
Listen and learn.
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Psalm 20:4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
How many people do you lift up and bless with words like these?
If we really do want to make a difference in our community or even the world, then we have to make a start ourselves.
Don’t sit and expect the world to change according to your wants and desires but do start praying for others to ask God to do that for them.
The difference will start with you asking on behalf of others, not you expecting others to ask for you!
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Psalm 20:1 May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
We can read about the troubles Jesus faced on earth right from His birth through to His death; this seems to be a fact of life for man Christians… trouble will follow you!
We need to lift up our prayers for each other to God each and every day because it is the prayers which make a difference.
Simply doing nothing gets the same response, nothing. But lifting each other up in prayers will get results – answers to your prayers for each other!
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Isaiah 40:20 Whoever is too impoverished for such a contribution Chooses a tree that will not rot; He seeks for himself a skilful workman To prepare a carved image that will not totter.
Just because you don’t have the money to get what you want or you don’t have enough to pay your bills on time, does not mean you use what little you have to break rules.
God continues to watch over us and wants to help us in every spot of bother we get into; but doing it yourself and not giving God a chance to help you will not work.
You may come out with something that looks nice but if God is not in it then what use is it in the end?
Allow God to work in your life; give Him time!
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Isaiah 40:19 The workman melds an image, The goldsmith overspreads it with gold, And the silversmith casts silver chains.
What do you do, or what do you wish to do for a living; what will earn you the money so you can live?
Are you willing to break the rules to make money, or do you continue to try and do what is right even for money?
Money is a very strong driver in our lives and one which can often lead us astray; don’t be tempted to go off and do things your own way just so you can earn a bit more.
The money will not come with you to heaven and God takes no regard of it!