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John 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’
Can you imagine what was going through some people’s minds as they heard Jesus telling them they should eat the flesh of the Son of Man!
We can look back fondly on words like this and know Jesus was not being literal when He said this, but they did not have hindsight at that time!
We must accept that Jesus is giving us everything we need to live in Heaven with Him – we have to decide what we do with this truth!
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John 6:66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
What did you do when following Christ got a bit uncomfortable?
Jesus did not promise us an easy-going life when we chose to follow Him; He warned us of the opposite!
When Jesus turn round and said many of His followers at the time were not real believers, many did turn away because Jesus was not encouraging them.
Just because life gets difficult, does not mean you should turn your back on it – the same goes for a life with God!
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Genesis 8:6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
How many times do you try to do something before you give up because it keeps failing?
We all have our limits in our faith and we are all different. Noah was not in the mood to give up on everything despite having said goodbye to the world as he knew it!
God always keeps his promises and wants us to have faith enough to believe that and trust that – always!
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John 10:4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
You get to know the voice of your parents and your friends and can often pick them out in a crowd just by their voices.
These are typically the voices of the people you can trust and you listen to them when they talk or tell you something.
We must get to be a good friend of Jesus so we can recognise His voice when He talks – not always easy of we don’t listen to Him enough!
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Acts 11:20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
After the killing of Stephen most disciples stayed amongst the Jews to tell them about Jesus, but a few went outward to Antioch and spoke to the Greeks.
Jesus does not call all of us to stay close to our homes and the people we know, He calls some of us to go out to people we would not normally think of when we think of Christians.
God wants His Word to go out to all the world, not just a “chosen race!”
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Psalm 67:1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us
These words may well hark back from when Moses came out of the clouds with a bright shining face!
This was the blessing Moses received from being close to God, a blessing the people were fearful of but one which we have grown to long after.
It is good to be a shining example of Christ. It is good to be someone who people look out for as being different.
Be different with Christ!
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Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.
These words, written hundreds of years before Jesus was betrayed by Judas, remind us of how God knows everything!
We can read these words and wonder how the Jews did not recognise Jesus as Messiah, but we can also look around us and see how so many people still do not accept Jesus as the Son of God!
Friends and family may not believe us when we talk about Jesus, but we must continue following, believing and being a servant to the people around us for His sake.
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Psalm 2:10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.
How many world leaders have you seen in the news this week, not for good reasons but for what they are doing wrong?
Unfortunately we seem to hear more bad things about our world leaders instead of good things – they seem to be losing their ways!
God watches over them just as He watched over king Saul, and before long, something will happen which they will not like either!
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Psalm 15:1 Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?
Have you ever sat down and asked yourself what Christ is asking you to do?
Have you ever thought that maybe He is simply asking you to be with Him in the dwelling places and holy places He is at?
Try not to get too hung up about whether you are worthy to be with God. He sent His Son to be amongst us in human form so we could be with Him in spiritual form later!
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Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies
How comfortable are you as a Christian? Do you think you have a blessed life and could not want for anything?
Are you too comfortable?
Sometimes we do get very comfortable with our lives and we start living them in spite of being a Christian… that is when our focus on God starts dwindling!
God wants us to always be on our toes so don’t always expect everything to go smoothly!
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Acts 14:12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker.
Have you ever got carried away with what people think about you? Have you become over confident or overly proud because they thought you were someone or something else?
God wants us to be ourselves and to show the truth about our lives as servants of the people and of God.
This can mean people praise us for the things we do – always remember they should be praising God for allowing you to be able to do what you have done!
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Psalm 145:21 My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.
Have you noticed how birds always seem to be happy in the morning – even when we know the world is falling apart!
Nature will always sing of the glories of God & we should be trying to do the same, no matter what goes on in our lives.
Yes it is hard to sing when you are sad, but by singing, you will feel different about your troubles.
Now, instead of just singing, worship God!
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Psalm 122:1 I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’
When was the last time you encouraged someone to come to church with you?
When was the last time you worshipped God together with other people?
Christ wants us to be disciples – people who want to learn the scriptures and take those words out to others and share them.
He wants us to do this to the people around us, not just the people who normally come to church with us!
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Psalm 96:8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.
When you give glory to God, what else do you do? Or should I be asking “what else are you willing to do?”
We freely give God the glory for things He does in our lives; should we not be willing to freely give Him time and works as well?
The closer I walk with Christ the more willing I am to do things for Him, for others and for the church… because Jesus willingly gave us so much!
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Psalm 57:10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
We cannot escape God’s love – no matter where we try to hide, in the darkest corners or locked away from everyone…
God is with us and continues to love and support us in many ways; we often do not get to see just how much He does for us!
God has always kept His Word and continues to be faithful to each one of us no matter how far we try to run away...
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Psalm 100:3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
When was the last time you just stopped doing your busy “lifing” and spent time with God?
Stop and give God the time He deserves because He is God! Stop because He is our Creator. Stop because this place we live in was made for us!
We have been placed in this place because He loves us and wants us to enjoy what he has given us.
Stop and listen for the instructions...
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Psalm 67:6 The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
Have you noticed how plants can seem to grow in the most inhospitable places? Take cacti which grow in the harshest of deserts… Because God gives them a bit of moisture now and again!
Just like that, God gives us what we need to survive in this world. We may think we are starving at times, but God supplies what we need…
What we need is His daily bread and not our daily loaf of bread!
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John 15:25 But this is to fulfil what is written in their Law: “They hated me without reason.”
Sometimes people do bad things against you, not because they hate you but simply because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time!
The more we can accept this in our lives, the more we will find out how much God forgives us for what we do!
Our sins against God are typically not intentionally acts against God. They are more likely to be things we have done without thinking of the consequences...
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Psalm 138:1 I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the ‘gods’ I will sing your praise.
When you are faced with people who say there is no God, or are amongst people who go out of their way to do things against God, what do you do?
Do you face up to them and tell them about your Christ? Do you turn away and walk the other way?
God wants us to stand firm and show people how much He means to us, even in the face of derision and mocking...
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Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his splendour is above the earth and the heavens.
The writer of this psalm wants every person to be able to praise God because He is worthy of all praise.
Don’t let the physical or political world hem you in with limitations when God is without limit and nothing is impossible through Him!
Our natural world already show off their total trust in God – we should be more like it!