Good morning. This comes
from first John chapter 3. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have
confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep
His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. If our
conscience has not been seared, then we can listen to our heart. If we
disregard what our heart is trying to tell us, eventually we can't hear when it
tells us we have done wrong. When God is the desire of our heart, we want to
obey Him; and so we listen carefully when our heart tells us we have done
wrong. But we're not talking about that kind of person – we are talking about
you. Your heart dearly seeks after Him to do His will. So you can trust your
heart. And therefore you can have confidence when you come before God
requesting things. It says whatever you ask of God you will receive. That is
because you do keep His commandments and you do the things that are pleasing in
His sight. You can have confidence that you will receive them. Remember from
Mark 11 verse 24: all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have
received them, and they shall be granted you. They are yours, so believe that
you have already received them. Father help the reader to trust his/her heart
that he/she can have whatever he/she asks of You. His/Her heart is pure, so he/she
will never ask anything wrong of You.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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