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.
Unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
Good morning. While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. Jesus was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men. Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. It doesn’t say, but I assume it is still during this time of the Passover. This man came to Jesus by night. Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do the signs that You do unless God is with him. It just said that the people believed in His name because of the signs He was doing; yet it does not say what those signs were. Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. That is why unbelievers cannot tell what is of the kingdom of God and what is not – they’re not born again. Nicodemus doesn’t have a clue. How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he? Unless one is born of water and the Spirit ...
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