Good morning. We are back
to the handout sheets. Many are the afflictions (pressures) of the righteous,
but the Lord delivers them out of them all. Thank God! I'm sure you're familiar
with the joke: it came to pass – thank God it didn't come to stay. I've been
reading in the book of Acts. Several times it took pressure for them to do or
to go where they were supposed to. The children of Israel also had no desire to
leave Egypt before they were enslaved. They could've left at any time. They had
the best of the land – who would want to leave? It took the pressure of slavery
to get them to have the desire to leave. Too many Christians are that way now.
Things are going great – who would want to leave? (even to go to heaven). But I
am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me (is thinking about me right
now). You are my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying, oh my God. We are on
His mind continually. Of course we want help yesterday. But God is never late.
He has great plans for us. It may not look like it right now in the midst of a
crisis, but everything will work out according to His plan. Then one day we can
look back and say "oh that's what He was up to". Pile your troubles
on God's shoulders. He will carry your load. He will never let good people
topple into ruin. His shoulders are big. He can handle it. As the Andre Crouch
song goes "if I'd never had a problem I wouldn't know that God could solve
them". He can and He will! Father thank You for watching over the reader;
for carrying his/her load. Give him/her wisdom and insight how to solve all of his/her
problems. Reveal to him/her when they are coming and what they are so that he/she
can be ready for them.
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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