Good morning. We are back
in psalms. I will give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your
truth; for You have magnified Your word according to all Your name. The
Septuagint has: for You have magnified Your holy name above everything. It is
the name of Jesus that conquers all. In His name, we have everything. And now
from the beautiful Psalm 139: oh Lord, You have searched me and known me. You
know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar.
He knows everything about us and understands us; and still He loves us. Our
closest friends do not know us as well as He does. You scrutinize my path and
my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before
there is a word on my tongue, behold, oh Lord, You know it all. Ouch! He knew
it before we said it. If only we would listen to Him, we wouldn't say some of
the things we say. You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand
upon me. We have a protecting shield all around us. No one can sneak up behind
us. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to
it. How awesome is it that God cares that much for us? It's all we can handle
just to keep our family in mind. While we are thinking about one, it's hard to
be thinking about the others. And yet He thinks about all of us continually. We
sometimes feel like we are bothering Him too much to call upon Him, but He
really does care about us. Father thank You that You care about the reader
intimately. You think about him/her when he/she rises up and when he/she sits
down; even when he/she lays down at night. You guide him/her and protect him/her
all around. Such a thought is too wonderful for us.
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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