Good morning. So far so
good. OK so we are enduring through the testing of our faith. Sometimes people
can endure things but have a bad attitude in doing so. Let endurance have its
perfect results that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Wouldn't that be a great label to have – perfect and complete? But what if we
are lacking wisdom? Let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and
without reproach, and it will be given to him. (remember you don't have because
you don't ask). Of course too many times we only want "wisdom" that
confirms what we already want to do. But as in everything we ask of God – let
him ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf
of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. That kind of person is susceptible to
believing anything he hears. That kind of person is mentally
"seasick". Let not that man expect that he will receive anything from
the Lord, being a double minded man, unstable all in all his ways. Too many
times we fire off a request to God, and don't even wait to hear His reply.
Sometimes we are like children – throwing out requests of our parents without
expecting anything to happen; but just hoping against hope that at least one
will be answered. That's not the way God wants us to ask. Father thank You that
the reader has Your wisdom in every circumstance.
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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