Receive your sight. 4/25/15

Day 115 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Luke.18

Luke 18:24-43
24 Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

26 Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”

27 Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

28 Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”

29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”

Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
31 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

34 The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.

A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight
35 As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36 When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. 37 They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”

38 He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

39 Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

40 Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, 41 “What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord, I want to see,” he replied.

42 Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.” 43 Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

April 25th Out of” and “from”

“Now all things are out of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconcilia- tion.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:18
The preposition “out of” (ek / ejk) used in this verse reveals that our starting place is in God, and that everything proceeds out of God. Romans 11:36 also uses ek to show us that God is our source: “For out of Him and through Him and to Him are all things.” God is the starting point for all things. For example, this morning when I woke up, I had a spontaneous feeling within me. It was as if the Lord was saying, “Don’t move, don’t think, don’t allow yourself to do anything. Just sink into Me.” We do not have a right to live. We are not the initiators in our lives. God is our starting place, because everything is out of Him. He has the first place in all things. One of the clearest verses showing that the Lord Jesus lived from the Father as His source is John 5:30: “I can from Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” The preposition “from” indicates that, in His humanity, the Lord was not the source of his actions and words. Although He could have legitimately taken His own sinless soul as the base and source of His living, He lived exclusively from the Father. First John 2:27 is a key verse in the New Testament that reveals how God is our source: “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.” God becomes our source experientially when we follow the movement of the anointing within us from Him. This indicates that the practical matters in our lives originate from Him as our source.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Ariana, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.
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