Now I See. 5/25/15

Day 145 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/John.9

John 9:1-23

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”

16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”

But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.

17 Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”

The man replied, “He is a prophet.”

18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”


20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

May 25th The Head of the household  


“To be strengthened with might through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love.” EPHESIANS 3:16-17
To be strengthened into your inner man is to be strengthened into your spirit (2 Cor. 4:16). When you touch your spirit and experience the strengthening, the purpose of this is that Christ would move into your heart. And He does not take several months to move in. He immediately moves in and occupies every “room” of your heart. So when you are strengthened into your spirit, you begin to handle Christ as the One who has made His home in your heart. As you are in spirit, He is in your whole heart as the “Head of the household.” This is how He is in us. As the Head He says, “This is My house. Everything about you belongs to Me. I give the orders here. I am doing the talking. I am going to supply. I am going to provide. I am going to do everything here.” Let Him make home in your heart. Christ making home in our hearts is not a gradual process. Paul uses the Greek aorist tense for the infinitive “to make home” or “to dwell.” This means it is an instantaneous action. He just comes in and takes up His residence in every part of your heart as the Head of the household. He is doing everything. You refer everything to Him. He is Head of your house. You do not make the decisions there. From now on, He is going to tell you what to do.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

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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