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Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind
“And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into …
I Will Make a New Covenant with You
““This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, and it is not beyond your reach. It is not kept in heaven, so distant that you must ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven and bring it down so we can hear it and obey?’ It is not kept beyond the sea, so far away that …
Love One Another, even as I have Loved You (John 13:34)
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34). It is beyond our understanding, but God is moved by the way that we relate and how we love one another. In Malachi 3:16 we read that when those that feared the Lord spoke …
Covenant with God and One Another
““Teacher, which command in God’s Law is the most important?” Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s …
Return to the Living Waters
“Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life”” (John 4:13–14). God wants to be our only source of …
Discovering the Hidden Treasure in the Field
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.” (Matthew 13:44, NLT) Usually, this verse is used to illustrate what we do when we find the treasure of our walk with God, that …
Worship – We Drink from the Living Water
“Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water”” (John 4:10). In this passage it is interesting that Jesus bypassed social and cultural barriers in talking to the Samaritan woman, he …
Prayer is a Relationship
We all know that we are supposed to pray, but a lot of times we may get confused on how to think about prayers. Why do sometimes our prayer work and sometimes they don’t? I think that we must remember that prayer is an expression of our relationship with the Father and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. God already knows …
The Old Wine is Better! Luke 5:33-39
“And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better” (Luke 5:39, NIV84). A lot of times this passage is taught out of its context. Once you are able to read this passage in the context of what Jesus was saying it takes a new meaning. I have heard so many times that …
The Power of Passover – Freedom in Christ
The first Passover when the people of Israel left Egypt is probably one of the events that is the most referred to in the whole Bible; it was an incredible time of God moving with signs and wonders, the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea. Unfortunately, we also read that it only took a few weeks for the people …
Love One Another
“For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little” (Luke 7:47). Our ability to love is related to our receiving forgiveness. In Luke 7:36-50 we find another very important account of Jesus interacting with religious people and sinners. Once again, we see …
He Loves You the Way You Are
A lot of times we are conditioned to think that God is waiting for us to change and solve all of our problems so that He can finally love and accept us. This is not the way that God thinks, and His Son came to change the way we think about His Father. In Luke chapter 8 we read about …
His Yoke is Easy, and His Burden is Light – Matthew 11:28-30
One of the constant discussions between Jesus and the religious leaders was about the traditions that are usually man made and become a burden for those trying to walk with God (Matthew 23:4). “Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. …
First Born Among Many – Hebrews 2:11
In Genesis 11 we read about the Tower of Babel and the human attempt to reach to heaven and to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:3-4). This is when God came and confused their language. From before the foundation of the world God already had a perfect plan, the only way for us to get back in a relationship …
Connect to the Source
Jesus was teaching something very important to His disciples, apart from Him we cannot do anything, and to be able to bear fruit it will always depend on us being connected to the Vine.“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you …
Give Me Eyes to See, and Ears to Hear
I have been thinking a lot about the parable of “the blind men and the elephant.” Each of them was able to touch a different part of the elephant and each had a partial perspective. This parable does not have a clear ending, but it opens the door for each one of us to think about it and make our …
Pruned to Produce More Fruit
Sometimes we may go through times of trials and challenges, and we think it is all negative and the end of everything. In reality, challenging times are what make us grow and mature. Impasses can be used as steppingstones for us to rise to a higher level. It seems like the whole world is going through a big transition, and …
He Gave Gifts to Everyone
In our bodies every member has a function, every member is important, every member must function along with the whole Body. When one organ is not functioning properly the whole body suffers. Not only that, not one member or cell can continue to live without its connection, receiving from and giving, to the whole body. In 1 Corinthians 12 Paul …