I CAN SEE! And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. —Mark 10:51-52             Blindness… we who can see cannot imagine what it would be like to be physically blind. But we remember what it was like when we were spiritually blind before knowing Jesus.   It was Satan who had blinded us as he sought to keep us from not seeing “the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (II Corinthians…

BE A SERVANT! But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.” —Mark 9:34-37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDd461eFHv0             Want to be great in the Lord? Want to be significant in the Lord?…

LISTEN TO JESUS! “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” —Mark 9:7             Our Father tells us to listen to His Son. Am I? Are you? Have you spent time at His feet today listening to Jesus? If you and I have not listened to Him then how are we trying to live life— by our own thoughts, words and deeds? That must be it if you and I are not listening to Him. I need to listen to Him every single day and all through the day. Otherwise I will be living life for me. I dare say the same thing would be true of you as well.…

THE DISCIPLE OF JESUS And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes…

BE MULTIPLIED! “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.” And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?” And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and…

  VAIN WORSHIP OR NOT And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;  in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ —Mark 7:6-7             What is vain worship? It is when we honor our Lord with lips alone. It is having a heart that is far from Him. It is the teaching of men’s ideas and not the Word of God. This is hypocritical.             So, I ask myself— Am I worshipping my Lord Jesus in vain? Am I honoring Him just with my…

A HEART AFTER GOD And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. —Numbers 15:39             So too we are to remember the Word of our Lord and obey. The person who does so shows they truly love Him (John 14:21).   We are “not to follow after our own heart”— “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its…

  WAIT ON HIS WORD “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.” —Numbers 11:23             Is the Lord’s hand too short to reach your situation? He provided in a night enough quail for all the Israelites to each for one month, surely He can take care of your situation. Trust what He has to say. Be what He desires you to be and do what He desires you to do. He can be fully trusted… all the time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQmsEE_2-s&list=UUf1NPIFOBwzTLVQiEDnq4Cw&index=8 Dear Father please help me to trust what You have to say and be and do what You desire. May…

TELL OF OUR LORD’S MERCY TOWARD YOU! Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. —Mark 5:19-20             Legion was so grateful to Jesus for releasing him from the demons that possessed him that he wanted to go with Jesus and be with Him. Jesus did not permit him to do so, but instead told him to bear witness to his friends at home. He was to tell them what the Lord had done…

MORE RESPONSIBILITY IS GIVEN TO THOSE FAITHFUL IN THE LITTLE If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you. For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” —Mark 4:23-25             Are we being careful to pay attention to God’s Word? Jesus said, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.  Whoever has will be…