LORD YOU ARE! Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. —I Chronicles 29:11-12 Lord, You are great! Lord, You are all powerful! Lord, You are glorious! Lord, You are majestic! Lord, You are splendorous! Lord, You are the King of your kingdom! Lord, You are exalted Head over all! Lord, You give all…

DEATH WILL BE NO MORE! Jesus wept. —John 11:35 How often we weep and feel sorrow because of death. Loved ones, friends and people we do not even know die and death brings grief. Pets die and we feel their loss and sorrow. Even when autumn comes and the leaves fall to the grown we sense loss as another season is gone forever. Death is all around us. It is estimated that about 150,000 people die every single day, about 6,000 per hour, about 105 per minute, about 2 every second or about 53 million each year or about 4.5 million each month. Each one of those numbers are people.…

GOD SECURES ME FOREVER My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for…

WORSHIP Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. —John 9:38 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. —Matthew 2:11 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” —Matthew 14:33 Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. —Matthew 28:11 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. —Matthew 28:17 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. —Luke 24:52 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” —John 20:28…

BE FAITHFUL UNDER PERSECUTION “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 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.” 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. That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” —John 9:20-23 Some years ago an evangelical missionary told the story of how they were helping the needy in an area…

REJOICE IN JESUS! “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. —John 8:58-59 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. —John 5:18 I and the Father are one.” Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him… “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”…

SET FREE I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins…. ” To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:24, 31-32 Do you have beautiful feet— feet that bring the Good News to those in bondage? Those are what God calls “beautiful feet! “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How, then, can they call on the one they have not…

A PRAYER REQUEST Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. —I Chronicles 4:10 Here is a brief prayer that we are told the Lord granted. 1- Jabez asked God to bless him. 2- He asked God to enlarge his boundary or domain. 3- He asked for God’s hand to be with him. 4- He asked that he would be kept from harm. 5- He asked that he would be free from pain. “Oh, God be…

DRAWING THE LOST He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” —John 6:65 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.” —John 6:44-45 Brother and sister you did not wake up one day and just say, “Well, I guess I’ll decide to follow Jesus today. People dead in their trespasses and sins…

BREAD THAT SATISFIES At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”—John 6:41-42 Physical bread has limitations. It can only feed so many. It gets old and moldy. But the Eternal Bread from heaven lasts forever for those who take of Him. This Bread fills us and satisfies us who believe. This will be the case for all eternity. The Jews could not understand who Jesus was and is. They were…