SERVE A NEIGHBOR! On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem…

GO INTO THE HARVEST FIELD He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. —Luke 10:2 If the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few, does that mean the harvest is not being fully harvested because there are not enough workers to bring it in? Jesus tells us to ask Him “to send out workers into his harvest field.” Are you one of those workers the Lord is sending into his harvest field? Will you obey and go? May it be so! Dear Father, I will go into Your harvest field,…

PATIENCE “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.” —Luke 9:41 Jesus left perfection to come to perversion. He left glory to be among the godless. He left the believing to come to the unbelieving. He left sinlessness to come to sinfulness. He left heaven worshippers to come to earth rejecters. Patience… we won’t need to work on that in heaven! It is only known here on earth. Patience is needed where sinful people reside. There will be no sinful people in heaven. Not only will there be perfect peace, but perfect patience as well.…

GOING IN JESUS’ AUTHORITY When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority… —Luke 9:1 And so Jesus has also given us His power and authority to be His witness (Acts 1:8). He told us that “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20). We do not have to guess about…

Where is your faith? —Luke 8:25 Do we trust God only when things are going well? Are we of the mindset that God loves us only if there are no difficulties in our life? Will I trust His guidance even through the storms of life? If anyone was to draw back for what they had been through it would have been the Apostle Paul. “Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the…

THOSE FORGIVEN LOVE When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.” Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”…

THEY DO NOT KNOW… After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. —Judges 2:10 As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The…

LOVE GOD So be very careful to love the Lord your God. —Joshua 23:11 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” —John 14:21 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. —I John 2:3-5 “Why do you call…

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Pray One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles. —Luke 6:12-13 Prayer… Are you spending time in prayer or just going through your days in your own strength and power? If Jesus spent time with His Father in prayer, surely we need to be doing the same thing! Jesus spent all night in prayer before He picked the twelve that would be with Him over the next few years. Surely it would be wise for us to spend time in…