BE A SERVANT! They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest. Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” —Mark 9:33-36 The foremost example of being the greatest servant is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very…

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PRAYER SOLUTIONS So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth. Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?” “From childhood,” he answered. “It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us. ‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked…

HAVE A FAITHFUL IMPACT FOR GOD’S GLORY Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. —Numbers 26:64-65 Unfaithfulness and disobedience had the consequences of a whole generation dying in the wilderness without experiencing the blessing of the Promised Land. It would be their children that would experience that blessing— the very children that their parents said they were concerned for as being “plunder”…

BEWARE! “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.” —Mark 8:15 How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. —Matthew 16:11-12 Now here is an interesting warning! We are to “Be careful” and “Watch out” for the teaching of both religious and political groups. Everything needs to be measured by the Word of God… everything…

FREE FROM THE SNAKE BITE The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. —Numbers 21:8-9 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. —John 3:14-15 It is a matter of a person truly believing. Those in the wilderness were told that when bitten…

COMPASSION When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things. —Mark 6:34 Compassion… do we have it on the crowds of people around us who are like sheep without a shepherd? Jesus “felt compassion” for the people. He was “moved with compassion” for the people. The compassion of Jesus acted in teaching the people. He fed them spiritually and then fed them physically. His compassion moved Him to act in both of these realms. What about us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupeRWCBybU How are we being compassionate? In what ways are we feeding those who…

FAITHLESSNESS AND GODLESSNESS BRINGS DEATH Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. —Numbers 14:33 This faithless, godless generation of Israel would impact their children for 40 years. Their children would wonder in the wilderness for those 40 years and all their parents would die in that wilderness. Yes, faithless, godless generations affect not only their own children, but even generations after them. Children in the womb are suffering greatly because of the faithlessness and godlessness of our leaders and those who have put them into office. Leaders can claim they believe in God and…

DO HIS WILL! Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.” —Numbers 13:30-32 These 12 men were sent to explore the land. It was not up to them to make a decision to go into the…

SET FREE! They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and…