Knowledge and Understanding

Happy is the man who finds wisdom; and the man who gains understanding. Get wisdom; and get understanding. In reading and studying the Word; we get to know and understand the Father's GRACE. Our Lord desires for us to know Him and He wants to know us.

Thus says the Lord:
That I am the Lord, exercising loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Listen to Him (Mark 9)

Mark 9 : 1 - 13

“This is my beloved Son; listen to Him”

In the study we are doing as a family one of the things they seek to prove is that our Lord is God. We fellow Christ Followers are commanded to listen to Him but how many times have we listened to what someone else says He says and that was enough. Knowing our Lord and serving gives each and every single one of us the privilege of having our lives directed and guided by God Himself. I challenge us all to seek to hear Him. See we are not walking physically with our Lord but we still need to be guided and directed by Him in all concerning the Father and the Kingdom. Our whole lives are for His glory.

Mark 9 : 14 - 29

Trust God to do the things you have asked Him.
The disciples had been walking with our Lord and had performed many healing miracles.
This one they could not do it. I wondered why this is so. Submission to the Father i believe is the key.  The Lord says this kind comes out by nothing but prayer and fasting. What was lacking that they could not do it. I believe reliance and dependence that only the Father does this and He alone can only do this. I am just a vessel.
Our Lord even though He was God on earth teaches submission for He often went away and prayed to the Father. He continued to the end to take time to get strength and to keep in connection with the Father. Because there was never a time He was not connected the Father could do all using Him. This is a lesson for us too. To take time to pray and separate and even deny ourselves in fast so that utter dependence and trust in Him becomes our default mode of operation.

Mark 9 : 30 - 32

Our Lord predicts His death for the second time.
Our Lord’s death was always the plan of the Father and the only reason He endured and allowed Himself to be killed was in obedience to the Father. The incredible love that is revealed in the life of our Lord never ceases to amaze and floor me. Its incredible that He cared so much about us that He was willing to suffer even thiugh He knew the kind of suffering He was to endure.

Mark 9 : 33 - 37

Who is the greatest?
The one who is the servant to all.

Mark 9 : 38 - 41

Let us do all in His name; let us not be jelous of one another and all of us who belong to Him we will never lose our reward in Him.


Mark 9 : 42 - 49

A warning Whatever you know is stumbling or blockage in your life by all means get rid of it; let nothing deter you from serving God wholeheartedly.




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