Thought For The Day

When Jesus returned to His disciples, first thing He did was feed them and bless their livelihood.  He took care of the natural first. Just as He does with us. He cares about every detail of our life. After the miracle of the 153 fish, and the net was not broken. John 21:12-17 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast. " Yet none of them dared ask Him "who are you?"  Knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus came and took and bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish. This is now the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead. So when they had eaten breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him "Yes Lord; You know that I love you." He said to him, "feed My lambs. ( young believers) He said to Him again a second time, "Simon son of Jonah, do you love Me" He said to him "Yes Lord; He said "Tend My sheep. (be a shepherd)the...

When Jesus returned from seeing His Father, He went to see His disciples. He made Himself known to them in His resurrected body. John 20:1,  Now on the first day of the week  Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early while it was still dark, and saw that the stone has been taken away from the tomb. She ran to Peter and the other disciples to inform them of what she had seen. They ran to the tomb,  the disciple that Jesus loved got there first. Verse 5-6 Then he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths laying there; yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths lying there, but folded together in a place by itself. (so much for the shroud) if the face cloth was separate, then the shroud couldn't be real. Just my observation. Jesus was on this earth forty days from the resurrection.  He had unfinished ...

  When we look back where we thought we were trusting the Lord, we can see where we got impatient and tried to handle things ourselves, only to end up doing and saying the wrong things, outside of God's timing. We all need to learn just what it means to surrender and trust the Lord. Proverbs 3:5-8 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones. Psalm 37:3-6 Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and f eed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. We need to put our life on the line. Peter had to trust Jesus to walk on the water, but, as soon as he ...

Our cold winter is over, things that we did to stay warm, are changed to now stay cool. Thank God for a new spring time. Thank Him for all the new life springing up. Thank Him for the beautiful colors that He gave us to enjoy. Once what looked dead now has resurrected life. As we think about our Lord Jesus and His crucifixion. We think about His body being placed in a borrowed tomb. meaning it will returned to the owner. Remember Jesus's words. "In 3 days I will raise this temple. John 10:17-18. "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I might take it again. John 2:18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do you show us, since you do these things" Jesus answered and said to them "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" Some of the disciples remembered His words, when others didn't until He was raised from the dead. So who raised Jesus from the dead? Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle (not from man, b...

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Wrong!  You can salt his oats and he will drink.  We are the salt of the earth, but only the Holy Spirit can persuade anyone to receive Jesus. John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day, Jesus made that clear, no one comes to Him unless the Father draws them. Mark 9:49-50 "For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace with one another. Human effort will fail, because only the compelling force of the Holy Spirit, will draw people to repentance, that will lead them to Jesus our Lord. God offers His gift of grace, but doesn't force anyone to accept it.  It takes the Holy Spirit to convince someone to receive salvation through the blood of Jesus.  When their hearts are ready, and they sens...

When you find yourself in a trial that looks like it will destroy you, Praise God! as more of your control is broken and self is going to die.  Like when Peter began to sink, yet God's loving hand was there to pull him up. More of Jesus is being transformed in you.   That's when God is leading to a place that will cause you to be more fruitful. Acts 28:-8-10 (When Paul ended up  at the Island of Malta, when their ship broke up.) In the region there was an estate of the leading citizen of the Island, whose name was Publius, who received us and entertained us courteously for 3 days. And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid hands on him and healed him. So when this was done, the rest of those on the Island who had diseases also came and were healed. They also honored us in many ways; and  when we departed, they provided such things as were necessary. Beloved, you see that what looked like t...