THE LORD IS OUR TEACHER

The Lord Jesus taught the people around Him many things.

He taught His disciples the workings of the kingdom of God. He taught His friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus the principle of spending time  with God.. He taught Nicodemus the spiritual reality of being born again. 

Jesus taught people everywhere He went and now, the risen Christ continues to teach.

He brings illumination and revelation through His words of scripture to those who seek Him and yearn for the truth.

The Lord also teaches through His servants whom He anoints to rightly handle the word of truth.

The Lord will  give wisdom to any who ask of Him and He will do so abundantly and without restraint.

The Lord is the custodian of all knowledge and  can furnish us with portions of knowledge as we need it.

Praise His holy name.

Amen.

JESUS IS OUR LORD AND REDEEMER

All we like sheep had gone astray. We were born into a sinful nature that had doomed us into a permanent subservient  alliance with the kingdom of darkness.

We, as a race, had sold ourselves into spiritual and physical slavery from which we had no means of extricating ourselves.

The Lord Jesus, our sinless, perfect and immortal God, accepted the role of redeemer for us. This means that He would personally  pay the price to buy us out of our slavery and claim us as His own people.

Because our slavery was that of sin and rebellion against God, the only  price that could buy us was the death of a perfect, sinless and immortal man. Jesus, the only perfect, sinless and immortal person in existence, was the only one who could pay that incredibly high price but He, being perfect, accepted the cost and suffered death on a cross for us.

In dying, He paid for our sins and brought us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

Our redeemer lives and we shall see Him with our own eyes when He returns in glory to judge the living and the dead.

Amen.

THE LORD IS A GOD OF JUSTICE

The Lord our God is a God of justice. He always keeps His word no matter what circumstance occurs.

His promises are absolutely dependable and His covenants are always kept from His side.

He will judge with fairness and with equity so that all will see that there is no injustice in Him. 

Delight in our God who is faithful and just and in whom we can rely.

Amen.

 THE LORD IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1 : 19

"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight."  Proverbs 3: 5-6

Amen.

OUR LORD TURNS ALL THING FOR GOOD

As we go through our lives, we sometimes reach points when we realize that the pursuits we have been preoccupied with have deteriorated into smouldering ruins around us.

All the energy we have expended on these pursuits has gone up in the acrid smoke of the dumpster fire of our hopes and dreams.

At these junctures, there is no where else to turn. We must stand before the Lord and seek His grace and mercy. We must confess our part in the train wrecks be it our stubbornness, our willful disobedience to the councel of God or even launching out with our grand designs without submitting ourselves to the guidance of the Lord.

Having reached the dead end in your circumstance, ask the Lord for wisdom and ask Him to order your steps so that it is He who selects your path and that it is His Kingdom you are serving.

The Lord will  turn all things for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.

Amen.

THE LORD JESUS OUR SALVATION 

The great wisdom of God put in place the salvation of mankind with astonishing implications.

Jesus, the perfect Son of God, gave Himself over to the Roman soldiers. In their custody, He endured false trials and accusations. He also endured humiliation and brutal scurging.

He was finally abandoned to death by crucifixion where He suffered and died. He descended into Hell and put again on trial in the spirit realm. However, in the realm of the dead, Jesus was too perfect to be held by darkness. His brilliance detonated in hell sending the powers and principalities into a humiliating naked panicked frenzy that made them a spectacle before all of creation. 

Jesus rose again and appeared to many witnesses. He then ascended into heaven where He was coroneted as the king of kings and Lord of Lords over all of creation.

It is from this lofty throne that He rules and reigns over all the affairs of His kingdom.

The wisdom of God, by mysteries set up before time, placed we who believe into the person of Jesus so that when Jesus died, we died with Him. Then when Jesus triumphed over the kingdom of darkness, we triumphed with Him. When Jesus rose from the dead and emerged from the grave, we rose with Him.

This is what is symbolized when we are baptized. We go into the watery grave  in death then we come out of the water in resurrection.

When Jesus ascended into heaven, we ascended with Him and when He was coroneted, we were coroneted with Him so that when He rules and reigns, we rule and reign with Him.

How wonderous is our God. 

Praise and honor Him.

Amen.

OUR LORD OUR HEALER

From ancient days, the God of Israel made His name know as a healer.

He healed those injured by snakes in the desert. He healed lepers and He healed those who had been struck by the plague.

The Lord, when He walked in our midst, was prolific in His healing and His ministry of restoration.  

He healed the blind, the deaf, the mute and those oppressed by the devil.

He healed the withered arms of the man in the synagogue and He healed the issue of blood of a woman who touched the hem of His garment. He healed the paralyzed young man and also healed the 10 lepers of whom only 2 came back to thank Him.

He also freed Mary Magdalene from 7 demons as well as the man in Ganasaret whose legion of demons were cast into the doomed herd of pigs.

The Lord Jesus withstood a brutal flogging where the Roman soldiers struck Him on his body leaving furrows like a plough. 

"By His stripes we are healed", the bible affirms. Jesus undertook the afflictions on His physical body so that we could be healed from afflictions on our own bodies.

How blessed is He who heals our infirmities.

Praise His holy name.

Amen.