Thankfully our great Savior Jesus came to restore what the enemy has sought to destroy. And to wash us clean by His blood from all evil, defilement and corruption that has resulted from our pride and arrogance. May we all learn to run to and cling to Him in these days and to be regularly sprinkled by His cleansing blood.

Believers have Jesus to learn from on how to overcome them and endure them and become stronger through them.

For a government leader to rule rightly and justly he will need boat loads of prudence, knowledge, discretion, counsel, understanding and power. Only as wisdom from God is obtained will these other qualities be obtained. They flow from wisdom.

I’ve found it very interesting in scripture that sibling relationships get so much coverage. And what I’ve concluded is God originally intended for sibling relationships to bear much fruit for His kingdom.

So when Luke says in 2:52 of Jesus, “And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” He wants us to know that one of the practices that enabled Jesus to attain to this kind of walk with God was His prayer life. One cannot have favor with God and not regularly commune with Him in prayer.

Every week we take off bite sized portions and try to explore with our children how and why and when Jesus prayed and what the results were etc. Could also be used for Bible studies for youth or adults.

"....passivity often results from unconfessed and buried sin, which was true of the older ten brothers in their dealings with Joseph some years previous."

If we are ever to truly and effectively lay “….aside the old self with its evil practices, and …put on the new self…” (Colossians 3:9, 10), we must identify as clearly as we can by the Holy Spirit’s help what the old self looks like and operates like especially within our families and what the new self is that must replace the old self.

As I write this last post on healing (at least for now), I want to say that I apparently do not have the gift of healing, and I have not...

Jesus wants to continue to heal the sick and cast out demons and do other miracles as necessary among all the nations. But for Him to use us we must stay simple and childlike in our faith and dependence upon the Holy Spirit.