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John 14:16 – I will ask the Father, and He will give another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth.
The Father sent Jesus to redeem mankind from the curse of the Law (Galatians 3:13). When Jesus fulfilled the Father’s plan, He then asked the Father for the Holy Spirit to be given to all those who believed on Him. Jesus refers to the Spirit as the “Helper.” Jesus and the Father have not left us alone to fend for ourselves. It is marvelous how the Holy Spirit has been given to indwell each believer. It is incredible to know that the Father and the Son are in us by the presence of the Holy Spirit who was given to be with us forever.

The Holy Spirit is our life source in Christ. The Holy Spirit is the one who continues to reveal the Father to us. It is worth our time to read through the gospels, paying special attention to what the Scriptures teach us about the Father. The more I have learned about the Father, the more I have grown in security, confidence, and faith. The Holy Spirit wants to help us be able to say from our heart, Abba Father or “Daddy, dear Daddy.”

When we learn about the “fruit of the Spirit,” we are learning about the very nature of God. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control all proceed from the Father. Each of these aspects of God is seen in the Lord Jesus. They can now be seen in our life as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit’s work. We know the Father is living through us by the evidence of the fruit. When Scriptures speak about maturing in Christ, they are referring to the development of the fruit of the Spirit. READ MORE BY CLICKING ON THE TITLE ABOVE. TO PURCHASE YOUR COPY CLICK COVER.

John 14:9 – He who has seen Me has seen the Father
The four Gospels give us wonderful understandings about the Father. Today, we will devote our selves to the Gospel of John and examine what he reveals about the Father through the Son who is the expressed image of the Father.

Jesus is the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Jesus is full of grace and truth because the Father is full of the same. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand (John 3:35). The Father loves His sons and daughters in the same way He loves Jesus. The Father seeks those to be His worshipers (John 4:23). The Father knows that it is through worship we enter into His presence, His liberty, and His peace.

“My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working” (John 5:17). The Father has always been a worker. He worked the six days of creation and then He rested from His work. He created Adam as a worker in the Garden. Jesus relates the Father’s work with His work. He calls each believer to enter into the work of the Father and the Son through the power of the Holy Spirit.

“For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel” (John 5:20). It is marvelous how the Father loves the Son and gave Him all things. Here, Jesus tells us that the Father shows Him all things. He also tells us that the Father will show greater things to the Son. The greater things are: READ MORE BY CLICKING ON THE TITLE!

John 14:12 – Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
As Jesus partakes of His last meal with His disciples, He shares some of His most intimate thoughts. He knows the events which are about to take place would shake their world to the very core. The chapter begins with Jesus saying, “Let not your heart be troubled.” He points them to His Father as the source of belief. He assures them that He is going to prepare a place for them in the Father’s house. He also assures them that as He goes, He will also return for them so where He is, they might be also.

Jesus assures them that He is the way to the Father. No man can come to the Father except through the Son. He says, by knowing Him one should know the Father. Everything we see in Jesus is what the Father is like. He is full of compassion. He loves the unlovely. He is a provider. He is a protector. He heals and delivers from evil. He forgives the vilest of sinners and transforms their lives.

Jesus reinforces the fact that the words He speaks are not His, but they originate from the Father. He also makes it clear that the works He performs are not His works, but the Father’s works through Him (John 14:10). He gives them two options for belief. “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very work’s sake” (John 14:11). READ MORE – CLICK TITLE ABOVE. FOR YOUR PERSONAL COPY OF THE DAILY DEVOTIONAL BOOK CLICK COVER.

Matthew 8:29 – They cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”
A tipping point has been defined as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, and the boiling point.” It is clearly revealed in the New Testament that the enemy knew more of God’s plans than God’s people. The Lord has always given His word so His people could know what He expects, what He is going to do, and how they are to respond. God’s prophets held a special place in revealing God’s works. “Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). The prophets had prepared God’s people for the coming of their expected King. The people knew He was coming, but they did not receive Him. “He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11).

Matthew 8 gives us the story of the believing centurion. Jesus said of him, “I have not found such great faith with anyone in all of Israel” (Matthew 8:10). Jesus found unbelief with the covenant people. He experienced demons giving testimony of who He was, but He would not receive their words. Instead, He drove them out of individuals and set the captives free.

Matthew 8:28 begins the report of Jesus’ ministry in the country of the Gadarenes. There He found two men who were bound by demons. The demons who spoke to Jesus were afraid that He, Jesus had come to torment them. They entreated Jesus, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine” (Matthew 8:31). Jesus said to them, “Go!” Jesus did not cast them into the swine because He did not like swine, but rather for the sake of the man. There was a lot of demonic power there that could have hurt or killed the man. Jesus had mercy on the man.

The enemy thinks out of selfishness and cannot think in terms of eternal love. It was the love of God that created a tipping point in Jesus’ generation. CLICK TITLE ABOVE TO READ MORE. CLICK COVER OF BOOK TO PURCHASE YOUR OWN COPY.

Psalm 113:3-4 – From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens.
Jesus told His disciples that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came upon them. He also told them they were to begin the mission in Jerusalem and from there go to Samaria, Judea, and to the remotest parts of the earth (Acts 1:8). Jerusalem was filled with the Good News as multitudes received the Gospel of the kingdom of God. It spread to Samaria, then throughout all Judea and began the journey westward reaching to Spain during the lifetime of the apostles. Eventually all of Europe received the gospel of the kingdom. The Pilgrims and others took the Good News across the Atlantic Ocean. Part of God’s purpose for America was to be used to spread the Good News everywhere.

Europe and America have left their first love and become materialistic and filled with the pleasures of the world. The Gospel has continued to move like the sun and today is hovering over Asia where the greatest kingdom expansion is taking place. I fully expect the Gospel to eventually spread to the Arab nations and be the instrument of God in defeating the false religion of Islam, as multitudes hear the gospel and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ through the power of God. As the nations of the Mide East turn to Jesus as Lord, Israel will be moved to jealousy just like Paul said in Romans 11:13-14. I am convinced that the gospel is heading back to Jerusalem.

The Bible speaks of two separate outpourings of the Spirit, called the former and latter rain. “He has poured down for you the rain, the early and latter rain as before. The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil” (Joel 2:23-24). The last two thousand years has been the first or former outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There is coming another outpouring of the Holy Spirit called the latter rain which will see the reaping of the nations. READ MORE BY CLICKING TITLE ABOVE OR ORDER YOUR PERSONAL COPY BY CLICKING ON COVER.

John 5:46-47 – “If you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?
Israel had a believing problem. As a people, their problem of believing was ingrained in the core of their being. Throughout their history, unbelief was at the forefront of the nation’s problems. The unbelief of their leaders kept them out of the Promised Land for a generation. They spent forty years wandering in the desert. Part of Jehovah’s purpose was that they might learn to believe and trust Him as their King.

Throughout Israel’s history, they rejected the words of the prophets. They not only rejected their words, they killed many of the prophets. Jesus charged His generation, “Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them. So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs. For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute, so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation’” (Luke 11:47-50).

It is very important to understand all that took place in the generation in which Jesus was born. Truly, it was “the fullness of time” (Galatians 4:4). The Lord brought everything to a head in one generation. Even though the covenant people had done despicable things throughout their history, God had been merciful to them. Now, in a final attempt, He reaches out by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh in order to redeem those under the law. He first sent John the Baptist to witness of His coming Lamb who would take away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Jesus came in the power of the Spirit. He healed, He delivered from demonic powers, He fed them, and He taught them, but still they did not believe. Their leaders were determined to kill Jesus, the Christ. READ MORE – CLICK TITLE ABOVE!