My father did some grafting in his garden when I was young. Grafting is either taking part of one organism and making it grow in another place on the same organism, or taking part of one organism and making it grow as part of another organism. Some real examples are: skin from part of your body so no one would […]
What motivates you with regard to your discipleship? Some common possibilities: Fear of hell Hope for Heaven Fear of being accused of failure Fear of disappointing Jesus Fear of disappointing other people Love for Jesus
Which believers have the greatest impact in the earth? The ones who give the most money? The ones who have the best credentials? The best educated? The ones with the spiritual gift of faith? The ones who get the most people saved? The ones who go to the most unreached people group? The ones who find out who Yahweh says […]
If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And we have this command from Him: the one who loves God must also love his brother. (1 John 4:20-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©) […]
As a man, the Son of God had the same access to power and revelation that we have: the Holy Spirit of God. Take advantage of your position, your identity, and your authority. Make a difference in the earth. If such things seem too lofty or out of reach, ask the same kind of questions that Joan of Arc (peasant […]
Abraham did not preach. He simply obeyed the instructions of Yahweh. Even when Yahweh changed them, as when He told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, but then stopped him. John the Baptist preached. He did no good works – no feeding the poor, no healing the sick, no comforting the broken-hearted. Philip preached and did miracles. He led a whole Samaritan […]
There is a zone where not much of importance or power happens. Bethsaida was the hometown of Philip, Peter, and Andrew. In Matthew 11, Jesus warned it of judgement for its lack of faith. In Mark 11, when He encountered a blind man there, He took Him out of town in order to heal him. The stronghold of doubt there […]
When they reached the crowd, a man approached and knelt down before Him. “Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely. He often falls into the fire and often into the water. I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.” Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will […]
Frequently Jesus told parables that were never explained in some other Scripture passage. The couple of times that His disciples are recorded as asking Him to explain one, He told them what the parables meant. I suggest that if you have one that is stumping you, you can ask Him what He meant, and get an answer. He wants us to […]
When Jesus fed thousands of people at once, He likely saw it as thousands of miracles, not just one big one. He likely had each hungering stomach in mind as He created food to fill each one, I think. He didn’t see the people He passed each day as a forest, but as trees. How do we view the people […]