Tagged: Prayer Intention

“To you who hear Me, I say: love your enemies.” —Luke 6:27 What if your family was a victim of a terrorist attack? What if someone robbed and beat you? Jesus tells us to treat terrorists, murderers, rapists, and robbers in a certain way. Jesus commands us to: love our enemies (Lk 6:27), “do good to those who hate” us (Lk 6:27), “bless those who curse” us (Lk 6:28), “pray for those who maltreat” us (Lk 6:28), even remain vulnerable to our enemies (Lk 6:29), give to them (Lk 6:30), do to them as we would have them do to...

“Since you have been raised up in company with Christ, set your heart on what pertains to higher realms, where Christ is seated at God’s right hand.” —Colossians 3:1 In our secular humanistic society, many people, even Christians, are preoccupied with this world. They don’t think very often of God, heaven, or the afterlife. They live as if our short time on earth is all we have. This attitude is out of touch with the major aspects of reality. Therefore, secular humanists tend to feel empty, depressed, stressed, or fearful. If they find Jesus and give themselves totally to Him,...

“Continue, therefore, to live in Christ Jesus the Lord, in the spirit in which you received Him.” —Colossians 2:6 Saul met Jesus on the road to Damascus (see Acts 9:3ff). Jesus struck Saul blind and implied that Saul should stop persecuting Jesus’ Church. In three days, Saul was baptized into Jesus and thereby accepted Jesus as Lord, Savior, and God. This was the beginning of Jesus’ revelation of Himself to Saul. Saul (later to be named Paul) became “rooted in [Christ] and built up in Him” (Col 2:7). Paul came to realize that “in Christ the fullness of deity resides...

“Continue, therefore, to live in Christ Jesus the Lord, in the spirit in which you received Him.” —Colossians 2:6 Saul met Jesus on the road to Damascus (see Acts 9:3ff). Jesus struck Saul blind and implied that Saul should stop persecuting Jesus’ Church. In three days, Saul was baptized into Jesus and thereby accepted Jesus as Lord, Savior, and God. This was the beginning of Jesus’ revelation of Himself to Saul. Saul (later to be named Paul) became “rooted in [Christ] and built up in Him” (Col 2:7). Paul came to realize that “in Christ the fullness of deity resides...

“On another sabbath He came to teach in a synagogue where there was a man whose right hand was withered.” —Luke 6:6 “The scribes and Pharisees were on the watch to see if He would perform a cure on the sabbath so that they could find a charge against Him” (Lk 6:7). They assumed Jesus would have to work to heal the man with the withered hand and thereby violate the sabbath. Jesus healed the man, but without working. All He did was speak, and all the man did was stand and stretch out his hand (Lk 6:10). Thus although...