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“And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief.” —Mark 6:5-6 The Lord Jesus responds to us at the point of our need when we believe and trust in Him. I wonder today if the Lord Jesus might not look at some of us and marvel at our unbelief. Not just those who don’t believe at all in Christ, but to some of us who believe in Christ and yet don’t believe Him daily in our lives, and don’t expect things from Him in a powerful way. We are believing-unbelievers. We know that without faith it is impossible to please God. That’s what the Scripture tells us. Faith is the essential element of living life successfully. In the eyes of God, of all the requirements of God, there is one central requirement: it is faith. Believing Him, trusting Him, responding to His love and responding to His grace, responding to His power. Faith in God through Jesus Christ can conquer every problem.  There’s not a problem you face or a difficulty in your life that He can’t your need if you by faith will claim His power and blessings upon your life. Believe God for great things in your life! You’ll never achieve and become all that God desires for you in your life until you begin to trust and test the resources of God in a daily fashion in your life! Start believing God to do something specific and wonderful in your life. God wants to do incredible things through you.

 Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Word Made Flesh

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

John 1:12–14

The greatest miracle of Christmas was not the empire spanning census that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem for Jesus’ birth, or the star that announced His arrival or any of the other things that had to come into place for prophecies to be fulfilled. The greatest miracle was the incarnation—that the Son of God also became the Son of man, taking on a fully human body while still being fully God. Though Jesus laid aside His glory to come to earth, He did not lay aside His deity.

Henry Law wrote, “A lowly Babe lies in the lowly cradle of a lowly town, the offspring of a lowly mother. Look again. That child is the eternal ‘I AM.’ He whose Deity never had birth, is born ‘the woman’s Seed.’ He, whom no infinitudes can hold, is contained within infant’s age, and infant’s form. He, who never began to be, as God, here begins to be, as man.”

 The work of the incarnation that allowed Jesus to be both God and man is beyond our capacity to fully grasp. But it was vital because we needed a Saviour who understood our faults and failings, and would leave us an example of victory to follow in our daily lives. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).

Today’s Growth Principle: 

Our Lord’s love for us is measured by the emptying of Himself and taking on human flesh.

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Exodus 3:14 (Old Testament)

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."

John 8:58 (New Testament)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God​.​

John 1:1(New Testament)