Many of us are finishing John today.\u00a0 Some finished earlier, and some will finish in the next ten days. No matter where you are continue on and allow God to speak to you through His Word.\u00a0 Remember it is not about finishing, but growing in our faith and ways of God.\u00a0 God works more effectively in you as you take in His Word.<\/p>\n
Some believe Jesus sent them out to fish, awaiting Christ.\u00a0 However, we see the disciples out fishing.\u00a0 This encounter gives Jesus time to do one more miracle, and to have one more relationship moment.\u00a0 Jesus yells out and tells them to cast the net on the other side.\u00a0 Jesus could have moved the fish to the net; but Jesus seems to always look for us to respond to His call and His directions.<\/p>\n
Jesus has a beast feast ready for His disciples.\u00a0 The disciples talk and fellowship with Jesus.\u00a0 Too many people live in the baby stages of Christianity.\u00a0 Baby Christians miss the opportunity to enjoy a meal with the Lord, praising Him, thanking Him and taking in more of Him.\u00a0 What the disciples went through with Jesus gave them the privilege to have this wonderful time.<\/p>\n
Peter gets questioned by Jesus.\u00a0 I think three questions for the three times Peter denied Christ.\u00a0 Jesus wanted Peter to know he was forgiven.<\/p>\n
Follow what happens, Peter surrenders without argument and declares to Christ, you know all things.\u00a0 It always boggles my mind when people say \u201cGod knows my heart\u201d.\u00a0 They say it as if their heart is better than their actions.\u00a0 Just so you know, it scares me that God knows my heart, it keeps me before His throne in repentance.\u00a0 This is why I need to stay in His Word, to keep my heart from straying.\u00a0 All our actions start in the secret places of our hearts.<\/p>\n
Peter is told that he will die for the glory of God.\u00a0 Jesus explains Peter\u2019s future and ends with \u2018follow me\u2019.\u00a0 Peter then turns his concern for what may happen to the other disciples, after all God if I am going to die for you should not everyone?\u00a0 Jesus said what I do with my followers is of none of your concern, your concern is for you to focus on me, not on what everyone else is doing or receives from my Hand.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what we are called to do, to be followers of Jesus.\u00a0 Change your life so that every step aligns with Jesus and His Word.<\/p>\n
We will start 1 John on February 1st<\/sup>\u00a0and continue through 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0and 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0John.\u00a0 That is only seven chapters.\u00a0 We will take two weeks to read these books.\u00a0 And start into the book of Acts on February 15th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}