Jesus is Lord - JUST SAY “YES, LORD!”

John 5: 1 – 9

A great number of disabled persons lay by the pool of Bethesda for healing. When an angel of God would come down to stir it, the first to get into the water would be healed. Now, a man who had been invalid for thirty-eight years kept on waiting and never had the chance, for each time the water was stirred someone else could always go down ahead of him. When Jesus came to the place and asked him, “Do you want to get well?” The invalid man did not answer ”Yes,” but instead he complained, “There is no one to help me into the pool…”

Many times in our difficulties, we forget that Jesus can help and will help us in His own special way. We focus on the way we want our difficulties to be solved, and we complain too. We look for sympathy, and we look for human assistance. We pity ourselves and focus on our problems instead of saying “Yes” to Jesus. At times when there is no one around us who can encourage us, let us not forget that Jesus is always there. His question, ”Do you want to get well?” is digging our inner desire to get well, the pure desire that can be obscured by bitterness and discouragement. His next statement is, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”

Jesus does not want us to wait forever for that assistance that we complain for. Man can fail us, but Jesus never fails. Jesus is here to heal and to give life.

Just say “Yes, Lord, it’s you that I need.”

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Jesus is Lord - TRUE GREATNESS

Contributed by: Liza Faunillan
See Verses; John 1:6-9, John 3:30, Matthew 11:11

When John the Baptist did his ministry on earth, he did not do it to be great in the sight of men. He admitted he was the one the Prophet Isaiah talked about as the “voice calling out in the desert..” but he denied being the Christ. He denied greatness and looked at himself as not even worthy to untie the sandals of Jesus.

More so, John guided the people away from himself and pointed them to Jesus saying “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is the One I meant when I said, ‘ A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.” John told the people he was only a messenger, a herald to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah, the true great one.

When it was time for Jesus to come out and minister to the people, John declared, “ He (Jesus) must increase, and I must decrease.” John’s time of ministry was short in the eyes of men, and yet Jesus commended him before His disciples saying, “…Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

True greatness is greatness declared by Jesus Himself, and not the greatness declared by man. Let us be careful to do God’s work without vying for worldly greatness. Our mission is to lift up Jesus and to lead the people to Him and not to us. If we are to be used by God in His kingdom, we should be willing to get out of the scene to let Jesus reveal Himself to His people.

A great ministry is like that of John’s ministry that has done the purpose of God to present Jesus to a lost generation. It is not measured by length of service, nor by the number of achievements that man can acknowledge with a plaque. As always, in God’s principle, greatness is found in the bottom. He who is least in the kingdom of heaven is even greater than John the Baptist.

Those whom Jesus called “great” were those who never thought of becoming one.

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Jesus is Lord - Desperate for a Chance?

Text: 2 CHRONICLES 29:1-11, 26-27; 31:1

King Hezekiah led the whole nation of Israel to repentance, and a great revival happened. Worship like in the days of King David was restored and the people destroyed all forms of idols and their altars.

Repentance brings true spiritual revival, and along with revival is change. Real change begins in a repentant heart that longs to return and get closer to God like he never did before.

This is where the flame of revival begins. This is when a Christian can smash the strongholds of Satan that has kept him in the bondage of a defeated life. Are you struggling with a bad habit which you know is not right but you feel it is too difficult to conquer? Then desire for the flame of revival in your heart. When a repentant heart burns with the flame of revival in its deeper passion for Jesus, smashing the altar of a bad habit will follow.

This deeper passion for the Lord is your strength to cut down the high places of the bad habits that have engulfed your life and have kept you from living a triumphant life in Jesus. Do it now, take the step to fall on your knees before the Lord. Because repentance brings the flame and leads to change.

Submitted by Liza

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JESUS THE KING

Text: Matthew 2:1-8, -18; John 18:33-37

From His birth to the time of His death, Christ’s kingship was always a great issue that troubled those who did not believe Him. But those to whom this truth about His kingship was revealed, they sought the King and worshipped Him.

This issue of His kingship caused Herod to plot to kill Him when He was still a baby, and the same issue angered the crowd that shouted “crucify him!”.

At the time of His trial before His death, Jesus confirmed His kingship before Pilate saying, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.

Everyone on the side of the truth listens to me.” Jesus came to establish a kingdom that is not of this world. Contrary to a worldly king whose death ends his reign, Jesus the King died on the cross to establish His kingdom that never ends.

Today, Christ’s kingship is still an issue that troubles those who do not want Him to rule as the King of their lives. Even professing Christians don’t feel comfortable having a king to rule their lives, they want to do their own ways to please themselves and leave the King outside the king’s chambers of their lives. How about you? Is Christ’s kingship an issue to you? Or is He truly your King?

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