Miah Learns to Write

Last week, we talked about Jesus and how He dealt with temptation when He was in the wilderness and had fasted for forty days. Satan came up to Him and tried to test Jesus but ultimately, Jesus overcame the temptations. He did it by having a greater power within Him which is the Holy Spirit, a greater purpose beside the physical survival of man, a greater devotion for God as He had referenced Scripture in the second temptation to worship the Lord your God only, and a real humility before God the Father as Jesus submitted His own will to follow the will of the Father in heaven. We also see here how Jesus represented man through these trials and eventually broke man free from the chains of sin. Jesus made the greatest sacrifice for us so that we can have a way to the Father and become right with the Father through the righteousness of Jesus. He gave up His life and took it up again; He came down from His throne and went back up again, in order for us to have eternal life. Whe...

As Jesus neared His time and in the latter part of His ministry, He gave His disciples the last few reminders that they would need to be able to continue what He has started. He gave them a promise to hold on to which is the Holy Spirit who would be His replacement when He goes back up to heaven to prepare a home for all believers, followers, and disciples of Christ. After the last supper with His disciples, Jesus told them the last I AM statement that wraps everything up and synthesizes what we must do even after Jesus has already been taken up to heaven. Everything that Jesus said about the Holy Spirit and about this last I AM statement works in conjunction to give us  hope for the day that He will return once again and also to impart to us a command that we need to firmly and wholeheartedly fulfill in our lives with the help of the Spirit of truth. Let us look into John 15 to see what Jesus says: " I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off ever...

In the last two statements that Jesus makes, He encapsulates the previous statements that He had made and brings it all together. Also, He gives us something to look forward to and a command to hold on to so that we can continue to grow and mature in spirit as we walk with Him in the life that He has given us through His death and resurrection. Jesus makes clear everything that He has said about who He is and who the Father is as seen through Him since He and the Father are one. In the last two statements, Jesus is nearing the time for Him to bear the cup and to endure the suffering so that His mission will be completed and so that He can make a way for us to God the Father. These are His commands and consolation to His disciples before He goes to the cross and here we see plainly what the mission that Jesus was given meant for us is. He truly gave us the opportunity to have eternal life as He had been teaching since the beginning of His ministry until His ascension back t...

Probably one of the greatest miraculous signs that Jesus had done while He was still in the world, bringing light to the world and showing them how much He loves them and cares for them, was when He brought the dead back to life. Truly Jesus has been given the authority by the Father over life and over death so that God may be glorified through the work that Jesus did in the lives of the people. Even when Jesus laid His own life down as He was crucified at the cross, God the Father had given the command that He can lay down His life and take it up again as He had foretold in John 2 that He would raise the temple again after three days. This He did so that whoever believes in Him that He indeed rose from the dead shall receive life eternal. All of this happened according to the plan that God had set to fulfill the prophecies that had been declared centuries ago by the prophets of old. The context of this I AM statement, according to John 11 , is that Lazarus, the brother of ...

When I was reading the passages of Scripture that pertain to these words by Jesus, I went back a few chapters to refresh my mind of what context this situation refers to when Jesus was teaching the Jews about Himself and the Father. We will try to examine Jesus' testimony about Himself and why the Jews of that time cannot seem to accept the message that the Savior or the Messiah has truly come into the world to redeem it albeit it was totally different from what the Jews expected their Messiah to be. Before Jesus lectured about His mission and His character being the Son of God and the commands that have been given to Him by the Father, He healed a man who was born blind. At this point, when the disciples saw the man, they asked Jesus whether it was the man or his parents who sinned which placed him in the condition that he has lived for many of his years. Jesus then aptly replied that neither the man nor his parents sinned but his blindness will be used by God to be a te...

When Jesus continue to preach to the people, telling them the testimony that the Father has commanded Him to share with the people, Jesus was able to establish the way in which we can be reconciled and made right with God the Father. As Jesus will say in a later verse, He is the only way to the Father and no one else. Only He is the acceptable sacrifice so that our sins will be paid and atoned for. Only He provides the way out of darkness and into the light. He is the door or the entrance to salvation and thus to heaven. In John 10:7-9 , Jesus explains the figure of speech that He spoke about, "Therefore Jesus said again, 'I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.'" We know that Jesus is the embodiment of the Word and that He is the chosen One by the Fath...

I would like to share to you how God has been faithful to me this day and the day before. He showed me how much He cares for me and He let me experience how He really has everything in my life under His control. I have nothing to worry about because I know now that His faithfulness shall endure even through the most humanly impossible circumstances or situations or those moments when we have totally no control over the events that happen in our lives. But we simply have to trust that all these things happen according to God's plan for us and that we have acknowledge that God's plan and will for us is good. Submitting to Him and to His will would release the power of the Holy Spirit over our lives and He will take care of all our needs when we lift them up to Him and humbles ourselves before Him. God also hears our prayers and answers them in the right time. Sometimes the answers might come immediately while other prayers may require more patience for God to bring the...

Let us move on to the next I AM statement that Jesus made throughout His time here on earth. In John 8:12 , it is written, "When Jesus spoke again to the people, He said, ' I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Jesus said that He is the light of the world. Whenever we refer to the light, there are certain associations that come to mind that help us to understand what the context of this statement is. But I believe that it is quite straightforward. The light may be associated with the ability of sight and being able to open your eyes to the truth. The light reveals truths and gives direction to our path just as it allows our eyes to see the different objects in our surroundings and to paint a picture of what the world and God's creation looks like. Since the light enters our eyes, it may be said that the light pierces through our soul, figuratively. In this way, we can view Jesus...

In conjunction with the message from God that we had received at church yesterday, I would like to share my thoughts on the seven 'I AM' statements that Jesus made while He ministered to the people of His time. All of this is about becoming more like Christ and knowing how Jesus dealt with the struggles of life and ultimately overcame them I believe that by examining these statements that Jesus uses to identify Himself, we would know more about Him and experience Him in a deeper way. As it is written in John 6:35 ,  "Then Jesus declared, ' I am  the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty." This is the first of the statements that Jesus will declare, describing us about Himself and His mission or the reason why He came to the world. We know that Jesus came into the world to be its Savior as it is also written in John 3:16-17 . Jesus further elucidates what He came here to do by specifying ...

Today, at church, our pastor begun a series tackling on being Christlike and he focused first on how Jesus dealt with temptation since this is usually what entices people to commit sin. Every Christian has faced struggle and temptation ever since the day that we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. We have become a target of the enemy because we are no longer treading in the middle. We have chosen the side to follow and obey which is God's ways and paths of righteousness. Obviously, the Christian life is not an easy one as some may think nor is it a materially prosperous one just as many perceive it to be. But on God's side, we have the right weapons to combat against the evil in this world and the desires of the flesh to have its way thereby disobeying God in the process and committing sin. It is a high price to pay in being a Christian if you have a worldly perspective and are materially driven. You essentially have to deny your self every single...