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Tag: Born Again

  • “Rebirth – Spiritual Rejuvenation!!!”

    New Monday Morning Blog John 3 3

    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! šŸ˜€ Happy Monday to you all. I hope everyone had an awesome weekend.
    As we all know weā€™re in a special time of year. According to history, a special child would be born, Iā€™m speaking of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So, I want to speak to you briefly about rebirth.

    Beloved, do you know what Jesus had in mind when He said ā€œBorn Againā€ to Nicodemus? He was talking covenant talk. He was telling Nicodemus what it meant to have an agreement with God.

    Allow me to paint you a virtual mental picture I believe that was in Jesusā€™ mind. Imagine a baby, a little baby born of an unwed mother. No one knows who its daddy is, and no one wants to know. Heā€™s a child no one wants. He doesnā€™t belong to anyone.

    Now, I want you to picture the best kind of family you can think of. Iā€™m speaking of a family that loves God. The man has a good career. Theyā€™re blessed monetarily. Theyā€™re contributors, supporters and lovers of people, and they fall in love with this baby. Before long, they adopt it.

    Now look at what just happened!!! šŸ˜€ That baby was just rebirth. Life for the baby is now ā€œRejuvenated!!!ā€ šŸ˜€ He got a new set of parents. Through adoption, he has now become an heir. Why? Not because of anything the baby has done. Those parents didnā€™t say, ā€œI want you to look at that baby. Iā€™m so overwhelmed with all that that child has done for us. He has certainly earned our love and admiration.ā€

    NO, itā€™s a baby. It couldnā€™t have done anything to earn its new life. This man and this woman agreed together out of the love in their hearts (mind and emotion) to give grace (unmerited favor) to the child. Now he has access to everything they have. When they offer him a bottle, he doesnā€™t knock the bottle away and say, ā€œIā€™m so humble and undeserving. Just give me water.ā€ Of course not. That baby acts like part of the family, and not just part of the family but the best part of the family. Because in Jesusā€™ day a covenant or adopted child had the same birthright as the firstborn son. Thatā€™s what Jesus was talking about when He said, ā€œYou must be born again (rebirth).ā€ He was talking about grace. He was talking about a new relationship of favor. He was talking about a spiritual rejuvenation. Ā A new family. A new authority. A new power.

    Beloved, if you feel undeserving to receive the rich blessings God has for you today, think about that. Meditate on it, so instead of worrying about and struggling with the needs in your life, you can just walk confidently into the throne room of your Father and receive help to get those needs met.

    Learn what it really means to be a blood-bought child of Almighty God with a big brother like Jesus. Learn what it means to be, Rebirth and become Spiritually Rejuvenated!!!

    Have a blessed Monday and a splendid week Everyone.

  • “It’s Time to Plant”

    Bishop Houstons weekend word picture

    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! Another weekend has arrived on our doorstep.
    Hallelujah!!!! šŸ˜€

    One of the scriptures I read this morning came from 1 Peter 1:23 and it says: ā€œBeing born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.ā€

    You know, speaking for myself and the worldly life I lived in the past, allows me to speak the Word of God without any conviction. You see, Iā€™m a living proof a walking testimony when I say, you won’t really get excited about the Word of God until you realize that it’s more than just a collection of divinely inspired promises. It’s a living force that literally carries within it, the power to make those promises to become a reality in your life.

    Now the question that stands at hand is: Is it tough for you to believe such a thing is possible? Well if you said yes, then I say to you Beloved, ā€œIT SHOULDNā€™T BE.ā€ You see, you see it happen in the natural world all the time.

    Allow me to give you a quick example – If I were to put a watermelon seed in your hand and tell you that within that tiny, dry seed lies the power to produce a stalk thousands of times bigger than the seed, to produce leaves and roots and a round or oval shaped, green watermelon, you wouldn’t have any trouble believing that, would you? Thatā€™s because, you know from experience that even though that little seed doesn’t look like a watermelon factory, but, somehow, given the right environment, it will become one.

    Beloved, Jesus says the Word of God works by that same principle. There’s miraculous power within it. Itā€™s a seed that, once planted by faith in a human heart (mind and emotions), will produce more blessings than you can imagine. šŸ˜€

    Beloved, once you grasp that, you’ll get extremely excited about the Word of God. That’s what happened to me. šŸ˜€

    Over 20 years ago, I caught a glimpse of what that Word could do. I caught a glimpse of the power within it. Before long, I had a Bible in every room of my house, a Bible in my car, and a tape player or a Christian television program and gospel music playing nearly all the time.

    I spent every possible moment in the Word of God because I wanted the power of that Word inside me more than I wanted anything else in the world. I knew it would blow the limits off my life. Iā€™m speaking of limits that had held me back and kept me down for years. I knew that when I read it, I wasn’t just reading, I was planting seeds. Seeds of prosperity, seeds of health, seeds of protection and seeds of victory for every area of my life.

    Beloved, this weekend, don’t treat the Word of God like a book. It’s not!!! It’s a spiritual seed that has the supernatural power within it to produce the harvest of a lifetime. This weekend, get excited about it and start planting now!!!! šŸ˜€

    Have a blessed Weekend Everyone!!! šŸ˜€