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How can one find spiritual blessing by going through mourning, suffering, hunger or poverty?

How can one find spiritual blessing by going through mourning, suffering, hunger or poverty? mourning, suffering hunger poverty are supposed to teach you humility, and as the scripture teaches us humility is the essential virtue, without which it is impossible to bear any good fruit at all. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ''Matthew 5:3''. most worldly people forget about the virtue of humility.once we acknowledge almightyness of God and the imperfection of man we can understand what humility means.people tend to forget all about God and are engrossed in pride and self centerdness once they have everything set and figured out &all is going good in their lives and that although seems to look on the outer level as a sign of happiness and succes it only leads to a spiritual voidness.Spiritual voidness leads man away from his creator, his only true source of happiness and contentment and away from faith, which in itself leads a man into misery. The self-sufficient proud man is in fact the most wretched one, because he is so blind he cannot even perceive his misery ''Revelation 3:17''. the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, is the greatest example of humility. Who could ever be higher than Him ¨ the Creator of everything visible and invisible alike? And yet He was always the example of obedience towards His earthly parents, He was obedient towards the lay authorities, He paid taxes, and He meekly forgave His enemies. Striving towards humility, we are doing so in the steps of our Saviour, Who left us His commandment: Take My yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls ''Matthew 11:29''. humility is the path that leads us to God.God is the ultimate source of happiness although we might not know that.For how many are the rich and succesful who have it all yet are so miserable in their lives that they have lost all sense of why they are born and whats the pourpose of life , that they are willing to let satan freely take control of their lives and lead them away from God

By: Annie Goetcheryan
Category: Blessings and Woes

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What behavior does Jesus model in advance of making a major decision?

jesus is teaching us to return to God and pray to God and ask him his will for us in all of our decisions.he is telling us we should trust him to ask his council in everything in our lives for God loves us and wants us to depend on him100%.and we should know that once we submit to his will we should be sure that he will do what is best for us and that we should accept it even if it doesnt suit our pourpose, because God knows what is good for us better than we do.and he always does what is best for us.we might be in a hurry to get what we want but God is never in a hurry as he is never late

By: Annie Goetcheryan
Category: The Twelve Apostles

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Why were the religious leaders so upset that Jesus would heal on the Sabbath (religious day off)?

Jesus never told anyone to keep the Sabbath. Although we are told various things that he did on the Sabbath, we are never told that he rested. According to the Gospels, what he did and taught on the Sabbath was consistently liberal.Jesus lived sinlessly under the old covenant requirements ''Hebrews 4:15''. He was born under the law, while the old covenant was still in force ''Galatians 4:4''.so jesus not resting on the sabbath angers the pharisees&jesus replies with an example from king david Haven`t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread ¨ which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests Jesus` point here regarding the Sabbath is that the letter of the law is not a reliable guide to holiness. People should be judged on the heart, not on superficial actions.Healso said to them, The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath. jesus is more important than the temple and its sacrifices. The logical conclusion is that he is also more important than the Sabbath. Even before his death and resurrection, he was more important than the Sabbath.jesus wants to teach them that the rules were made to be followed and not worshipped&that the creator is more important than the created i.e God and his will is more important then the lwas and scriptures

By: Annie Goetcheryan
Category: Lord of the Sabbath

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