Take care how you listen because whoever has more will be added and whoever doesn't have even what they have will be taken away.
How do you listen to God's messages? Do you listen with prejudices against the preacher or do you listen with a hunger to hear from God? If you don't have the desire to hear God, even that little hunger for God will be taken away.
His mother and brothers came and due to the crowd could not reach him. They sent a message and Jesus answered that His Father and mother and brothers and sisters are those who hear the word of God and do it.
His attachment was not more to relatives by blood but by those who did God's will. He couldn't stop preaching just because His relatives wanted to see Him. God was first in His life and He couldn't allow relatives to come between Him and God.
Let us follow Jesus here, in not allowing our blood relatives to come between us and God.
Jesus told His disciples to go to the other side of the lake and as they went and the boat was being filled with water and they were drowning. They woke up Jesus and Jesus rebuked the storm and it became calm. He asked them where their faith was.
We learn here that obeying God does not mean there will be no trouble but it means that we'll experience God stilling the storms of life as we are doing His will and crying out unto Him.
There met a man who was demon-possessed who lived in the tombs and He cries out not to be tormented and Jesus cast them out and let them enter the pigs.
We see here that the demons are aware of the final judgment and live in fear of it. What about you, do you live in fear of the final judgment? Are you aware that all you have been doing in secret and in public will be brought into judgement. Do you live in the awareness that God is watching everything you do, He listens to everything you say, He watches your motives and attitudes and thoughts.
Be wise, live knowing that you will have to give a personal account of yourself to God.
When the people heard what happened and saw the man in his right mind, they implored Jesus to live.
This is the nature of man, they don't care if a person is blessed if they have lost their property. Property to man means more to them than a soul, but to Jesus it was the opposite.
Man loves things and uses people to their own advantage where Jesus uses things and loves people. It doesn't matter to Jesus if loss has to occur if a soul can be saved and blessed. Let us follow Jesus here.
Jesus told the man to go home and tell them what the Lord has done for him.
It is good to share testimonies of what the Lord has done for us.
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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