Jesus met 10 lepers who cried out to Him for healing. He told them to go to show themselves to the priests and as they were going they were cleansed and one of them returned to give thanks to Jesus. Jesus asked where the other nine were. The others were Jews but the one who returned to give glory to God was a Samaritan. Jesus said to him that his faith had saved him.
We learn hear faith is seen in obedience to the voice of Christ even when no signs are seen. They were not healed when they begun the journey but it was on their journey that they got healed of their leprosy. All ten were cleansed but 9 of them concentrated on being received back to their families and friends and therefore they have gone faster when they realised they were healed to the priests to receive permission to go back to their homes. Only one who decided to not go to the priests first but first to go back and give thanks for what the Lord had done for him. By going back he received something else that the other nine didn't receive, that is salvation.
Many believers have the attitude of the nine lepers; it's easier to pray and ask God for something and when God does it, we don't remember to go back first of all to give thanks but we hurry to show ourselves to the priests and to give testimony to our family members and friends.
We must have the attitude of the one leper who went back and said that giving his testimony to family and friends and being received back in church can wait, but I must first of all go back and give thanks to God. Whenever we make giving thanks to God a first priority, we always receive something more than we had asked.
Learn to give thanks not only to God, but also to people whenever they do even a small thing for you and you will receive more from God. The reason many people don't make progress in their spiritual lives is because they haven't learnt to say thank you to God and thank you to people. Never take anything for granted even if it's a little child who has done it for you. Learn to always say thank you and you will see that God will save you; that is, He will help you overcome things that you have been unable to overcome even until now.
Jesus said that the kingdom of God does not come with observations but it's in our midst.
The coming of the Son of man will be like lightning in the sky, therefore don't believe it when people say look here or there....but He must suffer and be rejected in His generation.
The coming of the son of man will be like the days of Noah and Lot. It's interesting that what Jesus mentioned is not about the sexual immorality that filled those days but He mentioned the normal preoccupation of everyday. Eating and drinking. Getting married and giving in marriage. Buying and selling. Planting and building.
This is what will be going on when Jesus comes again.
This is to teach that in whatever we do, we must always be ready for the coming of the Lord and keep our garments unspotted but always wasted in the blood of the lamb.
Remember Lot's wife. Don't be attached to anything you have left behind but be occupied with Christ and what lies ahead.
If you seek to save your life, you will lose it. This is to say, if you don't want to crucify your self-life, but seek to preserve it, you will lose it but on the other hand you decide to lose your self-life by dying to your own will, and your own ways, and desires and choosing Gods will His ways and desires, you will save yourself. There will be two doing the same thing, one will be taken, the other will be left. One who was walking the way of the cross will be taken and the other who was not walking the way of death to our self life will be left even if both were doing the same thing or activities.
Wherever a carcass is, the vultures will be attracted to it; in the same way, just like Jesus walked the way of saying no to His own will and always Yes to the will of God throughout His earthly life, He will only be attracted to those who in their earthly life are seeking to live the same way He lived.
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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