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Priorities of Eternal Purpose (John 6:25-30)

  Priorities of Eternal Purpose (John 6:25-30) At the beginning of this chapter, Jesus had miraculously fed 6000 people with 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread.   Do you think that this would have been enough of a miracle for them to believe? Not really.   They wanted more.   More of what? Of Jesus or the miracles? Apparently, more miracles.   They wanted to believe in Jesus, but he did not do enough for them to believe in him. (John 6:30) He gently corrects them by telling them in the rest of the chapter that the bread he has which is his body is more than enough for them to believe because it is eternal in purpose.   Miracles Are only temporary and once you see one you must have another one.   The food they need must be eternal. It must be eternal if it is going to bring them spiritual satisfaction. As their human nature must have been fixated on the work of miracles that they would have to do Jesus points them out to God’s right expectation for them.   Simply to believe in the o

The Power of Letting go "A time to keep, a time to give up" (Ecclesiastes 3:6)

  The Power of Letting go Whether we are intelligent or spiritual we have the choice to release, or letting go.  Whatever you like to call it, breathe in breath out.  It seems that in every discipline known to man there is a way of letting go.  Thus, even in regular prayer one aspect of it, it is to let go. In life we must learn through it to let go of stuff.  Letting go of accumulated furniture and junk in our homes.  Letting go of our children when they are teenagers. Letting go of them when they get married.  All through life we go through this process of metamorphosis to become eventually free like a beautiful butterfly.  We also must teach this to our children and the process goes on and on.  We must let go of our bad memories and guilt from the past.  Do you understand that the more you let go of baggage and chains, the more you will be free in your life to do either what God wants you to do or what you have dreamed all your life. I tell you and at the same time speak that to mys