From the Heart by B.Demaere

Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life.  No one who comes to me will ever be hungry again.  Those who believe in me will never thirst. All that Jesus ever is what the holy Presence of God is.  He is the manna from heaven.  The all-sufficient Manna from heaven.  He includes all-satisfaction.  Nothing will ever be lacking to us if we follow him in our desert.  We don't need to obey rules and religious rites because these will keep us dry in the end.  Our good works should be unnoticed by mankind but obvious to the Father in heaven.  We are all accountable to him and no one else. Jesus is the Bread of Life, the sustainability of our spiritual well-being.  In this chapter that I cannot all put down here, Jesus encourages his followers to eat his 'flesh' and 'drink' his blood.  They thought he wanted them to be cannibals but that is not what he wanted them to do.  He wanted to not just satisfy them but the whole world by his presence.  The association with him had t

Promises to Keep : Before and After Story (Isaiah 43:12-13) : "...First I predicted your deliverance; I declared what I would do, and then I did it---I saved you.  No foreign god has ever done this...

"...First I predicted your deliverance; I declared what I would do, and then I did it---I saved you.  No foreign god has ever done this before.  You are witnesses that I am the only God, says the Lord.  From eternity to eternity I am God.  No one can oppose what I do.  No one can reverse my actions." These two verses describe perfectly how God brought me to himself. This is my before and after story of my coming to God and becoming a Christian. I was born in Brussels, Belgium and like every child in school I was taught about evolution which from the start was to me a far-fetch story.  I had no idea what the alternative was either.  I just knew there was something strange about it.  I just knew people and things had to be made in order to exist. I come from a middle class European family.  My parents owned their own body shop business.  My father specialized in fixing Alfa Romeo's and my mother would help him with accounting.  As well, raising three children, later a fourt

Promises to Keep : Be Ready! (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) : And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like pe...

Promises to Keep : Be Ready! (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) : And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like pe...

Promises to Keep : Be Ready! (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) : And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like pe...

And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like people who have no hope.  For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes,  God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died. I can tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not rise to meet him ahead of those who are in their graves.  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God.  First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.  Then together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever.  So comfort and encourage each other with these words.  (This continues into Chapter 5 as well) This should be of great comfort and ver