Something to Think About

A woman baked bread for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby.
She kept the extra bread on the Window-sill, for whosoever would take it away.
Everyday, a hunch-back came and took away the bread. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way:
"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

This went on, day after day. Everyday, the hunch-back came, picked up the bread and uttered
the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself...
"Everyday this hunch-back utters this jingle! What does he mean?

"One day, out of desperation, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunch-back," she said.  And what did she do? She added poison to the breads she prepared for him! As she was about to put it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am doing?" she said.
Immediately she threw the bread into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window-sill.
As usual, the hunch-back came, picked up the bread and muttered the words:
"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

The hunch-back proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Everyday, as the woman placed the bread on the window-sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway.. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn.
He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here.
While I was but a mile away, I was so hungry that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunch-back passed by. I begged of him for a small part of his food, and he was kind enough to give me whole bread. "As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!"
 "As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale and red. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned bread that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!
 It was then that she realized the significance of the words: "The evil you do remains with you:
 The good you do, comes back to you!" 
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"The Power of God Inside of Us"

Let us all take a moment to seriously consider how good God is, that while we are yet sinners and fall short of the Glory of God- He continues to love us, protect us, guide us, heal us, teach us and never forsake us.

John 17

 1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
Jesus knew the Passion was immediately ahead yet He called upon God to see this thing through that through the humiliation of the struggle and the Resurrection to follow the power of God would be re-established.    Remember that in Book of Exodus, God says that He raised up Pharaoh to destroy him and thereby establish His own power throughout the Generations.     God used Moses to redeem the natural Children of Israel and God used Jesus to redeem the Spiritual Children of Israel.
There are times when we must experience some rough seas of our lives that God can use us to establish His power and faithfulness to others in our lives.     God uses His Servants and Hand Maidens to establish who He is to Unbelievers in our lives or perhaps Believers who are younger in their walk.
 2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.  3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

God is in Charge however Jesus has been given all Authority by God. You see it is not about Jesus but rather about God the Father who sent Him to us.    Jesus is honoring His Father and establishing that we should too.  Notice also the mention of eternal Life...in the beginning was the Garden of Eden. Isa 55:11” My Word will not come back to me void, but will accomplish what I set out for it to do”…Adam was to be immortal, Jesus is Immortal and those of us who choose to really walk with Him will be Immortal.  

Jesus specifies that His mission in the Natural realm was ordained by God the father in the Spirit realm (Verse.3)

 4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.  5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Jesus always respected His ‘Family name’ while on earth Does your behaviour, dress code and mannerisms show respect for the God your claim to serve? 

 Jesus was always about His Father’s business. He did not hang out, waste time, money or resources.

He did not get caught up with ‘Stuff’ and Possessions...how about you?    Are you being responsible and a good steward of your resources?

 6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.  7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.  8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

Wow! Jesus spoke to the Disciples and the people who came to hear Him and to experience His presence.

Notice what is said…’thou gavest them me’. In the Book of Genesis God tells Abraham “I am your exceedingly great reward” God was prophesying that He would send Himself into the world to be received as a free gift for those who choose to receive the Gift. And His “Shikana Glory” is God’s reward for those who faithfully walk with Him.

Jesus spoke what God sent Him to speak and the Disciples received the information and the training. People receive prophesies of money and wealth however they rebuke teacher of Truth- because truth is not always about “stuff” but more times than not it is training to encourage us to tighten up our Spiritual walk and most people don’t desire to receive that…how about you? What is your attitude in reference to improving your Walk with God?

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.  11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Jesus did not pray for Unbelievers and skeptics. Remember 2 Corinthians 6: 14-18…”the Uneven Yoke”? Read Romans 1 where God specifies that he turns people over to their ‘reprobate minds’

Verse 10…what belongs to God belongs to Jesus and what belongs to Jesus belongs to God. However to belong to Jesus you must be about His Word…because it is written “If you Love me you will obey me”

Verse 11---this relationship makes us ONE WITH GOD. We become extensions of God through the Study and Application of the word of God.

Verse 12…God has given us to Jesus

Romans 8; 27-30

 27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
 28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Verse 12 Jesus keeps us…”He is the Author and the Finisher of our Faith”

Verse 13 He prayed before He left…He prayed an “Intercessory Prayer”.

 14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
The World despises those who are about doing the right thing. Mediocrity hates success and we are not now nor ever really have been “of the World”.

17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word

We are sanctified through the Word of God. Further we are obligated to speak about the Kingdom and its influence not through your mouth as much as through the POWER OF YOUR WALK! Jesus sanctified Himself….we are one with Him ---hence He also sanctifies us. Finally check that He prayed for you…..see verse 20? “which shall believe on me through their Word”!
 21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Verse 21 speaks specifically that when you learn the Bible, understand its operations and apply it too your life you become one with God  V 22-23 give specifics
 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.  26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Walking with God brings a peace, confidence sense of purpose and direction, change in personality, habits, character, vision, priorities and so much more. This is because God lives in us, we become one with His power and His Super combines with our natural and we become SUPERNATURAL!