The Blood Of Jesus
Catharina Schouten
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The blood of Jesus:
- atones
- cleanses us
- sanctifies (redeems) us
- conquered satan then and now
- makes us one with the Father
- empowers us
Many people do want to repent and ask Jesus to come into their life, but they do not allow the blood of Jesus to cleanse and redeem them.
There is and there won’t be unity apart from Him and apart from His blood. Likewise you cannot have your soul come ‘home’ without the blood!
If we go on pointing our fingers at the other, if we keep saying and/or thinking ‘It’s because of him or her that I am in this situation’, ‘The others have done wrong’, ‘I am just a victim. It’s not my fault.’, ‘You Lord, You have…..’ et cetera
If we think we can turn back to God by this mode of thinking, then we will remain under a veil of EVIL…..
This ‘pointing’ already commenced with Adam, who said to the Lord, after Eve had eaten of the apple:
“YOU have given me this woman! “
Eve, on her turn, said: “The serpent has deceived me”….
Basically Adam blamed both the Lord and Eve. Eve shifted the blame to the serpent….
They both pointed away from themselves……and did not assume the responsibility for their deeds!!!!!
We’re all born under this curse of the Fall of man, the root of which is PRIDE!
Each one of us has to go to God for themselves, with his/her own self, to be cleansed and redeemed him/herself…..by the Blood! The precious Blood of Jesus!
Not out of a victim attitude……Not out of an attitude that keeps pointing at the other……
LORD, I AM SINFUL!!!!!!!
He redeemed YOU! That’s why the Lord’s Prayer says: deliver US from evil …….
The cleansing operation of the Blood of Jesus continues day and night, 24/7…..It is the Blood that bought us and paid for our sins!
He, Jesus Christ, Yeshua, reconciles us with the Lord, with the Father!
But out of our own free will, WE must admit that we OURSELVES are sinful…..
Whether we are victim or perpetrator, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US is SINFUL and an enemy of GOD, APART FROM the Blood of Jesus!
It is He who has bought us free by paying for our sins!
Give HIM your sins, submit yourself to Him, totally, so that HE by His Spirit can lead you and point out your sins to you in a tender, loving way…..
Then repent of the sins He revealed to you, confess them aloud to Him. By so doing you literally bring your sins into the light!
Satan is the king of darkness, Jesus is the King of the Light!
A sin repented of, a sin brought into the light, is a sin forgiven! Satan does not have might or power over it anymore……
But so long as we confess our sins out of an attitude of victimization and the pointing of the finger at someone else and/or the circumstances…so long will the cleansing be covered by a veil of deception……
In order to become completely free, to really still and quiet your soul, you will have to go through the eye of the needle!!!!
The entrance to the full truth, to the heart of the Father is so narrow, so small that you have to drop and release EVERYTHING in order to be able to go in…….Only YOU has to go through, you, together with YOUR responsibility to ADMIT who YOU are without GOD!
Right there, on that spot follows the “remorseful repentance”, the awareness deep down within of how deeply sinful you are, the knowing that YOU are the one who has to be cleansed by and in HIS BLOOD!!!!
Jesus is the Conciliator of our sins!
You have to admit YOUR sins. Then and only then will the secret of Jesus’ words reveal itself:
To whom much is forgiven, the same loveth much!
In other words : If we ourselves come to the acknowledgment of our OWN state of being
(Who you are WITHOUT God, without the Holy Spirit) ……then it’s not that difficult anymore to forgive the other!
COME TO ME!!! JUST YOU & ME!!!!
Nothing else, no one else but JESUS CHRIST! Only BY HIS BLOOD!
Surrender yourself!
* 2 For what the Lord has finished at the cross must be fulfilled in OUR hearts.
Amen!
SOURCES:
* 1 Andrew Murray’s booklet ‘The Blood of Jesus’
* 2 Quote: Ana Mendez – Ferrell
Bible:
Luke 7: 47
47 So I tell you that all her sins are forgiven, and that is why she has shown great love. But anyone who has been forgiven for only a little will show only a little love.”
Genesis 3
12 “It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”
The Lord God then asked the woman, “What have you done?”
“The snake tricked me,” she answered. “And I ate some of that fruit.”
John 6: 53 Jesus answered:
I tell you for certain that you won't live unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man. 54 But if you do eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have eternal life, and I will raise you to life on the last day. 55 My flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. 56 If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.
Hebrews 10: 19 My friends, the blood of Jesus gives us courage to enter the most holy place 20 by a new way that leads to life! And this way takes us through the curtain that is Christ himself.
Romans 2: 5 But you are stubborn and refuse to turn to God. So you are making things even worse for yourselves on that day when he will show how angry he is and will judge the world with fairness. 6 God will reward each of us for what we have done.
How strong the enmity is between our flesh and the Blood of Jesus is proven by the fact that the Lord once sought to kill Moses!!!!!
Exodus 4: 24
Circumcision of the foreskin then, is for us here and now, circumcision of the heart!– being born of the Spirit! ..... The New Testament,/ the New Covenant: Through THE BLOOD of JESUS!!!!
Please read the whole passage in your Bible:
24 One night while Moses was in camp, the Lord was about to kill him. 25 But Zipporah o 4.25 Zipporah: The wife of Moses (see 2.16-21).circumcised her son with a flint knife. She touched his p 4.25 his: Either Moses or the boy.legs with the skin she had cut off and said, “My dear son, this blood will protect you.” q 4.25 My dear son ... you: Or “My dear husband, you are a man of blood” (meaning Moses).26 So the Lord did not harm Moses. Then Zipporah said, “Yes, my dear, you are safe because of this circumcision.”
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Johan & Catharina Schouten Teshuva Ministries
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The Diamond!
Catharina Schouten
I saw two circles spinning round in opposite directions!
The one big circle turned around in the direction of evil (the own self)
The smaller circle cycled in the direction of God! (self denial)
We all sense that we have entered a different time frame. A new season is making itself known!
Isaiah 43: 19!
But if you take a closer look then you will still see people running after big names and huge, impressive ministries.
It’s not that these big names and ministries are wrong in themselves, but the question is : is it God Who leads you to this meeting, to this ministry, or……. (you can fill it in for yourself) .
This morning I had someone pray over me, because I sensed that in me there was a cancerous tumour as well, a tumour that had me look up to big names….that is to say: in the wrong way.....
To make it more specific: Father has told us (Johan and I) that we have to open the gates of our house…..
The thing is that we do not live in a very roomy house. What’s more, we live quite a long way from the major cities….So you can imagine that we don’t talk about hundreds of visitors coming to our ‘open house’ meetings….
But nevertheless, we do experience God’s blessing, His Love and His Presence!
Still, when I read about meetings where more than 400 people get together, there was this nagging feeling of ‘We are so small, can we have an impact anyway? Compared to these big meetings, we do not amount to much, do we?’..... When people call for information about these open house evenings they keep asking: HOW MANY PEOPLE will come?
Well, for God every soul is a priceless treasure! To Him every soul counts!
But if Father has taught me one thing very clearly then it is this: do not point your finger at your neighbour, but start with YOURSELF!!!!
So I had a telephone conversation with someone who is very pure and honest in following God and just as honest in reacting.
I had this person pray over me and during this prayer I have released this cancerous tumour to God, this tumour of looking up to each other and to big meetings....
And believe me, this preoccupation with big names and numbers is rooted deeper in our heart than we may suspect!
This is the word that God gave:
“The cancerous tumour that has now been cut open, will lead to the death of your own flesh but to life in the Spirit!
The cells that hereby break loose will turn about sevenfold.
No longer will they bring death. Instead they will bring life!
Sevenfold abundance! “
When we put the knife into a cancerous tumour, the cells will be set loose to make their way to all parts of the body and it won’t be long before we die!
But the Lord is now telling us: If you allow the mighty hand of God to cut in your tumour, then it will bring forth life and not death. Indeed, it will bring death: death to your own flesh!
The Lord spoke:
“People run and plan, but I AM the spinning wheel and with MY loom I will weave MY patterns!
The diamond that is being polished by ME is made up of one big stone: I AM
Around this big stone there are all kinds of small stones (ministries) and these on their turn have been polished and shaped into all kinds of different edges (people around it). One can see that the diamond glitters on all sides. At the same time it just depends on the way the light falls which colours will come to life!"
In other words, He determines when something has to illuminate. Everyone stands in his or her calling and everything is united by that one big stone….
YESHUA!
Everyone functions in his or her own colour, taste and aroma, because HE weaves the pattern and HE determines where, how, what and when…
During our prayer we were led to break this spirit that impresses us with Big Numbers, Names, Meetings, Buildings……
HE should be our First and our Last!
He holds our threads together in HIS hand and weaves a coat of many colours…..
the mantle of ELIJAH!
AMEN!
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The Root Of All Evil Pride
Catharina Schouten
(My soul finds its peace with the Lord!)
If we would have to summarize in one sentence the difference between God and satan, then we would arrive at the following definition :
God is full of Love, humble and He sets us free !
Satan is proud and he binds us!
Every one of us, without one exception, is born in sin.
Many people do not understand and are not aware of how deeply sinful and how far removed we are of what God asks of us in order to make it possible for His Son to break through in us…..
Fact is that the battle is being waged between these two poles :
Humility - self - denial versus Pride - self - promotion
Every soul on earth, whether believing or not believing, knows where he/she comes from!
The soul knows all too well that it has been created by the Maker, by God!
And this soul in us is restless. The soul is searching for GOD !
The unbelieving man tries to silence this disquiet by means of:
- owning stuff – buying and chasing nice things.
- addictions – smoking, sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling.
- driving up the standard in the search for kicks and challenges.
- belonging-identification (deriving one’s identity from a group)
The believer who did make a choice to follow God, but didn’t go for it for the full hundred percent, experiences this same kind of restlessness, some sort of a heartache. This believing person will then try to ease and alleviate this nagging pain by the feeling of belonging to a group. Thus this person comes to identify him/herself with a certain church or denomination and – preferably – with a leading figure in that group!
A somewhat more powerful soul will do the same, be it in reverse order, by seeking people and situations that heighten his/her prestige!
Both categories of people, both believing and unbelieving, strong (leaders) or weaker (followers) do not bring their soul to God, but seek to find rest APART from Him.
And the root of it all is: PRIDE! Refusing to bow before GOD!
In our time the Lord is bringing restoration to His Bride, His children.
Many wounded people are streaming out of the churches and congregations. They have lost the sense of who they are, they are not able to see their way out anymore, they are weary, knocked senseless and simply said deeply wounded!
There has been a pyramid culture in our groups, congregations and churches.
In the perception of this culture it was thus: On the top side were the leaders (all-knowing, unassailable and elevated), on the base there were these ‘baby Christians’ (they knew nothing, needed help in everything and in fact didn’t amount to much)
These two groups leaned against each other. The system preserved itself!
If we take a close look at what is actually happening in such a culture, we come to the following conclusion:
A person who lacks self-esteem and doesn’t love him/herself will always look for it in that other person….
In many cases we think that we love ourselves, while this love is often based on love for the self we would like to be! (the self that looks like that other person)
This kind of person finds his or her validation in a group, a leader, an elevated figure.
But the root, odd as it may seem is: PRIDE!
Basically, one is not contented with oneself!
People want to look like: Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, …or enter any other name that suits your situation
They join in partnership with big ministries of that sort. The Big names become their model, their idol…
And they do not seek it with GOD!
How can this be? What is it that makes this happen time and again?
It is the fact that man is, in a deeper way than he himself realizes, infected with the curse of the Fall of man:….PRIDE….
Satan wanted to be higher than God and it is this curse that is upon us that we do not wish to recognize. We rather feed this curse by seeking our refuge, our safety in groups and in other people from flesh and blood!
In doing this we only stray further away from God, meanwhile handing this wicked way down to the next generation.
Let’s first have a closer look at the system:
1 We look for a congregation, for we want to belong to a certain group. To begin with, this first important step is often taken without consulting God and (therefore) out of wrong motives.
The main reason for searching out a congregation is not to serve God, but to belong somewhere….
At our entry we are warmly welcomed, there is attention and people listen to us. In short, the wounded soul finds itself accepted in an atmosphere of love!
Initially this process simmers on for a while and the person in search for GOD (the soul seeks his Maker) has a deepening sense of having found a home…and thus opens up itself more and more in an increasing measure of confidence….
Meanwhile the searching soul is gradually being broken down, for the atmosphere of loving care is bringing more to light than was already expected… The person finds out that he/she is even deeper wounded than he had/she had considered himself to be…..In simple terms: What takes place is not a building up of self-esteem, but a process of being stripped bare to the bone, leaving the person even smaller and more vulnerable, even more depending on…..(if you are familiar with this feeling you can probably fill in the name(s) for yourself)
But than, all of a sudden, it happens:
.2 - The congregation organizes a meeting (a prayer meeting, a party or some other get-together) to which only members are invited…….
Now the wounded, (GOD-)searching soul experiences a deep pain of rejection….. a deep crack in his/her feeling comes into being, for the “unity” is brutally disrupted by this exclusion……
Well anyway, such a first time, though hurtful, is not insurmountable.
A few months later however a similar incident occurs… Again this clear distinction between MEMBERS and NONMEMBERS……
And the wounded soul (searching for his GOD, his MAKER) gives in and applies for membership!
For the demolition of the “home at last” feeling in the rift that one experiences is simply to much to bear……
The church, the group, the leader – slowly but surely usurps the place that only, rightfully belongs to GOD…..
The searching soul identifies itself with the person, the leader, for it deems itself of NO VALUE and thus wants to look like this elevated person!
What takes place is the following:
In no time a whole regiment of “tin soldiers” has been called to life!
They do not think for themselves and of themselves anymore, they swallow everything that’s being said whole and “all noses are pointed in the same direction”!
The odd thing is that a closer investigation will reveal that both the leader and the searching soul have problems with their self-esteem and that both do not allow their soul to find refuge with God!
The leader feeds his seeking soul with power, prestige and promotion.
The weaker searching soul nurtures itself with the stronger seeking soul…
The wounded, weaker soul (the follower) can allow this situation to go on for years… There will come a moment though that either the person himself will take the decision to leave the group or the decision will be taken for him by way of a schism.
The creepy thing is that the searching soul (the follower) is infected from both sides!
- On the one hand he/she is a victim that has been left utterly crushed, devoid of self-esteem.
- On the other hand the patterns of the system have been woven deeply and subtly in his/her character and mind.
Therefore, if the person in question does not first of all seek to be healed and delivered from this whole business, then two things may happen:
- He/she will look for the next group and leader and the situation will simply repeat itself!
- The person proceeds to start a group or a congregation himself. But, since the heart and spirit have not really been broken and crushed before God and nothing has really been healed and restored, the person will now carry on to become an exact copy of the leader and his/her rules… And now the person will put into practice the very thing that he/she has come to detest, the same wrongs that he/she had suffered him/herself…..
When someone has been beaten in his childhood and subsequently nothing is undertaken in order to heal these wounds (spiritually), then this person him/herself will grow up to beat someone else...
What we have taken in, what we learn, will sooner or later come out of us!
It is not surprising then that the Lord says: bring your children up with MY Word!
What’s been instilled in the early years will one day come out!
There is a mechanism in us that makes that we can turn situations around.
After having been held hostage for a long period of time, a person who has been kidnapped, often keeps insisting for months after being released that his/her hostage takers have been good to him/her and that they were quite nice…..
People who have had to undergo lengthy intimate examinations in hospitals, during which they have lost the grip and control over themselves, sometimes say in retrospect: ‘It almost felt as if I were in love with the doctor!’
It is a system of protection that helps us to come to terms with that which we cannot cope with in itself, that which crosses the boundaries of what is permissible for us. The whole thing is easier to accept within self-created circumstances than it is without any form of control….
It is some sort of survival mechanism (similar to our ability to switch off our emotions in extreme situations)
When we return to the point of the soul who recognizes his Maker, then we see that the person who sets out to feed his/her restlessness with God’s living word rather than trying to ease this unhappy feeling, the nagging pain, the sometimes inexplicable unrest with shopping sprees, addictions and the like - that this person is beginning to learn and experience who he/she really is in Christ!
PRECIOUS!
God teaches us to be humble, to be who we really are, how to truly be free!
The book of Psalms paints this beautiful picture of our being like a weaned child with his mother, a child that has been fed, cared for and bathed, wonderfully resting at the heart of his mother…..utterly at peace and satisfied!
What deeper level of satisfaction can a human being wish for….?
All needs have been met!
- weaned = the appetite is satisfied. Literally with the mothermilk, spiritually with the Word.
- cared for = literally attention of the mother, spiritually: finding refuge and security in Him
- bathed = literally cleansed in water, spiritually: being baptized and submerged in Him, dying and being buried with Jesus, to rise up with Him in victory, cleansed by His blood!
- satisfied = literally rest, peace, contentment, spiritually: finally coming home with nothing else left that can charm us, having found REST…..nothing else can take us in anymore!!
God is restoring His body in our days.
This means that we have to face the reality that every one of us is suffering from the root called PRIDE !
The result of this root is that we are NOT REALLY seeking God, but are inclined to feed and nurture and ease our own self by going one of two directions in order to satisfy our need to belong (belonging identity): either we GIVE POWER to others or we take the other direction by wanting to be the LEADER ourselves, by wanting to USURP and exert POWER. But both ways are not led by God, not by His Love and humility!
The result of this is that we are straying off more and more from God and become even more wounded and lonely along the way.
BOWING! Bowing before God, dying to yourself, giving HIM all of your heart, there lies the answer!
THE BLOOD of Jesus – that’s where our new life is being built upon!
This NEW life won’t come to pass by building on bitterness, on wounds, on PRIDE!
A brother in the Lord had received a vision for me in which he saw me as a rooster with a fiery red cockscomb.
When a moment later I received a word from the Lord, namely Psalm 57: 8 in some bibles 9
"I WILL AWAKEN THE DAWN"
it became obvious to me what part of my calling is about. For the crowing rooster announces the break of day!
After the first few times that the Lord deployed me in this part of my ministry, the complaints poured in and there was some heavy backbiting about my person!
One evening when I asked the Lord what it might be that made people come down on me in such a way, He gave me the following word and vision:
Vision:
I saw someone lying down in bed. Next to the bed there stood this “chamber pot”. Outside I saw a run with chickens and a rooster. At a certain moment the rooster started to crow.
Then the person stood up from his bed, took the chamber pot and threw its contents out of the window in the direction of the rooster!
God spoke into my heart:
"In olden days, when the farmers still needed the rooster to announce the daybreak, it might literally happen that the contents of the chamber pot werd thrown towards the rooster, just because the owners wanted to sleep on for another while!
You are being deployed by Me as a rooster – you have to stir awake the sleepers, but since people tend to prefer sleeping over waking up, they will throw their garbage in your direction!
They will want to turn out their chamber pot with the waste products of their own self over you!
In psychological terms this is called: “reflection” - ascribing that which is still in you (sins) to someone else!"
In addition I received a peculiar vision last week :
A circle with a dot in the middle.
Jesus symbolizes the dot.
We as His children stand on the outer edge of that circle.
As you can imagine, when you are on one side of the periphery of this circle and I stand on the opposite side, then we are both FAR from Jesus but also far from each other!
If every person on the periphery of the circle decides to walk towards the central dot, in the direction of Jesus, then we will come closer to HIM in the first place and the natural consequence is that we are also getting closer to each other!
But then I beheld the following:
The people held firmly on to each other, tightly connected hand in hand they walked towards Jesus, but what happened was deformation. That which happened in the first image – everyone walking individually to Jesus and as a natural consequence forming one Body – didn’t take place in the second picture, in which people held on to each other and merged into each other. In this second scene the circle changed into the form of an eye with a dot in the middle.
The Lord pointed out the following to me:
The eye stands for the all-seeing eye (freemasonry). The dot in the middle is satan.
And this whole symbol stands for CONTROL !
Unity and brotherhood APART form the precious blood of Yeshua!
These entwined people put their trust in each other and since our Lord is a jealous God, it is clear that we won’t end up with God in this manner. After all we are only fortifying each other in order to enlarge our own ego! And remember: building unity together is like building the tower of Babel! *
Hence this image of a circle transforming into an eye.
How do I get to You?
A traveller could ask: How can I get to Eurodisney?
We as residents of heaven should ask ourselves and Him: How do I get to You?
The answer: By laying down our pride! By bowing down before the Almighty!
By the BLOOD of Jesus, that cleanses, heals and delivers us and enables us to stand on our own feet and love ourselves in who we really are, instead of loving ourselves in who we WOULD LIKE to be!
This system (loving oneself in who one likes to be) is prevalent all around the world!
People often say things like: Where was God during World War Two?
Well, Hitler couldn’t do anything without his followers! Do you get this: Dictators can’t get anything done without followers!!!!
The same system is in effect here and now!
People who want to bring their souls to rest APART from God, seek their salvation in others, in groups, in control! In POWER !
And if then it so happens that a powerful strong soul arises, capable of making weaker souls follow, then we are at the start of something that might end up to be disastrous !!
For the creepy thing is that sects and other kinds of groups tend to strengthen their unicity, their unity and their power in pursuing something that should ( in their opinion) be quite the opposite of them!
They are strong, they are beautiful, they have the TRUTH (without God) and the other (You can fill it in) is ugly, bad and representing the lie.
You complete the list:
- The Jew
- The gay person
- The ill, the not-so-perfect
- ….
BUT: God loves everyone! HE HATES SIN!
NOT BECAUSE He is a dictator, but His Loving Spirit, His Beauty cannot bear that there is darkness in His Body!
What happens in the minds of people when this thinking out of a group identity (belonging identity) takes place? At first the ‘wrong ones’ (whether a race or specific persons) are reduced to a number, to a nobody, in short to everything that no longer represents a human being, so as to prepare the brain for killing and destroying that certain ‘something’ ! The mental imprint of degrading qualifications makes it possible for the ‘group members’ to kill an other individual without feeling oneself a murderer!
Transforming a human into a number, a beast, a nobody, eventually numbs the senses of the one who sets out to kill such enemies of the group!
Even in faith communities it can happen that the one who no longer wishes to be silenced, the one who stands up against the group, is put under a ban and is spiritually pronounced dead!
No group member is allowed to speak to this person anymore or to to go vistit him/her, so in fact this person is henceforth considered to ‘not exist any longer’!
Anyone who seeks to establish his/her self-esteem on another foundation than the Word of God, anyone who strives to boost his/her ego apart from the Blood of Jesus, runs the risk of falling prey to dictators and other power-mad persons!
We see how these people literally puff themselves up. They attain honour, prestige and they are so twisted in their self-image that they are prepared to do just ANYTHING for the group....
This battle is a spiritual one! Choose this day for JESUS!
Why is it so imperative that we turn around to GOD?!
In Him lies the unity! Thanks to the sacrifice of Jesus there is no difference anymore between:
- Man & Woman
- Greek & Jew
- Free & Bond
In Him we are one, in Him dwells the Truth, the Peace, the Freedom!
In Him lies our future!
Amen!
* See the other articles on the Lion of Judah log!
** FOOTNOTE
***The Lord asked of me, to share the following thing with all of you:
If we fill our spirit (soul and mind) with dirty and violent movies and books, than our soul will be polluted and we get used to all of this. Meaning: we will changes our thinking about all of these things, and except them as normal behavior! Let us fill ourselves with HIS living water!
The Lord is using leaders of course as a fact He is restoring the five fold ministry
But look what He is asking from all of us:
Helping Christian Leaders
1 Peter 5
1 Church leaders, g 5.1 Church leaders: Or “Elders” or “Presbyters” or “Priests.”I am writing to encourage you. I too am a leader, as well as a witness to Christ's suffering, and I will share in his glory when it is shown to us.
2 5.2 Jn 21.15Just as shepherds watch over their sheep, you must watch over everyone God has placed in your care. Do it willingly in order to please God, and not simply because you think you must. Let it be something you want to do, instead of something you do merely to make money. 3 Don't be bossy to those people who are in your care, but set an example for them. 4 Then when Christ the Chief Shepherd returns, you will be given a crown that will never lose its glory.
5 5.5 Pr 3.34 (LXX).All of you young people should obey your elders. In fact, everyone should be humble toward everyone else. The Scriptures say,
“God opposes proud people,
but he helps everyone
who is humble.”
6 5.6 Mt 23.12; Lk 14.11; 18.14.Be humble in the presence of God's mighty power, and he will honor you when the time comes. 7 5.7 Si 2.1God cares for you, so turn all your worries over to him.
Psalm 131
(A song by David for worship.)
131 Trust the Lord!
1 I am not conceited, Lord,
and I don't waste my time
on impossible schemes.
2 But I have learned to feel safe
and satisfied,
just like a young child
on its mother's lap.
3 People of Israel,
you must trust the Lord
now and forever.
© 1999 American Bible Society
1 Corinthians 12: 27
27 Together you are the body of Christ. Each one of you is part of his body. 28 12.28 Eph 4.11.First, God chose some people to be apostles and prophets and teachers for the church. But he also chose some to work miracles or heal the sick or help others or be leaders or speak different kinds of languages
Ephesians 4: 11
11 Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers, 12 so that his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong.
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