Bible League: Living His Word "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be full."— John 16:24 NKJV In this passage, first, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks about His name and then about the importance of asking and praying. To ask in the name of Jesus is to accept that He is the Almighty Lord and that all authority in the Heaven and on the earth belongs to Him. To use the name of Jesus means to receive the greatest honor, which is the fact that a mortal and sinful man, redeemed from death by the blood of Jesus, becomes a child of God and gets the right to call Jesus "my Lord and God." And when the believer calls on His name, which is greater than every name, he makes his prayer heard, causing inner joy. So let us call on God in the name of Jesus with faith and confidence that He hears us, and we will see God's miracles in our lives. It is really joyful when we see our requests fulfilled. On one hand, we find it difficult to believe that it really happened, and on the other hand, we cannot contain our joy. We will rejoice when we see how the Lord answers our prayers and guides us in every situation. It fills our hearts with joy when we realize that God is a loving Father, who hears our prayers and comes to help us. I think the secret of joy is not in our faith, but in the name of Jesus. We have to trust even what we find hard to believe. We should believe in His words, "If you ask in My name it will be done" (John 14:14). Dear brothers and sisters, God is concerned about us, He is eager to see us being joyful and happy. Therefore, sometimes God gives us what we ask just so that we can be happy and joyful. So dear reader, pray and ask in the name of Jesus, believing that Jesus is Lord and God, He has all power, and will hear your prayers. He gave us many promises, and He is faithful. Isn't this joyful? I believe in Jesus, that only He is the source of joy. What about you? By Pastor Arman Gevorgyan, Bible League International partner, Armenia Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingJoshua 11, 12, 13 Joshua 11 -- Northern Palestine Defeated NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Joshua 12 -- List of Defeated Kings NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Joshua 13 -- Canaan Divided among the Tribes NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading Luke 4:1-32 Luke 4 -- Jesus' Temptation; Rejection at Nazareth; Public Ministry; Healings NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion Give discernment to me, your servant;then I will understand your laws. Insight The psalmist asked God for discernment. Faith comes alive when we apply Scripture to our daily tasks and concerns. We need discernment so we can understand, and we need the desire to apply Scripture where we need help. The Bible is like medicine—it goes to work only when we apply it to the affected areas. Challenge As you read the Bible, be alert for lessons, commands, or examples that you can put into practice. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Hebrews 5:7 He was heard in that he feared.Did this fear arise from the infernal suggestion that he was utterly forsaken. There may be sterner trials than this, but surely it is one of the worst to be utterly forsaken? "See," said Satan, "thou hast a friend nowhere! Thy Father hath shut up the bowels of his compassion against thee. Not an angel in his courts will stretch out his hand to help thee. All heaven is alienated from thee; thou art left alone. See the companions with whom thou hast taken sweet counsel, what are they worth? Son of Mary, see there thy brother James, see there thy loved disciple John, and thy bold apostle Peter, how the cowards sleep when thou art in thy sufferings! Lo! Thou hast no friend left in heaven or earth. All hell is against thee. I have stirred up mine infernal den. I have sent my missives throughout all regions summoning every prince of darkness to set upon thee this night, and we will spare no arrows, we will use all our infernal might to overwhelm thee: and what wilt thou do, thou solitary one?" It may be, this was the temptation; we think it was, because the appearance of an angel unto him strengthening him removed that fear. He was heard in that he feared; he was no more alone, but heaven was with him. It may be that this is the reason of his coming three times to his disciples--as Hart puts it-- "Backwards and forwards thrice he ran, As if he sought some help from man." He would see for himself whether it were really true that all men had forsaken him; he found them all asleep; but perhaps he gained some faint comfort from the thought that they were sleeping, not from treachery, but from sorrow, the spirit indeed was willing, but the flesh was weak. At any rate, he was heard in that he feared. Jesus was heard in his deepest woe; my soul, thou shalt be heard also. Daily Light on the Daily Path Genesis 15:6 Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.Romans 4:20-24 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, • and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. • Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. • Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him, • but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. Luke 1:37,45 "For nothing will be impossible with God." • "And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord." New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. |
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