Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
August 12, 2023: SOAP #5000: Jeremiah 10-12; John 14

SCRIPTURE:  John (NIV) 14:9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

OBSERVATION:  Jesus gives the Father credit for all His teachings and miracles. The Father, living in Jesus, was doing the Father’s work.  Jesus had humbled himself while on earth; he had emptied himself of his goodness.  He lived as a man, a sinless man, as a created man, He lived the life He had created man to live.  So how did Jesus do all the miracles?  According to verse 10, it was the Father living in Jesus who did the works.   
     Jesus was returning to the Father and now Jesus would do in and through us what the Father had done in and through Jesus!!! 

APPLICATION:  So, how does that apply to me?  Just as Jesus depended on the Father to give Him what to say, and to do the miracles through Jesus, now I must depend on Jesus and the Holy Spirit to give me the words to say and flow through me to do His works. 
     The SOAPs are the Lord’s work.  He clearly told me to write them.  He leads me what to write.  He provides for them.  He uses them in many different places and ways. 

PRAYER:  Lord, as I look back over 5000 SOAPs, I see your hand at work in and through me.  Your word washes me as it flows through me.  Your word changes how I think as I meditate on it.  Your word changes my life as I apply it.  Amen

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