SCRIPTURE: John (NIV) 12:49 [Jesus speaking] …I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So, whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
OBSERVATION: Jesus is God, the Son, but the Father sent Him to walk as the son of man on the earth. He came to earth to do the Father’s will and to speak the Father’s words. He revealed His Father to us. If I want to know what Father God is like, I need to get to know Jesus!
Jesus claimed that the Father told him “what to say” AND “how to say it!”
APPLICATION: What a difference Christians would make in this world if they purposed in their hearts that their words and actions would reveal Jesus as Jesus revealed His Father. The Holy Spirit has been sent to indwell believers and guide them in responding like Jesus would.
It is not so important that the world hears what I think and how I feel but they desperately need to hear what God thinks and how He feels. There are some people in the world that need to hear it in my language, they need to hear it the way I say it, they need to see the way I live out His word.
And the same is true for each SOAP reader. Your children, your family, your neighbors, your landlord, your fellow workers, etc.: you may be the one the Holy Spirit will use to speak the words of Jesus for them to hear.
I pray these SOAPs will reveal the words of Jesus and how He wants us to live.
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, you dwell within us and influence our thoughts, giving us divine thoughts about what to say and how to say it. Fill us like you did the early church on the Day of Pentecost. Amen
Pastor Leon
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