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You read stories of my life and others from the Bible. What conclusions do you draw from them? For instance, when I fed 5000, do you think it serves to validate my claims of divinity? Does it have any significance beyond that? Does feeding the hungry resonate with you as something you should be doing too? Those who believe in me are called my followers, and your primary calling is to do the things I did. I gave you this assignment and promised to equip you to do the same works and even greater ones.

LaWanda – ♪♪ Jesus, Jesus, how I love you, How I’ve proved you o’er and o’er.  Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, O for grace to love you more. ♪♪  O yes, Lord, I HAVE proved you over and over and over.  I praise you, Lord, that you are a covenant-keeping God who does not change and cannot lie.  Thank you, Jesus.  Thank you, Jesus.

Have you ever flown on a plane? On a few airplanes the flight crew will wear parachutes, and military fighters are equipped with ejection seats. How do you view your salvation? Do you see it as a parachute to allow you to abandon ship and survive? Depending on your view of end time events you may see it as an ejection seat. This is a rather isolated and individualistic viewpoint. Do you see salvation as an escape from an irredeemable world? Is there another possible scenario that is larger and more inclusive? Continuing with the metaphor above, do you think I could make a safe landing?

I warned that many would come in my name that I didn’t send, and told my followers to take heed that no man deceive them. For when the faith grew and became popular it involved the risk that people would join out of mixed motives, or claim the name of Christ to advance their own agenda. Have you seen those who seem more eager to advance their own interests in my name than they are to be conformed to my image and belong to a Kingdom that is not of this world?

You know that you can’t change the past, but there are some things that can be applied retroactively, which is sort of like changing the past. For example, you could get a pay raise at work, and your boss could make it retroactive to some previous date, so you will get more money than you expected, because you had been working for more money than you realized. How do you view grace? Can you see that from the moment you call upon it, it applies retroactively to your entire past? Can you also see that it applies to the rest of your life going forward?

When the Bible states that Jesus healed everyone present, ever wonder how much detail we are missing in these stories? Perhaps 99% is missing, as the Gospel writers pack three years of Jesus' ministry into a relatively short portion of Scripture.

That is, 3 years x 4 Gospel writers = 12 years X 365 days/yr = 4380 days. All squeezed into just 78 chapters of the four Gospels combined.

How do you describe your faith? Do you say that it is a relationship with me? Is there anything else involved? For this statement implies that you can do it on your own. Do you know Christians who have taken this approach, and wandered off into error or extremism? Some horrible things have been done by those who claim to be followers of me. Your faith places you in a community with all other believers, and beyond that to all whom I have created if you are willing to go that far. How large are you willing to draw your circle?

The Virkler revelation is a useful and compact tool to jumpstart a lifestyle of seeking God. Until I learned the four step method in 2021 through Mark’s teaching at the Global School of Supernatural Ministry,

Are you familiar with the concept of line upon line, precept upon precept? This is an approach to studying the Bible, and it is taken from the Bible in Isaiah 28:10. Is this method the one you are familiar with from school, and find that it adapts well to studying the Bible? Can you think of an alternative approach? For if you read ahead to verse 13 what sense do you get of how pleased I was with this method of study? The purpose of your faith is transformation. Can you obtain this through the incremental approach to learning you were taught in the classroom? How else would you do it?