This Week With Jesus

Have you ever wondered why is a structure called a building when it is already been built?   The simple truth is nothing is ever completely built, whether it's a building, or a company or a human being. Everything is work in progress . This also reminds about Nehemiah in the Bible, the governor of Persian Judah, and his efforts in rebuilding the temple and one often wonders Why is it in the Bible in the first place?  Is it for historical reasons or is God trying to tell us something today? This rebuilding of the temple, in the face of great odds, represented the people's renewal of faith, and the reforming of their conduct.  Like the Israelites of old, we too backslide and tend to forget our God. We tend to let life overcome our duty. Nehemiah was not an ordinary man, he was an important man and occupied a high position. Yet he made it a point to make the time and effort for this great endeavor. Today, we are the temple of the Lord 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 and...

*** Image from Mashable We take War too lightly. We even teach our children war and other violent games on video games, XBoxes and other devices, including phones. Gaming is big industry and war gaming as big and as popular. We have call high level meeting rooms as War Rooms.  Yet, when it happens in real life, we are shocked. Why?  On the 8th of October #Israel was attacked once again, after 50 years, to the day, by a terrorist uprising in Gaza. A huge public outcry followed, with one of our readers sharing the Israel PMs speech (available at the link below).  What does this war mean to us? Will it end in a peace treaty with lots of fake handshaking by world politicians and we soon forget the thousands of innocent people who have and will have, lost their lives, families destroyed, and homes lost, as we, the people of this world are prone to do? Some countries have sworn to destroy Israel. Can they? Zechariah 12:3–4 God says, “I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating ...

  *** Pic from Wikipedia Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. — Lamentations 3:41 Why do we pray? Boyd Packer said -" Prayer is your personal key to heaven.". Here is a deep but beautiful explanation from the KJV devotional . "The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us Favours without constraining us to pray for them, we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty.  While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The healthiest state of a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally, but mighty through God to do great exploits; and hence the use of prayer, because, while it adores God, it lays the creature wh...