And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is (Genesis 21:17, KJV) Hagar and her son Ishmael have kicked out Abraham’s house after Read More
Children of God
Adopted into God’s family
“He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will—to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son” (Eph. 1:5-6 NET). Grace is adoption into God’s family as His sons, in the Read More
You are not of the world but of God
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Jn. 17:16 NAS) Part of the reason why the Jews couldn’t stand the teachings of Jesus was because of the claims He made of Himself. They count not stand hearing Jesus, whom they thought they knew, say He was the Son Read More
You are the sheep of His pasture so eat!
Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. (Ps. 100:3 NAS) God has pasture for His sheep. The pasture is created and designed for the sheep. Pasture represents God’s provisions for our needs and is Read More
I am a child of God for real!
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, (Rom. 8:16 NAS) No assumptions, “I am a child of God for real!”. We are children of God because God reproduced Himself( beget us) when we got born again. His nature is in us. As children bear the nature of their parents, Read More
You are born of God
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Rom. 8:16 KJV) Our greatest identity as believers is that we are the children of God. There is no one who would better understand the full implications of being called a Father than our heavenly Father. God has begotten us Read More