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Eph.2.8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (NKJV)

Phil.2.12-13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (NKJV)

Sir, I read this verses and I have a question how can salvation be a gift and I have to work my salvation out with fear and trembling?

Nicenancy:
Who is this being who was withstood by the prince of persia in Daniel 10:13?

Also, who is this prince of persia?

What actually happened? What is the meaning of that he got withstood?

How many were with the prince of persia?

Thank you

Daniel 10:12-13
[12]Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.
[13]But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.

A principality and demonic representative of the kingdom of persia

Everyday365:
Prince of Persia is the name of a video game franchise.

😂

Jer.17.10 "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."

Rom.8.27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Matt.6.8 Don't be like them, because your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!

1Cor.15.31 - For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what the Lord Jesus Christ has done in you.

JASONjnr:
Nigerian pastor would've been there with paid police officers to guide them from any harm.... While selling handkerchief l, stickers and oil to it's gullible followers for protection......

😂

The building was not God's will nor to God's glory.

God wanted people to spread over the earth and not stay in one place.

Anyway people packing into one place isn't necessarily a good thing, crimes and other problems increase as well with high saturated population. With all the land upon the earth people fight and kill for a piece of land they believe to have more valuable than the rest.

Antichristian2:
If the earliest Christians within the first two centuries after Jesus did not need a New Testament to qualify their faith, why do modern Christians have such a need? If they did not sanction or consider any other writing beside the Old Testament to be scripture, then isn’t it a digression from the ‘true faith‘ of the earliest believers to incorporate something new as scripture? The first New Testament was codified and canonized by the heretic Marcion who believed that the Jewish YHWH was not the true God, the first time the largest Christian Church sanctioned a New Testament was during the 2nd Ecumenical Council of Carthage in 397 CE, some 360+ years after Jesus.

One of the more telling issues with the questioned posed above is that those who have responded to it believe that the question was tricky to answer. I agree it is tricky to answer, that’s the very reason I asked it in the first place! I therefore, don’t find that description of the question to be a problem, it’s more an affirmation that I framed the question properly in the first place. I’m essentially asking one question:

Is the New Testament required to be believed in for salvation in Christianity?

In other words, can someone be a believing Christian without having need for, or being dependent on the New Testament? Can someone reject it and yet, still be saved? This is effectively how the earliest Christians lived, without a New Testament. Some have tried to respond with the following passages:

*“Repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15)
*“believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31)

These verses do not answer my question. What these verses teach is that you should believe in the good news, but it does not require belief in this or that or any other Gospel. The authors of Mark, over its centuries of development, never emended the text to say, “repent and believe in this gospel,” there’s a reason for that, the verse is conveying the point that it’s good to believe in what Jesus brought, i.e. his message, not the documents written by people decades later who never knew him. Rather, what is emphasized for belief is in him, Jesus, not any written work by any man. That’s the point I’m trying to make here. There is no requirement to believe in the New Testament as God’s inspired revelation to be saved in Christianity. Consider for a moment, this very important passage:

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV).

It’s useful for lots of things, except for salvation. This passage does not state that belief in scripture is a requirement to be saved. Scripture is useful for many things, but it’s not a requirement. It’s like the difference between having an umbrella in the rain and not having one. Sure, the umbrella is useful and it is good for many things when it’s raining, but it’s not a necessity or requirement for when you’re going into the outside world. This is the distinction between something’s usefulness and it’s necessity, one is clearly not the other.

So then, the question begs itself, doesn’t it? Do you require the canonized and codified New Testament, to be believed in, as a requirement for your salvation in Christianity? The earliest Christians did not seem to think so, so why do you?

and God knows best.

The new testament is based on the words and teachings of Jesus which they learnt and taught others, having a record of those teachings in the present day is a blessing but even if we didn't we have the Holy Spirit to teach us all things.

The early church heard the teachings of Jesus either directly or from those who heard them directly and they used scriptures to verify and show that Jesus is indeed the Messiah promised by God. Scripture has always been what is referred to as the old testament or the Tanakh. The scripture reveal Jesus, while the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. So while scripture cannot save you, the gospel can.

When you believe in God's word through his son Jesus Christ, you obey it and follow it. The issue is when men place their faith in documents and in letters rather than in God and follow His Spirit that He has sent to us.

Antichristian2:
Salvation in Islam is the deliverance from sins and the admittance into Paradise! The key components include Iman (Faith), righteous deeds, sincere repentance and submission to the will of Allah by following the Prophet he sent.

so your salvation is based on following Muhammad?

Antichristian2:
Read the OP!

I wont

Phil.3.2-3 Watch out for those dogs, those wicked men and their evil deeds, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved. For we who worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who are truly circumcised. We put no confidence in human effort. Instead, we boast about what Christ Jesus has done for us.


Being like Christ doesn't mean been zealous for the law and it's benefits, no matter how great or organized it may seem, should we disobey God who tells us to listen to Jesus even in the presence of the law and prophets, when He could have said listen to all of them like Peter's 3 tents would suggest?

You may tell yourself you cannot leave because you will lose a lot. Paul wrote.

Phil.3.7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

Paul once thought all those things were so very important, but now he considered them worthless because of what Christ has done. And yet there are those who consider such things valuable to gaining prosperity, popularity and acceptance, so they preach and practice it and persecute those who don't or who speak against it.

You know, Paul was set up a few times because what he preached was against what they believed, and even with such a disadvantage and lack of benefits that he once enjoyed when he was with them, Paul writes

Phil.3.8 - 9
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I may have Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith.


How many of us consider knowing Jesus more valuable than what we may have gained if we didn't know him and forsook all to follow him? This would obviously sound strange to those who believe they follow Jesus without a cross but understandable to those who actually do. The cost of knowing Jesus, following him, being his discipline and being like him may discourage some but it is worth it.

Someone asks you what drives you, can you grab them and shout

THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS, BEING CONFORMED TO HIS DEATH, IF, BY ANY MEANS, I MAY ATTAIN TO THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.

I would prefer to avoid Philippians 3:10-11 than to say it normally or casually.


Phil.3.15 - 16 I hope all of you who are mature Christians will agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you. But we must be sure to obey the truth we have learned already.


Being like Christ means coming to know him, to follow and obey him. Do you understand what we stand to gain even though we suffer in his name.

Phil.3.18 - 21
For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Chris[/b]t. Their future is eternal destruction. [b]Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and all they think about is this life here on earth. But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer everything, everywhere.


[Some of you even after reading this will continue to follow them, but nevertheless while we live on earth]


Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon. Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. For Christ gives me the power to do all this. (Philippians 4:5-7, 12-13)


Even though we suffer, God will supply all we need and reward those who give generously and out of kindness to those in need, it may be tough but the cross is worth carrying to be like Christ both in life and in death.

God bless.

Phil.2.1 - 4
Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic?
Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one heart and purpose. Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don't think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing.

(So to have a humble mindset of ourselves just as even Jesus did.)

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped; but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,...(Philippians 2: 5 - 9)

Unfortunately there are those who see themselves as a god and even treat themselves as such, such a mindset is reflected in their reaction against suffering nor sacrificing themselves for others. Listen what we believe affects how we behave. If God wants you to die for your brethren would you? To see yourself as nothing and others better than you, it is because you understand that God being in us and using us doesn't make us equal with Him even though we are one with Him. Infact the proof that God is in us and that we are like Christ is the humility to do God's will even when there are no physical blessings attached to it. But know that has God rewarded Jesus, He will reward us and we will then gain.

13 -16
For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.
In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing, so that no one can speak a word of blame against you. You are to live clean, innocent lives as children of God in a dark world full of crooked and perverse people. Let your lives shine brightly before them.
Hold tightly to the word of life, so that when Christ returns, I will be proud that I did not lose the race and that my work was not useless.



It is God and His power that enables us to be like Christ, knowing this should enable us to be humble and merciful to others.

Paul had that mind of Christ, to be like Christ, ready to suffer and sacrifice, did he suffer because he was lazy or uneducated, no, but because there were those who hindered and didn't support the spread of the gospel through him. Same with Timothy who almost died.

They faced the opposition of religion and didn't relent.

The letter from Paul and Timothy

Phil.1.9 - 11
I pray that your love for each other will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding.
For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until Christ returns. Being filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Do we truly understand what really matters, do we truly know what is best, that because Christ is in us, the good things expected to come from our lives is righteousness. Is your expectation for having Christ in you that good things should come to you? Our expectations should be for good to come from us.

Phil.1.20 - 24
For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that causes me shame, but that I will always be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past, and that my life will always honor Christ, whether I live or I die.
For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better. Yet if I live, that means fruitful service for Christ. I really don't know which is better. I'm torn between two desires: Sometimes I want to live, and sometimes I long to go and be with Christ. That would be far better for me. but it is better for you that I live.

Our expectations in life will affect our reactions to the things we experience in life. When we understand that being like Christ is us realizing that our only gain is to die in God's will and not considering what to gain while we live, our expectations will align with God's word.

To some it is hard to accept such a fate that gives up on this life for the hope of an eternal one, but we are called to such hope and lifestyle. But when you begin to compare yourself with those who live to gain in this world, you would feel discouraged and intimated, you won't even be able to confess boldly what you believe.


Phil.1.28-29
Don't be intimidated by your enemies. This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going to be saved, even by God himself.
For you have been given not only the privilege of trusting in Christ but also the privilege of suffering for him.

So being like Christ requires us to not only believe in him but to suffer for him, if you are unaware that Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and follow him, it's either you didn't read the gospel or you were only told part of the gospel that tells you to believe and to some, they may have been taught to believe for their own earthly benefits. Our call to suffer is why a comforter was sent to us, and our suffering should be as a result of love, of loving one another.

Gabrielshow24:
I know what the scriptures says concerning Jesus.

I will like to see your definition of God.
I will also like to see what makes God, God in your eyes🤨!!!

So far, you have been avoiding my direct questions🤨!!!

Let's see your ontological definition of God!

Side Note, All what the scriptures above prove is the Godship and Lordship of Jesus!!!

John.5.39 "You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
John.5.46 But if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me because he wrote about me.
Deut.18.15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites, and you must listen to that prophet.
Deut.18.19 I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.

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2Kgs.2.10 "You have asked a difficult thing," Elijah said, "yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours-otherwise not."

Jer.32.27 "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too difficult for me?

Antichristian2:
Try and read well.

but I didn't understand what you are asking

Gabrielshow24:
Hello🙃
What's your definition of God?
And what make God God? 🤨

Eph.1.2 - 3
May grace and peace be yours, sent to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.

Eph.1.16 - 17 I have never stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.

Eph.4.6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.


Eph.6.23 - 24
May God give you peace, dear brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May God's grace be upon all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. 🙏🏾

Antichristian2:
How do you pray for a people that already had a fixed count?

God gave Jesus some people he could save from Israel. And he could only save those people and not others! All these your analogy na programed lamba!

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me...John 6-37-39

you are asking me how to pray for people to repent?

Knowing the love of Christ is what leads to us be filled God's life and power. Ephesians teaches me to live in his love, submit to it and speak according to it, this is what commands the power to live for God and resist the devil. If there is any secret to having God in us, to having the power of God at work in us, then it is our knowledge of what the love of Christ is.

Eph.3.16 - 19
I pray God strengthens you with power through His Spirit within you, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; so that you become rooted and grounded in love, being able to understand with all God's people the greatness and to know the exceeding knowledge of the love of Christ so that you may be full of God.

In Ephesians 1, Paul prays for the believers to receive the Spirit of wisdom and come to know and to understand God's promises and power because there is something this revelation from God does in us. So Paul continues the prayer in chapter 3 of his letter, that we may come to know and understand God's love in accepting us and for us to know God's plan, that through us, the church, God would reveal His wisdom to the principalities and powers according to His plan carried out through Jesus Christ.

And the only way for us to be full of God, to have boldness, and to be full of God's life and power is by how much we know and understand God's plan and His love for us through Christ.

You see the purpose of the power is to bring about our unity and the fruit of the spirit and that we in turn tell others about Jesus, about the knowledge of God's son.

Eph.4.11 - 15
He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ. Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.
Instead, we will hold to the truth in love, becoming more and more in every way like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.


The rest is worth reading of things we are not expected to do as children of God and followers of Jesus Christ. Especially in what we say, immorality, anger, greed, lust and love for the things of the world things we are to have repented and follow Jesus. With a warning to ignore those who fool others that greed or worldly desires are okay. Instead Paul calls such people, who are covertous, idolaters who won't inherit God's Kingdom. Jesus said if we love him we would obey him, so we forsake all those things to follow him.

So as ministers our job is to preach God's way and teach you the truth in love, while praying that you come to know and understand it, so that you live life the way God wants and not be tossed into confusion by various different teachings and principles that go against hard work and honesty, packaged in ways that makes one more focused on what pleases them and what they want rather than God.

Eph.5.10-11Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.

A knowledge and understanding that brings us complete and perfect submission to God.

Eph.5.24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.

As we see, the example wives are to follow is our lives as believers which is expected of us that we submit to Jesus in everything. Not just submitting when it pleases us or goes accordingly to what we want and desire.

For if we are full of the Spirit and speak from the spirit our words and deeds would be true and reveal the love of God, what we say would agree with what Jesus said and says. And until we submit completely to God and put on His armor, we cannot and would not be able to resist the devil whom we should continually resist. When we desire things without seeking not submitting to God's will, we put ourselves at a disadvantage of resisting the devil.

So what is this love that you have to know;


Eph.1.3-14

How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the one(Jesus) he loves.


In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth.

Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago. God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. And now you also have heard the truth, the gospel(Good News) that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.


If you do not understand this, then please ask, for to know this and to understand this love, is to have God's power. For this is the love of God through Christ that saves even little children.

God bless.

Nicenancy:
So my husband was visited by his mother. My husband has a habit of praying at night. He began praying (not loud) at midnight. His mother who was in the other room rushed in and said "stop that, so something doesn't enter your mind."


There have been several instances where my mother in law has treated my husband like he is a stranger

One Christmas, my husband bought clothes for his mother — his mother rejected them, "they are not quality, why don't you use them yourself?"

She is used to assassinating my husband's character to virtually everybody.

She is fond of speaking against the fact that my husband speaks in tongues, "always praying in tongues meanwhile it doesn't reflect in your life, even Satan won't listen to your prayers."

She is fond of casting aspersions at my husband "some people always read the Bible yet are very dirty"

My mother in-law has a son who has suffered epilepsy for 30 years now; my husband and his kinsmen have spent so much money on this epilepsy yet no cure. My mother periodically will recommend a new place for the healing of this epileptic but the monies will always go down the drain.

My husband has since resolved not to contribute to that epilepsy scheme again since he believes it is spiritual and a scheme to drain the family.

We once lived with her in my husband's late father's home where my mother in law also lived. My mother in law always picked quarrels with us including our little children, finally we parked out. The day we finally left, my mother-in law literally swept were our feet had touched with a broom.

My husband had a single room apartment in that compound that he gave out for rent. No tenant could live in that room. All tenants complained of strange and scary encounters at night in that room. When they all inquire, they are told that there is a spiritual dispute over ownership of that room between my husband and his mother. Eventually, my husband gave this keys to the room to his mother and now tenants can occupy the room.

All the other siblings of my husband are faced with serious life challenges and my mother in law has brainwashed all of them against my husband.
Kindly analyze this situation

Are these signs of witchcraft?

Do witches hate prayer?

Can a mother bewitch her own son?

Please advise.

you have referred to her more times as mother in law than your husband's mother, I thought he may not be her biological child.

By the way, witches are not beings you try to logically analyze, if witches in stories are said to eat their own children not sure we should expect a witch not to hate and hurt their children.

Asking if she is a witch, some people get bewitched and act like witches even though they themselves are not.

But from you write up it is clear you are dealing with forces of wickedness be it in the woman or from elsewhere.

Any advice, well pray, you both should ask God for mercy and deliverance for your family. Because if God destroys stronghold of wickedness lives and souls would be saved, even the siblings and possibly mother in law may repent and be saved as well. You can add fasting and charity to it.

Righthussle:
Christians always pray for their enemies to die by fire of the holy ghost. The only thing their holy ghost does in Nigeria is to kill. He doesn't make peace.

but there is no peace for the wicked

You removed his advert and posted his thread 🤣🤣🤣😭

Mercisharelove:
WHY DO CHRISTIANS HOLD ALL NIGHT LONG PRAYERS??

Some people called it night vigil, or night watch. Vigil actually means to watch and be alert.

And so let us use the word all night long watching and praying for a particular purpose or a specific event. Whatever must have kept you awoken at night to intercede isn't our subject of discussion, neither the name it's called.

The question we seek to answer is why the night watch or vigil are held on Fridays mostly.

The question is, is it because it is the end of the week, or TGIF formats, why is the night prayers held on Fridays??

For us we believe it's the beginning of the Sabbath day, because you remember that the Sabbath day is on Saturday, the 7th day, the complete circle of the days. The day begins on Sunday and ends up at Saturday.

And so from Friday prayers cumulating on Saturday Sabbath day. In the right order, from the beginning, the prayers should have continued till the end of the Sabbath, but they end up so quickly and go home without celebrating the real rest from the Friday toils and troubles.

Continue in Prayers.

Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

What do you think??

wait you want the vigil to continue until Saturday evening?

helinues:
Yes

I always pray for them to be productive so that they won't have my time again

😂

Antichristian2:
Of what use is Jesus praying for the enemies he's coming to kill later according to the Bible?

you pray for them to repent and change from their wicked ways na

The kingdom principle for financial blessing revolves around obedience to Jesus which implies you working hard and giving without announcing yourself nor expecting to collect. A principle that teachings you that your reward will be in the kingdom of God where we will live in true dominion.

And Yet Jesus was conceived and born by a woman
Luke.1.28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."...
Luke.1.31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS.
Luke.1.32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,...

🤣😆😁😂🙏🏾

And Yet Jesus was conceived and born by a woman
Luke.1.28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."...
Luke.1.31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS.
Luke.1.32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,...

🤣😆😁😂🙏🏾

NigerianAngelo:
2 Corinthians 8:9:
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich."

rich in what?

Omooba77:
Why is God closer to some of His Children than others?

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8

Not many answer God's call to draw closer to Him.

The woman asked Jesus, where should I go and worship God. Jesus should have answered anywhere or either place or picked temple or a mountain but Jesus said

John.4.21 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John.4.22 - Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
John.4.23 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John.4.24 - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Completely true, permit me to add number 8

8. ) Giving with unforgiveness especially when you are the offender

Matthew 5:23-24 New Century Version (NCV)
“So when you offer your gift to God at the altar, and you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there at the altar. Go and make peace with that person, and then come and offer your gift.