January 2016

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A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before it blossomed, he examined it.  He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns.  And he thought, “How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?” Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died.

So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose.  The God-like qualities planted in us at birth grow amid the thorns of our faults.  Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects.  We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us.  We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies.  We never realize our potential.

Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them.  One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others.  This is the characteristic of love, to look at a person, and knowing his faults, recognize the nobility in his soul, and help him realize that he can overcome his faults.  If we show him the rose, he will conquer the thorns.  Then will he blossom, blooming forth thirty, sixty, a hundred-fold as it is given to him.

Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses and not their thorns.  Only then can we achieve the love we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our own garden.

I would like to ask you to Trust in Jesus Christ. I would like you to ask HIM into your Heart

I would like you to read His Word Daily

Please Trust in HIM and HIM alone.He will Bless Youmore than you can imagine.Read the Bible every day.These are His Teachings to us.Become More Like God each Dayby Reading His WordBeing With God in the Word

is a Call to be Like GOD.

Mark 4:1-20

Again Jesus began to teach by the lake.  The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.  He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:

“Listen!  A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil.  It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.  But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.  Still other seed fell on good soil.  It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times.”  Then Jesus said,  “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.  He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.  But to those on the outside everything is said in parables  so that, “‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!'”  Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable?  How then will you understand any parable?

The farmer sows the word.  Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown.  As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.  Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.  But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.  Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop–thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.”

11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints- 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Below is a list of Jesus’ miracles as recorded by the writers of the New Testament of the Bible, listed in what might be the chronological order in which Jesus performed the miracles. Click on an item below to get a summary about that miracle. The miracles are arranged in accordance to what some scholars believe is the chronology in which they occurred. Our list also includes two important miracles that involved Jesus – the virgin birth and the resurrection.

 1 Born of a virgin

 2 Changing water into wine

 3 Healing of the royal official’s son

 4 Healing of a man possessed by a demon in Capernaum

 5 Healing of Simon Peter’s mother-in-law

 6 Healing the sick during the evening

 7 Catching a large number of fish

 8 Healing a leper

 9 Healing a centurion’s servant

10 Healing a paralyzed man

11 Healing a withered hand

12 Raising a widow’s son

13 Calming the stormy sea

14 Healing the Gerasene demon-possessed man

15 Healing a woman with internal bleeding

16 Raising Jairus’ daughter

17 Healing two blind men

18 Healing a mute man possessed by a demon

19 Healing a man who was crippled for 38 years

20 Feeding 5000 men and their families

21 Jesus walks on water

22 Healing of many in Gennesaret

23 Healing a demon-possessed girl

24 Healing a deaf man with a speech impediment

25 Feeding the 4000 men and their families

26 Healing a blind man in Bethsaida

27 Healing a man born blind

28 Healing a boy possessed by a demon

29 Catching a fish with a coin in its mouth

30 Healing a blind and mute man who was possessed by a demon

31 Healing a woman with an 18 year infirmity

32 Healing a man with dropsy

33 Healing 10 men suffering from leprosy

34 Bringing Lazarus back to life

35 Healing Bartimaeus of blindness

36 The withering fig tree that produced no fruit

37 Restoring a severed ear

38 The resurrection of Jesus Christ

39 Catching of the 153 fish

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