Jun 8
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john_baw added a text contribution Teaching is like leavenTeaching influences your whole being. The Kingdom is also like leaven which a woman hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened. Read more »
May 25
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john_baw added a text contribution The Gospel of the KingdomThe Gospel of the Kingdom must include these elements - teaching, preaching and healing. Read more »
May 13
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john_baw added a text contribution speak TO the mountainsI am learning to speak TO the mountains in my life - the challenges, the obstacles, the setbacks - with the authority that I have in Christ! Read more »
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john_baw added a link contribution bearing fruit out of due seasonJesus cursed the fig tree because it bore no fruit - even though it was not the season for the fruit. We are called to bear fruit out of due season - radical but possible because with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible. "In the same way Jesus expected fruit out of season from the fig tree, an impossibility, so God requires us to bear fruit from the supernatural realm. He has given us access to that reality through His blood, and the indwelling person of the Holy Sp… Read more »
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john_baw added a link contribution he entered riding on a donkey - an event that further angered the Jewish leadersAccording to Jewish tradition, the Messiah will enter through the gate riding on a white donkey. Jesus entered through the Golden gate on the Sunday before Passover ("Palm Sunday") riding on a donkey, an event that further angered the Jewish leaders. Read more »
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john_baw added a text contribution throwing aside, he rose, and followedIn my blindness I need to do three things before I can receive sight: 1. I need to throw aside my safety blanket - that which has provided warmth and comfort 2. I need to rise up - being bold - above my limitations 3. I need to come to Jesus with a believing heart, expecting that all things are possible to him who believes. Read more »
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john_baw added a text contribution hundredfold promiseGod promises to give you a hundredfold increase (right now!!!....in THIS lifetime!!!) of whatever you are called to sacrifice to Him! Read more »
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john_baw added a text contribution what was his real problem?His problem wasn't so much that he owned many possessions.....but that his possessions owned him! Read more »
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john_baw added a text contribution There is always one thing that lacksReferring to my contribution on Mark 10:17 - when your focus is on achieving by DOING something.... then there will always be something lacking, no matter how much you achieve....it will never be enough to perform our way into righteousness. Read more »
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john_baw added a text contribution What shall I DO that I may INHERIT eternal life?Th rich young ruler's mistake, as ours often is, was that he thought that he had to DO something in order to INHERIT eternal life. Inheritances are not earned...they are received. You receive an inheritance by virtue of who you ARE rather than what you DO. This performance mindset afflicts many of us. Eternal life is something that we simply RECEIVE by virtue of being born-again as SONS of the one who has left a great inheritance - even eternal life. Read more »
Jan 11
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john_baw added a text contribution Model PrayerJesus did not give a model prayer so much as a model FOR prayer. The Lord's prayer is a system or framework for prayer Read more »
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Name: John Baw
User Since: January 2009
Location: Gibraltar, GI
Website: wildoxgib.com
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