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Miracle Maker

Our God is truly an AWESOME GOD! He is our Creator GOD. Everything He does is marvelous and His ways and thoughts are supreme to all. 

“Then Joshua addressed the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves, because tomorrow the LORD will do marvelous things among you.’” (Joshua 3:5)

“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV)

His miracles and wonders astound everyone. And His miracles, wonders, and blessings are abundant.

From His wonders in Egypt (to save His people) to those He does for each of us today.

“Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because He [did wonders] at the time the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel." (Exodus 18:11)

He pours down miracles and blessings on all those who love Him and follow His Ways. Our God is good, loving, generous, merciful, miraculous.

Have you ever had a moment where something happens and you’re thinking but HOW?! God. That’s how. All good things that comes our way come from our miracle maker in heaven above. From the same God that created us when there was nothing. The same God who gave us His One and Only Son as a sacrifice for our sins—the biggest miracle ever happened three days later.

Jesus rose from death to life.

“The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.’ And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” (Matthew 28:5-6)

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (1 Peter 1:3)

By His triumph He gave us the chance to join Him in eternal life.

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There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13 NLT) ❤😍😃🙌 #john1513 #jesusdiedtosaveyou #nogreaterlove

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Mark 9  (pt. 2)

Causing to Stumble

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ Everyone will be salted with fire. ‘Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.’” (Mark 9:42-50)

A stone is what causes someone to stumble—but will you stumble in belief or disbelief? In obedience or disobedience?

“Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, ’The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’ and, ‘A stone that causes people to stumble’ and ‘a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.” (1 Peter 2:7-8)

“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.” (Isaiah 28:16)

Jesus is that very stone—The Cornerstone. He is precious but those who don’t believe reject Him.

God already knows who will and who won’t believe. Peter says in this verse that they were destined to be this way.

Another key point and something very important to keep in mind is that Jesus, since the beginning of time, is the foundation of our faith. Through Him, God created the world and made Him the cornerstone which is not only our faith’s foundation but also the means by which we are saved. By Jesus Christ, our precious cornerstone.

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed! Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it? On what were its bases set? Who laid its cornerstone…” (Job 38:4-6)

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers and elders of the people, if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:8-12)