On one occasion Jesus spoke thus: "Father, Lord of heaven and earth, to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children. Father it is true. You have graciously willed it so."
Words of wisdom from my 5-year old ... "Everyone has Jesus in their hearts Mommy. Some people just don't know it though." E.J.
Matthew 7:1-5
Avoiding Judgement
Jesus said,
"If you want to avoid judgement, stop passing judgement. Your verdict on others will be the verdict passed on you. The measure with which you measure will be used to measure you. Why look at the speck in your brother's eye when you miss the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take that speck out of your eye,' while all the time the plank remains in your own? You hypocrite! Remove the plank from your own eye first; then you will see clearly to take the speck from your brother's eye. "
Matthew 7:7-11
The Power of Prayer
Jesus said, "Ask, and you will receive. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For the one who asks receives. The one who seeks, finds. The one who knocks, enters. Would one of you hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf, or a poisonous snake when he asks for a fish? If you, with all of your sins, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to anyone who asks him!"
Mathew 12:31-32
[Jesus said to the Pharisees] "That, I assure you, is why every sin, every blasphemey, will be forgiven men, but those who blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever says anything against the Son of Man will be forgiven. Whoever says anything against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."
[Bible text footnote: 12,31f:"The pharisees are said to attribute Jesus' exorcisms to satanic powers and thus to deny the unique presence of God in Jesus. They thereby assign his entire work and teaching to an evil principle, making it anti-God. This is the 'blasphemy against the Spirit' that will not be forgiven, because it negates the evidence of God's saving action in history. However, misunderstandings of Jesus' teaching and misconceptions of his Person due to human error or predjudice will be forgiven (Acts 9, 4f; 1 Tm 1, 13)."]
God Bless All! Keep praying!
