Isaiah prophesied, “And they will all be taught by God.” Jesus picks up on this truth to instruct his disciples on what must occur for someone to come to Jesus. Jesus taught them that they could not do what was necessary to bring anyone to Jesus. It applies to us as well. We cannot do anything to make someone believe the gospel.
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Afghanistan is in chaos, just as Satan wants it to be. Fear is everywhere. Confusion is reigning. The American government doesn’t seem to know what is going on since one department gives a press release and says one thing, then another department speaks and contradicts what the other has said.
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When someone says they heard from God, or “God spoke to me,” they will often get a reaction similar to the one Jesus got when teaching that he is the good shepherd, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”
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Exactly what is a Disciple-Making Movement (DMM)? Why pray for one? There are a few different definitions of DMM, but they all fall somewhere in the range of the definition I will quote here from Jerry Trousdale and Glen Sunshine’s book, The Kingdom Unleashed. “Disciple Making Movement (DMM): a process of disciples making disciples, and churches planting at least 100 churches, with four or more generations of replication.”
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Many Christians struggle with praying prayers that they can have confidence God will answer. Or simply, is it right that I pray for this or that?
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Commentaries could be written around the topics in this short passage from Matthew. There are lots of hot topics here. Things like, “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” which is probably more attributed to Abraham Lincoln than to Jesus. The topic of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit; always a head-turner, the unpardonable sin. Too many are afraid they have committed this sin when they don’t even qualify to be able to commit it. The whole topic of casting out demons is something that many modern western church leaders would just as soon brush under the rug as if demons will leave us alone if we don’t acknowledge them.
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