Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
2 Corinthians 1:17-20
So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously? As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”; on the contrary, “Yes” has come about in Him. For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him. Therefore the “Amen” is also through Him for God’s glory through us. (HCSB)
What is our answer to Christ? Every day of our lives Jesus calls upon us to express His love to this dying world. We are to walk worthy and to talk worthy, and we are to show others by the way we live the “Yes’s” that are possible in Christ Jesus.
Who is telling us no? Satan himself is. His only message is no, he cannot say yes to anything but death. Satan says “no” to the many new experiences that we can have in Christ, if we would only step out in faith and claim them for the Glory of God. But, Paul says, “Yes” has come about in Christ; in Him we have daily victory in our lives.
All the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ, says Paul, not “Yes and No,” but Yes, and the “Amen is also through Him, and the Amen is our answer to His “Yes.” What does “Amen” mean, it means “let it be so.” Now that is the proper, and only daily answer to God’s call on our lives isn’t it…Father, let it be so…God Bless.
Pastor William
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
2 Corinthians 1:17-20
So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously? As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”; on the contrary, “Yes” has come about in Him. For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him. Therefore the “Amen” is also through Him for God’s glory through us. (HCSB)
What is our answer to Christ? Every day of our lives Jesus calls upon us to express His love to this dying world. We are to walk worthy and to talk worthy, and we are to show others by the way we live the “Yes’s” that are possible in Christ Jesus.
Who is telling us no? Satan himself is. His only message is no, he cannot say yes to anything but death. Satan says “no” to the many new experiences that we can have in Christ, if we would only step out in faith and claim them for the Glory of God. But, Paul says, “Yes” has come about in Christ; in Him we have daily victory in our lives.
All the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ, says Paul, not “Yes and No,” but Yes, and the “Amen is also through Him, and the Amen is our answer to His “Yes.” What does “Amen” mean, it means “let it be so.” Now that is the proper, and only daily answer to God’s call on our lives isn’t it…Father, let it be so…God Bless.
Pastor William
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