Third Heaven Discourse

Image by Jeff on his blog {link to https://bickleyhouse.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/the-peace-of-christ/} John 14:27 (NKJV) Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you... Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. When Jesus was about to return to heaven, He had to assure His disciples of their inheritance and part of that was Peace . From the scripture above, we see that Jesus left  His disciples with peace. In case you are not sure whose peace or the kind of peace He left with them, Jesus went on to say " My peace I give to you". This tells us that the peace Jesus left with us or gave to us was His peace . The same peace He had and operated with here on earth. The peace by which He could sleep in the midst of a raging storm; the peace by which He calmed the storm; the peace by which He fed over 5,000 starving and expectant people; the peace that passes all understanding!  the very peace of God!  This is the peace He gave to us. Glory to Go...

Available at appreciatinglife-blog {Link to http://appreciatinglife-blog.tumblr.com/post/10162251019} Eph 2:8 (NKJV) For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. You would have heard for the umpteen time that salvation is a package that includes prosperity, healing, deliverance, success, advancement, promotion, fruitfulness, productivity , you just name it; all the wonderful things you can think of, they are all wrapped up in salvation.  Our scriptural reference, tells us that by Grace we have been saved . In other words, you receive the aforementioned wonderful gifts from God by Grace . It's the grace of God that brings salvation (Titus 2:11). You are not saved by your hard work, but by Grace alone, else Grace is no longer Grace (Rom 11:6). Never you think you have everything you do because you worked for it. Your salvation is a product of Grace, hence everything you have is by Grace . You didn't earn it; i...

Image by George W Black on his blog {link to https://www.georgewblack.com/2015/01/} Acts 3:2-8 (NKJV) And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.... Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”.... and  immediately his feet and ankle bones received  strength. So he,  leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple  with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. Our reference tells the story of a man, lame from birth, who thought that the best thing he could get from anybody that came his way was alms (money); so, that was what he continually asked for. Now, he was positioned at the gate of the temple on a daily basis! One would have thought that his ...