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The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 6:1-29

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Today is Mark 6:1-29 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“They took offense at him…He (Jesus) was amazed at their lack of faith…”

“When Herod heard John he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.”

Hardness of heart… This passage displays this condition well.

Imagine what it would have been like to see Jesus as He walked on the earth. I would like to think I would be one of the ones hanging on His every word. But there have been times that I have not lived that way. I have taken offense at His Word. I have lacked faith. I have had hardness of heart towards God’s Word. It is a miserable way to live.

The account of Herod and John points to another case of hardness of heart. Herod enjoyed listening to John speak. He knew John was a prophet and feared him. He knew John was righteous and holy. But Herod, in order to please others and save his own reputation, ordered John’s execution. We can know what is good, right, and holy, but in order to preserve ourselves and our ways, reject it all.

Reading these passages increases my desire to have a heart that is soft and tender towards God — listening to what He says in His Word, obeying it fully, and following His ways alone!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 6:30-56)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 5:21-43

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Today is Mark 5:21-43 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭5‬:‭26‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Desperation! A woman who had suffered much from a bleeding issue pressed through a crowd. She had hope that somehow she would come into contact with the Jesus she had heard about. She knew if she could just “touch his clothes” she would be healed.

What impresses me about this account is that she had tried everything to be better and had only grown worse. I can relate to that. One time I tried to calculate the amount of money I spent trying to fix myself and the anxiety that I suffered with: professional counseling, meds, self help books I purchased, subscriptions to Headspace — eastern meditation app, gas to drive to the counseling sessions, over $700 on a workshop that offered a cure (15 years ago I haven’t checked its price now), coloring books to distract me from my anxious thoughts, the list could go on… AND what I was suffering with did not get better. It grew worse.

All I really needed was just reach out to Jesus. He had paid the price for me to be free long ago on the cross. When I finally came to an end of myself and my ways and I came to Him, I was healed.

What is it that needs a miraculous touch in your life? Jesus has power flowing out of Him that can free you from your suffering. Come to Him in faith believing He can!

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(Tomorrow we read Mark 6:1-29)

The Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark (Mark 5:1-20)

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Today is Mark 5:1-20 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

What a miracle! A man with no hope, who lived in a graveyard and was possessed by many demons was set free with the words “Come out of this man…” spoken by Jesus.

The man begged to go with Jesus in the boat, but Jesus had another plan for him.

“Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.””
‭‭Mark‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ ‭NIV‬‬

This man obeyed what Jesus told him to do, and “all the people were amazed” by His testimony.

What has Jesus done for you? Proclaim it! People need to hear the amazing things what God has done! God is so real and still does miracles!

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(Tomorrow we read Mark 5:21-43)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 4:26-41

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Today is Mark 4:26-41 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“”Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”” Verse 41.

Crowds followed Jesus. Some followed out of curiosity. Some followed wanting to hear Him speak. Some followed looking for a miracle. Everywhere He went there was amazement over the words the people heard and the miracles they saw. The disciples were able to experience all that Jesus said and did on a personal level. I’m sure what they saw left them standing with their jaws dropped time after time.

In this section, Jesus does the impossible once again. I love the response of the disciples… “Who is this?”

Jesus is the same today as He was when He calmed the storm over 2000 years ago. Walking and talking with Jesus should leave us in a sense of amazement time after time. When He speaks to us and we see Him do the impossible in our lives we should respond the same way they did long ago, “Who is this? Even this is not too hard for Him.” You cannot experience God in a close relationship and not be left in awe of what He does!

God is a God of miracles! You may ask, “how can you say this with confidence?” I have seen them with my own eyes and experienced them time after time. I have been left saying, “Who is this? Even my storms of anxiety and fear, obey His voice of peace!” (This is just one miracle. There are so many more miracles I’ve seen and experienced. God is real!! 😉)

May we be left in awe time after time as we recognize the amazing things He does and is doing in our lives.

Testify!!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 5:1-20)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark —Mark 4:1-25

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Today is Mark 4:1-25 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“The farmer sows the word…” verse 13

Jesus tells a parable about how our hearts receive the Word. Some hearts don’t receive the Word at all. Some hearts receive it, but only last a little while. Some take the Word in and it starts to grow in them but worries and desires for other things choke out it’s growth. Then others receive the Word they take it in, hold onto it, and believe it. To these people the Word is precious. It is their desire morning, day, and night. These are the ones who see it producing good crops (results) in their lives!

Is your heart unreceptive…rocky? Is your heart full of worries and desires that choke the Word out of your life… weedy? Or is your heart tender and receptive to what God wants to speak to you in His Word… good soil?

We are assured, “the farmer (God) sows the Word.” How will we receive it?

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(Tomorrow we read Mark 4:26-41)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 3:20-34

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Today is Mark 3:20-34 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

It is hard for me to understand how the people of Jesus’s time saw Him physically in action healing the sick, casting out demons, performing miracles and still didn’t believe in him. His family thought he was “out of his mind.” (Verse 21) The teachers of the law i.e. religious leaders said he was “possessed by Beelzebul” … demon possessed.

The people of our time are not any different. When we see Jesus for who He is, a choice has to be made. We either embrace Him as God’s Son and Lord of our lives — following Him. Or we choose to disregard Him, His teaching, and His sacrifice on the cross. We cannot come to God on our own terms and in our own way.

Jesus says something in verse 35 that is profound. “Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” If we want to be in relationship with Him, we have to do His will. What is the will of God for us? Jesus tells us God’s will in the Gospel of John.

“For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”” John‬ ‭6‬:‭40‬ ‭NIV‬‬

God’s will for us is to look to Jesus and Believe — “ this assent of the mind, a yielding of the will and affections, accompanied with a humble reliance on Christ for salvation. “ Websters 1828

Believe in Jesus!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 4:1- 25)

The Bible Book of the Month Club The Gospel of Mark — Mark 3:1-19.

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Today is Mark 3:1-19 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

In our reading today Jesus saw a man in the Synagogue, the place of worship, with a hand that needed healing. He also saw the religious leaders standing there looking for a reason to accuse Him. Verse 5 says “He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts… “ The Greek refers to their hearts as being “hard”. The Webster’s 1828 Dictionary says hardness of heart is “ inflexible persistency in sin; obstinacy in wickedness.”

The thing that bothered Jesus was the hearts of those who would not yield to Him and His Word. The religious leaders had their ways and their traditions. Their hearts were far from God. They thought they were ok because the could put on a very good religious performance, but their hearts were inflexible towards God. They were not moved by Him. Their hearts were persistent in their sins of pride, independence from God, jealousy, and such. They were obstinate in their wickedness.

They had forgotten the most important law of all:

“And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭6‬:‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Had they truly loved God, they would have recognized Jesus for who is and welcomed Him.

When our hearts are hard we do the same thing, we reject God and His goodness. May our hearts always be soft towards Him!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 3:20-35)

The Bible Book of the Month Club The Gospel of Mark (Mark 2:18-27)

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Today is Mark 2:18-27 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

I love what Jesus is saying in verse 28 “So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

The Pharisees thought they had God figured out. They had a list of laws with boxes to check off on that list. If they fulfilled it all they thought they were all good with God. They had “religion”…

Jesus came. He was Emmanuel — God with us. He came displaying God the Father to anyone who would pay attention to Him. Jesus walked and talked with the people who followed Him. He lived in relationship with them. His words He spoke and His call to follow Him literally changed lives. Relating to God was no longer a list of boxes to check off. Relating to God became a relationship — the very thing God wanted all along. Following the list of rules regarding the Sabbath was not what God was after all along. It was their hearts.

God wants our hearts as well. When we truly love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, we will do the things that God desires. We do not need a list of rules regarding the Sabbath when our greatest desire is to love and obey the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus.

Jesus will give us a new heart that desires to do what is right if we will only ask Him to.

Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark (Mark 2:1-17)

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Today is Mark 2:1-17 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

I love verse 17, “On hearing this Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jesus spoke these words in response to criticism He was receiving from the religious leaders of His time. They didn’t like that Jesus was eating with the “tax collectors and sinners.”
Jesus came to give new life and new hearts to those who would simply respond to His call and be willing to leave it all behind to follow Him.
Jesus is still the same! It does not matter what mess we have chosen to become entangled by… our sins… Jesus came to set us free and give us relationship with Him. He has come to call sinners to come and to sit with Him at His table. He has come to forgive us and give us new life and a new heart so we can obey Him and live close to Him!!
I am so thankful Jesus calls out to sinners (i.e. me) with the same call He gave Matthew the tax collector, “Follow Me!”

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 2:18-28)

Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark (Mark 1:1-20)

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Today is the big day, the launch or the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”
Let’s read Mark 1:1-20 ❤️🔥🙌
Here’s what I got out of today’s reading:

What sticks out to me in what we are reading is the lengths God has gone to in order for us to know Him.
First He sends a messenger to announce Jesus’s arrival, John the Baptist. John the Baptist talks about Jesus coming. He describes Jesus as being more powerful than him and able to Baptize with the Holy Spirit. Then God the Father speaks about who Jesus is in front of everyone when Jesus is baptized. Plus Jesus, Himself, tells the ones He is calling to follow Him that He wants to teach them how to fish for people so they will come and follow Him too.
God wants us to know Him! That is awesome news!
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(Tomorrow we will read Mark 1:21-45)