VICTORY OVER THE WORLD

16:25-33    “I have used figures of speech to tell you these things. But the time will come when I will not use figures of speech, but will speak to you plainly about the Father.  When that day comes, you will ask him in my name, and I do not say that I will ask him on your behalf, for the Father himself loves you.  He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God. I did come from the Father, and I came into the world; and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Then his disciples said to him, “Now you are speaking plainly, without using figures of speech. We know now that you know everything; you do not need someone to ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you believe now? The time is coming, and is already here, when all of you will be scattered, each of you to your own home, and I will be left all alone. But I am not really alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you this so that you will have peace by being united to me. The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world.”

Holy Spirit, give me eyes of faith so that I can see people the way the Jesus sees them. Give me the knowledge and courage to lift others to their full potentials. Help see the beauty in every creatures, help see their potentials what they can become by your power and grace,  For through the power of the Holy Spirit Lord Jesus Christ, I will have victory over every challenges.  Psalm 19

SADNESS AND GLADNESS

John 16: 16-24   “In a little while you will not see me anymore, and then a little while later you will see me.”  Some of his disciples asked among themselves, “what does this mean? He tells us that in a little while we will not see him, and then a little while later we will see him and he also says, ‘it is because I am going to the Father.’ What does this ‘a little while’ mean? We don’t know what he is talking about!”.

Jesus knew  that they wanted to question him, so he said to them, “I said, ‘in a little while you will not see me, and then a little while later you will see me.’ Is this what you are asking among yourselves? I am telling you the truth: you will cry and weep, but the world will be glad; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into gladness. When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.  That is how it is with you: now you are sad, but I will see you again, and your hearts will be filled with gladness, the kind of gladness that no one can take away from you.

“When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

O Lord open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise. Psalm 51:15