Heralds Digest

  “ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” John 6 : 63 NKJV One of the amazing feelings about Sunday is its reference as the Sun or Spirit day. Believers who would truly worship God in Spirit and in truth get the opportunity to hear the words of the Lord. Ideally, we are designed to live daily by the words of the Lord (and not merely wait until Sunday!). Unfortunately, the conflicting words from our exposing worldview and influences do readily contend with the words of the Lord in the hearts of believers, leading to our references to sapped strength and carnality. Therefore, when Jesus Christ told His disciples “ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing”, He attested to the danger of the fleshy sapped strength and its influences in the lives of believers. Imploded by the heart’s exposure to the influence of political sagacity, material prosperity, academic prowess, financial bre...

  “ Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” John 6 : 27 NKJV When Jephthah told the king of the people of Ammon “ So whatever the Lord our God takes possession of before us, we will possess (Judges 11 : 24)”, he undoubtedly established the principle of labour that distinguishes between its life and loose version. It implies that while life labour is the possession of what the Son of Man gives, loose labour is the fruitless perseverance over what self or someone else promises outside the will of God. Obviously, the major challenge of life is the discernment of divine purpose and the courage to stick with this revealed purpose in the face of opposition and oppression. Jephthah, no doubt, gracefully faced his life’s opposition and oppression without distraction from home and abroad; and God delivered the king of Ammon into his hands. Unfortunat...