Heralds Digest

“ I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” John 10 : 14 - 15 , 17 - 18 KJV Life laying shows the greatest sacrifice of love, obviously different from the abuse of love with body laying. “ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son” …because of His voluntary response to the demand for life laying. And if life laying is simply love giving to the sheep, it is the only language for transformation of family and fellowship with love. Unfortunately, a thief has always been an agent of the enemy, whose mission is the use of body laying to scatter the sheep away from the fold of love. Whenever a gift is def...

“ Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work .” John 9 : 3 - 4 KJV Purposeful living is strictly marked by purposeful engagements. And no matter the circumstances of life or the challenges it brings, the story of purposeful living remains intact. Unfortunately, it is always easier for minds that lack purpose to get engaged in wasted works of blame game. Like the disciples of Jesus wondered if the parents of the man born blind were the chief executive officers of the man’s engagement in a wasted factory, people today send their resumes for employment in wrong places when they failed to recognize their purpose for existence. But by the time the works of God became manifested in the man that was born blind, he suddenly became the teacher of the scribes and the Pharisees: “ Now we know that God heareth not sinners...