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    The Power of the Spirit

    7 | June | 2018

     

    In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on us.

    But it is precisely in this powerlessness that God’s power reveals itself. This is not the power that controls, dictates, and commands. It is the power that heals, reconciles, and unites. It is the power of the Spirit. When Jesus appeared people wanted to be close to him and touch him because “power came out of him” (Luke 6:19).

     

    It is this power of the divine Spirit that Jesus wants to give us. The Spirit indeed empowers us and allows us to be healing presences. When we are filled with that Spirit, we cannot be other than healers.

    "You show that you are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts... for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." - 2 Corinthians 3: 3,6 (NIV)

     

    Sức Mạnh của Thần Khí

    Trong và qua Chúa Giêsu, từ từ chúng ta biết Thiên Chúa như một Ðấng bất lực, là người trở nên lệ thuộc vào chúng ta. Nhưng chính trong sự bất lực này mà sức mạnh của Thiên Chúa được tỏ lộ. Ðây không phải là sức mạnh để kiểm soát, sai khiến, và ra lệnh. Ðó là sức mạnh để chữa lành, hoà giải, và kết hợp. Ðó là sức mạnh của Thần Khí. Khi Chúa Giêsu xuất hiện ở đâu, dân chúng chỉ muốn ở gần Người và chạm đến Người vì sức mạnh phát ra từ Người” (Luca 6:19).

    Chính sức mạnh của Thần Khí này mà Chúa Giêsu muốn ban cho chúng ta. Thật vậy, Thần Khí đã làm cho chúng ta có khả năng và cho phép chúng ta trở nên những khuôn mặt chữa lành. Khi chúng ta được lấp đầy Thần Khí, chúng ta không thể trở nên gì khác hơn là người chữa lành.

    Henry Nouwen

     

     

    Empowered to Speak

    8 | June | 2018

     

    The Spirit that Jesus gives us empowers us to speak.

    Often when we are expected to speak in front of people who intimidate us, we are nervous and self-conscious. But if we live in the Spirit, we don’t have to worry about what to say. We will find ourselves ready to speak when the need is there. “When they take you before … authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say, because when the time comes, the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say” (Luke 12:11-12).

     

    We waste much of our time in anxious preparation. Let’s claim the truth that the Spirit that Jesus gave us will speak in us and speak convincingly.

     

     

     

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    The Power of the Spirit

    7 | June | 2018

     

    In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on us. But it is precisely in this powerlessness that God’s power reveals itself. This is not the power that controls, dictates, and commands. It is the power that heals, reconciles, and unites. It is the power of the Spirit. When Jesus appeared people wanted to be close to him and touch him because “power came out of him” (Luke 6:19).

     

    It is this power of the divine Spirit that Jesus wants to give us. The Spirit indeed empowers us and allows us to be healing presences.

    When we are filled with that Spirit, we cannot be other than healers.

     

     

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    Being Like Jesus

    2 | June | 2018

    Very often we distance ourselves from Jesus.

    We say, “What Jesus knew we cannot know, and what Jesus did we cannot do.” But Jesus never puts any distance between himself and us. He says:

    “I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father” (John 15:15) and “In all truth I tell you, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works” (John 14:12).

     

    Indeed, we are called to know what Jesus knew and do what Jesus did. Do we really want that, or do we prefer to keep Jesus at arms’ length?

    "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit." - Matthew 12: 33 (NIV)

     

     

     

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    Being Clothed in Christ

    4 | June | 2018

     

    Being a believer means being clothed in Christ. Paul says: “Every one of you that has been baptised has been clothed in Christ” (Galatians 3:26) and “Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 13:14).

    This being “clothed in Christ” is much more than wearing a cloak that covers our misery. It refers to a total transformation that allows us to say with Paul: “I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me” (Galatians 2:20).

     

    Thus, we are the living Christ in the world. Jesus, who is God-made-flesh, continues to reveal himself in our own flesh.

    Indeed, true salvation is becoming Christ.

     

     

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    Jesus Is Persecuted

    31 | May | 2018

    Jesus, the favorite Child of God, is persecuted.

    He who is poor, gentle, mourning; he who hungers and thirsts for uprightness; is merciful, pure of heart and a peacemaker is not welcome in this world. The Blessed One of God is a threat to the established order and a source of constant irritation to those who consider themselves the rulers of this world.

    Without his accusing anyone he is considered an accuser, without his condemning anyone he makes people feel guilty and ashamed, without his judging anyone those who see him feel judged. In their eyes, he cannot be tolerated and needs to be destroyed, because letting him be seems like a confession of guilt.

    When we want to become like Jesus, we cannot expect always to be liked and admired. We have to be prepared to be rejected.

     

     

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