"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Emma Lazarus gave us words of dignity, strength and compassion.
Enduring words. Jesus would have us retain these words.
Matthew 11:4-5
Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see:
5The blind receive sight,
the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed,
the deaf hear,
the dead are raised,
and good news is preached to the poor.
Jesus did see the blind, the lame, the deaf and the dead. And in the multitudes who followed Jesus from the beginning of His Ministry. We probably should see the poor most of all. In fact, the poor surrounded Jesus. The Poor of Spirit.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3.
The people following Jesus, the multitude of His life and after Jesus' Victory over Death, had some spiritual poverty. This caused them to travel wanting Jesus. Looking to complete their soul.
We don't always arrive at prayer completely nourished. We arrive in need. We have concerns, we have 'situations', we have loneliness, frustration with the people around us, financial constraints, health concerns, anything we could name - actually. We are the Poor in Spirit. Seeking Abba. Knowing Jesus as our mediator. Having confidence to approach Father God in Jesus Himself. His Grace.
Jesus saw more need in us than all of the regular illnesses surrounding Him. He saw people in need of faith for the Lord God Almighty and aware of the need in themselves.
We are the people who are preached to - when we hear the poor have Good News preached to them.
The Word of God is alive and active. Jesus tells us He is working today.
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
This was why the people had gone to see Jesus. This is us today. Doing the work of mankind - to believe Jesus.
Mark 9:24
Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
Matthew 8:13
Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.
Matthew 9:28
When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied.
Matthew 21:22
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
Mark 5:36
Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
Mark 9:23
“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
Mark 11:23
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them."
Poor in Spirit - is a belief call for prayer a need to greet Abba, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in communion of prayer. Zechariah was Priest.
Luke 1:20
"And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
John 1:50
Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”
Poor in Spirit, Kingdom of Heaven at hand - to need prayer. To be filled with God to have Prayer.
John 3:15
Everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 9:36 ►
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
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John 2:11
What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
John 2:22
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
The before and after stages of Prayer.
John 2:23
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
John 1:7
He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
John 4:21
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Worship in the Spirit of Truth."
John 4:41
And because of his words many more became believers.
John 4:53
Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.
John 5:24
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
We cross over to the Word of God Living and Working in us.
John 5:24
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life."
John 5:44
How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 5:46
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
Jesus Nourishes and Redeems the Poor in Spirit.
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:29
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Abba, our Abba,
We remember together Zechariah standing in the Temple of God, meeting Gabriel. And wondering - leading to doubt. Zechariah enduring doubt and seeing the Gracious Goodness of Your always planned Will and Salvation.
Remembering Abraham and his family living in tents in purchased land believing themselves Infinitely Blessed of God.
And in the Vast Goodness of Your Will we say this:
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints,
this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God,
who created all things
Through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Belief of Jesus reached the Palace of Herod and Caesar's household quickly.
This was according to the eternal purpose we have realized in Christ Jesus our Lord
And because of Jesus
we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Because of this invitation to be held to Abba as we pray:
I ask you not to lose heart over what suffers us, which God will bring to His Glory.
The Light of the World is Jesus Christ
Jesus please - for our loved ones, the people You give us, the prayers we ask.
Covering us inside our souls, surrounding our families with love, our Churches.
The Light, the Word of God, shining in our work places, communities. Going forth to our Nation and world.
We ask in Jesus. Amen.
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