Matthew 16:15-16

"But what about you?" he [Jesus] asked. "Who do you say I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matthew 16:15-16

The Bible says my King is the King of the Jews … He's the King of Israel. He's the King of Righteousness. He's the King of the Ages. He's the King of Heaven. He's the King of Glory. He's the King of Kings, and He's the Lord of Lords.

That's my King! I wonder do you know Him?

My King is a sovereign King. No means of measure can define His limitless love. He's enduringly strong. He's entirely sincere. He's eternally steadfast. He's immortally graceful. He's imperially powerful. He's impartially merciful.

Do you know Him?

He's the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world, He's God's Son, He's the sinners Savior, He's the centerpiece of civilization, He's unparalleled, He's unprecedented. He's the loftiest idea in literature. He's the highest personality in philosophy. He's the fundamental doctrine of true theology. He's the only one qualified to be an all sufficient Savior.

I wonder if you know Him today?

He supplies strength for the weak. He's available for the tempted and the tried. He sympathizes and He saves. He strengthens and sustains. He guards and He guides. He heals the sick. He cleansed the lepers. He forgives sinners. He discharges debtors. He delivers the captives. He defends the feeble. He blesses the young. He serves the unfortunate. He regards the aged. He rewards the diligent. And he beautifies the meek.

I wonder if you know Him?

He's the key to knowledge. He's the wellspring of wisdom. He's the doorway of deliverance. He's the pathway of peace. He's the roadway of righteousness. He's the highway of holiness. He's the gateway of glory.

Do you know Him?

Well, His life is matchless. His goodness is limitless. His mercy is everlasting. His love never changes. His Word is enough. His grace is sufficient. His reign is righteous and His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I wish I could describe Him to you. Yes, He's indescribable. He's incomprehensible. He's invincible. He's irresistible. You can't get him out of your mind. You can't get him off of your hand. You can't outlive him and you can't live without Him. Well, the Pharisees couldn't stand Him. But they found out they couldn't stop Him. Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him. Herod couldn't kill him. Death couldn't handle Him, and the grave couldn't hold Him. Yea! That's my King.2

The critical issue about Jesus is do you know Him as your personal Savior? Have you received God's forgiveness for all your sins by accepting Jesus as your Savior and is your name written in God's Book of Life? You can accept God's Invitation to know Jesus at: http://tinyurl.com/gods-invitation. For further help read "How to Be Sure You're a Real Christian" at: http://www.actsweb.org/christian.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to know Jesus as my personal Savior and be absolutely certain that my sins are forgiven, and that my name is written in God's book of life. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

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Mark 10:47

"When he [the blind beggar] heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!'" Mark 10:47
Clark Strand, a former Zen Buddhist monk, shared how "two years ago, on board a midday flight out of Memphis, Tenn., I suddenly found myself repeating the words, 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me!'

"This would not have been remarkable had I been a member of the Orthodox Church, which for more than a millennium has used that prayer as its preferred method of contemplation. For that matter, it would not have been remarkable had I been a Christian of any kind. As I was a Zen Buddhist who professed no belief even in God, much less Jesus, it came as a bit of a shock.

"I was on my way back from the bathroom when the plane simply fell out of the sky. My feet kept lifting up off the floor. I hung comically for moments on dangly puppet legs, and then somehow I managed to make it back to my seat. I had just buckled in when my wife turned to me from across the aisle where she was sitting with our two young children and said the four words no one on an airplane ever wants to hear: 'Do you smell smoke?' It was the moment we've all imagined. You look forward and backward into the faces of the other passengers (complete strangers, all but a few) and read there the selfsame thought: 'So this is what it means to die.'

"Miraculously, just minutes later we were back on solid ground. The plane, as we later found out, had developed an electrical fire in the control console, and the pilot, not knowing how long he could steer it, had descended as fast as he could, driving her for all she was worth, covering the 25 minutes back to Memphis in just under 10 minutes flat.

'When all seemed lost, it wasn't Mu I had cried out, or even Buddha, but of all things, Jesus—in spite of everything else I had ever believed or done.

"Only later that night in the hotel room, with the children in bed, did I remember the moment during the flight when my spiritual life had taken a 180-degree turn and, as it were, headed back to port."2

Need I say more?

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me not to wait until I am in the midst of a life-threatening crisis to call on you to have mercy on me and save me. Help me to do that right now. And whenever I am in a crisis of any kind, grant that my cry for help will always automatically ascend to you. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer—and that you always do when I cry to you for help. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

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Paul in 1 Corinthians 4:2

"It is required that those who have been given a trust [gift] must prove faithful." 1 Corinthians 4:2

It has been said that there are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wondered what happened!

Former Australian swimmer, Shane Gould, who won three gold medals in the 1972 Olympics, was considered one of the greatest swimmers of all time. She didn't sit back and watch things happen. She made them happen.

Early in her career, when she was only 14 years of age, a news reporter asked her how she thought she would do in one of her early swim meets in the U.S. She replied, "I have a feeling there will be a world record today."

There was!

Shane set a world record in the one-hundred-meter freestyle event and a second in the two-hundred. When asked how she thought she would do in the more punishing four-hundred-meter event she said, "I get stronger every race, and besides … my parents said they'd take me to Disneyland if I win, and we're leaving tomorrow!"

She went to Disneyland with three world records! By the time she was sixteen she had five world records. It is true, she also had talent but she won not only because of this, but because of her preparation, hard work, and her positive self-expectancy.

Only a few are gifted sufficiently to be able to win a gold medal. However, every one of us is gifted in some area and most of us are gifted in several areas. And while we are not all called of God to be famous, we are all called to be faithful in serving him and our fellow man with the gifts that we have been given—not with those we haven't been given.

We can all be "gold medal winners" in God's book if we are well trained in our area of gifting, are adequately prepared for the task we want and feel called to do, have faith in our cause, see and take advantage of every opportunity when it knocks, disallow our fears to control us, believe that with God's help we can achieve what we set out to do, and are prepared to work hard to make it happen.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, thank you for the gifts and talents that you have given to me. Help me to know what they are, get well trained to use them to the best of my ability, and use them for your glory and the betterment of the world in which I live. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

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