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Blank. Connect Grow Serve. “then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” Matthew 9:35.
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“then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” Matthew 9:35
Christ’s Method Brings True Success—Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Saviour mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, “Follow Me.”—The Ministry of Healing, 143.
Luke 2:46 "then they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions." V47 "and all who heard him were astonished at His understanding and answers."
Luke 4:12 Jesus answered, it has been said “you shall not tempt the Lord your God.” • Deuteronomy 6:16 “you shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted Him in Massah.”
Luke 24 • 27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. • 28Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. 29 But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. • He 30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. • 32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
35Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. 36 And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. 37 When they found Him, they said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.” • 38 But He said to them, “Let us go into the next town, that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth.” Mark 1:35-38
Luke 5:16 “So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed." • Luke 6:12,13 "now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountains to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day He called His disciples to Himself and from them He chose 12 whom he also named apostles."
Spiritual homework • Time alone, at the beginning of every day, in contemplation of the life of Jesus through His word, and through prayer.
"For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps."1 Peter 2:21