Luke 12

"Whispers In The Ear"

 Yeast, which is hypocrisy.

 

 

Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

 

² There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.

 

³ What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

"How is the Health Of Your Eyes"

 

Luke 11

³³ “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

³⁴ Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness.

³⁵ See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.


³⁶ Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

Matthew 6:2-4

"Left Hand, Right Hand"

“When you do something for someone else, don’t call attention to yourself. You’ve seen them in action, I’m sure—‘playactors’ I call them—treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds.


They get applause, true, but that’s all they get.


When you help someone out, don’t think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively.

That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out.

"Bind The Strong Man!"

 

A House Divided Cannot Stand:  Luke 11

 And He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. So it was, when the demon had gone out, that the mute spoke; and the multitudes marveled. 

 ¹⁵ But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”


¹⁶ Others, testing Him, sought from Him a sign from heaven. 


¹⁷ But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. 

 ¹⁸ If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub. ¹⁹ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 


 ²⁰ But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 

 ²¹ When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. 

 ²² But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils. 

 ²³ He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

"Ask, Seek And Knock"

Luke

⁹ “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 

 ¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 

 ¹¹ If a son asks for bread^[d] from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? <sup>1

2</sup> Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 


 ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

"So here in remains the secret to asking, seeking and knocking. The Heavenly Father wants these three exhortations to be for the gift of His Holy Spirit. All else will follow.
Something to think about?"

"The Midnight Friend"

⁵ And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; ⁶ for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

  ⁷ and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 


 ⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

"One Thing Matters"

Luke 10
 

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.

⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
⁴¹ “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things,

 ⁴² but few things are needed—or indeed only one.


Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”