The Miracles of Jesus - Session 1 - The Clean Daughter

Insights:

• What a different between the crowds that are curious about Jesus and the few who reach out and touch him! (Mark Fackler)
  
• Jesus speaks of "youth faith"; it is important that the woman understand that she had not been cured by magic... Her cure had been the result of a mighty power in Jesus, but it came to her because of her faith, not because of magic in a touch. (Leon Morris)
  
• The word translated "healed" is literally "saved.". Both physical healing and theological salvation are in mind. (W.W.Wessel)
  
• It was the grasp of her faith rather than her hand that had secured the healing she sought. (William Lane)
  
• In God's kingdom the nobodies become somebodies. (David Graland)
  
  
  
  

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The Prayers of Jesus - Session 6 - A Friend in High Places

Insights:

• "Whatever you ask" does not mean whatever might be on your wish list. (AndrewLincoln)
  
• With the proper formula, a spirit-induced sickness could be cured, a chariot race could be won, and sexual passions could be enhanced. (Clint Arnold)
  
• This is not intended to rationalize unanswered prayer but to encourage prayer that is in line with the will of God, as revealed in Christ. (Andrew Lincoln)
  
• As I read and meditate on the Word morning by morning, I try to allow it to shape my prayer… by my saying to God things I would not have said had I not just previously been filling my mind and heart with his Word. (Felicity Houghton)
  
• Praying "if it is your will" does not demonstrate a lack of faith, but a lack of knowledge of God's will in a specific situation. (Terrance Tiessen)
  
• We are working with God to determine the future! We are to change the world through prayer. (Richard Foster)
  
• Prayer has bridled the rage of lions, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, and stayed the sun in its course. (Chrysostom, early church father)
  
• He is not going to help us develop our own kingdoms when we are called to establish his kingdom! (Neil Anderson)
  
• What is necessary is an increasing knowledge of the Scriptures so that we may learn how to pray with confidence in Jesus' name. (D. A. Carson)
  
• Brother Yun, one of China's house church leaders, prayed and fasted for months before receiving a Bible in 1974. When he received it he said, "Every day from morning to late evening I read the Word of God… I finished reading through the whole Bible, so I started to memorize one chapter per day. After 28 days I had memorized the whole gospel of Matthew." (Paul Hattaway)
  
• This is our comfort, because God answers every prayer, for either he gives what we pray for, or something far better. (Soren Kierkegaard)
  
• As a parent gives to a child from his or her wisdom what the child needs, so does God. COnsequently, we may receive answers we do not want, find things we are not looking for, and have doors open we do not expect. (David Garland)

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The Prayers of Jesus - Session 5 -Praying with Purpose

Insights:

• If you really want to know someone's heart, listen to them pray. (Michael Card)
  
• The extent of God's protection over us every single day is beyond our comprehension. (Bruce Barton)
  
• Unity is beyond human ability.
  
• The basis of the unity of the Church is the nature of God and the reality of his redemptive activity. More specifically, it is an outflow of the relations within the Triune God. (George Beasley-Murray)
  
• The cross was to be not a defeat but a victory. (Leon Morris)
  
• Unity among believers is grounded in the love and unity that exists among the Godhead: God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
  

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The Prayers of Jesus - Session 4 -Praying to a Good God

Insights:

• Shame would come upon the whole village - not just on the friend - if he offered mere subsistence. (M.M.B. Turner)
  
• Friends come through for us despite inconvenience to themselves, and sometimes despite mixed motives for their goodness. How much more can we be confident that God will come through for us. (Joh Nolland)
  
• If we do not want what we are asking for enough to be persistent, we do not want it very much.
  
• God gives us every "good gift" (Matthew 7:11), but the greatest gift that God can give us is the Spirit (Luke 11:13).
  
• People ought not to think of God as unwilling to give: he is always ready to give good gifts to his people. But it is important that they do their part by asking. (Leon Morris)

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