Who do you say I am? Peter answered, "The Christ of God." Jesus speaks about his suffering.
Whoever wants to save his life will lost it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.
If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Jesus took Peter, John and James with him and went onto a montain to pray. As her was praying, the appearance of Jesus face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Moses and Elijah appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus.
"O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I stay with you and put up with you" Jesus replied. The crowd were all amazed at the greatness of God when Jesus rebuked the evil spirit healed the boy and gae him back to his father.
Why?
We trust our life, we make deision.
How you give your life for God's sake?
Deny ourself is forsake our own all include name, power, mind and profits.
Take his cross daily: do some things that I don't like but for Jesus I do it. It is routine work.
The Lord Jesus often had to bear with unbelief among His own disciples. The story of the healing of an epileptic boy is one example among many. Let’s read this passage. It contains a wonderful lesson on faith and power. Matthew 17:14-21.
Powerless disciples : This story, then, is a story that has to do with power.
The failure of the disciples drew out from Jesus a surprising response. We can sense His frustration and exasperation. He rebuked the audience by calling them a faithless and perverse generation.Deuteronomy 32. Moses said to them that they were a perverse and unbelieving generation. They saw the works of God, and still did not believe. Therefore God was deeply disappointed with them.
http://www.meetingwithchrist.com/O%20faithless%20and%20perverse%20generation%20-%20Mt%2017(14-21).htm
How?
Bear my cross daily to follow Jesus, it is not easy, but I can do it with the help, love, power of Jesus.
The path to power
the authority to throw out demons or to do any kind of spiritual work is not enough on its own. Faith is necessary. And the failure of the disciples was due to their failure to appropriate God’s power by faith.But what does faith mean? Faith, in the context of Matthew 17:20, means self-emptiness and self-denial. This is the condition that is required for God’s life-giving energy to operate in us. Expressed in a different way, we can say that the path to power is the path of the cross. This principle of power is very important. The path to power is the path of the cross. If your life is going to have any kind of power, you will have to walk on the path of the cross.
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