When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why?
Suc·cess·ful
/səkˈsesf(ə)l/
adjective
- Accomplishing an aim or purpose.
Success can be measured in specific outcomes, as a process, or as a state of mind. Standards for success can be related to personal, social, spiritual, academic, or employment goals. Success can be defined for small, short-term goals, for overall life achievements, and for steps along the way.
Jesus is not just a King of Hearts. He is more than a Universal Coach, Teacher, or Consoler of Mankind. By “King of the Universe” the Church is communicating Jesus’ metaphysical scale, that God encompasses all of reality, not just Man’s reality.
He conquered everything and defeated every foe. Today, He still reigns as Champion of Heaven and Earth and is the Hero of huManity. His Name is Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world!
There were seven great things Jesus did; He turned water into wine, He healed an official’s son, He healed at the pool of Bethesda, He fed the five thousand, He walked on water, He healed the Man born blind and He raised Lazarus from the dead.
All things exist as Created through Jesus and for Him” (Colossians 1:16). So, as God The Father’s agent in Creation, the preincarnate Christ was The Creator of ALL that exists. Christ’s functioning as Creator had everything to do with the dim and distant past, the beginning; AND The future. Jesus has eternity covered!
Yes! There is a god of this time – Satan and his archangels…
And we pray:
We praise You Almighty God, for You are rich in mercy.
When we were dead in our sin,
You made us alive in Christ.
Because of Your great Love,
You desire to conform us into the
likeness of Your Son Jesus.
Thank You for Your Holy Spirit,
who is transforming us to have the
same attitude and mind as Christ.
Help us to Love the way He loves;
to humble ourselves as He humbled Himself;
and to trust and obey as Christ did in all things.
Enable us to see people the way He does;
to confront hypocrisy as He did;
and to freely forgive just as Christ forgives us.
Guard us from quenching Your work in our lives,
and help us stay in step with
The Holy Spirit each day.
May we be ever changing into the
likeness of Christ Jesus,
in Whose Name we pray.
Amen.