God came back to his own town and showed his own people that he is Jesus but his people didn’t believe him so he went around healing and teaching people.
Have you ever felt like people doubted who you are or what you have done?
To me it means that Jesus is all powerful and we need to trust him through everything even when it seems things are going horribly wrong or when it seems like the end of life as we know it. God has a plan for us all and we should trust him.
If you were one of the disciples on the boat would you have woken Jesus and why?
Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed. He says that faith and the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed; it is the smallest type of seed, but when planted and nurtured it can grow into a great tree. The mustrad seed is like our faith. Even the ones with small faith can grow and be great.
Have you ever experienced little faith growing into a greater faith, in you or in someone else?
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Holly Says, I think it means that Christians plant seeds in people all around us whether we know we are or not and then those seeds in people grow into great Christians and as they grow in their faith they plant seeds in other people also. And when it is ripe and the harvest has come means that Jesus takes all of his followers with him to Heaven. And the seed is like the knowledge of Jesus. Like the seed we plant in people is basically us telling them about Jesus. I think this is a great verse for us to read and think about because we will be planting those seeds in Vancouver and we should be planting them here in Albany also all the time. Each seed planted is potentially one more Christian. And we need to be aware of what we are doing all the tie because we may never know when exactly we are planting those seeds.
Do you know when you are planting seeds in people? Are they good seeds or bad seeds?
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Its so cool to think that Simon Andrew John and James were just average people just like us one day working on a fishing boat (for us going to school) and the next being extrodinary missionary’s (us going on the missions trip) we really just are like the first disciple’s. this passage also reminded me of being a little kid and singing a song about be fishers of men, its been stuck in my head all day! =)
Are you ready to become fishers of men?
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It seems that Jesus goes to get tempted by Satan a lot. It’s nice to know He went through the same things as us as far as being tempted goes. Then it says that heaven tore open – does that mean the clouds whent WHOOOOSH!! and just were gone?
Has the Spirit of God ever led you to do something drastic? Like go into a desert?
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It’s appropriate that we begin going through the gospel of Mark with a devotional from Mark! Here’s the process, go look up the verses (you can do this online through Bible Crosswalk if you want), pray about it, read what others have to say and make some comments yourself. A question will be given each time to get things started!
And now, Mark says,
John the Baptist was the prophet in that point of time. He lived off the land, wore camel skins for clothes and everyone wanted to be baptized by him. That was a lot of responsibility. John stayed humble through it all, though!
If you were John the Baptist, how would you have done? How would you have stayed humble?
