Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. John 17:17

Bishop's Comments on John 17:17

Text: 17.17: Sanctify them by Your truth. The Lord Jesus’ request to His disciples was for them to live separately from sin and to stay away from worldly concerns. The Savior states that they would only achieve this if they kept and obeyed the Holy Scriptures. In this way, He revealed that the secret to being preserved is to maintain pure thoughts and an upright character. The Word of God is the perfect tool to correct, exhort, encourage, and sustain faith and fear. This means that everything in life should be based on the Word; and without it, it is impossible to keep Salvation.

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.
Greed sometimes also translated as covetousness but what is covetousness?
Covetousness means a strong, exaggerated, and excessive desire to possess goods, money, power, or something that belongs to another person.

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

The problem with greed or covetousness is that it is something internal; you cannot see it, and no one knows it is happening unless it is expressed externally.

How to overcome it, or better yet, how to not even have it?

Bishop said something to someone who was starting in the work of God that i never forget:
“Confess your temptations so that you do not have to confess your sins.”
I have preached from time to time and meditated on James 1:13-16:
“…But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. Do not be deceived...”

We can see that the best thing to do is to cut off the sin before it is even born, to watch the heart and mind, and to cut off the desires that tries to be born, because if the desire or covetousness is cut off, there will be no sin…

Without sin, and with holiness, we will see the Glory of God here in this world and obtain eternal salvation.

Joshua 3:5 Joshua also said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

Therefore, this Sunday will be the Sunday of the Holy Nation. Consecrate yourselves and prepare yourselves so that God may do wonders among us.

Good morning everyone

“Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!””
Mark 9:23-24

Meditating on this passage we see a honesty with God, The father asked for help crying. He didn't hide his uncertainties to look perfect.

Faith is not the absence of doubts, Having faith means trusting in God even when the mind fights against uncertainty or fear.
Jesus did not rebuke the man, and sent him away. He welcomed that fragile faith and answer the request for a miracle.
God wants us to believe in Him with all our mind and heart and strength. He wants us to be sincere, to humble ourselves and to know that, He is God, His words are more powerful than the word of the doctors, people around us. Keep trusting in Him.

God bless🙏🏼