God’s love, which is stronger than death, is causing me to continue walking the path of the mission the Lord has given me (John 6:1–15). “At that very time some Pharisees came and said to Him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill You.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox, “I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:31–35). ...
A man who had come to promote the welfare (2) [Nehemiah 2:6-10] In the book “Rut, Rot, or Revival” written by Pastor A. W. Tozer, he talks about “the greatest enemy of Christians” (Ch. 1). He describes it as three progressive stages of religious decay: (1) The first step is the mechanical state . This is a repetition of a religious activity without any feeling. Without meaning, without admiration, without any happy surprise or anticipation, just repeating the religious activity. (2) The second stage is the habitual state. If we go one step further from the mechanical state, we arrive at what we will call the habitual state. This is a state of enslavement to mechanical conditions. Spiritually speaking, the habitual state is the bondage of the mechanical state. But the greatest danger of the habitual state is that we are incapable of...