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). ...
“Let us start rebuilding.” (1) [Nehemiah 2:11-16] Gordon Macdonald's book “Rebuilding Your Broken World” tells us what kind of people God is using to expand His kingdom. He is none other than people like Simon Peter, who failed God. God uses them as His instruments in His kingdom expansion ministry. Pastor MacDonald said three important things that happened in the “Sea of Tiberias” (Jn.21:1), centering on the words of John chapter 21: (1) Jesus came into Peter's world. The rebuilder Jesus knew that Peter was too wounded to start on his own. In other words, after Jesus died on the cross, Jesus appeared to Peter (and the other disciples), who had returned to his old job as a fisherman in disappointment and discouragement, and asked, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” (v. 5). And when Jesus said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some” (v. 6), Pe...