The Adonai's Crescent

If God were not in on it Reference Jn 3:12-18 The discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus is very interesting. God knows everything but acts to test us for a moment. This is a controlled dialogue to keep Nicodemus and his views pointing to God; But he was struggling to tune into Jesus's view point. There's something to this. Jesus doesn't dump everything on Nicodemus at once. He moves from new birth (v.3) to wind (v.8) to the bronze serpent (v.14) to the love of God (v.16). He's meeting Nicodemus where he is and drawing him forward—which is exactly the pattern we are experiencing in our own lives , if we let Him to interact. Jesus isn't trying to win an argument; He's trying to bring a man from darkness into light, one step at a time. It's a good catch about the testing dynamic — and there's actually a passage later in John that names it explicitly. In John 6:5-6, Jesus asks Philip where they can buy bread for the crowd, and John tells us directly: "...

Was and Now Ephesians 2:7–10 (MSG) Now God has us where HE wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower Grace and Kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all His idea, and all his work. All we do is trust HIM enough to let HIM do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join Him in the work He does, the good work He has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing!! Paul describes two themes from this chapter- 1) Death to Live 2) Division to Unity - It tells us who we were and who we now are — and the distance between those two is entirely the work of Grace. we were dead, Paul says, not struggling or striving, but dead — and yet "God, being rich in mercy," made you alive together with Christ. That word "together...

ASK: Asking, Seeking and Knocking Reference: Jn 16:24 John 1:16 declares a staggering truth: "Of His fullness we have all received, and Grace for Grace." This is not a promise for someday—it is a present-tense doctrine. Ephesians 3:19 speaks of being filled with all the fullness of God. Philippians 4:19 assures us that every need is met according to His riches in the Glory. Mark 11:24 tells us that whatever we ask in prayer, believing, we will receive. Theologically, there is no gap. The fullness is already ours in Christ. So why don't we experience it? The gap is not theological—it is practical and relational. It lives in unbelief, in unprocessed doubt we've never brought into the light, and in asking that stopped—or never started. Fullness has been provided, but access is activated through asking. That is the secret, and it can happen anytime we decide. Jesus makes this explicit in John 16:24: "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will rece...