Jason Hayward @Jhayward@dingdash.com

My post today at www.jason.church shows the Apostle Paul’s progression in faith as he grew up into Christ in all things. He healed a crippled man among the Greeks, and he got mistaken for a Greek god.

This verse is part of the passage on Paul that I posted about today (at www.jason.church). Luke recorded that the believers starting calling him Paul after this incident in Cyprus.

@sinbach looks like a nice place to conference!

My post today on www.jason.church is about how Paul was brought to teach the church in Antioch

This is Christ in us for a full salvation. He saves us: spirit, soul, and body. Christ in us, we “are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV).

“the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory”
The mystery of God that was hidden for ages, God’s means of sharing His glory and riches with those He made in His image and likeness, overcoming the separation of sin and death, is “Christ in you.” The prophets of the Old Testament had seen shadows of what was to come in Christ. Jesus told His disciples with regard to the Helper, the Spirit of truth: “You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you” (John 14:17). In Christ, our spirits are made alive, directly connected to God through the indwelling Holy Spirit; “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16); and “we are members of His body, His flesh, and of His bones” (Ephesians 5:30).

My post today on www.jason.church is about how directly after his conversion the Apostle Paul started preaching the faith he once tried to destroy (also @tanjaostman I made it to London tonight …)

I would like to see lay people from local churches come together more across denominational bounds to serve God in teams. If you have time, see what I have drafted up at www.teams.church (my last stab at this was about 14 months ago) and let me know if you have any feedback (is it clear? What can be improved?)

My post today at www.jason.church is about how the Apostle Paul first encountered Jesus, radically altering the course of his life and the history of the church

My post today at www.jason.church is about the life of the Apostle Paul, who was first called Saul, before he became a follower of Jesus. He threw Christians in jail and had them killed!

My post today at www.jason.church is called “No partiality with God” and describes the way God sees us and desires to use us for good. It’s the introduction to my new book “Experiencing Christ in Paul: The Apostle Paul in 60 Days.”

My post today on identity in Christ at www.jason.church is about overflowing life. It’s from the last chapter in my free book on identity in Christ available for free download at the same site.

From Romans 15: ‘...and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.” This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.’
In the passage quoted by Paul in, the prophet Isaiah foretold that the news of Jesus’ atonement for them would startle the nations when this message was brought to them. Jesus told his followers to fulfill Scripture: to make disciples of those in the nations that had not yet heard the message (Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8). The Spirit directed Paul to do just that, leading him in where he was to go next, thereby hindering him from coming to Rome where the church was already being built by another. Paul recognized that the Spirit was leading him into areas of the unreached... Reaching the unreached is God’s priority. Is it ours?

“Many today struggle with the problem of identity. We are born as sons or daughters. We may be brothers or sisters, fathers or mothers. We may find identity in what we do, what we have accomplished, or the legacy we are passing on.

Yet, we are drawn to more than this. As children, we imagine ourselves as kings or warriors, princesses, heroes, or even superheroes. In some ways, we may not stop wanting to believe that we were made for such greatness.

And so, in fact, we were!

The truth of the Word of God says that we were made as the royalty of God, just a little lower than Himself. We are warriors made to share in God’s victory, and we were made for greatness. It’s not as we have imagined it, but as God has created it in His goodness…

This book is a family picture in some sense, showing the beautiful traits of some of the family members, some of whom may be more like you (and me) and some less. The book consists of 33 readings about different characteristics of identity in Christ”

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” …O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17:9-10, 13-14‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.17.9-14.ESV

“Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.””
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17:5-8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.17.5-8.ESV

I’ve posted my third free book this year, Identity in Christ: 33 Characteristics of His Church, at www.jason.church/downloads.

@tanjaostman I know Covid is also linked to stroke and the risk factors for Covid make it higher. One of our best friends suffered from a stroke recently that was debilitating and it made me wonder… I guess we will see all the data later to better understand. I have been reading biographies of many who believed and practiced divine healing and many of them are not against medical intervention. All are for trusting Jesus as the healer of course.

@Jorge it makes sense God wants his children to be drawn to Him. The alternative is terrible and He wants the best for us. In making us parents we better understand.

@tanjaostman no in person it is electronic and has been for quite awhile. It should be that our agencies do work that makes tampering exceedingly difficult but I haven’t looked into it. Then there are absentee ballots.