The wonders of technology! Skype has been a tool we have been using to coach premarital couples to prepare them for marriage. After using it with different couples in 5 different countries we have noticed that the quality has evolved and improved, (include video and audio conferencing) to make the experience very satisfying.
This was not the case, in the early days when I was involved with this technology. I had to use it to communicate with my head office in KL from my base in Jakarta, running the Indonesian operations for the Christian company, I worked at. The quality was so poor and there used to be too much "static" on the line that our messages were never understood completely.
Family unity and strong marriages are at the heart of God's victorious plan for mankind. Since the very beginning God's aim is to birth a "bride" from His very flesh and bones to be pure and blameless. His redemptive blood restores the broken relationship and brings us into right standing with Him. This is accomplished as we confess and repent of our sinful nature, when we are convicted by the Holy Spirit, by having faith in Him. Then, believing in our hearts and confessing with our mouths that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Lord, propels us into a born again experience and into His Kingdom.
This spiritual birthing is what Nicodemus was all confused about, which prompted him to ask Jesus the obvious question, "How can anyone," said Nicodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up? You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again. What are you saying with this 'born-from-above' talk?"
Jesus is the Master communicator and He replied, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it's not possible to enter God's kingdom. When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch—the Spirit—and becomes a living spirit."So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above'—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God."
The Message version opens up John chapter 3 verses 4 to 8 for us to understand the truth of the new birth more accurately. It is liken to our ability to hear without the "static" in our communication line between our Lord Jesus Christ and us.
I pray during this 40 days prayer and fasting for our nation our spiritual ears will become alert to God's agenda for the nation, who's foundation is the families. Those who have ears let him hear!
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