PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE WHO SAID YES TO GOD Abraham said YES when God asked him to sacrifice his only son. Joseph said YES when God asked him to forgive his brothers who beat and sold him into slavery. Moses said YES when God told him to go to Pharaoh and ask him to let the Israelites go.
“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.” What a great promise of God we have today in 2 Corinthians 1:20. We see that for no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ.
Exodus 3:4 When Moses heard God call to him from the burning bush, he responded, “Here I am.” This action begins the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt.
Mary was willing to seek God and develop intimacy with Him.
Her willingness to say yes came from sincere trust in a God with Whom she was intimately familiar.
The World English Bible translates the passage as: But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No. ' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
When we ask God for something, the response will be 'Yes' or 'No' or 'Wait'. John Stott wrote that God will answer 'No' if the things we ask for 'are either not good in themselves, or not good for us or for others, directly or indirectly, immediately or ultimately'.
To SAY YES to Jesus means committing ourselves to Christ and receiving forgiveness of sin, total acceptance, and the gift of eternal life. Through His death on the cross, and through the power of the resurrection, Jesus defeated sin and death - He took all of your wrong and gave you all of His right.
Two thousand years after Christ was born of the virgin Mary, millions of Christians around the globe call Mary blessed, especially during the Christmas season. God loved Mary, and Mary loved God.
Why not pray directly to God? The mother of Jesus Christ and the other saints have no meaning or power independent of God. Catholics and many other Christians venerate the saints as ongoing examples of what a life generously open to God's grace can look like in a great variety of circumstances.
For instance, nothing is said about the passion or the resurrection of her Son to be conceived. Later, she will actually not understand what the twelve- year-old Jesus will tell her in the Temple (Lk. 2 :50). But Mary believes in God; she trusts God, so her “yes” to the angel is valid.
Samuel was a young boy being raised by a priest named Eli. One night, Samuel heard someone call his name and he thought it was Eli. So, Samuel went and asked Eli what he needed, but Eli had not called him! This happened to Samuel three times that night.
Isaiah said "YES LORD, here I am! Send me." Mary, the mother of Jesus at the conversation between her and the Angel Gabriel, said "YES" to God's will for her life as Mother of the Savior of the world.
Abram was 80 years old when he left his rich and prosperous home to travel into the desert. God had called him, and Abram put God first.
He is saying if you think you can create levels of truthfulness, you're wrong. He is saying that “every yes and every no must be as truthful as if you just swore it on a stack of Bibles on network television.” Every yes and every no is observed, because God is the creator and is present with us.
The answered prayer is now your test of spiritual maturity. God's 'yes' to our prayers is a timely revelation of our spirituality. Spiritual authenticity is tested by our reactions to circumstances rather than our actions. Actions are planned; reactions are authentic revelations of spirituality.
God allows, and even desires, our questions because He knows we sometimes need clarification to understand His will. One example is the disciple often referred to as “Doubting Thomas.” Thomas missed Jesus' resurrected appearance to His disciples.
Answer: Why Pray to Mary? Because Jesus has given us his Blessed Mother as our great spiritual mother (Rev. 12:17), a heavenly advocate who intercedes for us.
All Christian prayer, whether the prayer of saints in heaven or Mary, the mother of the Lord, or of us the saints here on earth, is directed to the Father through Jesus, who is the “one mediator between God and men” (1 Timothy 2:5).
"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
Some authors, taking up themes from the pseudohistorical book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, suggest that Sarah was the daughter of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
After Jesus' death, the most controversy around Mary Magdalene's life would unfold. In all four Gospels, she is the first to witness Jesus after his resurrection. Believed to be the Jesus' favorite by the apostles, Mary is asked to reveal secret teachings given to her by Jesus while consoling the apostles.
CALLED: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SAYING YES TO GOD is the biographical, sanctified journey of Casey Cole OFM from novitiate to vowed religous training to be an ordained Priest. Friar Cole incorporates previous blog posts of his community life experiences, sharing his spiritual and life lesson perceptions.
Mary, on the other hand, said yes to God. At the Annunciation, Mary said to the Angel Gabriel, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38). Through this yes, the Savior of the human race entered the world, and death was defeated.