15th May 2010
In our Spirit to Spirit Communication training with Pastor TT, one of the most powerful principle that impacted me was in the message by TD Jakes when he taught that if you have not stooped you cannot speak.
I’m reminded of the story in Luke 24 about the 2 disciples who were walking down the road to Emmaus. At that time they were sad, down, discouraged, confused and lost because they didn’t know that Jesus, their Lord has risen. If we are in their shoes we will definitely feel the same. Have you felt sad, down and discouraged before? I probably have more times than I can count.
One thing good about these 2 disciples is that they had each other to walk together and talk together. I pray that you will have such friends in the church.
Then in v 15 Jesus HIMSELF drew near and went with them.
That’s our JESUS! He will come to where we are and walk with us.
But He will come so gently.
He will even come in disguise so that He will not shock us.
He is very gentle, very wise, very sensitive, very compassionate and very skillful!
He knows everything and yet He talks to us as if He knows nothing.
He always stoops down to where we are.
And that’s where He will begin.
In v 17 He asked a simple question and then He listens as the disciples talked. They seem to go on and on from v18 to v 24. Jesus only asked a two word question in between, ”What things?” to get them to talk some more.
Only after they have spoken their hearts and mind did Jesus then seek to correct them of their unbelief and then proceeded to patiently teach them from the scriptures about the truth.
Often we are confused, lost and discouraged because we don’t know where the Lord is in our lives and circumstances and what He is doing. We don’t know His promises and where we are in His plans for us especially when we are in some kind of sufferings.
And the Lord made things clear to them from the Scriptures so that they can be in the light.
When Jesus has completed making things clear to the two disciples He made Himself known and then vanished from their sight.
Then the disciples made this statement,
"Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
That walk and talk with Jesus sets their hearts burning.
And it was so empowering and energizing that, “they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem”.
May we also learn to do what Jesus did with our brothers and sisters who are down and discouraged.
May we stoop to lift someone up!
(Luk 24:13 NKJV) Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
(Luk 24:14 NKJV) And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
(Luk 24:15 NKJV) So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
(Luk 24:16 NKJV) But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
(Luk 24:17 NKJV) And He said to them, "What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?"
(Luk 24:18 NKJV) Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, "Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?"
(Luk 24:19 NKJV) And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, (Luk 24:20 NKJV) and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. (Luk 24:21 NKJV) But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. (Luk 24:22 NKJV) Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. (Luk 24:23 NKJV) When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. (Luk 24:24 NKJV) And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see."
(Luk 24:25 NKJV) Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
(Luk 24:26 NKJV) Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"
(Luk 24:27 NKJV) And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
(Luk 24:28 NKJV) Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.
(Luk 24:29 NKJV) But they constrained Him, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to stay with them.
(Luk 24:30 NKJV) Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
(Luk 24:31 NKJV) Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
(Luk 24:32 NKJV) And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
(Luk 24:33 NKJV) So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem,
In our Spirit to Spirit Communication training with Pastor TT, one of the most powerful principle that impacted me was in the message by TD Jakes when he taught that if you have not stooped you cannot speak.
I’m reminded of the story in Luke 24 about the 2 disciples who were walking down the road to Emmaus. At that time they were sad, down, discouraged, confused and lost because they didn’t know that Jesus, their Lord has risen. If we are in their shoes we will definitely feel the same. Have you felt sad, down and discouraged before? I probably have more times than I can count.
One thing good about these 2 disciples is that they had each other to walk together and talk together. I pray that you will have such friends in the church.
Then in v 15 Jesus HIMSELF drew near and went with them.
That’s our JESUS! He will come to where we are and walk with us.
But He will come so gently.
He will even come in disguise so that He will not shock us.
He is very gentle, very wise, very sensitive, very compassionate and very skillful!
He knows everything and yet He talks to us as if He knows nothing.
He always stoops down to where we are.
And that’s where He will begin.
In v 17 He asked a simple question and then He listens as the disciples talked. They seem to go on and on from v18 to v 24. Jesus only asked a two word question in between, ”What things?” to get them to talk some more.
Only after they have spoken their hearts and mind did Jesus then seek to correct them of their unbelief and then proceeded to patiently teach them from the scriptures about the truth.
Often we are confused, lost and discouraged because we don’t know where the Lord is in our lives and circumstances and what He is doing. We don’t know His promises and where we are in His plans for us especially when we are in some kind of sufferings.
And the Lord made things clear to them from the Scriptures so that they can be in the light.
When Jesus has completed making things clear to the two disciples He made Himself known and then vanished from their sight.
Then the disciples made this statement,
"Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
That walk and talk with Jesus sets their hearts burning.
And it was so empowering and energizing that, “they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem”.
May we also learn to do what Jesus did with our brothers and sisters who are down and discouraged.
May we stoop to lift someone up!
(Luk 24:13 NKJV) Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
(Luk 24:14 NKJV) And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
(Luk 24:15 NKJV) So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
(Luk 24:16 NKJV) But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
(Luk 24:17 NKJV) And He said to them, "What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?"
(Luk 24:18 NKJV) Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, "Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?"
(Luk 24:19 NKJV) And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, (Luk 24:20 NKJV) and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. (Luk 24:21 NKJV) But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. (Luk 24:22 NKJV) Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. (Luk 24:23 NKJV) When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. (Luk 24:24 NKJV) And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see."
(Luk 24:25 NKJV) Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
(Luk 24:26 NKJV) Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"
(Luk 24:27 NKJV) And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
(Luk 24:28 NKJV) Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.
(Luk 24:29 NKJV) But they constrained Him, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to stay with them.
(Luk 24:30 NKJV) Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
(Luk 24:31 NKJV) Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
(Luk 24:32 NKJV) And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
(Luk 24:33 NKJV) So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem,
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