Heavy

A 5-kg bag of rice is not heavy to me. For my daughter, that bag is heavy, because she herself only weigh about 25 kg. So if we pass a law on the definition of heavy, what should it be?

Pray Straight to the Point

When we pray, we sometimes use very roundabout expressions; we do not come straight to the point; we seem to imagine that a kind of religious etiquette forbids us from speaking plainly at the throne of grace. I am persuaded that this notion is altogether wrong; and instead of God approving this mode of speaking to him in prayer, he would much rather have us speak to him as a child speaks to his earthly father, — respectfully, reverently, remembering that he is in heaven, and we are on earth, yet simply and plainly, for our Heavenly Father needs no garnishing of our speech; and the poor tawdry flowers of eloquence, with which some of our brethren at times adorn their prayers, must be displeasing to God rather than acceptable to him.

From Jacob’s Model Prayer by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a sermon published on Thursday, October 18th, 1906, delivered at The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington on Lord’s Day evening, June 16th, 1867.

Show thee great and mighty things

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not (Jeremiah 33:3 KJV).

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it (Psalm 81:10 KJV).

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32 KJV)

Ruth went to the field of Boaz, expecting to get a handful of barley, but instead, she found a husband.

Unbelievers can perform miracles in Jesus's Name

Matthew 7:21-23 (New American Standard Bible)
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

Numbers 24:2 (New American Standard Bible)
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe ; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

Many miracles were performed by money loving pastors. These miracles are performed in Jesus's Name. But on the day of judgement, Jesus will deny them. We already have an example in the Old Testament, where the prophet Balaam, who is rejected by God, although he is a true prophet who prophesied in God's name.

Balaam is a warning to all the money loving miracle working pastors, who "loved the wages of unrighteousness" (2 Peter 2:15-16).