That I May Know Him Journal

What is the significance of turning water into wine?  This miracle was told in John 2:1-11.  I have been studying about Apostle Peter but keep getting sidetrack on these other hidden nuggets connected within this story.  This is one of them.  Everything Jesus did meant something.  Well let's get digging in this nugget there are so many symbolic meanings within these 11 scriptures that is most definitely worth looking into. The setting for this first miracle was a marriage celebration being held in a village in Cana believed to be near Nazareth where Jesus was born.  Mary the mother of Jesus was invited, and Jesus and his disciples had been invited.  John 2:1 tells us that the upcoming miracle happened on the 3rd Day of the celebration.  Mary the mother of Jesus must have heard the party had run out of wine which would have been very humiliating during their time.  She went and told Jesus what was going on then she turned to the servants and a...

Jesus after being baptized of John and full of the Spirit had gone into the wilderness for 40 days and was tempted by the devil. The wilderness was a dry and lonely place that we may find ourselves being tempted before the anointing can be obtained.  After the devils 3 failed attempts to tempt Jesus, he left him. (Matthew 4) Then the angels came and ministered unto Jesus. I found it interesting that right after Jesus was baptized the first place of business was found in the wilderness. I have found that everything Jesus did had an important significance to it so when I was studying on Apostle Peter this really stuck out to me. I have witnessed many baptisms in my 32 years of living for the Lord. There are many people who have an idea that once they give their life to Jesus that everything in life should just be great from then on.  However, I have also seen many fall-way due to this idea, because in life we have to go through tests and trials. So, I felt that Jesus going direc...

In America we all use the word corn to describe a crop that grows in a field that are set in rows that produce cobs that yields a large yellow or white grain also known as kernels that is used for food by humans and livestock. However, one day in my bible readings I came across the story that mentioned ears of corn. This intrigued me as to why this would be mentioned in the Bible if it wasn't discovered until Christopher Columbus explored the New World we now know as America.     First, I want to tell you how this study came about. It has been a busy few months in my life, but I had asked God to give me a study much like the one he gave me about the fruit in the Garden of Eden.  A few days later I came across something about corn in the bible and was discussing it at work.  The next week one of my co-workers asked to know more about this. At that point I had not really thought much more about it, but I told him of the story of Joseph in Genesis 41 when Pharaoh h...

In the book of John chapter 1:15 we are given an account of John the Baptist at Bethabara beyond Jordon where he was baptizing.  In this particular day, John was asked by the Jewish priests and Levites from Jerusalem asked him, Who art thou?  John confessed, that he was not the Christ but told them, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias."  When they asked him why baptize he answered them, saying "I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.  It was the next day when John sees Jesus coming to him and says, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John bare record and said that he saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.  John knew then that this was the one as the same Spirit had told him, "Upon...

There are seven dispensations throughout the bible that divides different time periods of God's work and purposes toward man.  In this study I am going to focus on the sixth dispensation which was a mystery until Jesus gave Apostle Paul the revelation of the Dispensation of Grace.  Israel was God's chosen people from the beginning of man's creation.  Time after time God being the good shepherd he is, would provide ways to bring his people back to him.  In the Dispensation of Grace, he is not just bringing back his people to himself, but all mankind.  He put a plan in action from the beginning that would be fulfilled with the life, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.   After Jesus ministry had started, He first revealed the upcoming change to a sinful Samaritan woman.  She went to a well every day when no one else would be there due to the life she lived.  Jesus knew she was going to be there as John 4 starts out letting us know tha...