The Wisdom of Jesus: The Secret to Unlocking Spiritual Discernment

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time   and at the end john wrote now there are also many  other things that jesus did where every one of   them to be written i suppose that the world itself  could not contain the books that would be written settle down into your bed make sure you're  comfortable and relaxed and then take a deep   cleansing breath let the words of jesus minister  to your soul tonight as you sleep knowing that   he had you in mind when he said them nothing he  said was only for the crowds at that time to hear   but for all of eternity in fact all the  other gospel writers recorded jesus as saying   heaven and earth will pass away  but my words will not pass away let me pray as we begin lord  jesus living and eternal god   we treasure your word in our hearts tonight i pray  over this beloved child of yours that they might   sleep in peace because your words are spoken over  them help them to release all their cares into   your arms because you care for them thank you  for coming to earth and leaving behind so rich   a treasury of wisdom and love we thank you and  praise you in your wondrous and powerful name amen   now listen to the wisdom of jesus from the  gospel of john chapters 1 through 12 in the   english standard version from chapter 1 jesus saw  nathanael coming toward him and said of him behold   an israelite indeed in whom there was no  deceit nathanael said to him how do you know me   jesus answered him before philip called you  when you were under the fig tree i saw you   nathanael answered him rabbi you are the son of  god you are the king of israel jesus answered him   because i said to you i saw you under the fig  tree do you believe you will see greater things   than these and he said to him truly truly  i say to you you will see heaven opened   and the angels of god ascending  and descending on the son of man from john chapter 3. now there was a man of  the pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the   jews this man came to jesus by night and said  to him rabbi we know that you are a teacher   come from god for no one can do these signs that  you do unless god is with him jesus answered him   truly truly i say to you unless one is  born again he cannot see the kingdom of god   nicodemus said to him how can a man be  born when he is old can he enter a second   time into his mother's womb and be born  jesus answered truly truly i say to you   unless one is born of water and the  spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of god   that which is born of the flesh is flesh and  that which is born of the spirit is spirit   do not marvel that i said to you you must be  born again the wind blows where it wishes and   you hear its sound but you do not know  where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god from john chapter 4 a woman  from samaria came to draw water   jesus said to her give me a drink for his  disciples had gone away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he would have  given you living water the woman said to him   sir you have nothing to draw  water with and the well is deep   where do you get that living water  are you greater than our father jacob   he gave us the well and drank from it  himself as did his sons and his livestock   jesus said to her everyone who drinks  of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water meanwhile the disciples were urging him  saying rabbi eat but he said to them i   have food to eat that you do not know about so  the disciples said to one another has anyone   brought him something to eat jesus said to them  my food is to do the will of him who sent me   and to accomplish his work do you not  say there are yet four months then comes   the harvest look i tell you lift up your eyes  and see that the fields are white for harvest   already the one who reaps is receiving wages and  gathering fruit for eternal life so that sower and   reaper may rejoice together for here the saying  holds true one sows and another reaps i sent you   to reap that for which you did not labor others  have labored and you have entered into their labor   from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem   now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of influence blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and shows him all  that he himself is doing and greater works than   these will he show him so that you may marvel for  as the father raises the dead and gives them life   so also the son gives life to whom he  will for the father judges no one but   has given all judgment to the son that all may  honor the son just as they honor the father   whoever does not honor the son does  not honor the father who sent him   truly truly i say to you whoever hears my word  and believes him who said me has eternal life   he does not come into judgment  but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will live  for as the father has life in himself so he has   granted the son also to have life in himself and  he has given him authority to execute judgment   because he is the son of man i can do nothing on  my own as i hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has bored witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light but   the testimony that i have is greater than that  of john for the works that the father has given   me to accomplish the very works that i am doing  bear witness about me that the father has sent me   and the father who sent me has  himself more witness about me   his voice you have never heard  his form you have never seen   and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent   from john chapter 6 jesus answered them this  is the work of god that you believe in him who   he has sent so they said to him then what  sign do you do that we may see and believe   you what work do you perform our fathers ate  the manna in the wilderness as it is written   he gave them bread from heaven to eat jesus  then said to them truly truly i say to you   it was not moses who gave you the bread from  heaven but my father gives you the true bread   from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes  down from heaven and gives life to the world   they said to him sir give us this bread always   jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give for the  life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7 so jesus answered them my teaching  is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit  whom those who believed in him were   to receive for as yet the spirit had not been  given because jesus was not yet glorified from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned   you she said no one lord and jesus said neither  do i condemn you go and from now on sin no more again jesus spoke to them saying i am  the light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if i   do bear witness about myself my testimony is true  for i know where i came from and where i am going   but you do not know where i come from or where  i am going you judge according to the flesh i   judge no one yet even if i do judge my judgment  is true for it is not i alone who judge but i   and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always  do the things that are pleasing to him   as he was saying these things many believed him  so jesus said to the jews who had believed him   if you abide in my word you are truly my  disciples and you will know the truth and   the truth will set you free truly truly i say to  you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin   the slave does not remain in the house forever the  sun remains forever so if the sun sets you free   you will be free indeed from john chapter 9 as  he passed by he saw a man blind from birth and   his disciples asked him rabbi who sent this man or  his parents that he was born blind jesus answered   it was not that this man sinned or his parents but  that the works of god might be displayed in him   we must work the works of him who sent me while  it is day night is coming when no one can work   as long as i am in the world  i am the light of the world from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is a  thief and a robber but he who enters by the door   is the shepherd of the sheep to him the  gatekeeper opens the sheep hear his voice   and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them  out when he has brought out all his own he goes   before them and the sheep follow him for they  know his voice a stranger they will not follow   but they will flee from him for they  do not know the voice of strangers   so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will  be saved and will go in and out and find   pasture the thief comes only to steal and  kill and destroy i came that they may have   life and have it abundantly i am the good shepherd  the good shepherd lays down his life forth sheep i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down  of my own accord i have authority to lay   it down and i have authority to take it up  again charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one   from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in the  resurrection on the last day jesus said to   her i am the resurrection and the life whoever  believes in me though he die yet shall he live   and everyone who lives and believes in me shall  never die do you believe this she said to him   yes lord i believe that you are the christ  the son of god was coming into the world then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god   so they took away the stone and jesus lifted up  his eyes and said father i thank you that you   have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i  said this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go   from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this  purpose i have come to this hour father   glorify your name then a voice came from heaven  i have glorified it and i will glorify it again so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes  in me believes not in me but in him who sent me   and whoever sees me sees him who sent me  i have come into the world as light so   that whoever believes in me may not remain in  darkness if anyone hears my words and does not   keep them i do not judge him for i did not  come to judge the world but to save the world   the one who rejects me and does  not receive my words has a judge   the word that i have spoken will judge him on the  last day for i have not spoken on my own authority   but the father who sent me has himself given me  a commandment what to say and what to speak and   i know that his commandment is eternal life what  i say therefore i say as the father has told me jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps tonight   i pray that the words spoken over them will  seep into their soul and find rest there i   pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds and you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen   but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully   tonight i'm here to remind you that god  loves you and wants you to find restful sleep   and this story is the wisdom of jesus when  he was on earth jesus said many many things   in the book of john there seemed to be more  long passages of things that he said to those   who were following him the words chosen  for this meditation tonight are truths   recorded by john so that he  would have them for all time   and at the end john wrote now there are also many  other things that jesus did where every one of   them to be written i suppose that the world itself  could not contain the books that would be written settle down into your bed make sure you're  comfortable and relaxed and then take a deep   cleansing breath let the words of jesus minister  to your soul tonight as you sleep knowing that   he had you in mind when he said them nothing he  said was only for the crowds at that time to hear   but for all of eternity in fact all the  other gospel writers recorded jesus as saying   heaven and earth will pass away  but my words will not pass away   let me pray as we begin lord  jesus living and eternal god   we treasure your word in our hearts tonight i pray  over this beloved child of yours that they might   sleep in peace because your words are spoken over  them help them to release all their cares into   your arms because you care for them thank you  for coming to earth and leaving behind so rich   a treasury of wisdom and love we thank you and  praise you in your wondrous and powerful name amen now listen to the wisdom of jesus from the  gospel of john chapters 1 through 12 in the   english standard version from chapter 1 jesus saw  nathanael coming toward him and said of him behold   an israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit  nathanael said to him how do you know me   jesus answered him before philip called you  when you were under the fig tree i saw you   nathanael answered him rabbi you are the son of  god you are the king of israel jesus answered him   because i said to you i saw you under the fig tree   do you believe you will see greater things than  these and he said to him truly truly i say to   you you will see heaven opened and the angels of  god ascending and descending on the son of man   from john chapter 3. now there was a man of  the pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the   jews this man came to jesus by night and said  to him rabbi we know that you are a teacher   come from god for no one can do these signs that  you do unless god is with him jesus answered him   truly truly i say to you unless one is  born again he cannot see the kingdom of god   nicodemus said to him how can a man be  born when he is old can he enter a second   time into his mother's womb and be born  jesus answered truly truly i say to you   unless one is born of water and the  spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of god   that which is born of the flesh is flesh and  that which is born of the spirit is spirit   do not marvel that i said to you you must be  born again the wind blows where it wishes and   you hear its sound but you do not know  where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god   from john chapter 4 a woman from samaria came  to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink   for his disciples had gone  away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he would have  given you living water the woman said to him   sir you have nothing to draw water with and the  well is deep where do you get that living water   are you greater than our father jacob he gave us  the well and drank from it himself as did his sons   and his livestock jesus said to her everyone  who drinks of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water meanwhile the disciples were urging him  saying rabbi eat but he said to them i   have food to eat that you do not know about so  the disciples said to one another has anyone   brought him something to eat jesus said to them  my food is to do the will of him who sent me   and to accomplish his work do you not  say there are yet four months then comes   the harvest look i tell you lift up your eyes  and see that the fields are white for harvest   already the one who reaps is receiving wages and  gathering fruit for eternal life so that sower and   reaper may rejoice together for here the saying  holds true one sows and another reaps i sent you   to reap that for which you did not labor others  have labored and you have entered into their labor   from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem   now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of influence blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and shows him  all that he himself is doing and greater   works than these will he show him so that you  may marvel for as the father raises the dead   and gives them life so also the son gives life  to whom he will for the father judges no one   but has given all judgment to the son that all  may honor the son just as they honor the father   whoever does not honor the son does  not honor the father who sent him   truly truly i say to you whoever hears my word  and believes him who sent me has eternal life   he does not come into judgment  but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will live  for as the father has life in himself so he has   granted the son also to have life in himself and  he has given him authority to execute judgment   because he is the son of man i can do nothing on  my own as i hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has bored witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light but   the testimony that i have is greater than that  of john for the works that the father has given   me to accomplish the very works that i am doing  bear witness about me that the father has sent me   and the father who sent me has  himself more witness about me   his voice you have never heard  his form you have never seen   and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent from john chapter 6 jesus answered them   this is the work of god that you believe  in him who he has sent so they said to him   then what sign do you do that we may see  and believe you what work do you perform   our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it  is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat   jesus then said to them truly truly i say to  you it was not moses who gave you the bread   from heaven but my father gives you the true bread  from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes   down from heaven and gives life to the world  they said to him sir give us this bread always   jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day   no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give  for the life of the world is my flesh   from john chapter 7 so jesus answered them  my teaching is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit  whom those who believed in him were   to receive for his yet the spirit had not  been given because jesus was not yet glorified   from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned   you she said no one lord and jesus said neither  do i condemn you go and from now on sin no more   again jesus spoke to them saying i am  the light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if i   do bear witness about myself my testimony is true  for i know where i came from and where i am going   but you do not know where i come from or where  i am going you judge according to the flesh i   judge no one yet even if i do judge my judgment  is true for it is not i alone who judge but i   and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always  do the things that are pleasing to him   as he was saying these things many believed him  so jesus said to the jews who had believed him   if you abide in my word you are truly my  disciples and you will know the truth and   the truth will set you free truly truly i say to  you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin   the slave does not remain in the house forever  the sun remains forever so if the sun sets you   free you will be free indeed from john chapter 9  as he passed by he saw a man blind from birth and   his disciples asked him rabbi who said this man or  his parents that he was born blind jesus answered   it was not that this man sinned or his parents but  that the works of god might be displayed in him   we must work the works of him who sent me while  it is day night is coming but no one can work   as long as i am in the world  i am the light of the world from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is a  thief and a robber but he who enters by the door   is the shepherd of the sheep to him the gatekeeper  opens the sheep hear his voice and he calls his   own sheep by name and leads them out when he  has brought out all his own he goes before them   and the sheep follow him for they know his  voice a stranger they will not follow but   they will flee from him for they  do not know the voice of strangers so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will be  saved and will go in and out and find pasture   the thief comes only to steal and kill and  destroy i came that they may have life and   have it abundantly i am the good shepherd the  good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again  charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in the  resurrection on the last day jesus said to   her i am the resurrection and the life whoever  believes in me though he die yet shall he live   and everyone who lives and believes in me shall  never die do you believe this she said to him   yes lord i believe that you are the christ  the son of god was coming into the world then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god   so they took away the stone and jesus lifted up  his eyes and said father i thank you that you   have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i  said this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this  purpose i have come to this hour father   glorify your name then a voice came from heaven  i have glorified it and i will glorify it again   so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes in  me believes not in me but in him who sent me and   whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have come  into the world as light so that whoever believes   in me may not remain in darkness if anyone hears  my words and does not keep them i do not judge him   for i did not come to judge the world but to  save the world the one who rejects me and does   not receive my words has a judge the word that i  have spoken will judge him on the last day for i   have not spoken on my own authority but the father  who sent me has himself given me a commandment   what to say and what to speak and i know  that his commandment is eternal life   what i say therefore i say  as the father has told me   jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps tonight   i pray that the words spoken over them will  seep into their soul and find rest there i   pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds in you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully tonight i'm here to remind you that god  loves you and wants you to find restful sleep   and this story is the wisdom of jesus when  he was on earth jesus said many many things   in the book of john there seemed to be more  long passages of things that he said to those   who were following him the words chosen  for this meditation tonight are truths   recorded by john so that he  would have them for all time   and at the end john wrote now there are also many  other things that jesus did where every one of   them to be written i suppose that the world itself  could not contain the books that would be written settle down into your bed make sure you're  comfortable and relaxed and then take a deep   cleansing breath let the words of jesus  minister to your soul tonight as you sleep   knowing that he had you in mind when he said them  nothing he said was only for the crowds at that   time to hear but for all of eternity in fact all  the other gospel writers recorded jesus as saying   heaven and earth will pass away  but my words will not pass away let me pray as we begin lord jesus living  and eternal god we treasure your word in   our hearts tonight i pray over this beloved  child of yours that they might sleep in peace   because your words are spoken over them help them  to release all their cares into your arms because   you care for them thank you for coming to earth  and leaving behind so rich a treasury of wisdom   and love we thank you and praise you in your  wondrous and powerful name amen now listen to the   wisdom of jesus from the gospel of john chapters  1 through 12 in the english standard version   from chapter 1 jesus saw nathanael coming toward  him and said of him behold and israelite indeed   in whom there was no deceit nathanael said  to him how do you know me jesus answered him   before philip called you when you were under  the fig tree i saw you nathanael answered him   rabbi you are the son of god  you are the king of israel   jesus answered him because i said to you i  saw you under the fig tree do you believe   you will see greater things than these and  he said to him truly truly i say to you   you will see heaven opened and the angels of  god ascending and descending on the son of man   from john chapter 3. now there was a  man of the pharisees named nicodemus   a ruler of the jews this man came to jesus by  night and said to him rabbi we know that you are   a teacher come from god for no one can do these  signs that you do unless god is with him jesus   answered him truly truly i say to you unless one  is born again he cannot see the kingdom of god   nicodemus said to him how can a man be  born when he is old can he enter a second   time into his mother's womb and be born  jesus answered truly truly i say to you   unless one is born of water and the  spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of god   that which is born of the flesh is flesh and  that which is born of the spirit is spirit   do not marvel that i said to you you must be  born again the wind blows where it wishes and   you hear its sound but you do not know  where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god from john chapter 4 a woman  from samaria came to draw water   jesus said to her give me a drink for his  disciples had gone away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he  would have given you living water   the woman said to him sir you  have nothing to draw water with   and the well is deep where do you get that living  water are you greater than our father jacob   he gave us the well and drank from it  himself as did his sons and his livestock   jesus said to her everyone who drinks  of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water   meanwhile the disciples were urging him  saying rabbi eat but he said to them   i have food to eat that you do not know about  so the disciples said to one another has anyone   brought him something to eat jesus said to them  my food is to do the will of him who sent me   and to accomplish his work do you not  say there are yet four months then comes   the harvest look i tell you lift up your eyes  and see that the fields are white for harvest   already the one who reaps is receiving wages and  gathering fruit for eternal life so that sower and   reaper may rejoice together for here the saying  holds true one sows and another reaps i sent you   to reap that for which you did not labor others  have labored and you have entered into their labor   from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of invalids blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked   so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and shows him all  that he himself is doing and greater works than   these will he show him so that you may marvel for  as the father raises the dead and gives them life   so also the son gives life to whom he will for the  father judges no one but has given all judgment to   the son that all may honor the son just as they  honor the father whoever does not honor the son   does not honor the father who sent him truly truly  i say to you whoever hears my word and believes   him who sent me has eternal life he does not come  into judgment but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will live  for as the father has life in himself so he has   granted the son also to have life in himself and  he has given him authority to execute judgment   because he is the son of man i can do nothing on  my own as i hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has bought witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light   but the testimony that i have  is greater than that of john   for the works that the father  has given me to accomplish   the very works that i am doing bear witness about  me that the father has sent me and the father   who sent me has himself bore witness about me his  voice you have never heard his form you have never   seen and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent from john chapter 6 jesus answered them this  is the work of god that you believe in him who   he has sent so they said to him then what  sign do you do that we may see and believe   you what work do you perform our fathers ate  the manna in the wilderness as it is written   he gave them bread from heaven to eat jesus  then said to them truly truly i say to you   it was not moses who gave you the bread from  heaven but my father gives you the true bread   from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes  down from heaven and gives life to the world   they said to him sir give us this bread always   jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day   no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give for the  life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7 so jesus answered them my teaching  is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit whom  those who believed in him were to receive   for as yet the spirit had not been given  because jesus was not yet glorified from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned you   she said no one lord and jesus said neither do  i condemn you go and from now on sin no more again jesus spoke to them saying i am  the light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if   i do bear witness about myself my testimony is  true for i know where i came from and where i   am going but you do not know where i come from or  where i am going you judge according to the flesh   i judge no one yet even if i do judge my  judgment is true for it is not i alone who judge   but i and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always  do the things that are pleasing to him   as he was saying these things many believed him  so jesus said to the jews who had believed him   if you abide in my word you are truly my  disciples and you will know the truth and   the truth will set you free truly truly i say to  you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin   the slave does not remain in the  house forever the sun remains forever   so if the sun sets you free you will be free  indeed from john chapter 9 as he passed by   he saw a man blind from birth and his disciples  asked him rabbi who sinned this man or his parents   that he was born blind jesus answered it was not  that this man sinned or his parents but that the   works of god might be displayed in him we must  work the works of him who sent me while it is day   night is coming when no one can work as long as  i am in the world i am the light of the world from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is a thief  and a robber but he who enters by the door is the   shepherd of the sheep to him the gatekeeper  opens the sheep hear his voice and he calls   his own sheep by name and leads them out when he  has brought out all his own he goes before them   and the sheep follow him for they know his  voice a stranger they will not follow but   they will flee from him for they  do not know the voice of strangers so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will be  saved and will go in and out and find pasture   the thief comes only to steal and kill and  destroy i came that they may have life and   have it abundantly i am the good shepherd the  good shepherd lays down his life for forth sheep i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again  this charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one   from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in the  resurrection on the last day jesus said to her   i am the resurrection and the life whoever  believes in me though he die yet shall he live   and everyone who lives and believes in me shall  never die do you believe this she said to him   yes lord i believe that you are the christ  the son of god was coming into the world   then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god   so they took away the stone and jesus lifted up  his eyes and said father i thank you that you   have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i  said this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this purpose  i have come to this hour father glorify your name   then a voice came from heaven i have  glorified it and i will glorify it again   jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes in  me believes not in me but in him who sent me and   whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have come  into the world as light so that whoever believes   in me may not remain in darkness if anyone hears  my words and does not keep them i do not judge him   for i did not come to judge the world but to  save the world the one who rejects me and does   not receive my words has a judge the word that i  have spoken will judge him on the last day for i   have not spoken on my own authority but the father  who sent me has himself given me a commandment   what to say and what to speak and i know  that his commandment is eternal life   what i say therefore i say  as the father has told me jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps tonight   i pray that the words spoken over them will  seep into their soul and find rest there   i pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds and you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully tonight i'm here to remind you that god  loves you and wants you to find restful sleep   and this story is the wisdom of jesus when  he was on earth jesus said many many things   in the book of john there seemed to  be more long passages of things that   he said to those who were following him the  words chosen for this meditation tonight are   truths recorded by john so that  he would have them for all time   and at the end john wrote now there are also many  other things that jesus did where every one of   them to be written i suppose that the world itself  could not contain the books that would be written settle down into your bed sure you're comfortable  and relaxed and then take a deep cleansing breath   let the words of jesus minister to your soul  tonight as you sleep knowing that he had you   in mind when he said them nothing he said  was only for the crowds at that time to hear   but for all of eternity in fact all the  other gospel writers recorded jesus as saying   heaven and earth will pass away  but my words will not pass away   let me pray as we begin lord jesus living  and eternal god we treasure your word in   our hearts tonight i pray over this beloved  child of yours that they might sleep in peace   because your words are spoken over them help them  to release all their cares into your arms because   you care for them thank you for coming to earth  and leaving behind so rich a treasury of wisdom   and love we thank you and praise you in your  wondrous and powerful name amen now listen to the   wisdom of jesus from the gospel of john chapters  1 through 12 in the english standard version   from chapter 1 jesus saw nathanael coming toward  him and said of him behold an israelite indeed   in whom there was no deceit nathanael said  to him how do you know me jesus answered him   before philip called you when you were under  the fig tree i saw you nathanael answered him   rabbi you are the son of god you are  the king of israel jesus answered him   because i said to you i saw you under the fig  tree do you believe you will see greater things   than these and he said to him truly truly  i say to you you will see heaven opened   and the angels of god ascending  and descending on the son of man   from john chapter 3 now there was a man of the  pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the jews   this man came to jesus by night and said to him  rabbi we know that you are a teacher come from god   for no one can do these signs that you do unless  god is with him jesus answered him truly truly i   say to you unless one is born again he cannot  see the kingdom of god nicodemus said to him   how can a man be born when he is old can he enter  a second time into his mother's womb and be born   jesus answered truly truly i say to you unless  one is born of water and the spirit he cannot   enter the kingdom of god that which is born of  the flesh is flesh and that which is born of   the spirit is spirit do not marvel that i said  to you you must be born again the wind blows   where it wishes and you hear its sound but you  do not know where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit  nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god from john chapter 4 a woman from samaria came  to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink   for his disciples had gone  away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he would have  given you living water the woman said to him   sir you have nothing to draw water with and the  well is deep where do you get that living water   are you greater than our father jacob he gave us  the well and drank from it himself as did his sons   and his livestock jesus said to her everyone  who drinks of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water meanwhile the disciples were urging him saying  rabbi eat but he said to them i have food to eat   that you do not know about so the disciples  said to one another has anyone brought him   something to eat jesus said to them my food  is to do the will of him who sent me and to   accomplish his work do you not say there are yet  four months then comes the harvest look i tell you   lift up your eyes and see that the fields are  white for harvest already the one who reaps is   receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal  life so that sower and reaper may rejoice together   for here the saying holds true one sows  and another reaps i sent you to reap   that for which you did not labor others have  labored and you have entered into their labor from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem   now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool in aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of influence blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and  shows him all that he himself is doing   and greater works than these will he show him  so that you may marvel for as the father raises   the dead and gives them life so also the son gives  life to whom he will for the father judges no one   but has given all judgment to the son that all  may honor the son just as they honor the father   whoever does not honor the son does  not honor the father who sent him   truly truly i say to you whoever hears my word  and believes him who sent me has eternal life   he does not come into judgment but has passed  from death to life truly truly i say to you   an hour is coming and is now here when the dead  will hear the voice of the son of god and those   who hear will live for as the father has life in  himself so he has granted the son also to have   life in himself and he has given him authority  to execute judgment because he is the son of man i can do nothing on my own as i  hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has borne witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light   but the testimony that i have is greater than that  of john for the works that the father has given   me to accomplish the very works that i am doing  bear witness about me that the father has sent me   and the father who sent me has  himself more witness about me   his voice you have never heard  his form you have never seen   and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent   from john chapter 6 jesus answered them this  is the work of god that you believe in him who   he has sent so they said to him then what  sign do you do that we may see and believe   you what work do you perform our fathers ate  the manna in the wilderness as it is written   he gave them bread from heaven to eat jesus  then said to them truly truly i say to you   it was not moses who gave you the bread from  heaven but my father gives you the true bread   from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes  down from heaven and gives life to the world   they said to him sir give us this bread always   jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give  for the life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7. so jesus answered them  my teaching is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit whom  those who believed in him were to receive   for his yet the spirit had not been  given because jesus was not yet glorified from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned you   she said no one lord and jesus said neither do i  condemn you go and from now on sin no more again   jesus spoke to them saying i am the light of the  world whoever follows me will not walk in darkness   but will have the light of life  so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if i   do bear witness about myself my testimony is true  for i know where i came from and where i am going   but you do not know where i come from or where  i am going you judge according to the flesh   i judge no one yet even if i do judge my judgment  is true for it is not i alone who judge but   i and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me   jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always do the  things that are pleasing to him as he was saying   these things many believed him so jesus said to  the jews who had believed him if you abide in   my word you are truly my disciples and you will  know the truth and the truth will set you free   truly truly i say to you everyone who practices  sin is a slave to sin the slave does not remain   in the house forever the son remains forever so  if the son sets you free you will be free indeed   from john chapter 9 as he passed by he saw a  man blind from birth and his disciples asked him   rabbi who said this man or his parents  that he was born blind jesus answered   it was not that this man sinned or his parents but  that the works of god might be displayed in him   we must work the works of him who sent me while  it is day night is coming when no one can work   as long as i am in the world  i am the light of the world   from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is  a thief and a robber but he who enters by   the door is the shepherd of the sheep to him  the gatekeeper opens the sheep hear his voice   and he calls his own sheep by name and leads  them out when he has brought out all his own   he goes before them and the sheep follow  him for they know his voice a stranger they   will not follow but they will flee from him  for they do not know the voice of strangers   so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will  be saved and will go in and out and find   pasture the thief comes only to steal and  kill and destroy i came that they may have   life and have it abundantly i am the good shepherd  the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again this  charge i have received from my father my sheep   hear my voice and i know them and they follow me i  give them eternal life and they will never perish   and no one will snatch them out of my hand my  father who has given them to me is greater than   all and no one is able to snatch them out of  the father's hand i and the father are one from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in the  resurrection on the last day jesus said to   her i am the resurrection and the life whoever  believes in me though he die yet shall he live   and everyone who lives and believes in me shall  never die do you believe this she said to him   yes lord i believe that you are the christ  the son of god was coming into the world then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god   so they took away the stone and jesus lifted up  his eyes and said father i thank you that you   have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i  said this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them  the hour has come for the son of man to be   glorified truly truly i say to you unless a  grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this  purpose i have come to this hour father   glorify your name then a voice came from heaven  i have glorified it and i will glorify it again   so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes  in me believes not in me but in him who sent me   and whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have  come into the world as light so that whoever   believes in me may not remain in darkness if  anyone hears my words and does not keep them   i do not judge him for i did not come  to judge the world but to save the world   the one who rejects me and does  not receive my words has a judge   the word that i have spoken will judge him on the  last day for i have not spoken on my own authority   but the father who sent me has himself given me  a commandment what to say and what to speak and   i know that his commandment is eternal life what  i say therefore i say as the father has told me jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps tonight   i pray that the words spoken over them will  seep into their soul and find rest there i   pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds in you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully   now listen to the wisdom of jesus from the  gospel of john chapters 1 through 12 in the   english standard version from chapter 1 jesus saw  nathanael coming toward him and said of him behold   an israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit  nathanael said to him how do you know me jesus   answered him before philip called you when you  were under the fig tree i saw you nathanael   answered him rabbi you are the son of god you are  the king of israel jesus answered him because i   said to you i saw you under the fig tree do you  believe you will see greater things than these   and he said to him truly truly i say to  you you will see heaven opened and the   angels of god ascending and descending  on the son of man from john chapter 3   now there was a man of the pharisees named  nicodemus a ruler of the jews this man came   to jesus by night and said to him rabbi we know  that you are a teacher come from god for no one   can do these signs that you do unless god is with  him jesus answered him truly truly i say to you   unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom  of god nicodemus said to him how can a man be   born when he is old can he enter a second  time into his mother's womb and be born jesus answered truly truly i say to you unless  one is born of water and the spirit he cannot   enter the kingdom of god that which is born of  the flesh is flesh and that which is born of   the spirit is spirit do not marvel that i said  to you you must be born again the wind blows   where it wishes and you hear its sound but you  do not know where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life   for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god from john chapter 4 a woman from samaria came  to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink   for his disciples had gone  away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it that  you a jew asked for a drink from me a woman of   samaria for jews have no dealings with samaritans  jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god   and who it is that is saying to you give me  a drink you would have asked him and he would   have given you living water the woman said to  him sir you have nothing to draw water with   and the well is deep where do you get that living  water are you greater than our father jacob   he gave us the well and drank from it  himself as did his sons and his livestock   jesus said to her everyone who drinks  of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water meanwhile the disciples were urging him  saying rabbi eat but he said to them i   have food to eat that you do not know about so  the disciples said to one another has anyone   brought him something to eat jesus said to them  my food is to do the will of him who sent me   and to accomplish his work do you  not say there are yet four months   then comes the harvest i tell you lift up your  eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest   already the one who reaps is receiving wages and  gathering fruit for eternal life so that sower and   reaper may rejoice together for here the saying  holds true one sows and another reaps i sent you   to reap that for which you did not labor others  have labored and you have entered into their labor from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem   now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in  these lay a multitude of influence   blind lame and paralyzed one man was  there who had been an invalid for 38 years   when jesus saw him lying there and knew  that he had already been there a long time   he said to him do you want to be  healed the sick man answered him   sir i have no one to put me into the  pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and  shows him all that he himself is doing   and greater works than these will he show him  so that you may marvel for as the father raises   the dead and gives them life so also the son gives  life to whom he will for the father judges no one   but has given all judgment to the son that all  may honor the son just as they honor the father   whoever does not honor the son does  not honor the father who sent him   truly truly i say to you whoever hears my word  and believes him who sent me has eternal life   he does not come into judgment  but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will  live for as the father has life in himself   so he has granted the son  also to have life in himself   and he has given him authority to execute  judgment because he is the son of man i can do nothing on my own as i  hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has bought witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light   but the testimony that i have is greater  than that of john for the works that the   father has given me to accomplish the very  works that i am doing bear witness about   me that the father has sent me and the father  who sent me has himself more witness about me   his voice you have never heard  his form you have never seen   and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent from john chapter 6 jesus answered them   this is the work of god that you believe  in him who he has sent so they said to him   then what sign do you do that we may see  and believe you what work do you perform   our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it  is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat   jesus then said to them truly truly i say to  you it was not moses who gave you the bread   from heaven but my father gives you the true bread  from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes   down from heaven and gives life to the world  they said to him sir give us this bread always jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day   no one can come to me unless the father who sent  me draws him and i will raise him up on the last   day it is written in the prophets and they will  all be taught by god everyone who has heard and   learned from the father comes to me not that  anyone has seen the father except he who is   from god he has seen the father truly truly i  say to you whoever believes has eternal life   i am the bread of life your fathers  ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give for the  life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7   so jesus answered them my teaching  is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit whom  those who believed in him were to receive   for his yet the spirit had not been  given because jesus was not yet glorified from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned you   she said no one lord and jesus said neither do  i condemn you go and from now on sin no more again jesus spoke to them saying i am  the light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if i   do bear witness about myself my testimony is true  for i know where i came from and where i am going   but you do not know where i come from or where  i am going you judge according to the flesh i   judge no one yet even if i do judge my judgment  is true for it is not i alone who judge but i   and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is   true i am the one who bears witness about myself  and the father who sent me bears witness about me jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always  do the things that are pleasing to him   as he was saying these things many believed him  so jesus said to the jews who had believed him   if you abide in my word you are truly my  disciples and you will know the truth and   the truth will set you free truly truly i say to  you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin   the slave does not remain in the house forever  the sun remains forever so if the sun sets you   free you will be free indeed from john chapter  9 as he passed by he saw a man blind from birth   and his disciples asked him rabbi who said  this man or his parents that he was born blind   jesus answered it was not that this man sinned  or his parents but that the works of god   might be displayed in him we must work the  works of him who sent me while it is day   night is coming when no one can work as long as  i am in the world i am the light of the world   from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is a  thief and a robber but he who enters by the door   is the shepherd of the sheep to him the gatekeeper  opens the sheep hear his voice and he calls his   own sheep by name and leads them out when he  has brought out all his own he goes before them   and the sheep follow him for they know his  voice a stranger they will not follow but   they will flee from him for they  do not know the voice of strangers so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you i  am the door of the sheep all who came before me   are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not  listen to them i am the door if anyone enters   by me he will be saved and will go in and out  and find pasture the thief comes only to steal   and kill and destroy i came that they may have  life and have it abundantly i am the good shepherd   the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again  this charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in the  resurrection on the last day jesus said to   her i am the resurrection and the life whoever  believes in me though he die yet shall he live   and everyone who lives and believes in me shall  never die do you believe this she said to him   yes lord i believe that you are the christ  the son of god who's coming into the world   then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an  odor for he has been dead four days   jesus said to her did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god so they   took away the stone and jesus lifted up his eyes  and said father i thank you that you have heard me   i knew that you always hear me but i said  this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died came out  his hands and feet bound with linen shrimps   and his face wrapped with a cloth jesus  said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this  purpose i have come to this hour father   glorify your name then a voice came from heaven  i have glorified it and i will glorify it again   so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes  in me believes not in me but in him who sent me   and whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have  come into the world as light so that whoever   believes in me may not remain in darkness if  anyone hears my words and does not keep them   i do not judge him for i did not come to judge the  world but to save the world the one who rejects me   and does not receive my words has a judge the word  that i have spoken will judge him on the last day   for i have not spoken on my own authority but  the father who sent me has himself given me a   commandment what to say and what to speak and  i know that his commandment is eternal life   what i say therefore i say  as the father has told me   jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps   tonight i pray that the words spoken over them  will seep into their soul and find rest there   i pray that they will hide them in their heart and  let them draw them closer and closer to you i pray   that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds in you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully tonight i'm here to remind you that god  loves you and wants you to find restful sleep   and this story is the wisdom of jesus when  he was on earth jesus said many many things   in the book of john there seemed to be more  long passages of things that he said to those   who were following him the words chosen for this  meditation tonight are truths recorded by john   so that he would have them for all time  and at the end john wrote now there are   also many other things that jesus did  where every one of them to be written   i suppose that the world itself could not  contain the books that would be written   settle down into your bed make sure you're  comfortable and relaxed and then take a deep   cleansing breath let the words of jesus  minister to your soul tonight as you sleep   knowing that he had you in mind when he said them  nothing he said was only for the crowds at that   time to hear but for all of eternity in fact all  the other gospel writers recorded jesus as saying   heaven and earth will pass away  but my words will not pass away let me pray as we begin lord jesus living  and eternal god we treasure your word in   our hearts tonight i pray over this beloved  child of yours that they might sleep in peace   because your words are spoken over them help them  to release all their cares into your arms because   you care for them thank you for coming to earth  and leaving behind so rich a treasury of wisdom   and love we thank you and praise you in your  wondrous and powerful name amen now listen to the   wisdom of jesus from the gospel of john chapters  1 through 12 in the english standard version   from chapter 1 jesus saw nathanael coming toward  him and said of him behold an israelite indeed   in whom there is no deceit nathanael said  to him how do you know me jesus answered him   before philip called you when you were under  the fig tree i saw you nathanael answered him   rabbi you are the son of god  you are the king of israel   jesus answered him because i said to you i  saw you under the fig tree do you believe   you will see greater things than these and he  said to him truly truly i say to you you will see   heaven opened and the angels of god ascending and  descending on the son of man from john chapter 3   now there was a man of the pharisees named  nicodemus a ruler of the jews this man came   to jesus by night and said to him rabbi we know  that you are a teacher come from god for no one   can do these signs that you do unless god is with  him jesus answered him truly truly i say to you   unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom  of god nicodemus said to him how can a man be   born when he is old can he enter a second  time into his mother's womb and be born jesus answered truly truly i say to you unless  one is born of water and the spirit he cannot   enter the kingdom of god that which is born of  the flesh is flesh and that which is born of   the spirit is spirit do not marvel that i said  to you you must be born again the wind blows   where it wishes and you hear its sound but you  do not know where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who is born of the spirit nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life   for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god from john chapter 4 a woman from samaria came  to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink   for his disciples had gone  away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he would have  given you living water the woman said to him   sir you have nothing to draw  water with and the well is deep   where do you get that living water  are you greater than our father jacob   he gave us the well and drank from it  himself as did his sons and his livestock   jesus said to her everyone who drinks  of this water will be thirsty again   but whoever drinks of the water that i will give  him never be thirsty again the water that i will   give him will become in him a spring of water  welling up to eternal life the woman said to   him sir give me this water so that i will not  be thirsty or have to come here to draw water meanwhile the disciples were urging him  saying rabbi eat but he said to them   i have food to eat that you do not know about  so the disciples said to one another has anyone   brought him something to eat jesus said to them my  food is to do the will of him who sent me and to   accomplish his work do you not say there are yet  four months then comes the harvest look i tell you   lift up your eyes and see that the fields are  white for harvest already the one who reaps is   receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal  life so that sower and reaper may rejoice together   for here the saying holds true one sows  and another reaps i sent you to reap   that for which you did not labor others have  labored and you have entered into their labor from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator pool an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of invalids blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked   so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and  shows him all that he himself is doing   and greater works than these will he show him  so that you may marvel for as the father raises   the dead and gives them life so also the son gives  life to whom he will for the father judges no one   but has given all judgment to the son that all  may honor the son just as they honor the father   whoever does not honor the son does  not honor the father who sent him   truly truly i say to you whoever hears my word  and believes him who sent me has eternal life   he does not come into judgment  but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will  live for as the father has life in himself   so he has granted the son  also to have life in himself   and he has given him authority to execute  judgment because he is the son of man i can do nothing on my own as i  hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of him  who sent me if i alone bear witness about myself   my testimony is not true there is another who  bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has bought witness to the truth not   that the testimony that i receive is from man but  i say these things so that you may be saved he was   a burning and shining lamp and you were willing to  rejoice for a while in his light but the testimony   that i have is greater than that of john for the  works that the father has given me to accomplish   the very works that i am doing bear witness about  me that the father has sent me and the father   who sent me has himself born witness about me his  voice you have never heard his form you have never   seen and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent from john chapter 6 jesus answered  them this is the work of god   that you believe in him who he has sent so  they said to him then what sign do you do   that we may see and believe  you what work do you perform   fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it  is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat   jesus then said to them truly truly i say to  you it was not moses who gave you the bread   from heaven but my father gives you the true bread  from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes   down from heaven and gives life to the world  they said to him sir give us this bread always jesus said to them i am the bread of life whoever  comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes   in me shall never thirst but i said to you  that you have seen me and yet do not believe   all that the father gives me will come to me  and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day   no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give for the  life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7 so jesus answered them my teaching  is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit whom  those who believed in him were to receive   for as yet the spirit had not been given  because jesus was not yet glorified   from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned you   she said no one lord and jesus said neither do  i condemn you go and from now on sin no more again jesus spoke to them saying i am  the light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if   i do bear witness about myself my testimony is  true for i know where i came from and where i   am going but you do not know where i come from or  where i am going you judge according to the flesh   i judge no one yet even if i do judge my  judgment is true for it is not i alone who judge   but i and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me   jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always  do the things that are pleasing to him   as he was saying these things many believed him  so jesus said to the jews who had believed him   if you abide in my word you are truly my  disciples and you will know the truth and   the truth will set you free truly truly i say to  you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin   slave does not remain in the house  forever the sun remains forever   so if the sun sets you free you will be free  indeed from john chapter 9 as he passed by   he saw a man blind from birth and his disciples  asked him rabbi who said this man or his parents   that he was born blind jesus answered it was not  that this man sinned or his parents but that the   works of god might be displayed in him we must  work the works of him who sent me while it is day   night is coming when no one can work as long as  i am in the world i am the light of the world from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to  you he who does not enter the sheepfold   by the door but climbs in by another  way that man is a thief and a robber   but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of  the sheep to him the gatekeeper opens the sheep   hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name  and leads them out when he has brought out all   his own he goes before them and the sheep follow  him for they know his voice a stranger they   will not follow but they will flee from him  for they do not know the voice of strangers   so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will be  saved and will go in and out and find pasture   the thief comes only to steal and kill and  destroy i came that they may have life and   have it abundantly i am the good shepherd the  good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep   i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again  this charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in  the resurrection on the last day   jesus said to her i am the resurrection and  the life whoever believes in me though he die   yet shall he live and everyone who lives and  believes in me shall never die do you believe this   she said to him yes lord i believe that you are  the christ the son of god was coming into the   world then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you believed you  would see the glory of god so they took away   the stone and jesus lifted up his eyes and  said father i thank you that you have heard me   i knew that you always hear me but i said  this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him   now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this purpose  i have come to this hour father glorify your name   then a voice came from heaven i have  glorified it and i will glorify it again   so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is   going while you have the light believe in  the light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes  in me believes not in me but in him who sent me   and whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have  come into the world as light so that whoever   believes in me may not remain in darkness if  anyone hears my words and does not keep them   i do not judge him for i did not come to judge the  world but to save the world the one who rejects me   and does not receive my words has a judge the word  that i have spoken will judge him on the last day   for i have not spoken on my own authority but  the father who sent me has himself given me a   commandment what to say and what to speak and  i know that his commandment is eternal life   what i say therefore i say  as the father has told me jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps   tonight i pray that the words spoken over them  will seep into their soul and find rest there   i pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds in you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus abide in your heart and  mind rest deeply and soundly and peacefully tonight i'm here to remind you that god  loves you and wants you to find restful sleep   and this story is the wisdom of jesus   when he was on earth jesus said many many  things in the book of john there seemed to   be more long passages of things that he said to  those who were following him the words chosen   for this meditation tonight are truths recorded  by john so that he would have them for all time   and at the end john wrote now there are also many  other things that jesus did where every one of   them to be written i suppose that the world itself  could not contain the books that would be written settle down into your bed make  sure you're comfortable and relaxed   and then take a deep cleansing breath let the  words of jesus minister to your soul tonight   as you sleep knowing that he had you in mind  when he said them nothing he said was only   for the crowds at that time to hear but for  all of eternity in fact all the other gospel   writers recorded jesus as saying heaven and earth  will pass away but my words will not pass away let me pray as we begin lord jesus living  and eternal god we treasure your word in   our hearts tonight i pray over this beloved  child of yours that they might sleep in peace   because your words are spoken over them help them  to release all their cares into your arms because   you care for them thank you for coming to earth  and leaving behind so rich a treasury of wisdom   and love we thank you and praise you in your  wondrous and powerful name amen now listen to the   wisdom of jesus from the gospel of john chapters  1 through 12 in the english standard version   from chapter 1 jesus saw nathanael  coming toward him and said of him behold   an israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit  nathanael said to him how do you know me   jesus answered him before philip called you  when you were under the fig tree i saw you   nathanael answered him rabbi you are the son of  god you are the king of israel jesus answered him   because i said to you i saw you under the fig  tree do you believe you will see greater things   than these and he said to him truly truly  i say to you you will see heaven opened   and the angels of god ascending  and descending on the son of man   from john chapter 3 now there was a man of the  pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the jews   this man came to jesus by night and said to him  rabbi we know that you are a teacher come from god   for no one can do these signs that you do unless  god is with him jesus answered him truly truly i   say to you unless one is born again he cannot  see the kingdom of god nicodemus said to him   how can a man be born when he is old can he enter  a second time into his mother's womb and be born jesus answered truly truly i say to you unless  one is born of water and the spirit he cannot   enter the kingdom of god that which is born of  the flesh is flesh and that which is born of   the spirit is spirit do not marvel that i said  to you you must be born again the wind blows   where it wishes and you hear its sound but you  do not know where it comes from or where it goes   so it is with everyone who was born of the spirit  nicodemus said to him how can these things be   jesus answered him are you the teacher of israel  and yet you do not understand these things   truly truly i say to you we speak of what we  know and bear witness to what we have seen   but you do not receive our testimony if i have  told you earthly things and you do not believe   how can you believe if i tell you heavenly  things no one has ascended into heaven except   he who descended from heaven the son of man and  as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness   so must the son of man be lifted up that  whoever believes in him may have eternal life for god so loved the world that he gave his only  son that whoever believes in him should not perish   but have eternal life for god did not send his son  into the world to condemn the world but in order   that the world might be saved through him whoever  believes in him is not condemned but whoever does   not believe is condemned already because he has  not believed in the name of the only son of god   from john chapter 4 a woman from samaria came  to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink   for his disciples had gone  away into the city to buy food   the samaritan woman said to him how is it  that you a jew asked for a drink from me   a woman of samaria for jews  have no dealings with samaritans   jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and  who it is that is saying to you give me a drink   you would have asked him and he would have  given you living water the woman said to him   sir you have nothing to draw water with and the  well is deep where do you get that living water   are you greater than our father jacob he  gave us the well and drank from it himself   as did his sons and his livestock jesus said  to her everyone who drinks of this water will   be thirsty again but whoever drinks of the water  that i will give him never be thirsty again the   water that i will give him will become in him a  spring of water welling up to eternal the woman   said to him sir give me this water so that i will  not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water   meanwhile the disciples were urging him saying  rabbi eat but he said to them i have food to eat   that you do not know about so the disciples  said to one another has anyone brought him   something to eat jesus said to them my food  is to do the will of him who sent me and to   accomplish his work do you not say there are yet  four months then comes the harvest look i tell you   lift up your eyes and see that the fields are  white for harvest already the one who reaps is   receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal  life so that sower and reaper may rejoice together   for here the saying holds true one sows  and another reaps i sent you to reap   that for which you did not labor others have  labored and you have entered into their labor   from john chapter 5 after this there was a  feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem   now there is in jerusalem by the sheep  gator an aramaic called bethsaida   which has five roofed colonnades in these lay a  multitude of influence blind lame and paralyzed   one man was there who had been an invalid  for 38 years when jesus saw him lying there   and knew that he had already been there a long  time he said to him do you want to be healed   the sick man answered him sir i have no one to  put me into the pool when the water is stirred up   and while i am going another steps down before  me jesus said to him get up take up your bed   and walk and at once the man was healed  and he took up his bed and walked so jesus said to them truly truly i say to you  the son can do nothing of his own accord but only   what he sees the father doing for whatever  the father does that the son does likewise   for the father loves the son and shows him all  that he himself is doing and greater works than   these will he show him so that you may marvel for  as the father raises the dead and gives them life   so also the son gives life to whom he will for the  father judges no one but has given all judgment to   the son that all may honor the son just as they  honor the father whoever does not honor the son   does not honor the father who sent him truly truly  i say to you whoever hears my word and believes   him who sent me has eternal life he does not come  into judgment but has passed from death to life truly truly i say to you an hour is coming and  is now here when the dead will hear the voice   of the son of god and those who hear will live  for as the father has life in himself so he has   granted the son also to have life in himself and  he has given him authority to execute judgment   because he is the son of man i can do nothing on  my own as i hear i judge and my judgment is just   because i seek not my own will but the will of  him who sent me if i alone bear witness about   myself my testimony is not true there is another  who bears witness about me and i know that the   testimony that he bears about me is true you sent  to john and he has borne witness to the truth   not that the testimony that i receive is from man  but i say these things so that you may be saved   he was a burning and shining lamp and you were  willing to rejoice for a while in his light   but the testimony that i have is greater  than that of john for the works that the   father has given me to accomplish the very  works that i am doing bear witness about   me that the father has sent me and the father  who sent me has himself more witness about me   his voice you have never heard  his form you have never seen   and you do not have his word abiding in you  for you do not believe the one whom he has sent   from john chapter 6 jesus answered them this  is the work of god that you believe in him who   he has sent so they said to him then what  sign do you do that we may see and believe   you what work do you perform our fathers ate  the manna in the wilderness as it is written   he gave them bread from heaven to eat jesus  then said to them truly truly i say to you   it was not moses who gave you the bread from  heaven but my father gives you the true bread   from heaven for the bread of god is he who comes  down from heaven and gives life to the world   they said to him sir give us this bread always  jesus said to them i am the bread of life   whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever  believes in me shall never thirst but i said to   you that you have seen me and yet do not believe  all that the father gives me will come to me   and whoever comes to me i will never cast out   for i have come down from heaven not to do  my own will but the will of him who sent me   this is the will of him who sent me that i  should lose nothing of all that he has given me   but raise it up on the last day for this is the  will of my father that everyone who looks on the   sun and believes in him should have eternal  life and i will raise him up on the last day no one can come to me unless the father  who sent me draws him and i will raise   him up on the last day it is written in the  prophets and they will all be taught by god   everyone who has heard and learned from the  father comes to me not that anyone has seen the   father except he who is from god he has seen  the father truly truly i say to you whoever   believes has eternal life i am the bread of life  your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness   and they died this is the bread that comes down  from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die   i am the living bread that come down from  heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live   forever and the bread that i will give  for the life of the world is my flesh from john chapter 7 so jesus answered them my teaching  is not mine but his who sent me   if anyone's will is to do god's will he will  know whether the teaching is from god or whether   i am speaking on my own authority the one who  speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory   but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent  him is true and in him there is no falsehood   so jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple  you know me and you know where i come from   but i have not come of my own accord he  who sent me is true and him you do not know   i know him for i come from him and he sent  me on the last day of the feast the great day   jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirsts let  him come to me and drink whoever believes in me   as the scripture has said out of his  heart will flow rivers of living water   now this he said about the spirit whom  those who believed in him were to receive   for as yet the spirit had not been given  because jesus was not yet glorified from john chapter 8 jesus stood up and said to  her woman where are they has no one condemned you   she said no one lord and jesus said neither do  i condemn you go and from now on sin no more again jesus spoke to them say i am the  light of the world whoever follows me   will not walk in darkness but will have the  light of life so the pharisees said to him   you are bearing witness about yourself your  testimony is not true jesus answered even if i   do bear witness about myself my testimony is true  for i know where i came from and where i am going   but you do not know where i come from or where  i am going you judge according to the flesh   i judge no one yet even if i do judge my judgment  is true for it is not i alone who judge but   i and the father who sent me in your law it is  written that the testimony of two people is true   i am the one who bears witness about myself and  the father who sent me bears witness about me jesus said to them when you have lifted up the son  of man then you will know that i am he and that i   do nothing on my own authority but speak just as  the father taught me and he who sent me is with me   he has not left me alone for i always do the  things that are pleasing to him as he was saying   these things many believed him so jesus said to  the jews who had believed him if you abide in   my word you are truly my disciples and you will  know the truth and the truth will set you free   truly truly i say to you everyone who practices  sin is a slave to sin the slave does not remain   in the house forever the sun remains forever so  if the sun sets you free you will be free indeed   from john chapter 9 as he passed by he saw a  man blind from birth and his disciples asked him   rabbi who sinned this man or his parents  that he was born blind jesus answered   it was not that this man sinned or his parents but  that the works of god might be displayed in him   we must work the works of him who sent me while  it is day night is coming when no one can work   as long as i am in the world  i am the light of the world from john chapter 10 truly truly i say to you  he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door   but climbs in by another way that man is  a thief and a robber but he who enters by   the door is the shepherd of the sheep to him  the gatekeeper opens the sheep hear his voice   and he calls his own sheep by name and leads  them out when he has brought out all his own   he goes before them and the sheep follow  him for they know his voice a stranger they   will not follow but they will flee from him  for they do not know the voice of strangers   so jesus said to them truly truly  i say to you i am the door of the   sheep all who came before me are thieves and  robbers but the sheep did not listen to them   i am the door if anyone enters by me he will  be saved and will go in and out and find   pasture the thief comes only to steal and  kill and destroy i came that they may have   life and have it abundantly i am the good shepherd  the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep   i am the good shepherd i know my own and my own  know me just as the father knows me and i know   the father and i lay down my life for the sheep  and i have other sheep that are not of this fold   i must bring them also and they will listen to  my voice so there will be one flock one shepherd   for this reason the father loves me because i  lay down my life that i may take it up again   no one takes it from me but i lay it down of  my own accord i have authority to lay it down   and i have authority to take it up again  this charge i have received from my father   my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they  follow me i give them eternal life and they will   never perish and no one will snatch them out of  my hand my father who has given them to me is   greater than all and no one is able to snatch them  out of the father's hand i and the father are one   from john chapter 11 jesus said to her your  brother will rise again martha said to him   i know that he will rise again in  the resurrection on the last day   jesus said to her i am the resurrection and the  life whoever believes in me though he die yet   shall he live and everyone who lives and believes  in me shall never die do you believe this she   said to him yes lord i believe that you are the  christ the son of god was coming into the world then jesus deeply moved again came to the  tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it   jesus said take away the stone martha  the sister of the dead man said to him   lord by this time there will be an odor for  he has been dead four days jesus said to her   did i not tell you that if you  believed you would see the glory of god   so they took away the stone and jesus lifted up  his eyes and said father i thank you that you   have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i  said this on account of the people standing around   and they may believe that you sent me when he had  said these things he cried out with a loud voice   lazarus come out the man who had died  came out his hands and feet bound with   linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth  jesus said to them unbind him and let him go from john chapter 12 jesus answered them the  hour has come for the son of man to be glorified   truly truly i say to you unless a grain  of wheat falls into the earth and dies   it remains alone but if it dies it bears much  fruit whoever loves his life loses it and whoever   hates his life in this world will keep it for  eternal life if anyone serves me he must follow me   and where i am there will my servant be also  if anyone serves me the father will honor him now is my soul troubled and what shall i say   father save me from this hour but for this  purpose i have come to this hour father   glorify your name then a voice came from heaven  i have glorified it and i will glorify it again so jesus said to them the light is among you for a  little while longer walk while you have the light   lest darkness overtake you the one who walks  in the darkness does not know where he is going   while you have the light believe in the  light that you may become sons of light   and jesus cried out and said whoever believes  in me believes not in me but in him who sent me   and whoever sees me sees him who sent me i have  come into the world as light so that whoever   believes in me may not remain in darkness if  anyone hears my words and does not keep them   i do not judge him for i did not come to judge the  world but to save the world the one who rejects me   and does not receive my words has a judge the word  that i have spoken will judge him on the last day   for i have not spoken on my own authority but  the father who sent me has himself given me a   commandment what to say and what to speak and  i know that his commandment is eternal life   what i say therefore i say  as the father has told me jesus we love you so much your word means  everything to us as your child sleeps tonight   i pray that the words spoken over them will  seep into their soul and find rest there i   pray that they will hide them in their heart  and let them draw them closer and closer to you   i pray that the peace that passes understanding  will guard their hearts and minds in you   may they repeat these words they  have heard throughout their day   so that they may have a calm heart wherever they  go it's in your precious name that i pray amen but the words of jesus  abide in your heart and mind   rest deeply and soundly and peacefully we hope  this relaxing bible meditation brought you peace   click the join button below to upgrade to an  abide youtube channel membership to unlock   channel perks like early access to new videos  before they premiere special members only videos   live chat premieres loyalty badges discount codes  and more for access to more bible meditations that   can be enjoyed ad free at a length and with an  audio background of your choosing download the   abide app from the link in the description  below or in the itunes or google play store

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Length: 185min 13sec (11113 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 02 2020