07-Mar-2026 | Week 10 - 2026
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Seek Spirituality
16 “A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Father.” 17 Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” 18 They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.” 19 Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. 23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
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“He urges the disciples to seek for spiritual gifts and at the same time gives them confidence that, if they ask for them, they will not fail to obtain them. He adds the word Amen, that He might confirm their belief that if they ask the Father for anything, they would receive it from Him. He would act as their mediator and make known their request and, being one with the Father, grant it. For this is what He means by “in my name.” For we cannot draw near to God the Father in any other way than through the Son. For it is by Him that we have access in the one Spirit to the Father. It was because of this that He said, “I am the door. I am the way. No one comes to the Father but by me.’”
~ St Cyril Of Alexandria
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Question 1
Christ taught us to strive to seek spiritual gifts and He will grant them to us. Do we still chase after the pleasures of the world and find delight in them, or do we strive to chase after the spiritual gifts that God has promised us?