Positive Daily Inspiration – March 24, 2024 – THE FOUR MIRACLES OF PALM SUNDAY

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Luke 19:29-38 reads “When He had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at a place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ Just say this, ‘The Lord needs it.’ So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them.

“As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’ They said, ‘The Lord needs it.’ Then they brought it back to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.

“As he rode along, people kept spreading Palms on the road as a way to honor Him. As He was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying, ‘Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heaven!'”

Palm Sunday is an important day in Christianity, and it’s important for us to look at it for the lessons it contains.

Palm Sunday is the day that Jesus made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the back of an unridden donkey. People along the way waved palm branches in welcome shouting “Hosanna – blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord”. They laid those palm branches as a sort of “red carpet” for His animal to walk on. Our desire to follow Jesus must contain more than following the physical man of Jesus Christ. We must honor Him by living His teachings in our own daily lives.

THE FIRST MIRACLE: CONFIDENCE

Riding a donkey into Jerusalem instead of a magnificent white horse, or golden chariot, shows confidence. This would be like the president of the United States coming into New York City and riding in a ticker tape parade down Broadway in an old dirty used car. This would take great inner confidence instead of an outer show of power, and flash.

This was confidence beyond normal human confidence. He rode the path in humility. There was no self-need to build Himself up through an outer show of flash or force. He was confident because He was one with God. There is no greater confidence than oneness with God. No matter what you face in life, if you are one with God, you can face it without a need to prove yourself to others, or uplift yourself through outer things. You do not need outer proof because inside of you is the unshakable, unbreakable, undeniable confidence in an unfailing God.

1 John 4:4 shouts through time loudly, “You are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is God that is in you than he that is in the world.”

THE SECOND MIRACLE: ADVANCE KNOWING

Jesus knew in advance what the disciples would find. Anyone that is connected with God is able to see and sense with more than human eyes and human mind. You are guided IN ADVANCE, and ahead of time, instead of after the fact. You know what to do, where to go, and when, AHEAD OF TIME.

THE THIRD MIRACLE:

Riding an unridden, untamed colt while mastering and calming the animal instantly. He wasn’t bucked off, or thrown.

A miracle happened that day when Jesus successfully sat on the unridden donkey and, that he could guide and ride on that unridden donkey through shouting crowds, pressing-in crowds, and crowds waving palm branches.

The crowds laid the unfamiliar palm branches on the path below the wild animal’s feet, an act of itself that would normally cause great instability and insecurity within the animal.

This clearly shows the power of the Christ over a lower animal nature that would ordinarily buck and try to throw off its rider.

We follow Jesus by allowing the Christ in us to ride over our own lower animal natures. The Christ within us can tame and bring peace to our wildest lower animal natures. Christ power can override, and successfully ride that lower self through any harmful environment or negative peer group pressures that, before, would have swayed us back to a way of life that the lower self wallows in.

Do you have a bad habit that needs to be overridden? Then allow the Christ within you to override it. The Christ will successfully ride and tame addictions of the lower animal self to alcohol or drugs. The Christ will ride and tame angers or unforgiveness. No matter how the lower self in you defines and self identifies itself, the Christ within you can override and tame its lower destructive ways.

No matter where you go, the Christ power goes with you, protecting you from future temptations. You will be blessed inside of yourself and by people all around you because you come in the name (which means nature) of the Lord.

God’s peace can calm wild situations or people instantly. God can ride and tame those areas that are out of control in us and show us how to take the reins to master our lives.

THE FOURTH MIRACLE:

The multitude recognizing and honoring the process.

As you allow God to enter into your mind and body, the multitude of thoughts in you pay honor to the entrance of peace, love, and the happiness that God brings. You too will throw flowers and wave palms. But the Divine can never be contained just within you. It overflows from you, and all will see, recognize the change in you, and be benefited by God’s work and the miracles produced.

I pray that you have a personal Palm Sunday experience of God’s taming your animal side and Christ’s being welcomed by the multitude of thought inside of your mind, and the multitudes of people around you, in your home, workplace, and life.

I pray you are blessed by God on this Palm Sunday.

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POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, on this Palm Sunday I ask You to help me override the lower animalistic tendencies of my lower self. I pray that the Christ rises in me and takes over.
In Jesus Christ name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION:

I claim the new start of life that is being offered to me now.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE:

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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