The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

John, chapter 3, verses 9 through 18.

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 servant 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.

Let's pray. Father, the desires of our heart are many for the effectiveness of this word from John 316.

I pray that some will pass

from the darkness of perishing

into the light of life.

I pray that others will be firmly established in their face and made to taste the glories of the love of God.

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