Are You Afraid

As we all know today's world is in a turmoil that is greater than anything we have witnessed in the past. Seems there's total lawlessness, and the laws of God  are under siege.

Since these times are so extreme and upside down, many people live in great fear. Even the fear is extreme. The average person makes fear-based decisions, and that inevitably makes things even worse in their lives.

Would you be surprised to learn there is a percentage of people that are not afraid. They walk in peace because they trust in God. There are many verses like today's verse. This small group of people trust God, and view these times as temporary, and see future eternity through spiritual eyes.

If you have a goal, and you put your heart into it, you hardly notice anything that would distract you from that goal. If you know who God really is, you will know that His word, the Bible is true. It tells you everything you need to know, to get to your goal of eternity with Him.

I found out in a very personal way, that if I spend more time concentrating on God and his love for me, and less time thinking about what is going on in the world, I don't have a worry bone in my whole body.

Those who sincerely love God, have a blessed life, guided by the Holy Spirit. Hard times come, but God Almighty gets them through it. Turn to God and fear not.

Romans 8:31, What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

God bless you and your family. 

Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins, and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to serve only you. 

Praise The Lord! 

Amen

It’s In The Valleys I Grow

                                             

                                               
                                               It’s In The Valleys I Grow

Sometimes life seems so hard to bear,

Full of sorrow, trouble and woe.

It’s then that I have to remember,

That it’s in the valleys I grow.

If I always stayed on the mountain top

And never experienced pain,

I would never appreciate God’s love

And would be living in vain.

I have so much to learn

And my growth is very slow,

Sometimes I need the mountain tops,

But it’s in the valleys I grow.

I do not always understand

Why things happen as they do;

But I am very sure of one thing,

My Lord will see me through.

My little valleys are nothing

When I picture Christ on the cross;

He went through the valley of death,

His victory was satans loss.

Forgive me Lord for complaining

When I’m feeling so very low.

Just give me a gentle reminder

That it’s in the valleys I grow.

Continue to strengthen me, Lord

And use my life each day

To share your love with others

And help them find their way.

Thank you for the valleys, Lord,

For this one thing I know,

The mountain tops are glorious

But it’s in the valleys I grow.

Being A Christian

Romans 12:2, And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1Thessalonians 5:18, In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Many people have the idea that if they become a Christian, everything will be perfect. Not so. Jesus, the son of God, obeyed the will of His Father. The Bible makes it plain that the life of Jesus was by anyone's definition, extremely difficult. Jesus was the perfect example. In Luke 22:42, Jesus prayed, Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; Nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.

Job 1:21, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 2:10, But Job said to his wife, you speak as one of the foolish women speaks; shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Life is a test. Are we sincere or not? Are we saved or not? God gave us the Holy Spirit to help us and guide us when we were saved. He didn't leave us to figure it all out. Most of the tests we have in life are for us to see where we stand with God. It certainly is no surprise to God what we do.

When we were children, we trusted  our parents for everything. We believed everything they said, and that whatever they did was for our good, even if we didn't like it. How much more do you suppose, that our Heavenly father takes care of us?

Matthew 18:2-4, Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “assuredly I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven”. God bless you and your family. 

Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus Loves You

Prayer of Salvation

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins, and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to serve only you. 

Praise The Lord!

Amen

Prayer

Matthew 6:7, When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 

For most people, prayer is difficult for a number of reasons. The most common reason is a lack of faith that the prayers will be answered. The next reason is not knowing what prayer is, and not knowing what to pray for.

John 15:7, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

First of all, you must know who is making the promise. If you don't know God, it is impossible to have faith. You can only have faith in someone you know and trust. God is always truthful and trustworthy. You can get to know Him through His word, the Bible.

Romans 8:26, Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 

Prayer is communication with God. When Jesus rose from the dead, He promised to send the Holy Spirit to teach, help, and guide us at all times if we so desire. The Holy Spirit knows what is in our hearts. He takes our sincere, clumsy words, and presents them to our Father as a perfect prayer.

Now we come to the empty words and phrases. Many prayers are not answered, because they were not sincere. God is not someone  you are trying to sell something to. He is the discerner in chief. You cannot deceive Him.

If you know, love and trust God, prayer is easy. When you talk to God, just tell Him what is on your heart and mind. The only rule for prayer is it must be from the heart.

Philippians 4:6, Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

God is with you at all times. Just talk to Him as you would your best friend. It really is that easy. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins, and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to serve Only You. 

Praise The Lord! 

Amen

It Is Time

1 Corinthians 2:14, But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

When we look around in this world, common sense should tell us that something is dreadfully wrong. Most of us do not realize that the problem is caused by spiritual forces at work. Namely satan himself.

Make no mistake my friend, there is the war of all wars going on right now in this world. It is a war not fought for land or money. It is a war fought for our souls. This is no exaggeration. God and satan are locked in the ultimate battle with the highest stakes ever.

Whose side you are on, is your choice. You have free will to choose God over satan. Choosing God however is definitely not the “Woke” thing, but it is the right thing.

Think about when you were a child. You probably learned right from wrong from your parents. You found out laws are made to keep you out of trouble, if you follow them. Guess what, the Bible is God's instructions to us.

1 Corinthians 15:33.-14, Do not be deceived, evil company corrupts good habits. Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

If we follow the crowd, we will eventually reap the same reward that they get. Remember these important truths. God never did, and never will send anybody to hell; WE make that choice.

We all know that death is waiting for each of us, we just don't know when. The fact is that eternity waits for each of us.  We don't know when, or where we will end up if we don't accept Jesus as our Savior.

When the time comes, it will be too late to decide. Reality is, we don't have any idea which breath will be our last. Five seconds from now might be too late. Here are some verses to think about.

Mark 4:12, Seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn in their sins be forgiven them.

Romans 11:8, God has given them a spirit of stupor, I said they should not see and ears that they should not here, to this very day.

God bless you and your family. 

Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you 

Prayer of Salvation

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to serve only you. 

Praise The Lord!

Amen

Can God Do It

Luke 1:37, For nothing will be impossible with God.

How many times have you heard someone mention something in the Bible, like Lazarus being raised from the dead, and hearing them say how ridiculous it is?

People in the sciences talk against Creation, the parting of the sea in Exodus, and literally hundreds of miracles, that man cannot imagine as possible, let alone do.

Faith sees through spiritual eyes. If you manufacture a god, it might as well be stone or wood, if that God has no power greater than man's power. In order for a God to be real, and worthy to be worshiped, that God should be able to do anything that is in the Bible and more.

If you look at the human body and its trillions of cells all working together to produce what we call Life, how can that be an accident?  Man cannot create even one new cell so how can man be an accident, or just some dust that landed in the right place? Can any object make itself from nothing?

God cannot be limited by what man can do. If God could do no more than man, we would all be gods. Someday even the biggest atheist will bend his knee in recognition of almighty God. God the almighty creator of all that is or will be is a fact. God bless you and your family. 

Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins, and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to see only you. 

Praise The Lord!

Amen

My Time With Jesus Tuesday

Where Your Focus Is

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Over the years, most of us have been told by many preachers that we must focus on God. We heard how we should trust God no matter how bad our situation is. Faith is required to have prayers answered, Jesus and believing will get it done. all of this is true, but. 

Isaiah 26:3, You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you.

Colossians 3:2, Set your mind on things above, not on Earthly things.

As a result of many teachings in the Bible, people became frustrated and eventually gave up. Maybe that was you, I know it was me at one time. Guess what my friends, it was most people. Paul is called the greatest Apostle who ever lived. He wrote most of the New Testament , but Paul had trouble at times too and probably some doubts of his own. Let's look at Paul's own words.

Romans 7:14-20, For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, and my flesh. Or the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

So there you have it, one of the greatest Apostles if not the greatest of all time seems like he was confused and frustrated and didn't know what to do, so don't feel bad, all of us have problems. As a matter of fact in that letter, Paul was trying to tell the Roman believers that what they were going through was common. He was telling them that everyone slips, usually many times while they are growing in faith. Again I say, that includes you and me.

If you read about the big heroes of God in the Bible, David, Solomon, Moses, Job, and countless others, you will see that they experienced many of the things we deal with and more. No Saints, just people that ended up working for God, by the grace of God.

Proverbs 16:3, Commit your activities to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

It is a fact that if we want to succeed in anything, we must focus on the prize, and not give up. It's like a baby learning to walk. Baby steps, and eventually running. just because we get a little confused or things don't go exactly the way we expect them to, it does not mean God isn't working in our lives. Focus on God's love for you and all of His promises as outlined in the Bible.  Hang in there and you will receive the prize in the end. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

Remember Jesus loves you.

Prayer of Salvation.

Lord Jesus, please forgive all of my sins, and come into my heart as my personal savior. I want to serve Only You. 

Praise The Lord! 

Amen