Regrets

It Is Written, Psalm 25:7, do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;  according to Your mercy remember me, for Your goodness sake, O Lord.
Nearly every person alive, can look back in time and discover things that they regret. There are many reasons for regrets, including some that it seemed, could not be helped, at the time.
Regrets can be things we did that we shouldn't have done, or things we did not do, that we should have done. Sometimes things just happen, and we assign guilt to ourselves.
Whether we make bad decisions because we acted hastily, out of pride, anger, or just plain ignorance of the facts, they still end up haunting us for life if we let them.
No life is without mistakes. Every little thing we do, satan puts thoughts in our heads, and then blows them out of proportion in our minds. He wants everyone to feel like the biggest failure that ever lived. For most of us the biggest regret we should have is, that we let satan condemn us in the first place.
The answer to these regrets is to leave them in the past, and ignore satan when he brings them up. Remember, he wants to destroy us, and control us.
When Jesus died on the cross, all of our sins, past, present, and future, were forgiven. Accept His forgiveness by repenting and asking Jesus to be your savior. When you do, everything you ever did wrong is washed away. At that point, when you realize what you received, the past becomes something you have selective memories about, usually the good stuff.
Before you make any decisions, get in the habit of asking the Holy Spirit what He thinks. Follow what he tells you, and you stand a pretty good chance of having few, if any regrets in the future. God bless you and your family. Praise the Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer of Salvation
Lord Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
Amen

God In Your Life

It Is Written, Galatians 5:22-23, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,                ( patience ) kindness, and goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Have you ever wondered about whether you are saved or not? Many people do. Some unfortunately still think they can earn their way to Heaven with good works. That creates a problem, because how many good works would it take?
Jesus made it simple. He made it so that we are saved by the grace of God, and not by any works we do. He gave us the written Word, a book of instructions on how to get to Heaven.
satan wants people to believe that God would not send people to Hell, regardless of the life they lead. This is just a variation of how he deceived Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve found out about satan's deception, when It was too late.
God does not send people to Hell. People choose for themselves by rejecting Jesus and His Word. You make the choice, so choose well.
It is possible to accept the existence of Jesus in your head but not have Him in your heart. A good way to tell if you are saved is easy. If you said the prayer of salvation with your heart, you received the Holy Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit.
If you meditate on today's verse, and compare it to your life, and read the Word of God, you can be pretty sure you are saved, if you are exercising those fruits. Salvation only comes through Jesus.
Remember this fact. Believing in Jesus is not enough, even satan believes in Him. You can never grow in your faith if you don't have an ongoing relationship with God. As I've said many times before, the closer you get to God, the closer He will get to you. At that point there will be no doubt in your mind about whether you are saved or not. God bless you and your family. Praise the Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer of Salvation
Lord Jesus I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
 Amen

Listen

It Is Written, John 16:13, however when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
Over the last week or so, I spent quite a bit of time listening for, and meditating on the voice of the Lord. That may seem strange to people who have not really paid attention to it in their own lives, but it is true.
God speaks to everyone, but not everyone hears Him. If you are not familiar with God's Word, the Bible, chances are good that you too will not hear Him. If you read His Word carefully, chances are good you will hear His voice, because you will be listening for it.
Here is another shocker. You can carry on a conversation with the Holy Spirit, just as you would with your best friend. Many times I would be doing something and run into a problem. It got to the point where I automatically say, Holy Spirit, what should I do now. In most cases His answer is immediate, and I know what to do. If I forget something like a phone number, I ask Him and wait. He always answers.
The next important thing, is to follow through on what He tells you. If what you hear does not go against the Bible, it is probably the Holy Spirit. If in doubt ask Him for verification.
Listening to that small voice and doing, is critical. Ask yourself this. If Noah and many other Bible figures did not act on the Word of God, you and I would never have heard of them.
 God takes the perfect person for each task. The perfect person that is, in God's eyes, because most of the time He uses people you would least expect. He doesn't care how smart you are, how good-looking you are, how big or how small you are. Many people have a hard time believing God could use them, but fortunately it is what God thinks of us that counts. It is the greatest privilege there is, to serve Almighty God.
Now you may be saying to yourself this all sounds like fantasy. Let me just say this. If you haven't really tried to follow God and listen for Him, on what do you base your decision. It's the same thing with eternity. If you don't know what the Word says about being saved, how can you possibly be saved? You don't run your life making decisions without any facts do you? Think about that. God bless you and your family. Praise the Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer of Salvation
Lord Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
 Amen

Turn It All Around

It Is Written, Isaiah 30:21, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "this is the way, walk in it", whenever you turn to the right hand, or whenever you turn to the left.
Almost everyone has heard that you should turn your will over to God, so that you can fulfill God's plan for your life. That my friends can be a very difficult or impossible task for the vast majority of people.
There are a couple of big reasons why it is so hard to do. A large percentage believe that they are in control, and do not want to give up their perceived control. The fact is, none of us has control to begin with.
In Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NKJV ) it says, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill;  but time and chance happen to them all. The next big reason is that people do not accept what Ecclesiastes says, or they just don't trust God. They probably don't trust Him, because they do not know Him.
Then of course you have people who would like to put their lives in the hands of the Holy Spirit but are too afraid to do it because they have a faith problem. There is however a simple suggestion, based on real experiences of regular people, including mine.
Spend some time in the Bible every morning. Make it a priority, and spend some time just talking to the Holy Spirit. Regular conversation from the heart, for as much time as you are comfortable with.
After a while, take some kind of problem you're having, and ask the Holy Spirit to take care of it, because you don't know how. Thank Him for doing it, and don't even think about the problem you gave to Him. It is now His problem, not yours.
As you begin to see problems resolved, you'll start to turn over more and bigger problems. You will then reach the point where you don't want to deal with anything by yourself. You will then put yourself and your family in the hands of the One who knows all and does all for your good, the Holy Spirit. God bless you and your family. Praise Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer Salvation
Lord Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
 Amen

Observations On satan

It Is Written, 2 Corinthians 4:4, whose minds the God of this age (satan ) has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
We talked about the end of the book of Revelation, and the fact that God and all believers who follow Jesus win. What about the rest of the people, what happens to them?
The same book tells us that satan and those who follow him, lose forever. Did his followers know what they were doing?
When satan was thrown out of Heaven for his rebellion against God he hated God. He made it his mission to corrupt all of mankind, and to replace God with himself.
All through history, we see that satan deceived man to the point where man could not tell right from wrong. satan made every imaginable sin seem pleasurable. Man got so wrapped up in sin that he could not hear the voice of God.
satan messed up when he instigated the death of Jesus. In satan's mind Jesus death was a victory. When Jesus rose from the dead however, instead of victory for satan, it turned into death for eternity for satan, and his followers, and life for those who follow Jesus. All of us who are alive, have a chance for eternal life, by accepting God's gift of salvation to everyone who wants it.
Remember this simple fact. If you want to learn something and excel in it, you don't ask the biggest loser of all time to teach you. If satan tells you anything in your heart or mind, be sure that the opposite is true. satan and hell are no joke, or fantasy. Don't find that out the hard way. When you die, and we all will, we cannot change our minds. Jesus is waiting for you with love, mercy, and open arms. God bless you and your family. Praise the Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer Of Salvation
Lord Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
Amen

Observations On God

It Is Written, Psalm 25:10, all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Chapter 17 of Genesis explains the covenant between God and Abraham. That same covenant is passed on to all believers, for all time. Chapter 12:1-7, and chapter 15 of Genesis also explains some of it.
If you are like a lot of people who read books, you go to the end to see how it turns out first. Whether it is a book, or a rerun of a crucial football game, many people can relax and enjoy it more when they know the result.
If you go through the last chapter of Revelation in the Bible, you'll see that Jesus and all believers win. Since you know that you win, you can just relax and do as the Holy Spirit leads you to do without any anxiety or hesitation. When you focus on eternity with Jesus and all who believe, it makes everything seem a lot easier..
When you look at the finished picture, you can see how all the pieces of your life came together. You can also see how much God loves you, and why you should love Him. If you meditate on what the Lord has done in your life, you will have very few questions in your mind.
Life is one big learning experience. When you see something God wants you to do, and it seems too hard, just look at the book to remind yourself,  how everything God does is for our good, and is meant for us to spend eternity with Him.
Nothing is random or for no reason in God's mind. When you know what the end result is, you can relax and meditate on each step. A small reminder. Do not try to figure out what God's reasons are. He is the creator, and he knows what's best. He passes that knowledge on to us through the Bible. Just trust what he says, and lead a very fulfilling life.
The Bible is a story of love, truth, trustworthiness, mercy and sacrifice toward man. God does this for all people, even those that hate Him.  Remember salvation is a gift from God, that none of us can earn, or deserve. Praise the Lord and rejoice in love and trust Him always.  May God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!
Remember Jesus Loves You
Prayer of Salvation
Lord Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins, and come into my heart as my personal Savior.
Thank You Lord
 Amen

God's Timing