Oppression Of Darkness

It Is Written, Isaiah 59:10, We grope for the wall like the blind,  and we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight;  We are as dead men in desolate places.
Have you ever been in real darkness?  I am talking about dark without even a hint of any kind of light.  The kind of darkness that you cannot even see your nose.
If you are away from the city, on a moonless, starless night, you will experience something that will shock you.  At first you will feel uncomfortable.  It gets worse.
In this total darkness you become aware of some disturbing things.  Time seems to stop.   You can't move, because you can't see what is in front of you.   You actually start to feel the dark pressing in on you.   You listen for sounds, in the absolute quiet of the place.   The quiet becomes unbearable.  As silly as it sounds, you worry about some kind of bigfoot type character attacking you.
As uncontrolable fear starts to take over, you get a glimpse of a tiny light in the distance.  Your mind tells you that there is safety in that light, and you must reach it at any cost.
Take this description and multiply it by an infinate number, and you get a tiny idea of what spiritual darkness is.  satan lays traps, and is worse than the bigfoot you worried about,  because bigfoot can kill you,  but satan can terrorize you for eternity.   Think what that would be like.
When someone is in total spiritual darkness, they search for a light that will never be there.  If you are in spiritual darkness now, you still have a chance.  Look for the light as hard as you can.   Jesus is that light.  As you get closer and closer, that light gets brighter and brighter.  Finally you are in the light and see with new eyes.  Have a blessed day.   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 Yopu Lord
Amen

God Understands Prayer

It Is Written, Psalm 62:8, Trust in Him at all times, you people;  Pour out your heart before Him;  God is a refuge for us.
Many people feel that they don't know how to pray, because they never learned.  Others keep looking for some kind of system to pray and get answers.
Relax.   All of this concern is for nothing.  The routine to follow is simple.Go to a quiet place, forgive anyone that hurt you, from your heart.  Then just talk to God as you would your best friend. The only rule is sincerity.
When someone talks to God, God sees their heart. The words can be in any language,the conversation could be choppy or clumsy.  There are no strict rules.  Maybe you never learned to pray in a way most people call prayer. That is usually a good thing, because God wants you to tell Him what is on your mind, not someone elses.
Since God looks at the heart, everyone can pray, because all they have to do is talk.   God knows, because He is God.   Have a regular chat with Him, and you will be blessed.  Have a blessed day.   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

Good Morning

It Is Written,Isaiah 26:3,you will keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you.
People get up in the morning and normally dread the day ahead.  The drive to work,the job,and any number of things.  Some even worry about things that may happen, no matter how improbable.
If someone told you that you could do a 20 minute exercise in the morning and eliminate all of your problems for the day, would you be interested? Well that exercise does exist.
First thing you get up,go to a quiet place in your house.  Read 1 or 2 chapters from the Bible.  Tell the Lord what is on your mind, and ask Him to take care of it.  Face the day with confidence in the Lord.
Don't use that old " I don't have any time excuse", unless you really enjoy having a crummy day.   I am not saying that by starting the day the right way will eliminate all problems.  I am saying that many of them will not happen, and God will get you through the rest.
Do yourself a favor.  Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.   Do it in faith for 2 weeks, and you will see what I mean.   You will always do it by choice after that.   Have a blessed day.   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

The Meaning of the Lord's Prayer

It Is Written, Matthew 6:9-14, the Our Father prayer taught to the apostles by Jesus.
The Our Father is a beautiful, powerful prayer. Like most prayers, if you don't analyze it, you run the risk of vain repetition. I, like many others, spent years praying it without a clue of what I was praying. Here is a simple breakdown of the Our Father and it's meaning.
Our Father-we speak to God our father, because Jesus said He is. We recognize His love for us and His adoption of us through Jesus.
Who Art in Heaven-heaven is the home of God, and was promised to us as his children. God lives in our hearts in the meantime.
Hallowed Be Thy Name-we acknowledge that the name of God be regarded by everyone as more precious than anything, and should not be used in vain. There is power in God's name.
Thy Kingdom Come-refers to His final coming when He takes over for good. It also refers to our realization of heaven's principles in our lives.
Thy Will Be Done As It Is in Heaven-we are asking for God's will to be done here as well as heaven. We know what His will is through the Word, and the Holy Spirit. That includes doing, as well as praying.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread-this means that our needs be met every day by trust in God's Word. It also includes holy communion, Jesus the bread of life.
And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us.- forgiveness is reconciliation. We need forgiveness from the Father, but first we must forgive everyone from our hearts, no matter what they said or did to us. The word is very plain about that.
And Lead Us Not into Temptation-we are asking for discernment to recognize sin according to God's standards, and spiritual help to fight the flesh.
But Deliver Us from Evil-Jesus asked our Father to protect us from evil and the leader of evil. When Jesus rose from the dead, He promised the Holy Spirit to us in his absence. When Jesus returned to heaven, we received the baptism and all power of the Holy Spirit.
For Thine Is the Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory, Forever and Ever, Amen. This is recognition of God's kingdom, and His authority to rule over everything forever. Have a blessed day. 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

Can Demons Come Back?

It Is Written, Matthew 12:43-45, when an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest and finds none, then he says "I will return to my house(the heart) from which I came". And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
When I first started reading the Bible, and I was reading it like a book I'm sorry to say, verses like this puzzled me. When I started studying the Bible, and I read this verse, I had to have an answer. So I started asking.
How can this be? If a demon is cast out how can he come back? Is it hopeless? The answer is no. Some people are possessed by a demon. These people have never accepted Jesus as Savior, or rejected Him completely. Their hearts were ready to accept satan to begin with.
So let us say that through the grace of God, and much prayer by believers, the demon is forced to leave this person. Now the person who was freed wonders if the demon can come back? They may even worry about it.
The answers are simple. If by God's grace and much prayer, the heart has been emptied of evil, it makes sense that if the heart is refilled with Jesus, there is no room for the demons. Demons cannot occupy the same space as Jesus. If they could, then Jesus death and resurrection was for nothing.
Worry puts a for rent sign on your heart, an invitation to demons. Jesus puts a sold sign on your heart by your acceptance of Him as Savior. As you can figure out from this message, if you believe Jesus died and rose again for you, and forgave your sins, and accept Him as your personal Savior to begin with, you will be saved. With Jesus in your heart, you not only will be protected from demon possession, but you will be helped by the Holy Spirit, if satan tries to attack you. Have a blessed day. 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

Everyone is Forgiven

It Is Written, Luke 23:24, then Jesus said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".
I know people who cannot accept the truth about Jesus forgiveness. They are convinced, that they are beyond being forgiven. That my friends is totally wrong.
What bigger crime could there be than betraying the Son of God? Judas did it. Peter did it. Judas could not ask for forgiveness in his heart, so he killed himself. Peter accepted forgiveness, and eventually died serving God.
I have read several versions of the Bible. K JV, NIV, NLT. Try as hard as I could, I could not find where Jesus made a list of sins that He would die for. So I had to reach the conclusion, that no list existed.
Since there was no list, Jesus must forgive everything. Jesus died so that all who believed in Him, and repented, would be saved. That means all! It also means, that no matter how many sins, how bad they are, how long it has been going on, all are forgiven.
When you refuse forgiveness, you are in fact saying, what Jesus did was not good enough. By the way, you are even forgiven for that.
Say the prayer of salvation, or as some call it, the sinners prayer, with all your heart, and take your place as a child of God. Maybe for the first time in your life, you will know where you are going. Have a blessed day. 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
Amen

Power In Verses

It Is Written, James 4:3, you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
This may seem like a puzzling verse, but it isn't. It simply means that we pray for the wrong things sometimes. God will not give us anything that can possibly lead us to destruction.
God does promise that anything we ask according to His Word, He will provide us. So now the question is, how do you know what is good and what is in error or wrong?
The concordance in your Bible lists subjects alphabetically, with references to verses where it is used. A more extensive list can be found online, when you search Topical Bible Verses.
Prayer is not to be taken lightly. It is a conversation between you and God. Prepare for prayer. Look for the promises of God in His Word for what you need. Put your prayer in the form of a letter or petition. List at least four or more verses about your request. Write from your heart, following God's instructions for prayer.
If you want answers to your prayers, take the time and effort to do it Gods way. He never goes back on His Word, so if you follow His Word, you will receive. Then just stand on that word, and believe.
I speak from experience that came the hard way. Have a blessed day. 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
Amen