I ask you this when you come to the end of your days and you face death will your life end with a period? will you just be done, end of story, case closed?
I tell you this that if you have given your life over to the hands of God and received salvation through his son Jesus then your life is really ending with a comma, You are just about to start really living and the best days are still ahead.
You only have a small break in an eternal sentence that goes on in eternity with him and will never end. The difference is you will no longer have to deal with worries and pain, you will discover joy, peace and contentment like no human can explain or has ever experienced.
So the question really is have you secured your future through Jesus.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
One of 11
This morning as I set with 10 of my brothers and we talked about the great works our father has done in each of our lives it occurred to me that this must have been how the eleven disciples felt when they were called to go out and share the good news.
The excitement that God has chosen us and that his love for each of us is enough to carry us through the challenges that lay ahead should be enough for us to go and do the job that has been given to us, but we still face an overwhelming task that brings on uncertainty which breeds fear and fear is the opposite of trust and faith.
Do you have unbelief in you? are you willing to trust God really trust? did you ever wonder if we really have a concept of what it means to trust, with the world we live in it's hard not to get jaded and go through life with a false trust; just telling people that we trust God but in truth we hold on to things that seem small and insignificant to us, but to God they are a true representation of our heart.
The unbelief we hold in our hearts that we don't even know about keeps us from fully trusting God, and until we are able to turn our lives over to him and ask God to reveal in us that unbelief, then we will never truly know what it means to trust God, and we will never reach our true God given potential.
Please take a moment and repent, and ask God to reveal any unbelief in you and receive his forgiveness, because he loves you so much, you are such a treasure to him, He has such a wonderful life planned for you if you will just trust him.
The excitement that God has chosen us and that his love for each of us is enough to carry us through the challenges that lay ahead should be enough for us to go and do the job that has been given to us, but we still face an overwhelming task that brings on uncertainty which breeds fear and fear is the opposite of trust and faith.
Do you have unbelief in you? are you willing to trust God really trust? did you ever wonder if we really have a concept of what it means to trust, with the world we live in it's hard not to get jaded and go through life with a false trust; just telling people that we trust God but in truth we hold on to things that seem small and insignificant to us, but to God they are a true representation of our heart.
The unbelief we hold in our hearts that we don't even know about keeps us from fully trusting God, and until we are able to turn our lives over to him and ask God to reveal in us that unbelief, then we will never truly know what it means to trust God, and we will never reach our true God given potential.
Please take a moment and repent, and ask God to reveal any unbelief in you and receive his forgiveness, because he loves you so much, you are such a treasure to him, He has such a wonderful life planned for you if you will just trust him.
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Arrow
Have you missed the mark? have you wandered aimlessly not knowing where you were going or what you are doing? Do you have a goal or a destination in mind? Me too !
Let me take a minute to ask you have you ever been able to really trust? Scary thought huh! If you have been around more than a few minutes you have been let down and betrayed.
Let me help you out; you no longer have to wander or wonder, God has a plan for your life and you can trust completely in him he has sent his only son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of man, If you believe and fully trust in him and commit to a personal relationship with him you will be saved for all eternity. Pretty sweet deal right , no you don't have to fill out an application to qualify or have the right family heritage it yours a free gift to all man kind.
Now back to being the arrow, have you ever seen an archer who could really shoot an arrow right where he wanted? It is an amazing thing the flight of the arrow is controlled by the balance of the archer "God" who created it "Genesis 1:27" it is aimed at a specific target and through the power "The Holy Spirit" stored in the bow it is propeled toward a target. but sometimes after the arrow "You" is created time and aging it takes on a different angle and it doesn't fly straight anymore so the archer "God"must take on the task of heating and bending it to straighten it so it will hit the exact spot the archer "God" desires.
If you are struggling in areas of your life it is because you have become bent and the archer "God" is trying to straighten you out, you are no longer hitting where he is aiming for you to be and he must work on you to achieve the purpose for which he created you.
You were designed by God to do a specific task and he has given you everything you need to do it, but you must be willing to allow him to use you. As we go into this journey together I hope we can learn together what that purpose is and how to better allow him to use us.
Let me take a minute to ask you have you ever been able to really trust? Scary thought huh! If you have been around more than a few minutes you have been let down and betrayed.
Let me help you out; you no longer have to wander or wonder, God has a plan for your life and you can trust completely in him he has sent his only son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of man, If you believe and fully trust in him and commit to a personal relationship with him you will be saved for all eternity. Pretty sweet deal right , no you don't have to fill out an application to qualify or have the right family heritage it yours a free gift to all man kind.
Now back to being the arrow, have you ever seen an archer who could really shoot an arrow right where he wanted? It is an amazing thing the flight of the arrow is controlled by the balance of the archer "God" who created it "Genesis 1:27" it is aimed at a specific target and through the power "The Holy Spirit" stored in the bow it is propeled toward a target. but sometimes after the arrow "You" is created time and aging it takes on a different angle and it doesn't fly straight anymore so the archer "God"must take on the task of heating and bending it to straighten it so it will hit the exact spot the archer "God" desires.
If you are struggling in areas of your life it is because you have become bent and the archer "God" is trying to straighten you out, you are no longer hitting where he is aiming for you to be and he must work on you to achieve the purpose for which he created you.
You were designed by God to do a specific task and he has given you everything you need to do it, but you must be willing to allow him to use you. As we go into this journey together I hope we can learn together what that purpose is and how to better allow him to use us.
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