Salvation And Living In Christ After That-An Abundant Life
David Candel
Do you desire or want an intimate relationship and fellowship with your Heavenly Father God? Do you know God loves you? God is love and did you know God loves you which is no less than stupendous and fabulous and with compassion and joy that it is beautiful and that THIS LIFE ABUNDANT is in His Son, Jesus Christ? Did you know the Bible tells of our Living God and Savior, Jesus Christ Risen as our Exalted Head, and Lord? He the Bible says, is the only Prophet, Priest, and King available for men to get to God: and we raised with Christ to newness of life in heavenly places by His Finished Work and Perfect Atonement for sin, the God-man Expression of His Love for us, a relational great good right standing with God? The Gospel is Good News. It's great good good news! Do you think of it getting right with God aright? Do you know having it right with God is forgiveness of sins and the experience of knowing God? God loves you as an exclamation is in order! You don't need a guilty feeling to make it. Did you know God promises to all a newness of life, with renewed faith to you through His Son by coming in faith through grace? This happens through the Holy Spirit's initiative and our participating. It's not where you've been but where are you now. The Spirit and the Bride are calling and do you have the guts to follow Christ of God even in hard places? What do you want from Him? Tell Him. He wants our attention and a lifelong salvation committment that becomes Holy living until we come to see Him as He is someday in confirmed righteousness in Heaven. He has a job for you to do until then in righteousness. He has blessed the little children and He has built His Church. He wants us to be in an intimate personal relationship with Him through the Son, attending Church, (Bible literal taking one,) have fellowship with others, &.. live life with faithfulness and loving for believing Him vertically. This is all a part of the characteristics of the life Our Lord Jesus Christ calls us to live.
A mystery exposed and revealed: It's an Abundant Life In Christ.
Now here's what and why I believe the veil has been lifted from our eye about and holding true, concerning right relationships and relationship especially with the one and only true Living Creator: God Who gives us richly everything to enjoy and evangelical faith (which is a gift from Him) to believe. We learn: what He's done, what He's doing, and what He's going to do in the future in you and me and can do! Do you recognize His love over you? Joyfully hilariously? With tender hilarity? That love is spelt l-o-v-e with much tenderness, blessing under His hand, & lovingkindness. He has given you common grace for your many needs and wants, food, clothing, and shelter under His hand. Do you have a certain object of faith? Is it holding you to something or SomeOne? It matters this object because this Jesus is the Incarnate God become man. God revealed Himself in a tabernacle or tent of human kindness called Christ Jesus the Only Begotten Son of God 2000 years ago. For there's no formula to get to heaven but Christ He is the way! We are sinners and you can fathom that you need God if you search inside and that you need to know God, (the way is God & in peace between you and He through Jesus) and that God loves you and wants you in His Will & in a personally kept way known by Him. For in God's Only Son Jesus, in His Fullness Resurrected Shekinah Presence there is love, peace, and joy and pleasures at His right hand forevermore and this is all in knowing Him personally more and more through Jesus Christ solely the alone Resurrected one and this starts with forgiveness of your sins. The Holy Spirit welcomes you to God's Family with enthusiasm. God is buying you through your accepting Christ as Savior momentarily - Eternal life starts at the Cross! God cares! Salvation is a word that is an offense to the world being they can't understand it. Scripture says, "if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him." What is the sin of the world? Unbelief. Unbelief specificly in Jesus as the Son of God the One Sent by God. Salvation on the other hand begins outside you, you hearing the words of scripture and Plan of Redemption from someone, or hearing it reading the Word yourself; then by belief in Him in His finished work, from Christ's words, Himself drawing you near, you hearing the still small voice of God to repent and responding to the Living Gospel as to the Living God in His eyesight are saved. Living the Christian life isn't in self-righteousness but in a Risen life in Him depending on Him. Living as a Christian isn't silver or gold in having but not neglecting such things as are what God wants, contentment. Christ is our righteousness and we boast in Him alone. We're in His Presence in a special way when saved and then we're constantly inbreathed by God (greek: theoneustos) for in Him we live and move and have our being. We literally couldn't breathe good air without Him. Jesus Christ is the beginning and the ending: Alpha and Omega, the same yesterday today and forever, and fulfilment of holy right living to all who believe, for those who believe receive His grace and don't do their works on their part for salvation righteousness because that would be unacceptable. But as you have received grace for receiving as your own Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord ie. as a childlike born of God person *you will please Him. With the help by grace infused from the Holy Spirit its possible. Walk in Jesus abiding and in dependence on Him. Receive Him moment by moment like you would a familiar trusted friend. He is able to save you and keep you personally fully and really found out like its written in our Lord's parable in Luke 15 says: 'saved.' There God writes, "He rejoices and invites others to rejoice even over one sinner who repents." You start to experience His love practically! and just by hearing it proclaimed and you responding.
If you're living by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the Rapture occurs while you're living in Christ and honoring a disciple's relationship to God through grace to God and in fellowship (let me emphasize it's by faith through grace) you can be caught up in ("rapizo" in the orig. Bible languages, 'caught away') in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall you ever be with the Lord Jesus! Even so come Lord Jesus! Maranatha!
Doesn't this sound like something you'd like? or learn to like? love maybe? Read I Thessalonians 4:13-17 and I Corinthians 15:1-7ff for instance, and maybe John chapter three whole chapter.
In context, "God be merciful to me a sinner," was said an open appeal brokenhearted and statement made faithfully by a Tax-gatherer of whom it was said in a parable told by Jesus as to one who humbles himself before God this man having beaten upon his breast saying those words. Jesus told this parable about people who think themselves righteous and show contempt for others. This parable shows a humility before God by this publican who came home exalted and justified having humbled himself in a simple but great way before God. You can be like this person, if Jesus is your Lord and you are (acting in responsible fashion.)
I'm proposing God is love and Jesus shows it all along our way having died in our place. There is a testifying that Jesus Paid It All all in a regard to our sin debt. It's all too clear that the deliverance over sin Christ won to gain our salvation for us was complete over sin, death, hell; Christ makes us alive inside, whole, complete, & individually directed in His path. That's why it's said by us to glorify Him with all our lives as ecclesia (Greek for Church,) the called out ones, as witnesses (maryturos in Grk.,) and as testifying 'believers' uniquely it follows that...
The Word of God states as fact that by His speaking God spoke and the cosmos is on the sixth day created by His hands, even man was created in the image of God He him and her in the Garden of Eden and He rested on the seventh day. It's in the image of God Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, were created from the dust of the ground by His hand or fingers. Because of the Fall of man this image of God fell & man disobeyed in the eyes of the Lord, failing Him. God's Spirit died in man & man's spirit died in God's Presence. God would walk with man in the sunset portion or cool of the day to fellowship before this. Man started a downward spiral apart from God but God always has a remnant and was there to walk him with as usual. Adam and Eve fell to the serpent misleads and this caused a substantial crises to man. This happened as they disobeyed God's command to not eat the fruit God said no to eat, but they ate it, though man was still made in God's image and had free will moral agency, and they failed God's test and were reprimanded. And man made fig leaves to cover his/her nakedness at an attempt to reconcile with God but God made provision of a sacrificed animal without help from man, for that Miracle God did, to produce *Redemption of the likeness and image of God returned. But even today in this very moment you can be free to live for God with obedience and persevere to inherit promises because that likeness of God or image of God is returned in godly hope inclined in high anticipation that doesn't make us ashamed at all because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit Romans 5. In salvation through the conduit of love being saved in hope that is of Another Kind in the Spirit faith in Jesus Christ for salvation is believed. It's on my plate to believe the likeness of God aspects of design-architect provider-Father God our Creator He returns at Calvary, all BECAUSE His love restores us future tense if we go on forward with Him. His LOVE IS SHOWN US, revealed in the Son of God Jesus in His earthly visitation in His Son in His LONG-HEARTED PASSION shown Sovereignly sacred appointed attitude toward us is for us for a timing particular of punctilinear (point in time, greek tense: aorist indicative) of saving faith (continuing) based on the intellectual intelligent, emotions, moods, emotional affect, and spiritual sides of man I and others have observed in intervention from Abba Daddy God in my life and that of others given and is for eternal life 'in the now' exposed and declared fact by Him. He wants our attention! Signs along the road of life show us God is love! HE IS FOR US! We can believe He is good like: 'crazy good' in being possibly, positively, and humanely opportune in us for His will to be accomplished for His ways His Kingdom and this is well and good. Lets be real in faith to God IN THE YES OF CHRIST, for we will believe on His Name: for salvation is of the Jews.
In fact, these eternal Spiritual wooings of God's glory, literally the out-rays He's revealing to us are working for us as christians in name and for a few of us, character too, an unseen underspoken eternal weight of glorious worth of far more weight and exceeding value above every circumstance or purposefully unjust but useful suffering we endure in God no matter how we're pressed (Greek: thillipsis) re: our path and how we experience life. We thank Him in everything and acknowledge Him in all our ways, trust Him, and take the faith-trust to receive the salvation He offers with all our whole hearts like a childlike child would trust an adult. It's believed that to the undershepherd the work of salvation is done and that Finished He will show up all along our way in His Holy Spirit's Presence in us. We will then be ready to be cradled into heaven by Him or ushered in by Him while we're obeying in the present and following Him in obedience being persevering adopted regenerated sons and daughters of His belonging to the end! God says, "all creation is eagerly (waiting) hoping on hippity-hoppity tip toe anticipating with joy for the adoption of the sons of God even for the redemption of our bodies. For all creation shall be liberated in a manner similiar like to the children of God's liberty someday." (See Bible verses on the Kingdom of God in the New Millenium, in Psalms, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, etc. and Romans 8:22-27.)
God is Love! Know you need to be Reborn and that Rebirth is by the Holy Spirit's Power and Resurrection of Christ Jesus, and that it's provided by Him for that pleasing we should receive it *to experience God if we come by His Son's Blood in faith living it out? Relationships matter to God. In the Word of God "christian" is only mentioned two times but the Bible, "disciple" is: *over 350 times. Do you know that? Therefore He doesn't come in the front door and therefore leave-to go out the back door. He came in to stay in relationships!!!!! He came in His Greatness to reveal to us His Faithfulness. We love Him because He first loved us and for that we're greatly benefited by being hidden with Christ in God forgiven much specificly ecerything before salvation if we believe Him: take part, involve your belief in God's salvation by getting 'into His boat.'
Israel believed in the future he would come. They look forward, we look back. About Our Savior Jesus Then We Read In The Bible: The Gentiles were grafted in to the one Olive Tree; The enmity was abolished through Christ: We see through a glass darkly, pictures of salvation all around us and the reality is especially (in Jesus) the Living Word:
Jesus was name called, meaning it was put upon him unjustly, "the friend of sinners," "a glutton, a winebibber," " a sinner like one of us," because He ate and drank with sinners but knew God through and through and as His all in all and He spoke knowingly with authority, did the work of God, and yet loved (infamous sinners like us) but didn't engage in their sinful acts or sin as a principle. Jesus Great Teacher And Physician, Eternal Savior (descriptions of His acts and title) pleased God perfectly. Not only did He please God but He obeyed God the Father so much so that also He was declared to be the very God Most High by men and by angels. Believed on, here on earth He could see in every man or woman there's a DEEP AND WIDE HURTING--A DESPERATELY WICKED HURT (who can know it?)--- THAT HE ONLY COULD KNOW THE REMEDY FOR AND HE ONLY COULD SAVE AND DELIVER US FROM HE BEING GOD IN THE FLESH SOVEREIGN OVER EVERY OTHER NAME OR PERSON OR INDIVIDUAL. Exactly where (God knows) the human condition has a 'need' or request personally & individually with God and men for saving, He Holily Executed It On The Cross He being sensitive to it's fruition and result. God Incarnate was in Jesus Christ crucified for the sins of mankind for our salvation. In life He vicariously lived His Holy Nature in Himself expressed He our Savior, 100% God 100% man. His proud godly prerogatives to do His own thing He gave up doing (with the Father and Holy Spirit's help) to help and liberate man living 33 1/2 years on the earth. Wherever He laid His head down & worked, & traveled there was light most precious. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound as Jesus Christ obeyed to a t a sinful humanity's Death on the Cross. He saw the goal and His point in time (importance) and magnified the Father while the Spirit did the work of signs, wonders, and miracles through Christ. He was come for this very purpose to go to the Cross. And when considering WHETHER He is Lord, liar, or lunatic if you read the Gospels as clearly as we do you begin to estimate to believe and envision that He's the genuine McCoy: the God-man by what He says, and is, and by the failure of those around Him, in other words in an anti-thetical sense: (they failed before the Cross in weakness,) but you have to decide too rather than sit on the fence. It's right to believe He is Lord! He is our Savior from sin! He even said to top it all off, "If you can't believe what I say, believe on the basis of the very works sake." And what lovely altogether fullness of God type lovely works! He never spoke out against anybody, never did harm to anybody in any writing of the Gospels. The people said of Him, "He does all things well." "He makes both the blind to see and the deaf to hear." "He raises the dead." "To the poor the Gospel is preached," Luke 4:19. He was gentle as gentle could be, but inwardly He knew all men & what was in men and judged a situation therefore quick in God's fear. He was genuinely mighty inside like Moses was and more so (Hebrews says 'as a son') but He exhausted Satan's tactics so very mightily, constantly, consistently, faithfully entrusting overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil, and his hordes in this life, to obeying God in reliance as to a pleasing aroma (not just rote obeying,) but with Charismata Power. This wasn't self-reliance on Himself but absolute trust in the Heavenly Father to do the works in self-reliance upon God AND Himself. God works through personality. By the Spirit through grace He obeyed the Father and God filled His ways full with the Spirit, and therefore He lived in a 'VERY GODLY PLEASING WAY TO GOD,' even through every obstacle AND when it conflicted as many a time it did: as the Word of God's plan vs. man's. He had a Godly "aroma" as they say in the Greek Dialect, (a Charismata.) "He smelled of good deeds." He passed every trial every exam.
Jesus also said, "If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto Me." This He said speaking of His Atoning Death on Calvary and Risen Life after subsequently being buried three days, and ascended to the Kingdom of God Heavenly Throne where He would take away sins exalted above every other creature or name. He said, "the Kingdom of God is come near," therefore repent, change your mind and attitudes and amend your ways from the inside out. His short life, Death, and Resurrection show His power (like controlled dynamite) over creation to save us being efficacious or effectual. He could have called twelve legions of angels to save Him on that day on the cross. But He didn't. He predicted His Death and events to follow: how, why and when it would happen at Calvary 2000 years ago. Christ literally BECAME sin for us and suffered the pain of our remediation or redemption. Every sin we will transgress or commit from the past, into the future, and even the present was forgiven then in an eternity of eternities He experiencing wrath of sinful humanity hanging in pain on the Cross for you and I. His Death over sins and for sin and subsequent Resurrection from the dead is become our victory over sin and death, hell, and the grave resulting in our glorifying witnessing unto our Lord's testimony. He meekly came a Preacher of righteousness of right relationship to God as our Father above, sent Him in fullness of His Essence to save. But He came a servant the first time and we did not recognize Him. But it was to be the overthrow of the Holy Spirit in control of His heart and His life at every minute and eventuality and by exchange to our lives too if we submit. John the Baptist was a forerunner of Messiah a disciple/preacher close at His heels to introduce personal revival. Are you in control of your life and destiny to God? Jesus Christ called God His Father and accepted man's worship having made Himself equal with God, and in kenosis, His self-emptying, He thought being like God not something to be grasped but obeyed God even to an iota and an oomlat (greek grammatical character,) a Death on the Cross. His act of laying His life down willingly for us in Crucifixion Death is the demonstraton of God's love personified to each person potentially to save them from a life of wandering sin (which Jude says results in blackness of darkness in fires of hell, a warning) (for those who constantly reject God's love) of which I am explaining is the 'basis for our evangelical faith for believing.' Scripture says, "No greater love has any man, than he that lays down His life for his friends," Jesus said. Jesus calls us His own in the dramatic present, *"and no longer do I call you servants but I call you *friends." For He said, "For I tell you what I'm doing." He's not our Lord until we make Him Lord and never our buddy. And through intimacy is there. He's not our homeboy neither but has over 100 titles in the New Testament where we honor Him.
So then that His Blood spilt in fact was effectual for us as life changing truth and if even one drop of it fell to the ground it was sufficient to buy us from our sins is truth. This is in verity. The proof of Christianity is changed lives. What are we doing with His Blood? The Blood of Jesus Christ saves lives. God's Plan through His Son was for the Trinity to work in cohesive fashion and in tandem and save mankind. Christ was the Father's only Son sent as an Innocent Righteous Lamb to die for the sins of all mankind, even for the few who will accept Him, life for life to pay God the Ransom for us. He through the Spirit, exogenerated (without creation nor generation) from the Father in the power of the Spirit lived, and died once for us all.
In the Old Testament a promise of forgiveness, or really obedience rewarded (for that is how the Old Testament worked, or should I say failed to work) and Atonement for sin for another year was obtained in trust looking ahead by the shedding of blood, the blood of dead bulls, rams, and ashes of a heifer as the Spirit of God came upon people per se for the coming of Messiah. Old Testament saints were never quite sure God heard. This is because there was every year remembrance of sins and Jesus came to put away sin once for all. When Jesus by His pleasing aroma to the Father at the Mercy Seat in Heaven and through living a perfect life without sin on earth lived it out at His Death He became the Innocent Righteous Holy Lamb Of God's Sacrificial Choosing in God's Sight: re: Our New Covenant. When Christ died He led captivity captive, emptying Abraham's bosom of good souls and He gave good gifts to men including giving the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Day. God wants us now born again, and this the theme of scripture throughout therefore, that is receiving salvation by faith and trust in Him, accepting Christ as Savior and Lord and living it out and out for Him. Old T saints looked ahead to Messiah, and we look back to Him. Set Him always before you. Live for no other cause than that He is always with you and your desire is to delight in and glorify Him. And dreaming His dream for you we dream can become like God's dream for us overall in the Body of Christ always increasing us. But in this life in Him He must increase and we must decrease. We weep God's tears pray God's prayers and hope God's hope for Paradise or Heaven as we learn concerning the next life, its heavenly destination for our own, home as we call it, is from God direct. Therefore remain in His love and do everything to make your calling and election sure. Rejoice therefore your names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
We're saved by faith and repentance believing God in His Messages by evangelical faith through the Son Jesus Christ. Believing Jesus Christ is a partnership with Him to God following Christ in a Risen life and you and I and He can be engaged under a different system then than the unsaved. You can see God wants us for His own belonging children joined in Spirit to Him, belongingly, Family. He made us for His co-heirs in co-laboring, spirits that have a body, free will moral agents that are His and that decide or choose 'yes' to Him. God's ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts; always His Bible propounds His ways and His thoughts come higher than ours. For its 'All of the Bible for all of the world,' as JHM.ORG John Hagee says. His idea is not for us to be forever joining a church nor hyper-ventilating religiously nor turning over a new leaf (to hide from God nor sorrow for being caught,) as in reforming alone but a coming to God His way in salvation through faith in Christ once for all for a dynamic Kingdom of God state TRANSFORMATION ongoing. Those unsaved or those straddling the fence my plea is that you decide by seeing that God made Jesus big before your eyes and what it is to have rightness before God and be right in a stand in forgiveness & how awesome God the Eternal Father is in providing this. I encourage you to get saved. Jesus pulled no punches in preaching a straight-forward spot right on Gospel hard showing how difficult it's made for the rich and proud to see or enter the Kingdom of God without 'eyes to see' and 'ears to hear' that are reborn then that become bondslaves of the King subssequently. If you want to be great in God's Kingdom you have to serve and be willing to serve at the lowest job, be least of all, and last. Jesus never judged at all anyone for wanting to be great. He encouraged it anong the twelve.
Jesus makes a difference in a life bound for heartache and defeat. He came to seek and to save the lost in sin, ruination, the sinful, bruised, battered, broken, and shattered people He created. Does that include yourself, at least of all, by first birth through water, and by blood, and the will of man? You bet it does. See John's Gospel ch. three. Like Paul before religious Felix, Festus, or King Agrippa the royals do you feel almost persuaded to become a "Second Birth Christian" of Hupernikao (Greek for super victory) strength? Jesus, God incarnate did His Father's business always and never moved from center which would be the case if He were to work on His own. But He ALWAYS knew from age 30 on that He was sent by the Father and was to perform signs through the initialization of the Father & through the Spirit, the Spirit also speaking of Him: He pleased God perfectly obediently making Him the PERFECT sacrificial LAMB for sin not just great moral teacher or example. If it was right on Jesus was up on it. He acted nonetheless right properly and not from His own initiative and He was good in that most highest moral sense of goodness. It was cool for Him to not obey the religion but God alone truly. "HE SPOKE IN ELOQUENCE TO MAN AND VERY WELL ARTICULATED IN PUBLIC. IN FACT HE IN PERFECTION ACTED HUMBLY & KINDLY TO PEOPLE HE TOUCHED AND HEALED, AND THEIR DISEASES HE FREELY IMMEDIATELY INSTANTLY HEALED AND MADE READY ALL THOSE WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF ILLNESSES FOR TODAY DIVINE MIRACLES NEEDED HE PERFORMED IN AND THROUGH US. HIS DIVINE ENABLEMENT WAS BY HIS FATHER DIRECTLY AND BY HIS FATHER'S FAVOR. He spoke in a different way to the Pharisees who thought themselves good enough who were not after the Spirit and who despised God's way and other people: really Pharisee, Sadducees, teachers of the law, and scribes that kept the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law. *Jesus healed many on the Sabbath on the other hand rebuked the Pharisees and Saducees and genuinely hearted man and healed all who came. He crossed a then racial lines barrier to do it. He healed several people from a few miles distance, and by spoken word alone sometimes healed, that incomparable Christ did. All who came were healed by Him of various & diverse kinds of illness or diseases. He commended calling "great" the faith of two persons outsiders to the Jewish Nation. He raised at least three people from the dead. He walked on water at least once and the storm had to be quiet when He spoke to it. He touched the sick and the hurting in the earth and the world could not contain the books that would be written concerning of all He said and did in other words what that Jesus the Mighty Prophet, Healer, the Lord, Great Physician, Savior, Prophet, Priest, and Exalted King both began to do and say and teach.
In hearing the still small voice of God and heeding then at one's conscience then to "get saved" convicted convinced is right on. It tells one so convicted convinced then to live for God redeemed leaving sin and everything behind by following Christ a disciple in the revealing and receiving of the revelation of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ in the heart (by faith in His Risen Presence inside which is by His Resurrection from the dead.). The Word of God spoken by God's Voice inside us causes us to practice God's Presence and individually the Holy Spirit TRANSFORMS US daily because the dynamic power for being this witness is, "hearing is by faith and hearing by the Word of God (Logos.") The Word of God prevails. It reveals God's Perfect Will *His blueprint plans. Now this can turn up the heat on your own life or lifestyle (your plans,) OR bring His Victory if you're (quoting Paul,) 'in Christ.' Are you good ground for Him?
God through Paul spoke of the relationship to God within of engagement of faith in the will and in the Holy Spirit of being 'in Christ,' following our exalted Head the Holy Son of God with Whom we're called to fellowship I Cor 1:9. There is freedom and victory in serving our Creator and letting our light shine before men clearly demonstrating Christ as crucified as God's salt and light displayed clearly knowing God is by getting to know Jesus. The entrance of Thy words gives light. In Thy light shall we see light. In golden light and love of God through the Son while identifying with the statement "the cross was victorious" and walking in Christ by His belief system for you (His ways) you'll at once realize by grace and mercy that you're a sinner. It may not hit you right off the bat or it may like a ton of bricks right away to realize it. We seem to miss the revealing of God's true glory so easily. God revealed through Christ's Atonement being greatly believed reaps a great victory in the shedding of Christ's Blood having slain the enmity thereby between Jew and Gentile and between man and God for us. It bridged with grace man's lack of God's image as well and truthfully literally God turned the world upside down. For God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself not counting men's sins against them and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. This belief in God through Christ Who is the Personal Savior Who loves us everlastingly and unconditionally practically makes us godly (Holy also.) God embraces us in the Finished Work of the Cross with His own doing and work, working for His good pleasure both to will and to do within us intimate knowledge of us in Him. And through the Death and Resurection of Himself pouring out the fullness of the cup of the New Covenant or Testament for the remission of sins for the few in His Blood. It's unmerited favor from Himself toward us who believe. It's truly like God signing a will, and dotting every i and crossing every t to ensure the Kingdom arrives at its destination. He does it of Himself fear not it's His good pleasure to do it. God sows a Family to Himself one by one as individuals. Realizing from His kindness at wooing us with glory we have all sinned. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. The Bible states that plain fact. In a real sense only God can help us realize we're sinners. God wants with simply devoted hearts and with complexity for us to get involved in us lovingly so that with our particular woes and wants in our particular personality to gets His hands into our lives and this through our faith co-laboring and the Holy Spirit's operation. He has shown such care over us and love over us while we were ungodly and His enemies that He has with indiscriminate and STRONG unconditional EMBRACING LOVE for us poured out His Personality in forgiveness of sins & New Nature on us. We must give Him our total attention. The Trinity: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit have each one offices and chores: and benefactors we, as beneficiaries: are the inheritors of the inheritance, and are inheriting the heritages of the Bible. God's love is unconditional. But His RIGHTEOUSNESS is conditional on you believing obediently partaking or cooperating with Him as a team in faith with He being the Head and taking the lead role. We need to know God through the Holy Spirit in the overthrow of our lives He taking the lead role of Lordship where Christ sits on the Throne of our hearts and lives. Everywhere individually and corporately by experientially having knowledge of Hin not just knowing ABOUT Him... being Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient and Immutable as unchanging invisible attributes because He is that, but to see and love Him for the Person staturely personally and with Character that He Is. He is to be known by and in the subjective reality of objectivity in the holy face of Jesus Christ with the glory of God Pre-Emminant and love for God genuine if we're born of the Spirit. He's the Spirit and is side by side with us comforting tutoring how to live for Him if we're born again. Knowing God 'in Christ' is an awesome privilege that becomes to us a sitting, a walk, and a standing as was said by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians. In being disciples we're taught all Christ said and did to observe it. For instance in our discerning: we're seated with Christ in the heavenlies. And the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus He allows us to experience in God's Presence is as one saved at peace with God because we're confidently sure of His atoning mercy at the Mercy Seat where He is in the Midst. For "He has set us free from the law of sin and death" is a holy principle and this means the taking away of sins by a law of spiritual airlift for the eternally sealed saved to enjoy spiritually at all times. Our present obedience is our present and future assurance of eternal seal and safety and our confidence is in Him, in His obedience within, and in trust in Him to abide and He to lead and direct. Vices or addictions like sins of the spirit or flesh are gone after a coming to Christ. Christ puts away sins. He is the Goal, the Gate. He is the Door, the Bread, and Wine. The objective facts or absolute truth we have because the truth is in Jesus the Bible declares Ephesians 4. But unsaved people tend to want to run the gamut of sinfulness in addictive habits in drawn up plans it for though. They getting drunk or high, sinfully are caring away their conscience's which would erroneously tell them its ok, rather than listen and hear God's spiritual answer of the indwelling Christ, the salvation of soul and spirit through which is found in Christ alone inside. It is living hope, the hope of glory of His satisfying Oneness of satisfying within saving and indwelling hope Biblically within. God's Presence inside and extroverted by believers. Then its a walk knowing you're energized by the Holy Spirit in it in a flow with God. You having done all you can, to be sure you've made the commitment to become born again and stay in Him you stand (Eph.6:12-14.) You're aware you're a crucified person to sin because at Calvary you're likening it to the gaining the mind of God having died with Christ (Paul said it was so,) suffering grief wrongfully in allowing men 2000 years ago approximately to plait a circle of thorns upon His head and identifying with it in today in every temptation you thilipsis (experience a pressing, pressure, squeezing, and narrowing.) By grace you feel and experience God's outs.
Listen you are absolutely somebody because "God don't make no junk." God's not angry with you because of the Cross. In fact He loves you. It's love from Him uncondemningly solid He has forgiven you for Jesus dying on the Cross for you is a proclamation God allows us to say to you and you believed. God's way out of this world and it's system is an escape of salvation in the Holy Spirit and it's in you following Christ in the way born again. His escape's are gentle. It's His gentle forbearing way to keep you blemishless and unreproachable and undeniably your spirit, soul, and body be presented blameless before the Father at His coming. So then that because we see we have a sinful nature that sins of tendency and fails God's glory that this nature must be forever dealt with. I'll explain this. Everybody is eternal and every soul is soberly willfully unseen eternity of spirit and will find a home in either of two places based on a destiny built by evangelical faith. Like a fish out of water will you not enjoy heaven without God's recreating you by New Birth. You need God. We do. Like putting nails in your coffin you feel strong nailing in the flesh but revulse in the Spirit at your hideous strength outside God's realm to bless you. Having been saved then it's there in escrow but you need to give up voluntarily acting out as to loving the world in an unkind way and its allure by the Power of the Spirit until you're crucified to it to the best of your knowledge and ability in Jesus. Believe Jesus Christ paid it all for you in your sin debt so you could go free because He did by your getting involved placing yourself under Himself. God will tell you what this entails. He holds the nails to your coffin of deadness to sin and atttraction to it.. "From now on you will only see dead Egyptians," Moses was told by God. You identify with Christ's crucifixion and hold on to admit to being and doing wrong, say you're sorry, and "I repent," all to God in one mouth and blessing. You get out of your prison and walk out. You nail it shut and leave old ways behind and learn what you can from them to neglect those old ways coming to Christ for help following after the Holy Spirit. You let Christ's Righteousness on you be thus for you your real new evidence of newness of life. You follow after Christ denying yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him. Christ literally becomes your Door to the Father and to every one of His opportunities in access full and free. His righteous life: your right standing. His Death: your justification, His Resurrection: your glorification Romans 8:30.
But He sees overall us in our messes but doesn't like us to harm ourselves which sin does (Greek word for sin is harm-a-tia, ie. sin harms.) Christ's Resurrection has changed everything becoming God's propitiation for sin. The word for propitiation in Greek is sounding like the word, 'hilarity,' or joy. When He sees us, He sees the perfect righteousness of Christ which He's focused on. Yes there is joy when Jesus and God are satsified and pleased.
"For it's not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, "says the Lord of Hosts. "And the violent Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take the Kingdom by force, and forceful men take hold of it." Whosoever comes to Christ a sinner admitting he/she is a sinner that sins before Him (that comes to Him once and for all through His Son,) they are declared justified as they walk it out in grace in His sight. As Savior He takes away your sins in reality & over time gives you a holy lifestyle which becomes a substantial holy right living pattern. Christ is the answer and solution to all man's problems as we come to Him by faith. At the peace table where Christ will sit at the Head imagine way before this, going through your whole life living it (Zoe, the God kind of life,) to its fullest features animated in completion by God Himself having everything and heaven in escrow and sealed by His Spirit: the confirmed righteousness in heaven. The extent is without limit in Jesus' potential in you Christ Himself inside He being the Source of your being!!! It's fullness of the Spirit and Power in the Spirit a biblically real feeling, because true grace does not lead to license to sin but truly grace is in Jesus proclaimed and it is much more in its result than the sin of the one man Adam destroyed in Eden and this is Biblical. The unseen is eternal and the more real in God's Kingdom than the seen which is temporary and subject to corruption. Topsy turvy is the expression for the things within the Kingdom of God Spirit. A parable has one main teaching and is an earthly story with a twist of heavenly meaning (or in fact one main teaching.) All things become new in God at salvation in you and in newness of life God saves you, being infused with the right kind of hope, the kind with God is your Source. You live abundantly a life IN Christ and commit more and persevere at an attempt at an endure to the end. It's by the Holy Spirit coming along side you in an overthrow (Greek Paracletos, Comforter; Mentor up close.) Again the violent take the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom Of God by force. This is war against the devil and all evil. On that condition of being on God's side born again you're qualified to interpret the Bible correctly. For after salvation you put on like a piece of clothing a New Self which is created in Righteousness & true Holiness of the truth which is Christ Himself which the Holy Spirit sanctifies you to do. And this isn't a step but for there are no steps to sanctification. It's an act of the will however. There's level ground at the cross where we're being made holy imparted Christ does alone for you within your faith we participating and by the Holy Spirit's involved intervention and infused interaction in progressive sanctification. It's one act, (this saving happens from past, present, and future sins.) But there is a past, present, and future aspect to being saved infused completely the righteousness of our King the Lord Jesus in a right standing position.
We're never spot right on there in sinless perfection in salvation because we sin even after being reborn but not consistently or as habit. In fact we like very much to withdraw away from sin and sinful practices et al. After getting saved we have no obligation to sin nor to the sinful nature. Like a corpse we don't have to respond when tempted. We can let Jesus take over and answer the door to the temptation victoriously.
Practically present your bodies at God's altar (you make the application) in your heart in prayer as spirits that have a body in view of God's mercy! Be born again. Born twice, die once. Born once you die twice. The latter wouldn't be good.
It's by the Holy Spirit's making Jesus Lord of you that you progress in the sanctification process. And in this every department or area of lifestyle the Savior CAN BE YOUR LIFE indeed, and LORD IN YOU, and you crucified in exchanged ALIVE TO GOD example not of a sanctimonious person but of one living holy for Him. Holiness is something God does and is. He changes us by transforming our lives metamorphosizing us as in a mirror in our beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ in the Word as Lord as in a reflection (becoming conformed to His image) in a trial, or a tribulation, who mirror His words in a glorious word infusion in and of scripture. We get this vision reading the Bible and doing what it says. We get a likeness or new nature from God to live intently for God: focused by Jesus Himself being within us Holy and in the flow: the Standard in Holiness. He who has the Son has life! If you don't have the Spirit and the Son inside.. there is no life spiritually in you. You are dead in trespasses and sins and need a complete makeover in an eternal sense. Do you practice the Presence of God? Yes its possible and you can if you come to Him in the way of the Christ's Blood, belonging to Christ's .
Will you accept His Gift? Eternal Life? Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by Him John 14:6. One is truly excersizing his gift of faith to be subsequently saved, and sins are taken away gone in being born again accepting Him! You're Forgiven! There is a sea of forgetfulness in God's sight. We draw near to God. Justified. Jesus is all we will ever know of God He showing us an exact replica image of God (see Hebrews 12; 1:3.) Don't you want to know this God more Who did so much for you in love and did so no less while you were His enemies and in umgodliness? If we let God turn it around for us, and repent, we will feel changes and we will feel His love HAPPEN in us. You experience God's love first for the first time and come into His atmosphere breathing katharticly IN, His Spirit. He breathes in you His atmosphere filling you with the Holy Spirit inside. We follow after Christ, deny yourself, & take up our cross, our own, not His nor anybody else's, and FOLLOW HIM! This is how we occupy until He comes back. Obediently we call ourselves bondslaves of His own. We seek the Fullness of God. We want to be found faithful, good stewards, feeding the servants their food and not beating the manservants but last, least, and lowest.
We are receptive recipients of His Word like ever trusting receptive children. If God said it that settles it for us now. God dealt with the sin issue on the Cross. It's like we lose our life in friendships and associations we give up down here to find it in the Kingdom of God Spirit and eternal life in the Holy Spirit. Dynamicly transformed by the Spirit in grace you stay renewed. Keep renewing your mind daily moment by moment. Your spirit will keep your needs refreshing in refreshment as you remain in the Word of God having made a sincere decision of mental assent, comittment to, and follow through in accepting Jesus Christ for yourself of salvation trusting Him. With God's help you keep your mental diet a spiritual one. And then try to not think like the unsaved nor have their problems at all Romans 12:2. "Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what is that good, perfect, and acceptable Will Of God," the verse goes. You put off the old nature like a garment with its covetous lusts and receive from the Lord your new festival garment and embrace the new nature in everything. Problems never seem to go away but you're renewed in the Lord and you change and they (the problems) they mix it up in God's timing for a solution. The way out is up to God.
We look into the face of our Father. Scripture says of the New Birth, "old things have passed away, the new has come," & Hebrews says, "I will put my laws into their hearts and on their minds I will write them." In our new born again mind from Christ (see Phil 2.) taking up residence, and spirit-formed zeal of God we're receptive for a new heart and a new spirit and by the Holy Spirit renewing daily and fed and nourished by Him to be equipped for grace-filled service to God and to man being saved now. This is by our apostles (that go into new territory,) prophets (forth-tell and fore-tell,) pastor's, teachers, and evangelists who are gifts to us. By these we know the right tool for the job. No man can love without Jesus Christ. Neither can we do anything of lasting worth unless we abide in Christ and remain. It may be love as truly meant or lust so-called to give up, or love for someone in authority or family, or be romance that is true on earth but God's love lasts eternally everlasting and for the good of other's lives according to I Corinthians 13 aspects characteristics. Jesus Christ has Finished The Work forever and you are seated with Him in the Heavenlies, Risen or raised with Him also so live in the precious light of His love risen inside to abundant life like it is so if you bravely want to take God at His Word in this venture. God created us and He claims complete ownership of our being as Lord Creator Redeemer Designer. "If we lived like this Book is real for one week, men would seem to repent in ways we don't know about," was declared by Charles Finney. Salvation is entirely by faith by grace in God's sight in the Spirit from Him. We become then God's sons Spirit-led to share unfathomable riches in Christ and living it out by us in Him. And fruition is certainly probable and possible as you're sweetly transformed in the spiritual DNA of Him of Whose new motives they are from God alone. This is from sin to a changed life. Trouble diminishes then making Jesus Lord as a part of being in the Holy Spirit's plan. But God ministers to us and raises us up to walk on mountains too and so to become who we never could be. His rod and staff comfort us. We hear the Good Shepherd's Voice and a stranger we will not follow. Everywhere a revival or riot follow and we will rise on eagle's wings.
The Certificate of debt is destroyed which was against us Col 2:13,14. Christ begins to process the fruit of a Christian life in and through us in the Spirit. Hallelujah! What a Soul Salvation Fellowship! A Soul Koinonia! Read Galations 5:22,23.
We have come in faith to Jesus for a Divine Blood Transfusion: it's a curative and corrective Gospel by the Great Physician, that's from our Savior. We let the Word of Christ divide in us and dwell within us richly Col 3:16.
Love God and let it go, to live to obey the Gospel. Let everything else go. Live life loving in a tenderheartedness sympathizing with others. Compassion is going to cost. Salvation is not of yourself by any means, not of works lest any man should boast. God's desire is that we not be religious, but we by grace and mercy follow through, to maintain a simple relationship and sometimes complex with our Lord Jesus and through Him & the Spirit obey God! Trinity is hard to comprehend. We are His Hands His Feet! Christianity is God having Bled for you at Calvary and not you bleeding in your attempt to get to God. We 'love God' as saints (greek Hagios) true, sincere, and with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and "love our neighbor" "as ourself," which is the summing up completely of the Old Covenant demand and New Covenant Life. We can't make God love us anymore than He does. He loves us strongly and with firmness.
This new life starts by faith now impregnated with the Word. Mt. 6:33 is, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." "Let God be true and every man a liar," scripture says, even about this good news, even a colorful NEWNESS OF LIFE not so much a reforming life but a colorful flavor-filled ABUNDANT LIFE in the Kingdom of God and eternal. Like a prize one gets in crossing a finish line run in a way that wins. So run that you may win your race in a way that is winning lawfully in God's grace accepting of the cost you're determining that is needed to your consciousness to living for Christ every moment to get the prize. This is not a passive thing though you don't do one thing to earn it. God's promise is to bring it to pass and you live in faith and you follow through what God is telling us so you can make it. He can make you a noble fit creature for Heaven and finish what He started in you abounding, a viral, vital part of God's Body & A New Creation. Affirm this in your mind. Let Christ say who you are and no other person or source. Come to God through Christ. Again come to Christ Phil 1:6; Gal 6:1ff. Go For Gusto With God In His Love! Forgiven! In Him You live, and move, and have your being and Are More Than A Conqueror Through His Love! Jesus said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life!" "He that believes in Me though he were dead yet shall he live though he dies! And whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die." Max Lucado said and I agree, "Its All About Him And Not Us." Let your thinking processes and thoughts ruminate over and over how Holy a lifestyle God requires of us of godliness and holiness filled by Himself at times to filled fullness and power without which no man shall see God. Jesus was driven into the wilderness to hunt the devil down in the fullness of the Spirit as Sly Stallone Rambo. He came out in the Power of the Spirit in the style of Patton. This lifestyle can coexist in a sinful world side by side triumphant among unbelievers with whom you rub shoulders with. 11/12/2010
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Surrounded by Your glory What will my heart feel Will I dance for You Jesus Or in awe of You be still Will I stand in Your Presence Or to my knees will I fall Will I sing hallelujah Will I be able to speak at all I can only imagine I can only imagine So TRUE BLESSING BE MULTIPLIED TO YOU THROUGH THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD And through the SON, JESUS. He's the Christ. The Yeshua Homeshiak!.
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Bethel Assembly of God Church Podcast: After the 70 Weeks: Daniel 10-11 (part 1)
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Revival and Renewal. Living For Jesus O What Bliss.
Revival and Renewal. Living For Jesus O What Bliss. my parish<<
When I think of what Christ has done how can I not think of believing, receiving Him! This Book, the Bible has been preserved over centuries and unlike any other work of authorship, has lasted intact. We learn better scholarship from better manuscripts being used in its translation. Josh McDowell has written a small work on how really fantastic the Bible is! "Evidence That Demands A Verdict," he wrote.
Jesus was especially humble with children. He was mighty and He healed, did well, with everyone loving there personhood for the unique individual they were. He was much more than a great moral teacher and example. He was sinless. Uniquely He, the perfect Lamb of God died for us. We nailed Him to a cross but the power of sin could not hold Him in the grave. He arose! Christ arose! Hallelujah, I'm saved! If I continue in the present receiving and obeying Him I'm on good secure ground.
You see the claims of Christ are in the four Gospels and anyone can learn how they affect one today is valid being objective facts of truth therein! I was a little child of four when I gave my heart to Christ to follow Him a disciple/learner student! I know I'm forgiven being the sinner I was. No one can be saved unless they humble there pride and come sincerely! I didn't need to learn to sin. I knew it was easy being even in childhood back then. But Christ gave me a "newness of life" and put a new man in my shoes! I don't want to do the things I used to do. I have the privelege of being God's friend. This is because Jesus finished His work on salvation and now He sits at the right of the Father. I grew up in a Pentecostal family in a godly home but I recognized I need to decide myself if the Bible is relevant and pertinent. I found it reasonable the way God reveals Himself progressively. The Bible says, "what is seen is temporal, what is unseen is eternal!" "It's one life, twill soon be past; only what's done for Christ will last," is a famous quote by someone. May you too recognize your need as a sinner for Christ and salvation by His grace (you can't earn it.) David Candel
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When I think of what Christ has done how can I not think of believing, receiving Him! This Book, the Bible has been preserved over centuries and unlike any other work of authorship, has lasted intact. We learn better scholarship from better manuscripts being used in its translation. Josh McDowell has written a small work on how really fantastic the Bible is! "Evidence That Demands A Verdict," he wrote.
Jesus was especially humble with children. He was mighty and He healed, did well, with everyone loving there personhood for the unique individual they were. He was much more than a great moral teacher and example. He was sinless. Uniquely He, the perfect Lamb of God died for us. We nailed Him to a cross but the power of sin could not hold Him in the grave. He arose! Christ arose! Hallelujah, I'm saved! If I continue in the present receiving and obeying Him I'm on good secure ground.
You see the claims of Christ are in the four Gospels and anyone can learn how they affect one today is valid being objective facts of truth therein! I was a little child of four when I gave my heart to Christ to follow Him a disciple/learner student! I know I'm forgiven being the sinner I was. No one can be saved unless they humble there pride and come sincerely! I didn't need to learn to sin. I knew it was easy being even in childhood back then. But Christ gave me a "newness of life" and put a new man in my shoes! I don't want to do the things I used to do. I have the privelege of being God's friend. This is because Jesus finished His work on salvation and now He sits at the right of the Father. I grew up in a Pentecostal family in a godly home but I recognized I need to decide myself if the Bible is relevant and pertinent. I found it reasonable the way God reveals Himself progressively. The Bible says, "what is seen is temporal, what is unseen is eternal!" "It's one life, twill soon be past; only what's done for Christ will last," is a famous quote by someone. May you too recognize your need as a sinner for Christ and salvation by His grace (you can't earn it.) David Candel
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Gospel New Covenant Tract I Wrote
Winning With Christ In A Soul Salvation!
Hi friend! How Would You Like To Be A Personal Individual Friend Of God?! It's in an Abundant Life In Christ.
"It is the most attractive life of an intimate daily, constant, conscious feedback encounter with the Living God in Spirit and in truth and undiluted friendship with our fellow man!" - Francois Du Toit
Do you know that God loves you? Do you know the Bible tells of our Living Savior, Jesus Christ Risen as the Resurrected Exalted only Prophet, Priest, and King for men to get to God and we raised with Him to newness of life by His Atonement for sin, the God-man Expression of His Love for us, a great good right standing?! The Gospel is Good News. It's great good good news. Do you think of getting right with God? Do you know it's forgiveness of sins and the experience of knowing God? God loves you! Do you know God is love? Do you know God promises a newness of life? This happens through the Holy Spirit. It's not where you've been but where are you now. Do you have guts to follow Christ of God? What do you want from God? Tell Him. He wants our availability and our attention. He has blessed the little children and He has built His Church. He wants us in a relationship with Him and attending Church and have fellowship with others.
Now here's why I believe and hold true about *true personal relationship with the one and only true Living Creator: God gives us evangelical faith (which is a gift) to believe what He's done, what He's doing, and what He's going to do in the future! Do you recognize He loves you? Joyfully hilariously? That's love spelled l-o-v-e with much tender generosity, & lovingkindnesses. He has surely met your many needs and wants, food, clothing, and shelter by His hand. Do you have a certain object of faith? Is it holding you to something or SomeOne? It matters because this is the Incarnate God, He has revealed Himself: Christ the Son. For there's no formula to get to heaven but Christ He is the way! We are sinners and if you can fathom that you need God you need to know, the way is God in peace between you and He and that God loves you and wants you in His Will & in a personal way known by Him. For in God's Son, yes in His Fullness Resurrected Presence there is peace, joy and pleasures at His right hand evermore and this is all in knowing Him personally through Jesus Christ which starts with forgiveness of your sins. The Holy Spirit welcomes you to God's Family. God is buying you through your accepting Christ as Savior: Eternal life starts at the Cross! Salvation is an offense to the world because they can't understand it. Scripture says, "but if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him." It begins outside, you hearing the words of scripture and plan of redemption, then by belief in His finished work, from Christ's words drawing you near, hearing the still small voice of God to repent and responding to the Living Gospel. Living the Christian life isn't in self-righteousness but in Him depending on Him. Living as a Christian isn't silver or gold in having but having such things what God wants, contentment. Christ is our righteousness and we boast in Him alone. We're in His Presence constantly for in Him we live and move and have our being. Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end and fulfillment of righteousness to all who believe, for those who believe/receive His grace don't exert effort on their part for righteousness because they that do works alone to get to God aren't cutting the mustard. But as you have received Jesus Christ Savior and Lord as a child of God you will. Without help from the Holy Spirit its impossible. Walk in Him in dependence on Him. Receive Him like you would a familiar trusted friend. He is able to save and keep you personally found like in our Lord's parable in Luke 15 says. There God writes, "He rejoices and invites others to rejoice even over one sinner who repents." David Candel
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Salvation
I believe that through religion one does not get to God। Religion only hampers the process and Divine-human transaction। Jesus is the ONLY way to God. He is the only way because there are no paths outside of His and He being the one way. He is the Son of Man and Son of God. You see God wanted a Family. God wanted also to be a Father. God through Christ healed, performed miracles, claimed to be God, proved He is by rising from the dead, and fulfilling over 400 prophecies directly made of Him in the Prophets by 40 Bible authors over 1400 years is God in revelation. People have had so much misleading information in trying to reduce God to a set of rules, but will not check out His words when they are right there in front of them. Check out: Grace To You-www.gty.org or http://www.intouch.org/Why doesn't God just show Himself to people? He does on an individual basis to each person। But what would He do for the common man so we could understand? He did do so very many things by becoming one of us. He did assuredly heal in the time of His first coming by God's Power dedicating Himself to pressing His mission but 'practical but other-worldly' love for each of us on an individual basis led to disaster seemingly in pleasing Heavenly Father God even going to the cross and dying॥ yet rising, in a resurrection risen. It seemed that we as men did not know the time of our visitation to say the least. However, what seemed like a tragic turn of events led to humanity's greatest triumph. God's right arm got Himself the victory. His justice in holiness satisfied by the Lamb Christ Jesus did it totally not in part. Jesus' life was true to the things God does and says and is. You can't find anything wrong with what He said and did and was. Miracles abound ah but so do charletans. Jesus was real because He being God incarnate was authentic. The salvation plan of God through Christ's substitutionary Death is a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to this world. Those early at the Tomb Resurrection Morning began to realize all of His life was a sacrifice for them and His death was perfect shed Blood for their forgiveness of sins when what He predicted of Himself came true: ie. crucified, buried, and Risen the third day. Ten days after his ascension in the clouds the 120 disciples were filled by God's Presence in fullness at Pentecost. First 2,180, (#?) then in a week together 8,000 were baptized. "For these things were not done in a corner," the Book of Acts says, and Peter adds, "that we might die to sins and live for (authentic) righteousness," says I Peter 2:24.For those who choose a destination of separation away from God there is a hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than anybody. His story of Lazarus is explaining wonderfully important how it is to prepare for that judgment after death Luke 16:19-31. A born again decision to follow Jesus is the only way out of sin to God and out of this world's mold to God's unmerited favorable year in His Son. Jesus is 'the mold' of God's making for us for He is God precisely and accurately and in essence. Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."Love does not force a relationship. It takes initiative to see desperation in the eyes of others in these times for unseen invisible discernment spiritually to know that God suffered more than anyone in the person of His Son and in His holy deprivation Jesus obeyed God fully perfect and pleasing and became our Mediator and High Priest!! You see the two covenants were between the Trinity and we are the beneficiaries. God suffered in the person of His Son being vexed in His righteous soul, over sin, sinful practice of indifference to human need, and what satan's catastrophe rebellion did to His Creation.
When God takes loved ones home we miss them but you don't know how heartbroken God is over that for you and for them being gone from you। God cares for you। It is a part of God's plan to bring many sons to glory Read Romans 8:1-28,29-38। Consider the Prodigal son and what it took for him to turn back to his father Luke 15:11-32। God will use hurt so haphazardly in a broken world to bring back a soul to Himself. One comes to their 'senses' and admits they were wrong all this time before this before Father Daddy Abba God confessing one is a sinner. Then one adheres to Christ in coming to God holding Christ's hand at the cross and in philosophy and His words adheres to God's Presence inside in order to know, follow Him॥,etc., knowing His all-encompassing love was first before ours॥He loved us first. His Resurrection enables a justification by God in His sight, a Spirit-led walk by the Power of God (Dunamis in Greek, sounds like word dynamite) to be a Maryturo (greek meaning a living witness gaining favor by not earning but grace walk,) a participation with Christ in their life to a love walk with God and for their fellow man love also(after a born again decision which is substitutionary atonement into a right standing in Theological terminology, a superlative supernatural happening Divine-human transaction in God's sight which is salvation Shalom Shalem (sozo in Greek,)Romans 3:21-23;5:1.).Your loved one's pain drove them to God. But without God nothing makes sense, all futility॥ Jesus talked of the new birthed gift of eternal life. Heaven is a wonderful beautiful place. They are not the same. God created your spirit to be joined to Him. Unless you accept Christ as your gift of eternal life in the midst of the assembly & here and now and actually really begin to follow Him wherever He goes & where His heart go incredulously you won't get to heaven. "Keep yourselves in the love of God looking for 'the mercy'," after salvation Jude 21st verse says when you're saved in deciding soon. You see I believe that salvation is a holy transaction in God's sight with inner transformations! Your feelings get hit up by God but you don't trust the feelings.People's senses have been so dulled by this present mis-happenstance haphazard life they just couldn't believe all the sights and sounds, smells, colors, colors like you never seen, music, music like you've never heard in heaven. Eternity is a long time. There's no adventure like the good adventure of hooking up to the Creator of the universe being born again. God gives you adoption into the family of God, Christ's Body, a brand new identity that's from Him to become a New Self, with a new nature, a new heart, newness in/of life and koinonia or communion of fellowship of being forgiven before God, and an acceptance unconditionally into His Body of Believers 'in Christ' after submitting coming to Jesus Christ. You're the righteousness of God in Christ then I Cor. 1:30; II Cor. 5:17,21. You're then on the road to manifesting righteousness more in Christ in every area, Christlikeness, and saved then, born again, and the end is heaven someday in the Holiness of the righteous made perfect (future in heaven.) It starts by asking God for it and living under Christ's lordship. It ends like flying in a plane, God at death flies you there and you get a new body. Are you not ready for heaven when you die? God wants you to make it there as His friends not robots without the will to choose. You'll not have a wrong thought then. You'll be free from this body of sin. You'll have a body that can no longer be able to sin or even feel pain in heaven but only pleasure and that spiritual increase from it's Source, God. If you make the decision to be born again you'll follow the Christ of God by the Holy Spirit in the now today and live by the Power of God in the Word of God daily unto eternal life every day thereafter (to the glory of God.) You'll follow Christ and His disciple. Do you know who sent you this invitation? By virtue of when you asked God why (see Genesis three for Adam's ask of why,) He planned this dinner॥He sets the prisoner free and gives a table spread with luscious fruitful things and prepares us all throughout His love to us in life flowing to partake someday..
Do you want to start this partaking? You can."If any man opens the door," (God is knocking on the door of your heart)(for you to open the door,) (and on the outside of some churches waiting to get in,) "I will come in to Him and sup," (eat dinner/fellowship/commune/dine/be in union) "with Him and he with Me"!!!!! Revelation 3:20. I pray you become reconciled to your Heavenly Father Daddy Abba God. Do accept salvation through Christ your only Savior. You'll have joy not necessarily happiness in the struggles of life and an inheritance to endure. For it's not about performance-based Christianity. It's not about us at all. http://www.gracewalk.org/ or lovinggrace.org
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven।" -- Jesus Christ Mt. 5:3 All I mean by this is do you have desperation to get to God? Salvation? free gift. A gift of a life of sacrifice (see Romans 12:1)? everything. I have decided to follow Jesus. With tears I desire you to do likewise. A Christian is defined by love. One then learns God's love for them enables and adds to them grace and mercy to do॥ good works (that #1 'gain approval from God' and are #2, a 'living witness'-maryturos in Greek, same Greek word for both phrases' meaning) from Him supernaturally Romans 3:23; 6:23; Ephesians 1:6,7; 2:6-10; Titus 2:11,12;3:5.
Monday, August 25, 2008
GOD LOVES US UNCONDITIONALLY EVERLASTINGLY WITH STRONG LOVE
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In Christ we want to know more better of the Father through revelation of the Son in the Holy Spirit. Scripture reveals Christ within as we read of the Gentle Savior and make the heart connection to commit and abandon all to follow this Risen Christ Jesus. Having confessed we are sinners and having been saved by grace thereafter we worship God giving all the glory to Him. Kingdom of God principles Jesus taught in the Parables give us cause to reflect and apply to our lives. We want ears that hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. By a new and living way we are drawing near to God through the Blood of Christ in the New Covenant. We have this hope as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. His Body was Riven for us that we might be made whole complete.
Have you met this Friend in person? There is a song called, "I am the Friend of God,... He calls me Friend!!!!" ...It goes, "Who am I that You are thinking of Me, that you love me..." I'm sorry excuse me folks, but I get emotionally stirred when I think in awe how God can be my friend. And He is, for I'm born from above. In heaven I will never think a wrong thought and I'll be able to walk through walls and be completely free of this life's encumbrances. Can we make the Word more practical and list entanglements that tempt us to sin? Can we not say, "Following Jesus is no picnic but we know Eternal Life is a gift of God by faith through grace, to those who call on the Name of the Lord." The race must be won to the end (Greek Teleiosis for the end of the process - perfection) and that means follow Christ withersoever He goes. It's not He that ends with the most toys wins. It's living up to the Holy Standards of God's Holiness until Christ calls us home. Until that time of confirmed righteousness just look unto Jesus the Alpha and Omega and be holy as He is Holy. Be one and love others with God's compassion. God gave us life and counts on us to be reborn to an Abundant Life in His Son, the King of Kings, Christ Jesus. "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, a bulwark never failing, He our helper amidst the throes of mortal ills prevailing."
Dave Candel :-)
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HOPE IN GOD IS A CONFIDENT FIRM ANTICIPATION/EXPECTATIONAug 14, 2008 10:36 AMCategory: Faith
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IN GOD YOU WORSHIP THE Lord GOD IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. HE IS ABOVE AND WE ARE BENEATH. HE IS ADONAI, LORD. HIS JOY GIVES CONFIDENT EXPECTATION WITH ANTICIPATION! HOPE IS AN EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER AND NATURE THROUGH HIS ACTIONS; OURS THROUGH ANTICIPATION & EXPECTATION. SEEK THE LORDS FACE EVERMORE. HOPE IS THE VERVE, VIM, AND VIGOR GOD DESIRES FOR US! HOPE IN THE LORD! GOD WANTS TO KEEP YOU MOVING IN HIM. Psalms 9:18 For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
The following and afore are all scriptures in Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes with the word "hope" in them for you (Romans 8:31; Hebrews 6:16-18 are for your building up.) God is saying when we are without hope or despairing, "I am the Resurection and the Life," and without desires, "I want you to know I made you an overcomer, more than a conquerer, so discover your position as a king and a priest." "When you were a baby still with an umbilical cord I carried you, I loved you." "I took your sins away with a covering."
Psalms 31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.
Psalms 33:17 A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.
Psalms 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope for His lovingkindness,
Psalms 38:15 For I hope in Thee, O LORD; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
Psalms 39:7 ¶ "And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in Thee.
Psalms 42:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
Psalms 42:11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.
Psalms 62:10 Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Psalms 71:5 For Thou art my hope; O Lord GOD, Thou art my confidence from my youth.
Psalms 71:14 ¶ But as for me, I will hope continually, And will praise Thee yet more and more.
Psalms 119:49 ¶ Remember the word to Thy servant, In which Thou hast made me hope.
Psalms 119:116 ¶ Sustain me according to Thy word, that I may live; And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms 119:166 ¶ I hope for Thy salvation, O LORD, And do Thy commandments.
Psalms 130:5 ¶ I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.
Psalms 130:7 O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption.
Psalms 131:3 O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forever.
Psalms 146:5 ¶ How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God;
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous is gladness, But the expectation of the wicked perishes.
Proverbs 11:7 ¶ When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong men perishes.
Proverbs 13:12 ¶ Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 19:18 ¶ Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.
Proverbs 23:18 Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:14 Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 26:12 ¶ Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 29:20 ¶ Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 ¶ For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
AND IN THE DEW, A CONCLUSION:
THE GOD OF HOPE GIVE YOU ALL JOY AND HOPE IN BELIEVING, THAT YOU MAY ABOUND IN HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!! ROMANS 15:13
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Why Is God's Love Good News? It's Beneficial!Aug 7, 2008 12:11 AMCategory: Faith
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Do you know for sure you're going to heaven? God loves you! Yes He does. He sent you His Son, His only Begotten Son to die for you on Calvary's cross. You can go free on God's ticket of grace to be saved and being in Christ. Become the disciple of Christ. Man is inherently evil, totally depraved, and radially corrupt. You need not teach a baby to sin, they know it. The Bible says, "All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory." Romans 3:23; John 3:16, "All we like sheep (of the shepherd) have gone astray, we have together turned aside and the Lord hath laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6.
All men are on one side and God is on the other side. John 3:17 says by the way,"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.
God said "Paid in full" and "account settled" when you put your faith and trust in Christ's sacrifice of His body to give you His brand of rightness and in right standing with God and peace with God. Justification: "just-as-if-I've-never-sinned" can be yours too if ""you" respond to God's call to salvation. Do it now if you want to.
Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless, perfect life, suffered an unjust death even by going to the cross. His crucifixion was unique because He did it for others being the sinless Son of God. He laid His life down to show us the example God is looking for. He took captivity captive and in His innocent Blood took on God's wrath for our sins. No one took His life from Him. He gave it. "For He made Him to become sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him." II Cor. 5:21 God took His hat off and bowed and called us 'friend.' I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross, the chorus goes. Jesus satisfied the Holy demands of God. We have opportunity to receive Him and know God. If that isn't love then the ocean is dry, there's no stars in the sky, but Praise God, it happened.
Now it's up to us to confess we're sinners and accept Jesus Christ in our heart and know God by conitinually following the Risen Savior Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is given us as a seal. Grace is enough. We can't earn it, we receive it, this gift of salvation and take it by faith, and live anew like you did. It involves being born again and living for God serving Him and daily praying, witnessing, looking into the eyes of Jesus all the time. I pray you make your busy decision.
Dave Candel
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God Loves You -- Jeremiah 29:11-13; III John 2; Zephaniah 3:17Jul 18, 2008 4:37 AMCategory: Faith
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The Gospel is good news! Is your life telling a joyful though at times tragic-filled story of God's glory and victory? It can. God loves you. He has good plans for you. Plans to give you hope.
God is not the same man trying to make his way home on a bus (remember The Odd Couple TV comedy?) But what if He 'became' one of us? I mean really become a human and dwell with us mortals? He did. He moved in on our sinful condition with compassion. He intervened out of pity on us like a good Father. And He led, not like a CEO but like a Good Shepherd should. He led people to the fountain of life in His own strong and meek but humble way. He loved us in a way that liberated us to become 'our best self.' Not to live a selfish way of life but a totally radical call to follow Him and worship Him as a learner/follower/disciple. You may wonder why people sacrifice so much to serve this Christ Jesus when they can't see Him with the naked eye but discern and they begin to serve and live by faith toward God and Jesus as if they were possessed of another Spirit of His Kind, the Holy Spirit. Yes Jesus came, and in a way they didn't expect the first occurance although they know He would fulfill prophecy when He did come. Three hundred thirty three or so scripture verses point (literally foretold) to His coming in details not possible to make up, but 27 authors were born along of the Holy Spirit to write as God gave them the breath and the words. They looked forward, we look back. Praise God! There is more evidence for the life of Jesus Christ than of anyone in history than of this one solitary life. He came at the fullness of time. He says in the dramatic present, "Ask of Me, and I will give you the heathen as your inheritance." The early church had many Jewish believers in Jesus their Messiah and convinced many and Gentiles shared their faith as well. The Gospel was well believed because these things were not done "in a corner."
Jesus will come back a second time to liberate creation from the bondage of futility and corruption to the freedom of the children of God. Have you made it to right standing with this King of Kings, Jesus, Who is God?
Personally have you had a personal crisis and confessed you were wrong before your Creator God and asked for forgiveness and for a new spiritual start with faith now in the Son of God/Son of Man, Jesus Christ? Hebrews 11:1 talks about 'now' faith and John 3 about "entering" God's Kingdom. In order for God's love to truly penetrate the eighteen inch barrier between your head and your heart you need to want to follow Christ as Savior and Lord individually and with no strings attached and with all your heart, soul, mind, & strength. Obey God not man and pray to repent: live out your faith in God's Risen Son raised to a born again existence with the Holy Spirit commitment and love and become His follower with obedience to a raised life. "Against You only have I sinned," David penned in the Psalms (51.) God's Voice spoken in and through God's Word to you will be the Holy Spirit's prompts to change your heart & life. And seek the Christ daily through the Spirit as you read His Word daily with a mind to follow and obey His words. You will find in God's joy in loving God today a new motive to live because you find a supernatural love for your fellow man that is motivated in God's agape love and remaining at the cross of Christ. You will take up your cross and follow Christ. God does a work on you to inside you surgically slit your throat (it belongs to Him anyway now) continuously (like an underdog lamb) with His two-edged sword to bless, The Word Of God, according to Hebrews 4:12, and perform heart surgery on you giving you by His scalpel a new heart that doesn't sin. Or more precisely, one that will never want to sin. God will give you a mirror to throw up to look at of yourself of where to follow and where to change your heart, life, and conduct. God will give you victory inside you for adversity and for your mistake making. I John 1:9 will get you help and keep you in fellowship and good shape as you pray daily. You look forward to every revelation of Christ inside. Jesus is the only way, the only method of truth, the true abundant life. Jesus Christ is in fact the loving heart of God, the practical expression of the Father God and His heart. O how He loves you and me!
And when you stand before Him someday you will hear, "Come you, enter, good and faithful servant. For you did what I asked you to, to those who were the unfortunate, those who were widows and orphans: the rest, on My right hand," and you will welcome Him and He will say, "Enter," and escort you in.
This is in a one to one relationship with God. "There are pleasures at His right hand forevermore. In His Presence is fullness of joy." You'll want to talk with God moment by moment day by day. That's in prayer approaching Jesus and everyone (else) on your knees. Every day will have enough troubles of its own. So be it. That's what amen really means. Amen to this at all times incomprehensible God, who moved first and intervened be glory, honor.. I say incomprehensible because say for instance, isn't the theology of the Trinity difficult for our minds to grasp? Also, how difficult for minds to fathom how God had to kill Himself in human form to satisfy His justice!?! He did. That's not open to interpretation for it all through scripture, a truth to transform you.
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Live as though salvation is a Gift of God today truly and growing in character with faith and patience and with your zeal and efforts to live for God and God's glory with gazelle intensity you will be blessed according to God fighting your battles and leading you to overwhelmingly triumph in Christ in every situation Hebrews 6:10-20; Romans 8:37; Ephesians 2:7,8,9 and Joshua 1:9 and Phillipians 1:6;1:21;3:10;4:7,8,19. God loves you and so do I.
Dave Candel - Viva La Vida En Jesus Christ
p.s. Christ is how God will be revealed to us even in eternity. Are you washed in the Blood? If God be for us who can be against us?
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Having A Form Of Godliness...But..Jul 1, 2008 1:07 AMCategory: Faith
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When Jesus introduced the Kingdom of God He told us the truth about ourselves. We were to not sin and never to be like the Pharisees, Saducees, lawyers, and scribes in their indifference to compassionate behavior. We know God doesn't like hypocrites like they were which can mean a mask-wearer, someone not real, so live out your faith out loud with a sense of realism and gusto. Hypocrite comes from a word that means wearer of the paint. God loves you. You don't need the paint job.. Isn't His practical way He shows up in situations a real kick? I mean we know He's doing a work in people's hearts. Anybody who comes to God must believe that He is, and is a rewarder of them that do their do diligence to seek Him: they find Him. Our God says, "Choose you this day Whom you will serve.." People make mud out of money greediness but God keeps accurate records and wants us to know light can't dwell with darkness and so God can't stay under divided allegience. Will you serve God or money? Will you become His disciple today rather than the two masters? I have (I was four years old at the time,) I came to Christ and it's been the best decision I have ever made. It's more than fire insurance; It's an abundant life in Christ. He's much more than pictures of pasture in a children's Bible. I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father God but by Him. If your on this train bound for glory give a holler; It bears eternal results, to belong to God. How about sharing some comments and a bit about yourself for prayer purposes. I love you and I care about you. I'm open for God to do wonderful and great things but first to do whatever He has to do to get our attention. But I'll settle for revival like Ninevah had, thank you very much. How about the results? Out of this world! God wants your heart. He's already got your back as far as His part played at Christ's Death.
Bless be God. Continue to live by continually following the Lord Jesus Christ Who Died for your salvation and Is Risen to justify or validate your salvation into a newness of life, awareness of the Power of God to grab hold of, born again walk with God. This is after telling and confessing to God you mess up, because we all do (we've failed the Ten Commandments, lying, thieving, hating, and lusting.) We are sinners who need a Savior, Christ Jesus. He who calmed the storm with His word asks entrance to your heart. When you feel the urge to complain, and submit to earthly fears, just bow your head, and praise Him. He can work through those that praise Him. Praise the Lord. Follow the Raised, Risen Savior. It takes guts to live for God in a relationship because we are "in" the world, not "of" it. To not go by rules and regulations but to lead into the unknown just hanging on to grace and lips that speak grace, and mercy, kindness. Because it's not about rules and regulations though keeping boundaries is good nor is it about religion but it is relieving the oppressed and carrying equal balances and caring for widows and orphans Isaiah 58; Psalm 139 & Psalm 145 can help you in showing you the tenderness of our God, El-hoim which in Hebrew is a plural.
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Are ya Living or just existin' -- Zao, is God's kind of life Jun 13, 2008 5:12 PMCategory: Faith
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God loves you. He really does. Jesus is Risen. He is not here, He arose. Believe in the God who believes in you. Accept Christ as Savior and Lord. God is offering you a chance. God is offering you a narrow way but at times smooth and plain path to heaven and salvation. Every good person needs Jesus. We as believers even have to repent of our pharisaism and churchianity and religiousity lest we become as the scriptural Pharisees were (indifferent to people's needs.) But if God does not know you if you do not multiply your light and see Jesus Christ is the way to God so you obey Him then that life in the end, it was a life in vain lived.
That is why we need to read the Bible to know if it is God and God's way. The Bible is true to the one looking to know God in its portrayal of a Holy good God who hates evil and is wrathful. God is good above our highest known or unknown concept of goodness. God is not unjust to love you nor unrighteous to love you to cleanse you and to remember to give you space to repent Heb. 6:10; I John 1:9. Oh to know His goodness!
We all need to repent. God looks for the first sign of our change of mind. In some ways we can repent before God for our whole nation, America, who used to be great for the stand she took for God. But this is after you're saved in intercession. Save yourself from this untoward generation and understand that life is short. A short work God will make on the earth Romans 9. Life is short, fleetingly difficult to obtain in quailty, abundance, but God is good. He asks us what do we want in heaven and opened an ear and held out His arms to welcome man, and we crucified Him nailing Him to a tree cross because of our sin. Bible says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," Galations four. What more can God do for you than He has already done? He became sin Who knew no sin that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him II Corinthians 5:21. But He patiently waits for a response when He did everything in Jesus in His Blood shed for you to save you by the cross, if you would only react by getting salvation? Jesus is our Mediator to get to God. Even in love and thanksgiving living your rest of life by faith for Him through grace on a kneel in unceasing prayer and praise, and worship will only help if you know God. "For it is by grace through faith, the gift of God to be saved, not of yourselves, not of works, lest any man should boast." Eph. 2:7,8,9 How about it? Your sins exchanged for Christ's Righteousness. Then if you will salvation ensues. But it's no magic wave of a wand. This is your Creator unconditionally picking you up in your uncleanliness and holding you like a baby! With fear and trembling in fact we say gratefully "thank you" by donating our lives to a relationship with God. It's a relationship that's alive and makes one want to dance, weep, and bear other's burdens! You get filled up on different stuff and bring God into it. You worship before you do anything else. Sounds inviting? You bet it is.
The choice remains viable and open to hearts until you see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ! Until then we are ambassadors for God's glory. II Cor. 4. We who are compelling you try to be servants who take the lowest rung of the ladder of service or lowest place in the galley of under-rowers of the belly of the ship. We are matadors (pointing others to Christ while we get out of the( Mexican Bullfighters) way.)
I was only a small child when I gave my heart to the Lord but I knew I had the goods. Jesus was the stuff and I knew I NEEDED Him. I surrendered my life, my whole future to lay them at His feet. At an altar with God I found the Lord's Presence near me. From closeness to Him, then on (age eight) I HAVE READ MY BIBLE DAILY, PRAYED TO GOD OBEDIENTLY, AND LOVED GOD AND MY FELLOW MAN. But it is by grace to be saved, the Gift of God and I know Jesus's Blood has saved my soul. But, my life is not in a state of heaven yet so my life becomes a thankyou letter to God by bearing fruit (Galations 5:22,23) and that is why by faith I have vision!! to live FROM Jesus Christ within! AND throughout eternity I'm going to praise Him. The Bible is Father's Love letter. Daddy's arms await to go about you...
And I'll live and reign with Him for all eternity. When Christ, Who is our life appears, then shall we also appear with Him in glory. As you have received Christ, so live in Him and walk in Him. May Jesus Christ be praised. Well, will you join God's family and repent just now? Talk it through with God aloud in prayer. We remember better when we say things aloud.
God hears the prayful righteous talk of a sinner who repents. You must confess you're a sinner and come up out the other side: a saint. A saint is one in God's Family who has said "yes" to God's salvation. You know what you must do. What must I do to be saved? "Believe on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ."
As living in the God kind of life, Zao, or Zoe, now, after repenting and becoming saved, we recognize Christ within and so being "in Christ" as of utmost importance to the standard of living as laid out in the Gospels and as Paul in the New Testament said to become and live up to more constantly and consistently. You will find the mind of God and Will of God for you in reading the Bible and you will begin to see people through His eyes. This is a good thing by giving you a new reason to live (born again?) like gaining a new motor in your car, stronger, faster, and trophy: His heart for others, His way of seeing with discernment them with compassion. Continue by following the Lord Jesus Christ Who Is Risen! The heart of God is for the hurting! Dave Candel
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A Song: How Great Is Our God! & His Love!Jun 10, 2008 11:50 PMCategory: Faith
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A Song from Keith Green
My son, My son, why are you striving
You can't add one thing to what's been done for you
I did it all while I was dying
Rest in your faith, my peace will come to you
For when I hear the praises start
I want to rain upon you
Blessings that will fill your heart
I see no stain upon you
Because you are my child and you know me
To Me you're only holy
Nothing that you've done remains
Only what you do for Me
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With reckless abandon they came to Jesus ChristMay 25, 2008 6:26 PMCategory: Faith
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God is love. God's love was such that He gave us life (for it is about life not existence) to test us to see if we would inch our way to Him to lay hold of Him even if there were distractions, divided hearts, cares of the world, or divided attentions spans. In spite of the crowds who wanted to share in Jesus (and there will always be crowds who want to do that) there were relatively few in number that wanted to be His followers/disciples at such a time as when Jesus could begin talking about following and discipleship after performing miracles.
Jesus' statements and mention of counting the cost, forsaking all, to follow Him, to be able to believe Him to be the Messiah, Son of Man, who is servant to man and minister to all, etc. all were irritating, to following Him. Jesus gave the positives of the Law in the sermon on the Mount. People found them hard statements to live especially if they had not been softened first by His goodness enough. To Jesus, miracles were a side issue to the heart matters when the temporal need was not immediate as much as He saw fit the eternal need. Jesus did not like to be called Master/Messiah for this reason.
He would go to the cross and rise from the dead in the Will of God to be seated in Heaven at God's right hand to go to that great length in the same direction of obedience to reveal His Sovereign but Risen purpose to obtain true Disciples of God in this grace age, and the preceding Covenants.
And when He arose from the dead over five hundred brethren (see I Corinthians 15) observed Him ascend to Heaven but where were they ten days later? Only one hundred twenty were in the upper room to be commissioned by our Lord and to wait for the Promise of His Father: The Holy Spirit which our Lord said was to come. (Jesus said, "I must go away, so that the Comforter, The Holy Spirit may come John 14-17.") Do you want more of the Holy Spirit? Ask God.
God wants us to go beyond the bread and the fishes of His provision and the tingling of the ears of hearing His sermons and allow Jesus Himself be the "first love of our life" and to embark on a journey of leaving the past behind for our Great Adventure of being born from above and following Jesus in a love life with God. And simply if we would go after Jesus's Gift for us with reckless abandon for Him and the calling from God, and pursue His cause, leaving sin and sinful things behind on a permanent basis behind and obtaining forgiveness from God (yeah! a benefit), they could have '"church" with their heavenly Father God, begin a new start, and fellowship with one another consistently so they could find in time fellowship and find the simple relationship God is after with them. Then they would too be reciprocating of what would fulfill them the most (their God-man relationship!) Jesus saves, keeps, and satisfies! It is so! Jesus promises to never leave you nor forsake you!
God is reaching out to you and if you will hear His Voice, don't harden your hearts (while it is still called Today,) but come to Jesus Christ Hebrews 3:15; John 3:16,17! His love is unfailing! His Chesed abounding! He has lovingkindness toward you. He will not fail you (to not accept you) in any way at all but He will throw the biggest party for you you've ever known for you this side of heaven or in a way life has ever been for you yet! Accept Him as Savior/Lord and live for Him and you can be His born crucified yet risen child Gal 2:20;Col 3:1 (there is a book, "Born Crucified" by L.E. Maxwell, a good fast, feast read.) God will put you right with Him. You will be blessed thorougly in your socks having known the way and not departing.
All of heaven rejoices when one sinner repents. And there is more eternal joy in heaven over one sinner who's repenting than over ninety nine just persons who need no repentance!
When a man found a treasure in a field He hid it in the ground and sold all he had to buy that field. Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you" Mat.6:33. This is what that Kingdom treasure we can lay up in heaven can seem like. Nothing, no thing can corrupt it. It starts w/ love, joy, peace, (in God's forgiveness and from other's) and longsuffering (forbearance for others) that results in healing (Healing is Therapuo sounds like therapy in Grk?)
Jesus Christ will listen to you with meekness of heart and become your rest as you focus on His will & find your completeness (Hebrews 4:1ff.) and cause you to find Him if you look dilligently, the Savior and Lord of your soul, Jesus for your soul, real refreshment! Talk it over with Him. We're not selling the Gospel softsell nor talking about a never a bad thing happening to you so-called life but a well-balanced Christ - in - you, the hope of glory, life abundant Col 1:27; Phil 1:21;2:12,13. A more than a conqueror love from God sent to you from God Himself to firm up your spirit in Christ in victory will be yours also always as you're triumphing in Christ in every situation Roman 8:29-38. (This of course, for believers.)
These steps are to real peace with God in prayer, praise, worship, and driven purpose Rom. 5:1. Read Matthew 8:1-22 for Jesus's miracles' evidence. Even read, "The Pursuit Of God," by A.W. Tozer.
Jesus gave the signs of the Kingdom and then the calling to the Kingdom. His miracles were just a preview of the Kingdom. But right in the middle of all this power...Jesus thought... of as important: calling children to Himself for the blessing and the basics for disciples.
PEOPLE are Drawn to Jesus. The great PASSION of God is the unsaved. Jesus was sent to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10.) Jesus sees the crowd - He has compassion. The "crowds" come because of their needs. It is all about what they can get out of Jesus (Jn 6:26.) This is the major problem with the "Seeker Sensitive." People will always be drawn to those who will help. But, they will not stay when they don't get what they want!
Jesus knew it was time to leave! In the middle of the miraculous, God gets tough! He will use the blessing as a call to commitment. It is still here but are we increasing it? Jesus went from town to town and went asking for our hearts (today in the dramatic present...,) We can do this! We can come and abandon all, commit it all to His Hand... and forsaking all, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him. He arose!
Signs and wonders are part of LIFE in Christ. They follow obedience and preaching the word. Jesus can touch anyone...leper, Roman, even a man legion! Jesus had all authority to heal sickness!
It's not about the disease, but it's about the WORD! Jesus takes and carries them... Disciples learned: The heart of ministry to the hurting is Jesus. The Passion of the Heart of God is LIFE. Our ministry awaits..."
Paul said, "Follow me as I follow Christ." And, "Be imitators of Me."
Following Hard after God, tenaciously praying interceeding for you, your salvation... I am His servant, Dave Candel w/ help from beloved RC
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People Need The LordMay 14, 2008 4:05 PMCategory: Faith
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God likes you. He loves you but He also likes you! Isn't that great? He made us kings and priests unto God it says in Revelation. God created each one of us with a purpose. Happy is the man who knows his purpose and whom the Lord knows and to be envied above others. Psalm 139 says we were made fearfully and wonderfully. That is, by intelligent design. God loved us so much He sent His only Son to earth. He promised before He left earth for heaven again, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." In Isaiah He says, "I will uphold you with My victorious right hand."
His peace is not like this world's peace. Jesus said, "My peace I give unto you not as the world gives, give I unto you; let not your hearts be troubled neither let them be afraid."
Jesus went to prepare a place for us for where He is we can be also. This is John 14:1-4. He's been doing this for 2000 years. While patiently He is working He is in a harvest in need of willing workers. Jesus likes us to ask for specific items from Him to join His work and put a name on what we ask for. As laymen God love to do things for people. He delights in us and rejoices over us with singing. He will quiet us in His love and rejoice again over us with singing in His love and shouts of joy over us Zephaniah 3:17.
The preaching of the Gospel causes people to be freed from sin. If you need help and want a new beginning come to Jesus Christ and He will be your answer and fill your life with His Presence. His anointing breaks the yoke of bondage. This is where its at.
"I will worship with You all of my heart. I will praise You with all of my life. I will love You all of my days. You alone are worthy of all my praise." There is healing power in the Name of Jesus. Just at the mention of that Name you can fell a lot of problems.
Come to Christ and ask God for the forgiveness of your sins. You can be saved. Confess you're a sinner and ask God for repentence. Contrition is being sorry for what you do wrong before God. It's being sorry before God alone and how that is expressed to others. God will hear and forgive but surrender all. All who call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. God will heal you if you need healing. If you have fear God will give you love. He will give hope with assurances (promises based on His Character, His Oath, and His Word.)
Love destroys fear because we know God loves us and His love does not disappoint us. God is love. He is being intimate. Intimacy with God is worth all the price of the tea in China. Come close God is saying through His Son ('s obedience.) "For if One died we know that He died for all that henceforth we should not live unto ourselves but unto God" (through Jesus.) If you want to know God personally bow your head and pray and ask God for forgiveness. Confess saying to God, "I'm a sinner," "I need a savior." And begin to trust in the Name of God's only Son Jesus for that covering from God of forgiveness. My Father's love letter will comfort (that's the Bible.) Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Romans 10:17. Eternal Salvation is of God alone. All who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.
Salvation be unto our God forever and ever. Amen. Be and do what the Son and the Holy Spirit tell you "in Christ" and Christ in you and in the Father where they list you (like a wind to a sail) (or a rudder and navigation GPS to a ship) and go on to discipleship to follow Jesus Christ. You must live a krinkly egg on you spotless clean but Risen life in Christ to God for the glory of God and the pure purpose to enjoy Him forever! This is right, true.
When your're saved you're in Him and raised to newness of life. Just as the same Spirit that raised Christ up from the dead by the glory of the Father (Romans 6:5), He by God's Power (Dunimus, sounds in Greek like the word for dynamite) will quicken or enliven or animate your lives to be complete and heal you progressvely to be Risen in Christ whole. Light like you've never known will flood your body and mind. Your heart will become spiritually discerning as you follow the Light, King Jesus!
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Giving Expecting Specificly, but not generally: How?May 8, 2008 2:27 AMCategory: Faith
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God can only bless us as we totally surrender allegience to Him by obeying or doing what God in His Word tells us. The will of God is not always happiness but joy along the way. It's not just about money nor prosperity as some say this on TV mistakenly by Christian TV Preachers.We think of giving with expecting something when we think outside the box of obedience to His will. God has a usual way of working and we call this His way or better, His principle. When we honor by obedience to principle and specific do it we are rewarded "in the relationship" and that is first spiritually and if God wills, materially. It is not an option not to be givers nor obeyers but focus and concentration when life becomes bitter and we don't see the answers come (the way we want them,) becomes necessary. God has you and me in mind all the time because He loves you and me all the time: He's trying to get you in conformity with the image of His Son, Christ. So God may allow troubles and afflictions if it means a greater vessel for His use and a greater joy in heaven for you by deepening your character through suffering. Christ is going to take a stand for you but down on this earth you will be persecuted for doing right things. Jesus says we can make it because He overcame this world. He will live through you. You will recognize Him in your hearts. Just be sure you have identified with the Risen Christ in a relationship daily, by obeying, giving, trusting. By grace you are saved, not works however. Phil 3:10;I Peter 4:13,14; Col. 1:24; 2 Cor 9, 10.
"If you abide in Me (Jesus) and My words abide you, you will ask whatever you wish and it shall be done for you by My Father, so proving you to be My disciples." John 15
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You Can't Out Give God - What A ProspectMay 3, 2008 5:05 PMCategory: Faith
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I believe in our giving we all could be more improved givers, more generous with our talent, treasure, and time for others and other's benefit, and the church of Jesus Christ. Are you ministering to God first? Are you familiar with Abraham's giving 10% to Melchizedek who was a type or foreshadowing of Christ Jesus, a priest with no beginning or ending the Bible says in Genesis? Abram paid tithes this way. Melchizedek means king of Righteousness and/or king of Peace (Salem). He had no beginning and no ending, an epiphany in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ in fact He is Hebrews 7:1-ff. Abraham the receiver of the promises worshipped and paid tithes to Melchizadek who blesses him, as scripture says, "the lesser is blessed by the greater." We hear in the Book of Malachi, God says, "you have robbed me," and we said, "where Lord?" "in tithes and offerings God says." There is a qualifier which means the act of robbing God was wrong but then the promise comes as promises do come with conditions visa vie.
"God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servants," it says in Psalms if we put God first as Lord which means Master-King; Ruler, Master, and Reigner over all our decisions and thereby give 10% to our local church in obedience. Delight in Him and He shall give you the desires of your heart Psalm 37:4; God's desire is for you Hebrews 6:16-18. Jesus is God if you follow the Biblical revelation and the many internal proofs of it within the Bible itself. You can rest assured its throughout the Word of God.
This is God's spiritual principle in Malachi "Prove me now herewith says the Lord, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and give you a blessing you cannot contain to overtake you and bless you." He only asks us to trust and obey and make Him Lord and obey Him (and there is where we need to do diligence.) Like Abraham found, God becomes provision to us like Gen. 22 Jehovah-Jireh.
I practice this in my life by principle by asking God squarely for what I want and need and live with the consequences of TRUSTING GOD with the results. (In whatever form Jehovah-Jireh might answer) I give and sow my tithes and offerings into His Kingdom (at His storehouse) and work (at my church, His Vineyard) and to the poor as unto God. I talk to God throughout the day as to what His will is and then do it. He knows my needs. Dialogue with God is important as intelligently dilligently I seek Him and He honors us as we honor His Presence. He is worthy of all Power and all Praise. Specific answers come.
As we give generously and sow bountifully giving portions to seven or eight and in direct proportion to that generous feeling usefully we reap bountifully as we follow through and give. And it is according as we're able and not according to what we don't have! But none of this is possible "in the Power of the Holy Spirit" unless one becomes born again new birth, born from above! We don't seek rewards but we gratefully serve however for the prvilege of dedication to Him. By relationship we enjoy God forever and this is the natural result See John 3, I Corinthians 15:-1-7; We consider Him who gave resistance to sin to the point of shedding blood and so faint not at well doing and so reap a harvest of bountiful blessings & fruit in accord with repentance Galations 6:9;5:22,23.
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Life in Christ: No Bed Of RosesApr 29, 2008 12:05 AMCategory: Faith
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I want to add that the Christian Life is no bed of roses nor is it a feel good all the time prospect. It is also a life of blessing and great joy as we explore and discover Who God is within the crucified "rose" experienced blessing of God's forgiveness. Many have taken the Savior as their Lord and have this joy.
Of course no one can in the flesh muster enough stoicism to physically, emotionally nor intellectually stop sinning in themselves, but God says that if you've done it once, you've failed the entire law. Sin once, entire law broken in other words.
Christ gives a newness life. He says chuck the old brains and He will plant His new born again nature and all things will become new: new heart, new spirit, newness of life. Solomon said, "much study is a weariness to the flesh." So let's see if we can experience God's character rather than gather a bunch of facts. To know God you must read New Testament words and find Christ.
God knew man would do this (sin or fail) so He ordained faith and a substitution only He could provide (Christ's Death.) We call this salvation or being saved. Man will in his spirit acknowledge he/she is wrong before God and repent in this. Metanoia is the Greek for repent. It means to change the mind a hundred and eighty degrees about sin. To go about-face. To stop sinning.
God draws us and we come to Christ and turn the switch to believe and He gives faith to believe unto salvation which He Himself provided the way for, Jesus being God, being the way, the truth, and the life, God's propitiatory sacrifice Lamb. On the basis of one act by God we become His children and are saved. This is a seal in God's eyes. That act of sealership was Jesus's atoning Death on the cross. We must apply it to our life and then follow the Risen Christ. We must love God. Follow Christ. You can't lose for winning.
God lets those who believe claim His Right Living (a word for His Righteousness) for they "by His Power (Dunamus in Greek, and it sounds like dynamite) become God's children" in John 1:12 as they turn from all known behavior of sin and attitude to accept Christ inside as the Name above all names and personal to them. "Come let us reason," God says in Isaiah 1 to be saved, "Though your sins be as red as scarlet they shall be white like wool or whiter than the snow." God loves us but only in Christ being "in Christ" can we obtain victory over this world (and over sin) and be ready for the next life. Attend church for this more and more.
True there is great benefit to knowing God aright but you will see trouble and troubles like no one else has (unique and intimate to you.) It is truly right to follow Jesus. Being in His hand is blessing. Risen and following after the Holy Spirit you're being and doing right before God. This feeling is so great, so macro-cosmic (Hebrews 6:10-20) it is the wisest thing you can do for yourself and eternally satisfying to the mostest feeling of resurrection in Him. But getting to the crux of the Gospel Jesus is God and suffered in the flesh like you and me to the greatest extent humanly identifying humanly possible and without sin absolutely and positively right became a Perfect Savior (and Perfect High Priest), because He suffered rightly to follow God arightly and point men to God pleasing perfectly.
And He had the authority and power to do signs and miracles and wonders and healings which His disciples could do & emulate, and proving His Deity He became the Eternal Author of our salvation because He is and was God. And, He is Risen! The Tomb is empty! Jesus is alive.
He died righteously so indestructibly and unjustly as well having curiously & furiously determined to do God's will and go to the cross die an unjust death (watch The Passion of Christ movie, He gave up His Life: no one took it from Him) He became innocent of the charges made against Him crucified by others vicariously so we could be made whole and witness to His goodness and mercy as sons! Do you have Him inside of you? God is a reality we must deal with before we die. Hearts are in the balance.
We are misled when we follow the cynicism of the media and this world system & have unholy alliances and fail to gain eternal wisdom to follow Christ and so begin to see God's plan of the ages or blueprints in His Word with true discernment. You can open the morning paper and see the signs of the times right out of Matthew 24 and Revelation. May God open the eyes of our understanding of our heart to become the friend of God. May we turn from sin wholly and follow God. May we honor him to whom honor is due, Jesus, by committing our lives to Him, to live for Him. We were bought at a Price. Therefore glorify God. Count the cost to follow and pay it. Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
"I AM SURE" is a song by Michael W. Smith and if we read to the "end of the Book...," another song same album..be a disciple, follow Christ.
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He Gave Me A Brand New LifeApr 15, 2008 12:25 AMCategory: Faith
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Have you ever wanted to start over? I mean, live on air and come out of the cocoon a butterfly instead of a meal worm? The Bible says, "All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53 I have been saved, that is, have a personal relationship, not religion, with my Savior, Jesus Christ and through Him to God.
You don't need a reformed life but we need a transformed life from the inside out. God loves you and you can be sure of Jesus dwelling inside if you agree (homologeo in Greek) with God in prayer that you are wrong before Him a sinner and have missed the mark.
Then agree with God His mercy and grace covers you takes away your sin and you are forgiven! Live your rest of your life a disciple of Jesus Christ and for God, knowing you are in the Kingdom of God here saved by accepting the substitute of Christ's Death as atonement for your sins. Just agree you're a sinful sinner wrong before God but He will bury your sins in the sea then(where no one can dig them up.)
God takes your word (about your faith in Him) and combines it with Jesus's promise to raise you up resurrected, a new person with a new heart, lifestyle, and new spirit in Him.
Just by faith believe God is right, Holy, good, but He needs to be wrathful against evil and sin and just as such, He is Righteous and Just to forgive you your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
You become a butterfly instantaneously God having separated what you do in sin from who you are being, loved unconditionally by Him now so you quit sinning. If you genuinely come to Christ to God this day you never have to go back to your former way of life again. Just jump the pond into God's arms. It's an about face from sin and then against the grain life, when you leave sinful ways, take up your cross and follow Christ, this life in the Son losing your life to find it in God's Kingdom of grace but you will bear fruit in keeping with repentance as you grow in the grace & knowledge of Christ & the truth. Who you are in Him, called, chosen, and promised promises to become in Him near, you stand in the mirror, God's Word the Bible, complete and near Col.2:9.
Tell someone else about what you have done if you prayed just now for salvation & share your experience of salvation so then you will be solidified in a root system in God established over time and you will begin to show love for God by showing evidence of God's mercy to you by doing in a love walk with Him justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with your God.
Jesus said through St. Paul, "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus," for they leave the sinful life behind & "I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly." Romans 8:1; John 10:9,10 People outside the faith are condemned already by their own consciences. They literally suppress knowledge of God to continue to practice sin.
"Wide is gate that leads to destruction but narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it!" I have known the Lord since the age of four and have never looked back. I am blessed! He put a new man in my shoes. Yes there is a heaven and hell and you can be sure if you're on the right road. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord! As partakers of His Divine Nature you do right things now because of being in right standing with God and this is rightness from God that will become naturally what you want to accomplish in His Standard (His will as laid forth in the Word of God,) He performing it through you every waking moment Romans 3:19,21;5:1; II Peter 1:1-6ff. Isaiah 26 says, "I (God) will perform and accomplish for you." Eph. 2:10 says,"you are His workmanship, (Greek word poema like the word, poem) and were ordained beforehand unto good works."
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LET me introduce myself. I'm Dave C. from Franklin Square, N.Y. I'm a Blood-washed born again Child of God, believe in the Gift of Righteousness found in God's Son, take a stand for a new standard, Christ's righteousness & make no apologies for it. I attend church Services at an Assemblies Of God church: Bethel Assembly Of God Church from Franklin Square. I've accepted Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. I was four. Being all God wants me to be is a part of my all-calling I'm pursuing in God to be a minister and to minister to God first. As a minister of reconciliation as a layman I'm loving being single and agapetotes freed up love from God to 'laleo' (Greek word for to gossip or chirp) the Gospel to my family and church family. I Algebra tutor math to a twelve year old child next door to me. As well I'm a Gideon who distributes Bibles to many needy locations and peoples, am a substitute High School Teacher, and have a Bachelor of Science's in Chemistry. God's unconditional love is totally awesome. I rejoice evermore. I witness with all-joy to My Jesus My comfort, and shelter for he has taken my sins away! W/o Him we can do nothing. With Christ we can reign in God and in life to all possibilities from God's radical grace in Him Romans 5:17;8:1,28,37;12:1,2. What the Lord has done for me He can do for you. He has made something... beautiful... out of my life! Long live King Jesus! You are mercy to me! Godliness with contentment is great gain. Riches will fade away. My utmost for His highest. El Elyon is "God Most High," His title in the Old Testament. God gives us gold. silver, and precious stone! What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Then follow Christ.Edit
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In Christ we want to know more better of the Father through revelation of the Son in the Holy Spirit. Scripture reveals Christ within as we read of the Gentle Savior and make the heart connection to commit and abandon all to follow this Risen Christ Jesus. Having confessed we are sinners and having been saved by grace thereafter we worship God giving all the glory to Him. Kingdom of God principles Jesus taught in the Parables give us cause to reflect and apply to our lives. We want ears that hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. By a new and living way we are drawing near to God through the Blood of Christ in the New Covenant. We have this hope as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. His Body was Riven for us that we might be made whole complete.
Have you met this Friend in person? There is a song called, "I am the Friend of God,... He calls me Friend!!!!" ...It goes, "Who am I that You are thinking of Me, that you love me..." I'm sorry excuse me folks, but I get emotionally stirred when I think in awe how God can be my friend. And He is, for I'm born from above. In heaven I will never think a wrong thought and I'll be able to walk through walls and be completely free of this life's encumbrances. Can we make the Word more practical and list entanglements that tempt us to sin? Can we not say, "Following Jesus is no picnic but we know Eternal Life is a gift of God by faith through grace, to those who call on the Name of the Lord." The race must be won to the end (Greek Teleiosis for the end of the process - perfection) and that means follow Christ withersoever He goes. It's not He that ends with the most toys wins. It's living up to the Holy Standards of God's Holiness until Christ calls us home. Until that time of confirmed righteousness just look unto Jesus the Alpha and Omega and be holy as He is Holy. Be one and love others with God's compassion. God gave us life and counts on us to be reborn to an Abundant Life in His Son, the King of Kings, Christ Jesus. "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, a bulwark never failing, He our helper amidst the throes of mortal ills prevailing."
Dave Candel :-)
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HOPE IN GOD IS A CONFIDENT FIRM ANTICIPATION/EXPECTATIONAug 14, 2008 10:36 AMCategory: Faith
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IN GOD YOU WORSHIP THE Lord GOD IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. HE IS ABOVE AND WE ARE BENEATH. HE IS ADONAI, LORD. HIS JOY GIVES CONFIDENT EXPECTATION WITH ANTICIPATION! HOPE IS AN EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER AND NATURE THROUGH HIS ACTIONS; OURS THROUGH ANTICIPATION & EXPECTATION. SEEK THE LORDS FACE EVERMORE. HOPE IS THE VERVE, VIM, AND VIGOR GOD DESIRES FOR US! HOPE IN THE LORD! GOD WANTS TO KEEP YOU MOVING IN HIM. Psalms 9:18 For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
The following and afore are all scriptures in Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes with the word "hope" in them for you (Romans 8:31; Hebrews 6:16-18 are for your building up.) God is saying when we are without hope or despairing, "I am the Resurection and the Life," and without desires, "I want you to know I made you an overcomer, more than a conquerer, so discover your position as a king and a priest." "When you were a baby still with an umbilical cord I carried you, I loved you." "I took your sins away with a covering."
Psalms 31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.
Psalms 33:17 A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.
Psalms 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope for His lovingkindness,
Psalms 38:15 For I hope in Thee, O LORD; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
Psalms 39:7 ¶ "And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in Thee.
Psalms 42:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
Psalms 42:11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.
Psalms 62:10 Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Psalms 71:5 For Thou art my hope; O Lord GOD, Thou art my confidence from my youth.
Psalms 71:14 ¶ But as for me, I will hope continually, And will praise Thee yet more and more.
Psalms 119:49 ¶ Remember the word to Thy servant, In which Thou hast made me hope.
Psalms 119:116 ¶ Sustain me according to Thy word, that I may live; And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms 119:166 ¶ I hope for Thy salvation, O LORD, And do Thy commandments.
Psalms 130:5 ¶ I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.
Psalms 130:7 O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption.
Psalms 131:3 O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forever.
Psalms 146:5 ¶ How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God;
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous is gladness, But the expectation of the wicked perishes.
Proverbs 11:7 ¶ When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong men perishes.
Proverbs 13:12 ¶ Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 19:18 ¶ Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.
Proverbs 23:18 Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:14 Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 26:12 ¶ Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 29:20 ¶ Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 ¶ For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
AND IN THE DEW, A CONCLUSION:
THE GOD OF HOPE GIVE YOU ALL JOY AND HOPE IN BELIEVING, THAT YOU MAY ABOUND IN HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!! ROMANS 15:13
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Why Is God's Love Good News? It's Beneficial!Aug 7, 2008 12:11 AMCategory: Faith
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Do you know for sure you're going to heaven? God loves you! Yes He does. He sent you His Son, His only Begotten Son to die for you on Calvary's cross. You can go free on God's ticket of grace to be saved and being in Christ. Become the disciple of Christ. Man is inherently evil, totally depraved, and radially corrupt. You need not teach a baby to sin, they know it. The Bible says, "All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory." Romans 3:23; John 3:16, "All we like sheep (of the shepherd) have gone astray, we have together turned aside and the Lord hath laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6.
All men are on one side and God is on the other side. John 3:17 says by the way,"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.
God said "Paid in full" and "account settled" when you put your faith and trust in Christ's sacrifice of His body to give you His brand of rightness and in right standing with God and peace with God. Justification: "just-as-if-I've-never-sinned" can be yours too if ""you" respond to God's call to salvation. Do it now if you want to.
Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless, perfect life, suffered an unjust death even by going to the cross. His crucifixion was unique because He did it for others being the sinless Son of God. He laid His life down to show us the example God is looking for. He took captivity captive and in His innocent Blood took on God's wrath for our sins. No one took His life from Him. He gave it. "For He made Him to become sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him." II Cor. 5:21 God took His hat off and bowed and called us 'friend.' I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross, the chorus goes. Jesus satisfied the Holy demands of God. We have opportunity to receive Him and know God. If that isn't love then the ocean is dry, there's no stars in the sky, but Praise God, it happened.
Now it's up to us to confess we're sinners and accept Jesus Christ in our heart and know God by conitinually following the Risen Savior Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is given us as a seal. Grace is enough. We can't earn it, we receive it, this gift of salvation and take it by faith, and live anew like you did. It involves being born again and living for God serving Him and daily praying, witnessing, looking into the eyes of Jesus all the time. I pray you make your busy decision.
Dave Candel
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God Loves You -- Jeremiah 29:11-13; III John 2; Zephaniah 3:17Jul 18, 2008 4:37 AMCategory: Faith
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The Gospel is good news! Is your life telling a joyful though at times tragic-filled story of God's glory and victory? It can. God loves you. He has good plans for you. Plans to give you hope.
God is not the same man trying to make his way home on a bus (remember The Odd Couple TV comedy?) But what if He 'became' one of us? I mean really become a human and dwell with us mortals? He did. He moved in on our sinful condition with compassion. He intervened out of pity on us like a good Father. And He led, not like a CEO but like a Good Shepherd should. He led people to the fountain of life in His own strong and meek but humble way. He loved us in a way that liberated us to become 'our best self.' Not to live a selfish way of life but a totally radical call to follow Him and worship Him as a learner/follower/disciple. You may wonder why people sacrifice so much to serve this Christ Jesus when they can't see Him with the naked eye but discern and they begin to serve and live by faith toward God and Jesus as if they were possessed of another Spirit of His Kind, the Holy Spirit. Yes Jesus came, and in a way they didn't expect the first occurance although they know He would fulfill prophecy when He did come. Three hundred thirty three or so scripture verses point (literally foretold) to His coming in details not possible to make up, but 27 authors were born along of the Holy Spirit to write as God gave them the breath and the words. They looked forward, we look back. Praise God! There is more evidence for the life of Jesus Christ than of anyone in history than of this one solitary life. He came at the fullness of time. He says in the dramatic present, "Ask of Me, and I will give you the heathen as your inheritance." The early church had many Jewish believers in Jesus their Messiah and convinced many and Gentiles shared their faith as well. The Gospel was well believed because these things were not done "in a corner."
Jesus will come back a second time to liberate creation from the bondage of futility and corruption to the freedom of the children of God. Have you made it to right standing with this King of Kings, Jesus, Who is God?
Personally have you had a personal crisis and confessed you were wrong before your Creator God and asked for forgiveness and for a new spiritual start with faith now in the Son of God/Son of Man, Jesus Christ? Hebrews 11:1 talks about 'now' faith and John 3 about "entering" God's Kingdom. In order for God's love to truly penetrate the eighteen inch barrier between your head and your heart you need to want to follow Christ as Savior and Lord individually and with no strings attached and with all your heart, soul, mind, & strength. Obey God not man and pray to repent: live out your faith in God's Risen Son raised to a born again existence with the Holy Spirit commitment and love and become His follower with obedience to a raised life. "Against You only have I sinned," David penned in the Psalms (51.) God's Voice spoken in and through God's Word to you will be the Holy Spirit's prompts to change your heart & life. And seek the Christ daily through the Spirit as you read His Word daily with a mind to follow and obey His words. You will find in God's joy in loving God today a new motive to live because you find a supernatural love for your fellow man that is motivated in God's agape love and remaining at the cross of Christ. You will take up your cross and follow Christ. God does a work on you to inside you surgically slit your throat (it belongs to Him anyway now) continuously (like an underdog lamb) with His two-edged sword to bless, The Word Of God, according to Hebrews 4:12, and perform heart surgery on you giving you by His scalpel a new heart that doesn't sin. Or more precisely, one that will never want to sin. God will give you a mirror to throw up to look at of yourself of where to follow and where to change your heart, life, and conduct. God will give you victory inside you for adversity and for your mistake making. I John 1:9 will get you help and keep you in fellowship and good shape as you pray daily. You look forward to every revelation of Christ inside. Jesus is the only way, the only method of truth, the true abundant life. Jesus Christ is in fact the loving heart of God, the practical expression of the Father God and His heart. O how He loves you and me!
And when you stand before Him someday you will hear, "Come you, enter, good and faithful servant. For you did what I asked you to, to those who were the unfortunate, those who were widows and orphans: the rest, on My right hand," and you will welcome Him and He will say, "Enter," and escort you in.
This is in a one to one relationship with God. "There are pleasures at His right hand forevermore. In His Presence is fullness of joy." You'll want to talk with God moment by moment day by day. That's in prayer approaching Jesus and everyone (else) on your knees. Every day will have enough troubles of its own. So be it. That's what amen really means. Amen to this at all times incomprehensible God, who moved first and intervened be glory, honor.. I say incomprehensible because say for instance, isn't the theology of the Trinity difficult for our minds to grasp? Also, how difficult for minds to fathom how God had to kill Himself in human form to satisfy His justice!?! He did. That's not open to interpretation for it all through scripture, a truth to transform you.
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Live as though salvation is a Gift of God today truly and growing in character with faith and patience and with your zeal and efforts to live for God and God's glory with gazelle intensity you will be blessed according to God fighting your battles and leading you to overwhelmingly triumph in Christ in every situation Hebrews 6:10-20; Romans 8:37; Ephesians 2:7,8,9 and Joshua 1:9 and Phillipians 1:6;1:21;3:10;4:7,8,19. God loves you and so do I.
Dave Candel - Viva La Vida En Jesus Christ
p.s. Christ is how God will be revealed to us even in eternity. Are you washed in the Blood? If God be for us who can be against us?
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Having A Form Of Godliness...But..Jul 1, 2008 1:07 AMCategory: Faith
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When Jesus introduced the Kingdom of God He told us the truth about ourselves. We were to not sin and never to be like the Pharisees, Saducees, lawyers, and scribes in their indifference to compassionate behavior. We know God doesn't like hypocrites like they were which can mean a mask-wearer, someone not real, so live out your faith out loud with a sense of realism and gusto. Hypocrite comes from a word that means wearer of the paint. God loves you. You don't need the paint job.. Isn't His practical way He shows up in situations a real kick? I mean we know He's doing a work in people's hearts. Anybody who comes to God must believe that He is, and is a rewarder of them that do their do diligence to seek Him: they find Him. Our God says, "Choose you this day Whom you will serve.." People make mud out of money greediness but God keeps accurate records and wants us to know light can't dwell with darkness and so God can't stay under divided allegience. Will you serve God or money? Will you become His disciple today rather than the two masters? I have (I was four years old at the time,) I came to Christ and it's been the best decision I have ever made. It's more than fire insurance; It's an abundant life in Christ. He's much more than pictures of pasture in a children's Bible. I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father God but by Him. If your on this train bound for glory give a holler; It bears eternal results, to belong to God. How about sharing some comments and a bit about yourself for prayer purposes. I love you and I care about you. I'm open for God to do wonderful and great things but first to do whatever He has to do to get our attention. But I'll settle for revival like Ninevah had, thank you very much. How about the results? Out of this world! God wants your heart. He's already got your back as far as His part played at Christ's Death.
Bless be God. Continue to live by continually following the Lord Jesus Christ Who Died for your salvation and Is Risen to justify or validate your salvation into a newness of life, awareness of the Power of God to grab hold of, born again walk with God. This is after telling and confessing to God you mess up, because we all do (we've failed the Ten Commandments, lying, thieving, hating, and lusting.) We are sinners who need a Savior, Christ Jesus. He who calmed the storm with His word asks entrance to your heart. When you feel the urge to complain, and submit to earthly fears, just bow your head, and praise Him. He can work through those that praise Him. Praise the Lord. Follow the Raised, Risen Savior. It takes guts to live for God in a relationship because we are "in" the world, not "of" it. To not go by rules and regulations but to lead into the unknown just hanging on to grace and lips that speak grace, and mercy, kindness. Because it's not about rules and regulations though keeping boundaries is good nor is it about religion but it is relieving the oppressed and carrying equal balances and caring for widows and orphans Isaiah 58; Psalm 139 & Psalm 145 can help you in showing you the tenderness of our God, El-hoim which in Hebrew is a plural.
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Are ya Living or just existin' -- Zao, is God's kind of life Jun 13, 2008 5:12 PMCategory: Faith
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God loves you. He really does. Jesus is Risen. He is not here, He arose. Believe in the God who believes in you. Accept Christ as Savior and Lord. God is offering you a chance. God is offering you a narrow way but at times smooth and plain path to heaven and salvation. Every good person needs Jesus. We as believers even have to repent of our pharisaism and churchianity and religiousity lest we become as the scriptural Pharisees were (indifferent to people's needs.) But if God does not know you if you do not multiply your light and see Jesus Christ is the way to God so you obey Him then that life in the end, it was a life in vain lived.
That is why we need to read the Bible to know if it is God and God's way. The Bible is true to the one looking to know God in its portrayal of a Holy good God who hates evil and is wrathful. God is good above our highest known or unknown concept of goodness. God is not unjust to love you nor unrighteous to love you to cleanse you and to remember to give you space to repent Heb. 6:10; I John 1:9. Oh to know His goodness!
We all need to repent. God looks for the first sign of our change of mind. In some ways we can repent before God for our whole nation, America, who used to be great for the stand she took for God. But this is after you're saved in intercession. Save yourself from this untoward generation and understand that life is short. A short work God will make on the earth Romans 9. Life is short, fleetingly difficult to obtain in quailty, abundance, but God is good. He asks us what do we want in heaven and opened an ear and held out His arms to welcome man, and we crucified Him nailing Him to a tree cross because of our sin. Bible says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," Galations four. What more can God do for you than He has already done? He became sin Who knew no sin that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him II Corinthians 5:21. But He patiently waits for a response when He did everything in Jesus in His Blood shed for you to save you by the cross, if you would only react by getting salvation? Jesus is our Mediator to get to God. Even in love and thanksgiving living your rest of life by faith for Him through grace on a kneel in unceasing prayer and praise, and worship will only help if you know God. "For it is by grace through faith, the gift of God to be saved, not of yourselves, not of works, lest any man should boast." Eph. 2:7,8,9 How about it? Your sins exchanged for Christ's Righteousness. Then if you will salvation ensues. But it's no magic wave of a wand. This is your Creator unconditionally picking you up in your uncleanliness and holding you like a baby! With fear and trembling in fact we say gratefully "thank you" by donating our lives to a relationship with God. It's a relationship that's alive and makes one want to dance, weep, and bear other's burdens! You get filled up on different stuff and bring God into it. You worship before you do anything else. Sounds inviting? You bet it is.
The choice remains viable and open to hearts until you see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ! Until then we are ambassadors for God's glory. II Cor. 4. We who are compelling you try to be servants who take the lowest rung of the ladder of service or lowest place in the galley of under-rowers of the belly of the ship. We are matadors (pointing others to Christ while we get out of the( Mexican Bullfighters) way.)
I was only a small child when I gave my heart to the Lord but I knew I had the goods. Jesus was the stuff and I knew I NEEDED Him. I surrendered my life, my whole future to lay them at His feet. At an altar with God I found the Lord's Presence near me. From closeness to Him, then on (age eight) I HAVE READ MY BIBLE DAILY, PRAYED TO GOD OBEDIENTLY, AND LOVED GOD AND MY FELLOW MAN. But it is by grace to be saved, the Gift of God and I know Jesus's Blood has saved my soul. But, my life is not in a state of heaven yet so my life becomes a thankyou letter to God by bearing fruit (Galations 5:22,23) and that is why by faith I have vision!! to live FROM Jesus Christ within! AND throughout eternity I'm going to praise Him. The Bible is Father's Love letter. Daddy's arms await to go about you...
And I'll live and reign with Him for all eternity. When Christ, Who is our life appears, then shall we also appear with Him in glory. As you have received Christ, so live in Him and walk in Him. May Jesus Christ be praised. Well, will you join God's family and repent just now? Talk it through with God aloud in prayer. We remember better when we say things aloud.
God hears the prayful righteous talk of a sinner who repents. You must confess you're a sinner and come up out the other side: a saint. A saint is one in God's Family who has said "yes" to God's salvation. You know what you must do. What must I do to be saved? "Believe on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ."
As living in the God kind of life, Zao, or Zoe, now, after repenting and becoming saved, we recognize Christ within and so being "in Christ" as of utmost importance to the standard of living as laid out in the Gospels and as Paul in the New Testament said to become and live up to more constantly and consistently. You will find the mind of God and Will of God for you in reading the Bible and you will begin to see people through His eyes. This is a good thing by giving you a new reason to live (born again?) like gaining a new motor in your car, stronger, faster, and trophy: His heart for others, His way of seeing with discernment them with compassion. Continue by following the Lord Jesus Christ Who Is Risen! The heart of God is for the hurting! Dave Candel
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A Song: How Great Is Our God! & His Love!Jun 10, 2008 11:50 PMCategory: Faith
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A Song from Keith Green
My son, My son, why are you striving
You can't add one thing to what's been done for you
I did it all while I was dying
Rest in your faith, my peace will come to you
For when I hear the praises start
I want to rain upon you
Blessings that will fill your heart
I see no stain upon you
Because you are my child and you know me
To Me you're only holy
Nothing that you've done remains
Only what you do for Me
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With reckless abandon they came to Jesus ChristMay 25, 2008 6:26 PMCategory: Faith
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God is love. God's love was such that He gave us life (for it is about life not existence) to test us to see if we would inch our way to Him to lay hold of Him even if there were distractions, divided hearts, cares of the world, or divided attentions spans. In spite of the crowds who wanted to share in Jesus (and there will always be crowds who want to do that) there were relatively few in number that wanted to be His followers/disciples at such a time as when Jesus could begin talking about following and discipleship after performing miracles.
Jesus' statements and mention of counting the cost, forsaking all, to follow Him, to be able to believe Him to be the Messiah, Son of Man, who is servant to man and minister to all, etc. all were irritating, to following Him. Jesus gave the positives of the Law in the sermon on the Mount. People found them hard statements to live especially if they had not been softened first by His goodness enough. To Jesus, miracles were a side issue to the heart matters when the temporal need was not immediate as much as He saw fit the eternal need. Jesus did not like to be called Master/Messiah for this reason.
He would go to the cross and rise from the dead in the Will of God to be seated in Heaven at God's right hand to go to that great length in the same direction of obedience to reveal His Sovereign but Risen purpose to obtain true Disciples of God in this grace age, and the preceding Covenants.
And when He arose from the dead over five hundred brethren (see I Corinthians 15) observed Him ascend to Heaven but where were they ten days later? Only one hundred twenty were in the upper room to be commissioned by our Lord and to wait for the Promise of His Father: The Holy Spirit which our Lord said was to come. (Jesus said, "I must go away, so that the Comforter, The Holy Spirit may come John 14-17.") Do you want more of the Holy Spirit? Ask God.
God wants us to go beyond the bread and the fishes of His provision and the tingling of the ears of hearing His sermons and allow Jesus Himself be the "first love of our life" and to embark on a journey of leaving the past behind for our Great Adventure of being born from above and following Jesus in a love life with God. And simply if we would go after Jesus's Gift for us with reckless abandon for Him and the calling from God, and pursue His cause, leaving sin and sinful things behind on a permanent basis behind and obtaining forgiveness from God (yeah! a benefit), they could have '"church" with their heavenly Father God, begin a new start, and fellowship with one another consistently so they could find in time fellowship and find the simple relationship God is after with them. Then they would too be reciprocating of what would fulfill them the most (their God-man relationship!) Jesus saves, keeps, and satisfies! It is so! Jesus promises to never leave you nor forsake you!
God is reaching out to you and if you will hear His Voice, don't harden your hearts (while it is still called Today,) but come to Jesus Christ Hebrews 3:15; John 3:16,17! His love is unfailing! His Chesed abounding! He has lovingkindness toward you. He will not fail you (to not accept you) in any way at all but He will throw the biggest party for you you've ever known for you this side of heaven or in a way life has ever been for you yet! Accept Him as Savior/Lord and live for Him and you can be His born crucified yet risen child Gal 2:20;Col 3:1 (there is a book, "Born Crucified" by L.E. Maxwell, a good fast, feast read.) God will put you right with Him. You will be blessed thorougly in your socks having known the way and not departing.
All of heaven rejoices when one sinner repents. And there is more eternal joy in heaven over one sinner who's repenting than over ninety nine just persons who need no repentance!
When a man found a treasure in a field He hid it in the ground and sold all he had to buy that field. Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you" Mat.6:33. This is what that Kingdom treasure we can lay up in heaven can seem like. Nothing, no thing can corrupt it. It starts w/ love, joy, peace, (in God's forgiveness and from other's) and longsuffering (forbearance for others) that results in healing (Healing is Therapuo sounds like therapy in Grk?)
Jesus Christ will listen to you with meekness of heart and become your rest as you focus on His will & find your completeness (Hebrews 4:1ff.) and cause you to find Him if you look dilligently, the Savior and Lord of your soul, Jesus for your soul, real refreshment! Talk it over with Him. We're not selling the Gospel softsell nor talking about a never a bad thing happening to you so-called life but a well-balanced Christ - in - you, the hope of glory, life abundant Col 1:27; Phil 1:21;2:12,13. A more than a conqueror love from God sent to you from God Himself to firm up your spirit in Christ in victory will be yours also always as you're triumphing in Christ in every situation Roman 8:29-38. (This of course, for believers.)
These steps are to real peace with God in prayer, praise, worship, and driven purpose Rom. 5:1. Read Matthew 8:1-22 for Jesus's miracles' evidence. Even read, "The Pursuit Of God," by A.W. Tozer.
Jesus gave the signs of the Kingdom and then the calling to the Kingdom. His miracles were just a preview of the Kingdom. But right in the middle of all this power...Jesus thought... of as important: calling children to Himself for the blessing and the basics for disciples.
PEOPLE are Drawn to Jesus. The great PASSION of God is the unsaved. Jesus was sent to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10.) Jesus sees the crowd - He has compassion. The "crowds" come because of their needs. It is all about what they can get out of Jesus (Jn 6:26.) This is the major problem with the "Seeker Sensitive." People will always be drawn to those who will help. But, they will not stay when they don't get what they want!
Jesus knew it was time to leave! In the middle of the miraculous, God gets tough! He will use the blessing as a call to commitment. It is still here but are we increasing it? Jesus went from town to town and went asking for our hearts (today in the dramatic present...,) We can do this! We can come and abandon all, commit it all to His Hand... and forsaking all, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him. He arose!
Signs and wonders are part of LIFE in Christ. They follow obedience and preaching the word. Jesus can touch anyone...leper, Roman, even a man legion! Jesus had all authority to heal sickness!
It's not about the disease, but it's about the WORD! Jesus takes and carries them... Disciples learned: The heart of ministry to the hurting is Jesus. The Passion of the Heart of God is LIFE. Our ministry awaits..."
Paul said, "Follow me as I follow Christ." And, "Be imitators of Me."
Following Hard after God, tenaciously praying interceeding for you, your salvation... I am His servant, Dave Candel w/ help from beloved RC
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People Need The LordMay 14, 2008 4:05 PMCategory: Faith
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God likes you. He loves you but He also likes you! Isn't that great? He made us kings and priests unto God it says in Revelation. God created each one of us with a purpose. Happy is the man who knows his purpose and whom the Lord knows and to be envied above others. Psalm 139 says we were made fearfully and wonderfully. That is, by intelligent design. God loved us so much He sent His only Son to earth. He promised before He left earth for heaven again, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." In Isaiah He says, "I will uphold you with My victorious right hand."
His peace is not like this world's peace. Jesus said, "My peace I give unto you not as the world gives, give I unto you; let not your hearts be troubled neither let them be afraid."
Jesus went to prepare a place for us for where He is we can be also. This is John 14:1-4. He's been doing this for 2000 years. While patiently He is working He is in a harvest in need of willing workers. Jesus likes us to ask for specific items from Him to join His work and put a name on what we ask for. As laymen God love to do things for people. He delights in us and rejoices over us with singing. He will quiet us in His love and rejoice again over us with singing in His love and shouts of joy over us Zephaniah 3:17.
The preaching of the Gospel causes people to be freed from sin. If you need help and want a new beginning come to Jesus Christ and He will be your answer and fill your life with His Presence. His anointing breaks the yoke of bondage. This is where its at.
"I will worship with You all of my heart. I will praise You with all of my life. I will love You all of my days. You alone are worthy of all my praise." There is healing power in the Name of Jesus. Just at the mention of that Name you can fell a lot of problems.
Come to Christ and ask God for the forgiveness of your sins. You can be saved. Confess you're a sinner and ask God for repentence. Contrition is being sorry for what you do wrong before God. It's being sorry before God alone and how that is expressed to others. God will hear and forgive but surrender all. All who call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. God will heal you if you need healing. If you have fear God will give you love. He will give hope with assurances (promises based on His Character, His Oath, and His Word.)
Love destroys fear because we know God loves us and His love does not disappoint us. God is love. He is being intimate. Intimacy with God is worth all the price of the tea in China. Come close God is saying through His Son ('s obedience.) "For if One died we know that He died for all that henceforth we should not live unto ourselves but unto God" (through Jesus.) If you want to know God personally bow your head and pray and ask God for forgiveness. Confess saying to God, "I'm a sinner," "I need a savior." And begin to trust in the Name of God's only Son Jesus for that covering from God of forgiveness. My Father's love letter will comfort (that's the Bible.) Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Romans 10:17. Eternal Salvation is of God alone. All who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.
Salvation be unto our God forever and ever. Amen. Be and do what the Son and the Holy Spirit tell you "in Christ" and Christ in you and in the Father where they list you (like a wind to a sail) (or a rudder and navigation GPS to a ship) and go on to discipleship to follow Jesus Christ. You must live a krinkly egg on you spotless clean but Risen life in Christ to God for the glory of God and the pure purpose to enjoy Him forever! This is right, true.
When your're saved you're in Him and raised to newness of life. Just as the same Spirit that raised Christ up from the dead by the glory of the Father (Romans 6:5), He by God's Power (Dunimus, sounds in Greek like the word for dynamite) will quicken or enliven or animate your lives to be complete and heal you progressvely to be Risen in Christ whole. Light like you've never known will flood your body and mind. Your heart will become spiritually discerning as you follow the Light, King Jesus!
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Giving Expecting Specificly, but not generally: How?May 8, 2008 2:27 AMCategory: Faith
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God can only bless us as we totally surrender allegience to Him by obeying or doing what God in His Word tells us. The will of God is not always happiness but joy along the way. It's not just about money nor prosperity as some say this on TV mistakenly by Christian TV Preachers.We think of giving with expecting something when we think outside the box of obedience to His will. God has a usual way of working and we call this His way or better, His principle. When we honor by obedience to principle and specific do it we are rewarded "in the relationship" and that is first spiritually and if God wills, materially. It is not an option not to be givers nor obeyers but focus and concentration when life becomes bitter and we don't see the answers come (the way we want them,) becomes necessary. God has you and me in mind all the time because He loves you and me all the time: He's trying to get you in conformity with the image of His Son, Christ. So God may allow troubles and afflictions if it means a greater vessel for His use and a greater joy in heaven for you by deepening your character through suffering. Christ is going to take a stand for you but down on this earth you will be persecuted for doing right things. Jesus says we can make it because He overcame this world. He will live through you. You will recognize Him in your hearts. Just be sure you have identified with the Risen Christ in a relationship daily, by obeying, giving, trusting. By grace you are saved, not works however. Phil 3:10;I Peter 4:13,14; Col. 1:24; 2 Cor 9, 10.
"If you abide in Me (Jesus) and My words abide you, you will ask whatever you wish and it shall be done for you by My Father, so proving you to be My disciples." John 15
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You Can't Out Give God - What A ProspectMay 3, 2008 5:05 PMCategory: Faith
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I believe in our giving we all could be more improved givers, more generous with our talent, treasure, and time for others and other's benefit, and the church of Jesus Christ. Are you ministering to God first? Are you familiar with Abraham's giving 10% to Melchizedek who was a type or foreshadowing of Christ Jesus, a priest with no beginning or ending the Bible says in Genesis? Abram paid tithes this way. Melchizedek means king of Righteousness and/or king of Peace (Salem). He had no beginning and no ending, an epiphany in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ in fact He is Hebrews 7:1-ff. Abraham the receiver of the promises worshipped and paid tithes to Melchizadek who blesses him, as scripture says, "the lesser is blessed by the greater." We hear in the Book of Malachi, God says, "you have robbed me," and we said, "where Lord?" "in tithes and offerings God says." There is a qualifier which means the act of robbing God was wrong but then the promise comes as promises do come with conditions visa vie.
"God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servants," it says in Psalms if we put God first as Lord which means Master-King; Ruler, Master, and Reigner over all our decisions and thereby give 10% to our local church in obedience. Delight in Him and He shall give you the desires of your heart Psalm 37:4; God's desire is for you Hebrews 6:16-18. Jesus is God if you follow the Biblical revelation and the many internal proofs of it within the Bible itself. You can rest assured its throughout the Word of God.
This is God's spiritual principle in Malachi "Prove me now herewith says the Lord, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and give you a blessing you cannot contain to overtake you and bless you." He only asks us to trust and obey and make Him Lord and obey Him (and there is where we need to do diligence.) Like Abraham found, God becomes provision to us like Gen. 22 Jehovah-Jireh.
I practice this in my life by principle by asking God squarely for what I want and need and live with the consequences of TRUSTING GOD with the results. (In whatever form Jehovah-Jireh might answer) I give and sow my tithes and offerings into His Kingdom (at His storehouse) and work (at my church, His Vineyard) and to the poor as unto God. I talk to God throughout the day as to what His will is and then do it. He knows my needs. Dialogue with God is important as intelligently dilligently I seek Him and He honors us as we honor His Presence. He is worthy of all Power and all Praise. Specific answers come.
As we give generously and sow bountifully giving portions to seven or eight and in direct proportion to that generous feeling usefully we reap bountifully as we follow through and give. And it is according as we're able and not according to what we don't have! But none of this is possible "in the Power of the Holy Spirit" unless one becomes born again new birth, born from above! We don't seek rewards but we gratefully serve however for the prvilege of dedication to Him. By relationship we enjoy God forever and this is the natural result See John 3, I Corinthians 15:-1-7; We consider Him who gave resistance to sin to the point of shedding blood and so faint not at well doing and so reap a harvest of bountiful blessings & fruit in accord with repentance Galations 6:9;5:22,23.
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Life in Christ: No Bed Of RosesApr 29, 2008 12:05 AMCategory: Faith
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I want to add that the Christian Life is no bed of roses nor is it a feel good all the time prospect. It is also a life of blessing and great joy as we explore and discover Who God is within the crucified "rose" experienced blessing of God's forgiveness. Many have taken the Savior as their Lord and have this joy.
Of course no one can in the flesh muster enough stoicism to physically, emotionally nor intellectually stop sinning in themselves, but God says that if you've done it once, you've failed the entire law. Sin once, entire law broken in other words.
Christ gives a newness life. He says chuck the old brains and He will plant His new born again nature and all things will become new: new heart, new spirit, newness of life. Solomon said, "much study is a weariness to the flesh." So let's see if we can experience God's character rather than gather a bunch of facts. To know God you must read New Testament words and find Christ.
God knew man would do this (sin or fail) so He ordained faith and a substitution only He could provide (Christ's Death.) We call this salvation or being saved. Man will in his spirit acknowledge he/she is wrong before God and repent in this. Metanoia is the Greek for repent. It means to change the mind a hundred and eighty degrees about sin. To go about-face. To stop sinning.
God draws us and we come to Christ and turn the switch to believe and He gives faith to believe unto salvation which He Himself provided the way for, Jesus being God, being the way, the truth, and the life, God's propitiatory sacrifice Lamb. On the basis of one act by God we become His children and are saved. This is a seal in God's eyes. That act of sealership was Jesus's atoning Death on the cross. We must apply it to our life and then follow the Risen Christ. We must love God. Follow Christ. You can't lose for winning.
God lets those who believe claim His Right Living (a word for His Righteousness) for they "by His Power (Dunamus in Greek, and it sounds like dynamite) become God's children" in John 1:12 as they turn from all known behavior of sin and attitude to accept Christ inside as the Name above all names and personal to them. "Come let us reason," God says in Isaiah 1 to be saved, "Though your sins be as red as scarlet they shall be white like wool or whiter than the snow." God loves us but only in Christ being "in Christ" can we obtain victory over this world (and over sin) and be ready for the next life. Attend church for this more and more.
True there is great benefit to knowing God aright but you will see trouble and troubles like no one else has (unique and intimate to you.) It is truly right to follow Jesus. Being in His hand is blessing. Risen and following after the Holy Spirit you're being and doing right before God. This feeling is so great, so macro-cosmic (Hebrews 6:10-20) it is the wisest thing you can do for yourself and eternally satisfying to the mostest feeling of resurrection in Him. But getting to the crux of the Gospel Jesus is God and suffered in the flesh like you and me to the greatest extent humanly identifying humanly possible and without sin absolutely and positively right became a Perfect Savior (and Perfect High Priest), because He suffered rightly to follow God arightly and point men to God pleasing perfectly.
And He had the authority and power to do signs and miracles and wonders and healings which His disciples could do & emulate, and proving His Deity He became the Eternal Author of our salvation because He is and was God. And, He is Risen! The Tomb is empty! Jesus is alive.
He died righteously so indestructibly and unjustly as well having curiously & furiously determined to do God's will and go to the cross die an unjust death (watch The Passion of Christ movie, He gave up His Life: no one took it from Him) He became innocent of the charges made against Him crucified by others vicariously so we could be made whole and witness to His goodness and mercy as sons! Do you have Him inside of you? God is a reality we must deal with before we die. Hearts are in the balance.
We are misled when we follow the cynicism of the media and this world system & have unholy alliances and fail to gain eternal wisdom to follow Christ and so begin to see God's plan of the ages or blueprints in His Word with true discernment. You can open the morning paper and see the signs of the times right out of Matthew 24 and Revelation. May God open the eyes of our understanding of our heart to become the friend of God. May we turn from sin wholly and follow God. May we honor him to whom honor is due, Jesus, by committing our lives to Him, to live for Him. We were bought at a Price. Therefore glorify God. Count the cost to follow and pay it. Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
"I AM SURE" is a song by Michael W. Smith and if we read to the "end of the Book...," another song same album..be a disciple, follow Christ.
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He Gave Me A Brand New LifeApr 15, 2008 12:25 AMCategory: Faith
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Have you ever wanted to start over? I mean, live on air and come out of the cocoon a butterfly instead of a meal worm? The Bible says, "All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53 I have been saved, that is, have a personal relationship, not religion, with my Savior, Jesus Christ and through Him to God.
You don't need a reformed life but we need a transformed life from the inside out. God loves you and you can be sure of Jesus dwelling inside if you agree (homologeo in Greek) with God in prayer that you are wrong before Him a sinner and have missed the mark.
Then agree with God His mercy and grace covers you takes away your sin and you are forgiven! Live your rest of your life a disciple of Jesus Christ and for God, knowing you are in the Kingdom of God here saved by accepting the substitute of Christ's Death as atonement for your sins. Just agree you're a sinful sinner wrong before God but He will bury your sins in the sea then(where no one can dig them up.)
God takes your word (about your faith in Him) and combines it with Jesus's promise to raise you up resurrected, a new person with a new heart, lifestyle, and new spirit in Him.
Just by faith believe God is right, Holy, good, but He needs to be wrathful against evil and sin and just as such, He is Righteous and Just to forgive you your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
You become a butterfly instantaneously God having separated what you do in sin from who you are being, loved unconditionally by Him now so you quit sinning. If you genuinely come to Christ to God this day you never have to go back to your former way of life again. Just jump the pond into God's arms. It's an about face from sin and then against the grain life, when you leave sinful ways, take up your cross and follow Christ, this life in the Son losing your life to find it in God's Kingdom of grace but you will bear fruit in keeping with repentance as you grow in the grace & knowledge of Christ & the truth. Who you are in Him, called, chosen, and promised promises to become in Him near, you stand in the mirror, God's Word the Bible, complete and near Col.2:9.
Tell someone else about what you have done if you prayed just now for salvation & share your experience of salvation so then you will be solidified in a root system in God established over time and you will begin to show love for God by showing evidence of God's mercy to you by doing in a love walk with Him justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with your God.
Jesus said through St. Paul, "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus," for they leave the sinful life behind & "I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly." Romans 8:1; John 10:9,10 People outside the faith are condemned already by their own consciences. They literally suppress knowledge of God to continue to practice sin.
"Wide is gate that leads to destruction but narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it!" I have known the Lord since the age of four and have never looked back. I am blessed! He put a new man in my shoes. Yes there is a heaven and hell and you can be sure if you're on the right road. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord! As partakers of His Divine Nature you do right things now because of being in right standing with God and this is rightness from God that will become naturally what you want to accomplish in His Standard (His will as laid forth in the Word of God,) He performing it through you every waking moment Romans 3:19,21;5:1; II Peter 1:1-6ff. Isaiah 26 says, "I (God) will perform and accomplish for you." Eph. 2:10 says,"you are His workmanship, (Greek word poema like the word, poem) and were ordained beforehand unto good works."
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LET me introduce myself. I'm Dave C. from Franklin Square, N.Y. I'm a Blood-washed born again Child of God, believe in the Gift of Righteousness found in God's Son, take a stand for a new standard, Christ's righteousness & make no apologies for it. I attend church Services at an Assemblies Of God church: Bethel Assembly Of God Church from Franklin Square. I've accepted Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. I was four. Being all God wants me to be is a part of my all-calling I'm pursuing in God to be a minister and to minister to God first. As a minister of reconciliation as a layman I'm loving being single and agapetotes freed up love from God to 'laleo' (Greek word for to gossip or chirp) the Gospel to my family and church family. I Algebra tutor math to a twelve year old child next door to me. As well I'm a Gideon who distributes Bibles to many needy locations and peoples, am a substitute High School Teacher, and have a Bachelor of Science's in Chemistry. God's unconditional love is totally awesome. I rejoice evermore. I witness with all-joy to My Jesus My comfort, and shelter for he has taken my sins away! W/o Him we can do nothing. With Christ we can reign in God and in life to all possibilities from God's radical grace in Him Romans 5:17;8:1,28,37;12:1,2. What the Lord has done for me He can do for you. He has made something... beautiful... out of my life! Long live King Jesus! You are mercy to me! Godliness with contentment is great gain. Riches will fade away. My utmost for His highest. El Elyon is "God Most High," His title in the Old Testament. God gives us gold. silver, and precious stone! What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Then follow Christ.Edit
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