Hi my most Wonderful World Wide Family! I love you all so very much. You are awesome. I have missed you a lot! Again, I can’t believe how much time has passed since the last time we spoke. I am so sorry that I didn’t get a chance to say hello. But…..with God’s help and a whole lot of praying and fasting, I finished the Bachelor’s Program in Biblical Studies. Yeah!! Five years; imagine that. (That includes going through the AA program first.) What an awesome way to spend 5 yrs, learning about the LORD. I am going to go on learning about the LORD forever. Master’s Program, here I come!
Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Thank you for this moment in time to come to You to praise You and to thank You. We love You LORD. Thank You for loving us. Thank You that You created us to be Your family members for all eternity LORD. Thank You that You use us to show Your perfect love to the whole world. Thank You that You Provide for us (as Jehovah Jireh the LORD our Provider), so that we in turn can help others. We get the privilege of being Your distribution centers LORD; as well as Your scribes, Your oracles and Your heart and hands extended to a hurting people.
Thank You that You are always with us and You never ever leave us nor forsake us LORD. Thank You that You say You are the same yesterday, today and forever. In a world that is unstable You are the constant. You are constantly stable. You make us stable. We in turn can offer Your stability to others. It’s all about You LORD.
Thank You LORD that You give us day and night, water and land, animals and birds, flowers and trees, minds to think and hearts to love, ears to hear and mouths to speak. We speak forth Your WORD, LORD, words of life and not words that hurt or tear down. We speak Your TRUTH that Supercedes fact.
Thank You that You so loved us that You gave Your Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but shall have eternal life. Thank You Jesus for dying for us and taking away our sins so that we can be the Righteousness of God in You LORD.
Draw us unto You LORD. Lead us, guide us, show us the destiny and purpose that You created us for. Give us Your Dunamis Power from Your Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. Keep Your angels around these, Your people. Give grace and mercy to those who are being persecuted for You LORD. Bless them supernaturally LORD. We thank You in advance LORD. We love You and praise You. In Jesus Precious Name Amen.
We got the opportunity to perform a “Mock Trial skit for the Defense of Christianity” for our last day of class in Bible College. It was awesome. God allowed us to be used by Him to bring Him glory and to speak forth His WORD, the Bible, to those who may not otherwise know Him or His WORD. We got to do this by performing this time.
There are so many ways to “speak forth God’s WORD to the world.” We can live our lives as a walking epistle for the LORD. We can share the Bible. We can preach or listen to Preachers. We can share testimonies and pray for people. We can go to church and Bible studies. We can go into the streets and street witness. We can go to Bible College! We can help hurting people in their times of dire need. People can see God in us by His Pure Love that shines through us. We can be vulnerable and honest in our own lives and not pretend that we have it all together; thus showing others that we all need God.
It was intense learning about multiple different religions and understanding their beliefs. We also learned ways that we could share with people of other religions; Who this Jesus Christ of Nazareth really is. He is the LORD and Savior of the whole world and the Only Way to God the Father and to spend eternity with God in Heaven. This was our study in ‘Apologetics’, the branch of theology concerned with the defense or proof of Christianity.
We learned that Hindus and Buddhists believe they have to go through thousands or millions of lives of reincarnation to make up for the karma of the previous life until they are are finally set free, called moksha and joined to an impersonal god called brahma. During those lives they may come back as a person, an animal or an inanimate object. There is no evidence to back up this belief.
I am very thankful that as a Christian I know that I can never do enough good works to “earn” eternal life in Heaven with God; (God the Father, God the Son= Jesus and God the Holy Spirit = the One Triune God.) It is the ultimate free gift from God given by His mercy and Grace. (Grace has a name and His name is Jesus Christ.) Christianity is not a religion. It is a personal intimate relationship with the One and Only True God, the Creator of the Universe.
That is why God sent His Only Son Jesus Christ to die a horrific death to take away the sins of the world so that we can be forgiven and made righteous by His death. Jesus then arose, was resurrected, lived among His followers and was touched by them and ate with them and shared life with them for 40 days after His death. Jesus was seen by multitudes of eyewitnesses after His death.
He then ascended into Heaven and sent us His Holy Spirit-the Paraklete=the Comforter Who leads and guides us into all TRUTH. There is so much historical evidence to back up Christianity. I will share it with you over time. (I will have time to share and write more often now that I am a graduate! Yeah!)
DEUTERONOMY 31:6 BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. DO NOT BE AFRAID OR TERRIFIED BECAUSE OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD GOES WITH YOU; HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.
JUDE 1:24-25 NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM STUMBLING AND TO PRESENT YOU BLAMELESS BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY WITH GREAT JOY, TO THE ONLY GOD, OUR SAVIOR, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, BE GLORY, MAJESTY, DOMINION AND AUTHORITY, BEFORE ALL TIME AND NOW AND FOREVER, AMEN.
PSALM 116:8-9 FOR YOU HAVE DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM DEATH, MY EYES FROM TEARS, MY FEET FROM STUMBLING; I WILL WALK BEFORE THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING.
MATTHEW 28:5 THE ANGEL SAID TO THE WOMEN, “DO NOT BE AFRAID. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JESUS, WHO HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED. HE IS NOT HERE. HE HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD AS HE SAID HE WOULD.”
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 FOR GOD MADE HIM WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.
Well I should go for now. It was so awesome talking with all of you again. I love you all so very much and even more importantly-Jesus loves you!