Month: September 2018

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family! I love you all so very much. It is so awesome to be able to write to you at this time. I really get a lot of joy when I get to share about our LORD Jesus Christ with all of you. There is actually nothing better to me than this.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Jesus Christ our LORD, Holy Spirit, we come to You today as Your beloved children. We honor You, we praise and worship You. We love You LORD. Thank You for another day to be alive here on earth. Thank You that our future is secured in Heaven after we leave this earth for those of us who have accepted You as our LORD and Savior. We ask that You open our hearts, minds and spirits to receive You as You call all of us unto Yourself LORD,  for eternal salvation. Send Your Christian soldiers into Your world with Your Love to give to Your people LORD.

Send me LORD to do Your will to share You with Your people. Use these words on this blog site that go forth into Your world. Open Your people’s hearts LORD to receive You. Thank You for Your protection. Thank You for keeping Your angels around us LORD. Thank You for providing for us.  Thank You that we are never alone. Thank You for sending Your Holy Spirit to guide us, teach us, empower us and give us Your Dunamis Power so we can boldly go forth into the world to be  Your world changers LORD. Give us Your wisdom and Your strategies to be able to bring You glory, honor, and precious souls. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus Christ, and we thank You in  advance LORD. Amen. Glory to God!

I wanted to share with you how we can correctly esteem ourselves. We do not have to live with low self esteem. We also do not need to live as haughty, self righteous people who look down upon others.  There are sadly so many people, situations, attacks from satan, (the enemy of our souls),  and even personal misconceptions about ourselves and our worth that would love to destroy us.  We need to be aware of the “Truth that Supersedes Fact” that will help us to live this life empowered and not defeated.

The truth is that we are all God’s beloved children and we are all made in His image. Now I know that there are many world views out there that would disagree. Well, it is also God that gave us this ‘free choice’ to believe or not to believe in Him. (I pray that you would all believe in God and His Son Jesus, then we will spend eternity together in Heaven. Yay!)

There are atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, post modernists, to mention a few, as well as multiple religions. There is Mormonism, Hinduism, Islam,  Judaism, Jehovah Witnesses, Universalists, Buddhism, devil worshipers/those who believe in the occult, wicca, and spiritualists to mention a few.

Then there is the TRUTH of Jesus Christ, Who is God’s Only Beloved and Begotten Son. Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life and the Only Way to God. Who is God Incarnate, the Messiah and the WORD/(the Bible) made Flesh, Who lived and dwelt among us. Jesus as part of the Triune God Head; God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit=One God/the One and Only True God.

This is what God has to say about us and about who we are. We need to believe who God says that we are instead of who the world says that we are. We need to believe who God says we are instead of who our sordid past or our current sins tells us we are.  We need to believe who God says we are instead of who our present circumstances say we are. We need to believe who God says we are instead of the voices of those who have tried to tear us down or even destroy us say that we are. We need to believe who God says that we are instead of who social media says that we are.

Sadly those negative, demeaning voices can still play over and over in our minds from our childhood. (No matter how old we are.) Those more remote memories from our elementary school, middle school, junior high and high school days that were unfavorable to say the least; they are not who we are. Those more recent memories as young adults, older adults and mature adults, of co-workers, bosses or employers who have betrayed us, deceived us and slandered us; this is not who we are.

There are sadly many of us who had parents who did not nurture nor love us. They instead abused us physically, mentally, emotionally, and neglected us. There are those of us who have never even known who our biological parents are and may have grown up in the ‘system’ or in foster care where you sadly experienced abuse.  Again I say this is not who we are. And I am so very sorry that anyone of you went through this type of abuse and devastation either as a child, adolescent or adult or are currently living through this. God protect you and heal you! He will! You are never alone!

Let me tell you Who You Really Are! You are God’s beloved children, (even if you are grown.) God loved you so much that He gave His Only Beloved, Begotten Son Jesus Christ to die a horrendous death on the cross for you. Who do you know that would give up their son to die in the place of anyone? Let alone people who hated Jesus at the time even though He spent His life loving, healing, teaching and caring for them.  There may be some of you who hate God or hate Jesus right now. He still loves you. He still died for you. He still calls unto you to believe in Him.

JOHN 3:16   FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (JESUS CHRIST TO DIE), THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM  SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVER LASTING LIFE. (kjv/parenthesis=me to clarify)

Your opinion of God or your emotions about God or your beliefs do not change Who He really Is. This is an example of Truth that Supersedes Fact. You are of course entitled to your beliefs. God is still and always will be God throughout eternity.  He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is the Beginning and the End, He is the Author and the Finisher of your life and you are His beloved children. The thing is that we have to make some life altering/eternity altering choices in the brief life span that we have while we are here on this earth. After we breathe our last breath, which we all will; it will be too late. Please choose wisely. Your eternal existence depends on this choice.

JOHN 14:6   JESUS ANSWERED, “I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME,”   (niv)

HEBREWS 12:2   LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT AND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. (nkjv)

We are the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Yes this is Truth from the Bible. We may feel that we are unclean, unfavorable, unwanted, and undesirable, but this is not who God says that we are.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21   FOR HE MADE HIM, (JESUS) WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.  (nkjv)

ROMANS 3:22-24   EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO ALL AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE. FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, BEING JUSTIFIED, FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS.   (nkjv)

1 JOHN 3:1-2   SEE WHAT KIND OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS GIVEN TO US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD; AND SO WE ARE. THE REASON WHY THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US IS THAT IT DID NOT KNOW HIM. BELOVED, WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN NOW, AND WHAT WE WILL BE HAS NOT YET APPEARED; BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE, (JESUS) APPEARS, (THE SECOND TIME), WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, BECAUSE WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. 

JAMES 2:5   LISTEN, MY BELOVED BROTHERS, (AND SISTERS), HAS NOT GOD CHOSEN THOSE WHO ARE POOR IN THE WORLD TO BE RICH IN FAITH AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM, WHICH HE HAS PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM?

Well my beloved World Wide Family; these are a few of God’s scriptures to you to show you that you/we are His beloved children. Please do not let negative influences tell you who you are. Instead let God, the Creator of the universe and the Creator of you tell you who you are. I think that He would be the One Who knows best. Don’t you?

Until we talk again. Please remember that I love you and am always praying for you. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you and all of your family for all generations!

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. Yay! I get to start my morning bright and early talking to you all. I love you. I wish you all a great and blessed day. I was thinking about the topic of Superheroes. There have been a lot of movies and comics created about superheroes both recently and over many years. We are drawn to stories and characters of this caliber.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Jesus Christ of Nazareth and Holy Spirit. We love You. We praise Your Holy Name. We thank You for Your perfect love and faithfulness to us, Your people. We are joyful to start this day with You LORD. We thank You that we are never alone and that You go with us throughout each and every day. You lead us and guide us. You protect us and provide for us. You teach us Your Will and Your Way from Your WORD the Bible. You send Your preachers into all of Your world to teach Your Gospel of the Good News about Jesus Christ and His salvation for all of  us. Please bless each one of Your people all over the world wherever they may reside, as well as all of their generations. Please bless also the Superheroes from all walks of life, especially those that are obscure yet valiant. Those that no-one knows about nor hears about; but You know their sacrifices LORD. We thank You in advance LORD. In Jesus Precious Name Amen. Glory to God!

Many of us have had the honor to personally know people who have lived lives devoted to the betterment of mankind. We know of the heroic deeds of our Military, First Responders, Police, and Firemen and women and many other individuals. We hear stories in the news where someone risked their life or even died while heroically saving another, even a stranger. This brings tears to our eyes.

I looked up the word superhero and the definition from google/Wikipedia is this: A superhero is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling super-villains. I began wondering why it isn’t more clear to people everywhere that there is One Superhero above all superheroes and of course none could even remotely be compared with Him. Because He has no rival and no equal. His Name is Jesus Christ!

Why is it that so many seem to truly be blind to just exactly Who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for all of mankind that has ever been born since the beginning of creation. (Oh, and by the way, He did that also. He is the One Who ‘created all of creation’. We have never heard of any other superhero who did that!)

Creation was of course just the beginning of what Jesus (the Superhero of all times) did. He Himself was never created, He is eternal, He is the Creator. He did however choose to leave His home in Heaven and come down here to earth to be born as a human baby, the Only Beloved and Begotten Son of God and God Incarnate. He chose to obey His Father God and live the life of a human being Who was tempted in every way that all of us are tempted; yet He never sinned. He performed so many miracles while here on earth that if they were written down, the whole world could not contain all of them.

Jesus healed the blind, even those blind from birth. He healed the paralytics and the lepers. He fed the multitudes of 5000 men, plus women and children, (thought to be a crowd of possibly 20,000.), with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread, and had basketfuls left over. He took tax money from the mouth of a fish to pay His taxes and those of His disciples. He cast out demons. He saved all of those who would come to Him. He loved the sinners, the outcasts, the poor, the broken, the disenfranchised and marginalized. He alone changed the whole world for all eternity.

But… He loved them too much to leave them in their current condition. He called them unto Himself. He changed their lives, He changed the whole world. He calls us unto Himself. He longs to change our lives and send us out to change this whole world for Christ. Will you do it? The choice is yours. The choice is eternal. Jesus is the True Superhero of all time and eternity and He is calling YOU to follow Him, to be like Him, to love others like He did, to help others like He did, to lead and inspire others like He did, to be your brother’s keeper. To actually be superheroes yourselves in the strength and admonition of the LORD Jesus Christ.

And of course, like no other superhero ever could; Jesus Christ chose to be tortured, crucified on the cross and die a horrendous death for you and me. So that our sins could be forgiven and those of us who choose to follow Him as our LORD and Savior will spend eternity in Heaven with Him! (And with each other. Yay!)

And as only Jesus could do. He raised back to life on the third day. after conquering death, hell and the grave. He resurrected. He walked among His people on earth for 40 days, after dying. He was seen by the multitudes. He talked with them, taught them, and ate with His disciples. Then He told them to go into all the world teaching and preaching to all of the people in all of the nations about His Gospel.

Then Jesus ascended back into Heaven where He sits at the Right Hand of God the Father and He intercedes for us and draws us unto Himself and fills us with His Holy Spirit and His Dunamis Power. Life doesn’t get any better than this! There is no other superhero even remotely as Divine, Valiant, Holy, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent and worthy to be praised as Jesus Christ of Nazareth! He alone is King of kings, LORD of lords, Magistrate of magistrates, the One and Only Great Potentate!

JOHN 21:25   JESUS DID MANY OTHER THINGS AS WELL. IF EVERY ONE OF THEM WERE WRITTEN DOWN, I SUPPOSE THAT EVEN THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD NOT HAVE ROOM FOR THE BOOKS THAT WOULD BE WRITTEN.  (niv)

MARK 16:15 AND HE (JESUS) SAID UNTO THEM, GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. (kjv)

MATTHEW 18:19-20   GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST, (SPIRIT); TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU: AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD. AMEN (kjv).

Wow, there are no better words to end this with than those. God bless all of you forever. Jesus loves you!.

 

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is always  awesome to be able to speak to you. Can you believe that it is September already? I am looking forward to some cooler weather.

Dear LORD, thank You for this time to spend writing to Your people all around the world. Thank You for this mode of communication that brings us all together as a family. As Your created family. We love You LORD. Thank You mostly for Your Son, our LORD Jesus Christ, Whom You gave for us as the Perfect Sacrifice for the propitiation for our sins so that those of us who accept Jesus as our Savior and LORD can live for all eternity in Heaven with You LORD. Please draw us close to You LORD to fulfill the destiny and purpose that You alone created us for.

Thank You LORD that You protect us and our families for all generations. Thank You that You take great pleasure in providing for us as Jehovah Jireh and healing us as Jehovah Rapha. Thank You that You fill us with Your Holy Spirit and Your Dunamis Power LORD, and we are never alone. Please give strength to those who are being persecuted and even killed for their faith in You LORD. Give Your protective covering over them as Jehovah Nissi, our Banner. You say that the battle is not ours but it is Yours LORD. Send us out to the whole world to  share Your Gospel with them.

Please Heavenly Father, give Your hope to the hopeless, Your Perfect Love to the unloved, and Your Peace that passes all understanding to every lost or fractured soul who feels overwhelmed in their current circumstances. Draw us all unto You. Let everyone know that You alone are the Answer. Please keep Your ministering angels around us and give us Your hedge of protection. We ask this in the precious Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and we thank You in advance. Amen. Glory to God!

I have been pondering lately the thought of just why Christianity seems to be so offensive to so many. This does not make sense to me. For instance, recently the Pastor who leads Harvest Crusades, Greg Laurie, had signs and billboards advertising the upcoming Harvest Crusade which has been taking place annually now for 29 years. (I go every year. Yay!! It is amazing!)  In the advertising pictures, he was holding up a Bible. Someone complained that they were offended, then others agreed and those signs were removed. Imagine that. We live in the United States of America. ONE NATION UNDER GOD! We are extremely blessed as a nation of people. And this is how we act about the very God Who blesses us and His WORD the Bible???

2 CHRONICLES 7:14   IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN. I WILL FORGIVE THEIR SINS AND HEAL THEIR LAND.  (niv)

Shouldn’t this be our heart’s desire anyway? Shouldn’t we just want to pray=talk to our loving Heavenly Father and seek His Face=want to spend time with the God Who created us and loves us? Wouldn’t it be better if we did turn from our wicked ways=sin? Why would we want to live in a wicked and sinful manner anyway? Can’t we see what has become of the whole world because of sin and hatred? We are intelligent human beings, right??

We are created in God’s Image and He gave us a magnificent mind. God tells us that we have the Mind of Christ. (It doesn’t get any better than that!) Therefore let us reason together. The way that our societies around the world have changed with the rise of immorality and hatred, the re-defining of the family to be polar opposite of what God created and the division and strife, is heartbreaking. We continue to have racial and societal inequality. We have hatred lurking around every corner and mass shootings as the result. With all of these occurrences, why are many in the world so focused on hating Christians and Christianity and all things related?

1 CORINTHIANS 2:16   FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

PHILIPPIANS 2:4   LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS…

I know their have been horrendous things done in history in the Name of the LORD. I am so very sorry for this to all people groups who have been devastated by people who have said that they have carried out God’s will and most definitely have not. This is why we are not to look to mere people for any answers or direction. We are to look only to the LORD Himself. He never lies. He never fails. He is perfect and He perfectly loves each and every one of us.

Let us look together now at some current examples of the Christian life, Christians and Christ followers, which is what we truly are. Those of us who devote our lives to living as Jesus Christ taught us to live are really not a threat or a hindrance to the rest of humanity, quite the contrary. Jesus was/is the Light of the world. We are also called to be the light and the salt of the earth. Let’s take a look of what this might look like in this life’s journey today.

Christians are called to love as Christ loved. Jesus Christ died for our sins, even when we as people hated Him.

JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

We are called to forgive as Christ forgave. Jesus Christ forgave those who had beaten Him, whipped Him, ripped out his beard, spit on Him, put a crown of thorns into His Head, publicly humiliated Him and crucified Him on the cross for our sins. He was/is perfect. We are to love and forgive those who have hated us, lied about us and despitefully used us. We are to love those who want to be our enemies and destroy our lives. This forgiveness sets us free from the bondage of hatred toward another.

We are to pray for our enemies.  Jesus prays/intercedes for us in Heaven. His Holy Spirit prays for us.

We are to help those in need and give to those who ask from us.

We as Christians are to go out into all the world and tell the world about Jesus Christ. He alone is the only Answer to everything that the whole world needs.

So far I do not see anything that is remotely intimidating or hate evoking about Christians, Christianity and definitely nothing about Jesus Christ our LORD that is anything but Pure Love, Perfection, and TRUTH.

Let’s look at what this might look like in action. When disasters happen around the world; Christians and Christian organizations are First Responders to help restore the broken hearted and devastated people and repair the overwhelming physical damage that has occurred. Two of these are Operation Blessing and Samaritan’s Purse and there are many more.

When there has been a catastrophe of the magnitude that people do not feel as if they can or even desire to go on living; Christian Counselors, Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists, Church members and Christian volunteers from all over the world have gone to the very nation, state, city or neighborhood where the devastation has occurred and have made themselves available to pray for and counsel, talk to and just simply listen to the broken hearted people. They have gone out as the Heart and Hands of Jesus Christ to help restore His hurting people and bring hope.

Christians pour out their finances to where the need is at any given time to help rebuild the physical, restore the hope, and renew the relationship with the LORD Who loves them and is the Only One Who can truly heal His people.

Christians fast and pray against the evil in the world. Praying to the LORD Who Breaks down strongholds and bondages. The LORD Who sets the captives free and restores sight to the blind. The LORD Who heals the broken hearted and Who is the Answer to every need ever known to mankind throughout eternity past and into eternity present and future. Who in their right and brilliant mind would not want to know our LORD, Creator and Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Who wouldn’t want to do this life with Him.

I do not see what it is that is so reviled about Christians and Christianity. It is however not a surprise. Jesus already told us in His WORD the Bible that we would be hated and reviled. It is a choice that every individual person must make in his or her life time. The ramifications of your choices are mind boggling and set for eternity once you take your last breath. Before it comes to the time that you breathe your last breath, I beseech you, please accept Jesus Christ as Your LORD and Savior. Then we get to spend eternity together in Heaven with Him. And in the mean time, life here on earth is Amazing! Life doesn’t get any better than that!

Well I have to go for now. Until we meet again, I love you all so much and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly, Jesus loves you!