Hello my wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so great to be talking with you on this 1st day of July. Wow this year is flying by isn’t it?
Dear LORD God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and everyone and everything in it. We love You so very much. We are eternally grateful to You for Who You are and Whose we are. You are Amazing. Your are worthy of all of our praise and worship and yet we aren’t even worthy and our words fail to even minutely speak about You or to You, yet this is what You desire from us, Your beloved children.
We thank You Jehovah Jireh for being our Provider, Jehovah Rapha for being our Divine Healer and Great Physician. We thank You Jehovah Nissi for being the Banner over our lives and the lives of all of our posterity. We thank You Jehovah Shalom for being our Peace, for giving us Your Peace that passes understanding so that no matter what we may be facing or going through and no matter how crazy and out of control our world seems; You give us Your Peace. We can be at peace amidst the turmoil, the trials, tribulations and tragedies, and Your Joy is our Strength.
We thank You for Your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us to Jesus, to read Your WORD the Bible, to pray to You, to commune with You LORD and to let You help us to be more like You and fulfill the purpose and destiny that You created us for and to use the gifts that You prepared for us before we were even born.
Thank You for keeping Your angels and hedge of protection around us and our generations. Thank You for Your Gift of Eternal Life with You when we repent from our sins and choose Your Son Jesus Christ as our LORD and Savior. Please LORD call all of Your people to Salvation. Please protect all of those who are imprisoned, being tortured and martyred for believing in You and telling the world about You and loving their enemies enough to share Your Gospel with them even at the cost of their very lives. Bless and protect their families please LORD. Send people to come along beside them and help and comfort. Send Your Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Paraclete to them in such a powerful, tangible way please LORD.
Please show those who have been blessed with extreme finances how You want them to help your people in other countries. Show us how we can do our part to help end sex trafficking and help those who were trafficked to recover and know You. LORD God protect the children everywhere in every nation. Let them keep their innocence, and joy in simple pleasures. Let them play and laugh and frolic. Show all of us how we can be givers of our finances whether large or small to help Your world at such a time as this during this generation, during our watch. Please LORD bring Repentance, Revival, Renewal, Regeneration to America and Your whole world. We thank You in advance and ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ our LORD. Amen. All Glory to You.
I googled the following 4 words and found the following definitions and examples that I am sharing with you.
Hatred=intense dislike or ill will. Eg racial hatred.
Intolerance=unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one’s own. Eg a struggle against religious intolerance.
Bigotry=obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction in particular prejudice against a person or group of people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. Eg Verbally harassing an individual after learning of their religious beliefs.
Prejudice=preconceived opinions that are not based on reason or actual experience. Eg Prejudice against people of different backgrounds.
Examples of Commands from Jesus Christ our LORD and Savior to His people, Christ followers also known as Christians. Disclaimer=sadly, since the beginning of time and of Gods creation, there have been those who call themselves Christians and are anything but Christlike. Because of these people whomever they were and from wherever they were from; I as a Christian apologize to you all over the world for the heinous hatreds, prejudices, bigotries, intolerance, atrocities, wars, killings, hate crimes, and bullying that have been perpetrated against you in the Name of the LORD, Name of God, or Name of Jesus Christ that were not at all orchestrated by God.
With that being said, I now want to share with you from God’s WORD the Bible, exactly what our God commands us to do and how He commands us as Christians to live and to love our fellow human beings regardless of who they are or where they are from. We are to love the “whosoevers”. God loves the “whosoevers”. The good news is that everyone of us are “whosoevers”. Jesus died for everyone of us ‘whosoevers’. The even BETTER NEWS is that God so loves us all that He will not leave us in our sinful ways. Jesus will change our hearts. He will change our affections and put His desires in our hearts. He will transform our lives…if we let him. The choice is ours to make. God gives us free choice. He will not force us but He does pursue us in His Love. Please don’t hesitate. The moment you take your last breath here on this earth, it will be too late to accept Jesus as LORD and Savior.
His Holy Spirit will lead us and guide us into all wisdom and His Perfect Love. God gave His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die a horrendous death on the Cross of Calvary to take our sins away and give us eternal life with Him in heaven instead of hell after we die and leave this earth. Our part is to repent from our sins, give our lives completely to Jesus as LORD and Savior and obey His Commands. Our lives will be exponentially better. We will have Joy and Peace and Love that we never even dreamed existed because it is the Joy and Peace and Love of Jesus Christ that passes all understanding and is our strength that He gives to us. We will be truly FREE. But this Freedom is not FREE. It cost Jesus Christ everything. It cost God His Only Begotten Son Whom He loved. Trust me I know about a changed life. This happened to me. Jesus changed my entire life and my eternal destination. Please let Him change yours also.
JESUS SAYS:
JOHN 14:6 JESUS SAID, I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE AND NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME
JESUS WAS ASKED…
MARK 12:28-32 ….OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS, WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT? THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE ANSWERED JESUS IS THIS, HEAR OH ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL OUR SOUL AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTAND H. THE SECOND IS THIS: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
JESUS BEING COUNTERCULTURAL
MATTHEW 5:43-48 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND HATE YOUR ENEMY. BUT I TELL YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU. THAT YOU MAY BE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN…IF YOU LOVE ONLY THOSE WHO LOVE YOU, WHAT REWARD WILL YOU GET? …IF YOU GREET ONLY YOUR PEOPLE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING MORE THAN OTHERS? DO NOT EVEN PAGANS DO THAT? BE PERFECT THEREFORE AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT.
JESUS HOLDS HIS FOLLOWERS TO A HIGHER STANDARD
MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD IT WAS SAID TO THE PEOPLE LONG AGO, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER AND ANYONE WHO MURDERS WILL BE SUBJECT TO JUDGMENT. BUT I TELL YOU THAT ANYONE WHO IS ANGRY WITH HIS BROTHER OR SISTER WILL BE SUBJECT TO JUDGMENT….
1 TIMOTHY 2:1-2 I URGE THEN, FIRST OF ALL THAT PETITIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSION AND THANKSGIVING BE MADE FOR ALL PEOPLE–FOR KINGS, (PRESIDENTS/GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS), AND ALL THOSE IN AUTHORITY, THAT WE MAY LIVE PEACEFUL AND QUIET LIVES IN ALL GODLINESS AND HOLINESS.
These are some Scripture examples from God’s WORD the TRUTH in His Bible. God calls His Christians/Christ followers to live to a higher standard. His standard. It doesn’t get any higher than that. He also knows that we are sinful, fragile humans and we cannot do this alone. We were never expected to. God’s plan has always been that we live our lives in an intimate, personal relationship with Him. God created us, He knew us before we were born, He prepared gifts for us to use while we are here on earth, He teaches us by His Holy Spirit as we read His WORD which is His Voice and Communication to us. His manual for life. He fights our battles when we give them to Him. He takes vengeance, we don’t have to. We give our sins, cares, woes, failures to Him and He gives us His Righteousness and forgiveness of sins that Jesus Christ died to give us. It’s the BIGGEST WIN, WIN EVER!!
I have attempted to show you that you really can’t call a true Christ follower/Christian a bigot, intolerant, hateful or prejudice. We are called by our God to be the opposite. However we also will not compromise God’s Values and our Biblical World view to embrace the current world view of the culture in any generation. We can’t call your bad, good and your good, bad. We will always love you and pray for God to lead you to change your sinful ways and be saved and live this glorious life. We can give a hand up, we cannot let you pull us down or away from our God.
This goes for all sin. Yeap, all of it. Believe me I know. Like I have told you before, I was the biggest sinner that I knew as a teenager and young adult. I am still a sinner. Thank God my sins are definitely not the same sins that I indulged in before. I am Saved by Jesus and washed by His Blood and His WORD. Sadly, I get impatient, I get bad attitudes, I lack faith at times, I get fearful at times, I get discouraged at times, I get tempted, I fail and I fall and I REPENT all the time to my Heavenly Father and He picks me up, He loves me, He chastises or teaches me and He continually changes me and my heart. He takes me from glory to glory. Jesus never leaves me in my sin.
Until we get to speak again, please remember that I love you and am always praying for you and your generations. Most importantly Jesus loves you.
Go to the Harvest Crusade at the Honda Center in Anaheim today July 1st or tomorrow and go to see the movie “THE CRY OF FREEDOM” in theaters starting this coming Monday July 3rd. Take your children and grandchildren to a good Biblical Vacation Bible School (VBS)this summer. A great way for them to learn about Jesus.
I am not going to proof read any more of this because I have been writing for a long time and my computer is acting up. I don’t want it to be erased.