Do you really trust?

Trust God - He is reliable!

Trust God - He is both able and reliable to perform what He promises.

 

 

 

Love everyone enough to share the Gospel with them

 

Because God loves you, YOU MATTER

Because you matter to God, YOU matter to me

Thank you God for your grace & mercy!

Jesus didn't just take our place on the cross -

He gave us a new life of VICTORY.

He died in your place and He rose and lives forever for you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget to thank Him!!

 

 

 

 

Sin or Righteousness?

How do you feel about sin?

Psalm 97:10 says, “Hate evil, you who love the LORD” and Paul says in Romans 12:9, “Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good”.
Disciples of Jesus should detest sin and do our best to keep away from sin by staying close to God who is good. Paul wrote to Timothy, “Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” Since Jesus has paid the penalty for sin, we don’t have to fear eternal punishment, but we do know that sin ruins our fellowship with God and others and that it keeps us from being an effective disciple. Sin requires payment and Jesus paid the price. Believe in Him if you haven’t before and appreciate that price He paid for you. If you don’t place your faith in Jesus there will come a time you will receive the wages you earned of eternal separation from God (Romans 6:23). If you are a Christ follower, keep yourself close to Him and away from sin and evil.

How can we come to hate sin?
There is not a “how to” formula, but the closer we grow to God and the more we love Him and the more we understand and see what sin does to people’s lives, the more we will hate it. I would like to hate it enough that there was never any attraction, but sin is fun. Much of it very pleasurable, it is natural to the old flesh and it is easy. If it wasn’t, we would not be so easily drawn to sin against God.

One thing we can’t do with sin is to be neutral.
J.B. Phillips said, “The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.” Either we trust God and are obeying Him or we are sinning because “whatever is not from faith is sin”. (Romans 14:23)

Look at what it took to pay for sin; it took the death of Jesus on the cross and Him becoming sin and giving us who believe His righteousness. Perhaps if we remind ourselves daily of the Gospel and the mercy and grace of God that allows us to fellowship with Him as His children we can have a heart that is grateful and in love with God. Then we can come to love what God loves and love Him enough to keep away from sin and close to Him.

"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."
Proverbs 14:12 (NASB)
"Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the  outcome, eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 Romans 6:21-23 (NASB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Putting feet to your love...

What have you been up to? - FB ask this question wanting you to post something on your page & it is a good one...

What have and are you up to as far as "making disciples and teaching them
to observe all that I (Jesus) commanded you;"
(Matthew 28:20)

You know a true story - tell it!

Do you enjoy a true story?
Here is a true story about a Jewish man who God used to help change the world and to reach out to the non-Jews like most of us. We best know him as Paul.

Here is part of Paul’s story in his own words:
“I used to live as a Jew. I was cruel to God's church and even tried to destroy it. But even before I was born, God had chosen me. He was kind and had decided to show me His Son, so that I would announce His message to the Gentiles. I used to say terrible and insulting things about Him, and I was cruel. But He had mercy on me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I had not yet put my faith in Him. (After I met His Son) I went at once to Arabia, (& there spent time alone with God having Him reveal to me the message He had for me to share) and afterwards I returned to Damascus. Three years later I went to visit Peter in Jerusalem and stayed with him for fifteen days. They had only heard that the one who had been cruel to them was now preaching the message that he had once tried to destroy. And because of me, they praised God.
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord. He has given me the strength for my work because He knew that He could trust me. Christ Jesus our Lord was very kind to me. He has greatly blessed my life with faith and love just like His own. This saying is true, and it can be trusted. "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." I was the worst sinner of all! But since I was worse than anyone else, God had mercy on me and let me be an example of the endless patience of Christ Jesus. He did this so that others would put their faith in Christ and have eternal life. I pray that honor and glory will always be given to the only God, who lives forever and is the invisible and eternal King! Amen.” Galatians 1:13-24 & 1Timothy 1:12-17 (CEV)

Each of us that have met Jesus has a story about that meeting and the change that has happened and is happening in our life. And, like Paul we are called to preach or tell that story in our world where we are.

It may be hard for you to admit that you are worst sinner you know, but when you look honestly at your heart compared to the perfect righteousness of God you can see how evil your thoughts and actions can be. Your only goodness is from God. In Christ we are NEW and the same God that saved Paul saves us and the same Holy Spirit that empowered him for his mission in life empowers us to share our story where we are. You might be called to Pastor, but more than likely your sharing will be as a mother, a father, a student or whatever you are in life.

Each of us God chose and called and like Paul, He has a purpose for you and for me. Your place to share may be on Facebook, behind the chutes, working as a welder, at school, from home or wherever you find yourself when God opens the door for you to say, “let me tell you a story that happened to me”. “I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see”.

People enjoy true stories and there is no way to argue with you sharing what happened to YOU! Love people enough to share the story of Jesus in you and what He did in saving you and what He is doing now in your life. Make a connection with people, show them God loving them through you and if they come to faith let God use you to disciple them/ to mentor them in the Faith.