Keeping It Real

     It has been a while since I have been able to write here my blog. Life goes way too fast, doesn't it? It does for me. I know my purpose for being here is to worship God, lift up Jesus, and snatch people out of the darkness and bring them into the glorious light of the gospel. However, it is not that easy as it sounds. It is a fight! The Devil hates anyone who loves Jesus! Actually, he hates everybody because he hates God! He is out to destroy, steal, and kill everyone. He wants everyone in Hell with him! However, when you love Jesus and care about souls, Satan will hate you even more! He will do anything and everything to stop someone from spreading the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Oh! He doesn't care if someone goes to a church building, just don't be part of God's true church! He doesn't care if someone is religious. He just doesn't want us giving our lives to Jesus! Satan will allow you to sit on the same church pew to where the church pew is starting to stinketh from your foul spirit of religion! That is why they call it a "pew"! Satan is laughing about it until you realize there is more to this than just going to a church building. When you begin to get a hunger for more and realize it is Jesus you are hungry for and start pursuing him, then the fight is on!  Satan will try everything he can to stop you! But, don't let him! Don't settle for religion! Just going to a church building does not mean you know Jesus. No! Realize you are a sinner in need of a Savior. Romans 3:23 KJV bible says, "For we have all fallen and come short of the Glory of God." If you have been in church maybe all of your life and you have never realized you were born a sinner in need of a Savior, then I encourage you, to ask Jesus to save you of your sin. Thank him for dying for you on the cross for your sins, and ask him to come into your heart and life and to forgive you. Ask him to wash you clean with his blood and write your name in his Lamb's Book of Life so when you pass away you will be assured of a home in Heaven. As Peter says, "Repent and be baptized every one of you for the remission of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Repent means to turn away from your sin and be baptized. Even Jesus was baptized in water in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. He was dunked, not sprinkled like some "religions" do! He was dunked all the way under! Matthew 3:11-17 says, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 13. Then comes Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14. But John stopped him saying, I have to be baptized of thee and come thou to me? 15. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him. 16. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and, lo, the heavens opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. 17. And lo a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Did you catch that what Jesus said, "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness?" Then after he was obedient to God by being baptized in water (leaving us an example of what to do to fulfill all righteousness and to please God) the Heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove. Listen to what it goes on to say in the next verse in chapter 4 verse 1. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." Jesus also said, (it becomes us) to fulfill all righteousness. In other words, just as he needed the Heavens opened and he needed the Holy Spirit here with him he needed to be obedient to have God's fulness of the Spirit. He was about to be led into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. He would not have made it without God's Holy Spirit. When Jesus came up out of that water the Heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him and God spoke from Heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Heaven is watching you and anticipating for you to be obedient to God if you haven't asked Jesus to forgive you of your sins and repented and been baptized to receive remission of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost then please do so. All of Heaven loves you! The bible says the angels rejoice when one sinner repents. It will become you to obey God because you are going to need the fulness of God in these days coming ahead. Just as Jesus was led right after into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan, you do not know what is up ahead. You will need Father God, Jesus Christ, and Holy Ghost for strength to overcome Satan! You will need an open Heaven over your head and over your family! You will not make it on your own! Make Jesus your Savior and Lord and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. He is your helper, read John 16: 7-16 KJV. And Jude 17-21 says, "But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken in the past by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly passions. 19. These are they who cause divisions, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." This is where it gets serious! We are at the beginning of the end! God is wrapping this thing up! The Word of the Living God tells us right there that there will be mockers in the last time (days) walking after their own ungodly passions having not Spirit. Then there those who are building up their most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost. I know I am one of those building up my faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. I thank Father God so much for Jesus and for the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues and helping me keep love in my heart in these last days. People can be mean as junkyard dogs sometimes. God tells us in verse 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jesus tells us in Matthew 24 speaking of the last day, "Because sin shall about the love of many shall wax cold. But he that endures to the end the same shall be saved." Do you think you can keep yourself in the love of God without the Holy Ghost? I don't think so! It is going to be hard! People are either a Mocker (Anti-Christ Spirit) or a Holy Ghost Filled Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in these last days. Which one are you? It is up to each of us to choose. Choose Wisely! Jesus Loves You! Choose Him! God Bless You!

     

     

Write the Vision

     Habukkuk says, "And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the Vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it. 3. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." 

     You may say, "What Vision?' The one God your Creator gives you. You have to know and believe he is "your" Creator. Do you know who your Creator is? It is God Almighty- The Creator of Heaven and Earth! The one who some people ignore and try to live their lives without him, but not realize that in the end, they will perish. Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he."

     It is really sad how some people not only ignore God and try to live their lives without him, but they also disrespect, mock, and ridicule him. People, you must realize you will perish without God. He is not only the Creator of Heaven and Earth but all things. Including your very own breath! He is the one in control of your very own heartbeat, right now! Not your doctor! God is in control of that! Don't you think you need to get to know him being is, he is the one in control and knows when your heart will beat its last beat and knows when you will take your last breath?

     I know some of you have had earthly Dad's that were abusive to you. They have probably broken their promises to you over and over and acted like they didn't want you, and actually, they were not acting. Let's face it, they didn't want you! You cramped their style. Yes, it hurts! I know how it is. I have been there. It may sound cold and heartless of me to say it like that, but it is true. You gotta see, that your Earthly Dad was just used by God as a vehicle to get you here! God did not expect you to put your earthly dad first over him! God did not expect you to put all of your trust in life into your earthly, fleshly dad, who is a sinner just like we all are.

     God says there is only one worthy of our whole trust and that is his only begotten son Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one worthy to put our trust into! Your Dad, my Dad are not perfect and neither are we. There was only one perfect one that walked the face of this earth and that was Jesus Christ, our Savior! He is the only one worthy of our total devotion and our total focus. Don't get me wrong, loyalty to your fellow man is definitely important. It is a good and respectable thing to be a loyal person, but if you don't get loyalty back from one single person on the face of this earth, we cannot let it devastate us to where we go through life with "Daddy Issues".

     Seriously, You don't have no time to waste on this earth! We have one life and that is all. Stop focusing on the past about your earthly dad and start getting to know your Creator! He will be your Heavenly Father if you realize you are a sinner in need of being born again, Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God." We are all born sinners in need of a Savior, who is Jesus Christ!

     The bible says, "No man can come to the Father unless he draws them." The fact that you are reading this now proves that God is drawing you to himself. He Loves You So Much! He sent Jesus to die for your sins and the sins of the whole world. Think about that! Think how much love that must've been. God sent his only son Jesus to die for you! Would you send your Son to go to a cruel place to be mocked, scorned, killed by cruel men, and watch him die on a cross, a horrible, cruel death? I couldn't! But God did it for you and me. Knowing one day you would love him back just as passionately as he did for you!

     See, God had Faith in You! Did your Earthly Dad ever tell you that he has "Faith" in you? Did he ever tell you he was proud of you? Not too many Dad's tell their children they are proud of them, even after they have grown. I didn't hear it from my earthly Dad, but when I heard that God my Heavenly Father was Proud of me and He had Faith in "Me", it made me so happy! I felt like I was already in Heaven. Nobody had ever told me they were proud of me! But God did. And you know when it is all said and done, that is all that is going to matter.

     We need to get over our "selves' and start living and being what we are created to be, and that is a "Worshiper" of God! It takes spending time with God and getting to know him and his ways. God says in Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." You can't know God unless you spend time with him, but you have to be "born again" first. See, we are all born sinners until we realize that and know we personally need a Savior and ask Jesus to come into our heart and take over our life. Revelation 3:19-22 Jesus says, "As many as I love, 'rebuke (point out faults) and 'chastise (correct); be zealous therefore and repent. 20. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me. 21. To him that 'overcomes (wins the victory) will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches."

     Isn't that exciting? When you invite Jesus in, God is your Heavenly Father! You will have Peace, Joy, Love, Happiness in your heart. You want to feel accepted by someone? I mean real acceptance. Not the kind of acceptance you have with your so-called friends. Believe me, I know this. Your friends and sometimes your own family will stab you in the back, but God will never do that! He will cover you and fight for you and as Paul says in Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God 'be (is) for us, who can be against us?" I encourage you to pray and ask Jesus to come into your heart and to forgive you of your sins and to fill you with His precious Holy Spirit so you can know God better. God promises to give you his Holy Spirit as your helper, and God keeps his promises! Peter says in Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ 'for (unto) the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord God shall call. 40. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this 'untoward (crooked) generation." 

Read also John 3:1-21 to gain a greater understanding of being "born" again. Give Jesus your life and he will give you a fresh new start for your life and he will show you what your purpose for being here on this earth is. He will give you a fresh vision. God Bless You!