Category Archives: Love

How to be a Winner

Love, Prophecy, Religion, To Do, Uncategorized

 

We are living in the end days and these are tough times for Christians. We watch the world stray farther and farther from God. We struggle with our own personal problems; we are fighting Satan and his host; we are fighting problems in the church; and, on top of all of this, we are struggling with faith. Today, we will show you how to be a winner; this is a truth hidden in the Bible and it is a precious pearl. This truth also unveils God’s character and something God cannot do.

First of all, we must understand that our relationship with God is going to change; we will be much closer to Him soon; we are going to marry His Son, Jesus, The Word of God. We know Him, The Word; He is in us and we are in Him spiritually; but, soon we will be in His physical presence and have a marriage relationship with Him. This means that we must be prepared as a bride; we must be perfect, not just ok, not just good, not just better than most, but perfect. God, the Father, is using life on earth to purify and build our faith. Please read:

Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.(ESV)

James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, (ESV)

1 Peter 1:6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

1 Peter 1:7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (ESV)

 

We encourage you to accept these Scriptures; believe them and make them your theme for these last days. Remember, you are the bride that must be adorn for the wedding and you must be perfect. You cannot be perfect on your own merits or deeds, so let the above Scriptures do their work.

One of the most profound Scriptures in the Bible is Genesis 32:24-31. Jacob was left alone at Jabbok after terminating a unsustainable relationship with his uncle Laban. He, Jacob, was also facing a confrontation with his estranged brother Esau and 400 of his men. The Scriptures say that he, Jacob, was “greatly afraid and distressed.” Remember that Jacob had been given a promise from God and it appeared that not only would this promise not happen, but Jacob and his entire family could be destroyed. This was probably the darkest time in Jacob’s life, and in the midst of it all, he had to wrestle with God. Jacob and God wrestled until daybreak and God said “Let Me go.” But Jacob said, I will not let you go until you bless me.” The result was that Jacob won and God did bless Jacob; He gave Jacob a new name, “Israel” which means one who struggles with man and with God and prevails. We know it was God Himself that wrestled with Jacob for two reasons: One, He, God, called himself Elohim, and two, Jacob referred to Him as Elohim. This is significant because Elohim is the Hebrew word used to describe the full Godhead, the full trinity. One more point: as Israel, formerly Jacob, was leaving the presence of God, he was limping. If you have a relationship with God, you need to willing to limp a little.

Jacob and God were wrestling over the promise; God conceded and blessed Jacob with the promise. This is the way it is with us; the promises are in the Bible, but we need to hold on to God and fight the fight of faith to receive them.

In summary, we will have trials, some of which come from God, and we need to follow the example of Jacob: don’t let go of God until He blesses us. This is an interesting hidden secret in the Bible; God exposes a vulnerability; there is something He cannot do: If we hold on to Him, He cannot shake us loose. Wow!! This is what He wants; He wants us to hold on to Him; He wants us to prevail and receive His promises; He wants us to be worthy, and adorned, so we will be a suitable bride for His Son.

Dear Friends and children, Allow God to prepare you for your position in the Kingdom; stand firm on the Word; hold on to God and don’t let Him go; He will try to shake you loose; be prepared for this, it is part of the purification.

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The Full Gospel

Evangelism, family, Love, Religion, To Do, Uncategorized

The word “gospel” means good news. Generally, if you ask a Christian what is the gospel, they will say that the gospel is that Christ died for our sins. This is true, it is good news that we have been redeemed; but, this good news is also associated with bad news; it is bad news that man rebelled against God; it is bad news that at one point in time God was sorry He made man; it is also bad news that Jesus had to suffer, be humiliated, and be killed for crimes He did not commit. There is much bad news associated with the crucifixion of Jesus. So, to understand the full gospel, that is the full good news, we must go back to Genesis to see what God’s original plan was before sin messed everything up.

Here is the full gospel also called the eternal gospel:

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis chapter 1 presents God’s creation and purpose. He did not intend for there to be sin; He did not intend that Satan would betray Him, and to fall, taking man with him. It was God’s intention that we live with Him forever in a sin-free world. He did not intend that our bodies would have mutations and disease. It was not His intention that we die and be separated from our bodies, and from Him. He did not intend to lose His Son to the cross.

The Bible says that we should come to God as little children. I have found that little children have a very good sense of the “full gospel.” This is evident with the pictures they draw. Most children, given a piece of paper, will draw a house, a family, the sun, the sky, some trees, and maybe a dog or cat. This picture represents the full, eternal gospel: it represents the creation, it has the concept of family; it has the sense of belonging (the child is often holding someone’s hand); it has the sense of beauty (the sky and the tree); it has the sense of security (again the parents and the house); it has the element of protection (this includes the Savior and His protection from ourselves and sin, and the sense that we will be brought back if we stray).

When you preach Jesus crucified, you are preaching the love of God and also the failure of man. This is good and important, but if you preach it too much, you discourage people by concentrating on the bad news. Remember, gospel means “good news.” The death and resurrection of Jesus is the basis for Christianity, but it is not the full gospel. Let’s look a little further into what the Bible says is the full gospel, the eternal Gospel. Someday soon the eternal Gospel will be preached to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. This preaching will not be done by us alone, but also by an angel of God. Please read:

Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

We are to give Him glory that judgment is come; this judgment will restore everything back to the Genesis “very good” condition. And, then it says to worship Him who made all things. The world and Satan are doing everything in their power to convince us that judgment is not coming; and, that God did not create “heaven, and earth, and the sea and the fountains of waters.”

Pastors, preach Jesus crucified, preach the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but remember these are just a portion of the full gospel. The full and eternal gospel is that God created all things so that we may exist, belong, be loved, have a home, have a family, have security, and be with Him forever.


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Pure Love

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Pure Love

Have you ever experienced pure love? If you haven’t, this is your opportunity. The path to pure love may surprise you.

A young couple fall in love and can’t live without each other? It sounds good and it is good, but is it pure? No, it has some impurities: such as infatuation, sexual desires, physical appearances, and status. It is quite easy to prove this isn’t pure love in light of the 50% divorce rate in the United States.

How about love for God? This one actually has some really big impurities such as: the hope of eternal life in paradise; receiving divine providence; and, the fact that we can’t see Him.

If you continue this logical path, you will see that it is very difficult to achieve pure love, until you consider the words of Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount. He said that we must love our enemies. This may seem a bit crazy, but the love you have for your enemy is pure, no encumbrances. If you love your enemy, you receive no perks. You do it only because it is the right thing to do.

Consider the young couple mentioned above, even if they do get divorced and become enemies, they can still have pure love for each other and fulfill their wedding vows.

So, this is your chance to experience pure love. Take your worst enemy and love him/her. You don’t have to talk to them or have a relationship with them, but they will give you the opportunity of experiencing pure love.

If you don’t know what God’s definition of love is, read I Corinthians 13.

James

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1 Corinthians 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


 

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