Category: By faith

We are blessed


Regardless of the situation that we may be living in today, compared to much of the world we are blessed. America has not fallen…yet. Why did I place that qualifier in there? Because it is likely that America will fall soon. Maybe not in my lifetime but it will happen. If it does happen in my lifetime then God had already prepared that for us and we did not see it or we weren’t supposed to see it. Everything that happens in our lives and in the world around us is orchestrated by God. Nothing significant happens in this world without His hands guiding it to be that way.

No leader of a nation, regardless of how incompetent they may be, attains their office without being placed there by God. I pray that all who read this will seek out your answer in this life in God’s Word because your answer is there. Pray that He would show you where your place is in His Kingdom because you have a place and a purpose there as well.

I never knew or even realized that I had a place in His Kingdom until He called me to be a preacher eleven years ago. Now, I only preach here due to COVID and its effect on worship services. If you have given your heart to Jesus and are a follower of His, please tell others about Him while there is time. When that day comes and the church is taken up to heaven, many will still come to know Him but it will be harder then than it is now. Why?

Because by that time the next “leader” of the world will be the Anti-Christ and whether people know that or not it will happen. God’s Word says so in the book of Revelation. He may be the “savior” for a time but he will be a dictator and a very hard one at that. At some point during the seven year treaty that he will have signed with Israel and the country’s around it, he will break the treaty and begin a persecution like the world has never seen. It will be against the Jewish people and those who have come to know Jesus during this time as well. Anyone who doesn’t worship him will be killed.

We live in an uncertain time


But…it is not an unknown time. Many of the things which have happened in the past few years have been foretold in God’s Word. The re-gathering of the Jewish people in their land in 1948 was the first and there have been many more since then. In 1967, Jerusalem was restored to Israel as the capital. All of these things were prophesied by God through the prophets and His ministers, the apostles, who wrote of Jesus and His gospel.

Why do so many people disagree with the Word of God? It is backed up by many more original copies from the first century than any other “ancient” document. Yes, there have been many translations but if they are compared to the originals their content is true and correct. Some may argue that the Bible has many errors in it but it doesn’t. Some words translate easily from Hebrew to English but many do not simply because of the Hebrew alphabet.

I am not a Hebrew scholar but I do own a Hebrew Bible with the Old and the New Testaments in it and it backs up every scripture, even the King James Bible. Yes, some words are different but the context and the meaning of the Scripture are the same. When you read the prophecies from the Old Testament and then compare them to what happened in the life of Jesus and His apostles, even if you have to use more than one or two commentaries to make sense of them, they are accurate as if the writer was there. David described His crucifixion exactly in Psalm 22 right down to the casting of lots for His robe and this was written over a thousand years before Jesus was crucified.

We are living in a time where the “time of the Gentiles” is coming to an end. I pray that everyone who is seeking to know Jesus and the explanation of what is going on around the world will look it up in God’s prophecies, specifically Matthew 24 and in Isaiah 53 and the entire book of Daniel. Seek the truth in God’s Word while there is time.

Worship together


For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/mat.18.20/10823

Amen

The wages of sin…


For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/rom.6.23/9137

Amen

What will you do?


There will be a day sometime soon when the church will leave in the twinkle of an eye. That is faster than a blink. You may be talking with someone and in between words and the blink of your eyes…they’re gone and all that is left is their clothes and their watch or phone. Will you know what happened? Will you wonder about it or have you heard this story before? There will be many millions of people missing and there will be many car wrecks and planes crashing on that day. The news will be so busy reporting all of these disappearances that they may not realize that some of their crew is missing.

What will that day look like around the world? It will likely be chaotic with many people missing and so many wondering why wasn’t I among the number that was taken? Others will be asking why were they taken in the first place? There will also be many mothers who will lose their young children and babies right in the delivery room because they are still innocent in the eyes of God.

There will be many people in the world who will be asking many questions and some who do have the answers but the time to make the decision about your eternity is not after the Rapture has happened but before…like today! Have you put it off because you enjoy living without “rules” to ruin your nightlife? Have you just decided that being a Christian is too much to ask right now? The day of salvation is today, not tomorrow. No one is guaranteed to live a certain number of years, so even tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Make sure of your eternal home today because on that day when all of the world is wondering what happened you want to be included in the group that was taken. What comes next for the rest of the world will be like hell on Earth for seven years.

Amen

Give your problems to God…


Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/psa.55.22/52781

Amen

Who is Jesus?


This is the question that many people have asked for centuries. Is He the Messiah, the Son of God, or is He just a great teacher?

The evidence points to Him being exactly Who He claimed to be! He was and is the Son of God and everyone will see Him coming in the clouds one day. All of the people since the first century who have died because of their belief in Him wouldn’t have held on to their belief to the death if He wasn’t.

Jesus Christ is the One that we have all been waiting for. To say or believe something else is foolish. Make sure of your faith in Him before it is too late.

His Word is a Lamp…


Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/psa.119.105/49508

Amen

Praise the Lord


the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at first, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 33:11 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/jer.33.11.KJV

Another year is gone…


Last year all of us wondered if there would be another year ahead but God gave us another year to be useful. Have you used this past year to be useful to Him? If you didn’t then you may have another year ahead to be used in His Kingdom to bring His message to those who need to hear it. Everyone who claims to have Jesus as their Savior is supposed to be His feet and His messengers to a lost and dying world. To those who go to church when they feel like it or even to those who have been members of a church for their whole life…you may be Christians IF you have accepted Jesus as your Savior. But sitting in a church for more than five or ten years doesn’t make you a Christian and just showing up when you feel like it doesn’t either. Salvation is found only in a solid belief in Jesus Christ as your Savior. When His Holy Spirit has convicted you of your need for Him and you give your heart to Him and you turn away from your old life and begin studying the Bible so you know Him better…that’s when your life changes!

There aren’t a ton of rules in being a Christian but you will find out what God blesses and what He doesn’t care for when you study His Word. So when you know His likes and His dislikes then you adjust your life to follow Him. That’s how you live your life trying to be more like Jesus every day. Yes, we fail at being like Him every day but we are trying with the Holy Spirit giving us strength to follow Him. Do we fall and fail to be like Him? Of course, we do many times a day…but at least we are trying to be better than we were and we can only do that with Him as our Savior.

Make this next year your best year as a follower of Jesus so that others can tell that you are a Christian even if you don’t tell them you are. Happy New Year!!