Category: Salvation

Last days…


‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. Acts 2:17

The day I began writing this was March 7th. This would’ve been my father’s 98th birthday if he had been blessed to live that long. But in God’s timing, he took my father from this world in August 2001. So…back to the original question in the title: the last days. Are we really living in them? With everything happening in the world and in the different media outlets, I would answer that with a hard YES! 

There are so many things happening in the world that are fulfilling the prophecies found in the Bible that it would be hard for you to say that we are not living in the end times. Granted, a nuclear war has not started, thankfully, and the economies of the world have not bottomed out but those things won’t happen until the time of the tribulation foretold in Revelation. The best news that I can give you is that the church will be taken up before these things happen.

Some people do not believe that believers will be taken up before this time happens but the church, the Bride of Christ, will not be here while God lets His wrath loose on those who refuse to believe in Jesus as their Savior. It is your choice of belief in Him that determines where your eternal destination is, not the choice of God. He would like to save every person but He knows that everyone won’t believe in Jesus for their salvation. Some will turn to Him like some young people are doing now in America…but not all.

Life will go on until that day when He comes for His Bride just like it has for many years. Then things will change drastically for the whole world, at least for the next seven years. Make sure that you know and believe in Him as your Savior before that day comes.

I’m not perfect… but I’m forgiven


Death of my parents


What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

This started my dependence on God and when I became a pastor of a small church in 2011, I began to dig deeper into His Word. Growing up in the natural sense, physically, wasn’t the problem but growing up was. My parent’s divorced when I was only five years old so my sense of who I was and why things went wrong, thinking that it was somehow my fault, was the real hindrance to how I looked at myself and those around me. I was angry for many years and I had no idea who I was angry at. Was it my Mom or my Dad? Was this my fault or was this God’s fault? I didn’t have a clue and that added to my frustration and anger.

So…what experience helped me to grow the most? Getting older and raising my son was the experience that helped me the most because if it had not been for him being born, I don’t know how my life would’ve turned out.

Present yourself


I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:1‭-‬2 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/rom.12.1-2.KJV

We are supposed to give our lives to the Lord as our sacrifice for Him. Seek Him as your Savior while there is time.

God is for us!


I believe in God, not destiny/fate


Do you believe in fate/destiny?

God moves in our lives to accomplish His will in our lives. He placed the Pharaoh in Egypt so He could show Him Who He was.

Growing up broken…


I never discussed how I felt about our family situation during my childhood. It never really came up because nobody asked me. I know that I’m not the only person to have gone through this but it is part of my testimony so here goes.

In kindergarten, my life seemed to be fairly normal but at the age of five, my parents got divorced. I won’t go into the reason for it because I didn’t learn about it until much later in life because it isn’t relevant here. As I grew up I went through a lot of periods where I tried different things like Eastern philosophy and meditation. I didn’t know what I was doing but I was trying to find some meaning for life itself I suppose.

When I felt the call from Jesus, I could barely believe that He wanted me. Why? Who would want me, especially Jesus? He chooses each of us for His Kingdom and for the message that we can tell others about what He has done for each of us. Your ministry comes by telling your story, your personal story. Each of us has a story to tell. It is our example, our witness because of what we have lived through. God calls us because of our humanity. Sometimes our humanity causes us to feel like we are less than others but sometimes it is our weaknesses that God uses to show His strength and power through us to others.

Weakness shows the strength of the Holy Spirit which is your helper. God loves us enough to make us able to endure the trials that will come upon us. I pray that if you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior, please seek Him as soon as you can. Not one of us is guaranteed to be here tomorrow, so make sure of your salvation today.

The Lord is rich in grace


Praise the Lord


I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: And thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: And thy glory above all the earth; That thy beloved may be delivered: Save with thy right hand, and answer me. Psalm 108:3‭-‬6 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.108.3-6.KJV

I was watching a sermon recently and the pastor was speaking of how we go to games or races and we shout and scream for our team to win and if they do we scream even more. Then, when we come to God’s house on Sunday, we sit there as if we are dead and can’t seem to get excited enough to light a match. What is wrong with this? The thing that is wrong is that we don’t want to praise the Lord so enthusiastically that we draw attention to ourselves. We view worship as a somber and quiet affair when all of Heaven shouts for joy when just one person comes to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior!

If you can’t endure an hour of praise for the grace and mercy that God has given you on Sunday how are you going to live in Heaven for eternity? I realize that most of us were raised in churches that don’t get excited about salvation or about God even but He gets excited about your salvation so why can’t you get excited about Him? The One that you worship and depend on every day, or at least you should, is the Creator of everything that you see and feel every day!

God loves each one of us but it is our sins that place a barrier between us and Him. All that we need to do is repent of those sins and turn to Him for our salvation by believing that He died for us and paid the price for our sins. Don’t turn away from Him when you feel His call in your heart. No one is guaranteed tomorrow so make sure of your salvation today.

God’s love is awesome!