The flesh will fail me. The flesh will make many mistakes. The flesh will tell me lies. The flesh will hurt my feelings. The flesh will break my heart. The flesh will not meet my expectations. The flesh will use my past against me. The flesh will disappoint me. The flesh will become to busy for me. The flesh will become prideful. The flesh will find fault with me. The flesh will abandon me. The flesh will break promises. The flesh is weak and completely incapable of meeting my every need.
In walks Jesus, the lover of my soul.
His love covers all of my wrongs and all the [wrongs] that were done to me since my youth. My upbringing was not perfect, but in my innocent little brain, I believed it to be.
Life happened and I was greatly disappointed again and again...
#John 16:33
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (NIV)
"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world." (NLT)
"I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” (ESV)
My heart's desire is that YOU would invite Jesus into your
life and see how much He loves you. A lot of people have reservations
because they don't understand the gospel, they don't want to change their
lifestyles, they don't know the truth, they have brokenness and wounds from their
past and a lot of you feel as though He does not exist.
It can be very
difficult to grasp the LOVE of a God you "cannot see" when their are those moments, seasons and years of your life when parents and
guardians that you "can see" may love you and are oftentimes incapable of expressing the deep love and affection that we all crave. I had a good childhood and
when my parents divorced, it tore me apart. I felt lost and alone.
I did not know God and I was never told about the GRACE, Salvation and
Forgiveness of Jesus Christ. I did not know that I was a sinner and that
He died on the #cross to SAVE all sinners.
I did not understand the bible
and I did not understand His great love for me. BUT once I received the
gift of Salvation by inviting Jesus into my life and my heart, God, the Creator
of the Universe made the Holy Scriptures come alive and He showed me verse by
verse and day by day how I could live a life pleasing to Him. He began to
reveal with the Help and Guidance of the Holy Spirit that not only was my
thinking wrong and not only was I told a lot lies about my value and worth, but
that He has always been my GOD and that He has always had plans for me. I
was precious to Him before I was born.
I once heard that God has placed a whole in our hearts that only HE can fill. I believe it!
I once heard that God has placed a whole in our hearts that only HE can fill. I believe it!
So please consider what I'm saying
here and please evaluate your life, the one you're living without a
Savior. Who doesn't want to be #certain that after we leave this earth, we
will get to spend eternity with the One who gave us life??!
<>< Try Jesus...
John 3:16-18
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son." (NIV)
Psalm 139
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Jeremiah 31:3
"The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness." (NIV)
Jeremiah 29:11-14
‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. ‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. ‘I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, (NIV)
These are just a few promises to get your heart prepared to meet
with the One True Living God.
Yet, another day to praise Him...
