“It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?” Galatians 5:13-15 MSG https://www.bible.com/97/gal.5.13-15.msg
“Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.””
My friend Clint posted this on Facebook tonight, it touched my heart and I felt led to share. Thank you Clint for sharing your testimony.
God Loves You!
I felt like saying to someone out there, anyone out there that might read these words, that feels like your down and out, feeling alone or in a dark place in your life. Whatever you are or going thru there is great hope and help when we get to feeling like this. I’ve been there dealing with hopelessness and despair depression. In my darkest times of life I found Jesus Christ and the love that he has for me which brought me out of the darkness and gave me hope. He loves you to tonight and knows exactly where you are and what’s going on in your mind. He understands The hurting and the pain your going thru and wants you to know he’s here to help you. All we have to is call out to him in prayer. A simple prayer of Jesus it’s me I’m calling out to you, I’m needing some help tonight. I’m going thru something’s in my life and I ask you to hear this prayer and give me peace. I believe your the son of God and your word is true and that you rose from the dead and ask you to come into my heart and life amen. If you prayed this prayer the Bible says that you are saved from sin. Romans 10:9 Jesus also says to us in Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all of you that labor and are heavy laden. and I will give you rest. When I turned to Jesus and ask him for his help he changed my life. I was bound in addiction chains that were destroying life and very close death physically and spiritually. Then Jesus came into my life. Call out to him ok.
Jesus is the perfect example of what we need to do, what we need to be like, and how to treat people. We can hold people up on a pedestal but there’s not one person in the world that is perfect. People will let us down, even the one we think is most promising. That is why Jesus came and died on the cross. We are all sinful beings and fall short of God’s glory, but don’t fret. Aim your eyes on Jesus and His example. Ask for His forgiveness and let Him cover you with His righteousness.
Come to Jesus and let him cover you with his righteousness !
“God makes people right with himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. This is true for all who believe in Christ, because all people are the same: Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard, and all need to be made right with God by his grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ.” Romans 3:22-24 NCV https://www.bible.com/105/rom.3.22-24.ncv
“Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you’ll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure no one gets left out of God’s generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time. Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God’s blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.” Hebrews 12:14-17 MSG https://www.bible.com/97/heb.12.14-17.msg
Have you stop to think what you have traded to satisfy your own selfish lust and desires just to lose your own soul? I let pride and self sufficiency draw me away from God. Then God showed me I wasn’t pure and perfect like I claimed. Yes, I was a good moral person but moral people do not go to heaven. Until you face the fact that you’re in need of a Savior you will be lost. Nothing in this world is worth losing your soul. Don’t trade enteral life in order to satisfy your sinful appetite that will never be truly satisfied. Jesus says we must be willing to give up our lives to follow Him. See what it says in the book of Matthew;
“Then Jesus said to his followers, “If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing even to give up their lives to follow me. Those who want to save their lives will give up true life, and those who give up their lives for me will have true life. It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls. They could never pay enough to buy back their souls.” Matthew 16:24-26 NCV https://www.bible.com/105/mat.16.24-26.ncv
“So when you pray, you should pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name always be kept holy. May your kingdom come and what you want be done, here on earth as it is in heaven. Give us the food we need for each day. Forgive us for our sins, just as we have forgiven those who sinned against us. And do not cause us to be tempted, but save us from the Evil One.’ [The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever. Amen.]” Matthew 6:9-13 NCV https://www.bible.com/105/mat.6.9-13.ncv
Friendships are crucial in our walk with God, along with fellowship. There has been multiple occasions when God impressed a friend to call me and talk me through some very bad situations. I knew it had to be from God because that person didn’t even know that I was upset. A good Christian friendship can help rebuild a church or give each other encouragement to get through the day. Praise God for the friendships he has placed in your life today.
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17 NLT https://www.bible.com/116/jhn.3.16-17.nlt
Jesus Christ
“He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave.” Isaiah 53:3-9 NLT https://www.bible.com/116/isa.53.3-9.nlt
He created you because He Loved you❤️
He died for you because He Loved you❤️
He gave you freedom of choice because He Loves you❤️ Do you Love him, Jesus Christ? 🙏
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