Archives for July 2014

July 30, 2014

MY FRIENDS, HOW MUCH IS TO MUCH, FAITH?

My friends let’s focus today on the question, can one have too much faith? and if so where is the cut off point, or is there one. First let’s go to God’s Word. How much Faith was needed from the woman in Mark 5 who had an issue of blood twelve years, “And had suffered many things of many physicians”, But When she heard of Jesus, she pressed in behind Him, “just to touched the helm of his garment”.

For she said, “If only I could touch His helm, I shall be “made whole.” and so she did, and she was made whole. Now going to Numbers 21 where the Children of Israel had murmured against God and Moses “and the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died.” But then, the people went to Moses and ask him to speak to God in their behalf and tell Him we have sinned.

Had anyone thought of going directly to God themselves. “And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So Moses did and if you believed and looked up, you would be made whole.” My friends how much faith did it take to look up at that serpent and be healed. Remember Israel must now believe in a God they had not even learned to talk to personally.

Alexander Maclaren tells us that “Important lessons are given by this alternation of the two ideas of FAITH AND UNBELIEF, OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE. DISOBEDIENCE is the root of UNBELIEF. UNBELIEF is the mother of further DISOBEDIENCE. FAITH is voluntary submission within a PERSON’S own power. If FAITH is not exercised, the true cause lies deeper than all intellectual reasons.

It lies in the moral aversion of human will and in the pride of independence, which says, “WHO IS LORD OVER US? WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO DEPEND ON JESUS CHRIST?” As faith is obedience and submission, so FAITH breeds OBEDIENCE, but UNBELIEF leads on to higher-handed rebellion. With dreadful reciprocity of influence, the less one TRUSTS, the more he DISOBEYS; the more he disobeys, the less he trusts.”

As a Child of God let’s not miss the message in God’s Word by focusing on the miracle of healing, and not on the Saving Grace of the Master and all He is willing and able to do for our Salvation. Often when Jesus healed in the gospels, He told the person that was healed not to tell anyone. My friends, that request was not because He was trying to hide The power of His miracles. But He knew the need of our focus too always be on His name, For “there is no other name by which we can be saved” and receive life eternal.

The lady in Mark 5 had twelve years of constant blood flow. The suffering and pain, exhausted and smothered by the crowd, so desperate just to get to the Savior, to be healed and once she was, Christ told her “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole;” Not the miracle my friends. But our Faith, it takes a Joint effort to be made whole physically, and spiritually by the Master.

Ms. White tells us “A nominal faith in Christ, which accepts Him merely as the Saviour of the world, can never bring healing to the soul. The faith that is unto salvation is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. He who waits for entire knowledge before he will exercise faith, cannot receive blessing from God. It is not enough to believe about Christ; we must believe in Him.

The only faith that will benefit us is that which embraces Him as a PERSONAL Savior; which appropriates His merits to ourselves. Many hold faith as an opinion. Saving faith is a transaction by which those who receive Christ join themselves in covenant relation with God. Genuine faith is life. A living faith means an increase of vigor, a confiding trust, by which the soul becomes a conquering power.” (E. G. White Desire Of Ages pp 347) So friends with knees bent and a sincere, heartfelt and a contrite soul ask your Savior ÏS MY FAITH SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO GET ME TO THE PROMISE LAND.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

MY FRIENDS “HE WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US ALL”

“And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:30-32 (ESV)

So many promises God has giving us, but today let’s focus on the words, HE WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW WILL HE NOT ALSO WITH HIM GRACIOUSLY GIVE US ALL THINGS? My friends how amazing is that statement which tells us that our Salvation  has nothing to do with our works but has everything to do with God’s purpose for us combined with His love, grace and mercy.”

My friends God is calling us too respond to His calling and He waits on our response weather good or bad, because “there is no other name under heaven given to mankind” who love us as our God, for  His desire for us, is to make sure we prosper in all we do That is why we must remain focus on this journey we have been placed on as we rise above where the god of this world is trying to take us for we must remember my friends we are special, God has chosen us.

Consistent with this, there is no words in our finite minds to describe our God so the best we can come up with is Omniscience: “THE ONE WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS AT ONCE; UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE UNBOUNDED OR INFINITE”, Omnipotence: ALMIGHTY POWER; UNLIMITED OR INFINITE POWER; A WORD IN STRICTNESS APPLICABLE ONLY TO GOD THE ONE WITH ALL-POWERFUL WHO HAS CREATED ALL THINGS AND SUSTAINS THEM BY HIS WORD” and  Omnipresence: “THE ONE WHO IS ABLE TO BE AT ALL PLACES AT ALL TIMES, UNBOUNDED OR UNIVERSAL PRESENCE; UBIQUITY.”

I just said a whole lot in trying to define our God in human terminology, but it is only because of the frailty and limitation of how far my mind will take me and I can also say with full assurance that those three words  Omniscience, Omnipotence, and  Omnipresence, does not even begin to touch the surface of what I can only imagine our God really is and what he is capable of doing for us. So for now until this old world is no longer relevant to my day to day activities I will accept what is given me and understand that one day soon all of His Children will be able to reside in “homes for the pilgrims of earth.

There are robes for the righteous, with crowns of glory and palms of victory. All that has perplexed us in the providences of God will in the world to come be made plain. The things hard to be understood will then find explanation. The mysteries of grace will unfold before us. Where our finite minds discovered only confusion and broken promises, we shall see the most perfect and beautiful harmony.

We shall know that infinite love ordered the EXPERIENCES that seemed most trying. As we realize the tender care of Him who makes all things work together for our good, we shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”( E. G.White 9T 286) but for now 2Peter 1:3 tells us “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” My friends Here on earth there is still work to be done as we travel this journey to the “Promise Land”

There are many souls without hope that we must continue to throw out the life line of our Saviors righteousness too, and God has chosen us to be his representative in making that happen My friends as much as we long for our eternal home we still have work to do ne for our Savior as we “SET OUR PRIORITIES FOR THE HIGH CALLING OF CHRIST WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US ALL.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

July 28, 2014

MY FRIENDS, JESUS LOVES ME, HOW DO I KNOW? BECAUSE HIS WORD TELLS ME SO!!!

“The creative force that brought about the existence of our world is the Word, and the Word is God. The Word at the beginning of John 1 is linked by this passage to the first words spoken by God at the beginning, when he says “‘Let there be light’ and there was light.” Genesis 1:3(KJV) Yes my friends

“Every command is a promise; accepted by the will, and received into the soul, and it also brings with it the life of the Infinite One. It transforms our nature, and re-creates our character into the image of God.”(Ellen G. White.) The world was created by the Spoken Word of God. This world and the very existence of life was conceived by God in the spirit.

“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (Gen 1:2.) So what this tells me as a Child of God, is that God’s Word brings about real transformation since God is the Word. But that transformation can only come about when we give it all to the master and then ask God our Creator to recreate our mind and body into His image.

In addition, as he created “the earth [that] was without form, and void; [a earth where there was only] darkness upon the face of the deep. And [as] the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [our God begin creation with only the words] Let there be light: and there was light. And now öur prayer too “our Father which art in heaven” is to please recreate from the darkness within us, where sin abides in the very crevasse of our soul, the light from your only begotten Son who died in our place on Calvary so that we could live with Him in His pure and holy kingdom.

Oh what love, But it did not end with His death on the cross. He rose again, and that tells us that the word still lives! Yes He lives. And that is why I serve that same risen Savior, because He is in my life today and I see His hand of mercy grace and love as I begin to truly hear, and feel God and His Word, while allowing my faith to grow in His grace. And once our lives are transformed then we will begin to understand through faith in the Word of God, that a miracle has truly taken place in our lives.

Paul says in 2 Cor 5:17-18 (NKJV) “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God. who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” And once we have completely allowed the light of your Spirit to recreate us then we will allow your full armor of righteousness to protect us against the forces of evil who’s only goal is to destroy.

In addition, the mind is then saturated with the Word. And because of the plan of Salvation and your love for your Children, a confirmation of a true renewal of our character becomes our mission statement along with the words “JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO,”as we go into all the world with the good news of your soon return.

And When our character is rooted in the Word of God, and continues to be rooted, it is an experience that lasts throughout our lives here on earth and will also carry us throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity. But my friends Consistent with this, there is also a warning if we lack knowing the knowledge in Gods word, due to the fact that we allowed the things of this world to become detrimental to our salvation, because they were more important than studying the Word of God and doing His will.

Hosea 4:6 (AMP) tells us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [my chosen generation, the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you….” So through the love of Christ and His Word my friends please allow the fullness of God from within, as we prepare to enter the “promise land”.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

July 27, 2014

NUMBER 400, “I AM JUST THE MAIL MAN DELIVERING THE MAIL, AND EACH LETTER READS THE SAME”, JESUS IS COMING SOON, GET READY!!

PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW 7/27/2014; 400 articles about 395 of them have been my daily devotionals and one thing I am happy to say is I AM JUST THE MAIL MAN DELIVERING THE MAIL AND EACH LETTER READS THE SAME, JESUS IS COMING SOON, GET READY!!! I remember a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray who was a news reporter.

The concept of the movie was each day he awaken he would re-live what happen the day before. And today I can say with faith and happiness and with no reservations in the God that allows me to also awake each day, that the  message and promises in His word, are the same yesterday, today, and will be the same throughout eternity as I see my Savior’s face and hear him say “‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

My friends “Heaven and earth will pass away, but [His] words will not pass away” Matt. 24:35 (ESV) so you can believe with full assurance that “[Our Savior is ] coming soon! [and His] reward [will be] with [Him], and [He] will give to each person according to what they have done.” Revelation 22:12 (NIV)

So as God’s vessel my goal is to continue to repeat our Savior’s promises about his soon coming while using some practical way of expressing how we all can try and get our message across to the world while  at times it seems that as his children, even we become immune to the message. so even as the MAIL MAN I Must create new and innovative ways of saying, Jesus is coming soon, please get ready!!!

And hopefully you as God’s children also will get as much as I am trying to give through Christ. Because God has been there from day one and every word I depend on him to give me through His Spirit. My goal and I hope you will also make it your ultimate goal in life and that is to tell the world that “we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.” Heb. 13:14 (ASV)

1 Peter 1:17 (AMP) also tells us And if you call upon Him as [your] Father Who judges each one impartially according to what he does, [then] you should conduct yourselves with true reverence throughout the time of your temporary residence [on the earth, whether long or short, here in reverent fear”].

And once we have done this our next responsibility is to tell a world that has lost sight of the saving grace of Christ that this is not there Home either. Paul says “our citizenship is in heaven” So as Christians our minds must stay on things not of this world, as we live with the future of what my God has prepared for each of us in the earth made new.

”for this world is not our home and as God’s chosen we are just passing through. We should always feel like aliens, or strangers in a foreign country The Psalmist said, in Ps. 119:19 “I am a stranger on earth” Though we travel as temporary residents, our commission as God’s chosen is to tell others of the good news of a new home where everyone will receive life eternal if they have faith in each of His promises that he has given us in His word.

In this world we can never become comfortable, or adjust, as we begin to adopt to the customs of these sinful surroundings we live in. For Jesus Christ is our only true source of comfort and security. he gives us only small portions of eternity as we travel this journey He has placed us on.

Consistent with this, a new home awaits us that “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (KJV) so I pray today my friends that until Christ appears through those clouds that we all will continue AS MAILMAN OR MAILWOMEN FOR CHRIST, DELIVERING HIS WORD THAT JESUS IS SOON TO COME, PLEASE GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

MY FRIENDS YOUR DAILY CLIMB DEFINED!!!

YOUR DAILY CLIMB derives from a personal mission statement that allows a Child of God to focus on this Journey Christ has placed each of us on starting with the attributes of life, Death, Home, Family, friends, love one’s and one’s job description. In addition, the subject is infinite when we think of one’s problems within the interaction with our day to day life and how we as Christians relate or handle each situation or circumstances that arises when our Faith has been stretched to the limit.

In other words every day IS A DAILY CLIMB UP THE MOINTAIN OF LIFE and like President Mandela who states “I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me to look back on the distance I have come.

But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.” The only words I would change from Mr. Mandela’s quote is the part where He states “I have taken a moment here to rest“ As God’s chosen we don’t have a moment to rest For Christ tells us “Look, I am COMING SOON! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.” Rev. 22:12 (NIV)

Today let’s focus on the word SOON. Webster tells us SOON means within a short period after this or that time,” and God’s Word tells us “the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end it will not lie. If it seems SLOW, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:3 (ESV) My friends the daily climb of your life that has allowed a state of depression, and despair to exist, if you will only allow God to take full control of your life, He will allow that struggle where ever on your journey you may be, to become a constant measure of your faith and strength that will carry you to the next level on your journey on the way to the promise land.

So the climb continues because the God we serve is unlimited, unmeasurable, and infinitely, in extent of space, duration of time in regards to what He is capable of doing for each of us on our climb each day. For those who have decided to endure the climb to the top, it’s not enough to just show up, you also must stay in the word of God and in a heartfelt prayer life preparing for the demands that climbing will put on you to make it to the top.

At times you may get to a  point on your climb where you don’t believe you can take another step, but you’re connected to a rope with your teammates who are also willing to give it all to the Master to make it to the top, so stopping isn’t an option, so our eyes continues to Look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the [climb on His way to the] cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”Heb 12:2 (KJV)

A God who calls us to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence. God calls us to have a life of purpose far beyond what you think yourself capable of living, Because He will sustain, and provide us with the adequate amount of strength throughout your life to finish the climb if you believe. But remember If you are not able to encounter the smaller climbs like “the socially acceptable sins”, “which so easily beset’s us” how can we be able to overcome much greater climbs.

For one day SOON “there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now—no, and never will be [again]. And if those days [will] not been shortened, no human being [will be able to] endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God’s chosen ones) those days will be shortened.” Matt. 24:21-22 (NIV) So MY FRIENDS YOUR DAILY CLIMB HAS NOW BEEN DEFINED!!! So “as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so [climb] ye in him” Col. 2:6 (ASV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

July 24, 2014

MY FRIENDS, IS IT SPIRITUAL MALPRACTICE NOT TO RESPOND TO THE GOOD SHEPHERDS VOICE?

Many from week to week practice the attributes of being a Christian, but we fail to hold ourselves accountable for the truth that we profess to others. We agree with the message we’ve known from our youth and we claim to love the Lord but we never learn to fear the Lord.

we have grown accustom to our on rhetoric while ignoring Gods Spirit telling us, “whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21(NIV) God’s Word must be a part of every thought, activity, conversation, and motive, of our life, until our lifestyle magnifies Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Nothing can ever be about us when Christ takes full control. Sometimes change is painful because we are so use to doing it our way, but God has told us In His Word what we need to do to have a total Transformation but if we choose not too focus on the sound of His voice, one day that voice will become faint and incoherent, then it will become harder and harder to seek what we do not hear above the clear sound of the god of this world who we have become accustomed to listening too.

Those who hear God’s voice are those who walk in His footsteps,  These are the sheep who hear and recognize His voice, who come when He calls and follow Him wherever He goes because we know He will protect us. He is our Shepherd and comforter in our time of need. In addition, if we are to recognize God’s voice, we must also belong to Him and only him for “we cannot serve two Masters.”

We also hear His voice when we spend time in deep heartfelt prayer, and quiet contemplation over what we have read in God’s Word “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Heb 4:12 (NIV)

It also allows us to focus on His desire for our lives and how we can give Him all the praise, honor and glory that our Savior deserves. But my friends while God is God and He speaks to us as He chooses, His primarily source of communication is through His Word, and Spirit, and if we apply through our faith, what we read in God’s Word, we will always here the good Shepard’s voice when He seeks our presence.

“No sooner does the sheep go astray than the shepherd is filled with grief and anxiety. He counts and recounts the flock. When he is sure that one sheep is lost, he slumbers not. He leaves the ninety and nine within the fold, and goes in search of [that one] straying sheep.

The darker and more tempestuous the night and the more perilous the way, the greater is the shepherd’s anxiety and the more earnest his search…With what relief he hears in the distance its first faint cry. Following the sound, he climbs the steepest heights, he goes to the very edge of the precipice,,,.. (Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 188.) just to rescue us my friends no matter how far we have gone or how difficult it is to get to us.

So as you make it personal today ask yourself  if  you are a child of God, IS IT SPIRITUAL MALPRACTICE NOT TO RESPOND TO THE GOOD SHEPHERDS VOICE? Remember my friends the worst situation or circumstances that we as Christians may get ourselves in from day to day, would be only one word away from the Lord responding to us, as we respond to our children when they seek our help in their time of need.

For “Which of you, if your son [or daughter] asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:9-11(KJV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

July 23, 2014

THE FATHER OF THE SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT AND IS OUR ALLEGIANCE TO HIS CAUSE?

SEPARATISTS: is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. SEPARATIST GROUPS may seek nothing more than greater autonomy.” So who is the FATHER OF THE SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT and why did he leave the larger group.

“Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” Rev. 12:7-9 (NIV)

My friends the FATHER OF THE  SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT said in his heart “I will ascend to the heaven I will raise my throne above the stars of God I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” Is. 14:13-14 (NIV)

The question we must ask our self today as a chosen vessel unto God, to bear [His] name before the Gentiles, and kings, and [all the world] have we lost our focus and become a part of SATAN’S SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT a offshoot branch from the body of Christ and His believers and have we lost our spiritual compass and transformed our values to the values of the god of this world THE FATHER OF THE SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT and his forces of evil.

Or are our allegiance to our Savior and His will for us as we remain FOCUSED on Christ Word and His Spirit as He transforms us into the Character of Christ as we ENDURE THIS RACE to the FINISH LINE. My friends there is only two sides to this CONTROVERSY, there is no independent force that we can join that would keep us off the battle field.

If you are a child of God you have a commitment and a responsibility to Christ to recruit those that may waver or do not recognize that this war is against A SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT like no other that has existed in the History of mankind for they are aliens “without flesh and blood, they are rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Eph. 6:12 (ESV)

“It was in the north of England in 1881 It had been very stormy weather, and the fishermen had been detained in the harbor for a week. One day, however, the sun shone out in a clear blue sky; it seemed as if the storm had passed away, and the boats started out for the fishing ground. Forty-one boats left the harbor that day.

Before they started, the harbor-master hoisted the storm signal, and warned them of the coming tempest. He begged of them not to go; but they disregarded his warning, and away they went. They saw no sign of the coming storm. In a few hours, however, it swept down on that coast, and very few of those fishermen returned.” (Moody’s Anecdotes, Page 115-116.)

My friends the storm signal has gone out in God’s Word, we all have been warned by His Spirit of the coming tempest “For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matt.24:37-39 (ESV)

So my friends with the SEPARATISTS MOVEMENT There way “appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.….. The faithless [and those who follow the god of this world] will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good [God’s chosen who has given it all to the Master and endured till the end on the side of righteousness will be] rewarded for theirs. [and receive life eternal in God’s kingdom]”Prov.14:12-14 (NIV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

July 22, 2014

MY FRIENDS “NEVER TO TAKE COUNSEL OF YOUR FEARS”

“Sir, I am not a brave man. . . The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. But I learned very early in my life NEVER TO TAKE COUNSEL OF MY FEARS.” (General George Patton) For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control…..and [He did it] not because of anything of merit that we have done, but because of and to further His own purpose and grace (unmerited favor) which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began [eternal ages ago].” 2 Timothy 1:7-9 (AMP)

As a child I remember having this recurring nightmare where an old lady would chase me through some eerie underground cave always getting just close enough for me to awake before she caught me. “Dreams trend to be a kind of parallel processing by which we integrate our experiences in life,” while at the same time those experiences makes some sort of connections to our life’s experiences.

It is amazing that most nightmares occur during the time of our life when life is simple and unmolested by the cares of the unknown, the unknown of life and death, heartaches and pains, love and hate, good and evil, but one day those nightmares takes on a whole new meaning in which we seem to never wake up from until Christ enters our life.

My friends, let’s focus today on Matt. 14:26-31(NKJV) when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, THEY WERE TERRIFIED. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “TAKE COURAGE! IT IS I, DON’T BE AFRAID” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

“Come,” he said. My friends the initial reaction was THEY WERE TERRIFIED. So today let’s make it personal again and ask ourselves what are our fears? What is keeping us from having that heartfelt passionate and intimate relationship with Christ? And where does our fears lie and how deep does it go?

Remember, Satan’s mind control over us is with fear! 1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV) tells us: “Be self-controlled and alert.” key word BE ALERT Webster explains the word alert as a attitude of VIGILANCE, READINESS, OR CAUTION, AS BEFORE AN EXPECTED ATTACK.” Which Satan’s only goal is to ATTACK our Character as he leads us to perdition.

1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV) tells us to “Be SOBER, be VIGILANT; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Peter got out of the boat, walked on water and came toward Jesus. My friends that must be our initial step. To come to Christ because He is calling us today?

Make His Passion to save you Your Passion to be saved as you tell others also about the saving grace of our God? But oh what A risky step! But by Faith it is possible but it must be all about Faith and God’s saving grace. Jesus paid a price on Calvary with His own blood so that we will not FEAR, He comes into our lives “To give us life to the fullest.

He has come to quench our spiritual thirst. But we have to recognize and be VIGILANT and trust in him at all times. But there must be a PASSION, or A THIRST for what Our God is willing to give us Psalm 42:1-2 (NKJV) says: “As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.” Yes My friends, a thirst of passion for our Savior. We also need to recognize our need to be filled by Him and Not by the things of this world that one day will pass away.

Coming to Christ in faith can only lead to an intimacy with Jesus that will eventually take us to his pure and holy kingdom. “for While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” So that we would “NEVER TAKE COUNSEL OF OUR FEARS” AGAIN but trust in our Savior’s Council of love, grace and mercy, so that we may receive life eternal.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY