Aug. 16, 2013

MY FRIENDS, IF WE BELIEVE, WE CAN BECOME CONQUERORS, THROUGH CHRIST!!

We are “CONQUERORS, THROUGH CHRIST.” Paul says it best in Romans 8:35-37 (NKJV) “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”

The truth is that the strength to endure every painful trial lay’s in our total dependence on Christ. If your eyes were opened to view the spiritual battle that is raging, each day for your soul you would see the army of the living God totally surrounding and protecting His faithful children. He also places in each of our hands weapons far greater than the forces of evil.

In addition, God’s weapons of mass destruction was created only for His faithful. Starting with the belt of truth buckled around [our] waist, [along with] the breastplate of righteousness, and [on our feet to guide and nurture His Children in the love and admonition of the Lord, is] the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

In addition to all this, we] will be equipped with] the shield of faith, with which [we] can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, [also, place upon [our] head is] the helmet of salvation and [in our hand] the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. [but we must forever pray and study]in the Spirit on all occasions, [and] with all kinds of [supplications]… With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying [not just for yourself but] for all the Lord’s people.” Ephesians 6:10-18 (NIV)

Consistent with this, our God has the weapon that can never be destroyed and that is the weapon of the cross. Though you will still endure attacks from the enemy, your hope of victory is secure no matter what may happen if you are faithful and endure, simply because Jesus died so you would gain through him, VICTORY, VICTORY, VICTORY.

Remember my friends it is God who wakes you up each day, that means He not only wakes us up but he has also provided us with an agenda that has nothing to do with us and what we may want, for to His faithful, His wants becomes our wants and his needs, our needs so that no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

But when [we] are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that [we] can ENDURE IT.”1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV) The key my friends is to FOCUS AND ENDURE. The god of this world keeps us so involved with all of the day to day problems of this sinful world, we can’t see over the storm, to a place called Calvary, where lies our only hope, which is in Jesus Christ our Savior and His Spirit.

God truly is a on time God. Remember,  He who created the world has already created a solution for whatever problems may arise in our life, so God’s challenge to us is to“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of [the enemy], for the LORD [our] God goes with [us]; he will never leave [us] nor forsake [us].” Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

Paul also tells us “Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,” Romans 3:23-25 (AMP)

My friends, those text tells His Chosen, what God will do, and has done to save us, even to the point of dying on a cross. So right now Let’s just reciprocate the love God has shown for us, as we give Him from the bottom of our heart all the honor praise and glory that our God and our God only deserves.

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

Aug. 14, 2014

MY FRIENDS IS THIS THE LAST INVITATION?

My friends let’s focus on Matt 22 today “when Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come……….“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.

So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find. So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes… He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’

The man was speechless. “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness….. FOR MANY ARE INVITED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.“  My friends it’s only a wedding what is the big deal? we should be able to just go home and change, and even if we miss this wedding there will be OTHER INVITATIONS. Or will there be?

Oh what faith, and the Sacrifice of Calvary that was made so that everyone who accepted THE INVITATION could be there. But there will be some clothed in the dress of the world. It will show that they spent no time in knowing, or making the preparation required by the king to be there. For in Matt. 7:21(NKJV) it tells me “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

In addition, the saddest words we will ever here will be “How did you get in here without wedding clothes” And what could possibly be one’s answer when the King gave everyone who was invited His own robe of righteousness, His only Begotten son. The only thing that was required was to accept the KING’S INVITATION and the free gift of His garment.

So in not accepting we have condemned ourselves. And then the king said, “Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness.” So yes my friends this will be the LAST INVITATION so we must get the required attire right the first time. The Marriage represents the unification of Jesus Christ incarnate as the son of God and humanity.

The wedding garment represents the transformation of our character to be like that of God’s only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. And to everyone who got it right one day soon we will be part of that “great number” who will witness “Jesus [as He] raises “His mighty, glorious arm, [and] lays hold of the pearly gate, swings it back on its glittering hinges and says to us, “You have washed your robes in my blood, stood stiffly for My truth, enter in.

” We all march in and fill that we have a perfect right in the city…….We try to call up our greatest trials, but they looked so small compared with the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory that surrounds us that we cannot speak them out, and we all cry out, “Alleluia, heaven is cheap enough!” we then touched our glorious harps and make heaven’s arches ring….

There we saw most glorious houses, most glorious to behold….…. Soon we heard Christ lovely voice, saying, “Come, my people, you have come out of great tribulation, and done My will; suffered for Me; come in to supper, for I will gird Myself, and serve you.” We shout, “Alleluia! Glory and honor to the King of King and Lord of Lord’s” (From the writings of E.G. White)

My friends, THE LAST INVITATION HAS BEEN SENT OUT and God’s Kingdom is where the final banquet of the redeemed will take place. The decision is yours, so are you willing to do whatever it takes to be there for my God will come soon, and His reward is with Him, “to give every man or woman according as his work shall be.” Rev. 22:12

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

Aug. 13,2014

WHY US LORD?

looking over our lives there has been a radical change that has taken place if you are a Child of God, and it is by the grace of God that we came out of it with eyes wide open. And with most of us having no physical signs that we had been in a war zone. And as we look back over our life, there have been so many lives lost of those we have loved or been acquainted with.

And I wonder today why did God give us that Damascus Road experience as we set out on this journey He placed us on. As I focus on my past and future, maybe our God just saw in us a star that would shine anywhere, or at anytime that He wanted us to. Paul, had been a Pharisee. He considered himself the most zealous, rigorous and careful of all Pharisees, but God choose and used Paul because He knew Paul was capable of remaining a faithful servant that would ENDURE no matter what situation or circumstances he might find himself in, even if that meant his life ending at the guillotine.

Paul tells us in Phil. 1:21 (NKJV) For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.“ Acts 9:15 tells us that The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. When you read Paul’s letters, you realize God knew, because He is a Omniscience God all knowing.

Consistent with this, He knew that Paul could be all things to all people. Paul says in Phil. 3:7-8 (NKJV) But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ.”

My friends can God say the same about us? They are my chosen instruments they will proclaim My name to the world and endure through their faith in Me to the end.  Psalm 139:1-24 -41 (KJV) tells us “O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.” But “Like a grapevine branch, we are not always producing fruit in our life. That would be unnatural, for a significant portion of a grapevine’s life is nothing but a dry, twisted stick, and fruitless with no benefit to anyone.

It is even useless for shade, worthless as timber, to all appearances it is only fit to be ripped from the ground, thrown in a heap and burned.” “Yet those barren times are as vital in the life of the vine, as the season itself”. “If spring could tip-toe passed nature without stirring it from its winter slumber; if the sun could slip through the sky without dispelling the night; if rain could fall to the ground without bringing life to the desert, only then should you fear the dry and lean times, but because of God’s grace, for everything there is a season.”(Grantley Morris)

Paul tell’s us in Ephesians 2:4-9 “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Remember the forces of evil looks back over our life and accuses each of God’s chosen of all of our mistakes and tells us we have gone to far to be saved. But my Savior starts at  Calvary, and takes us through the trials and tribulation of this life, and places us in His loving wings, and guides and protects each of us daily. All the way to his soon appearing where He has prepared A banquet table for all of the redeemed.

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

Aug 12, 2014

MY FRIENDS, TIME, TIME AND MORE TIME!!!

Friends! Our Day has started, if not, it will start soon. We usually awake with this thought in the back of our minds. I wish I had more time, I’ve got so much to do today! Instead of, how do I regulate my time today that will give God all the praise, glory, and honor, how can I make today all about Him.

Whether at work, school, gym, even at the mall, no matter what occurs in my life today it will be all about God. What a wonderful scenario, one that God seeks from His Children and the way our time should be spent each day. “Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters, in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom in comparison with the things of eternal interest.

Yet God has called us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life. Diligence in this work is as much a part of true religion as is devotion. The Bible gives no indorsement to idleness. It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world. Time squandered can never be recovered.” (Ellen G. White Christ’s Object Lessons)

As a steward of God’s time, when Jesus lived on this earth He never created such a hectic schedule that it caused Him to lose sight of His goal. He never had a moment of remorse for time lost, because He was forever doing His Father’s will. In addition, He was never so absorbed by productivity that He forgot His mission as he approached Calvary.

My friends what is our passion today, if it is not serving God and as His Chosen what could be more important. Once we recognize that simple “life maintenance” can chip away at our time in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don’t busy ourselves “in vain” Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.” Ps 39:6 (NKJV)

Psalm 39 gives us some perspective in David’s complaint to God, he said, “You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You” Ps. 39:5 So my friends to an eternal God our time on earth is brief, and God doesn’t want us to waste it because time wasted is the most precious commodities God has give us.

Wealth can’t even come in at a distant second, in least it is used for God’s glory and honor. Each minute is an irretrievable and unredeemable slice of eternity and what our God is trying to prepare us for in the earth made new. There is nothing in us, or of ourselves by which we can influence others for good if we do not realize our helplessness and our need of God’s Holy Spirit to guide us in how we spend our time.

We know not what each day, hour, or a moment will determine, that is why it should be committed to our Lord and Savior. My friends I not only speak to you through my devotionals each day, but also to myself for I, like you “have been sinful since birth,” “….For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.

For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do this I keep on doing…..” Rom 7:14-25 (NIV) Like Paul this is every child of God’s Dilemma, but “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. [even his time because we]  do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my [mind and] body, and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

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

Aug. 12, 2014

MY FRIENDS “FINISH STRONG SO THAT YOU MAY NOT GROW WEARY OR FAINTHEARTED!!!”

“FINISH STRONG” Those are the words I heard from a teacher a few days ago so my friends, now let’s put it in the context of our journey that Christ has placed us on, for “Worthy is the lamb” that has ask us to bear our cross and follow Him.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, SO THAT YOU MAY NOT GROW WEARY OR FAINTHEARTED.” Heb. 12:1-3 (ESV)

In addition, we are only able to finish Strong because our Savior volunteered 4000 years ago to become our pacesetter so that WE MAY NOT GROW WEARY OR FAINTHEARTED for He is our model who we must imitate. As God’s chosen, we have to out distance the god of this world AND FINISH STRONG as we carry many souls we have lead to Christ, across the finish line with us.

Remember we have the advantage of being covered with the armor of God and the blood of Jesus Christ. I know you say to put it in words is the easy part but to make FINISHING STRONG a reality will take us my friends, to our knees like never before.

For each of us who are looking for Christ soon return, as we come into that final stretch to the finish line, must ask ourselves; Are we moving just as strong  in finishing up Christ work here on earth as we did when we first started this race?

With the help of the Spirit of God, are we spreading the good news of Christ saving grace to our friends, family, love one’s, co-workers, neighbors and a world that has lost sight of the saving grace of our savior? Are we constantly asking the question; what must I do to be saved and enter into Gods pure and holy society?

Consistent with this, FINISHING STRONG AND NOT GROWING WEARY OR FAINTHEARTED”  must become our attitude in our final stretch today. Our desire, our goals, our passion, our focus, our faith, our endurance, our prayers, and the never ending study of God’s word, must never waiver.

To FINISH STRONG will be very grueling, but we must  never forget that this race was won on Calvary. We just have to believe and trust God that he is in control of our destiny if we will only give it all to Him as we allow self  to die. It can never be about us, we must pull the field around behind us, by first keeping everyone encouraged.

Modeling the way, Inspiring a shared vision to the promise land, and always reminding the rest of the field, that once we cross that finish line with torch in hand, no matter what place you come in at, if you have faith, and believe, and stay focused, and study the course which is the word of God, we will all receive the ultimate prize life eternal.

For we must never forget Phil. 3:14; “Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”. So today as you stand at the CROSSROAD of life there are two signs, one pointing to our Savior Jesus Christ and eternal life and the other is pointing toward a path bound for perdition. Christ still waits for you to Chose Him.

In addition, as a Child of God there should be no doubt, Christ second coming in our lifetime is becoming more of a reality than ever before, since He left the first time telling us “I will go and prepare a place for you and I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:3 (KJV) BUT ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE AND FINISH STRONG.

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

Aug. 10, 2014

“FOR WE ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES”

My friends we “do not know what tomorrow will bring [or] what our life is? For [WE] ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES. James 4:14 (ESV) Life! It’s 1:30 am. and I am trying to gather my thoughts as to where God will lead me today.

I then begin to focus on a 1997 photo with my parents along with five more couples. Then it dawned on me, out of the 12 individuals on that picture 6 of them now wait on the “Lords appearing” that is when I go to James 4:14 and recall the words of one of my deceased love one’s on the picture. “We are all just standing in line”

My friends generation go and come the Palmist tells us “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Ps. 90:10 (NIV) So What God’s Word is telling us is, we are only promised 70 years to establish a legacy, and if you are a Child of God, the foundation of that legacy must be centered around what God expects from our time we spend on this earth.

In addition, our life does not belong to us, it belongs to God for He created us in His image to serve Him and give Him all of our praise, glory and honor. So friends that doesn’t give us much time. So today it becomes personal again as we ask God to please give us the power of discernment, so that we may not “as others do, who have no hope” and become complacent.

To waste one day not in the total presence of our Savior is to waste that small amount of time and grace God has given us to get it right. So how do we COMMUNICATE our message to others and especially to ourselves in the midst of the over saturation of technology, and the bombardment of the media on every level which has allowed the god of this world to manipulate our minds with wasted time, along with what we watch and listen too, the few years we are promised hear on this earth.

When do we say, enough is enough! My God! Not another day will go by that I will not seek Your presence as I say “not my will but thou will” for if we are a child of God and study prophecy while asking God’s Spirit for understanding of God’s Word “we know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” [one day soon] destruction will come upon [all who have not allowed Christ to transform there life]…..and [they] will not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:2-3 (ESV) My friends Satan’s only desire is that we all lose sight of Christ saving grace, while forgetting that life is too short to squander away on the things of this world that he has placed before us to cause us to lose out on life eternal and God’s pure and holy kingdom.

I can’t repeat these words enough; nothing in this world is worth losing our Salvation over. For God’s “sake [and entrance into the promise land we] have [to suffer] the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that [we] may gain Christ,” [and life eternal] Phil. 3:8 (KJV)

Our focused must never waiver. 2014 has fulfilled prophecy like never before, “with wars and the threat of wars throughout our world, famines and earthquakes in various places, Ebola, HIV, false prophets telling the world “Peace where there is no peace”, lawlessness abounds like never before and the love of many continues to grow cold.

But my God also gives His Children promises in His Word of His love, grace and mercy, promises which makes it very personal which states. [any of my children] who endures to the end will be saved. And [the good news of the] gospel…..will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then [OUR SAVIOR WILL COME AND TIME AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE NO MORE] Matt. 24 3:13 (ESV)

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

Aug. 9, 2014

THOU BELIEVEST THAT THERE IS ONE GOD; THOU DOEST WELL: “THE DEVILS ALSO BELIEVE, AND TREMBLE” James 2:19 (KJV)

My friends, let’s focus on what James is saying to us today. Do We believe in God? that is great!! But what does that prove,  the Devils believe and tremble!! Paul even tells us one day soon “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phil 2:10-11 (ESV)

Again what have we proven to God. As I see it, there must be a distinctive difference between Satan and a child of God because we all know the god of this world and his forces will never behold God’s pure and Holy Kingdom again. So what is that distinction since we all believe, and one day we will all acknowledge that Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords?

Mrs. White tells us, [the forces of evil] “belief does not bring them justification, neither will the belief of those who give a merely intellectual assent to the truths of the Bible bring them the benefits of salvation. This belief fails of reaching the vital point, for the truth does not engage the heart or transform the character…..In Christ, the justified believer beholds his only hope and deliverer. Belief may exist without trust, but confidence born of trust cannot exist without faith.” (Sings of the Times Nov. 3, 1890)

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;” 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 (ESV)

My friends that verse gives us at least one distinction between Satan and ourselves. Satan’s chance for reconciliation has passed, and it passed when he said in [his] heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Is.14:13-14 (ESV)

But what other distinction are there between Satan and everyone who claims to be a Child of God, what is lying dormant in our heart that takes us away from the same place Satan has been barred for life from, which is God’s pure and holy kingdom.

My friends is it our pride like Satan, or our envy towards others, has our lies destroyed us like it did too the father of lies, has our covertness taken it’s toll, or have we gotten so brazen as to tell ourselves “I will make myself like the Most High.” My friends let’s focus today on, what character traits of Satan could be so attractive to us, that would make us want to lose our Salvation for.

Satan has made this world such a complicated place to live. “While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction [has] come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and [the majority] will not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:3 (NIV) and it is not because they don’t have the desire to escape.

But “the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. [But] the gate is narrow and the way is hard [that leads to Life Eternal and Gods Pure and Holy Kingdom,] and those who find it are few.” Matt. 7:13-14 (ESV)

So it is time every child of God makes a personal decision about their future, as we ask ourselves today “How long will [we] waver between two opinions? If the LORD is [our] God, [then we must] follow Him; but if [Satan is our] god, [then] follow him.” 1 kings 18:21 (NHV)

Time as we know it is about to end my friends and God NEEDS WORKERS YESTERDAY which means we are already running behind schedule. Time is fleeting away and the world is “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd…. [for] “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest [that we have the faith and endurance to give it all to the Master and become] laborers into his harvest.”

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

Aug. 8, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY, THAT GOD RESTORES”

“I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY THAT GOD’S RESTORES” for He took a sinner like me and I hope you can say the same about your life that He has RESTORED, REDEEMED AND RELEASED us from the penalty of sin and transformed our life into His image in spite of the wretched sinners we were.

And now I recognize and believed through my faith in the cross and His word that the transforming power on Calvary absolutely and without any doubt in my mind saved us from the penalty of sin and the clutches of the god of this world. That is why I can say with no reservation that “I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY THAT GOD RESTORES”

Oh the grace of God! And what Calvary meant for our SALVATION and through our faith, we can say Lord, I am going to trust you totally and place all of my confidence, hopes and dreams of eternity exclusively, on Calvary and what Christ did for each of us.

In addition, each who believe they are a child of God, have been given the power of the Spirit For Christ tells us in John 14:15-17 (ESV) “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”

Also Acts 1:8 (NIV) tells us that “we will receive power [from] the Holy Spirit; and [we] will [be able to represent and speak for our Savior] in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Yes my friends, as Christians we must tell the world of Christ death, resurrection, and soon return.

And most of all we must be willing to follow Him all the way to the cross. This binding contract between the two parties Jesus Christ and each of His Children is so vital in this great controversy between good and evil. In addition, as God’s chosen we must be a LIVING TESTIMONY WHO THROUGH OUR FAITH AND ENDURANCE CAN TELL THE WORLD THAT GOD RESTORES.

And because He RESTORES, there is no need to “live as those who have no hope: but if we “are [His] children, then we are heirs–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, [but also as His Children we must share] in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.” Rom. 8:17 (NIV)

Because if it is our ambition to [represent] Christ [and receive life eternal we must also] have a passion in [our] heart [that we have] never known before that [will] make [us] love [God even] more. [We must also be willing to] lay [aside] everything that [we seek] on this earth,] all [of our hopes dreams] and ambitions, For what [God] wants [from us as we] take up [our] cross and follow [Him] wherever He may lead.

[and as Omniscient, an all-knowing] God He knows [we] seldom measure up to what [His plans are for us but we must also recognize His love mercy grace] and how far His arms will reach to rescue [each of us from perdition and where the god of this world is trying to take us.

So our heartfelt] prayer [must be to live each day in such a way That in all we do we would bring [our God all the] praise, [glory and honor that He deserves] (Newsong, For the glory of Christ) My friends the power is ours if we are willing to give it all to the Master not just 99.9%.

Consistent with this, through, His grace, love and the power of the cross today as His Children we can Say these words with complete confidence  “I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY, THAT GOD RESTORES”, because we ”once was lost, but now we are found, Was blind, but now, we can see.”

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