April 1, 2014
“THESE ARE JUST THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS!!!”
“To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” Eph. 4:22-24 (ESV)
PLEASE GOD I NEED YOU TO RADICALLY, AND THOROUGHLY CHANGE MY LIFE!!!!! Let’s go to Webster and define the word RADICALLY: Going to the root or origin; now let’s define the word THOROUGHLY: complete; perfect. So if we put the words together we are telling God that we need Him to get to the root or origin of the sins in our life and make us completely perfect. Does that sound about right?
And can I just add for most of us it is an emergency, we are now on life support, but friends don’t worry that is what our Savior is good at emergency situations. Because He will “Refine, He will Restore, He will Replace, He will Change, He will Sculpt you, He will Mold you He’ll even permit trials and tribulation to come into your life just to get you to the point where He can fully reveal Himself in you.”(Bill Liversidge)
That my friends is what I call a full Makeover. But God is so good to us He is willing to do all of that free of charge. Remember YOUR 
MAKEOVER has already been paid for by the “Blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ on Calvary 2000 years ago. As our Savior hung on the cross He looked into the future and saw what Satan had in store for all of His Children in the 21st century.
He saw every situation and circumstances of our lives, the trials and tribulations, the highs and lows, the deaths, and sicknesses, he saw that “lawlessness will be increased, and the love of many will grow cold” and nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and famines and earthquakes in various places. And He knew THESE ARE JUST THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS.”
“To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.” Gen. 3:16 (ESV) So my friends we are just at the beginning OF OUR “BIRTH PAINS”our FAITH is just being tested as CANDIDATES for God’s holy kingdom God is now seeing if we are “SAFE TO SAVE” because when sin is finally eradicated from this earth my friends, there will be NO MORE SIN.
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Cor. 6:9-10 (ESV)
This is why we can no longer wait WE NEED A RADICAL, AND THOROUGH CHANGE IN OUR LIVES today, but remember one of God’s promises is“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Cor. 10:13
But we must have Faith in all of the promises in God’s Word and in the transforming power of His Spirit, and ENDURE. For our FAITH will be tested, and it will be taken to the very limit where we fill we cannot go any further but my friends we
“must rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:3-5
HOPE is knocking this very moment, for Christ “stands at the door, and knocks: if any man hear (His) voice, and open the door, (He) will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev. 3:20 (KJV) and that my friends is a promise that should keep us encourage each day of our life as we deliver the good news to everyone about Christ return, and Endure as we wait THROUGH THE “BIRTH PAINS” for Jesus to come and take us to our NEW HOME IN HIS KINGDOM.
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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