May 2, 2014
“JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS, JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS”!!!
PRECIOUS: meaning something of great value or highly esteemed or loved. My friends Severe changes are mounting in our life each day. We are gradually becoming emptied of our resources and hopes. Our lives are changing from day to day, from SITUATION TO SITUATION, and CIRCUMSTANCES TO CIRCUMSTANCES.
But “Our God is a PRECIOUS God who we must have a PASSION to spend every moment in the presence of our PRECIOUS GOD before we know without a doubt that He cares and our lives are safe when we give it all to Christ.
PASSION is defined as any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling and this power can only come from a PASSIONATE and PRECIOUS GOD whose word ” is alive and active.” in our lives “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 (NKJV)
“John Newton captain of a slave ship was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for rotten living. He hated life and life hated him.” “He sailed back to England in 1748 aboard the merchant ship Greyhound, during this voyage, he experienced a spiritual conversion.
The ship encountered a severe storm off the coast of Donegal and almost sank. Newton awoke in the middle of the night
and finally called out to God as the ship filled with water.” And miraculously, before the ship sunk God saved him “It was this experience which he later marked as the beginnings of his conversion.”
He went on to become an evangelical lay minister, and writer who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace! He also played a significant role in the movement to abolish the slave trade, the business he once made his living at. Old and Blind One Sunday, while delivering his message he repeated the sentence: ” JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS.”
His helper whispered to him: “But you have already said that twice.” Newton turned to his helper and said loudly, “Yes, I’ve said it twice, and I’m going to say it (until it is the last breath I will ever say before I die) My friends our PASSION for CHRIST must, if nothing else in this world bring us to the realization that JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS, JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS.
I with no reservation what so ever understand how John Newton could composed such a song with PASSION as “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found. ‘Twas blind, but now I see.
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed. Even When we’ve been there ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Then when we first begun.
MY friends I love the part that says, even when we have been in God’s PRECIOUS PRESENCE “TEN THOUSAND YEARS” we will still be singing praises “JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS, JESUS CHRIST IS PRECIOUS” for what He did for us on Calvary. Quicksand is a gooey substance that blends in with its surroundings, and if you get caught in it, and you have no help to get you out, you are in trouble.
Everything you try to do by yourself only allows the sand to just keep dragging you underneath as you sink deeper and 
deeper, until you become completely submerged. The sinner who never grasped onto the PRECIOUS arms of Christ is usually lead into the sinking sand of sin.
Forced by Satan to go as far as possible until you are completely submerged because Sin will always take you farther than you ever thought you would go if your eyes are not focused on our PRECIOUS SAVIOR.
Remember our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was anointed by the Father to proclaim liberty to the captives of Satan to pull us to the shores of safety. My friends if your soul is in danger and it continues to sink, look above to OUR PRECIOUS SAVIOR because He completely saves, as He lift’s us up by His PRECIOUS and LOVING arms.
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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