Monday, June 9, 2025, 06:44
There are around 360 times in the word of GOD that it is stated do not worry or do not fear, so then why if we trust the Lord GOD, do we worry so much?
Why do we have so much fear?
Here are just a few examples:
Deuteronomy 3:22 ‘Do not fear them, for the LORD your God is the one fighting for you.'
Deuteronomy 31:8 “The LORD is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
2Kings 6:16 So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Isaiah 41:10 ‘Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
Isaiah 41:13 “For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.'
Isaiah 51:7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, Nor be dismayed at their revilings.
Lamentations 3:57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!”
Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the LORD of hosts.”
Matthew 10:26 “Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.”
Matthew 10:28 “Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:31 “So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Luke 5:10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men.”
Luke 12:7 “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Luke 18:4 “For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,
1Peter3:14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,
Revelation 2:10 ‘Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days.
Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life
There are over 300 times the word of GOD refers to not fearing mankind,
But there are over 600 times we are to fear,
not mankind but GOD.
I am not going to list them here you can go and find them, (do your own research)
We are told to fear one, and only one
The word states;
Fear the Lord God
Fear the Lord your God
Fear the Lord our God
So why do we fear mankind, or what man can do to us?
Why fear man who can only kill the body?
We should rather fear the Lord God who can kill both,
the one who can condemn the soul to damnation.
Matthew 10:28 “Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Where is your faith and trust set?
In the Lord your God?
Or in men?
That truly determines Who or what you fear.
Think about it.
There are several references in the word of GOD where men did not fear GOD and each time it did not go good for them.
Put your trust in the Lord your God, and find peace and freedom in Him.
Sunday, June 8, 2025, 07:34
Have you confessed your sins to Christ Jesus?
Have you repented of your sin’s?
Have you truly surrendered your life over to His will?
Have you actually given Him everything?
It is sad to say but most of us are still holding on to some part of this world and its ways.
i remember when i was younger, around 60 years ago being in Church and every one singing
“I surrender all”
and thinking what does it mean to surrender all.
Looking around and seeing people who it seemed had not surrendered much to GOD but sang out the words as if their whole life was given over.
But when Church was over,
they talked about everything but GOD,
and the rest of the week when we would see them,
they had nothing to say about God nor did they act like anything i had heard in Church,
seemed to me than, that something was wrong.
i couldn’t read so could only go by what was said in Sunday school and Church and i myself slipped in to somewhat the same pattern,
we went to Church then went home and went on with life until the next Wednesday night or Sunday morning and lived for self the rest of the week.
This was our routine but was always disturbing to me.
Routine:
A set of customary or unchanging and often mechanically performed activities or procedures This routine has never seemed right,
My Sunday school teacher read John 3:16 to us a lot
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish,
but have eternal life.”
i remember the one time She she read on from 3:16 through 3:21,
John 3:16-21
¶ “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish,
but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world,
but that the world might be saved through Him.
He who believes in Him is not judged;
he who does not believe has been judged already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But he who practices the truth comes to the Light,
so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
In what She read and talked about that day around sixty years ago has stuck with me most of my life there have been times i have wondered away but the words She spoke always brought me back to the Lord,
hare are the things that stuck out to me then and still do today;
Father God loves me
He loves me so much that He sent His only Son to die on a cross to save me from hell And my part in receiving His gift is to believe in Him,
She spoke of Him being light shined on our hearts and minds, and thought then He can see all we do and think,
that nothing we do or think can ever be hidden from Him.
That even if we chose to disobey if we choose to live in the darkness of sin He still knows.
And by doing things that are sin we are saying we do not love Jesus or His Father.
And when we live a life that is not given to Jesus we are only lying to our self,
because our sins are out there for everyone to see,
She spoke of sin as only making our eyes blind to our own sin,
but that other people could see our sins in the way we spoke and the way we treated other people.
She said that everyone who does evil hates Jesus and Father God,
and asked how would you feel if someone you love said they hatted you?
But if we would live in the way God asks us to live,
we could live in His light and the things we do would be worked out in Him.
She spoke of work as being the things we do that are in obedience to the words in the bible.
She told us that the main thing Father God and Christ Jesus asks us to do is love.
And she told us the only way we can show we love Jesus is by loving other people,
and that if we can not love those who He brings in to our life we cannot truly love Him.
Matthew 22:35-39
One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And He said to him,
“ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’”
Her words and the words of Christ Jesus have stuck with me and guide in the way i live,
yes there have been times i have been so disgusted by those around me that i wonder off.
But the Holy Spirit is faithful and quick to remind me that it is my thoughts and opinions that keep me from walking with Jesus not what other people say or do.
And that i am the one who needs to repent and turn back to Him and His forgiveness.
i pray this is helpful to you in your walk with Christ Jesus.
Will you choose to walk with Him in the light?
Or is the world so attractive to you that you will choose to walk in the darkness?
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 04:27
Matthew 24:42-51
¶ “Therefore be on the alert,
for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
For this reason, you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark 13:24
¶ “But in those days, after that tribulation,
THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN CLOUDS with great power and glory.
And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.
Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
Even so, you too, when you see these things happening, recognize that He is near, right at the door.
Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.
It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.
Therefore, be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.
What I say to you I say to all, ‘Be on the alert!”
Luke 21:25-36
¶ “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD with power and great glory.
But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Then He told them a parable:
Behold the fig tree and all the trees;
as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near.
So, you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.
Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.
But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
{{ This may seem redundant but if it is important for GOD to put these three sections of teachings in His book the bible, then perhaps we should take note of them.
The question:
Are you ready?
Are you about doing the will of Christ Jesus?
Or are you about your own will?
The return of Christ for His church (His bride) could be at any time on any day,
No one knows but the Father (Father God).
Are you being diligent to the words of GOD or have you fallen asleep?
We are to be doing the will of our Lord, He has given each one of us a task to acomplish, are you about doing this task?
We are to be sharing His gift with the world around us,
His free gift of salvation.
We are to be sharing the life He has given us when we excepted Him as our Lord with the world around us.
If we are being diligent until His return, we will not be caught unaware, we will not be caught asleep when He appears.
Revelation 2:4-5
“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.”
{{ have you come to Christ at some time but now have become so comfortable that you have become slack in your dedication in your walk with Him,
if so come to Him and repent, ask to be forgiven and dedicate what is left of your time to serve Him instead of self. }}
Revelation 2:9-10
“I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer.
Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days.
Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
{{ Christ Jesus and Father God know what we have and are going through,
They are very much aware of what is going on in the world.
And They know the treacherous times ahead of each of us, that some of us will even be put to death for standing our ground when it comes to our faith in Christ Jesus.
We are told
“Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life”
What more could we ask for?
Know this you will not get a better offer from the evil one,
the one who lulls you in to world concepts, ways of thinking and gathering of things,
so that you slowly slip away from your firm stand in Christ, don’t be deceived by faults teachers. }}
Rev 2:14-16
“But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.
So, you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Therefore repent;
or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.”
Revelation 2:20-21
“But I have this against you,
that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.”
{{ do you associate with those who live and display the teachings of the evil ones?
Do you participate with them in their worldly ways?
Have fallen in to the practice of ‘keeping up with the neighbors’
Stay away from the ones who say they are Christians but live another life style and teach another teaching.
Wouldn’t it be better to repent turn from them and their ways and meet Christ Jesus with a smile on His face rather than to follow in their path and be suddenly come upon by the Lord whit a sword.
Remember what Christ Jesus has said;
“Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.”
Do you really want to be on the wrong side of the creator of the heavens and the earth?
If not then repent and change the way you live.
Just as Christ Jesus gives the jezebel’s time to repent of their ways, He also is giving you time to repent of your ungodly ways thoughts and believes.
Repent wall you still have the time He will be coming quickly. }}
Revelation 3:2-3
“Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.
So, remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent.
Therefore, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.”
{{ now that’s pretty open and straight forward.
Wake up and repent remember the teachings of GOD, complete the path that God has put before you in His word, in His teachings, repent and turn to Christ Jesus.
But know this if you are not willing to wake up and repent, you will mis out.
Just like the foolish virgins we talked about a few days ago.
The choice is your will you choose wisely or foolish?
That choose is yours and yours alone.
GOD will not break your will.
Will to live with out Him and He will allow it.
Eternity in hell alone with your pain and anguish. }}
Revelation 3:8
“I know your deeds.
Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
I am coming quickly;
hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
{{ enough said?
It is your choice where you will end up Christ Jesus has opened the door, will you repent and be ready to enter in?
Or not.
“Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.”
“It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.
Therefore, be on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.”
“Be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep. What I say to you I say to all, ‘Be on the alert!”
“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.
But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 06:16
Christ Jesus is the reason why we're here right now Jesus the center of the Bible,
He is the one that is spoken of all through the bible.
From the beginning Father God told us of Christ Jesus that He would come into the world someday and that he would be born of a virgin.
Father God did not keep it a secret, the scriptures made it quite clear as to how He could be identified
1. He had to be born in Bethlehem
2. He had to be born of a virgin
3. that He had to live 33 years
4. He had to live a perfect life, a life without sin
5. That Jesus would be the atonement of salvation for mankind
6. He had to be crucified on a cross
7. He had to raise from the dead
Father God sent His Son Jesus in to the world because we need a sacrifice for our sins,
because all of us have sinned,
there's no one or nothing perfect in this world that could be found to be sacrifices to redeem us back to the Father.
The Bible makes it very clear that all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
but rather then God throwing us away and starting over the Bible says that he would send us His son,
and He did send his son that he would die on the cross for our sins,
and even the historians of the time said he did.
Jesus died on the cross for our sins and in the bible, we are told that he would rise from the dead and he did rise from the dead,
and aging the historians of that time confirmed it,
Jesus Christ is the only one that can bring you (us) the forgiveness of sins and the promise and the assurance of eternal life through Him because he lives.
Christ died for you and he loves you and you need to know that there's only one way to heaven and that's to trust him not yourself He's the only one that's done good not us He (Christ Jesus) alone is worthy.
We have all sinned,
we all have sin in our lives.
The question is what will we do about it.
Jesus came to the world was sacrificed for our sin,
So that we may be redeemed back to the Father,
So that we may spend eternity with Him in His Kingdome.
When this body dies our eternity is set and cannot be changed.
The choices we make today set our destination after these body die, when that last breath leaves.
No one knows the time they will take their last breath,
The choice is made on this side of death.
And the GOD of the bible tells us and historians confirm,
that Christ Jesus came and that Christ Jesus was crucified on a cross, that He has risen from the dead.
We all need to realize each time we chose to disobey His word we are choosing to live eternity in hell.
Hell according to the bible is dark – black – and you will be alone, there is fire – a fiery heat – but no light,
separated from God and His love.
A place of eternal pain and suffering.
Father God so loves the world that He sent His only Son that we may be redeemed back to Him.
Will you choose Christ Jesus?
Will you repent of your sins?
Will you choose to be redeemed?
Will you soften your heart?
Or will you give in to the evil one and willingly step in to his trap,
will you swallow the hook of sin and be condemned to a life in hatred, bitterness, unforgiveness a life of selfishness?
Do you think living a life thinking what you call good deeds will redeem you?
if so, you are only fooling yourself.
Before it is too late, .
before that last breath leaves your body,
except the forgiveness Christ Jesus is offering you.
Christ came to earth born of a virgin,
was crucified on a cross,
three days later rose from the grave victories over death and the grave,
And gives each of us the opportunity to except Him and His salvation,
that we may live with Him throughout eternity.
But we have to be willing to give our life that He has given us,
We need to repent of our sins,
turn from our sins and turn to Him and His commandments.
Now go read Matthew 5,6 and 7 learn how to live,
then read the book of John,
Find out who you are in Christ and what He asks of you, become a faithful servant of Christ Jesus and find out what it really means to be free,
to live free.
I will leave you with this:
may you except the blessing of Christ Jesus our Lord
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 05:27
Are you ready?
No matter if the Lord is coming back today, next week, in a month or in 30 years.
If you are not ready for His return you will be left out just like the five foolish virgins.
Matthew 25:1-13
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.
But at midnight there was a shout,
‘Behold, the bridegroom!
Come out to meet him.’
Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
The foolish said to the prudent,
‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
But the prudent answered,
‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too;
go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’
And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast;
and the door was shut.
Later the other virgins also came, saying,
‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’
But he answered,
‘Truly I say to you,
I do not know you.’
Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.
{{{
Let's start here:
The word virgins let’s insert Christians
And take a look at “foolish”, “prudent” and the statement “got drowsy and began to sleep”
There were ten Christians,
Five of them went to church showed up on Sundays and Wednesdays, sang raised their hands prayed and heard the word of GOD;
but never applied what they heard to their hearts or the way they lived,
and did not repent,
so were not forgiven.
And there were five Christians who showed up on Sundays and on Wednesdays, sang the songs raised their hands prayed and heard the word of GOD;
But the songs were worship to their Lord,
they applied the word of GOD to their lives.
They were still human and made mistakes but applied the word repented of their sins and asked for forgiveness.
The foolish Christian played the game, and lived their lives for their selves.
The prudent Christian made the word of GOD their goal in life.
“Got drowsy and began to sleep”
If you look at the church in the United States to day it seems many are asleep, If we look back at Revelation, we see the Church, christians, being warned of their ways;
Revelation 2:4
“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”
{you got lazy and went back to your worldly ways and concepts.}
Revelation 2:14-16
Speaks to churches (Christians) who put up with and participate with people who teach Balaam and the Nicolaitans.
16 “repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth”
Revelation 2:20
‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.”
Are you sleeping wall Jezebel’s are miss leading you and those around you?
Revelation 3:2-3
‘Wake up,
and strengthen the things that remain,
which were about to die;
for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.
‘So, remember what you have received and heard;
and keep it,
and repent.
Therefore, if you do not wake up,
I will come like a thief,
and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
Revelation 3:8
‘I know your deeds.
Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut,
because you have a little power,
and have kept My word,
and have not denied My name.
{are you awake enough to hear the word of GOD?}
GOD has opened the door for you to enter His Kingdom will you repent and walk through?
Lets end with the sleepy church:
Revelation 3:15-22
“I know your deeds,
that you are neither cold nor hot;
I wish that you were cold or hot.
So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Because you say,
“I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,”
and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich,
and white garments so that you may clothe yourself,
and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed;
and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
Those whom I love,
I reprove and discipline;
therefore, be zealous and repent.
Behold,
I stand at the door and knock;
if anyone hears My voice and opens the door,
I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
He who overcomes,
I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne,
as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
He who has an ear,
Will you hear what the Lord is saying?
Will you repent of your lazy ways?
Will you apply your life to the words and ways of the Lord?
Or will you be one of the foolish, and be spit out of the mouth of Christ?
We are told to seek His righteousness and His Kingdom first,
We are not to seek the world and its ways.
What will you choose?
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name cast out demons,
and in Your name perform many miracles?’
And then I will declare to them,
I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.”
Are you being
Foolish or prudent?