In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., I chose this quote from him to express my love and the need for love in our world today. My love and Martin’s love hail from God, who is love and the very source of love for me.
I’ve had ample opportunity to do the very opposite of love, which is to fear! I believe hate is a symptom of fear. Fear of the unknown would cause you to hate it. When you’re operating in fear, you think your evil deeds and hatred are justified. Fear is a spirit which causes you to lose sight of who you are and what you are a part of. When I hear people say they hate a certain race, then I immediately know it is due to their self-hatred jealousy or fear of a particular race’s accolades. This is the only way they can feel good about themselves, by hating another race. They forget or they are ignorant of the fact they belong to the human race, which consists of all races forming the human race. Please look at the verse below.
2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
When we understand fear causes one to feel powerless, which leads to self loathing and a sense of worthlessness, then we can understand why one would look to hate in order to feel good about themselves. In every case, love is superior and it advances and strengthens you and all of humanity.
1 John 4:18 King James Version
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Fear affects your mind so that you can no longer reason and comprehend, so you lose you lose the ability to make sound, good decisions. When you’re in fear, you are agitated unbalanced, and without peace.
Choosing love in every situation advances you in every situation.Love is God and Love conquers and covers it all….
Some people perceive trouble everywhere they go. Some people see a demon behind every door. Truth be told it’s none of the above. You are where you are in life by what you allowed in life to shape and mold you into. No one’s life is perfect! Don’t become what you hate. Grow up some too. You can change who you are my deciding what you want in life. I chose to Love, live in Peace, to help others and to have a full Happy Life on purpose. Yes, I have the same junk coming at me like the rest of you, but I choose not to let the junk get in me and live out my life through that junk. I’ve had some very mean things done to me by so-called loved ones. I refuse to let what happened to me make me mean! I want to be a nice person and some days is more challenging than others. I’m quick to apologize if I’ve hurt anyone. Most times the truth hurts but I can’t apologize for the truth. The truth is what it is, so deal with it! Don’t run from it or fear it. One thing about a truth it can be changed by another truth. But only when you drop the original truth and pick up and walk out your ‘new truth’ in life. Your new you… believe it… live it… I did and so can you!
2 Corinthians 5:17Living Bible (TLB)
When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!
I want to ask you all a question and then I will answer it for you. This will help you see both sides of forgiveness.
Question: You have an exquisite teacup. The finest that money could buy considering that it has a very fine crack in it. It has a crack so fine that you really cannot see it with the naked eye. You tried using it but to no avail–it continues to leak all of its contents out, but it’s so pretty and you feel so good using it. If you drink it quickly you can barely notice that it’s leaking. Then you are all gassy from drinking it so fast and you can’t enjoy the taste of your expensive tea. The problem only arises when you have your finest silk dress on and everyone notices the spots on the dress from where it leaked. My question is why would someone invest so much in a broken cup and continue to use it like it’s not broken? And why do you have such high expectations for a broken cup…?
Answer: People in general are broken like the fine teacup. All of us have various degrees of brokenness, every single one of us.
Romans 3:23
Amplified Bible (AMP) Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.
Yet, we ignore their brokenness when we deal with them. The only perfect person is Jesus who you can trust to hold all your precious dreams, love, purposes, and etc.… We all have varying degrees of brokenness; we just choose to ignore our own and judge others for theirs.
I told my children at a very young age that I was not a perfect mom and if I were a perfect mom then I would be their Jesus. And if I was Jesus I would be their God and I am incapable at my best to be their God. Besides, God was not going to have that. So, I am an imperfect mom, deal with it. Sounds cruel, but this is life and we have to deal with life. This brought their expectations for a perfect childhood to a real childhood that would prepare them for life.
Life is beautiful! People teach us about the beauty of choices, consequences, and imperfections; how love mends us and brings the best and the worst in the brokenness of people. We have learned to see the beauty in imperfections with love.
So, when we see our own imperfections we lower the bar, rather get rid of the bar for expectations on people’s actions. Now we can love them instead of judge them and live a happier life with them.
We forgive their imperfections because we have been forgiven of our own imperfections.
Mark 11:25-26
Amplified Bible (AMP) And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.
26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings.
But how does one forgive? If you don’t have forgiveness you can’t forgive. Example: I can’t give you a hundred dollars if I don’t have a hundred dollars. Where do I get forgiveness? God, you get forgiveness from God by expecting His forgiveness for you. God has forgiven you of all–not some, but all of your sins. What do you do with that? You accept it over and over until it becomes your way of living and loving.
Acts 10:43
Amplified Bible (AMP) To Him all the prophets testify (bear witness) that everyone who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him, giving himself up to Him] receives forgiveness of sins through His name.
If you have been forgiven of your sins then you accept this forgiveness and pass this forgiveness onto those that have hurt you. Whatever you sow in life you will reap!
Galatians 6:7
Amplified Bible (AMP) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.
The great part about this is the more forgiveness I accept from God increases my capacity to love like God.
Luke 7:47
Who much is forgiven loves much….
King James Version (KJV) Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Now I look for opportunities to forgive so that I can Love more like Jesus. My forgiveness is equal to my loving… YOUR FORGIVENESS IS EQUAL TO YOUR LOVING YOURSELF AND OTHERS…
Let’s start this year off with ‘Purposed Love.’ What is ‘Purposed Love?’ Loving on purpose! You don’t have to have a reason to love. Look, we say that the world needs more love, but we need more individual love. That means you have to start loving yourself on purpose and those around you. Love can’t reach the world till it reaches you! You don’t earn love; you give love, irrespective of the person or situation. Why? When you hold back love it changes who you are in your life and most importantly it changes what’s inside of you. Love is not a ‘do’ it’s a ‘who’; who you are to yourself and who you are to others.
I love because it’s what I do. It’s to time-consuming trying to remember what people did to me. They are not worth the memory, they are more valuable than that; so I’m not going to park my thoughts there. My mind is not a parking lot of broke down thoughts and bad memories.
I have loved myself out of every situation that I have been in. Love just feels so much better than hate, mistrust, bitterness, resentment and jealousy. Face it, you cannot be in two places at the same time. Hating and loving at the same time; one cancels the other out. You are not designed that way, and you cannot compartmentalize love. I’ll use my self as an example. I’m a divorced woman with four children. I had a very nasty divorce (all divorces really are bad), but it offered me an opportunity to hate my children’s father. I just wouldn’t, I couldn’t, it was not in me to do so. Why? It was merely a choice. I choose not too. I could not compartmentalize my love to remain with just my children. Real love has no conditions, no walls and no restraints. It is unconditional! The same holds true for hate, you cannot compartmentalize it. Hate works like acid, it will eat through and destroy everything about you and everyone in your life. It just cannot be contained.
This kind of love has one real source… The only true source is God.
1 John 4:7-10
The Message (MSG)
God Is Love
7-10 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
There is no way that I could Love like that on my own. Hey, truth be told it’s not my love that I Love with; It’s God’s Love that I Love Him with and you, and me. God gives me a daily, hourly and moment-by-moment Love.
5 Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.
This is how I ‘Loved’ my way through life, the good, the bad and the ugly. Here are the previous verses leading up to Romans 5:5. These verses reveal the revelation of how God’s Love and relationship (He makes you His Family – family affair) will take you through life’s woes with virtue and joy.
Romans 5
Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Therefore, since we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.
3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.
4 And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.
5 Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.
You see, God is not mad at you; He is loving you so that you too can reflect Him and His Love.
Now, here are some answers to the first part of your question of: ‘Why do bad things happen to good people?’
Some times, God’s people do not believe in God to be their God. They don’t believe that God is greater than their circumstance. This attitude allows the enemy to TAKE advantage of them by taking their stuff and their lives. Some of God’s people truly do not believe that God can or will deliver them. They believe that God is unable or not willing to be their God or deliver them. They have more faith in their fear or the bad than the goodness of the Lord. Look at the following verse below:
2 Corinthians 4:4 King James Version (KJV)
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
I prefer how the Amplified Bible says it:
2 Corinthians 4:4 (AMP)
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.
What is being blinded? Their minds not their eyes. What is their minds being blinded by? Their mind’s are being blinded by unbelief. In the Greek the transliterated word for blinded has a root word that means pride. So, the persons pride (pride being that they can handle it, going to someone else for help or God is not able to help, etc) which is the person’s unbelief blinds them from seeing God as their deliver.
You are made in the image of God, just like Jesus is, in the above verse. Jesus is the Word made flesh. So we reply and deal with life as God the Father and His Son Jesus would with the help of the Holy Spirit. Whenever God wanted to change something He spoke the Word (Jesus is the spoken Word John 1:1) and the Holy Spirit manifested the Word. This shows how God is a speaking spirit just like you are. Remember, in Genesis 1:26, that we are made in the image of God; it reads:
Genesis 1:26 Amplified Bible (AMP)
God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.
Since we are made in the image of God, that makes us speaking spirits just like God. Remember, when God spoke, the universe was created. He speaks, and then ‘it is!’ It follows than that when we speak the Word (Jesus) the Holy Spirit will Manifest it. Look at the verse below.
Genesis 1:3 King James Version (KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
God kept on ‘saying’ (audible speech) what he wanted throughout Genesis 1 and on until Jesus said it was finished:
John 19:30 Amplified Bible (AMP) When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
Than Jesus rose again so you could start living out the beginning (Genesis 1:26.) and His resurrected life with the help of His Word and the Power of the Holy Ghost to manifest the Word. And that living Word happens to be Jesus himself inside of you!
John 1:1 Amplified Bible (AMP) In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.
And…
John 1:12 Amplified Bible (AMP) But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—
Another reason bad things are happening is because God’s people, who are speaking spirits just like God, are speaking the wrong things. They are speaking things contrary to God’s Word and contrary to what God said they could have. The new life that Jesus won for them through His death burial and resurrection. Look at Mark 11:19-31, I’m only putting down verse 23 but you should take the time to read it all.
Mark 11:23 King James Version (KJV) For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
People are believing what they are saying and they are saying bad things because they are believing bad things. It is a vicious cycle of thoughts and reactionary speaking of what they already have and fear. You can only speak what you believe. So, if you believe bad that is what you get.
2 Corinthians 4:13 King James Version (KJV) We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
The last part of your question is this: ‘…and good things happen to bad people?’
The answer to this part of the question is that Jesus died for everybody. So, He isn’t mad at any one person, whether we classify them as good or bad. Jesus doesn’t only extend his offer of salvation to just ‘good people’ or ‘bad people’, but to everyone. He does not disapprove of any person, just a person’s repeated unrighteous behavior that was forced upon them through being born into a world that is controlled bey darkness (satan).
Colossians 1:20-22 Amplified Bible (AMP) And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.
21 And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities, 22 Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence.
TO BE CONTINUED
GOD IS LOVE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL…
Much love,
Pastor Harris
Why is it happy for you? I believe these holidays are designed for us to honor the self sacrificing of others on our behalf by living it out in our daily lives. Don’t just give it a ‘kudos,’ LIVE IT. Holidays are for self retrospect, not just historical accounts, but destiny through change! How have you allowed this holiday and all holidays to affect you to do your personal best? Any dream you want to live in life; speak ‘life’ to it.
Dreams are designed to motivate us to improve ourselves to do better for ourselves and for the society as a whole. Protect ‘The Dream’ from ‘nay sayers’ and negativity in general. Build fences of expectation and gates of faith to surround ‘The Dream.’ What have I/you personally done to improve myself/yourself and others from the past year? Stop waiting for someone to do something for you, Mr./Ms Entitlement; do something for someone else. A man gave his life for an Ideal of equality, unity, and peace; can I/you not respect that man and live out the ideal through how I/you treat and respond to my/our fellow brothers? Can I? Can you?
Can I not see all of mankind as my brother?
Can I not think outside my ‘self imposed box’ of ‘all about me’?
Can I not better my position in life by bettering someone else’s life?
Can I leave out the ‘I’ in my conversations when speaking with others?
Can I listen more and talk less about what I did?
Here’s a biggie can I post something of relevance on my Facebook page about someone else to encourage them?
Can I love more like Jesus?
Can I be soft and approachable?
Can I not hate…
CAN I? CAN I? CAN I?… OR CAN YOU???
GOD IS LOVE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL…
Much love,
Pastor Harris
I have a ‘Facebook’ Internet Bible Study. So, I have decided to start putting the ‘Questions’ (that may help others) and my ‘Responses’ to them in my blogs. No, I don’t know it all, and I don’t pretend to know it all. But I do know someone who does…It’s Jesus! He and His Word has it all covered for me.
QUESTION:Why is it easier for me to accept God’s forgiveness than it is to forgive myself? I try, but I really don’t deep down.
RESPONSE: You don’t have a ‘forgiveness problem’, what you have is a ‘love problem.’ You don’t love …you, it is impossible to forgive someone who you don’t love. Love enables you to do the impossible. Love will cause you to take a bullet for a friend, or a mother will lift a car off of her child. Love cannot do anything else but love. You are made in the image of God – WHICH QUALIFIES YOU FOR LOVE and Jesus dying for you makes you worthy.
The Message Bible:
Matthew 22:37 – 40 Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”
Learn this fact that, A persons actions will not make you love them, your decision makes you love them. LOVE IS NOT A REASON BUT A DECISION. God choose to love you by sending His Son Jesus (John 3:16). You are loved and you have one choice and one choice only and that is to simply love. You don’t make your choices according to feelings. Choices are make according to revelations not the sense realm (I think, I want, I feel). Stop letting the devil play with your mind. Aren’t you tired of trying to perfect you?… God is. That’s His job not yours. You make the decision just to do what He says to get the reward that He said you can have.
Amplified Bible (AMP) John 14:15 If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.
You are complicating things by thinking about it over and over. How many times do you do that? Get over you. The definition of Worship is what you dwell on (THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU CHOOSE TO SPEND ON SOMETHING) and make it first in your life. That is why worry is ‘negative worship’ over something stupid. Yes, stupid because God ‘has/is’ the answer for every question. You are worshiping it because you are giving your sin more time than God.
When satan reminds you not to forgive you then take that self loathing and worship God WITH LOVE. Loathing and love cannot exist at the same time. Jesus died on the cross and said it, ‘is finished’, can He really do any more than what He has done? Why do you think more has to be done in your case? Stop it, make a decision to forgive you and don’t look back like Lot’s wife. OK…Jesus and I love you.
We all talk about ‘LOVE’ instead of just doing ‘LOVE. Yes, it is good to hear you are ‘loved’, but expressing and feeling ‘LOVED’ is more defining. It is the parameters and scope of your very being. If I am ‘LOVED’, then ‘I can do…. I can be… I will…’ it’s unlimited potential. Notice how love is in the present? I can not live on ‘past love’ or ‘future love’; I’m no longer in the past and I have not arrived in the future. That is why individuals of long termed marriages will die shortly after the death of their spouse. So, when you put off that hug because you hugged her this morning; that’s ‘past love.’ The moment is not guaranteed to come again. Well, I shall hug her tomorrow, today might be your last day.
1 Corinthians 13:1
Amplified Bible (AMP)
1IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Being ‘LOVED’ tells me who I am, where I am headed, and how to get there. Love fulfills my destiny in life. Our existence as social beings gives us order when we are loved. Love imparts more than feelings, or mere emotions. It is the quest to express your very being to life itself. I am… because I love, I will… because I love. Denying love is like denying a person the very air they breath. Denying love to oneself is suicide and death when love is denied to someone else. Denying love is one of the worst forms of abuse.
1 Corinthians 13:3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
3Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned orin order that I may glory, but have not love (God’s love in me), I gain nothing.
Love is not calculating or manipulating, it is purposeful, meaningful, selfless, and spiritual.
1 Corinthians 13:5
Amplified Bible (AMP)
5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
Love defines your actions for yourself and whoever. Love reveals who you really are. So, if you say you love someone, then you love what they love and you respect what they respect.
1 John 4:8
Amplified Bible (AMP)
8He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.
Love is your Glory, your opinion of yourself, shown only by your actions which says how you think, what you think, and who you are.
1 Corinthians 13:3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
3Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned orin order that I may glory, but have not love (God’s love in me), I gain nothing.
In short your ‘do’ is your glory, an outward expression or out-raying, the radiance of your beliefs and what you hold so dear. So, when you fall short of this Glory it is covered and expressed by God’s Glory (LOVE) and another person’s glory when they all forgive you.
1 John 4:10
Amplified Bible (AMP)
10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
Love is the opinion of ones self being personified through the actions of ones beliefs and thoughts. I’m loved therefore I love. (Sounds a lot like Jesus, because it is Jesus.)
Hebrews 1:3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, theout-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high,
GOD IS LOVE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL…
Much love,
Pastor Harris
Hi sweetheart, I think its time for you to respond to your father’s father. You are stronger now and can put him and that side of the family at peace where you no longer fear him or your behavior toward him. The black community has forced children to have relationships with abusive family members because they are family. This has caused a lot of mental illness and a break down in the family. A child can not comprehend how someone is abusive to them and then they say, ‘I love you.’ 1 + 1 = 2 when it starts adding up to 8, then Houston we have a problem. Children should never be required to fix broke parents. They are not skilled or trained for this. The behavior is validated by other family members. This is INSANITY! It has created ‘child-adults’ who form immature relationships and marry to fix fundamental fissures within themselves. Did God allow or make this happen? NO! God is a loving God with crazy children. Your mantra should be, ‘I will not reflect mother’s or father’s pain or the hell they grew up in on my life.’ Angry father’s produce angry children, there is no getting around that. Punk mama’s produce punk children and there is no getting around that! Enjoy your wholeness by not being around broke people. You are not their savior. Jesus is their savior. How can anyone accuse you of not being a good Christian when they have never darken the door of a church or cracked a bible. When they start living the life then they can think about questioning yours. Let them know you live by Grace not by Law and especially man’s law! God loves you and so do I, now love yourself and stay away from crazy people. HERE IS SOME SUGGESTIONS TO WHAT YOU CAN SAY IF YOU ARE ASKED WHY ARE YOU JUST NOW CALLING? YOUR RESPONSE – I’m just now in a place where I’m whole enough in my spirit, soul and body. I have matured. I was a child and a victim of my parents divorce. Now, if I have offended you by calling to express love during your time of grief please forgive me. NOW IF HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT YOUR FATHER, TELL HIM THIS, ‘IT IS NOT THE TIME OR THE OCCASION FOR SUCH A TALK. IF HE PERSISTS THEN REPEAT THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR PLACE FOR THAT. IF HE SAYS WELL I THINK IT IS, LET HIM KNOW THAT’S FINE FOR HIM BUT NOT FOR YOU. REMIND HIM IT TAKES TWO TO COME INTO AGREEMENT AND TO HAVE A CONVERSATION. BE GUARDED WHAT YOU TELL HIM BECAUSE IT WILL GO BACK TO YOUR FATHER. KEEP LEADING HIM BACK TO ‘I’M CALLING ABOUT YOU NOT ME AND THE NON -REPRESENTATIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SON. I’M WELL AND WANTED TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE DOING? NOW LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLNESS AND LOVE GREATER. ENJOY THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.
Romans 3: 21-24 (The Message Bible) God Has Set Things Right But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
LIFE APPLICATION for Romans 3:23 is the following:
You are not good enough to get into heaven or live a Godly life! You are a sinner and you need a Savior. If you are wondering about your Salvation, than wonder no more. THIS IS NOT A THOUGHT, BUT A DECLARATION SPOKEN WITH YOUR MOUTH (OUT LOUD). A silent prayer is a thought, and contradicts this scripture – Rom. 10:9 (TNIV) If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Everyone qualifies for a Savior. Repeat this prayer if you are backslidden or lack the commitment for a successful life then rededicate with this prayer. Repeat this prayer if you are a good person (Roman 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) or a sinner who needs a Savior. Repeat this prayer if you are in a religion and you want to know the God who is Love:
Prayer:
Father God, in the name of Jesus I thank you for forgiving all my sins. Come into my heart Jesus, take over my life and be my Lord, my personal savior, my personal healer and my provider. I summit to your Lordship! I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, borne by the Virgin Mary, crucified, resurrected and now He lives in my heart. Thank you Lord Jesus for coming into my heart and saving my soul and Father, I ask you right now to set my soul free. I don’t want my soul enslaved or in bondage to anything or to anybody.
Father, I accept the freedom of my soul and ask you right now, Lord, to fill me with your precious Holy Spirit from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head. Give me power over my situation so that when I pray I will get an immediate answer and when I speak the word of God it will manifest itself immediately. (Now have the person put both of their hands on their stomach and say): I have in me the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and all the power of God dwells in me all the promises of God dwell in me and when I call upon them one by one they have to manifest themselves because they belong to me and I call upon long life and peace and joy; come forth divine anointing, health and strength come forth! I will study my bible and learn about all the promises that God Has promised me. Father, I thank you for saving my soul in Jesus precious name, Amen. Thank you, God. Jesus has set you free.
GOD IS LOVE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL…
Much love,
Pastor Harris
PRAISE GOD! Take the time out for yourself and review my new blog: http://wp.me/p1Fdij-1T
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., I chose this quote from him to express my love and the need for love in our world today. My love and Martin’s love hail from God, who is love and the very source of love for me.
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