Jesus was and is the ultimate example of submission to God’s will. In the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus was in desperate prayer to God, his tears became blood. He told his Heavenly Father, “If it be possible let this cup pass from me, never the less not my will but thine be done.”(Matthew 26:39). Jesus bought and paid for us, we are his property, we belong to him now, he can do whatever he wants with us.“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1) “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”(Colossians 3:3). “If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me, for whosoever will find his life shall loose it, and whosoever will loose his life for my sake, the same shall find it.”(Luke 9: 23, 24). “Submit  yourselves therefore unto God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7).“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.”(Hebrew 13:17).”He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30). The Lord wants volunteers not draftees. “Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.”(I Samuel 12:24).“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” (I Samuel 15:23a). God will mend a broken heart if you give him all the pieces. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose. God has to break you, and melt you, and mold you again, in the hands of the potter to make you a better vessel fit for the Masters use. So you are willing to go anywhere, anytime, and be nobody to please him and help others.“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” ( Ephesians 5: 21-25).“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” ( I Peter 5:5).We are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you never know when you are going to be needed. We are soul doctors. Jesus is our King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and we need to give him due respect and loyalty, and allegiance out of love “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matthew 22:37-39). “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have ever lasting life.” (John 3: 16). John 3:16 was God and Jesus’s part and 1st John 3:16 is our part.“Hereby we perceive the love of God: because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame , and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2).They that bare the cross shall wear the crown.

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

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“Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well;”(Psalm 84:6).The valley of Baca means a place of tears. There is a valley of Baca, it was a barren desert full of vipers and robbers and dangerous wild animals. It was a very hard,and desolate place. All Jewish males were required to go up to Jerusalem three times a year to worship at the temple, and many had to go through the valley of Baca to get there.Job went through this valley when satan was allowed to take everything from him, even his health,but God restored unto him it all, and even more so. Abraham went through this valley on his way to offer up his son Isaac in obedience to God. The Lord provided a ram instead as the sacrifice, a symbol of The sacrifice of Jesus Christ.Hagar and Ishmael went through this valley when Abraham sent them away. They almost died until God showed them where to find water.Moses went through this valley when he had to flee Egypt.David went through the valley fleeing from Saul, Spiritually I have been through this valley quite a number of times. How about you? Maybe you are going through the valley of Baca now? You can make it, if you find the well from God, Jesus and his Word,. The well is his Word.“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” (John 7: 38,39.“but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14).

People are always asking me, “How are you doing?” And I was asking the Lord, what would be a good response so that I could be a witness, and it came to me to just say, “Oh just loving Jesus.” Isn’t that really what life is all about, and why we are here in the first place? The Lord made it so simple for us. It is the enemy who tries to make things so complicated and confusing. “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.”(1 Corinthians 14:33).You can be loving the Lord no matter what you are doing whether cooking, cleaning ,working, or witnessing, or whatever you’re doing. “Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”(I Corinthians 10:31). If we just keep our mind and hearts stayed on Jesus we can have perfect peace.”Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace , whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.”(Isaiah 26:3). That’s why the Bible says to “Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing,in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”(I Thessalonians 5:16-18). Sometimes all it takes is a small moment for a bit of refreshing from on high by stopping to pray and listen to the Lord in the midst of confusion and strife, “Be still and know that I am God.”(Psalm 46:10). Let Jesus work things out his shoulders are big and strong enough to take care of the whole world and all of the people in Heaven too. Leave something up to the Holy Spirit. Quit worrying, and trying to take every ones problems on including your own. One of my favorite verses that I use a lot is, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30). “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3). When is the last time you saw a little child running around worried about everything? About the only thing most children are concerned about is playing and having a good time. Just take life one day at a time, and one hour at a time, and just love the Lord and enjoy his creation, and help others to do the same. You are wise if you are simple. Amen?

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.”   (Romans 8:1). If we are in God’s Spirit we will not be under condemnation for our sins, because we will be rejoicing in the knowledge and faith of God’s forgiveness, through faith in the Blood of Jesus. I don’t know about you, but there is not a day that goes by that I don’t claim and plead the blood of Jesus over myself. How about you? “For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). One thing I can tell you is that God wants you to be free. The devil is always trying to condemn us and bring us under bondage. “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” (Romans 7:4 ).We are not under the Old Testament laws any more. We are under the new Testament law of Love and Grace, which in many ways is more strict, because everything we do must be done in love. This includes tithing. Jesus wants us to give our all to him. The 10% law of the Old Testament is a cop out used today by many. Jesus wants you to give of yourself and your time according to your faith and your sacrificial love. The Lord loves a cheerful giver. Jesus said, some are 10 fold, some are 20 fold, some are 100 fold. Are you an Old Testament Christian or a New Testament Christian? Are you under the LAW or under GOD’S GRACE ?

Say this prayer if you want  to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

Are you thinking about the future? Maybe you’re just thinking about January first when the New Year begins and looking back over this passing year. Sometimes it is good to look back, and take account of what the Lord has done for us, and our loved ones. Looking ahead can help motivate us to seek better choices than the year before, and make stronger commitments in our lives, to Jesus Christ and our relationship with him, to our husband , or wife, our children, family and friends. Life it’s self offers no guarantees of what the future will bring, but the promises of God are a Commitment to us, through his Son Jesus Christ, and ever lasting love that never fails us, nor leaves us, a hope  for  the future of heaven and not hell. My journey to find God started when I was a child, now I am old and I have found him through Jesus and still seek him, I know whom I have believed; ^“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”(Romans 8:38,39) How about your commitment ? “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” ( John 4:35). “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18).” For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” (Romans 11:29). In other words God is not an Indian giver. He doesn’t give us things or promises , and later decides to take them back! He is a man of his Word. You can stand on his promises, and count on them though all hell breaks loose on you! “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul,” (Hebrews 6:17-19a). You can take his promises to the bank and count on them. He will never fail you. His promises are like a strong Anchor, no matter what storms of life you go through! “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5). “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” (2 Corinthians 1:20). His promises are not half hearted, or wishy washy, or luke warm!  This is the way Jesus wants us to be toward him and others. “For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.” (Psalms 119:89).“ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (James 1:17). “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35). So beloved, stand on his promises, believe them, and quote the terms of the contract to the contract maker! His promises are the only real thing that you’ve got that will last forever, including the souls of those you have brought to him!

“THE FUTURE IS AS BRIGHT AS THE PROMISES OF GOD”

Adoniram Judson

Born: August 09, 1788
Died: April 12, 1850 (age 61)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Clergyman
Bio: Adoniram Judson, Jr. was a missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became one of the first missionaries sent from North America to preach in Burma.

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen

“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”( Psalm 34:18). Do you feel sometimes that you have strayed away from the Lord, and want to get back to what you have known is the truth? Sometimes we are so close to the Lord, and the Lord so close to us that we become to familiar with him, and take all he has given us for granted, which can cause us to lose that child like faith, and get caught up in the world. You  become dissatisfied with yourself, and others, and finely the Lord, Jesus Christ himself. “Why”, you ask does this happen in our walk with the Lord? Must we lose that child like faith, do we have to lose touch with the simple truth of God’s love for us? No, we don’t have to stray from the Lord, but we are given a free will and we make choices everyday that can draw us closer to Jesus and his word, or we can chose to turn to old habits, and worldly things that can start to put up a wall between us and the Lord. Some of you know the Lord and have tasted and seen the Holy gifts which the Lord gives to his children. You have seen answered prayer and been touched by his love, and peace, and joy. You have been healed from sickness, and the Lord has carried you through times of brokenness and despair. I find when I chose the Lord daily in my life he is still there and , he hasn’t forsaken me , nor has he forsaken you, if you will just turn back to the Lord, that simple act of reaching out your hand of faith to receive all that the gifts Jesus Christ the Son of God has to give you, because he loves you. Why not start the New Year, with all the love, joy, and peace, that loving Jesus brings? You don’t have to wait until the new year. Jesus is calling you now.

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen

“The Lord is nigh (near) unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” (Psalm 34:18). The word “contrite” means crushed. Have you had troubles in your life? Are you going through trials and hard times? Have you had your hopes and dreams dashed? Have you lost everything, and everyone has forsaken you? Then you might know a little bit of how Jesus felt.“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:”( Isaiah 53:3). It says in the Bible, “And they all forsook him, and fled.” (Mark 14:50 ). One thing good to know is that Jesus is close to you. He knows what you are going through and he loves and cares about you. It seems the Lord can only really use broken men and women, people who have come to the end of their own strength and have gone to the bottom were there is nowhere to go but to look up to Jesus. The Lord uses people who have committed  tremendous sins and mistakes, and people who know that they have no righteousness of their own, but trust only in the grace and mercy of God. Jesus is there waiting for you to just call out to him. He is reaching out his hand toward you if you will only reach out and take it. He will lift you up and help you and use you to reach out and help others who are also broken hearted. “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest,” ( Matthew 9:36-38). Why are there so few labourers for the harvest? Someone once said; “Because God can’t break them fast enough”, because people won’t let him. Jesus said, that he was the stone and “Whosoever shall fall upon the stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever the stone will fall it will grind him into powder.”(Luke 20:18) We are the clay, and God our Heavenly Father is the potter, and he is trying to make us into a vessel fit for the master’s use, if you will let him. “He must increase, but I must decrease.” ( John 3: 30).

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen

Have you thought about seeing Jesus face to face? Our lives here on this earth pass so quickly, we might forget sometimes that we have and end, we have an appointment with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, he is waiting to welcome us into our heavenly home. I didn’t think about that part of life much when I was young.“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.“  (Romans 12:1,2). I was just so happy to know that there was something worth living for now. I had received Jesus Christ into my heart, and there is a place prepared for me once I am called home.“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” ( John 14:3). “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world:” (John 18:36a) The promises in God’s word give us hope and joy unspeakable. I have tasted of this JOY, and it is unspeakable, our words can’t explain how awesomely wonderful our God is.“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” (1 Peter 1:8).“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” ( I Corinthians 13:2). What will you do when you see Jesus face to face?

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen

How do you measure success? Is it by how much money you have gotten? Is it by how many material possessions you have? Is it by what degree you have attained in College? It really doesn’t matter what we think, or what others think, all that really matters is what God thinks. What does God measure your success in life by? Number one is, have you been saved from Hell by accepting God’s only begotten Son Jesus Christ, and received his free gift of Eternal Life? There is no greater achievement than that! Jesus said, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”(Mark 8:36-38).“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. “(James 4:14). “And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”  (Luke 12:15-21). Shouldn’t we measure our success on how many souls we have won or helped to win to Jesus? All the things of this life are soon to pass and only what is done for Jesus Christ shall last. Will he say to you one day “Well done thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” (Matthew 25:21). “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can take nothing out of it.” (1 Timothy 6:7).“Dust thou are and to dust thou shall return.” (Genesis 3:19b). IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE! As long as you are alive there is hope, and the very fact that you are alive proves that God is not finished with you yet. You do have a purpose in life to fulfill, and in fact many purposes to fulfill. The devils purpose is to try and keep you from God’s purpose. Don’t let him win! In fact the Bible says,”Give no place to the devil.”(Ephesians 4:27).Cry out to Jesus and he will immediately be there for you! He loves you, and cares about all that you are going through.

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.