Jesus  said,“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.”(Matthew 5:48). “And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”(John 8:29 ). Perfection is something that we need to strive for. We can only be perfect in the eyes of God, by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ his Son. (I John 1:7). Being perfect in the flesh is another story. Jesus said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth;  the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”(John 6:63).“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.” (Job 9:20). We just never will be perfect in the flesh, but Jesus said for us to strive for that, as God is perfect in Heaven. The Heavenly City is perfect. There are no mistakes in it’s construction. There is not even any dust to have to sweep up.“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” (James 1:4). Now here is an interesting concept. It actually says if we want to be perfect, that we should want nothing. WOW what a state of blissful mind to be in. Here is something we can try and strive for. It seems like we are always wanting something, but the Bible says that the perfect work of patience is to want nothing, and then we will be perfect and entire. I wonder what that would be like? We might like it if we try it. “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). You mean we can just be content with just having Jesus in our hearts? Yes. Praise the Lord ! So don’t let things worry you so much. Most of the things I have worried about never came to pass any way. And if you worry about something to much, it is a lack of faith and you can bring it to pass.“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” (Job 3:25). “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.” ( I John 4:18). “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” (I Timothy 6:7,8). “And above all these things put on charity (LOVE), which is the bond of perfectness.” (Colossians 3:14). “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.” (Psalm 37:37).

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.

There will never be peace in this world without Jesus Christ. There have always been wars, ever since enough people were around to fight, and kill each other, all the way back to Cain, when he killed his brother Able. Can you imagine how God must feel to watch his children that he created kill each other? What if your children started doing that? Things got so bad that God was sorry that he even made man.  “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”(Genesis 6:5,6). Note: Genesis 6:6 , and God made man on the sixth day, so there we have  6,6,6, man’s number, and the mark of the beast. Finally God caused a great flood to destroy man off of the face of the earth. Thank God Noah found grace in God’s eyes, and the Lord spared him and his family in the Ark, or we would not be here today. (Genesis 6:8) .Someday everyone will be forced to submit to Jesus Christ and his rule and reign. He will rule the world with a strong control. The Bible says he will rule with a rod of iron. This is referring to strong dictatorship control to keep man from repeating history. “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.” (Revelation 2:27). “And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” (Matthew 21:44). It is much better to fall on Jesus Christ and submit to our makers God, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. We cannot have peace and joy and happiness in our hearts unless we are right with the Lord, and we cannot be right with the Lord unless we ask for his forgiveness, and don’t harbor evil , or evil thoughts in our hearts. “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” (James 3: 15-18).

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.

God wants volunteers not draftees in his end time Special Forces Army. They that take up the Cross shall wear the Crown! The Lord requires more of you who are in his inner circle than of the other 70 and of those who follow him afar off. Like he did with his 12 disciples who became powerful Leaders and teachers and were mightily used of the Lord after years of training and breakings and testing and learning lessons. “There is no discharge in that war.” (Ecclesiastes 8:8). Perhaps some furloughs or time to pray and rest, but don’t go a.w.o.l. ( away with out leave). You are in too deep, you know too much. You are highly accountable for all the truth that you have been given, or all you could have learned. Do you sometimes get rebuked by your Elders in the Lord? It is better than getting rebuked by the Lord. I would rather have a pack of hounds after me than the hound of Heaven. “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”  (Psalm 32:3,4 ). “ And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:  for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;  and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. “(Hebrews 12:5-12). We need to pray and ask the Lord to show us how deep is our love for him ? “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. “(Hebrews 13:17). If you get rebuked and blasted, you can take it one of two ways.You can either humbly take it and submitt and get blessed and learn and grow, or you can get offended and stomp off in your pride. “Great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them.” (Psalm 119:165).You can realize that you must have deserved it, and take the correction, and just think of all the times you deserved it and didn’t get the correction for things that you have said and done. Just take it and grow spiritually. GOD WANTS TO MAKE A LEADER OUT OF YOU ! All leaders go through the school of hard knocks and breakings. It’s just up to you how long you have to stay in school, but don’t leave school until the bell rings. Are you going to dive into Gods Word and will or just sit on the side and maybe touch your toe in the water? You are not your own you are bought with a price by the precious blood of Jesus Christ . He gave his all for you.“ For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.” (1 Peter 2:20). When gold is dug out of the earth they melt it down with a hot fire and all the dross and impurities come to the top and are scraped off and only the pure gold remains. So it is with us. We are in Gods refining process. “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” (Luke 20:18). Jesus is the stone, fall on him. “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite (crushed) spirit.”(Psalms 34:18).

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.

Once upon a time there was a young boy who was given a young pet eagle. He wanted to keep the Eagle as a pet, so he decided to pound a big stake into the ground and put a chain on his pet eagles leg, and chain him up to the stake so he wouldn’t t fly away. Well as time went by the young boy grew up and so did his chained pet eagle, who would walk constantly around in a circle, around the stake he was chained too. One day the man saw his chained eagle pet walking constantly around in a circle around that stake, and he felt sorry for him, because he wasn’t able to fly and be free like all the other birds flying around over him, so he went and took the chain off of the chained eagles leg. The eagle was so surprised that he was finally free that he took off and flew around. After a short while the eagle flew back and began walking around in a circle again around the big stake, even though he was no longer chained. Isn’t that the way most of us are? The Lord sets us free from our chains and stake and we are so glad that we fly off and try our wings and enjoy our new found freedom, and then we come back to our old ways and habits and continue on in the same circle. Lord help us to follow you Jesus and break free of our old ways and habits that are not good for us, and fly like the eagles.Amen? “but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 49:31). Is Jesus trying to set you free? Are you going to be like that eagle who came back and kept walking around that stake after Jesus has set you free? What is the name, or names of your stake? “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”(John 8:32). “Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house forever: but the Son abideth forever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” ( John 8:34-36).

Say this prayer 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. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

He was born in an obscure village
The child of a peasant woman
He grew up in another obscure village
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty when public opinion turned against him

He never wrote a book
He never held an office
He never went to college
He never visited a big city
He never travelled more than two hundred miles
From the place where he was born
He did none of the things
Usually associated with greatness
He had no credentials but himself

He was only thirty three

His friends ran away
One of them denied him
He was turned over to his enemies
And went through the mockery of a trial
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing
The only property he had on earth

When he was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
Through the pity of a friend

Nineteen centuries have come and gone
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race
And the leader of mankind’s progress
All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that ever reigned put together
Have not affected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life

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. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

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There is nothing more wonderful and important than having a relationship with Jesus, because when you have a relationship with Jesus then you also have a relationship with God and The Holy Spirit. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”(John 14:6). The devil hates for God’s children to be walking with the Lord and be in a close relationship with Jesus, because you might do some witnessing and save some souls from his evil dark kingdom. “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:21-23). What does it mean to know Jesus? Let’s look at this verse. It sounds like its pretty important doesn’t it? The Bible says in Genesis Chapter 4, that Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and had a son named Cain. Jesus is talking about spiritually really knowing him and having him close in your heart, and bringing forth fruit unto God, which means leading people to Jesus, and winning souls. “Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man will hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him.”(Revelations 3:20). It means to be close to the one who loves you, and created you, and died for you. Then you will bring forth fruit unto God, saved souls that you will actually see in Heaven Forever. “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”(John 15:8)

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. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

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I have heard it said “don’t pray for patience”. I guess because it’s one of the hardest lessons to learn. It seems that in life we are always waiting on something. In fact the whole of creation is waiting on the Lord to return and straighten this world out.Jesus said, “In your patience possess ye your souls.” (Luke 21: 19). Jesus was telling us that the condition of our soul depends upon our patience.”Let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing.” (James 1:4). If we want to be perfect and entire we need to let patience have her perfect work in our lives. until we get to the point where we are just trusting the Lord and not wanting or worrying about anything. This would be a heavenly state of mind to be in wouldn’t it ? Lord help us. This is something we can pray for. We can sometimes be blessed by a little bit of this heavenly gift of patience. Maybe we should just ask the Lord for the gift of patience, and not ask the Lord to teach us patience. How do we get patience? We get patience through faith, and by “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you .”(1 Peter 5:7) Sometimes you have to literally throw all your cares and worries on the Lord. Jesus said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor 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). If your burden is too heavy, maybe you have taken too much upon yourself, or you haven’t come to Jesus to find his rest for your soul. (Isaiah 26:3) “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” There it is ,the answer to perfect peace. It is like the picture of the little bird perched on a branch by a raging waterfall just sitting there chirping away and trusting in the Lord. Waiting on the Lord is one of the hardest things to do. Yet it is what we have to do. Many times it seems like the whole world is in such a hurry to get no where. Have you ever heard that saying “Hurry up and wait” ? Sometimes it takes time for God to answer prayer. We need to get busy serving the Lord while we are waiting on him, and at the same time we are trusting him to answer our prayers.

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. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

We as Christians and born again believers in Jesus Christ need to realize we are not part of this world just like Jesus told us “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”(John 18:36).Jesus didn’t get any justice  from the world did he? “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.  But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.”(John15:19-21). “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.”(Matthew 10:24-26). There will come a time of judgment for this world and the people in it who think they have escaped their due justice. God’s wheel of justice grinds exceeding slow (sometimes), but exceedingly fine. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7) ” Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Romans 12:19).So don’t get so upset when things don’t go right in this world, and you feel you can’t get any justice. ^“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.  And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.  If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”(Luke 4:5-8). “ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4) Remember this world is the devils Kingdom.  ^“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”(2 Timothy 2:4 ). Don’t let the Devil entangle you, and get you all worried and upset, because you can’t get any justice from this world, but rather expect it as Jesus said this would happen, just like it happened to him. Remember you are a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven and stay focused on our King of Kings, Jesus Christ, and do what you can, where you are, with what you have got, to grow his kingdom.“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”(Ephesians 6:12). “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:  and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.”(Revelation 6:9-11).”And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”(Revelations 20:4). Judgment will actually be given to the saints of the most high. “I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”(Daniel 7:21,22).Beloved let us pray that the Lord will open our spiritual eyes and help us to understand that we are in a spiritual battle  daily, and that our Kingdom is not of this world; as Jesus told 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. 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). Pledge Allegiance to Jesus Christ and his Kingdom above all. 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.