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I HAVE BEEN ASKED WHY I SAID SIN IS NOT AN ISSUE ANYMORE. I DIDN'T MEAN IT THAT WAY. SIN IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE AND DOES MATTER BECAUSE THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. "ROMANS 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Jesus knew it was the Father's will for Him to be made an offering for the sins of the world. This is true because He prophesied His death and resurrection many times before. However, because of His unique relationship with God, Jesus was asking God to accomplish His will some other way, but at the same time affirming His commitment to do His Father's will and not His own.
He was not at a loss to know God's will and therefore, left this time of prayer trusting that whatever the Father deemed best for Him would happen.
He knew, when He began praying what the Father's will was and He knew at the close of His prayer, that God's will could not be accomplished any other way.
For us to pray, "Lord, if it be thy will" in response to a...
God the Father had the plan of salvation worked out before He even created the world. Most of us would not have created the world and man if we knew the heartache and terrible sacrifice it would cost. But God is not man. In His judgment (which is the correct judgment) the prize was worth the cost.
We were chosen in Christ before the world began. The Lord did not choose us by our merit, but solely by our acceptance of Christ which His foreknowledge allowed Him to do before the foundation of the world. In the strictest sense, we were not personally chosen, but Christ was chosen and all those who are "in Christ" partake of His being chosen by His Father. Just as we are the...
LET ME ASK YOU A PERSONAL QUESTION AND PLEASE BE TRUTHFUL WITH YOURSELF. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU OPENED YOUR BIBLE TO STUDY GOD'S WORD NOT COUNTING WHEN YOU WERE IN CHURCH? DO YOU READ GOD'S WORD EVERY DAY AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT LISTENING TO A TEACHING TAPE OR AN EVANGELIST ON TV OR READING A PRAYER BOOK? LIKE I SAID, BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF. THE BIBLE IS WHERE JESUS TALKS TO US. KNOWING WHAT HE SAYS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
I WROTE THIS YEARS AGO AND POSTED IT AND FACEBOOK BROUGHT IT BACK UP AS ONE OF MY MEMORIES LIKE THEY DO ONCE IN A WHILE. SO, I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE IT AGAIN JUST IN CASE SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT READ IT. I HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DID WRITING IT. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM JESUS IF HE WROTE YOU A LITTER? I HAVE AND IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS. YOU CAN CLAIM IN FOR YOURSELF IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
God loves us the same as He loves Jesus. A true revelation of this will quicken our faith and allow us to walk in the fullness of God. God's love is the key that opens the door to everything that God is. "God is love" (1 Jn. 4:8).
God's love is not one dimensional. There is width, length, depth and height to it, which can only be comprehended through the revelation and knowledge of the Holy Spirit. Those who only have a superficial knowledge of God's love are like a person who looks at a one dimensional picture of the real thing.
In Ephesians 3:19, Paul prays for us to know the love of God which passes knowledge. How can we know the love of God if it passes knowledge? This sounds like a...
I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN STAND AND AGREE ON SOMETHING YOU HAVE PRAYED FOR. I AM SORRY THAT SOME WERE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT I MEANT. WHEN I SAY "STAND", I MEANT THE DEFINITION OF "to remain firm or steadfast, as in a cause". I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT I MEAN IN THE BIBLE. PAUL TELLS US IN EPHESIANS 6:13 "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." THIS IS WHAT I MEANT. IF YOU HAVE PRAYED, BELIEVED YOU HAVE RECEIVED, THEN STAND.
Jesus is praying for all believers to be one as He and the Father are one.
This goes far beyond what many promote as unity today. Paul besought the Corinthians to "all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" (1 Cor. 1:10). This is God's standard of unity.
This oneness among believers is what Jesus said would cause the world to know that Jesus is the Son of God. This is the greatest tool for evangelism that the church has. The only way that Christ's body will be one as the Father and Jesus are One is through God's kind of love. No wonder Satan tries to get believers to go at each others' throats. We...
AT 3PM THIS 2 DAY OF NOVEMBER WE LAUNCH THE NEW NOV TOP 20 CHART
We will be playing non stop the #20 - #4 songs then we have a special treat.. an interview with Laurie Marks Vincent then we'll play the last 3 songs which ar #1-2-3 on the chart.. that hasnt happened in the 8 years I have been doing the Indie Gospel Top 20 Chart. So tune in at indiegospel.net and in the upper left corner is the radio just click it and it will begin to play.
WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP FOR JESUS? WOULD YOU GIVE UP YOUR HOME? WHAT ABOUT YOUR JOB? IF HE ASKED YOU TO MOVE TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY TO PREACH HIS WORD, WOULD YOU DO IT? THESE ARE QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ANSWER ONE DAY. I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT OF WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER IF HE ASK ME TO GO. I WILL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT I DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE. I DIDN'T KNOW THEN WHAT I DO NOW AND I CAN SAY, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THAT, EVEN AT AGE 79, IF HE TOLD ME TO GO, I WOULD. LOOK AT MOSES.