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Our Choice

November 23, 2012 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given October 24, 2010

We are all created in the image of God and He wants us to be like Him in every way. However, there is evil in the world we live in and our God does not force us to be like Himself, He gave us a free will to choose between evil and good. “I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19 – God’s Word Translation). The choice is ours.

Think about these verses:

1 John 4:4, “..greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.” – if you allow Him to be.
Isaiah 54:17, “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper.” – unless you let it.
John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” – if we take it.
Luke 10:19, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:” – if you take that authority.
1 John 5:1, “Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God.” – if we claim Him.
Ephesians 3:20, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” – if we use that power.
Mark 9:23, “ all things are possible to him that believes.” – if we believe it.
James 4:7, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – if we say, “It is written!”
Mark 11:23, “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.” – if we don’t doubt, do believe, and say so.
Mark 16:18, “Those who believe…they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” – if we believe we’re one of those.
1 Peter 2:24, “by his wounds you have been healed.” – if we believe and receive it.

Our choice.

How Can It Be?

November 3, 2012 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given November 3, 2012

How can it be that people who call themselves Christians and go to church would leave church and attend the rally of a group who was uniting to remove Christian freedoms, support abortion and same-sex marriage, and wanting to control things without God? Would Jesus attend this rally? Well, actually He might. But He would be telling them how wrong they were and that they needed to repent. He would not sign up with them and get their membership card. He is saying, “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16). “ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” (John 15:19).

How can it be that God’s people who are made in His image, called to spread the good news, and be a force for goodness in the earth would not care enough to do their part by voting in an election? How can it be that they would not stand up for their Christian faith? “I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30). How tragic!

How can it be that an army that has available to them all the weapons, strategy, authority and backing needed to win the battle against the enemy but hunkers down in fear and cries for somebody to come and rescue them? “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” (Luke 10:19).

We, as Christians, have the command, the power, and responsibility to make things right in this world but too many of us are consorting with the enemy, unwilling to take a stand for the Lord, or are unaware of or unwilling to use what Almighty God has given us to do the job. If the battle is lost, it’s going to be on US! “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14). Are you a Christian?

On Earth As It Is In Heaven

October 5, 2012 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given October 3, 2012

God wants things on earth to be as they are in Heaven; as He created earth to be from the beginning. But Adam gave that all up and evil entered the earth. It got so bad that God was sorry he created man and wiped the earth clean again but spared Noah, who “found favor in the eyes of God”, (Genesis 6:8). Well, things are pretty bad again but God said He would not destroy the earth again, (Genesis 8:21).

Things got bad again because man is inherently evil but this time, God sent Jesus to save the world. Jesus lived teaching us how to live and He died to take that inherent sin away from us. Now we, as Christians, are a great army of little Jesuses on the earth but we’re not having the impact God intended. We’re not having dominion over the earth as God instructed Adam and his descendants to have.

God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of the evil that was in them but He saved Lot and his family because they were not evil. Can we see the kind of evil in our country that God destroyed in those cities? Yes we can. God’s plan for sending Jesus to the earth was to re-establish His plan from the Garden of Eden. Those who accept the sacrifice Jesus made are supposed to “be fruitful and replenish the earth”, which is what He told Adam and Noah.

“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:10). That’s God’s plan and we have the Spirit of God in us as Christians to fulfill this prayer. We have the authority and the power to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth. It’s up to us! If it doesn’t get done, we are to blame.

We have a calling and one way to make a difference is with our vote on November 6. We MUST take our stand for Godly principles and not sit back and hope someone else does it. You have one week to register to vote. We should be praying every day, several times a day for our country and, yes, for our president and government officials. It’s up to us. Don’t blow off the plan of God like Adam did.

If My People…Part 2

September 29, 2012 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given September 15, 2012

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14.

Last week we saw from this scripture that God gives what we know in science as an “if-then” statement. If certain conditions are present, then a predictable result will occur. We saw that WE are God’s people and the first three conditions are; we need to Humble ourselves, Pray, and Seek His face. Now, let’s look at the rest of the formula.

The fourth condition for God’s people is to, Turn from their wicked ways. So, what are our wicked ways? Certainly murder, (including abortion), stealing in all its forms, and sexual sins we can all agree on. But what about some of the things mentioned in Romans 1:29-32: envy, strife, gossip, deceit, arrogance, boastfulness, and disobeying parents? Ouch! And according to James 4:17, “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” Is voting something good we ought to do? Yes it is! We need to repent and turn from these things.

So, if we do these four things, what WILL God do? He says He will, Hear our prayers of repentance and petition, He will Forgive our sin, and then Heal our land. Wow, do we really need that! Is God true to His word? Will He do what He says? Of course! IF we do our part.

Friends, we are all in this together. There’s no place any of us can go to hide from the evil Satan is planning and live a good life apart from others in our land. However, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalms 91:1. There is a place of protection for the body of Christ and IF we do what’s right, we will come out on top and be blessed with the Blessing of Abraham, (Galatians 3:14).

Please, join us in standing for our God-given freedoms and exercise your right and responsibility to vote and live a life that is pleasing to God. Our country needs us. Hey, our family and community needs us. Are you with us?

If My People

September 23, 2012 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given September 5, 2012

If my people – Who are God’s people? The Jews? What about Christians? “Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,” Romans 3:29. We are “My people”. Who are called by my name – Are we called? Or is it just ministers? “For whom He foreknew, (Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, Jer. 1:5), He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,… Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called;” Romans 8:28-30. We ALL are called…will you answer the call?

Next, God asks us to do four things: Humble ourselves – The key to being humble is to get your eyes off yourself and onto the one from whom and for whom and through whom all things are. “yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42. Pray – This should be obvious, every day, with faith, believing. “yet ye have not, because ye ask not.” James 4:2. “Ask and ye shall receive,” Matthew 7:7. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11:24. Seek my face – How do we seek God’s face? “Seek and ye shall find,” Matthew 7:7. Seek as the woman did for the lost coin in Luke 15:8-10, the hidden treasure in Matthew 13:44, and, by loving Him, “with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30. Read the bible and learn of Him then do what He says.

Do we really want our land healed? Are we willing to do what it takes to exercise our authority in the earth? God said, after He blessed Adam and Eve, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28. IT’S UP TO US!

The remainder of this study will be given next time. In the meantime, pray.

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