God is in Control...no matter WHAT!

When things look bleak and dark, that is the time to remember WHO your help is. My church family is going through a lot of trials and tribulations. It seems like one problem is solved and the enemy throws another one at us.
  GOD is in CONTROL! No matter what the enemy tells you. He will keep things messed up if he only gets a chance. BUT I know this one thing. My God is in control.

I Belong the The Lord

I belong to the Lord. How do I know that? Well In Isaiah 43:1-7 it tells me. "Thou art mine", saith the Lord. When He called I answered. He called me out of a sinfilled life. He called me to teach a SUnday School class and then He called me to preach His Word. I answered each one of those calls. I gave my life over to Him. I teach and now I preach His Word.
  He said that when I go through things He will be there. He will keep me. He will notr let the rivers overflow me. Like Job, He will keep my from death. Even if the enemy is out to kill me, steal from me, or even destroy me, GOD will not let him. Job lost everything. Yet he didn't sin. He stayed faithful to the Lord. Paul, had been beaten, stoned and ship wreaked...and more than once. Yet he said that he counts it a blessing.
   God said that the Jewish people would come back from all over the world. And we have seen that happen in 1948 when Israel became a nation. They have had to fight for their land off and on since then but they are a sovereign nation. This is the beginning of the end of time. Jeremiah 23:3 says that Gods remnant will be gathered from all over and that they would increase.
   This can also be looked at as the Rapture of the church. When we think not the trump of God will sound and the dead in Christ will be raised....from the north, the south, the east and the west. the oceans will have to give up her dead. The lost men and women who are missing from a war or kidnapping, if they are saved and ready they will rise up to meet the Lord in the air. And then those of us who are still alive....of Praise the Lord...those of us who are alive and remain...WE shall be caught up together to meet HIM in the air! What a wonderful promise of God.
  God has never lied. If He promised that these things will happen then they will happen. He cannot...no he WILL not break His promises to us. Are you ready to go? If you ae not I am asking you to please ask the Lord to forgive you of your sins. To come in and cleanse you. Then not to stop there but to come into your heart and life and live for Him. The only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.

A New Birth

As the first month of 2012 closes, I am reminded that there is always a season and a time for everything under heaven. There is a time to be born...

A time to be born. Not just a physical birth but a spiritual birth. Nicodemus asked Jesus, "Can a man enter into his mothers womb and be born a second time?" Jesus said that what He was saying is that our HEARTS  need to be born again. Our souls need delivery from hell and the only way for that to happen is to ask for God to forgive you of your sins.
  Once we ask God to forgive us, we are also asking Jesus to cleanse us from our sinful life by His Blood that was shed on Calvary. Jesus said that there is only ONE way to the Father and that was through Him, Jesus. No other name has the power to save. No other coulod have ever done what Jesus Christ did for us.
  The new birth happenes and then most people think..Ok...I'm done now. I don't have to do anything else my whole life to go to heaven. that is not so. You have to change your life to reflect your belief that Jesus has washed you white as snow and you now LOVE Him.
   Change the people you hang out with. Change the way you dress. Be seperate from everyone else. Jesus said that we are to come out from the way we had walked. The road you are on now is so much different than the one you had just been walking. Prove it to yourself and others. If you truely asked Jesus into your heart, you will WANT to live your life for Him.
   Look into your heart. Have you been walking the way your should be? Are you just simply walking a road and feel like you are going nowhere? If you feel lost or stuck, then go to the Lord in prayer. Ask Him if you are where He wants you to be. If you do not hear an answer, then YOU have started walking down the wrong path. Get on the straight and narrow and live your life to the fullest.

Learning new things.....

As my husband and I started this new year we decided to read the Word each day together. Now you might think that just reading the Word together is not anything new, BUT it is. I bought the Bible in a Year Bible and now I read out loud to my husband each day and then we discuss what we just read.
  I am finding that I am learning so many new things that I have never thought of before. Like just how good a farmer that Jacob was. He told his father in-law Laben that he would take all the animals that were spotted, neck ringed, and brown from Labens flocks and cattle herds as his payment for working for Laben. Now this was AFTER he worked for Laben for 14 years. Laben said "OK. Cull them all out of my herds and flocks all those that had any kind of blemish....". So Jacob did. The Word tells me that Jacob built fences to put his animals in and let them bred. He kept them so well watered and feed that they multiplied fast.
  Labens sons saw this and complained to Laben and told him that Jacob had bigger herds and flocks than Laben had. They were jealous because Jacob was doing so much better than them.
   It got me to wondering something. Was Jacob still sneaky, and conniving? Or was he a just man? Part of me says he never did change his behavior. I'm talking about cheating Esau out of his birthright and then Esau's BLESSING. The blessing that was rightfully Esau's. The other part of me believes that Jacob did learn a lesson. That God gave him the intelligence to multiply his cattle and flocks.
   It was interesting to learn also that Leah and Rachel put aside their differences and told Jacob that they should go back to his house because Laben their father never did pay Jacob their "bride price" that he would have had to pay. Instead Jacob worked for Laben to get his two wives.
   So that is something interesting that I have learned.