Do you find it hard to love? Do you feel that you are hard for others to love? We live in a broken world, a dark reality, and our hearts are broken! If you find it hard to love or be loved, there is hope! God offers us a ‘door’ to pass through, which restores love in our heart. When Jesus is speaking to the church, he says, ‘I stand at the door and I knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and dine with you, and you with me.’ (Revelation 3:20) As broken people, with broken hearts, we need the Author of Love to come in to our hearts and ‘dine with us.’ We need to receive Love, and let Him warm, win and resurrect love in our hearts. ‘God is love.’ (1 John 4:8) And in the person of Jesus Christ love comes to us. Have you heard Jesus knocking on the door of your heart? Have you opened the door to let him in? For more on taking a ‘First Step’ of faith in Jesus, please visit: https://1peter1three.weebly.com/first-steps.html
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Can a man ever be free, if his soul is in chains? Jesus once put it this way, ‘What does it benefit a man to gain the whole world, and yet forfeit his soul?’ (Mark 8:36) How can I truly be free? How can I be liberated from the inside out, from the very depths of my soul? My friend, according to Jesus we need to first be rescued from the scars and condemnations of sin. We need God to pour out healing and forgiveness on the wounds of our heart, and then set our feet on a true path of life – eternal life. Do you want the ‘new heart and new spirit’ that Jesus offers you? (Ez 36:26) Do you want a completely new start where your sins have been forgiven, and healing power pours over the hurts done to you? Do you want to go through a door of ‘new life’, and have not just earthly, but heavenly freedom coursing through your veins? Read these 2 verses carefully, and consider closing your eyes and praying to Jesus, to receive what he offers you here: ‘Jesus said, ‘I am the door, and anyone who goes through me will be saved, and they will go in and come out and find pasture.’ (John 10:9) ‘Jesus said, ‘If anyone believes in me… streams of living water will flow from within them.’ (John 7:38) For more information on taking a personal ‘First Step’ with Jesus Christ, please read: https://1peter1three.weebly.com/first-steps.html The whole point of the bible is… to know God! Not to know ‘about’ God, and definitely not to know more than others about Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew or theology, etc, etc, etc. Jesus said these powerful words to the bible scholars in his day: ‘You search the scriptures because in them you think you possess eternal life, but you refuse to come to me and have life.’ (John 5:39-40) The devil himself knows and quoted the bible to Jesus in Matthew chapter 4. If even the devil can know the ‘written word’, what is the point of the written word, the bible? The whole point of the bible is to ‘know’ and ‘love’ God, to ‘get off the page’ into a living, loving relationship with Jesus. Jesus was given the name, Emanuel, which means, ‘God with us.’ (Matthew 1:23) Jesus was the Word of God made flesh. (John 1:14) If anyone uses the bible – and Jesus – to try to drive you to another ‘point’ or purpose, they are mishandling the bible. The purpose of the bible is to bring you to the living Lord, Jesus Christ. It is not to bring you to a religion or organization ‘about’ Jesus. You do not need to be part of any particular church or denomination, to know Jesus Christ and be saved. If anyone tells you differently, they are using the bible to lead you elsewhere, rather than using the bible to lead you to Jesus. Jesus is the point! He is ‘God with us’, and is here with you today, to be loved and known. Nothing stands between you and Jesus Christ - except your own heart's decision... For more information on taking a personal ‘First Step’ with Jesus Christ, please read: https://1peter1three.weebly.com/first-steps.html Life without a relationship with God is possible. But life without God is impossible! There is a similar parallel here with your parents - but lucky for us, God is not like our parents!:) Life itself was created by God, and is sustained by Him. We live and move in the palm of his hand. God created us to love us, and to be fully within our soul, spirit and life. From God we have all that we have, including the breath in our lungs. God designed life so that He would be in us, and us in Him. Heaven and earth were made as one space, one place. What shattered this union of heaven and earth, and God and man, was our 'sin', our hearts determined to do life alone, and to do what we want. The good news is that God restored the highway between heaven and earth, and the soul-way between God and man. God stepped into our world in the person of Jesus Christ, and laid himself under the burden - the punishment - of our sin. He died a gruesome death at the hands of mankind, and then rose again to forgive us, 'repair us', and offer us eternal life. God is in the mix of our life! He hovers by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and offers to fill your soul, your spirit with the truth of Himself. He offers to pour Himself into your heart and soul, forgive you, heal you, and 'connect' you to God. We were made by God, and for God. We were never designed to do life without the very Spirit of Jesus Christ coursing through our souls. Life in Christ is, what the bible describes, as the 'life that is truly life.' (1 Tim 6:19) Fall to your knees today, repent of your sin, and call on the name of Jesus to save you. He will! 'Anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has passed over from death to life!' (John 5:24) For more on knowing Jesus Christ in a real, personal and powerful way, visit: https://1peter1three.weebly.com/first-steps.html |
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