Showing posts with label forgive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forgive. Show all posts

Friday, October 25, 2013

How can I be good to the Lord Jesus?

Hello my God family, I'd like to share with you a revelation the Lord gave me concerning a message my brother, Patrick Sims and his wife Laura, who are very dear to me, received from our Lord Jesus. Patrick & Laura and Laura's sister Beatriz and brother Sergio were at Bethel Church in Dallas, Tx.  Brother Harry Gomes from India was ministering and glory to God, the presence of Our Lord Jesus was there. A certain part of the message they received personally from the Lord that day was "You have been so good to me, I'm going to bless and anoint your whole blood line".  The Lord had been revealing Himself to Patrick through dreams (Acts 2:17) leading up to this moment and He went not knowing what to expect but He knew it was going to be wonderful and it was.

 As children of God we know when we have encounters, revelations, intimacy with the Lord, we are never the same.  Patrick called me excited the same day & told me this Word was for me also and I received it with a heart of joy, gratitude and awe.  That day & the  following days after I would meditate and pray on this message asking the Lord,  Lord Jesus You have been and are so good to us, how have we been good to you?  I started thinking about how He provides and cares for us daily, (Psalm 68:19), His plan of redemption for us (2 Cor 5:18-19) and Him leaving His throne in Heaven to come in this world to rescue us from evil, eternal death as 100% man and still 100% God (Colossians 2:9) teaching, healing, casting out demons, forgiving sins, feeding, preaching the gospel, going about doing nothing but good and knowing the kind of horrific suffering and death He would have to go through for us.  All the while bearing our sins on that Cross and most of all having God, The Father, turn away from Him while He hung there.  His presence no longer with Him because God is Holy and Just and He cannot look upon sin.  Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are One, have always been One..In the beginning God, Genesis chapters 1&2, this is referring to the beginning of creation, heaven, earth, man, everything made that was made.  This is not talking about the beginning of God, God is The Beginning and The End, The Alpha and Omega so as the bible lets us know in Genesis 1:26 &, Jesus and the Father were never separated until the cross, John 10:30 I and my Father are oneHe even cries out in Matthew 25:46Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  God had to turn His back on His Son so He will never have to turn His back on us. Hebrews 13:5.  He had to bear and take our punishment for our sins so now God will never punish us for them or even remember ours sins anymore. My brothers and sisters if this isn't the Good News then I don't know what is.  This is the gospel, the power of God unto salvation.  I praise You Lord Jesus for Your indescribable gift of Righteousness and Abundance of Grace to us.  Thank You for saving us by your willing sacrifice.

The Gift of Salvation is to the whole world but only we accept Him, who repent of our sins, believe in our hearts and confess with our mouth that Jesus is the Son of God, will be saved.   He died for our sins and rose for our justification and we are saved.  Romans 10:9.  He is a patient, kind and loving Savior (Rev 19:11-16 He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords too now, He is the Warrior like no other, there is not enough time in this day or in my knowledge bank to truly do Him justice in description, so just know HE IS infinitely more than what I am writing here.) and He teaches us everything we will need to know through prayer, His Word and His Holy Spirit.  He gives us a New Spirit and a New Heart.  Ezekiel 36:26.  He knows we are not perfect that's why He imputes His Righteousness to us.Romans 4:5-8,  Man this is awesome. We grow in Him by Grace, the Holy Spirit and His Word.  I can hardly contain myself just thinking about Him.  Hallelujah!! Hallelujah!!  Glory to God in the Highest!!

Thinking about all of His goodness towards us brings me back to my question regarding the message my brother and Laura & their family received,  I asked the Lord, How have we been good to you? I know it is by faith in You through Your Grace that we are saved.  The Lord answered me by His Spirit and told me when you fed the hungry, clothed the homeless, gave to the needy, visited those in prison, cared for the sick, you were being good to Me.  Matthew 25:35-40.  My mouth fell open, how many times have I read that scripture and understood it but never saw it as the Lord Jesus receiving good from us when we are good to those who are in need. Notice it doesn't even say He said when you did it to those who believe in Me, He said Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’  He wants us to love and be good to everyone who is in need.  To share with them our gifts (spiritual and physical).  How powerful it is to know we can love on Our Lord and Savior Jesus, Almighty God, just by being good to someone who needs someone to be good to them.  He did it for us. 

Peace, Love and Blessings to you my God family.


 

Monday, October 21, 2013

What about the Righteous?

When the Lord is ready to stretch out His hand against a rebellious unrepentant land what will happen to the righteous who are in the land?  Ezekiel 14:13-14 reads:
13 Son of man, when a land sins against Me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast,

14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they would save but their own lives by their righteousness (their uprightness and right standing with Me), says the Lord God.
 
Our Lord Jesus Christ made us righteous by His finished work on the cross, all who believe and confess He is Lord are made righteous through faith by grace.  Romans 10:9-10:
9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
 
As children of God, it grieves our heart to know that the people who reject and rebel against God will suffer.  We are to pray for the lost that they may hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe and be saved and many will but there are those who will not.  God has given us a free will and every opportunity to choose to turn from evil and ask Him to save us from our sins.   2 Peter 3:9: 9 The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.
 
The Lord repeatedly tells us in Ezekiel these things will come to pass so that we will know that He is the Lord.
 
The Lord says we will have consolation Ezekiel 14:22-23:
22 And yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant (an escaped portion), both sons and daughters. They shall be carried forth to you [in Babylon], and when you see their [ungodly] walk and their [wicked] doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall console you when you see their evil ways and their rebellious actions. Then you shall know (understand and realize) that I have not done without cause all that I have done in Jerusalem, says the Lord God.
 
 
 
Scripture reference:
Ezekiel 14:13-23
Romans 5:1-21
Romans 8:1-3
 
 
 
 

Friday, October 11, 2013

A New Day

This morning as I awakened to a beautiful new day, I was reminded that God has already gone before us and prepared this day.  Everything that will happen or not happen He already knows about and because He loves us I know He will be with us in the good times and the bad times.  Deuteronomy 31:8 - And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  Everything that I see happening in the world, the government shutdown, murders, hatred, wars, rumors of wars, calamities, pestilences,  is all pointing to the return of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.  Revelation 3:10 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Gods children know there has been a change, a shift in the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father and as members of the Body of Christ, we have an indescribable excitement of joy and expectancy.  You see, Heavenly Father, has been speaking to us through dreams, visions, prophetic word and His holy bible letting us know the Bridegroom, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is on His way to get His Bride, us, His children and we are to watch and pray and let His light shine before men that our Father may be glorified in heaven. Like never before we need to pray for the lost, open our mouths and our hands and let them know Almighty God sent His Son, Jesus to take our punishment for sin and He has risen and lives forever and the door is still open, He is knocking and is still ready and willing to save.  By His grace through faith in Jesus Christ we are saved and the lost will be also.  One day we were lost and someone shared the glorious good news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ with us and we confessed we were sinners and asked Jesus to forgive us and become our Lord and Savior, we believed it in our heart and confessed it with our mouth and we became His to live with Him forever.  Our names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.