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A Time of trouble

It is so vital that we remember all, not some, but all of our strengths fades as we try to wrestle on our own accord. As we fight we weary. It is only the strength of the Lord in our life that truly succeeds to renew and sustain. We try so hard to fight our battles ourselves or to fix everything that is broken in our lives and in others. The problem is that we aren’t God. We try to mimic his strength, his fortitude, and goodness but we fail at it. We have to learn to stop leaning on our own understanding and our carnal minds and ways to handle each situation. When we don’t lean on God and seek his will for our situation we fail or make things worse. Worse yet we show our pride by assuming “we” have to fix things becoming our own god instead of allowing the True God to give his will and direction. He will do what he promises. He will deliver us from our troubles in one way or another. Just hold trust in this.

Let this sink in Christ followers!!

Powerful message the world needs to hear. “Not All Love is God nor from God”

What is Salvation?

We have so many ways to describe Salvation based on our own interpretation and even denominations. Some describe it at the cost of their own beliefs sometimes and yet a great many have no understanding of it and don’t try. Could I say that salvation is the saving of a sinner from the consequences of sin through the Grace of Christ and his Father? Sure but it doesn’t really fully describe it for all people. Could I say that it is a gift not earned by works? Sure but that doesn’t really handle all aspects of salvation. Could say it’s being set apart? Sure but again that doesn’t really answer it fully in all eyes. I could even say it’s simply Yeshua and those who seek him and accept his work on Calvary will gain it? Again, sure.. but that doesn’t really answer all questions still.

The problem there is no one verse that says clearly “This is what Salvation should be explained as”. We all take the verses to come to an understanding by a process of gathering different points of reference back to Christ and what the Old Testament covenant was vs the new and come to different facts. What we all know for sure is that Christ is the Catalyst. His work and sacrifice is the beginning and end for it and through Gods Grace, it lays out our foundations for salvation. So why is there so many people on different sides of the table about what is needed? Because mankind needs to feel relevant.

Over 1000 years ago man went through a surge push of intellectual hierarchy even greater than it was during the time of pharisees of Christ day. This push was spawned by continued Roman movement during that time and pagan philosophy. There was this great need for being the smartest person in the room, sorta speak. Murders and burnings took place to gain views that other men were told not to challenge that had nothing to do with Christ nor his gospel and out of it all came the worse thing that could have happened to the Christians… the birth of denominations. Or what I like the call it… the race to claim salvation through who was closer to explaining an infinite God from a finite mind.

Salvation became an entry to club and the only way to get it, was not through Only Grace and Faith in Christ as the Son of the living God and Lord but now you must recite these manmade concepts about the philosophy about how God was made up, the nature of Christ spirit , what a spirit was vs a soul, how the Christ came to be , how he separated himself from his Father, if he ever separated himself from the Father, how he was equal, or how he wasn’t, etc, etc ,etc. Everything from the age of Mary (the need to create a idol of her)to the image of Christ and what the cross or stake looked like that he hung on. None of any of this ever had any control or say over salvation and yet mankind made it this way at the threat of death for so long that even today we stand on ceremony with this concepts and practices. We curse the ground of those who would dare say or change any “Made up concept” by men as if it was required by God himself, and none of it was ever asked of any man during Christ walk on earth nor any disciple before all died. Not one single time was man required to philosophically explain the nature of God and what took place in heaven before time began or any of the million concepts man came up with in their attempts to explain God. Not even on the day of pentecost were these things ask by God to grant salvation nor his Holy Spirit.

So instead of telling you what Salvation is. I can tell you what it isn’t. It isn’t based on a single manmade concept(denominations) created 100’s of years after the Bible was completed and people were already saved and died long before anyone ever said the word “denomination”. And Salvation most definitely didn’t go on vacation until some person recently rediscovered it, claiming that now they are the true people of God and those not of them, aren’t because they found out something about God that others didn’t know. And as soon as mankind can ever come to this conclusions can we finally push way the fog to clearly see that Christ was all we needed, the author and finisher or Faith. It’s not about which philosophy is closest to explaining God. It’s not a contest of who is closest to the answer wins. Nobody has the right explanation no matter who you are because we are finite. Only the infinite can explain the infinite. This is why Christ was needed. Let your salvation begin and end with him and him alone.

Does God Truly come first in our life? The answer, if we are honest with ourselves, might shock you.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26

Christ gives a very shocking but true imagery in this verse. He makes it very clear that nothing can mean more to you than God. And even today we fail to truly grasp the understanding and full weight of what that means.

God’s word Alone is solely Right! Even when His words stands against our addictions, traditions, political beliefs, social structures, ethnicity/culture actions, and yes even if it stands against our own man made denominations(which God never ordained)! If you aren’t prepared to turn from ANY direction if Gods word aligns itself counter to those directions, then you aren’t honestly following him, you are following man or the world and placing them over God.

Too many of us treat God’s word as optional. If it doesn’t make me look bad, if my family likes the direction, if it fits my schedule, if it aligns with my voters right and political party, or if it fits my churches denominations, then it’s fine. But the moment it mentions something that makes you see that your tradition beliefs, denominational beliefs, social beliefs , or any other things is wrong, you want to throw it out or seek a way to put it in a box away from you because it upsets your life’s balance.

We have to stand on his word as ONLY True source for our lives even over our addictions, culture, traditions, and habits. If you’re addicted to cigarettes, we should acknowledge our addiction and seek repentance but in the meantime, never justify it to make ourselves sleep better at night. If the word of God hypothetically, says your very name is evil, don’t justify it because it’s your personal name given by your parents, change it! Stand on God as the Only source of truth and stop making him an optional direction that must align with mankind and or the world’s concepts. God created the world… the world didn’t create God.

Amazing information biblically vs false denominations.

I’m praying for you, but sometimes it’s not enough.

I saw this image a while ago and I remember on the surface of things I felt like this was a bad statement and untrue. How in the world could prayer ever not be enough, I thought to myself. Even my title I picked for this message gives off that same vibe but give me a moment to explain why I feel that this message is both true and fair.

 “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?” James 2:14-16

James address something very similar here. Faith without works is dead, this is the key to why this statement is true. So many of us are this exact way. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the statement “I’ll pray for you” passed on between people only for it to be a cliché most of the time. Worst yet, something that people of faith say out of respect to each others or when they don’t know what else to say. Sadly enough, to many of us never even pray for all the people we quote this to. Yes, we attend to most of the time but too many times we say things out of habit and not out of determination. So just saying that we will pray for someone doesn’t really help them if you never follow through, and especially in the way we would do so for someone that we are close to like our own child or spouse. We don’t put in the same efforts in our prayers for some people like we would for others we care more for and this can’t be the case.

And then there is prayers without corresponding actions. We pray for those people on the street, the sick and shut in, the weak, our enemies, and the helpless all the time. We will even pray for our local church. And yet when it’s time to give …this same effort is missing. It’s not enough to say you’re going to pray for someone or something and yet see a need of actions that would go along with that which you claim you will pray for and do nothing about it. What good is your faith without corresponding actions? This is the question the book of James asks. What is your answer? If the person on the street is suffering because they have no money to buy what they need, don’t think that just passing by and going home to pray for them is the only thing needed. Make sure there is nothing you can do to help them towards what you are praying for them about and don’t just assume it’s enough just to pray for them always. It wasn’t enough in the Book of James so align yourself up with your faith/actions and only then can your faith be in line with God’s will for your life.