Jesus Loves You

Repentance is “believing with absolute knowledge” that without the saving power of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, the wrath of God will consume you utterly.

Repentance is turning to God asking for His mercy by allowing you salvation through the cross of His Almighty Son.

Repentance is acknowledging the disastrous consequences of your sins and believing that there is no way out of sin except the blood of Jesus Christ shed for you on the cross.

Repentance is believing in the absolute LOVE of God, that even-though you are an undeserving sinner, He loved you to give up (sacrifice) His greatest love, His only beloved Son, for you, so that you may live and not perish in hell.

Repentance is NOT “working” to stop certain sins that you think will get you to hell. It is a complete turn around BECAUSE you have believed and now have Christ working in you to will and to do. Without the power of the Holy Spirit there is no repentance.

Jesus is the Hero who destroyed the bondage of sin and death. He rose victorious over death on the third day of His crucifixion, showing that true LOVE can NEVER die. He lives forevermore and in Him alone is there salvation and eternal life.

Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:15-18 NKJV)

heisfaithful:

As I lay here aching, pouring out my hurts and trials and brokenness to You. As You’re holding me close and brushing back the un-shed tears from my eyes. As You’re quiet, and don’t tell me what’s happening when I beg to know. You’re healing me. Quietly, softly, steadily, constantly healing me, changing me, moving me forward one step at a time. Please help me be patient as you work this brokenness into something beautiful.

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Do not wait to clean yourself before coming to Jesus. He loves you just how you are!

You cannot clean yourself, it is not possible. That is why He came down from heaven to die for your sins, forgive you and cleanse you.

His blood is what washes away your sins, pains, sufferings, failings, and all darkness. Only the blood of Jesus!

Go to Him as a child, His love is of a pitying Father. He is opening His arms wide to accept you. Cry out to Him in respect and meekness, ask for His love and mercy to save you from all darkness and suffering. Jesus knows that you are a sinner, He did not come to call the proud self-righteous but the sinners to repentance. Jesus gives us eternal life when we surrender to Him. Jesus gives us a new nature to resist the darkness, He reconciles us back to God, born of the Holy Spirit. He gives us love, peace and joy!

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. (Galatians 6:7-10)

Are you a “Christian” loved by the world?

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. ~James 4:4

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. ~Ephesians 5:11-13

A true Christian is one who does the will of the Father. The will of the Father is abiding in the love of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ - having fellowship with God. If you are a true Christian, you are dead to yourself and alive in Christ - that means, you are a vessel used by God to listen to Him and do His will. The LORD hates the darkness. If you are to be used by Him, walking in the Spirit, you WILL hate the darkness too. If you walk in the Spirit you WILL fight the darkness and thus experience persecution. If your master experienced persecution, you too must, otherwise you are not a genuine servant.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. ~John 15:18-25

All who would try to be godly will be persecuted ~2 Timothy 3:12

Do not worry Christian. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him for grace. He does not put you in a situation you cannot handle.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ~2 Corinthians 12:9

“And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.” ~1 Peter 5:10

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness…” ~James 1:2-4