No man is an island. We all have an effect on each other. We are
supposed to be Ambassadors of the kingdom of Heaven, and
representing our King of Kings Jesus Christ! It is so important to choose wisely your friends and the people that you are associated with.They will definitely have a lasting affect on you.
“Can a man take fire into his bosom and not be burned ?”
(Proverbs 6:27). You should associate with people who love the
Lord and are well grounded in his Word and like to witness to
others about Jesus. Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.” (John 10:11-15). “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” (John 15: 14-15). “Feed the flock of God which is among you, Taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.” (1Peter 5:2-4). Jesus told Peter three times; “Lovest thou me, feed my sheep.” (John 21:17). Beloved these verses need no expanation. I’m sure that the Lord will speak to each of us through these scriptures.

Say this prayer to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

 “The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” (Proverbs 16:4). “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee:”(Jeremiah l:5a). “being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians l:ll b).There is something special that you were created to accomplish, and there are many special things that you are to do.The main purpose for your life is to love your Creators. God,Jesus and the Holy spirit. “And God said, “Let us make man in our image; after our likeness: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:26a,27). YOU were created to love God and enjoy his creation and to help others do the same, and until we realize that, we are not going to have peace, and joy, and happiness, with fulfillment in our own heart. The Jews are always quoting the verse that says, “Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:” (Deuteronomy 6:4), but actually it uses a plural word in the original Hebrew meaning, The Lords our God are one. Jesus said,“I and my Father are one.”  (John 10:30). He was talking about one in unity and heart with God, and Himself, and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity. Jesus was not praying to himself in the garden of Gethsemane, and Jesus said, when he died on the cross. “My God, My God ,why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:32b ). Because God couldn’t bear the pain to see his Son crucified so he turned his back on him for a little while when he took upon himself the sins of the whole world and died such a painful death. You have to believe that Jesus is the Son of God to be saved, and that God gave him to die for our sins. Don’t ever think for a second that God doesn’t love you after he did that for you ! Jesus said, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”(John 15:12).“We love him because he first loved us.”(I John 4:19). “Jesus said,“THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.”(Matthew 22:37-39). What makes people love, and be loving? Love is a wonderful thing. You can’t see it. It comes from God right out of the spirit world, proving that God is real ,because “God is Love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him.” (I John 4:16 ).You can’t see God or Jesus, or the Holy Spirit yet, but you can sure feel the love he gives us. “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” (1 Peter 1:8).So the next time you have feelings of love in your heart just remember where those feelings came from, God himself, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. WOW !!! Do you receive it ?

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

Does life sometimes seem like some kind of a big test or training school? If you answered yes you are right. We are constantly faced with choices every day that we must make decisions about. “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” (Proverbs 15:3). We can’t see God, but he can see us, and he knows our thoughts. Thank God he rewards us according to our actions and what we do and not according to our thoughts. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9,10). Thoughts are like birds, you can’t keep them from flying over your head, but you can keep them from landing and making a nest in your hair. The Bible says, “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” (II Corinthians 10:5). God lives in the spirit world. It is another dimension. In fact where God and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit live, is an “eternal now”, where time does not exist, and he wants to also live in our hearts. The Lord puts choices and tests in front of us every day to see what we will do, and to teach us lessons. He wants to see if you will pray and do things that please him, and do things the loving way. A wise man will learn from his own mistakes, but a wiser man will learn from the mistakes of others. Experience is often a better teacher but sometimes a bitter teacher. We would do better to seek out the advice of some one who has traveled the same path that we are on. Someone who has made a lot of mistakes themselves and can advise us how not to make those same mistakes’, but it seems that most of us want to learn the hard way from our own mistakes ourselves. The Lord is preparing you to take on more responsibility in the future. If you ask Jesus to come into your heart he will, and he will be with you to help you through life’s pitfalls and quicksand. He will pull you up out of the water when you begin to sink and give you another chance, time after time. Just reach out to him, and he will always be there immediately for you and help you. “Jesus immediately stretched forth his hand and caught him.” (Matthew 14:31).“Like as a father pitieth his children,so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” (Psalm 103:13 ).

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

“I counsel thee to keep the kings commandments, and that in regard of the oath of God.” (Ecclesiastes 8:2).To me this verse is saying to us to obey the laws of man, but we had better remember the oath of God or what we have pledged to God first, like preaching the Gospel, and that is where we draw the line, and don’t have to obey man, when they say to not obey God and preach the Word. “Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.” (II Timothy 4:2). This is not a suggestion. This is a Commandment ! Jesus said, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels”. (Mark 8: 38). Some people use this as an excuse and say I shouldn’t preach the Word because the government said not to, and I have to obey them because it says so in Romans Chapter 13 verses 1 -7 which says, “LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resiseth the ordinances of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers,attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.”  “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (II Timothy 2:15). Don’t let the Devil trick you into using these verses as a cop out and steal your blessing, and souls.What we as Christians do is so important. “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution ..” (II Timothy 3:12).
If they arrested you for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

There once was was a young girl who was studying to be a ballerina. She was going to a special school and taking lessons. She really wanted to become a ballerina so bad, it was the main desire of her heart and life. One day her instructor called her in to his office and told her some distressing news. He said, I am sorry to tell you this, but it is really a hard thing to make it in this business and only a small handful of people will make it, and most will drop out and look for another vocation, and I just don’t think this is for you. You just don’t seem to have what it takes, he said.Well, she was heartbroken and devastated. She went home sobbing and just gave up her dream of ever becoming a ballerina. Many years later she ran into her instructor walking down the street. She told him, you know that you so discouraged me, that I quit pursuing my dream and passion of becoming what I wanted. He replied. Oh, I tell that to all the girls, just to see who is determined to make it, because it is so hard in this business, and only those with undying, and great dedication can become a professional great ballerina.There is a lesson here for us all. Have you been sidetracked, and derailed, by something or someone just when you were picking up steam and moving ahead? Well get out and survey the damage. Get help, and do what it takes to get back on track for the Lord. There are a lot of passengers waiting at the station for you to pick them up and take them to their final destination. “Be sober,be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (I Peter 5:8). Be a fighter for Jesus ! You may loose a few battles but the war is not over ! Jesus is coming ! Don’t give up the ship, Don’t give up, even if all your ships come home with broken sails!  Don’t retreat ! Don’t hold up the sickening white flag of surrender, and leave the battlefield to the enemy.You can’t stop a person of Faith! No victory with out a battle. No triumph without a trial. No testimony with out a test. Let no man steal your crown ! Be like John Paul Jones, when his arm was severely wounded and his ship was sinking and many of his men dead, the British captain yelled out to him “Do you surrender?” He yelled back “HELL NO ! I have not yet begun to fight,” and he went on to win the battle ! “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.Then saith he unto his disciples.The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.”(Matthew 9:36-38).

Say this prayer if you want to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I  believed you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.