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Do you know who you are? I know who I am because the Bible says who I am in Christ. In fact, I am 301 things “in Christ”!
Because Jesus is my Savior, I live with confidence and assurance (2 Corinthians 5:8). He’s got this! Jesus loved me, and you, and the whole world — so much that He died on a cross to save us (John 3:16). He paid it all. THAT is awesome. 1
My life is awesome because God made me His child. I’ve been redeemed! He did it. He did that for me. I’m bound for The Promised Land! Wow. What more could I ask for?
Imagine what “being saved” has meant to you
I’ve been redeemed
Excerpt from The Godman Jesus Said “Follow Me”:
What sort of person are you?
Have you been truly saved? And now: Are you being diligent to be the sort that God wants? 2
My sheep listen to My voice,
and I know them,
and they follow Me
– John 10:27
I’m Christian because He chose me. – 2 Thessalonians 2:13
I’m Christian because I responded with repentance and a willing heart.
I’m His ambassador because of His great love. – 2 Corinthians 5:20
In Christ I am a strong person because His Spirit lives within me.
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Excerpt from There is only one God and I am a Christian because…
I am a Christian because the Bible is too good to have been a fabrication of man. It had to have been orchestrated – by God. The contents of the Bible (66 books) were written over a period of hundreds of years, by writers who did not know the others nor collaborate with them – separated by hundreds of miles – and yet everything ties together without any discrepancies, and Jesus the Messiah fulfilled over 360 prophecies written by these writers. Impossible, except by God.
I am a Christian because of tangible evidence of the divinity of Christ. He fulfilled over 360 prophecies written about the coming Messiah – way too many to have been completed by chance. Christ was God in human form.
I am a Christian because I personally chose to repent of my way – and yield my life to God’s way, through Jesus Christ. I accepted God’s free gift of forgiveness, eternal life with God.
I am a Christian because God enabled me to have the faith to believe Him, to take Him at His word. I could not have chosen Him – if He had not chosen me first.
I am a Christian because Jesus said He was the only way to God the Father (John 14:6), that nobody comes to God – except through acceptance of Christ. Even if I wanted to, which I do not, I could not have earned God’s acceptance no matter what I tried to do.
I am a Christian because God came down to earth in the form of a man, as the Christ (the Messiah):
* to be able to die in our place
* to be able to give us pardons for our sinfulness
* to be able to satisfy God’s sense of justice
* to turn away God’s wrath against evil
* to be able to set us free from our death sentence
* to be able to make us perfect before the Great Judge on Judgement Day
Sailing ocean storms of life
I sure as Hell, and, as sure as Heaven, will be singing praise to God for at least the first trillion eons of my eternity! Get your ship together man! Get shipshape MirWeb-Shipshap, trim, ready, steady and able.
Whosoever will come after me,
let him deny himself,
and take up his cross,
and follow me.”
– Mark 8:34
Isn’t it about time to prepare your eternity – so you can spend it with the God of all goodness? Choose today to change your eternity. You will forever be thankful.
FOR MORE:
The two doctrines are true: He chooses us (1 Peter 2:9), and we have a choice to make: “Whosoever will may come”. Have you chosen Him for yourself? Only God is Good. Choose to make that “eternal divide” permanent – for goodness sake.
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Whosoever
Jesus said, “Whosoever will – may come”. See all in one link
or: Revelation 22:17, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 10:32-33, Matthew 16:25, Mark 8:34-35, James 4:4.
How then should we live now… believing the Rapture is just around the corner?
Rely on the Spirit of God in you
The Holy Spirit only resides in true believers
The overcoming faith of Christ followers
Becoming fiery hot, glowing, Rapture Ready Watchers
Jesus will rescue us soon from the Wrath of God
Are You Ready, Steady and Able?
In Christ I am a strong person
When difficult times assail us
“we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:8
Prepare your eternity with great fear and trepidation
Psalm 51 type repentance and salvation
Approach God with a true and sincere heart
Salvation in Christ is beyond huge
Choose to change your eternity
Seeking and pursuing death…not seeking it
If I Were a Jew…I’d really want to investigate the claims of Jesus!
God’s Think Excerpt: I think. You think. We all think.
But, what does God think? Thinking is necessary. But what if your “think” is not God’s “think”? Then your “think” will end so very badly when you reach That Day of Judgement, quivering before God in the realization that it is His Think that rules the heavens, not yours. Read about God’s “think”. What you think – matters. How you act it out – matters more. It will seal your eternity – with Him, or without Him.
Is your life fruite – Agape Love?
What Jesus Taught…the claims of Jesus
Every believer’s new life in Christ
Read the series on Every believer’s new life in Christ, from Ephesians 1. We are made new creatures, given new life in Christ – when (and only when…) we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
- Growing into our natural new life in Christ
- Every believer’s new life in Christ [Part One]
- Explaining the Basic Christian Experience [Part Two]
Footnotes
- That immeasurable joy of arrival
Regarding death
I am not seeking it
However I rather look forward to it
that very very fast twinkling moment
where His plan of immortality
goes from just an exciting “plan for the future” – to
that moment where the God of the Universe
brings His reality to earth by way of the Rapture
and we experience “the real real”
that sudden exchange of incompleteness for the immortal
But for now in this age of grace and sheer mercy
before death happens to me
I will stand firm and wait for it
since my hope is built strongly on the foundation
on nothing more and nothing less than Jesus
I am in a constant “being filled” setting
“being always filled with good courage and confident hope”
waiting uniquely busy but with sweet peaceful rest
for His first Return
fighting deep in the good fight
holding firmly to Christ my Hope
looking to that immeasurable joy of arrival!
How about you? - Excerpt from A Healthy Soul: A Healthy Soul… based on Galatians 5:22-23
- walks with wings of grace, not slithering condemnation, self and selfishness
- walks into your space smoothing soothing lotion on your roughed-up soul
- with unguarded presence – expresses: “I’m fine with you”, “I am yours for this moment in time together”
- is longsuffering and gentle,
- not back-stabbing, pouty, self-absorbed
- is compelled by the Spirit, listening to His still, small voice (Acts 20:22)
- feels obligated and directed toward action because of strong convictions (Acts 20:22)
- produces the fruit of the Spirit more and more
14 Therefore, beloved,
since you look for these things,
be diligent
to be found by Him
in peace, spotless
and blameless….”
– 2 Peter 3:11-18–verses 11 and 14– Excerpt from A Healthy Soul.
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