Called According to His Purpose

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

So what does that really mean? Are you a Christian? Have you accepted Jesus in your heart? If Jesus is your Saviour then you are called according to God's purpose. God's purpose is that we are witness's in this world. That we tell others about what Jesus did for us. Show God's love to everybody.

I know from experience's that when something happens that we aren't expecting the last thing that we are thinking about is somehow this works to my good. I am trying to get better at that though.

This morning a friend of mine is having car trouble. I am sure she didn't plan that. Now she has to fix the car. How does that work to her good as the Scripture says. She wasn't on the road when it happened. Let me add that it is very cold here today also. Not a good day to be stranded on the road.

I know what you are all thinking. Now she has to pay to have the car fixed. Let's not be stupid. In this world material things break.

The Bible also says that we have favor in this world with everybody even unbelievers so when she goes to get the car fixed if she beleives that she has favor who knows what good things God will have waiting for her.

Maybe she needs to share the love of God with somebody that she will see as she get's her car fixed. Maybe someone needs a hug from her.  No matter what happens it works to her good and she has favor.

I am at a point in my life where I don't want to fret about a thing. I want to just rest in the fact that God loves me and want's to take care of me. I am going to let Him. Nobody loves me or can take care of me like He can. God gave me a wonderful husband that takes care of me but I will tell you nobody know's you like God.

So when you husband says to you where is the money coming from for this or that tell him its not our concern talk to God. God has it all in control. Let Him take control don't try to help Him. He knows what He is doing all on His own.

God loves me so very much and He loves you. When we really get that on the inside of us we will never be the same. That is my goal. To know His love and know He always has it all in control.

Believe

Matthew 21:22 And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
                            See the word believe and what it stands for.

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Snow

It is the middle of January here in Wisconsin. Between yesterday and today we just had our first snowfall. It is so pretty. The fresh snow covering the dirty ground makes me think of how much Jesus loved me. He covered my dirty sins with His precious blood.

Through the shed blood of Jesus I became the righteousness of God when I believed. I will never let anybody talk me out of that and believe me when I say some have tried. You will always be a sinner they say. I am so glad the Bible tells a different story. I was a sinner serving satan. I got saved by grace by asking Jesus to be my personal Saviour. After doing that the Bible clearly states that God made me the righteousness of Himself. The Bible says when I receive the gift of grace and righteousness I now reign with Christ.

Singer David Ingles says it so well in a song. I am the Righteousness of God in Christ a brand new creation in Him. I can now approach the presence of God with no condemnation of sin.

My friend what Jesus did for me He did for you. Invite Him today so you can reign with Him.

Happy Blessed New Year

What will the year 2012 bring? What will any new year bring? If you have put your trust in God you don't have to wonder what the new year brings. It will be exactly what God has planned for you. He has ordained your days, ordered your steps and loves you more than you will ever know.

How do you know that God loves you? Look around and you will find the answer. You didn't literally see Jesus go to the cross for you but you know that the Word says He did. That is God's love that while we were yet sinners Jesus came and died.

I see God's love for me in the husband that He picked just for me. The two daughters that He in trusted to my care. God shows His love in the wonderful friends that He has given me. All day long I see God's love in my day. Little things as well as big things He does for me.

The Bible says that everything will work to our good because we love God and we are called for His purpose. What is God's purpose? We are suppose to be like Jesus. That means walking as He did. He wants us to show the love of Christ to others in our actions. It isn't always easy. In this world some people are just down right mean. Heck just spending time with siblings is sometimes a challenge.

So if you are a blood bought child of the King 2012 will be full of wonderful surprises. I believe 2012 will be the manifestation of allot of things that you have been trusting the Lord to do for you. If we are walking in His love and grace we can't go wrong. The Bible says that if we have accepted His Righteousness and His Grace we will reign with Jesus.

I am looking forward to seeing the many many blessings that He has for me. You need to do that also. Be in expectancy of what our wonderful God wants to do for you. He shows His love in the things that He does for us. That will always be His way.

In my 27 years of being a Christian my God has never let me down. Do you know Him? If you don't you need to. 2012 will be a better year for you when you have taken His promise of eternal life.

If you don't know Jesus just invite Him today. Ask Him to forgive your sins and be your Saviour.

Be Blessed in 2012!

Merry Blessed Christmas!

Christmas week already. The best time of the year to preach Jesus. My prayer for all of you is that you personally know the babe in the manger that came to us through Christmas.

The Jesus that left His home in heaven at His Father's request. He was born. He came to this earth. He died a brutal death on the cross. He went into the pit of hell because He needed to take the keys of the kingdom that the devil posses away from him.

Then God raised Him from the dead and He sits at the right hand of the Father with the holes in His hands and side as a witness.

The Bible says that Jesus makes intercession for all of us. What He did on the cross is what makes intercession for us. He gave us the full package. Salvation, Healing & Prosperity. Don't just trust Him for your salvation but take all He offers.

If we don't walk in the fullness that Jesus died to give us it is taking His name in vain. We always think that when we hear someone swear God's name they are taking His name in vain. I believe that to be true but also when we take for granted what Jesus died to give us we also take His name in vain.

Ricky Van Shelton a born again believer sings it so well.

C is for the Christ Child born upon this day.
H for Herald Angels in the night.
R means our Redeemer
I means Israel
S is for the stars that shown so bright.
T is for three wise men they who traveled so far.
M is for the manger where He laid.
A is all He stands for.
S means Shepherds came.

My friend Father, Son and Holy Spirit love you so very much. They are reaching out to you. All you have to do is reach back to them. May your Christmas be the best blessed day and go on with you forever. Remember Christmas isn't just a one day gift the gift goes on and on and on.

Condemnation

If you’re not familiar with whom Joseph Prince is he is a powerful man of God. He has open up the Old Testament to me like I have never seen before. I was mostly a New Testament reader till now. I like the New Testament more because the Old is written under the law but because of the sacrifice of Jesus we are not under law but under grace.

Joseph Prince is talking about condemnation. We all know what that is because it is a big tool that the devil uses against us if we let him.

In his teachings he had a picture of a plant roots and all. He named some of the leaves on the plant Sickness, Poverty etc. If we are sick we pray and believe for healing. Same for poverty we pray for money. Here is the problem. We can’t just pray it away. In any situation we always have to deal with the roots.

He had the roots listed first stress, second fear and the very bottom was condemnation. The deepest root of them all was condemnation. So in order to kill the leaves you have to kill the root.

We can all quote Romans 8:1 that says therefore now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Verse 2, 3 & 4 says: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  

When you get condemned you get into fear, when there is fear there is stress. Then along comes sickness or poverty or whatever is attacking you. He says condemnation is the worst one.

We are new creatures in Christ. We are made the Righteousness of God because of the cross. We have to not allow the devil to condemn us.

If we were to illustrate a tree for Adam one of Adam’s leaves would have been poverty. If you go to the root of the problem concerning his poverty you will find all three stress, fear and condemnation. 
  

When Adam ate the apple he was condemned. He knew he did wrong. He hid in the bushes because he was afraid. He was stressed because God told him that he would have to work by the sweat of his brow.

We all know when we have fallen short as Christians. We just have to make sure that we don’t let the devil take advantage of us and condemn us. We need to plead the blood of Jesus over our minds.

1 Corth. 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. We don’t live under law we live under grace. Grace comes to us in the person of Jesus. Thank You Jesus. 

The law is the strength of sin. The law was not given by God. It was given by Moses. Jesus finished the law for us. The law was given to show men there sin.

So many preachers preach about sin and death. They need to preach about why it happens. Get to the root of it all. Generational curses all started with a root. Most of the time if you trace those roots back you will discover more than maybe you wanted to know.

Sickness has stress at its root. Remove the root and the plant will die.

Again based on 1 Corth.15 he said that he has gone to pray for people in hospitable and they are gasping for there last breath (sting of death) caused by sin back to Adam.

The law always demands, grace will always supply. God promises to deliver us from the power of sin not the presence of sin. We live in this world so sin is always going to be around us.
Paul new the law back to front. He was trained to be a Pharisee. Paul said that he knew the law so well he knew he was sinning. The more I tried to keep the law the harder it was.

If the devil gets you into stress he won’t stop there. He will continue to condemn you.  

In chapter 7 of Romans Paul struggles with the law. He talks about sin and not wanting to do it but says in verse 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. We are all born into the sin nature because of Adam.

If you feel you have to forgive the same person more than once a day that is the devil accusing you? You are not under condemnation and you need to tell him that. Once you forgive somebody it’s over.

We never have to be condemned again. God had to punish sin so He sent Jesus. Jesus was condemned with our sins. From the beginning of our life to the end our sins are on Jesus.

In the story of the prodigal son the law says he should have been stoned to death for what he had done. Instead he got a kiss, a new robe and he was embraced by his Father. Our God our Father our dad wants to do the same for all of us. The next time the devil is whipping you around with condemnation arrest him and tell him you aren’t going to put up with it. The cross gives you the right. Jesus paid it all.

The gateway of life to the Holy Spirit is Romans 8:1. It is also the doorway to life and victory. Read Chapter 1 and see how many times the Holy Spirit is mentioned.

Ever notice the devil never condemns you about your good points.

Rev 12:10-11 the accuser of our brethren has been cast down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. Romans 8:1 needs to be in your heart.

Jesus paid for all the broken law. The blood of Jesus speaks. He disarmed principalities. No weapon formed against us prospers.

He told a story about when he was a teacher one of the girls in his class was missing. He put the blood of Jesus over her and prayed for her. Later this girl was release from the man that took her but she was the only one released. The blood spoke.

We overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb. When taking communion the Bible says that this cup is a new covenant. We go through troubles in this world because we are called by God. We walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We walk through we don’t stay there.

The devil comes against leaders with condemnation. Why? He has no other weapon says the Lord.

Remember when Jesus caught the woman in adulty? He said I don’t condemn you.

Three times Peter denied Jesus and said he didn’t know Him. Peter was under no condemnation. I am sure he felt bad about denying Jesus but he got over it and went on to preach to others.

If someone is condemning you for things they know you have done in the past tell them you don’t know that person. You are a new creation in Christ. The old is passed away and all has become new.

We can’t use this message the wrong way. You can’t on purpose lie, cheat or steal and say I am not under condemnation.

Cover yourself with that precious blood of Jesus. It speaks more than you will ever no.

Saved for Us

Did you know that God doesn't hide things from us He hides them for us. I was listening to brother Jesse this morning saying that and giving a testimony about the goodness of God.

He needed to buy some property so he sought the Lord about it. The property he found was 2 million dollars. The Lord told him to offer them Three Hundred Thirty Five Thousand Dollars for it.

When God told Jesse the price He also told him where and when the closing on the property would be held. Jesse called the place and made an appointment. They had still not accepted his offer. The company did call and reduce the price once to 1.7 million and then again to 1.2 million. Jesse just kept saying what he would give them.

The day of the closing he had the check made out to this company and went to the closing. They came in and accepted the check and left. Jesse found out later I believe it was the same day that the company he just purchased from got into trouble and all there property was seized from them.

Don't ask God for what you want and then give up if it doesn't come as quick as you need it to. Be patient. Don't try to help God bring it to you either. God will bring it when He sees fit. Trust me it isn't going to be the way you thought either.

All things are possible only believe. The babe in the manger gave it all for you and me. He is no respecter of persons. What He did for Jesse He will do for you. He loves you more than you will ever know. He is reaching out to you reach back to Him.