Good News – Page 2 – Living Waters

From Good News about Grace by Rick Warren who wrote ” The Purpose Driven Life”

Isaiah 1:18 says, “No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can take it out and make you as clean as freshly fallen snow” (LB).

If ever there were a sin you’d think was unforgivable, it would be denying Jesus three times on the night he was betrayed. But Jesus knew Peter would deny him, and he even knew Peter would come back to him. In fact, before it even happened, Jesus said to Peter in the Upper Room, “I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen and build up the faith of your brothers” (Luke 22:32).

Jesus knew that Peter’s ministry would be more effective after his denial than it was before. And, sure enough, it was! Peter wrote two of the books of the Bible called 1 and 2 Peter. Then he shared his memoirs with a relative, and that’s the Gospel of Mark.

You may think God’s forgotten you. He hasn’t. The Good Shepherd leaves the 99 sheep to go after the one. He knows how you’ve fallen away. If you have — either by one giant step or a series of petty steps where you just slipped away and you’re not as close to Christ as you used to be — you need to pray what David prayed when he came back to God after committing adultery. He said, “Restore to me the joy of your salvation” (Psalm 51:12 NLT). David did not have to pray, “God, restore to me my salvation,” because he hadn’t lost his salvation. He had lost the joy.

And some of you have, too. Come home to Christ today.

You’re a Good, Good, Father. (Click link below picture, to listen). He is always looking out for us. We are never alone.

November 10, 2022 Arw27

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Lord, May we all be as patient as you were to us, as we pray for those to turn to you, as the one who can save them from there sins, just as you saved us from ours.

July 23, 2022 Arw27

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SCATTERS, AND YET INCREASES. The principle here is that generosity, by God’s blessing, secures increase, while stinginess leads to poverty instead of expected gain. The one who gives receives far more in return (Ps 112:9; Ecc 11:1; Jn 12:24, 25; Ac 20:35; 2Co 9:6–9).

July 7, 2022 Arw27

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Happy Birthday, America. May God Bless America. May we move away from our worldly ways, and move back to our fundamental values, of our Christian Faith. Jesus is the one by faith in him, that can turn this country from despair, to hope again. Celebrate with Hope today.

July 4, 2022 Arw27

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For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

February 10, 2022 Arw27

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Obey God and Prosper – Given to Israel, and passed down to the gentiles as well. We have been chosen, for a purpose, that is meant to share with others. He is our God, and We are his people. Our hearts transformed, by the work of Jesus.

January 24, 2022 Arw27

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Obey God and Prosper

1 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the L ORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, † 2 so that you and your son and your grandson might a fear the L ORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, b all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3 “O Israel, you should listen and 1 be careful to do it, that a it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the L ORD , the God of your fathers, has promised you, in b a land flowing with