Category: Heaven

Are you bearing fruit or are you not?  Are you a Christian, or are you just giving lip service that will not be acceptable?

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If there is no fruit, you will be taken away.  That is not a place you want to be.  Pray that the Lord would help you fully see that you might produce fruit.  If you are bearing fruit (true believers), the sin in your life will be pruned away, that you may produce more fruit!  How great for those who believe, to have God help us, throw off the sins that hold us back.  This is a process, that does not happen over night.  May we hand over to God, those sins, so that we might not have to go through the painful process of pruning as much.  Let us hope for and wait, for that day when we are called home, to be fully complete, lacking in nothing!

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:2 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.2.nasb

Please………you must act! This is not an intellectual exercise. The time is now to follow Jesus, if you have not! All of eternity is at stake, for you. Ask the Lord to open you eyes to his truths.

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www.bible.com/100/mat.7.24.nasb

Don’t miss the point.  It’s not about our good deeds, but about how good the Father is, that we do it.  Our good deeds should not point to us, but to Our Father in heaven, who motivates our hearts to do those good deeds.

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Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.16.NASB

Christian = suffering, but with great joy(JAS 1:2). The race is on.  We are in a life long race of endurance, embracing the trials, enduring the sufferings, rejoicing in the victories.  All the while holding tight to the finish line where we will receive the crown.  The reward of a faithful servant, the perfect life where everything will be changed, including ourselves.  Thank you Jesus.  Bring on what comes my way today.  Whether in good or bad times, May I say, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Amen!!

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And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:34‭-‬35 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/mrk.8.34-35.NASB

Are you satisfied at what you are pursuing to find fulfillment  in your life?

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Delight yourself in the Lord ; And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 37:4 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.4.NASB

The things of this world are temporal,  but the things of the LORD are eternal.   We find joy when we accept and pursue and shower ourselves in God’s promises.

  • We are forgiven, 
  • We are called sons and daughters, 
  • We are loved perfectly, 
  • We have a perfect father, 
  • We are perfect through Jesus work on the cross and his resurrection, 
  • We have a helper who guides and directs us
  • We have God’s word that always gives us wisdom to walk fearlessly  in a lost and decaying world.  
  • We also have a home that is being prepared  for us to spend all of eternity, in a place where there will be no sorrow.

Can I get an Amen?

The very thing that Israel could not fulfill (To be a light to the nations), Jesus was able to do and more.  He was not only a light to the nation’s, but a light unto the whole world.  Jesus was the fulfillment  of God’s promise to restore all of creation and build his Kingdom, one soul at a time.  This was a foreshadowing of the final event of a completed New creation for all of eternity.

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Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
John 8:12 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.8.12.NASB

Don’t run or hide, from your problems!

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Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:2‭-‬3 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.2-3.NASB

Look at it this way.  God gives us these trials (not temptations), to affirm our faith.  He wants to be able to say to himself, good job you are faithful in this area.  Then he will test us in another area of our lives.   He doesn’t want us to remain as a baby in our faith.  It is through this process, that we are able to help others in THEIR Faith.  That is why we count it joy.  Not because it may be fun, going through the testing, but because we are becoming  mature and complete.  One day we can enter heavens gates with the sound of, “Well done, good and faithfull servant”!  

Thank You Lord.

How do we relieve stress?

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When we throw off everything that drags us down, we are freed from a heavy load.  We must turn to Jesus, and not our false idols and dreams.  Jesus is the one who will ultimately allow us,to fulfill all that we are set on this earth, to do.

I’m not saying in any way that this is necessarily easy, but certainly rewarding!

casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.5.7.NASB

Jesus shines a light on the powers of dark and evil.  They cannot overcome his work.  His brightness shines through the darkness and he does overcome the darkness.

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The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:5 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.1.5.NASB

Dad, finally put to rest.

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Yesterday, we put my father to rest. For me, I felt like he was at rest, the moment he passed, from this life to the next.

Culturally, back here, it is a big deal to look at the Shell of a body and find finality with the person’s death.

I don’t get it so much, but respect it. Definitely, the burial does make a lasting impression that he is gone.

Anyway, he joins quite a few family members, who leave a legacy of loving God and loving and serving people.

I will miss you Dad, in physical form, but your legacy and spirit will live FOREVER!

With Love

Alan