Psalm 80:7 (NKJV) Restore us, O God of hosts; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!
Lord I pray this scripture because I feel to some there is a HOPE of being SAVED. FAITH is not there and they hope what they are doing is enough to get into HEAVEN. Have they not read Ephesians 2:8-9 (NKJV) 8 For by Grace you have been saved through FAITH, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 NOT OF WORKS, lest anyone should boast.
by Jym Wells
April 19, 2020
Proverbs 19:3 (NKJV) The foolishness of a man twists his way, and his heart frets against the Lord.
The church building is filled with people who do not have the FAITH. How can I say that some will ask? Because the ALTERS are empty. PRIDE has set itself up in their hearts and they HOPE they are saved. They go to church on Sunday and forget it all on Monday. They do not wish to give up their worldly friends.
They will not talk about God for it insults there unsaved friends. I have said this for years though it is impossible it is true. “I had rather have them mad at me and in Heaven that have them happy with me in hell. They can not be mad at me in Heaven, but the idea is true…
Yes we get paid for our sins for in Romans 6:23 (NKJV) For the WAGES OF SIN is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yes we have been born into sin. Yes our Heavenly Father could speak the words and we all would be saved, but He allows us to make a choice to accept or deny His love for us… That way we choose who we will serve, Him or the lord of this world…
That is how I can make the statement at the beginning. Preachers stand every day and beg them to repent and they ignore and turn and walk out of that building believing a lie, straight from the pit of hell. According to Colossians 2:18-19 (NKJV) 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
That is what the world will do. The enemy is out to steal, kill and destroy our FAITH according to John 10:10 (NKJV) The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
The same verse tells us why Jesus came and died for us “ so that we might have life more abundantly.
It is our choice, in fact in Galatians 2:21 (NKJV) 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” Christ died for nothing if we could earn GRACE…
If we go back and read Galatians 2:20 (NKJV) I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
My prayer today is that we all live that way that we were CRUCIFIED with Christ and He now lives in us and the life we are living by FAITH in what Jesus died for… I now pray this all in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ our LORD and our SAVIOR—AMEN!
Memory Verse April 19, 20206:23 (NKJV) For the WAGES OF SIN is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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