Are we looking forward to Heaven?

 In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes that no one has seen and no one has heard nor has any mind conceived the things that GOD has prepared for those who love HIM.

If we read in Revelation and other parts of the Bible just some of the descriptions of the visions of GOD and of Heaven, we simply cannot imagine that a place like Heaven even exists.

But of one thing I am sure, Heaven is a very real place and GOD lives there with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

This is our eternal home and nothing on earth or in the universe can compare to the reality of spending eternity in the presence of our CREATOR FATHER.

The love and the beauty of our FATHER will astound us.  And we can live there forever if we accept Jesus as our LORD and our SAVIOUR.

That is all it takes. 

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that I have Heaven to look forward to.  I thank YOU that I will be able to spend eternity in YOUR Divine Presence.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Our strength lies in Christ alone!

 Dear Christ followers, we all have our challenges in life.  Some more than others and some more intense than others still.

Whatever trials and tribulations we are facing, we are not alone when we have accepted Jesus.

Firstly, we have the Comforter, the Holy Spirit living in us.  Secondly Jesus Christ is always with us and we know GOD is with us.

So we are not alone in this.  What we need to do is to hand over our will to that of GOD and let HIS will be done and not ours.

There is such strength in that.  We can take heart and know that we are never abandoned once we are children of GOD.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that I can do all things through Jesus who is my strength and my shield, an ever present help in times of trouble.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Worthy Art THOU, our LORD and our GOD!

 Our FATHER is Heaven, our Triune GOD, our CREATOR, our SAVIOUR, HE is truly worthy to receive all the Glory, all the Honour and all the Power for HE created all things. 

Without our GOD, nothing was created.

We are the product of DIVINE CREATOR.  We are also the people with whom our FATHER wants to commune.

That is why, when Adam and Eve sinned, sin came into the world and GOD had to send HIS Only Son to save us all from our sinful ways.  Without Jesus Christ, we would have to try to live according to the Mosaic laws.  And this is impossible, because there is not one of us Righteous.  No not even one.

But through acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Son of our FATHER, and our faith alone, we are saved and we will commune with our FATHER in Heaven when we leave this earth and go to be our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU for all that I have in my relationship with YOU and with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  FATHER, I humbly ask that YOU fill me to overflowing with YOUR Holy Spirit each and every day to be able to be a good ambassador for YOU on earth.  I ask this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Our HOPE is in Jesus Christ Alone!

 Dear Christ followers, this world and the things of this world will eventually be replaced by a new earth and new Heaven.

This is promised to us by GOD in a few instances in the Bible and the last being in Revelation.

So let us not concentrate on trying to look at this world and what we have or what we want, but let us rather store up for ourselves things in Heaven where our hope is.

Our Hope is Jesus Christ and He has gone before us to prepare our place there and HE will return and fetch us.  Whether that is now or very soon or after we have passed on from this world.

But this confidence I have, HE will come and fetch HIS bride, (The Church) that where HE is there we may be also.  Of this I am one hundred percent sure.

Therefore fix our eyes on that which is unseen.  It is our Hope!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, how faithful and wonderful YOU are.  Blessed be YOUR Holy Name, both now and forever.  FATHER my HOPE is in YOU.  My HOPE is JESUS, my Lord, my Saviour, my Redeemer.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

The LORD sees our hearts

 Dear Christ followers, we are living in a world full of deception.  We are being deceived at every step and turn.  We are being asked to accept "your truth" or "my truth" to name but one deception.

What we need to know and to understand is expressed here in this verse above.

The LORD does not look at our outward appearance.  The LORD looks at our hearts.  The LORD knows our very inmost thoughts.

We cannot deceive the LORD about anything.

So today, let us look inwardly and see what the LORD sees in our own hearts.  Are we deceptive or are we truly thinking thoughts that would please the LORD.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I humbly pray that YOU fill me anew with YOUR Holy Spirit so that I may grow to be more and more like Jesus each and every day.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly graciously Jesus Blessed today!

Aceepting people like Jesus accepted us!

 Dear Christ followers, I am not sure if it is only me but it is getting really hard to live in this world without feeling that I just do not belong.

As we see the world growing dimmer and the people becoming more and more debased, greedy and impatient with one another, it is really difficult to accept each other as Christ has accepted us.

This is something I am really struggling with.  But this is what Paul says we are required to do.

So today, let us pray that we find acceptance in our hearts for the people on earth.

No matter what our personal opinions are, we need to be more and more like Jesus as we grow in faith.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today help me to accept people the way Christ has accepted me.  FATHER help me to be convicted by the Holy Spirit the moment that I do not accept people the way Jesus did to me.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  My Lord, my Saviour, my Redeemer.

Amen.

Stay acceptingly Jesus Blessed today!

GOD's Love lavished on us!

 Dearest Christ followers, of one thing I am very sure, GOD loves you and HE loves me.  There is no earthly ways that GOD could watch HIS only Son die for our sins if HE did not love us.

Remember that Abraham loved the LORD above anything, even the son he was given late in life.  Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac in obedience to the FATHER who had given him this miraculous son.

How greatly we are loved that we might be called children of GOD.

For that is what we are when we accept Jesus Christ as our LORD and Saviour.

And as John says above, the reason that we are not known in th world is that the world does not know Jesus.

When we truly accept Jesus as our Saviour, we need to start living for Jesus.  No longer are we first in our lives, Jesus is. No longer can we behave as we did in the past, our question always should be "what would Jesus do"?

Once we are Christ followers and filled with the Holy Spirit we start to long for Jesus.  Truly the things of this world grow strangely dim.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for being so loved that I am a child of YOURS.  FATHER fill me anew each day with YOUR Holy Spirit to convict me day by day to be more and more like Jesus in everything I think, say and do.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously Jesus Blessed today!

We have not been give the Spirit of Fear!

 Our Gracious FATHER in Heaven has given us, Christ followers, the Spirit of Power, of love and of a sound mind.

GOD loves us and HE does not want us to live in fear.

Fear is the exact opposite of peace.  And Jesus said to His disciples, in John 14:27

"Peace Ieave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

And this is what we have when we trust completely in Jesus and the Comforter He sent to us to live in us.

Whenever we feel afraid, we need to pray earnestly for GOD to remind us that we always have our Comforter and our prayers are always heard in Heaven.

Today let us place all our trust in our Wonderful, Gracious, Mighty ABBA FATHER.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I humbly pray that whenever I feel afraid, YOU will remind me that I am loved and that I need not fear, because YOU are with me always.  I humbly pray this in the Holy name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

The LORD is GOOD!

 Dearest Christ followers, let us give thanks to the LORD for HIS steadfast love endures forever.

Our FATHER is faithful to all generations.

No matter what we are facing at the moment, we should give thanks to the LORD.

This can be extremely hard to do when life seems to be giving us a proper kick in the ribs.

But when we thank our FATHER for HIS grace, we need to know that HE is listening and HE hears all our prayers.

We can tell our FATHER about our problems, knowing that HE is gracious and merciful.  But remember whenever we have "pictures" or "scenes" of Heaven, the angels and the Heavenly Hosts are giving thanks to our FATHER.  They are falling down and worshiping HIM.

So also we need to come before HIM in reverance.  Giving thanks and praising HIS Holy Name.

When we finally meet our FATHER, one thing I am sure of, is, we will be giving HIM all praise and worship.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU and I worship YOUR Holy Name.  FATHER YOU know the trials and tribulations of this world.  So today, I come before YOU with an attitude of gratitude because I know that YOU love me and adore YOU FATHER.  I humbly thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay gratefully Jesus Blessed today!

GOD our ever present help!

 Dear Christ followers, we are never ever alone, no matter how dark and gloomy things appear to be in our lives.

GOD is with us.  Jesus lives in us.  The Holy Spirit comforts us.  All we need to do is to call on the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Sometimes when the trials and tribulations of this life seem to hold us down and we feel like we are drowing, it is good to remember to fall on our knees and to worship our FATHER.

Our FATHER loves us, yes, each and every one of us.  HIS Mighty arms are ever reaching out to us.  All we have to do is to look up from whence cometh our help.  Our help cometh from the LORD. (Psalm 121).

And when we worship and praise our FATHER, His Mighty peace comes over us.  A peace so mighty that it transcends all understanding. (Philippians 4:6).

The great and merciful love of our FATHER quiets us in the storms of this world. 

If this is how you are feeling today, get down on your knees and cry out to our Wonderful FATHER in Heaven.  YOU will know that GOD is near to you.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU are my ever present help in times of trouble.  I thank YOU for Jesus Christ who lives and reigns in me.  I thank YOU for the Holy Spirit who comforts me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

The good news of GOD's Grace!

 Dear Christ followers, it is simply no use being a hearer of the Word and not a doer of the Word.

The world today is in really bad shape, and we are the "workers" of Jesus Christ here on earth need to tell people the good news of the Grace of GOD.

We need to tell people that Jesus came to this earth as the Son of GOD.  He added humanity to His Deity and lived a sinless life to be THE  pure "Lamb of GOD" in order to be punished for all our sins, past present and future.

Jesus was crucified on the Cross of Calvary, but HE conquered death and rose so that you and I might have eternal life in Heaven with our FATHER.

We cannot earn our way into Heaven, but that does not mean that we will not answer to GOD.  We will give an account of our lives to GOD.

Will we be able to tell our FATHER that we spread the Gospel?

If not, then today make a concerted effort to tell someone that you love them in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Talk to someone about Jesus.  Tell them of the awesome Grace of GOD.  Spread the Gospel.  It is the right thing to do.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I humbly pray that YOU show me where I can spread the Gospel.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay obediently Jesus Blessed today!