Intimacy with God requires a repentant heart. In His love, God says when we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to cleanse us. That cleansing restores our fellowship with Him.
God hates sin because He is Holy and Righteous. Sin is anything we have done that God has commanded us not to do.
All have sinned and come short. You can watch a small child only months old and already they are sinners. Selfishness and disobedience. They will be playing and grab a toy from another child, hit or bite.
Jesus paid the penalty for all our sins if we by faith ask His forgiveness, repent of our sin and put our trust in Him.
We are all sinners, not seeking God. But, He has great love for us, He sent Jesus to die on the cross, be buried and 3 days later Jesus arose from the dead, to pay the penalty for our sin.
If we accept Jesus as our Savior, then GOD shows His mercy toward us and we are born again.
God created us, but we are not His children until we are born into His family. Jesus said, “Ye must be born again.”
How? You may be asking. First, Admit you have sinned. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Believe on the Lord Jesus. That if thou shall confess with thy mouth and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him (Jesus) from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Call upon the Lord. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
When we have trusted Jesus as our Savior, the Holy Spirit comes into our heart (spirit) and we are born again.
We are then joint heirs with Jesus! Sure of Heaven and all the wonders that will be ours.
SOSEvents Ministry has influence outside the USA with social media and the blog.
It is extremely encouraging to have people from many different Countries get on the blog and have opportunity to get the Gospel as well as access to Bible Studies and helpful tools to grow in their relationship to God.
Thank you to those people who are reading this even now. My prayer is for many salvations and spiritual growth for you.
We all get weary at times. The pressures of family, job, even our work for the Lord becomes very tiring.
But, GOD promises to give us strength if we rely on Him. So, step back, take time to fellowship with Him before you tackle those pressures that are wearing you down.
Do you ever feel like giving up? Maybe you have a problem you think will never be solved. Sickness, employment, relationships poverty. All real concerns, but don’t give up.
Hope! Definition: to cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen, trust. to desire with expectation of obtainment or fulfillment.
The Bible also has the answer to hope: And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Psalms 39:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. Jeremiah 17:7 There are many more verses that tell us our hope is in the Lord Jesus.
Don’t give up! Kept praying, trusting and having hope.
Disasters, disease, poverty, crime, war or corrupt government leaders. There is all kind of evil in the world. Would we like to see all these things gone? Absolutely! However, the Bible tells us that all these things will always be with us until Jesus comes back to reign on the earth.
The greatest need. Jesus! It is our responsibility as Christians to tell everyone we can that Jesus is the answer.
Jesus is coming back. We don’t know when but we must be ready.
It is not really a secret at all. It is the acronym is JOY!
JESUS, OTHERS and YOU. Put Jesus first, others 2nd and yourself last. That is a recipe for true joy in your life.
Jesus is the true source of joy, even in the most difficult circumstances. If you put others ahead of yourself it is hard to have a pity party. Finally, you will get to think of yourself, but then you go back to the first, Jesus.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25
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