Thats why I came [ Ephesians 2 v1-5]

I got upset recently whan someone swore at me on the phone , and I become upset when I read some things in the paper, something like child abuse , and I prayed about these things, and the Lord said to me,/ thats why I came/. Many of us live comfortable lives , and while we may know the theology, that man is a sinner, it does not impact on our lives. So today if you are shocked by some news item , or someone does something horrible, let this be a timely reminder , that is why Jesus came, that is why He died a horrible death on a cross . Let it be a wake up call to all of us of why Jesus came, He came because every single one of us had sinned and come short of the glory of God. God did not turn away in disgust, no He moved in Love, by sending His dear Son, to rescue the perishing, and to care for the dying, and for us who have experienced this, He says, so send I you. [ Dear God you see , and know all things, humanity in all its awfulness, yet You stll love them, and seek to rescue them, through Your Son Jesus,we thank You for rescuing us,we ask that we may be willing to go forth and tell others of Your great love, in Jesus name. Amen ]

Christ died for the whosoever. [ John 3v 16]

Coming to know God through acceptance of Christ, is not a gender, racial, intellect, age,or class thing, it is a spiritual experience, which only takes into account humanities, deep need, of forgivness,and of Gods great love and desire, for all. Today as we look at people,ask God to help us to, overcome our intellect, prejudices or whatever, that stands as a barrier to God using us, to reach all who are lost. When Jonah was told to go to Nineveh, he ran away in the opposite direction, and even when God showed mercy, he was not happy.Our Saviour continually challenged the wrong conventions of His day[ John 4v9], so must we. It has been said that small children are colour blind, may the Lord help us , to be more like them,in our acceptance of all humanity, and grant us a willingness to tell them of Jesus , who died that they may be saved.[ Dear God we thank You for your indiscriminate love for all humanity,fill our hearts with that same love, and use us in the great task of reaching the lost, in Jesus name. Amen ]

Amazing ,simply amazing.[Ephesians 2 v1-10 ]

Our relationship with God is based on Grace, in others words we cannot merit any of Gods blessings, salvation is free,in Romans 6v23 we are told that the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. In Matthew 10v8 we read ,/freely you have recieved/, no wonder the hymn wrote about amazing grace, for it is , to think that simply by asking we recieve Christ as our Saviour,in some ways it appears to good to be true. When we recieve Christ as our Saviour, we recieve,total forgiveness from God, and total acceptance with God,the message puts it like this,/Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravagant generosity of God,[Romams 11v33].If we are Christians, let us lift our voices and praise the Lord, for such love, if we are not Christians then why not pray to God in your need and recieve His greatest gift, Christ, all you have to do is ask.[Dear God we are trully amazed at Your generosity in offering us freely Jesus to be our Saviour we praise You. Amen ]

Victory[Galations 5v22-23]

Most of us are ruled by our feelings, there will be people today who will not get up out of bed because they dont feel like it. The fact of the matter is we usually have to go against our feelings, the job beckons and mybe we groan, and think we just dont feel like going to that place where we struggle,but we know we have to go . It is easy to be sucked into things by our feelings, like debt, like adultery, like drugs,rows ,fights, unforgiveness, our feelings take over, and we go with them.I believe we dont have to go along with our feelings,if we avail ourselves of what the Lord has put at our disposal. His word,prayer, and the power that worketh in us , the Holy Spirit,we can say no, we can exercise control, we can know victory over our feelings, we can be more than conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ.[Dear Lord help us today to not be controlled by our feelings,help us to be guided by Your Word, and controlled by Your Spirit. Amen]

Resist. [Ephesians 6 v10-17]

He whose word cannot be broken, so wrote John Newton ,reminding us that what God says He will do, what He promises He will fulfil.This is so important for us, for continually our minds our under attack, from the enemy of our souls, his tactics have not changed,he came to Eve with the words ,/Did God really say[ Genesis3v1]/, he sought to place doubt in her heart and mind, and in her case he succeeded,and unfortunately she acted on her doubts, the result, monumental sorrow and pain upon the whole of mankind. In Titus1v2 we read that God cannot lie, unlike the devil who is the father of lies,[John 8v44], the devil will always seek to undermine Gods word, using what ever means he can, for he hates God ,and His chidren.Today resist the devil by the very means he is trying to undermind, the word of God which cannot be broken, the result is, he will flee from us, and we will know victory[ James 4v7][ Dear God we thank You for Your word, which cannot be broken, help us to the resist the enemy of our souls, to declare firmly , thus saith the Lord, in Jesus name .Amen ]

Disobedience [ Romans 6v23]

As I was driving and trying to keep the speed limit, cars were driving by me breaking the speed limit, and I thought, peoople are naturally disobedient, for with out exception ,we all have broken the speed limit. The question of disobedience is manifest in all of life, no one can trully say they have never disobeyed, children have to be taught to obey, the teacher used to have a cane to enforce obedience.Obedience does not come naturally to humanity, and of course it all started in the historical setting of the garden of Eden, when God gave Adam and Eve a choice, to obey or not to obey, they choose to disobey. When it comes to disobeying God it has serious consequences, eternal consequences, for all of us,seperation from God in that place called hell. In Romans 5v19, we read,/ Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one person obeyed God many will be made righteous/. Because of Jesus perfect obedience, we who are naturally disobedience can be forgiven ,our disobedience, if we accept Him as our Saviour, it is amazing but it is true, the question is, will we obey and accept Christ?.[ Dear God help us to acknowledge our disobediece to You and Your laws, and help us to seek forgiveness through Jesus whose perfect obedience can save us . .Amen ]

A winner of souls. [ John 4v34-38]

Sometimes I feel discouraged and think my works in vain,Im tempted to murmur ,to grumble and complain, so goes an old gospel hymn. One witnesses , preaches, no one gets saved, and you think, is seeing people saved the hardest prayer to be answered?. I dont know, but I suppose it is the most important thing in life that people get saved, for Hell is as real as heaven, and yet they dont get saved. What is the answer?, to be faithful, and leave the rest to God,being faithful means praying, preaching the whole truth,witnessing by word and by our lives, and relying on God, to bless.We can look at the hardness of the people,caused by many things ,but we need to look above all else to our Saviour, He is able, yes He is, to save to the uttermost,if He saved me He can save anyone, so let faith arise, faith in Jesus ,to save precious souls.[ Dear Lord Jesus we dont know why people are not being saved, help us to be faithful, and may You be pleased to use us in some way to be a winner of souls. Amen]