Hello, Everyone! There are so many good things that God has done in me and in my life that I must begin to share it! I hope you will check back often!
The person I am today is so different from the person I was even 10 years ago and it’s all because of Jesus Christ; Jesus, in the Rhema (the revelation knowledge of Jesus through experience) and in the Logos (the revelation of Jesus through the written Word of God).
You can know Jesus in that intimate way, too! You do it by spending time with Him and by spending time in the Word of God. Nothing in my life worked until I committed to God that I was going to set aside a part of my day to fellowship with Him. Prior to that time I had always done it as a “religious task”; something I thought I had to do for God to love me and to keep my “salvation”. Little did I know that when I began to seek God from a heart that wanted Him (not performance driven) it was going to change me forever!
I was so bound up in religion! I did not understand God’s grace…..AT ALL!! I had reached that point in my life that I was truly miserable because the harder I tried to be a good Christian, the worse everything became in my life. Try as hard as I could, I was never able to reach that ideal of being “good enough for God”! What a lie of the enemy! It angers me more than I can even put into words that the erroneous teachings of men and women bound in legalistic traditions have taught people that they must do something for God to be happy with them!! What a lie that has been perpetrated out of the pulpits of this world and the devil loves it! It has kept people bound for years; some of them all of their lives!
I’m here to tell you today: God loves you! He loved you so much that Jesus came to pay the price for the sin of this world. By Jesus’ one sacrifice He has forever perfected them that are sanctifed (Hebrews 10:14). Sanctified means being made holy, set apart, freed from sin! Hallelujah!
When you came to Jesus and confessed Him as Lord and believed in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you were saved (Romans 10:19). What happened is that Jesus had already paid the price at the cross for you to be freed from the penalty of your sin. You confessed Him as your Lord and Savior, receiving your forgiveness and cleansing through His payment, His work and in return you received Jesus Christ’ righteousness! You see, it’s not about what we do! It’s all about what Jesus done and He made you righteous. “For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT). The Message Bible says it like this: “Become friends with God; He’s already a friend with you. How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God” (2 Corinthians 5:21 MSG).
My friend, there is nothing you can ever do to earn right standing with God or to make Him love you any more than He loves you right now! He made the way through Jesus to reconcile us back to Himself and all you have to do is believe that you are the righteousness of God in Jesus. Stop trying to get God to love you! He can’t love you any more or any less than He does right now! He proved it through Jesus!
I hope you got something out of this and will come back to read more or choose to follow me. I’m going to continue to share with you all the things that God has taught me that set me free! Jesus said in John 8:32, “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
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Be blessed (empowered to prosper) in the name of Jesus!