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Get To Know God By Seeking Him Out

God is probably one of the most misunderstood beings ever. People are always assuming that God is cruel or that He doesn’t exist at all. It’s funny and it seems that the ones that don’t believe He exists are always the ones that show up in religious article comment boards or forums stating just that. Seems to me that they would spend some time trying to find evidence that He doesn’t exist (which no one ever has yet) instead of wasting their time being arrogant by putting people down and mocking God. God is a Loving God.

If people would take the time to get to know God with an open heart and mind, He will gladly reveal Himself to them. The only thing that I can figure out is that they fear truth. Even people that believe in God fear truth. Is it because they are afraid of what they may have to do? Could it be that they may find out that they were wrong? or Could it just be because of their pride?

A person’s pride will keep one disconnected from God, a God who wants nothing more than to love us, be a part of our lives, bless us with prosperity, freedom, happiness and everlasting eternal life. A God who will protect us from our enemies and watch over us because He is our Father. With all this, why do people not accept Him or should I say, “Choose Him” over this passing world and temporary life? Get to know God and find peace and happiness.

Maybe one day when all this is over, people will get a chance to see truth. When the blinders come off and the plank is removed from one’s eyes, maybe they will make the right choice and get to know God. May God Bless You

God Gave Us Free Will Podcast

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Why Free Will?

God gave us free will to chose to love Him or rebel against Him. What it means to rebel against God is to basically give in to our pride and choose the things that are an abomination to God. When we choose our will over God’s will we travel on the road to self-destruction that leads us into the darkness, but when we choose God’s will we travel on the road that leads us into the Light which is eternal life and true peace which can only be found in God’s love.

The difference between pride and humility is that pride is all about self serving. We practice self indulgence, satisfying our lust for the things of the world, the things that please the flesh. We become a slave to the world so much so that our love is for the things of the world, a love that is meaningless.

Our hearts are filled with things that have or hold no value. So, when we die, we are empty with nothing to show for all the years that we spent on earth. We have no light, or maybe a flicker of light like the flame of a candle. Everything that we loved is left behind to a world that that only promises death.

A person who practices humility is one that has a heart overflowing with a love that can only come from God. The humble are kind, willing to help their fellowman, caring and compassionate. They love their fellowmen no matter how they are treated back by them.

They seek nor ask for anything in return, they are cheerful givers, never acting bothered when asked for a favor. They are never angered, they speak softly and are mild mannered. These are the ones that know God and do His will, they are filled with the Light and are free, at peace and know true happiness, a happiness that cannot be found in this passing world.

God loves us so much that He does everything He can to help us overcome our destructive ways. The love that He gives us, His mercy and grace, and how He is so patient with us, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to teach us, to show us the way back to be in union with Him once again.

Jesus did the will of God and was beaten, scouraged, humiliated and nailed to a cross all for our sake. This is how much God and Jesus Christ loves us, yet many reject them and choose their carnal self over eternal life. The world can only offer temporary happiness along with the misery that comes with it. God offers peace, love and freedom from the bondages of this passing world. Your choice: peace, happiness and life or the world and death.

Is Your Hope For Change In God Or Man Podcast

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We All Hope For A Better Life

Where in the world are we placing our hope these days? It seems that man is placing their hope for change everywhere but the right place. Let’s find out just where man has been placing their hope.

We take our hope and place it in something with a vision in our mind thinking that this is what the outcome is going to be. Our imagination can run wild and believe that men can make a change and give us a better life than what God has to offer. Ask yourself this, “Has man ever given you happiness, joy, peace and love that will last forever?” Can man give you eternal life? Can man give you protection from your enemies?

No, man cannot give you any of these things and neither can the world. Yet, people continue to place their hope and trust in man like they are some miracle worker. For example, a politician starts a campaign by promising to change this, that and everything else for the common welfare of the people. Since people are easily mis-led, the politicians professionally written speeches tickle the ears of many people. The more the people listen, the more their hope grows in them.

You can see what happens when people place their hope in man, the administration that is controlling the government in the United States these days is doing nothing for the people. People are losing their houses with no end in sight, unemployment is still growing and the banks are taking advantage of the situation. The majority of the people put their hope in one man and this is what they got.

Here we come up to the elections again and people once again are going to put their hope in man. They are going to go to the polls and most likely vote out all the people that they believe are responsible for the mess that the United States is in. They will most likely give control of the government over to the opposite party that is in control now.

So, here we go with that hope in the wrong place again. This is not the answer, besides, whatever happened to “the people are supposed to control the government and not the other way around?” Without turning back to God, people’s hope for change is going to fail again. You may get change, but not the change you were hoping for.

The United States, England and Israel are supposed to be setting an example to all the other nations of the world by showing them just how well God will bless a nation with prosperity, security and an abundance of resources when the people put God in control. But in turn, the people turned their backs on God and evil set in. They chose the way of the world and not the way of God. Now, God is going to have to correct these three nations and withdraw His blessings. Without God, these three nations are going down. The wrath of God will be upon them and soon.

God has to come first, these three nations are His and He will do whatever it takes to wake them up and come to their senses. Some people will, but many will perish. God wants a world full of peace and love, He wants people to live in harmony with each other. Unfortunately, man pushes God too far and causes God to pour out His wrath upon them. You can be protected from His wrath, but you have to put God first in your life. Your hope for change must go to God and not man.

Take this as a warning and place your hope in God. Make God number one in your life and you will find peace, freedom, love and protection from your enemies. Don’t wait until tomorrow, tomorrow may be too late. God can change things either for us or against us, we do get to decide what change we want. Make that hope for change with God and not man.

Sheltered In The Arms Of God Podcast

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Find Protection In The Arms Of God

Psalm 18: 1-3, ‘I love you God, my strength (my Savior, you rescue me from violence). God is my rock and my bastion, my deliverer is my God. I take shelter (trust) in Him, my rock, my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold and my refuge. From violence you rescue me. He is to be praised; on God I call and am saved from my enemies.’

In these days of unsettling times, we can’t trust our security to man (or anytime for that matter). Whether it would be our job, the government, to teach us truth or to save us from our enemies. The United States and England are sister nations to Israel. God blessed all three of these nations abundantly.

Things have changed and so have the people of these once God fearing nations. God’s wrath is about to be poured down upon these nations like man has never seen before and it has already started. It is because the people have turned their backs on God, rebelled against Him.

God has once protected these nations from their enemies, but all that is soon to be changed. These nations are going to fall and fall hard they will. Haven’t these three nations learned anything from the Old Testament? History does repeat itself. While many will still choose to not heed these warnings, some will and they will be sheltered in the arms of God.

God is a patient God and He will release His punishment slowly, but man is to blind and stubborn. Man would rather die grabbing hold and clutching the very things that brought to him his destruction, instead of being released from the bondages of this world and finding joy and happiness forever with God.

The book of Jeremiah explains what will and is going to happen to these three nations. Are your church leaders warning you about the times ahead or are they like the Laodiceans? Are they teaching you truth and how do you know for sure that they are?

Our enemies are all over the place, this is Satan’s world, it is not God’s world. This why you need to put your trust solely in God and be sheltered in the arms of God. Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are from God and they will teach you truth and guide you. God offers protection, joy, peace, love, freedom from the bondages of this passing world and eternal life, while Satan offers you nothing but misery, temporary happiness in the things of this world and death.

I hope and pray that everyone will eventually see that what this world has to offer is nothing compared to what God can give. God is truth and Satan, as the master of the air and this world is a liar. He will cause you to lose your soul and keep you in the darkness.

The choice is yours, God gave us “Free Will” to choose our own destiny. I hope and pray that you heed this warning my brothers and sisters. May God bless you all forever and ever.

Give Me Hope – Hope Can Be Practiced In Two Different Ways Podcast

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Please Give Me Hope O’ God

The Bible is full of times when people or a community of people had hope when they were met with despair, hope for a better day, a day when things were not so bad. They had the same hope when they were waiting for the coming of a Messiah. The Messiah finally came and His name was Jesus Christ. Those that realized He was the true Messiah, turned their hope into joy. A Savior has arrived who is going to save them from their iniquities and bring them a New Covenant with God that promises everlasting eternal life.

Some use hope in the wrong way. They use it to dream about things that will please themselves. This is a false hope, one that is geared towards selfishness. Hope leads to faith and faith leads to works that prove God’s promises. God did give us promises with stipulations attached to them. We need to practice faith in order to get to know God, Jesus Christ and receive The Holy Spirit.

Many people for years have been hoping for the day that Jesus Christ returns. They know that when He does return, a new world will follow that is filled with peace, love and all the good fruits that the Spirit brings (Galatians 5: 22). Heaven and earth will be filled with so much joy, a joy that can’t even be comprehended. No more evil, hate and corruption, only love for one another.

We all go through bad times, it could be from an illness, a bad traffic accident, a job loss, losing your house to a disaster, or whatever it is that brings us hardships. Some people get lost in the darkness of self-pity, while others have hope for a better outcome. These ones are strong and know that God will see them through their difficult times. Why? Because they have Faith. They pray, “O’ God, give me hope”. If hope is targeted in the right way, it will build the foundation for faith and faith will bring results. Faith builds strength for those who who work it the right way.

It’s so much easier to complain and wallow in self-pity because there is no work involved in going this route. It’s like time after time you buy a lottery ticket and sit there for days hoping to win the lottery. Like winning the lottery will solve all your problems. There is no gain in this type of hope, it builds nothing. If you did eventually win, you would have nothing that is everlasting, only temporary.

One of the ways that hope will work for a good cause is when people visualize their fellow man turning towards God and accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. This is a positive attitude that flows out all over the world, filled with love that touches our fellowman and God.

Through hope, we can make a major change in the world, provided that we back it with faith and love. This is how we are filled with God’s love, by thinking of God and the welfare of our fellowman and forgetting about ourselves. Pray to God, “Give me hope now”, and believe that He will. Trust in God, He loves you.

What is Life After Death? Podcast

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Life and Death – Physical and Spiritual

When Adam and Eve sinned, their carnal eyes opened. Sin had caused them to lose that spiritual bond they had with God. When they were living a spiritual life, death had no hold on them. It wasn’t until they sinned that death would come upon them. God allows death to the flesh so man won’t live forever in the misery of sin. Would there sin cause them to lose life after death?

Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden so they would not partake of the Tree of Life and live for ever in their sins. We all know that one day we are going to die, it’s inevitable. The one thing we don’t know is “when”. Many people are afraid of death, but why? Could it be that this life is all that they have going for them? Could be that this is where they set their hearts, on the world, instead of Jesus Christ. If you don’t know Jesus, this could cause you to be afraid to die. Call on Jesus for life after death of the flesh. Revelations 3: 3 ‘Repent. If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, without telling you at what hour to expect me.’

Satan is the author of death. He tries anything and everything to keep us apart from God. By living the ways of the world, you will see death. 1 Corinthians 15: 56, 57 ‘Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘So by living in sin, one will be living under the Law of God, in which you will be judged by. (Read Romans about the Law) It’s similar to committing a crime and going before a judge to be sentenced. That is why it is so important to purify ourselves through the blood of Jesus Christ.

One of the things we need to do to purify ourselves is to make a confession. Please read “Confession”. His blood which represents life, was shed as a sacrifice so that we can be cleansed of our sins. That is why He is the way, the truth and the life. Without accepting Jesus and following Him to the cross, The way He has already laid out for you, you will see death. 1 John 5:11, 12 ‘This is the testimony: God has given eternal life and this life is in His Son; anyone who has the Son has life, anyone who does not have the Son does not have eternal life.’ Jesus will lead us to eternal life, but it is you who has to desire it by giving up your life and this passing world.

As we travel the road with Christ, we will have to go through suffering and tests and trials. We will suffer as He did. 1 Peter 4:1, 2 ‘Think of what Christ suffered in this life, and then arm yourselves with the same resolution that He had: anyone who in this life has bodily suffering has broken with sin, because for the rest of his life on earth he is not ruled by human passions but only by the will of God.’ 1 Peter 5: 10 ‘You will have to suffer only for a little while: the God of all grace who called you to eternal glory in Christ will see that all is well again: He will confirm, strengthen and support you.’ It will make us strong, so that we can overcome our flesh and purify ourselves. In this way we can receive the Spirit of Truth, and be connected to God forever. This is life that Jesus will give us.

(John 14:15-17) If you are still living for the world and by the world and the ways of the world, then you are still of the world. Romans 8:6 ‘It is death to limit oneself to what is not spiritual: life and peace can only come with concern for the spiritual. So, basically to be carnally minded it could cause you not to have life after death. God did not create us for us to die. He created us for companionship and to be able to share His glory and everything He has including His love. All we have to do is His will and we will have life after death. We will eat from the Tree of Life.

It’s hard to fathom that someone would reject His love and all He is offering for the misery of this temporary life and world. Jesus came here to teach and preach the word of God. He also came here for other reasons, but one of the things that He said that He would do for us is written in John 14:1-4 ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.’ Jesus has prepared a place for those who believe (be and live) in Him. Anyone can say they believe in Jesus, but can they prove it?

The Fear of God Podcast

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What is Your Fear of God?

Sometimes we get that feeling that there is something missing in our life. We feel a void, emptiness inside that can’t be filled by the things of the world or any person’s companionship. Even though we may have many people who love us, a family, friends and others that we may be in contact with from time to time, we still feel lonely inside. We often wonder what it’s all about and what can we do to get rid of that isolated feeling inside of us.

Many people feel a love in their hearts for God, but lose it when they choose to go back to the world. For others, they reject the Love that God has towards them, they may even go as far as denouncing God. For those that try to live their life for God one day and the world the next day, they are living as Jesus has said in Revelation about the church of Laodicea.

It’s a terrible thing to have to be the one who angers God. Our sinful nature causes us to be blind to the wonderful things God is offering us like, joy, peace, true freedom and happiness. The main thing that He offers us is everlasting eternal life.

We need to look inward not outward. Ask Jesus to help you see yourself, so you too can nail your flesh to the cross and be reborn. The flesh is corrupt and it corrupts our mind, our heart and our soul. Which leaves us disconnected from God.

Jesus will help us overcome our flesh and the bondage of the world. We just have to humble ourselves, have the desire to give our will over to God, be willing to accept the life that He has laid out for us, learn to love one another and be uncontaminated from the world.

Jesus can fill that void that we feel inside of us, the one that we can’t fill ourselves even though we try to over and over again with the things of the world. That is why man has to constantly seek out new things that will temporarily bring him/her happiness. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and Life. Imagine being truly free from all the things of the world and living in a peace that the world or man can never bring you.

For those that don’t believe in God or do not serve Him, the “fear of God” is to be afraid of His wrath. For those that believe in God and try hard to be righteous in His eyes, the “fear of God” means to have reverence for God.

Materialism – Treasures Of The Heart Podcast

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Good Master, what have I to do to inherit eternal life?

Matthew 6:19-21 ‘Do not store up treasure for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasure for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

What treasure is stored up in your heart? What’s attached to my heart?, worldly things?, things of the flesh?, people?, places? You could find a number of things if you look. These things are what keep God out of your heart. God is a jealous God and loving someone or something above Him is not loving God. You can test yourself to see what’s attached to your heart by seeing if you can live without whatever you have. All the different things you do, people you love, and things you have.

Luke 18:18-23 A member of one of the leading families put this question to Him, ‘Good Master, what have I to do to inherit eternal life? Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments : You must not commit adultery ; you must not kill ; You must not steal ; You must not bear false witness ; Honour your father and mother. He replied, ‘I have kept all these from my earliest days till now. ‘And when Jesus heard this He said, ‘There is still one thing you lack. Sell all you own and distribute the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven ; then come follow me.’ But when he heard this he was filled with sadness, for he was very rich.

It’s that attachment thing, his heart was full of temporary love. Not the everlasting love of God. Rich doesn’t always apply to people with millions. If you have more than someone else, you are rich. Detachment from materialism and the world is the way to a spiritual life and true spiritual love for God and your neighbor. Luke 18:24, 25 Jesus looked at him and said, ‘How hard it is for those who have riches to make their way into the Kingdom of God! Yes, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.’

In Jerusalem there was a gate called “the eye of the needle”. It was only big enough for one person at a time to pass through. It was the only gate open at night, in case of enemy attack. If a person wanted to bring his camel into the city at night he would have to unburden the camel. Removing all items attached to the camel. Then he would have to get the camel down on all four knees and have him crawl through the gate willingly.

Now, we know that camels are pretty stubborn animals, probably the most stubborn. In this scripture Jesus is using a camel to describe us. We can be pretty stubborn when it comes to giving up our petty little lives. When we follow Jesus and in our walk with Him, we need to unburden ourselves, by lightening the load we carry.

How about your mind? We constantly occupy our minds with meaningless thoughts. Things like, how much better things would be if you had a lot of money or a better job, daydreams, things we lust for, etc., etc. Our life is supposed to be in Gods hands and we are supposed to do His will. But how are we supposed to find out what Gods will is for us if we keep our minds occupied with frivolous things? Our minds should be occupied on spiritual things, like proving God’s promises and fulfilling the laws of righteousness. How corrupt is your soul?

John 2:13-16 And pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting. And when He had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, He drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers He poured out, and the tables He overthrew. And to them that sold doves He said : take these things hence, and make not the house my Father a house of traffic.

The body is a temple and it houses your soul. What you bring in can corrupt your soul. Your eyes are the windows to your soul. Your other bodily senses can corrupt your soul. Just like the Jews corrupted the temple of God. They’re scales were not true, they sold blemished animals (like buying a lemon). They were con artists and thieves. The things of the world and also your carnal self will rob your soul of the love of God and everything He promised us. We need Jesus to come into our temple and clean house(Colossians 2:11 circumcision of the flesh).

Love God with all your strength. God loves people that are strong and brave, ones that can cut it. Ones that are not afraid of tests and trials. He does not want a kingdom full of wimps. God wants people who can stand up to satan and everything he can dish out. (read Job) Not people as in the parable of the sower.

Mark 4:14 What the sower is sowing is the word. Those on the edge of the path where the word is sown are people who have no sooner heard the it than satan comes and carries away the word that was sown in them. Similary, those who receive the seed on patches of rock are people who, when first they hear the word, welcome it at once with joy, but they have no root in them, they do not last ; should some trial come, or some persecution on account of the word, they fall away at once.

God will give you the strength you need to face tests and trials, provided you have faith. God will never give you more than you can handle or give you a way out. Overcome your weakness’. Don’t gloat on your victories or satan will have the last laugh. Keep your gaurd up. Satan will be back and he will hit harder. Be Strong!

Jesus says in Matthew 6:24-34 ‘No one can be the slave of two masters : He will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave of both God and money. That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it. Surely life means more than food, and the body more than clothing!

Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields ; they never have to work or spin ; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his regalia was robed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the grass in the field which is there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will He not much more look after you? you men of little faith.

So do not worry ; do not say, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed? It is the pagans (worldly people) who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on His kingdom first, and on His righteousness, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow : tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

You have a choice of two lives to live, one is worldly and the other is spiritual. Problem with the worldly life is that when you die, it dies also and you are left with nothing. The nice thing about the spiritual life is that when you die only your flesh dies and you keep on living because you stored up your treasures in heaven. No more tears or sorrow. We will finally be home with God , Jesus and the Holy Spirit, also with all those that made the choice of life. The ones that decided to love God over the world and their own self.

We spend to much time for ourselves, and self is pride. Pride is the root of all evil. Pride is the root of the tree of death. All sin comes from pride. Give up yourself, your life, pick up your cross and follow Jesus to the tree of life. Too many people believe that there is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures. And that God wants us to. And they say, ‘He made all this for us to enjoy.’ Well, Jesus says in John 18:36 ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’

Go back to the beginning before the fall, and read what God created. 1John 2:15-17 ‘You must not love this passing world or anything that is in the world. Don’t get caught up with materialism. The love of the Father cannot be in any man who loves the world, because nothing the world has to offer – the sensual body, the lustful eye, pride in possessions – could ever come from the Father but only from the world, with all it craves for, is coming to an end; but anyone who does the will of God remains for ever.’

So for the pleasure seekers, the ones that say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with this or that,’ Have a nice trip! But for those that follow Jesus and die in Him for the sake of loving God, and gives up their life for His love, see you soon.

Materialism: Don’t let it get the best of you.