21 Day Fast Day 12
I think I’ve used the term “Family” more this year than any other. It came about in my meditating on the nature of God and seeing his love. God created us in his image because he wanted us to be just like him. Jesus is the full embodiment of the Godhead. He became a man because of the love the Father had for mankind when they sinned. If Jesus didn’t die in our place we would be lost for eternity in hell, a very real place! It was not a metaphor. It was not a place of annihilation. It is the most horrible place imaginable. (Please don’t stop reading! This is going to get much better. I promise!!! But we need to see things the way they really are and not try to soft sell it.) God probably hated the reality of hell also, but had to have a place for those who refused righteous living and wanted no part of God. Jesus spelled it out to be a place of torment not wanting any to perish but to come to a saving knowledge of him. He spoke definitively about it. The Father sent his Son to become a human being just like us in order to be qualified to be the only one who could pay the penalty for our sins. That penalty was death. Good works was never an option. The qualifying factor was that Jesus was both fully man and fully God because he was born of a woman and born of God. The Holy Spirit of God fertilized the woman (Mary the mother of God) making him fully human and born of God making him divine. So when he died for us, the grave could not keep him because he conquered death and rose from the dead, Hallelujah!
That’s how much God loved his creation of man. God was making a family of human beings created in his image for him to love and nurture. God loves us so much and wants us to know it. We have to really get a hold of this! No doubt there are many reading this who have children who you love with all your heart. You can’t imagine not having them. They bring such joy to our lives. God loves his children even more than we ever could because he is perfect and he is Love. God loves YOU! Isn’t that amazing! He loves each one of us individually. I believe God gives each one of us individual attention and is aware of everything we do, everything we think, and knows every desire of our heart. It’s not like he has so many billions of people it’s hard to keep track of everybody. He is God! He can give everyone individual attention 24/7. He is all about YOU! We have to shed all preconceived ideas we've been given by well meaning religious people telling us we need to follow their structured religious mandates to become acceptable to God. NONSENSE !!!
1 Timothy 2:3-6 (ESV) 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 (ESV)
16 Rejoice always,17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
Love and blessings,
Pastor Ray
That’s how much God loved his creation of man. God was making a family of human beings created in his image for him to love and nurture. God loves us so much and wants us to know it. We have to really get a hold of this! No doubt there are many reading this who have children who you love with all your heart. You can’t imagine not having them. They bring such joy to our lives. God loves his children even more than we ever could because he is perfect and he is Love. God loves YOU! Isn’t that amazing! He loves each one of us individually. I believe God gives each one of us individual attention and is aware of everything we do, everything we think, and knows every desire of our heart. It’s not like he has so many billions of people it’s hard to keep track of everybody. He is God! He can give everyone individual attention 24/7. He is all about YOU! We have to shed all preconceived ideas we've been given by well meaning religious people telling us we need to follow their structured religious mandates to become acceptable to God. NONSENSE !!!
1 Timothy 2:3-6 (ESV) 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 (ESV)
16 Rejoice always,17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
Love and blessings,
Pastor Ray
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