Category Archives: Jesus

Don’t Leave Me

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The road is long and the journey is steep

When I think of your grace all I can do is weep

The valley is low and the mountains are high

All I have is your hope to get me by

 

Don’t leave me here

Don’t let me die

Don’t leave me in this pit where all I can do is cry

Don’t let me burn

Don’t let me drown

I’ll keep crying out to You until I hear a sound

Don’t leave Father, Don’t leave me Son

Don’t leave me Holy Spirit, because we are all One

 

The divisions are strong and the arguments are weak

How can we be unified when you just strike my cheek

The love is gone and it has grown cold

When will our Lord return? Because this struggle is getting old

 

Don’t leave me here

Don’t let me die

Don’t leave me in this pit where all I can do is cry

Don’t let me burn

Don’t let me drown

I’ll keep crying out to You until I hear a sound

Don’t leave Father, Don’t leave me Son

Don’t leave me Holy Spirit, because we are all One

So I pray to the Father for Unity

I pray to the Father for peace and strength

I pray the Holy Spirit fills us up

And we will overcome in Jesus name!

 

Don’t leave me here

Don’t let me die

Don’t leave me in this pit where all I can do is cry

Don’t let me burn

Don’t let me drown

I’ll keep crying out to You until I hear a sound

Don’t leave Father, Don’t leave me Son

Don’t leave me Holy Spirit, because we are all One

Kingdom of God

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And Jesus was saying to them, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” Mark 9:1

Its often been debated about what Jesus was talking about here. Many conclude that Jesus was referring to the Transfiguration, because it happens typically right after this event. And I agree the transfiguration was a glimpse into the power and glory of Gods Kingdom to come. As we see Moses representing The Law and Elijah representing the Prophets come together under Jesus to be fulfilled

But when did we see the Kingdom of God come into power? We saw it on the cross, when Jesus defeated sin and death, Jesus fulfilled The Law, Jesus defeated Satan forever. The power of Gods Kingdom was displayed at Calvary.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead. Mark 9:9

Notice what Jesus says to Peter, James, and John after the Transfiguration. “Don’t tell anyone until after the Resurrection” Why? Because it was then the Kingdom of God has come into power here on Earth. Sin, Death, and Satan have all been defeated at the cross!

 

Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. John 19:30

When Jesus said “It Is Finished” he fulfilled his mission to save humanity. The Heavens and the Earth shook when the power of Gods Kingdom came to Earth through Jesus Christ Amen!

Your Deliverer

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Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.” Judges 10:14

Time and time again, God delivered the Israelites from slavery, from starvation, from plagues, he delivered them from everything. However time and time again the Israelites kept going back to their pagan gods and false idols. So God had enough and told them, let your fake gods and idols deliver you in your times of trouble!

We still do this today, we make money our god, we make our vehicle our idol, however when times go bad, when your health is failing, or your feeling hopeless, who are you going to turn to? Money isn’t going to save your soul, you cant drive your new car into Heaven. Your video game system doesn’t care how your feeling, God does care and he will deliver you!

‘AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.’ Acts 2:21

Israel realized their sins, repented, and returned to God. Put away your false idols and gods, repent, and call upon the name of Jesus! There is no one else who can save you but Jesus Christ! Don’t rely on objects or things that are temporary and will fade away!

Jesus Christ is the same today, yesterday, and forever! Choose Christ and he will deliver You! Amen!

Carry Your Cross

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And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. Mark 8:34

What does it take to be a Christian? A lot of people would say, well you repeat a few words, maybe get dunked into water, and then your good! Accepting Christ is not just a one-time event, it’s a daily walk. Of course you should come to Christ, repent of your sins, and get baptized. However what is after that?

Jesus said “If anyone wishes to come after Me” meaning If anyone wants to follow me (hence be a Christian) They must deny themselves, carry your cross, and follow Christ.

I think John the Baptist said it best “He (Jesus) must Increase, I must decrease” (John 3:30) How many churches or ministries seem to be self centered rather than Christ centered? A lot of these “Christian”books and sermons, its hard to even tell if they are Christian

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. Mark 8:35

 If you truly want to be saved, your old self must die first. Your life no longer belongs to you, you were bought by the blood of Christ (1 Corinthians 6:20) So why do you keep acting like you own yourself? Why do we continue to try and puff ourselves up and feed our egos? Why do we continue to live like the world?

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? Mark 8:36

The world will profit you nothing! However you will lose everything, including your soul! Whatever your doing for Christ, remember who your master is, Jesus! Nobody receives pride from carry a cross, carry it daily! Humble yourself before The Lord Amen!

Mighty Warrior

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The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.” Judges 6:12

Imagine one day your at work , you have a lot on your mind, financial problems, family health problems, your stressed out but Jesus comes to you and calls you a Valiant or Mighty Warrior! You would probably think what? I’m anything but a mighty warrior, I’m barely surviving!

But Jesus sees us in from a different perspective! This is what was happening with Gideon, him and the Israelites were being oppressed and enslaved by the Midianites. His family turned to pagan worship of Baal, things were not going well for Gideon, but God called him to be his servant!

Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” Judges 6:13

Gideon was a straight shooter and said to Jesus, if we are blessed then why are all these bad things happening to us? Why did God abandon us? I’m sure a lot of us can relate to these questions Gideon was asking, however because we have foreknown knowledge of the situation we know that bad things were happening to Israel because of Sin, we know that God never abandoned Gideon or the Israelites!

The LORD looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” Judges 6:14

Even after all of Gideons complaints and excuses to God, he told him “Go In Strength”!  , “ I AM sending YOU”! Don’t focus on all your temporary problems, our God is a mighty God and can do all things! Don’t keep saying I cant I cant I cant keep saying God will God will God will

When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.” Judges 6:22

Once Gideon realized who the “angel of the Lord” was he called him God! He said I have seen him face to face! Gideon knows he was talking to the Christ (Messiah) who has called Gideon a Mighty Warrior despite all his struggles!

Jesus has made you a warrior also on the cross! Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding Amen!