EASTER!

 Its all about Jesus?

Let us get away from the madness of the world and focus more on celebrating Easter and the real messages that is has for us who are saved and for those who need to be saved!

God loved us His creation so that is why He gave to us His one and only son, but this was also first a promise to Israel that the Messiah would return to save His people?

But they misunderstood what the message was of thinking Yeshua was to end Roman rule over them some two thousand years ago and they would be a nation again, but He was coming to them as the suffering Savior to redeem and atone all who believed for Eternity!

Today the door is open for the gentiles to enter into this rest, but they too have found all sorts of excuses to get out of this invitation and eternity for many will be one of regret?

Psalm 51:1-5, Isaiah 53:1-12, Romans 3:21-31, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Hebrews 2:15-18, 4:12-13, 9:26-27, 10:10, 15, Jude 1:6-7, Revelation 3:20.

A staggered Season!

 Easter-Pesach-Easter.

This is a year when Western Easter does not par with the Jewish Passover and the Eastern Church is further on still in the calendar?

So many will have the opportunity to come to faith and not many excuses since they will prove to others by their actions that they are liars and there is no truth in them!

But we must be patient in not forcing what we believe on to others, say what we can and leave it at that, knowing really that God is in control and they are free to choose their destiny?

Amos 5:4, John 3:3, 14-21, Acts 4:26, Romans 3:23, 6:23, Hebrews 9:26-27, 10:10, 18, 1 John 1:8, Revelation 3:20.

LOVE!

 The key to Success?

Love solves problems wither in Ekklesia, at home, work the political word, if we know we are loved it really helps to build understanding and thus many things will get solved!

We as believers know that we love God and that He loves us, but the key is when we love others showing both concern and compassion for them as Jesus has for us?

If we had more love for others most of the problems in our world today would get solved and the power of sin in the lives of many would be stumped!

John 3:3, 14-21, Mark 10:21, Luke 7:47, Hebrews 1:9,  1 John 4:10-11.

Take the money and Run!

 Little hope for black people in America?

Trump is back or maybe its only him who thins so, and we have a dotty old man running the States in the hope of restoring without dealing the real issues out of fear of something that is now well beyond its sell date?

Most of us would probably take what we can and go with it, but if we do without investment it will run out, while reality will not change since both Joe and Donald are weak men to corruption to sin, to lies, to cover-ups and much more, believing that money can buy their way out!

Why is the nation only left with this choices and that there is no one suitable who might be a bit younger and wiser to deal with the ever new crises that Joe is causing before his departure?

Exodus 23:1, 23, Psalm 24:4, 119:104, Proverbs 6:19, Matthew 7:15, John 3:3, 14-21, Romans 6:23.

Christmas!

 Our light to be seen and not Hidden?

T'is the season of merryment and cheer in the celebration of the birth of Jesus our Savior and that is all that it may mean to us, a time of religious appearance and the rest food, drink and sexual intimations in the traditions of the world?

We have something if we are truly born again or converted, we have the light of God that must not be hidden from the world, the Holy Spirit will empower us to share that real meaning of this time and many to our surprise seriously want to hear what we have to say and the need for Salvation?

So when asked have the answer to meet the need, the gift to listen to people problems, worries, even their anger of injustice!

Matthew/Levi 5:13-16, John 8:12, 1 John 2:8.

Gaza and Palestine!

 Wrong road for black civil rights?

For many believers it is known that when we go against Israel, we will lose the blessings, our fellowships become stagnated and our walk with God empty, since we have dared to touch the apple of Gods eye, woe to us!

This may seem a just cause from a worldly point of view, but it is no a just one from a Spiritual view, since its ultimate aim is to see the destruction of the modern state of Israel and the final destruction of the Jewish race, but if we read the Holy Bible this fate is not part of Gods plan?

So we need to make a wise course of action now and know that we are saved and pressing on in the will of Gods plans for our lives, awaiting the historical events of the book of Revelation and the return of our Lord as promised.

Zechariah 2:8, Acts 1:6-11, 2 Corinthians 4:4. Hebrews 4:11-16, 9:26, 10:10, 1 John 2:11.

Charles III!

 Most leaders in the world are Humanistic.

This is the limited outlook of world leadership, even many who claim to be Christians use pluralism to guise themselves as not being a squeaky clean as they want to be seen in the media!

The Holy Bible tells us that we are all failures in light of God's high standard, one prefers those who make no claims as to their religion or non and those are the some who are honest and show integrity and respect to others?

We need to be more focused on Jesus our Lord, knowing who we are and awaiting his return in the hope of our salvation, we will then feast with him at the marriage table and that will be much richer for us than any human. meal!

Luke 14:12-24, Matthew 7:7-8, John 3:3, 14-18, Hebrews 9:26, 10:10, Jude 1:7, Revelation 3:20.

LOVE!

 Something the world could do with a lot of?

From the Ukraine to Turkiye, from the Philippines to Africa and South-America wars and conflicts are continuing along with natural disasters, storms, floods, droughts and terrible earthquakes that have killed over fifty-thousand people!

World leaders are acting like petty children looking to make trouble at the cost of the peoples of nations and seeking fame in history for their own selfish ambition?

Meanwhile God is mucking up their plans, economically and militarily with the middle-east, with many nations not cooperating with the United States or Europe, while others are moving into new alliances and leaving behind four hundred years of slavery and colonial exploitation!

Only those who do the right things in relation to God, will get justice and those who seek to oppose God, will soon find that He will remove them and the whole board game will change colours!

Numbers 23:19, Judges 3:1-3, 2 Samuel 14:20, Psalm 55:19, Daniel 7:25, Zephaniah 3:9, Matthew 21:32, Luke 6:27, John 3;16, Galatians 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8. 

The Christmas season Approaches!

 Great Opportunities?

Christmas and Easter have the biggest times to share the Gospel message in the hope of leading the world to the truth and understanding what it's all about, rather than the commercialism and gluttony of the seasonal holiday?

We know the truth of this time, but how to get it over to the world can be tougher, since they are blinded by Satan and His lies to what we have to say to change their hearts to receive the true light of the star of Jacob, the morning stare, the, 'I Am the light of the world!

Numbers 24:17, John 12:46, 2 Peter 1:19.

We also know the story and this with a few verses may be enough to reach them, love being a key factor since this is what people long for in this society of rejection, indifference and ignoring the truth of real like for that of feelings and constant fantasy?

Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Isaiah 9:7, Luke 1:32-33, Amos 5:4, Matthew 7:7-8, John 3:3-18, Acts 4:12, Romans 3:22-23, 6:23, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26.

No Trust!

 With the Police?

This is a problem world wide and not only is limited to black people, but also to many other communities based on ethnicity and on sectarian divisions, there are many examples that we could take from the travelling nomad's to religious divisions i Iraq, India, Myanmar, N-Ireland, the Ukraine and Israel!

We humans have a real problem with hating each other and not trusting the legal system or authorities and much of this stems from a white dominated police forces in the U.K. and the United States, but these same issues are also found in Mexico and Brazil and in many parts of the African continent too?

Sin once it takes hold of us it does not let go and it will drag us down into situations that our pride will giver over to others that will, not might exploit our situations?

Trusting in Jesus is the only way for us who have faith to go, the letter of 1 Peter is all about living through hard times and keeping fixated on the Lord who has saved us from our dark pasts and allowing us to live in His Light!

John 3:3, 17-20, 8:12, 9:5, 1 Timothy 4:1-5, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26. 

Unbelievable?

 Blacks for Trump!

We have been here before, but now it is surprising in the light of all that has happened that there are people who cannot see through him and what might become of black people in the United States and other places under his potential dictatorship?

Sleepy Joe has done much, but not enough since he is always trying to appease the Republican voters and not really address black issues as he promised he would! Meanwhile many black leaders are pulling with this idea of waiting for the, 'Right Time?

Today is the appointed time of your salvation, only Jesus can save us from the coming destruction and faith in Jesus will set us free from relying on others in government and authority who tell lies and never do what they say they will?

Matthew 7:24-27, Romans 15:8-13, Hebrews 9:25-28.

What is happening on the Political Front?

The 4th of July reform comes before #blm!

This is a fact of life in the United States and many other nations around the world, white people are more precious than darker skinned people, even Joe Biden is dragging his feet running and putting his Ukrainian bias before his pre-election promises and that is unlikely to change with the mid-term primaries?

What is to be done, more street protest might help, without letting the police provoke to rioting and more pressure to be put on the President to get bills moving, if not drawn up in congress without worrying that the Republicans might overrule them!

1 Samuel 2:20, 25:35, Daniel 6:7-13, Matthew 7:7-8, 1 John 5:15.

Ascension and Pentecostal pouring Out!

 Jesus departed with the promised return and the Holy Spirit continues to be given to Believers!

God does not change but we do or one hopes we do as believers grow?

Bad people become good, some get saved and good believers can lose it because of mental health and do bad things, stress, pain, suffering, anger can all lead to that type of fall others to sex, money, narcotics or the ego of power and their destruction with victims!

Many Christian's refuse to believe that those saved can be lost, but the Holy Bible tells us so and that hose who live in sin will not inherit eternity! We may think we can play games with God, sin one day and seek His forgiveness the next  thinking we are okay, but we are only fooling ourselves in our silly ideas?

To be a believer is a tough road and the older you get the harder it is, some people hide their pain with smiles and praise, they refuse to admit their situation's, even to Jesus !

Hebrews 10:26, Leviticus 4:2, Deuteronomy 17:12, Psalm 19:12-13, John 9:41, 1 Timothy 1:13, James 4:17.

Resurrection...

 Not Reincarnation!

Jesus died and rose from the grave with the same body, yet for the 19th Century many evangelical clergymen accepted a Hindu concept that implied that the risen Jesus was a copy and not the one who died?

This still exists today in the many false concepts about the resurrection and  many cannot accept this historical fact, beyond that of the atonement?

If Jesus did not rise from the dead none of us can be saved, since the Holy Bible is very clear that He did!

John 4:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:12-13, Philippians 3:10-11, Revelation 20:5-6.

Veritas!

 Truth?

Easter is once more just a week away, when many will be coming to Church for one reason or another?

We have a great opportunity to share Jesus with them or to invite that hard in the community and discover he or her are future pastors and/or missionaries!

Is not God lovely that He can take the Sh1t like we once were and make us into His own New people, if He has done this for us what can He do and keep doing for others, loved ones, family, enemies, friends, work mates etc?

Genesis 42:21, 1 Kings 17:24, Psalm 15:2, Proverbs 12:17, John 4:24, Romans 2:8.

Cannot Remember?

 Yesterday!

God does not like the double-minded, who say one thing and then do the other or just keep chopping and changing!

We have now seen two U.S. Presidents face the same scenario and they may have a habit like King Saul who hunted down the shepherd boy and future great King of Israel out of jealousy! Donald Trump could not take the pressure and had to ask other world leaders what to do, instead of listening to his own advisors?

Yet he got things done in the Middle-East and Israel, but the power went to his head in the Capitol Insurrection and disasters have followed him since? Meanwhile President Biden is fighting black injustice in America, but supporting it in the Ukraine against Russia, while hiding germ warfare labs in the Ukraine and is not able to remember what he said yesterday, which makes him out to be full of himself?

God does not like these men, He seeks honesty and integrity and leaders who will admit their failings and repent of them, learning to forgive others as we have been forgiven by God. 

Psalm 119:113, Matthew/Levi 6:12, Luke 11:4, 1 Timothy 3:8, James 1:8, 4:8, 1 John 1:9.

Christmas and the New Year 2022!

 Promised Child?

The world is going on as it ever did pandemic or not, Christmas or not and it is too full of broken promises from vaccines to global warming, green energy to promises to #blm!

Only our faith in Jesus will allow us the certainty of an eternity with Him if we stay the course?

There is much to read on this blog for the years gone by, but we have to keep reading the Bible to grow in faith and putting it into practice?

Luke 1:79, John 3:20-21, Romans 3:21-31, 2 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 6:12, 2 Peter 1:4.

'A happier New Year to you all 2022, God's Blessings!

The Joy of the Lord?

 To Have!

To believe in the death, resurrection and promised return of the Lord is one thing, but to follow Jesus is another?

To imitate, to apply Jesus actions everyday in our lives is hard and that is perhaps why many people who claim faith are unhappy, since they live as the world?

We were purchased at a heavy price and it is sad to see that many fail at this essential and simple hurdle or that they abuse the power they have been invested with!

Matthew/Levi 25:21-23,  1 Thessalonians 1:6,  Philemon 1:20.

God expects more from Us!

 A den of merchants and Robbers?

One has always felt uncomfortable with the Sunday book store in the Church and despite the need for it, it becomes a king of religious hypocrisy when we are encouraged by some to keep the sabbath and feel okay trading in the confines of fellowship!

Jesus was not to pleased with what He saw in the Temple in Jerusalem, the abuse of the religious leadership turning a Holy building into another outlet for business and His words spoken that they were in relation to what the poor suffering Prophet Jeremiah had to put up in his day!

God wants us to be a people of applied faith, not Church going and not in a religious system of rules and rituals #, but to free in the indwelling holy Spirit to be alive and active, with no fear of people? Respecting the laws of the lands that we are in as long as they do run contrary to God's laws!

Jeremiah 7:3-11,  Matthew/Levi 21:13,  Luke 19:45-46,  Hebrews 4:12,  Revelation 2:19.

Not Alone?

 God has not left us Alone!

Many people in the world wonder are we alone in the universe, is there not other life and do they visit now and then as governments might be hiding the truth on us?

But we who believe that we are not alone, since God gave to us His one and only Son to save us from our failings and when Jesus returned to Heaven He said that the Holy Spirit was coming and so all believers have the Spirit of God to comfort us in our times of trouble worry and much more!

it is not easy to be a believer we have to learn to endure the evil of the age that is around us and at times the anger and hatred that we may find the enemy will try to provoke us into in our hearts, but the Holy Spirit will help us if we pray believe, keep focused on the cross knowing that our Father cares for us!

Psalm 102:17,  Matthew/Levi 4:4,  Luke 10:40,  John 8:29.