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.

Aspects of Christmas! Two.

Gluttony?

Most people today are overweight, fast-food has changed the world and so has cheap food in the super markets where most of the poor head for?

But we are going to talk about greed in relation to gluttony and food, and here we will deal with the rich and their plenty!

Greed is an illness in its own right of the mind and eventually of the stomach the results of being fat, but this is not always the case?

Diabetes and several other illness that lead to loss of functions result from eating too much of the wrong foods! 

Greece is one of the biggest killers, all those fries and burgers, fried chicken and lack of walking with jacket potatoes, waffles, cakes, chocolate bars and so it goes on!

Christians are not exempt from the lure and temptations of nice food!

Self control is the answer to most of the problems that lead us astray at Christmas?

Genesis 29:22,  Psalm 36:8,  Ecclesiastes 10:16,  Jeremiah 51:39,  Matthew/Levi 22:2,  4,  8,   Mark 7:22,  1 Corinthians 9:25,  Galatians 5:23,   1 Peter 1:6.

Disibility? Part-One.

Is not a Limitation!

Many people today forget that to be disabled is not a loss that it once was to an individual? We  are seeing this with the Para-olympics and in many other sports fields, but there are as many people working daily across the professions that are disabled in some way but they are not limited to what can be achieved?

The Bible tells us about many conditions that people were able to live with, such as lameness in the case of Mephibosheth and the leprosy of Job.

In the New Testament even Paul had a nagging problem!

But there are other disabilities that have to be addressed in relation to mental illness and their was Saul and Herod, who due to their power led to thousands being killed! So their is a time and place for disability and not all people can work or should because they could be a danger to others?

2 Samuel 4:4,  9:6-7,  Job 2:7-9,  2 Corinthians 12:7.

False Believers. Two.

Signs that Trouble!

We can generally see the people who are amongst us because of their ways and attitudes that trouble us? Gambling, smoking, taking narcotics, adulteress, swearing, late for services, and out before they can be met at the door?

These are some of the many issues, others are gossipping, and not being able to keep confidentiality are the worst? Because they leave accusations and they hurt people in a real bad way, that could lead to worse such as mental health issues or that they loose their faith?

We have great responsibility as believers in the house of God, to share and help each other? The structures of organisation are there, because over the last two-thousand years they have been developed to give a guideline and hope to us to grow, pray, commune, witness and teach others!

Psalm 94:20,  Acts 2:42,  1 Corinthians 1:9,  Ephesians 5:11,  Philippians 1:5,  1 John 1:7.

Dallas, Texas. U.S.A.

Black Life (Does) Matter.

If this is a revenge attack on the Police, for recent murders of young blackmen in the United States it will not resolve anything of the racial tentions.

If you spill gasoline on gasoline the fire just keeps on buring!

We need community leaders to be doing something in each State to bring the local police to accountability? But we also must respect the law and understand that not everyone who was killed was not without being under suspicion.

We tend to get the immpression that none of these men were criminals, when some where?

God sees the human heart and he knows all our intentions, even if we try to hide our motives behind peace and the promises to do the right thing? But then go on and plan to murder and try to justify ourselves!

Genesis 34:7-31,  Psalm 119:169,  Matthew 5:22,  Romans 12:19.

STAMINA. Part-One.

Have you got it?

What is stamina? It is staying power, the ability to keep going and that can be in anything or everything. Another definition for stamina is endurance, to push or press on.

The bible to uses many different words in relation to the cost of being a follower of Jesus, abide, hardship, patience, bearing up, suffering, long suffering, tarry, strengthened and encouraged to go on.

Who says of ever thinks that being a Christian is for wimps or weaklings, those who are bullies, thugs and trouble makers. Now we see who is really weak emotionally and strong mentally!

1 Chronicles 16:11,  Job 17:9,  Psalms 73:24, Proverbs 4:18-20, Matthew 24:13, Mark 13:13, Luke 10:42,  John 15:4-5.

Crib n Cross. Part-Three.

Born of the Virgin.

It is a miracle the birth of Jesus, He God incarnate came from Heaven and was chosen to be conceived into human flesh by the Holy Spirit to a young virgin girl named Mary. The Angel Gabri'el was sent by God to tell her that she was the chosen one to bear the Messiah. Luke 1:26-35.

After Jesus was born Mary married Joseph and they went on to have normal relations and a big family. We see later on 30 years later His earthly mother coming with His brothers and sisters to get Him.  Matthew 12:46-49.

Roman Catholicism and many branches of the Christian Church venerate Mary, before Jesus and this is a false teaching. Jesus must be and is the only focus for our need to change our mental attitudes and be saved from Eternal Damnation. 1 John 5:20.

Ufology. Part-Three.

Mental Illness.

Many witnesses of UFOs have claimed that through their experience they were abducted and experimented upon. While others said they saw and interacted with the aliens both on the ground and on their space ships.

We know that they are not able to prove to us anything, so we could say 'that they were on a substance or they suffer from a metal illness.'

Perhaps some may be having visions of the ever present spirit world, but because they are not born again they try to explain it in their own way.

Deuteronomy 28:28, Mark 5:9, 15, Luke 8:30, Colossians 2:18.