F4S: Why should we not be ashamed of Christ, or of His Gospel, or of living in God's will? It's because of the promise of the Gospel. The prefix of Gospel is Good. Gospel means "Good Message." It's not an announcement of what we must do for God, but it's about God doing everything for us so that we, by faith, can turn and receive the Gospel and Christ.
Have you really heard the Message? We can't measure up, we can't work to deserve what God has for us. We can't in any way work to earn a right relationship with God. Nope.
Have you turned and trusted.. and asked about God's will for you? Have you gone back to Him now and then to ask about the specifics of His will for you? Have you prayed about your calling? Why not? His calling for you is primarily to Him.
The Gospel says that you are more sinful and flawed that you ever dared believe, but you are more accepted and loved than you ever dared imagine.
God’s person in the center of God’s will doing what God wants him or her doing is 100% immortal until God is done with them here.. yup, until God wants him or her coming home to Him. True, no fears born again believer.
Now, if you intentionally walk into the middle of a New York intersection in the Bronx during rush hour then guess what.. your time has come.
God listen well, grow and know Him well, go build a bridge well ..rather than burn a bridge down. “Go ..tell” well so they too can enjoy well.
Well > Spiritually Sick
Alive and Blessed Forever > Choosing Destination Hell (That was Actually Created for Fallen Angels) By Rejecting God’s only Solution for you - Christ
Want to follow close..I mean Him? Want to share His Bible Gospel clearly with all who will listen ..by the power of the Spirit? Want to obey the Lord and glorify Him? Good, go for it!
"Jesus did not let him come, but instead He said to him, ‘Go home to your family and tell them all the great things that the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you.’” Mark 5:19 amp.
“But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:13-14
There are only two types of people here, saved sinners and unsaved sinners. You can turn and trust, you can biblically repent and believe in Jesus Christ today. You can come to do that on his terms.. you can approach God the Father through Jesus His Son. Takes a moment for that. Do you have a dead human spirit inside? You must be born again spiritually because.. Jesus said, “You must be born again.”
"Jesus did not let him come, but instead He said to him, ‘Go home to your family and tell them all the great things that the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you.’” Mark 5:19 amp.
No time for fear. Think about Caleb at age 85.. he had hope inside, he went for it and won. Such a victor. It's who we was and is. You can think and act like him.
The San Diego Chargers have spent a whole lot of years trying not to lose. Caleb wasn't like that that. My great football coach dad in So Cal, Kim, told me and my brothers that the best defense is a good offense. Do you have that?
Trying to keep from losing.. that’s why the San Diego Charges kept losing so many years.
Better idea. Try to win, help is available, prepare well.. cuz you were born to do that. Who did actually did that, lived like that?
There are only 30 verses in all of the Bible about Caleb. And the secret of Caleb’s life is found 6 times in those 30 verses.
See Numbers 14:24, 32:12, Deuteronomy 1:36, Joshua 14;8, 14:9 (those are Moses’ words) and 14:14.
He wholly followed the Lord with all of his heart. Yup, he had a different spirit in him.
Think about, Mr. A.W. Milne. He was a missionary around the 20th century -- another true story. Mr. Milne was part of a group of radical missionaries who history has dubbed – “One Way Missionaries.”
What these men and women of God did was pack all their belonging in a coffin, buy a one way plane ticket to wherever they felt called by God. Many parts of Africa and other places around the world was known in those days and many years after as the “white man’s graveyard. These men and women of God knew they would never return home when they decided to go to the mission field.
As for A. W. Milne, he Knew that most of the missionaries before him died a martyr’s death, still he accepted the call of God to minister to a tribe in the New Hebrides – island group in the South Pacific Ocean that now is the nation of Vanuatu. There he lived for 35 years. God’s timing and favor had given him a break through among these people and there he enjoyed favor.
But A. W. Milne would never return home. After many years of fruitful labor for the Lord, he passed and was buried in the middle of the town.
The inscription on his tombstone could not have been more clearer: “when he came there was no light, when he left there was no darkness.”
Like Caleb, he too tried to win and did win. And God used him to win people to Jesus Christ.
Did you sign up to be a soldier in the Lord's army so to speak? You can today! We war not against flesh and blood -- it's a spiritual battle, not some carnal match. Pray without ceasing. Earnestly in Christ by faith. Stay focused on the living word, not on that dweeb Mr. Lu-Cifer or his fallen so called friends. Why start to back down from takin' a stand against the evil, from this fight they brought on, or from simply defending citizens.. like with their right to pray in public, or with free speech, and to elect their leader. Why now or ever -- this is America not a melting snowflake zone. Hello!
