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Being an ignorant fellow is not a crime until it comes to the knowledge of God. I was ignorant of God for the first thirty years of my life because I was taught by ignorant men.  Men who are deceived teach their deception and enlightened men teach the truth.  I had a major problem, I didn’t know where to go to find truth, my church had no faith in the Bible.  My mother bought a large gold paged Bible and put it on the coffee table.  Before any of us could touch it or hold it we had to put on clean clothes and wash our hands.  I tried to read from it one time but I think it was written in Latin.  The last time I saw it, it was in a stack of Outdoor Life magazines, and my little sister used color crayons to mark it up.
 
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father forgive them; for they know not what they do.
 
In my ignorance I prayed to statues and dead people, but Jesus forgave me.  Jesus is far more interested in establishing a relationship with us than chiding us for our ignorance.  I had no idea how stupid I thought until I was saved from myself.  We are surrounded by ignorant people but we can’t judge them because we were one of them.  The folks who know better but continue the wrong path are the ones who are headed for trouble.  Men who are offered the truth but reject it will also answer to God and no excuse they dream up will pardon them.
 
1 Timothy 1:13 The Apostle Paul said, I was a blasphemer, a persecutor and a murderer: but I obtained mercy because I did ignorantly.

 
Seems like to me that God is willing to forgive any sin we make in order to have us in His presence.  He forgave the men who crucified His Son onto the cross.  He forgave them while they were driving the nails into His Son’s hands and feet.  Some folks don’t think they ever need forgiveness because they don’t ever do anything wrong.  They may be the nicest people in the world, well, they may be the nicest people in hell.  No one in hell is ignorant but that’s a hell of a place to acknowledge the truth.
 
If you don’t meet Jesus in this life, you will never meet Him.

 
God wants just one thing from us, He wants us to acknowledge the truth and repent.  Some folks spend their entire life fabricating excuses and in one minute they could repent and not need any of their excuses.  Some folks won’t repent because they can’t figure out why God would want them.  Well you really won’t know until you make the connection, then you will discover that He loves you!  How can God love a sinner?  Because He is willing to forgive all of our sins.  Just let God be God, some folks want to argue with His way of doing things, as if they have a better way.
 
Isaiah 43:25 I am He that blots out your sins for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.
 
So, not only does the Lord forgive us but He forgets our past.  The devil likes to remind us but there’s nothing to remember, so don’t.  God wants us to forget our past and focus on Him, just let the Lord love you.  Ignorance is a choice, don’t choose it, choose to know the One who loves you.  


Are You Using Your Faith?

9/23/2016

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​We are all familiar with Isaiah chapter fifty-three where the man of God said: “With His stripes we are healed.”  Well, are you healed?  Are you using your faith?  The operation of faith is the fundamental teaching in the faith camp, and you’re in that camp.  Let us pause for just a short time and refresh our spirit with the operation of faith. 
 
Mark 11:23 … If you shall believe that those things which you say shall come to pass, you will have whatever you say.
 
Confession brings possession.  But you can’t just confess whatever you want; you must confess God’s Word, which is His will.  You will have whatever you say, but God wants you to have everything His Son died to give you.
 
Faith begins where the will of God is known.
 
We have a choice, we can say what we have or we can say what God says we can have.  We cannot have a little of each, it’s one or the other.  We must dedicate ourselves to what God says if we are to have what He said.  When a sickness, an injury or any pain comes to us, we begin to confess God’s Word “With Jesus stripes I am healed.”  When you begin to do this, your head and the devil will challenge your faith.
 
“How can you say you’re healed when you have symptoms and are in pain?”
Faith believes what God says, not what your body tells you.  James said the Word of God is without hypocrisy, speaking God’s Word is always acceptable with the Lord.  We never confess His Word to impress people; we speak His Word so He can confirm it with signs following.  We use our authority to command our bodies to line up with God’s Word.  I pay no attention to the devil, people or what my body says, I speak the Word of God only.
 
James 3:10 ...Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not so to be.
 
We cannot go around and speak evil of people and God and then speak the Word.  Bad words will overshadow our good confession and annul every good thing we spoke.  The devil knows this, so he puts thoughts in our heads hoping we will speak them.  Where the devil is concerned, the mind is the battlefield.  Renewing your mind will reduce the size of the battlefield so the devil will have no place to stand.
 
Mathew 12:34 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

 
The heart here in this Scripture is referring to our thoughts or feelings, it’s what you believe.  What are you filling your head with?  Is it the corruption of the world?  Or are you feeding your soul with God’s Word?  Whatever you’re full of; it will eventually come out, good or evil.  All of us are exposed to the unbelieving world but we need not absorb what they have.  We must learn to let untruthful words go in one ear and out the other.  You will have whatsoever you say.  It is to your advantage that you say whatsoever God says you can have, you are the redeemed. 

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    November 24, 2019


    My trust is in the Lord,
    therefore I live in hope.

    I no longer walk by sight,
    I live by the faith of Jesus.

    My life is in His hands,
    I will fear no evil.


    I am blessed of the Lord,
    so I put all my hope in Him.
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    HOLIDAY SEASON
    Nehemiah 8:10
    Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the  sweet drink, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
     
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    2.   Praying against loneliness and isolation. (Yourself/Others)
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