The Lie Is Of The Truth

So how do I walk in triumph since I am surrounded in a world that’s lost its way? Here are three simple statements I will I have felt in my heart and will leave with you:

1) Renew your commitment to the word of God, don’t let the sun shine on any day without spending some time on your own reading the scriptures.

2) Stand firm in your convictions. Speak your mind, tell the truth, stand up and be heard.

3) Stay focused on Christ. Let your mind dwell on Christ, think about him daily, ask yourself, “What would my savior do if he were right here in this circumstance. Examine his life, live in his methods; rest in him, there is no way to God apart from him.

Broad is the gate that leads to deception, narrow is the gate that leads to eternal life. I can't promise you will have all your prayers answered, but what I can promise is that you will have a God that will never leave you, never abandon you, and never deceive you.

Last week I was told a story and it hasn't left me: There was a doctor who was taking care of a young woman that had a serious medical condition. One night he quietly asked her if he could pray for her and she said "yes as long as it isn't in the name of Christ." So the doctor said he wished her well and he didn't pray. He prays through Christ to God.

Someone who was close to me had said this: "If we need forgiveness we should simply grant it to ourselves, we have broken the commands of no personal God since there is no personal God to offend. There is no God whose forgiveness we must seek"... Open your hearts as I say this, the craze of self satisfaction by self knowledge is all around us. Watch out for it. Don't be sucked in by that. You have him, you have faith.

"The safe guard of God himself is what to rely on, the Holy spirit that teaches you." This is the promise that He himself made to us. Eternal life?

1John 5:11-12 "And this is the testimony; God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."

Well that’s pretty narrow...why is it narrow? I believe it’s because it is RIGHT. This is the promise:

1John 2:24-25 "See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.25 And this is what he promised us-even eternal life."

He himself made eternal life. No one has ever done that. Rely on what the Spirit of God teaches you.

My evening Bible studies and the attempts to have a Sabbath (which is hard with school and work) are bringing me closer in my relationship with Christ. As I get to know him more, I get to know my Father more. He has become my everything, and he is what I have.

Always and all prayers,
Gabby