The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This is the most wonderful and joyous time of the year. In a world of troubles on every hand, trials, tests in our every day life, threats of war and terrorism, we can still have hope. Jesus came from heaven to us as a child born of the virgin Mary so we could have hope. Hope of salvation and a right standing with God. Jesus gives hope because He will be with us through all that we experience here in this world. Hope that there is a better place to live when this life is over. There is so much hope for those who know Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. We don't have to wait till we die to experience the joy and power that comes into our lives when we ask Jesus to forgive our sins against God and invite Him to come into our lives and take charge of us. The birth of Christ we celebrate this month means that God so loved us that He sent His only beloved Son into our world to save us and then fill us with His presence in the person of His Holy Spirit so we could live our lives here in His power.
John 3:16 (NKJV) 
¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

Romans 5:5 (NKJV)
⁵ Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
No other religion has what the Christian faith has. That is a risen Savior. Think about that! I wonder why so many would refuse to believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. He died on the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of all who would believe in Him.
Romans 5:8-10 (NKJV)
⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
⁹ Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
¹⁰ For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Christmas means we can have eternal life through Jesus Christ.
John 10:28 (NKJV) 
²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. This verse says salvation is a gift from Jesus.Why would anyone try to please God by their works instead of receiving the free gift of eternal life that Jesus wants to give everyone who believes and asks for it. The bible tells us that our works will never be sufficient for our salvation. Works can not change a sinful heart.

Isaiah 64:6 (NKJV)
⁶ But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. 
This verse tells us there is no work man can do to please God.
The birth of Jesus Christ means we can be made right with God and live with Him forever when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Not only have we been given salvation through Jesus but He has made us heirs of God and joint-heirs with Him.
Romans 8:16-17 (NKJV)
¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
¹⁷ and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. Does the Spirit of God bear witness with your spirit that you are His? If the Spirit of God bears witness that you are His child then this is the most wonderful time of the year. You can celebrate Christmas with all joy because you belong to Him and you are an heir of His and a joint-heir with Christ. There is much more to come when this life is over.
 If the Spirit of God does not bear witness with your spirit then Christmas has no real meaning for you. Your eternal destination will be Hell. But the good news is that there has been born a Savior which is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11 (NKJV)
¹¹ For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
If you will confess your sins to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you, then you will see why this is the most wonderful time of the year. You will have a home in heaven when you leave this world. Jesus invites you to come to Him and let your soul enter into His rest. Stop struggling against God and be made right with Him.
Matthew 11:27-30 (NKJV)
²⁷ All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." 
Christmas is not about our gifts to each other which will soon become old , but it's about God's gift of salvation to us in the person of Jesus Christ, His Holy Son.
If you have never asked Jesus to forgive your sins, just say "Dear Jesus, I realize that your word tells me I am a sinner. Romans 3:23 (NKJV) For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
I ask You to forgive me. I invite you into my heart to take charge of me and help me to live for You. Grant me a home in heaven when this life is over.
Thank You Jesus for saving me." Then you will have the most wonderful blessed Christmas you have ever had.

Provision For Your Needs

As you read this article you have some kind of need in your life. It may be a big need or a small need, but we all have needs. Notice I said needs and not wants. There is one sure way to have all your needs met. In fact it is the only way to have them all met. Many times we think we have a physical need when in reality it is a spiritual need. When we get the spiritual part of our life right then the physical needs God will supply. There is only one source for all mankind's needs. The bible tells us that God will supply our every need.       Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) 
¹⁹ And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For God to supply our every need we must be seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness.               Matthew 6:33 (NKJV) 
³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
 His promise in this scripture is all the things you will need in life will be added to you. So if you have a need seek after God's Kingdom and His righteousness. You seek after God by first of all coming to know God by entering into a  personal relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ. You do this by asking Jesus to forgive your sins against God. Then invite Jesus into your life to take charge of you. Then be baptized and begin to attend regularly the church where you are baptized. Begin to read God's word daily, pray daily, and live your life in obedience to God. When you come to God through His Son Jesus Christ you become a child of God.

Galatians 4:6-7 (NLT) 
⁶ And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”
⁷ Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.
Let's look at those scriptures. Verses six says when we become God's children, God sends the Spirit of His Son into our hearts. The Spirit of God's Son in us prompts us to call out to our "Daddy, Father." Now we are no longer slaves to sin and the devil, but we are God's own children. Then verse 7 goes on to say that since we are His children, God has made us an heir of everything He owns. Our Father God owns it all because He made everything and He keeps it all together. Now if God is our Father, is there anything He would withhold from us. 

Romans 8:32 (NLT)
³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Look at this verse. What a promise God has given us! Not only did God give up Jesus for us, but He goes on to say that He will give us everything else we need through Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord.

So, we conclude from God's word that there is nothing He will not give us who are His children. So, if you are God's child, you will never have a need that God can't meet. Your part  is to seek God's kingdom and His way of  righteous living and all the other things you need will be added. This is God's word to us. Don't listen to the devils voice any longer. Our part is to believe what God has said and seek after Him and His righteousness. Then we can claim God's provisions for our needs. There is no where else to go to find the things we need in life. No one or no thing can give us all the needs we have in this life and the life to come.

Get your needs met by getting to know God in a personal way as described earlier in this article and then live for Him by the power of His Spirit He has placed within you. When you do these things, God will keep His promise to meet your every need.

 Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) 

¹⁹ God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. He said it, let's believe it and then receive it by Christ Jesus our Lord.

I close by praying for all your needs to be met according to God's word because He can not lie. Seek God daily and watch what happens. What have you got to lose but your needs. Believe and receive in Jesus' name. Amen! Hallelujah!

Is God Able?

This is the question we will all have to face in our lives at one time or another. As we face the trials and tests of this life on earth, we will all be looking for an answer to help us out of, around or through every situation. When people have tried all the things the world has to offer and those things have failed them, then they will look to God with this question. Is God able to deliver us from what we are going through? Is God able to do anything with this mess in my life? This happened to the Israelite's as they journeyed through the wilderness.                                                                                                                                        Psalms 78:19 (HCSB) 
¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying, “Is God able to provide food in the wilderness? As you read this chapter you will find that they had seen God deliver them time and time again. He gave them water from the rock in the wilderness. He sent them manna  from above to eat and sustain them while they were in the wilderness. God had delivered them from bondage in Egypt by parting the red sea. He led them by a cloud in the daytime and a cloud of fire at night. He had worked so many miracles for them and took care of their every need but in verse 19 they still questioned God's desire and ability to provide for them through every circumstance and situation. We look at this and wonder where their brain was. We don't understand how they could question God's ability to provide for them at all times because of what God had already done for them in the past.                                                                                                      Psalms 78:41 (NKJV) 

⁴¹ Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. Their attitude deeply hurt and wounded God's heart. Their actions tempted God to let them wander in the wilderness for 40 years. And their actions limited God from acting on their behalf then and in the future.  

But, are we guilty of doing the same thing? Are we tempting God to let us wander on in our misery, pain, and suffering? Has God reached the limit of His ability in your life and is not able to lead you on to new places and new resources and new developments? Surely He can do new things in all of our lives. The bible tells us with God nothing is impossible.(Luke 1:37)     

Yes, God can do new things in our lives. Unheard of- hidden things that will bless us. May we enlarge our hearts and not tempt or limit God from doing His work in our lives. Think of it, the only thing greater than God's ability to move in our lives is the limits we impose on Him through our unbelief. Yes, you and I can limit the very God who made everything and who keeps it intact. We must desire and believe God to work in our lives. Then we will see great and mighty things we know not. We will miss many pitfalls and problems in our lives as we allow Him to lead, guide, and direct our way. We must ask and look for unheard of things. We must set our faith on Him. He  is more than ready to do wonderful exploits in our lives and the lives of our families and those around us. He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly more than we could ask or think according to the power that works in us. (Ephesians 3:20)

God is ready and willing to surpass all our expectations as we trust and believe in His willingness and ability to do great things in our lives. 

If you don't know God personally and you have never been forgiven of your sins against Him, you can come to personally know Him and have your sins forgiven by asking Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and by inviting Jesus to live in you, take charge of your life and do these great exploits in your life. Read the scriptures at the bottom of this page to help you understand what you need to do.

He is waiting for your decision, what will it be?  

Remember God is able!

Limiting the Ministry of Jesus

John 4:11 (NKJV) 
¹¹ The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
Just like the woman at the well we can limit Jesus' ministry in our lives by not understanding who Jesus really is, the power He has, and not understanding His care for us. He is unlimited in His ability to do for us what we really need in any circumstance or situation we find ourselves in as the woman at the well found out. The thing that limits Jesus' working in our lives and situations is us alone. Sometimes the well of our problems, worries and doubts are so deep we don't think Jesus can draw anything good from them. The woman at the well had a life of many deep troubles and problems, but when she allowed Jesus to draw out of her bad situation, she received the most wonderful gift of eternal life which changed everything in her life for the best. When we think and say our situation or circumstance is to deep for even Jesus to draw anything good out of it, we limit His working in our lives. Suppose our hearts are deeply troubled and we read God's word where Jesus says " Let not your heart be troubled." Then we say, but Lord even You can't draw up comfort and quietness out of this trouble.  Mine is an impossible situation. Jesus does not draw up anything good out of human resources. We must remember that His supernatural abilities are unlimited. He will bring what resources we need down from above out of God's unlimited supply. We limit God by holding on to past failures and disappointments. We must open our hearts to what God is trying to do in our lives. When we doubt God's ability or desire to move in our situations, we limit what He wants to do in our lives. Then we forget that God loves us with an everlasting love. Jeremiah 31:3 (NKJV) 
³ The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Any limit to God's working good in our situations and circumstances comes from within our hearts, not from God's inability. We have to come to the place in our lives that we allow God to do in our lives what He tells us in His word that He wants to do. He loves us this verse says with an everlasting love. Everlasting means just what it says. God will never change from that promise because He can not lie. No where in the word of God does it ever indicate God will withhold His blessings and favors from those who seek Him with all their heart. In fact, God tells us as His people what His plans are for us in His word. Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NKJV)
¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
¹² Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
¹³ And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Look at these scriptures and then believe them with all your heart because God cannot lie nor does He ever change. Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.                                                                                                                                                  

God says He thinks thoughts of peace and good toward us. He will never change His mind about that. Believe it! Then He says He wants to give us a wonderful future and a hope. That hope is based on the word of God. This is God's will for all of those who belong to Him. Those that have confessed and repented of their sins and asked God's Son Jesus Christ to forgive them. Those that have invited Jesus to live within their hearts and are trying to live for Him each day. If you haven't received the salvation Jesus provides, then do it now. Read the scriptures at the bottom of this page and act on them. Those who have already received Jesus' salvation, are you limiting God's working in your life because you have slipped away from that close relationship you used to have with Him? You are not as interested in the things of God as you once were. You can change all that right now by asking Jesus to forgive you of that. Verses 12&13 of Jeremiah tell us that if we call upon God and pray to Him, He will listen to you. (verse 12) That's His promise to you! He also says if we seek Him we will find Him when we seek for Him with all our hearts. (verse 13)

Beware of your sinking back and saying-"It can't be done;" when you know it can be done if you look to Jesus. The well of our incompleteness is great, but we must make every effort and look to Jesus as we seek Him through the word of God. Remember the scriptures we have read. Let's believe God and seek Him with all our hearts and experience the blessings and favors of God as they flow into our lives and change our situations. Do not be guilty of limiting God in your life. Stop and pray right now! Invite God to invade your life with His presence. You will be glad you did. 

Time Alone With God

I would like to ask you a personal question. How much time alone do you spend with just God and you away from all distractions? Since I am not there to look you in the eye you can be honest with God about that question. The reason I ask is because I see so many Christians going and doing for God but never take time themselves to get alone with God and just relax and enjoy His presence. God wants to spend time alone with each of His children. He is more than happy to have us take time with Him. We can not serve in the power of the Holy Spirit if we never take time alone with God to let Him talk to us and fill us with His Spirit. God is wanting us to take more time with Him so He can fully bless us. He is jealous over us and our time.
The bible says in: Galatians 5:17 (NKJV) 
¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another. Each day of our lives we have to make a decision to do what God wants or do what we want. We are free to make our own decisions because God will not make you do anything. We are also responsible for the decisions we make. If we do what God wants we are fully blessed of Him. If we choose to obey self, we suffer loss because God will not bless our choices because without Him to help us we will always make the wrong choice. That's why we need to spend time alone each day with God. It makes for a blessed day whereas if we don't spend time with God we pay the price with pain and misery of one kind or another. God is not punishing us, we just will not have His blessings for our disobedience. All choices have a consequence attached to them. If we could just begin to realize it's not God's fault when things go wrong, but it is due to our wrong choices. Time alone with God will make us strong to stand up to the trials and troubles of life.

The bible says in:  Ephesians 5:18 (NKJV)
¹⁸ And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.The filling of the Spirit is a continual filling, not just a one time filling. We will face something each day that we must have the fullness of God's Spirit in us if we are going to handle those situations that surprise us in life. If we are not filled with God's Spirit we will wind up frustrated and upset. We will give up. To be filled with the Spirit each day takes time alone with God. The filling of the Spirit does not come automatically. We have to break away from the hustle and bustle of the day and take time to be in God's presence where we can hear Him speak to our hearts and minds. This also helps to keep our focus where it belongs which is on Him and not the worries and cares each day might bring.
We have a personal invitation from Jesus to each of us in:  Matthew 11:28-30 (NKJV) 

²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Look at those verses! What an invitation! If we heed this invitation we will be blessed as He promised. The yoke represents our daily frustrations and cares. The burdens of life. He promises He will share our concerns as we allow Him to share that burden with us and He will give us the soul rest we need to keep from fainting under the pressures of life. What a wonderful Savior and Lord. Help your self and take time to be alone with God. You will be glad you did. Your life will change for the better and you will be able to face whatever comes your way with Jesus' help.

There may be some of you who are reading this and you don't even know Jesus as Savior and Lord. You do not have His blessings on your life and you will not go to heaven when you die. But the good news is you can change all that right now if you choose to do that. Simply acknowledge that you are a sinner as the bible says we all are.  Romans 3:23 (NKJV)
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Ask Jesus to forgive you and ask Him to save you from Hell. Then invite Jesus into your life and let Him take charge of you and He will share your burdens and you will begin to overcome those things in your life which now seem to hold you down. You will experience the most wonderful blessings from God when you make Jesus your personal Savior and Lord. He will always be with you to help you. He will never leave you.  Hebrews 13:5b (NKJV) 

^{5 b}For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

     You will want to go to church and make a public profession of your salvation. Then be baptized and begin to attend services there. 

Jesus said if you are ashamed of Him He would be ashamed of you before the Father.                            Mark 8:38 (NKJV) 

³⁸ For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
Don't be ashamed of Jesus but tell everyone that will listen. He will not be ashamed of you when you stand before God.

May God help each of you to do what He is telling you to do in Jesus' name I pray. Amen!

           

How Desperate Are You For God?

This article is for those who are desperate for the presence of God in your life? Are you growing in your relationship with God or have you lost Him along the way?  If you have lost a sense of the presence of God in your life or if you don't have a desire for the things of God such as reading your bible daily or praying or attending church you must go back to where you lost interest and find it again. If you don't you will stay a miserable person. At this point of going back and revisiting the past, find where you lost interest in God and then develop a new desire for God that will change your life. Desire means-a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment: 
The writer of Psalm 42 had this desire for God.

Psalms 42:1-4 (NKJV) 1.  As the deer pants for the water brooks,So pants my soul for You, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
³ My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"

⁴ When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went
with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

David here is in the wilderness running for his life and he misses the times he had with God when he could go and worship in the temple of God. In those days the Temple was considered the only place to worship God and be assured your prayers would be answered.
He remembered what good times he had in God's presence. Today we can experience the presence of God where ever we are.
Nothing will fill your longings and cravings like the fullness of God's Spirit. If you have been born again by the Spirit of God, His presence is within you. But it could be you have quenched God's Spirit by sin in your life, or through neglect of reading His word, or through the lack of prayer and church attendance or all of these things. God word says He wants to richly bless you. But you must be desiring -(longing-craving) God as the most important thing in your life. Have you ever stopped and thought about how much of the things of God you are missing out on and what you could have if you had a close relationship with Him? Our relationship with God is like a marriage in the respect that it can either be a good or bad relationship determined by how much both love and desire to be with each other. A good marriage is one where both desire the best relationship they could possibly have. God desires a very intimate relationship with you. The question is, do you have that same desire for Him? So how do we have this intimate relationship with God as He desires for us? The word of God has the answer!
James 4:8 (NKJV) ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts,
you double-minded.
We are to draw close to God first as it says here by cleansing ourselves of sin or in other words, stop sinning.
We are to purify our hearts by not having a divided loyalty to the world and God. We must give up the things of the world that take our attention away from God and the things that pertain to Him. We are to give God first place in our lives. He must come before anything else. We must stop changing our minds about our relationship to God and it's importance. We must stop this one minute we want God, next minute we want the worldly things.
When we make up our minds to do these things, we are in for the blessings of God and the sweetness of His presence in our lives. I have been a Christian follower of God for a long time and I can honestly say there is nothing to compare to a very intimate relationship with God. I ask you to truly consider where you stand with God at this point in your life.
If you are not a born again follower of Jesus Christ, you will never have the peace and blessings of God on your life, but you can change that right now by asking Jesus to forgive your sins against a Holy God. Tell Jesus you are sorry for your sins and you invite Him to live in you and take charge of you. Then be baptized in His name and begin to live for God and watch your life change. You will become a new creation in Jesus Christ and you will begin to desire more of God in your life.
Christian, if you truly belong to the Lord why would you not want to draw as close to Him as you can. I pray you have a desire for God like you have never had before and you will seek Him with all your heart. He says in His word that if you seek Him you will find Him.Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) ¹³ And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. We truly need God in our lives like never before to face the challenges of today. My pray is for you to experience the presence of God in your life every day as you draw close to Him. 

Power and Provisions of Jesus

As we look at Matthew chapter 5 we can see what all Jesus has provided for us who belong to Him and for those who will receive Him as their Lord and Savior. We have much to thank Jesus for. Let's look!
Matthew 5:3-12 (NKJV)
³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
⁵ Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
⁷ Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
¹⁰ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
¹¹ "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 
First in verse 3, Jesus makes it possible for us to inherit the kingdom of God.


Second in verse 4,Jesus turns our mourning over our sin and it's consequences into comfort that we are forgiven.
Third in verse 5, Jesus made it possible for us to inherit the earth. We will rule and reign with Him when He sets up His Kingdom here on earth.
Revelation 20:6 (NKJV) 
⁶ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Fourth in Verse 6, Jesus made it possible for those of us who hunger and thirst to see righteousness done to be filled, or in other words He will provide these things for us eternally.

Fifth in verse 7, Jesus made it possible for us to be merciful to others. We could never do this in our own strength.  He also made it possible  for us to receive His mercy forever.

Sixth in verse 8, Jesus made us pure in heart by His sacrifice for us on the cross, so we could see God and live with Him through out all eternity.

Seventh in verse 9, Jesus has made us peacemakers toward all mankind and has made us sons of God.

Eighth in verse 10, Jesus has made it possible for us to endure persecution because He has given us the kingdom of heaven and no one can take it away no matter how much persecution.

Ninth in verses 11-12, Jesus rewards us for withstanding persecution and reviling of mankind. These rewards will be great He said and will last through out all eternity.

What a great Savior and Lord we have in Jesus Christ.

Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord? If not none of these wonderful things will be yours and you won't be able to live this kind of life. Jesus is waiting for you to ask Him to forgive your sins against God. When you are sincere and you ask for Jesus' forgiveness the bible says He will not turn you away. 

John 1:12 (NKJV) 

¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
Will you receive Jesus as your Savior and Lord right now? If you will, He will give you the right to become a child of God and when you die and leave this earth you will be with Jesus and God forever. Every need taken care of through out eternity.

Stop right now and ask Jesus for His forgiveness of your sins and receive Him into your heart to take charge of your life from this day forward. Then to show you are sincere, got to church and be baptized. Worship and praise God there. May God give you the grace to do this.

And Christian, give praise, honor, and glory to Jesus Christ, God's only Son for all these things He has so graciously provided for you. He is worthy of all praise. Hallelujah forever!

Top Priorities In Life?

The title of this article is to get you to think about what your life is all about. What is important to you? Have you ever thought about why you are here? What are you to accomplish in this life? Where you are going when this life is over? God has put eternity in the heart of man. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NKJV) 
¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
If God has put eternity in our hearts then it was for a reason. I believe the reason is for us to live our lives on this earth with a constant thought about our final destination when this life is over, so we could have ample time to prepare for that eternity. So knowing this we should take action to prepare for that eternity which we will all face. That should be top priority in life. Most people go through life with little if any thought about eternity. Yet from this scripture God does want us to not only think about eternity but to make plans for our final destination. Even if we are Christians, we must live our lives with eternity in mind so that we will avoid a lot of sin in our lives knowing we will have to give account of what we have done in this life. Romans 14:10 (NKJV)
¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Unbelievers will stand before the great white throne judgment of God and then sentenced to Hell.
Revelation 20:12 (NKJV)
¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
Anyone not having received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord will not be in the Book of Life.
 John 14:6 (NKJV) 
⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

They will be judged according to their works and found to be guilty before God. God says no work can give you eternal life. Isaiah 64:6 (NKJV)
⁶ But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. So should not our eternal destiny be the main thing we hope to accomplish in this life? What is man's duty in this life according to the bible? What's the top priority in this life?
 Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (NKJV)
¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.
¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
The one commandment of God we must all keep is to receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

 John 3:16-18 (NKJV) 
¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
So this should be the priority in our lives. Nothing else matters if we gain the whole world and lose our souls. Mark 8:36 (NKJV) 

³⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? So the top priority in life is to make sure you ask Jesus to forgive your sins and then invite Him into your life to take charge of you. Then go to church and be baptized. Make your decision public as Jesus asked us to do.

Those who are Christians should make sure your main accomplishment is to live for Jesus. This should take priority in our lives. Remember that previous scripture that we all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account of our lives as Christians. We will either be rewarded or there will be a loss of rewards. 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NKJV) 

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Should not this be our top priority in life? Make sure you have your priorities right in this life. Eternity depends on it! Your place in God's kingdom depends on it. Truly without question the things of God should have priority in our lives.