Thursday, September 11, 2008

GOD is real

GOD is real. HE is who HE is. GOD is alive. This means that people can talk to HIM and get to know HIM just as we do any living person. HE has a personality. HE is not a figment of peoples imaginations. HE cannot be conformed to whatever image people want him to be. HE is not a rule book. HE is not morals that can be adjusted because people dont or do like them at the time. HE is not a theology or doctrine but HE is a spirit.GOD wants for you to be HIS friend and love HIM more than anything in the world. GOD did not create sin HE only created good but human beings in our hearts and actions betrayed GOD (that is sin). GOD wants you to live forever with HIM but you cannot do that if youre covered with sin.GOD is so full of forgiveness HE made a way for you to be covered with something else (grace-JESUS CHRIST) and to have a heart that would not betray HIM ever again. GOD came in the form of a man and died because that is the penalty of sin and HE didnt want us to have to pay it. GOD sent the same spirit that lived in JESUS CHRIST to change the hearts of anyone who asks to be changed. GOD is so in love with you that when HE changes you its always for the better(so don't worry). Finally, I didnt make this stuff up (its in the BIBLE). If you dont trust the BIBLE do what we as people do and test it. Give GOD a chance to be the LORD or ruler of your life and HE will prove to you that the BIBLE is true. That means do what HE says and trust that HE's right. If you dont at least give HIM a chance then youre missing out on the very reason you're alive for no reason other than fear. If you do want to give HIM a chance then I must warn you to be real with GOD, The bible says that HE sees everything and knows your darkest thoughts and yet HE loves you and only thinks good thoughts of you(we dont even love ourselves that much). So if you choose to come to GOD just say (u dont have to use these exact words as long as your heart is in it): LORD JESUS, who has made it possible for me to talk to GOD and be heard with love, reveal yourself to me so that I can know for myself that you are real. Place in me the same spirit that raised you from the dead so that I can be raised from the death of my sins. I admit that I have been living a life that is killing me and hurting you and I repent. GOD I am ashamed of the way I have lived my life and I now wish to be like you, good and perfect. JESUS, even though everything in me is telling me that I cannot be those things, you have promised me that I can. Now GOD I pray that as I reach out to you, that you would take me and teach me how to live the way that youve called me to. I surrender my life to you and ask that you would take control. Through the name, death and ressurection of JESUS CHRIST, I pray. AmenIf you begin a relationship with GOD don't let it end with a prayer but continue to pursue and get-to-know GOD. Ask GOD to help you to find a church where you can learn more about who GOD is and what HE desires for your life. Now is the time to be honest with GOD about where you are in life ( no matter how far from HIM you are) and allow HIM to continually change you from the inside out.Here are some scriptures to help you to know how GOD feels about you and what HE has planned for your life:Isaiah 59:1-2,16,20 "Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither HIS ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2) But your sins have seperated you and your GOD and your sins have hid his face from you, that HE will not hear...(16) And [GOD] saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore HIS arm brought righteousness unto [men]; and HIS righteousness sustained [men]...(20) And the redeemer shall come into Zion and unto them that turn from sin in Jacob, saith the LORD."Jeremiah 3: 11-15 11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. 12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: " 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,' " declares the LORD. 14 "Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. 15 Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:20-2320 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. 21 A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God. 23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. Matthew 5:66 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.Psalms 139: 1-181 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious are your thoughts concerning me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. John 17:33 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.1 Corinthians 8:66 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. John 3: 16-2116 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."