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My How Time Flies

16 Jun

A day whisks by, you blink, and it’s over.

A year isn’t very long, when one looks back at life.

A decade flies by, where does the time go?

A half a century elapses; your time on earth is on the down slope.

If you have managed to do quite well based on worldly standards, was it really that great?  If you did it all for yourself and have nothing to present to the Lord when the rewards are due, how will you feel?    

We’re not taking any of physical comforts with us.  It all stays behind.  The only thing that continues forward is what you have done for Him.

If you’re reading this, you’re never too old and it’s a great day to serve Jesus.  It’s even a better one to make that service an everyday habit.

 
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Reflection – Praise God While In The Shower

05 Jun

As busy people we tend to have our minds going a million miles a minute.

I find that some of the greatest time I get to spend with the Lord is while I’m in the shower.

Take a few extra minutes and just pray, talk, thank, praise your Lord. 

It can be a great prayer closet.  Take time for your God.  He takes time for you.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 2

03 Jun

Zechariah 12:6-9 –  6 “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.  7 “The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. 8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. 9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

More versus on the Lord saving Israel in this battle.  These are incrdible prophetic versus but I will hit more on the battle in other posts.  This post is to help us to understand who Jesus is.

Zechariah 12:10 –  10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

So we know from above that we are talking about the Lord God.  We’re still in the Old Testament.  We’re not switching gears here.  We’re still talking about the Lord God.  What does he say?  “They will look upon Me, the One they have pierced….”  The one they have pierced.

God was pierced?  By the house of Judah?

Yes.  The Romans carried out the crucifixion, but it was Israel that rejected Him and had Him sentenced to death.

Jesus is God.  God is Jesus.  We have the Holy Spirit in there too.  That’s why the Trinity is important.  There isn’t three Gods.  They are three persons, which act as one.  The best study for the Trinity is to know as much of the Bible as possible.  That’s what pulls it together and gives one more understanding. 

Zechariah 12:11-14 – 11 On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, 13 the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

We finish Zechariah 12 with more mourning from the Jews.  You have to understand the Jews are not only mourning because of his crucifixion 2000 years earlier, but because I believe this battle is in the end times and they just got done making a deal with the antichrist also. 

In the end, the real Christ comes back and saves Israel, the house of David, the house of Judah.  They will then have their true Messiah and they will know Our God.

Jesus love you.  Please get to know Him as your Savior.  If you don’t, you will eventually know Him as your Judge whom you have rejected.  He is ready for you.  If you don’t know Jesus, please go over to the right upper column and click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior.”  The sooner you accept Him as Lord the sooner you can start your life the way it was suppose to be from the beginning.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 1

02 Jun

I am going to do a few posts entitled “Who Is Jesus?”. 

Why?

Because one I think many people in the church haven’t been taught who He is.  Scriptures from the Old Testament said who he was going to be and The New Testament scriptures claim who He is and who He said He was.

Zechariah 12:10 – 10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

And “I”…..it says.  Who is “I” in this passage.  Well for one were talking about an Individual who was pierced by the Jews or the Hous of David.  It’s a prophetic verse as we’ll read below and it’s in the Old Testament.  Whomever they have pierced, the House of David grieves terribly that they have done so.

So lets take a look from the beginning of Chapter 12 in Zechariah.

Zechariah 12:1-14 –  1 This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: 2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. 5 Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.’

So we know that this first part is the Lord and it’s a word from him as stated in verse 1.  Zechariah 12 is about Israel being surrounded by all the nations around them who want to destroy them.  Kind of like…in today’s world.  In verse three the Lord states Jerusalem will be an immovable rock.  So when Israel gets back in the land again at this period and time, they’re not officially going anywhere again.  I say officially because during the last 3 and half years there’s a lot of chaos, but their still not removed.  Verse four says the Lord will look out for the house of Judah.  Verse 5 now confirms who we think is speaking, because this is the Old Testament.  The Lord Almighty is their God.

Tomorrow we will continue on with this story in Who Is Jesus?- Zechariah 12:10 Part 2

 
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Reflection- King Solomon

22 May

King Solomon was the wisest man of his time and one of the wisest of all time.

He had 700 wives and 300 concubines?

Man,  I can’t wait to get up into Heaven and ask him “What were you thinking?”  🙂

 
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I Love God!

19 May

I love God!  I love Jesus!

Do you love God?  Do you tell him?

How would you feel if the people you loved never gave you the time of day?  The ONLY time they came around is when they needed something.  Let’s say they ignore you.  Is that a true friend?

I don’t know about you, but I’m closest to the ones I’m in contact with.  The ones I hang out with.  Those are the individuals I care about the most.

God wants you to come to Him.  He wants you to cast your burdens on Him.  He wants you to thank Him.  He wants you to praise Him.  He wants the humble spirit, not the proud individual who has it all under control and sees no need for God.  He didn’t create you for that purpose.

Mark 12:30-  30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

We all have bad habits.  The best good habit you can form is to pray to God all the time.  Thank him for your meal.  Pray before bedtime.  Thank Him when things are going great and praise His name.  As you begin to do this you will have a walking and talking relationship with Jesus and God.

 
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If you’re Satan- How Do You Confuse Them?

16 May

If you’re Satan and you are at war with God and want to be like the most high, how do you get man to turn his back on God?

Man is already a fallen rebellious creature, because he listened to the serpent (Satan) in the Garden of Eden.

If you’re Satan and you tell him not to worship God, he’s probably defiant enough that he will.  If you tell man to worship you, he’s defiant enough he won’t.

So what do you do?

For a start, how about give him lots of choices?

Worship the sun, moon, stars, idols, yourself, false religions, anything…….but the one true God.

Imagine taking a white ping pong ball and throwing it into bathtub full of yellow ping pong balls.  Now stir up the balls.

Now a lot of people are going to look at the tub and say “Wow, that’s a lot of ping pong balls.  Do I really want to take the time to look for the white ping pong ball?  When I find the white one, is it really any different than this yellow one I like over here?  Who’s to say the white one is the right one anyway?  By the way, what am I doing at this tub in the first place?  It’s down-right confusing and who’s to say I need a ping pong ball?  I’m a grown up, I don’t need no stinking ping pong ball.  Ping pong balls are for the weak which need to play with their toys and I don’t need that.”

Does this analogy ring a bell?  I think it does.  It was a lot of fun to write too.     

You see Satan isn’t stupid, he’s evil!  He’s gotten to know man pretty good after six thousand years.

Now if someone wanted to, they could bend down with the light on and look through the balls and spot the white one really easy.   

So how did such an easy thing such as man falling, Jesus dies to pay the debt, you accept him as Lord, and your back with God again, get so complicated?

Satan’s been working hard that’s why.  Look at that paragraph on the ping pong balls again.  It does make your head swim.  Some people out there aren’t looking for the white ball (Jesus), but many are and it is confusing.

Can you help them?  Do you yourself know why you believe what you do?  Can you help others that are confused?  Because they need questions answered!  We need to study the word and build a foundation so we can.

The next question is, will you?

John 21:17 – 17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
      Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”

    Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 

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JESUS – Just A Great Teacher?

05 May

I was recently inspired to write on this after reading a book by Josh McDowell.   Josh is a great apologetics teacher and speaker.  I encourage everyone to read some of his books as they can only strengthen your faith and possibly give you the information you need down the road for someone searching for the truth.  I believe he states the following in many of his books, but I was reading Skeptics Who Demanded A Verdict.

Many people and other religions out there belive that Jesus was a wonderful man or great teacher, but they don’t think He is the Son of God. 

Jesus in Mark 14:62 when asked if He was the Son of God.
 62“I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 

The Jews knew the phrase “I am,” referred to God.  They understood Jesus was stating He was part of the Godhead right there, and sentenced Him to death for Blasphemy.

John 14:6-7 – 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

So the question becomes if Jesus claims He is the Son of God, one with the Father, God in the flesh, is He a good teacher if He’s not whom He claims to be?

If He is not The Way, The Truth, and The Life, and others can get to heaven besides through Him, doesn’t that make him a liar?  In verse 7, He’s letting them know they (disciples) do know the Father now and they have seen Him. 

Once again, there are many people and religious groups out there that think Jesus was a great teacher, but wasn’t the Son of God, God in the Flesh, or is the Messiah.  But that’s a contradiction in terms.

Jesus was either who He said he was, or He’s lying.  If He’s a liar, He’s not a great teacher or good moral example at all.

One of the most important questions in your life is who’s Jesus?

I believe in researching and seeing the miracles in peoples lives, that He is the Son of God.  I believe He is God in the flesh and part of the Trinity.  If you don’t, Josh McDowell has many books on this subject and I challenge you to read them.

I don’t believe I quoted any actual lines in Josh McDowell’s – Skeptics That Demand A Verdict, but want to put down here that this post was inspired by it.  I encourage you once again to look at strengthening your faith by reading some of his books.  Evidence That Demands a Verdict is a great book and I think he has a revised edition of that also.

Jesus is either who He says He is, or He is the biggest imposter in human history.  He can’t be both.  Who is He going to be for you?

I stated before that one of the most important questions in your life is, “who is Jesus?”  The most important question is, are you going to make Him your Lord and Savior?

 
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