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"What I Believe about God Is the Most Important Thing about Me" - A.W.Tozer
Lately I meet more and more people who are desperately search for something. We are made in God’s image and it’s a desire in us to find that relationship with God. But often people try to fill that need of God with all kinds of gods.
Many pick pieces of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam and they mix it together picking the parts they like to fill their needs. People praise the Universe, and Karma for their success of failures, yet few acknowledge that there is ONLY ONE GOD.
I personally know ONE GOD only, and I am not apologetic or shamed about it. The God I know is the real God, his name is Jehovah – Yahweh. He is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega, he is my shepherd, my salvation, my provider, and he is my healer, the Almighty God, my Father.
You might call me radical, but my God radically changed my life. He took all my sins, all my failures, all my mistakes and exchanged it on the cross for a new life.
I don’t know theology and I don’t know all the religious facts, I know one thing, that God changed my life. Gave me peace in the midst of my turmoil and loss, gave my strength when I had none, gave me hope when I couldn’t make it, provided when for months a job seemed totally hopeless.
How do I know that the God I know is the real God? He hears me when I call and answers my prayers. Does your God do that? Can Your God hear you? Can he deliver you? Do you know him personally? Does he know your name? The number of your hairs on your head? Does your God talk to you personally?
I don’t believe in a God image … I trust a God who is real, the one and only God, my God.
The biggest problem today is that people try God in their ways. If God is real then he should do this and that and the list goes on … I challenge you today for one thing: Tell God that you want to know him personally … and let him choose the ways he will show himself to you.
The biggest problem even within those who call themselves Christians is that we ask God something and we want to tell him how to answer and deliver our requests.
Can you imagine a three year old – when telling to her/his parents that she/he is hungry to go to mom and say – Mommy I’m hungry (this is how 3 year olds communicate) and then it would say: I want you to go take some veggies, and meat and peel the veggies this way, and cook them that way and serve them to me this way. Did you ever hear anything like it before? I haven’t. Kids are kids. They ask for their needs. And they trust that you that as a parent will fill that need in the best possible way.
Yet we often instead of asking God for our needs, and wants and desires … we want to tell him how to deliver, and if God doesn’t deliver the way we want him, then many say he doesn’t exist.
Can you imagine the 3 year old say to his/her mommy or daddy: well you didn’t make my food my way so mom and dad you don’t care, you don’t love me, therefore you don’t exist. Awkward isn’t it? And yet how many do the very same thing with God.
The Bible says that when people called to God, he answered.
At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD. Genesis 4: 26B
The only way you will know God personally if you call on him, and let him be God. Let him choose how he will answer your calls … I can tell you one thing, He will answer. Sometimes our problem with God is - not that He's so far away that we can't hear or see Him - rather, He is so close that we overlook Him. Our quest for God is just like fish in search of water. He is everywhere around. You have to choose to see him and acknowledge him in little things in your life, just as the big things of your life.
My prayer for you is that you will know God as personally as I know him and more. I know God desires a personal relationship with you; he loves you and wants your very best. I know he is totally heartbroken when people praise his creation instead of himself.
The Bible is full of verses when people called upon God and he answered, but I want you to have this personal knowledge for yourself. Having a relationship with God has to be personal. I love the Bible stories, but they are only stories. God doesn’t want you to believe in stories, but to trust HIM, to know HIM, to have a personal relationship with HIM. You will stand firm in God only when you will know him personally, that’s why I know God and I trust in him totally because I know what he did and still does in my own life.
Who is YOUR God? Do you know him personally? If you have questions I am more than happy to hear them and encourage you to dig deep to really know the God you think you know. Don’t get caught up with a God image, but have a personal close relationship with God.
P.S. The pictures I choose reflect how I know God, if I could describe the realtionship between me and God the pictures would be a perfect description.
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- God’s Desire
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God desires a personal relationship with us. Understand that God wants to give you a life filed with joy and peace. God wants us to have a life not just to make it through but an abundant and eternal life because he loves you.
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." ~ John 10:10
"We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" ~ Romans 5:1
But to giving you abundant life required the supreme sacrifice:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" ~ John 3:16
What a wonderful gift the Father has given. If God gave His own Son to provide an abundant and everlasting life, why more people don’t have what He has designed for us to receive?
- Our Problem
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We were created in God’s image for an abundant and joyful life with the ability and need to know God and have a personal relationship with Him. But our freedom of choice of disobedience caused a separation and gap between God and us.
"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" ~ Isaiah 59:2
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." ~ Romans 3:23
People always try to fill that empty void in their lives with "things." They even try good works, morality, and religion. Yet they remain empty, for only God, through His Son, can fill that emptiness.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” ~ Proverbs 14:12
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." ~ Romans 6:23
Our Problem is that sin separated us from God. But
God provided only ONE SOLUTION
- God’s Solution
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God has provided only one solution to sin and separation from Himself.
Jesus Christ, His Son, is the only way to God.
Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin and rebellion against God and bridged the gap between God and humanity by dying on the cross, shedding His blood, and rising from the dead to justify and reconcile you back to God the Father.
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." ~ 1Peter 3:18
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." ~ Romans 5:8
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." ~ Ephesians 2:8,9
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" ~ 1Timothy 2:5
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. “~ John 14:6
God so loved us that he gave his only Son to bridge the gap between us and the Father. God has provided the only way, the only solution. You have to take a decision and choose how to respond to God’s provision.
- Our Response
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Your relationship with God can be restored and you can be brought back into his family by trusting in Christ alone who can save your life from destruction. Jesus is the bridge to the Father but you have to choose to trust him, you have to make a step forward him, you have to step out in faith and give your life to God. At the Cross you can exchange your worst for Jesus’ best.
This step happens by asking Jesus Christ to take away your sin and to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior.
The Bible says...
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." ~ Romans 10:9"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." ~ John 1:12
"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." ~ Revelation 3:20
Would you like to invite Jesus to be part of your life, to be your Lord and Savior now? You can start a new life with him. It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from, what you did in the past. When you give your life to Jesus you can start all over again. With Jesus you can have a new chance again.
- Receive Christ
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If you too need Jesus to give you a new start, if you realized that Jesus is all you need then here is how you can receive Christ:
Admit your need (I am a sinner).
Be willing to turn from your sins (repent).
Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the Cross and rose from the grave.
Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit. (Receive Him as Lord and Savior.)At this moment you can pray the most important prayer of your life by simply saying:
Dear Lord Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God. I believe you died for me on the cross and shed Your blood for my salvation. I believe you rose from the dead and ascended in Heaven. I believe You are coming back again to earth. Dear Jesus, I know I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. Forgive my sins. Cleanse me now with Your precious blood. I want to turn from sins. I invite you to come into my heart. I give you my life now. I want to trust and follow You as Lord and Savior. I receive You now as my Savior, my Lord, and my God. I am Yours forever, I belong to You only. I no longer belong to this world, nor to the enemy of my soul. Amen!
If you sincerely prayed this prayer, confessed your sins, and received Jesus Christ into your heart, God has given you the right to become His child.
The Bible gives you this assurance:
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ~ Romans 10:13"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." ~ Ephesians 2:8,9
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