Friend, God's Word likens humans to captives which are in need of being set free.

If God by His Holy Spirit is telling us this; then we must realise that we are not His captives.

By His Perfect Knowledge of all things He says we are captives.

In His Word He says that we are captives of evil; which is owned by satan.

Some of us are willing participators in evil works with satan, so do not see ourselves as captive; but captive we are, for our soul's ultimate Owner is the Creator of it, Almighty God and He is telling us we are held captive by something other than Himself.

However at any time whilst we are still alive in the flesh, we have the Holy Right; because of Jesus's Death and Resurrection, to make a leap of faith, and choose to follow Him when we come to realise The Holy Truth.

This one choice, will free us from the chains that hold us captive.

That choice for Jesus is life changing when it is a heart decision.

Perhaps you've been dabbling in the evil ways; perhaps you have a certain power over others because of your evil ways, perhaps you have found camraderie with other like minded searching souls.

Perhaps you have an itch in your heart that you actively cover with the lusts of the evil realm to soothe yourself; but you know deep in your heart that you're on a slippery slope, and it seems unlikely you will be able to get off, and so, you go whole hog at the evil delights.

Some indulge so much that they use others terribly; secretly abusing them in every way yet living "normally" to the outside world; hiding in plain sight!

Well, God knows it all.

It's on your account.

Nothing is hid.

Yet He places some blame on satan and his dominion; the fallen angels, and has made a Holy Lawful Way for you to extricate yourself from satan.

At any moment, you can say, I've had enough. 

Jump ship so to speak.

From The Cross at Calvary, Jesus has His hand out to you. 

He's saying, "I Am willingly paying the Price required by The Holy Law of My Father, for you to be Redeemed.

You can be with Me in Paradise after this life.

I Am The Word Who created you, gave you life. I love what I have created.

All your sins are being nailed to the Cross and I am paying for them by your own hand that helped weild the hammer.

Through God's Grace and Mercy My Blood will cleanse you from your sins, and they will be remembered no more, if you by your free will choose Me. 

You are on the other side of a Great Chasm that separates Good from evil. I have laid my body down, paid The Price, for you to walk over from the evil side, to God's Glorious Kingdom.

Forgiven!

I have completed the Divine Purpose, and The Law has been satisfied, and you have a choice."

Friend, our Father knows us deeply; in our innermost hiding places, He is able to read our thoughts.

There is nothing hid from Him.

He knows the why and wherefores of every choice we make.

He had a Plan for us before we were born; according to His preknowledge of our soul.

Yet He also gave to each soul the Holy Gift of free will to make it's own choices. In those choices, He will weave our story according to His Holy Law; into His Great Plan for All Things; gently proving His Goodness and Soverignty; but if at the time of our death, we haven't chosen His Way and Will for us, thereby showing Love and Respect for Him, we, having self willed our own existence, we will be of no use to His Kingdom anymore. 

For self will, ego is the domain of satan and he will claim our soul and God will allow that for it is our choice.

Our soul will have chosen with full knowledge of what they have done, (even though professing something different to the world,) the path to death; the path away from the Presence and Love of God; Father, Son and Spirit.

God calls that "foolishness."

We're not playing our own game here on earth. We're not the champion of the world. 

We're actually in God's creation. He's not in ours. 

We're subject to the Laws of Who He Is.

And, He is Good. Above all in thought, ability, knowledge.

He is the Maker of every Law. Law which upholds all good things.

There would be no Light without Him. Only darkness and chaotic wilfulness would remain.

Every scientific fact we find is a very tiny of a part of the Whole; of Who He Is. 

When we can agree with these facts; that God has to be these things in order to have the Highest Place of Power and Knowledge; we should desire to know more about Him.

In His Word we find many things about Him which could and will keep us spiritually entertained for many lifetimes!

In His Word He speaks to us, and because He is Pure; every Word is a Truth; a Holy Promise.

Jesus having taken on the human form and lived among us has a complete understanding of all of our needs from shelter, food, water, clothing, family bonds, friends, and the ability to be free of oppression, disease and corruption.

Having been tempted by satan in the wildreness He also knows the full ugliness of evil. He understands fully our human condition yet He also understands the reason we are here, and this is why He so willingly came to save us; because we were so lost from our first condition in the Garden, where we knew God intimately.

Psalms 23:1-6 - (A Psalm of David.) The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want.  

Psalms 37:4 - Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of Peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 15:7-8 - If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 

Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His Purpose.

2 Corinthians 1:20 - For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Philippians 4:6-9 - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  

Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:4 - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

The Bible when read, is found to be full of perfect answers to our problems.

In it we find Words that convict us in our soul, of the wrong path we are on; Words of comfort; advice for daily living; how to have peace in our homes, encouragement for providing for our families; prayers to say to God.  

And in The Holy Bible, Jesus by The Spirit speaks, to our hearts and minds, in a supernatural spiritual way, to encourage us to continue seeking Him, to continue having a personal communication with Himself.

He tells us there is a place for us in His Kingdom, but we must be cleansed from all unrighteousness, (sin.)

He shows us that He made a Way that is approved of by The Father, for us to be cleansed from sin. 

He demonstrates that He is Trustworthy; not a liar, and points out who the liar is. (satan.)  

He proves His Love for our soul, which He tells us, is created by Him, and given specifically to each of us individually. 

We're not random blobs. We have a Divine Purpose to fulfill.

Friend, we believers have a Comforter for our soul's journey on this earth.

He is able to calm the raging seas of doubt and confusion; He surrounds us in the fires as a shield, we will not be singed though we find ourselves in a fire for a season.

When we focus on our Lord, The Comforter is ours to hold onto. He is present here on earth at our Lord's Good Pleasure as a Helper of mankind to show The Way, to reveal Jesus The Christ of God to us individually in our spirit.

Holy Spirit to mankind's individual spirit man. 

He works in the supernatural realm. He is knowable to us by our soul's heart.

He works to break the hardened shell, the brick walls we have put up to keep out harm.

He sees supernaturally the darkness within us and has the Answers we need. 

First is to shine God's Holy Light into the cracks He makes. That Light drives out darkness.

In the Light, we experience God's Love for us.

In the Light, many things are revealed to us.

We find Truth. We desire to know what He has to say; we begin to read His Word.

All these things come from The Holy Spirit who loves us and is gentle and all knowing.

He will run to anyone who is curious about who Jesus is; anyone who desires to know God's Truth; anyone who is totally spent and has no willpower to move into Heavenly thinking.

The Spirit says "come all ye who are weary and I will give you rest."

Friend, Happy New Year to you!

Every year we get to think ahead for a bright and hope filled future; for we do not know the future in any way; which way it will go for us.

Depending on our outlook on life we may think "Oh just another dud of a year is coming my way; look at my current circumstances; nothing good will eventuate!" 

Or, we can choose to be filled with hope and determined to have a peace-filled year; to work hard, to greet others with respect no matter who they are; to forgive past grudges, and deeds done against us.

As a born again, spirit filled Bible believing Christian I have a knowing in my heart that God is Good and that I am on a Holy Path that leads to Everlasting Life with Him; belonging to Him in His Kingdom of which is all creation. My thoughts are full of Hope because I know The One who died for my sinful nature to be Holy, by Holy Law, Forgiven.

I know that even if sickness or unforseen tragedies befall me, I will always have Hope; knowing He is the calmer of storms; the healer of the ills of mankind, the provider of all my earthly and spiritual needs, the wise one who will guide me to Truth, Love and Peace.

Knowing these things, sets me free from worry and anxiety. It allows me to focus on "The One Who Loves" me.

He went willingly to The Cross, to be a Holy Sacrifice, to pay the price required, for me to be Forgiven. Before I had asked Him to forgive me, before I had repented of my sins; He did this for me (and for you.)

While I was a sinner, He offered Himself up to be Sacrificed, for His Blood to flow on the earth; so that one day, when I was ready to repent, The Grand Offer, would be available for me to receive; completed in totality for all sinners and all sin if they chose to accept The Holy Offer.

We were on Their Mind, (Father, Son, Spirit) when the Plan was made in Heaven with The Father; for Jesus The Son, to come to earth to be God's Holy Sacrifice; to suffer the punishment for all sin, the weight of which no-one else could bear; the blood of no-one else was Pure enough; being already sinfilled.

We were chosen. Mankind, God's Creation because He called it Good and He will make it Good again. We have served a Purpose and the sin which we willingly undertook will be wiped out according to His Plan.

Only The Holy Blood would suffice to appease The Holy Law. This Holy Sacrifice has not been offered to Satan and his followers. Only mankind.

No blood of unclean animals would ever suffice to pay for the sins of all souls; as was used in The Temple in Jerusalem as a sign, to The Jews, that God required blood, for the payment for their sins.

The Jews showed their knowledge and acknowledgement of their sinful natures by bringing the purest unspotted animals to be slaughtered for their sins every year, knowing according to The Old Covenant, they would receive Forgiveness for their past year's sins.

Other sects and nations, creeds and so forth, knew that Pure Holy Blood was the only good sacrifice, and employed blood sacrifices (babies, innocent children, virgins,) also but those were instituted by Satan and they were sacrificing to him as if he were holy.

A New Covenant was needed. It had been built into God's Plan for mankind from the beginning, should man fall into the hands of evil, because we were placed on the earth safe from evil in The Garden of Eden; but yet, evil had a certain dominion over the earth as well, and man fell for it's charms - even though God had spoken to them about the fruit of that certain tree; "DO NOT EAT THEREOF." (Danger, Poison, Detour, Not good for you!)

Man could still be prospering in the Garden of Eden following the Holy Trajectory of Good but man chose something else. He listened and followed satan, instead of The Good God, that Adam and Eve knew intimately; and that caused our fall from God's Perfect Holy Law. Because we are of the family of Adam and Eve of whom sin entered the whole human experience thereafter. (That's what God was warning them about; sin would go into all generations, all flesh, all the earth.) 

Through Adam and Eve the earth itself has become sin infected; and all it's Perfection has been downgraded by sin infection.

This New Year you could have Hope from above, Peace from above, there could be Joy from above in your life, Wisdom could guide you, a New Path with a Friend who never sleeps and Loves your soul and spirit could be yours, and most of all; you could know what Holy Forgiveness is like.

Seek Salvation for your sin nature that tempts you and causes sorrow and pain. May this be the year of your Holy Redemption back to the One Who gave you the soul that is eternal and subject to Holy Law either the Old Covenant or The New Covenant.

We can choose to accept the New Covenant brought for us with The Father's Son's Blood.

Mankind has that Right because of Jesus Who paid The Lawful Price with His own flesh and blood.

It's just a matter of believing in your heart that Jesus died for you to have a New Life; and saying "Yes, Lord, I believe. Help me."

Friend, most people do not realise that God has a Way to show all creation which souls are His.

On earth we guess. 

Maybe someone is wearing a cross necklace; but is that just decoration sometimes used by unbelievers, to confuse, deceive, delude other humans.

Maybe someone goes to church every week and we consider them staunch Christians; but is their heart with God; or do they have doubts about God?

Maybe they sing praises in the church choir; or are they just getting choral training to further a career?

Maybe they send their children to Sunday School; but do they just want some peace on Sundays away from the children?

Many are the reasons we give to say this or that person is a saved soul.

But we do not know for sure.

We can only know whether our own soul has been redeemed.

Only God truly knows.

This world houses two types of souls that ultimately belong to God; all souls being His to Judge.

We could say the world is in a state of preparation for God's Ultimate Redemption of souls; taking back those souls which desire to be with Him.

When the Courts of Heaven are ready for The Great Judgment all of The Kingdom's occupants will be witness to the Judgment of earth souls; and all will see that The Judge is Righteous before The Law which is our God.

The two types of souls which have lived on the earth; saved and unsaved.

Believer and unbeliever.

Lover of God and hater/denier of God.

All creation is aware of the situation; the angels of God, the fallen angel demons; satan himself, all the inhabitants of The Kingdom of God!

God's Word says that the angels in Heaven rejoice for God whenever a soul accepts Jesus as Saviour.

They are immediately welcoming and have a new soul to minister to by The Spirit's leading.

When we accept Jesus as our Saviour King, we please The Father and The Law aspect of Himself.

We are then made Whole before The Holy Throne of Grace and Mercy.

The Blood of His Son, Jesus our Saviour, is The Holy Covering for our soul; that makes us identifiable as Redeemed, Saved by The Holy Sacrifice of Jesus at The Cross.

The Blood of Jesus is the "one thing" that we must have to be accepted into The Holy Kingdom and not have to stand before The Judge at The Judgment of sinners.

We all get a chance to know The Truth. This may be your chance. 

Do not take it lightly. 

Today, you are alive for another minute; you have a choice to make.

Accept The Spiritual Truth or stay with the earth's frivolity and foolishness taught to you by the satanic army which has no power, no truth.

Satan is under Judgement. His sentence and punishment has been proclaimed thoughout God's creation of all things: and in God's Perfect Timing of His Law, we will all see his end, and that of his die hard followers, while the saved will join Jesus and rejoice.

God has spoken and it will come to pass for He has All The Power over all things He has created. He created none higher than Himself so satan definetly loses.

Friend, God loves you.

He wants to redeem you back to HIm. To do this our soul has to be in right-standing with Him.

To receive us unto Himself; we must be pure like Himself. 

He is Righteously Perfect, and we cannot attain that by our self will. 

We cannot discipline ourselves enough.

It is only by faith, that we are can become Righteous.

And that must be Perfectly Righteous as well.

Living on this earth we show our unrighteousness by following after our own evil desires. 

They have overtaken our mind, body, heart, soul, and spirit.

We have excommunicated our self (our soul) from Him. 

On earth by His Law there are two unseen realms at play that involve our soul.

We would define them as supernatural.

One of course is God the Holy realm, and the other is His adversary Satan the rebelling fallen angel Lucifer in the supernatural demonic realm.

The Bible doesn't hide this fact. It is woven throughout God's Word to us, as a warning, and because we are brought into this life with a soul that belongs to God, He has built into that soul the knowledge that He exists.

Everyone has it.

Along comes satan and his demomic army to quell those thoughts, to overcome our self will, block out anything to do with God, and destroy our soul, and body.

Satan is very good and accomplished at what He does. He has gathered many souls; by their own free will.

So we become sinners very quickly.

When we're children, it's laughed off as cute, rambunctious, headstrong, naughty; then as we become adults having had now been left to our own devices, many of us become criminal at worst, and rabid unbelievers at the least.

At a point in time of His choosing according to His Law, having given mankind time according to His Law, to recognise Him; God looked upon the earth and it's inhabitants of which, is all His creation; both earth and peoples; and He saw (knew) only small numbers of people walking righteously in faith; believing that there was a God; having never seen Him but having given thought to the earth, the peoples and all the workings therein; realized there is a Creator who is Perfect and Righteous, but not knowing Him.

One such person was Abraham who God declared righteous in faith that, there was a God and He must be Good and Righteous. He was the only one whose faith was Righteous before God.

God rewarded Abraham for his faithfulness, to make him the earthly father of many nations and peoples; through both of his sons Ishmael and Isaac.

As time went by Satan continued to be demonic; the father of liars, leading people into various cults and religions of which he was the one they worshipped and prayed to. This is still one of his modes of operandi.

Desperation was upon the earth. The Jewish peoples descended from Abraham and Sara were serving God as best they could. At the same time satan came into the minds of their temple leaders who detoured from the Scriptures by their own devising of additional words which were never said by God to them, but by satan, and the people were caught in rituals and regulations; revering and obeying them more than their God. 

To keep the people pure; the priests had devised overbearing rules, which only served to prove none could keep them. The people were burdened continually under the rules.

Then the time had come for the next phase of God's Lawful Plan for mankind. (caused by Adam and Eve's fall.) 

To save His favoured people the Israeli's, the Jews of Judah; He declared His Son be born into the earth in the confines of a human body; into the faithful line of Abraham descended from Adam.

The virgin girl Mary a faithful believer was chosen (from the beginning) to be the Mother of Jesus, Who would come to save His people first; and God knowing what would happen, but giving all time to be fulfilled in their ignorance, He then died for all mankind who would receive His Sacrifice with Holy Blood shed, for their sinful souls.

Only Holy Blood satisfies The Law. Pigs and goats, doves and sheep cannot - they are not Holy; coming from the sinfilled earth.

Since that Sacrifice on The Cross at Calvary, the only Way God will allow a soul to be Redeemed to Himself is through the accepting of Jesus as it's Saviour because of the Price He paid for their sin nature.  Jesus was God's Spotless Lamb; offered up to pay for the sins of mankind. If we cannot recognise what Jesus did for us then, we will be counted as belonging to satan.

This is so hard for many who are in love with their own self. Some do not know that they are actually following satan; and some do.

Our self; the ego eagerly bows down to satan because our ego is full of pride and arrogance. He is the father of these things. 

But if at any time, any soul independently, by The Holy Spirit's revealing constantly to them, wakes up and sees in a spiritual way, that they are following an evil desire, and evil thoughts that God will never tolerate in His Kingdom; chooses to accept what Jesus did on The Cross for them personally they will be counted as Righteous before God. 

This is me. I woke up. I saw the Beauty of The Cross and what it represents to God. I realised Jesus died for me and I could be made whole before God The Father if I surrendered my will to Him (kowing He is Gentle and Kind.)

By His Son's Sacrificial Blood, He made a New Covenant with mankind. All who would receive the King's Gift of new life and Redemption into the Holy Kingdom of Peace, may be a partaker by uttering a few simple words to God.

Holy Forgiveness was offered to all in His Crucifixion and with the Resurrection He proved He was God. 

Each of us has been given a life and some time. We call it a life journey. 

We can come in our sin rags to The Cross, and look up knowing He is nailed there by our own sins. 

He's paying the price we should be paying.

Many of us are selfish and make this life all about ourselves. God will not interfere with that choice but He does have His Holy Spirit working around us at all times to tirelessly warn and guide each soul; even though we ignore Him.

But one day at the Judgment, we will not be able to point the finger and accuse God of not being there for us. 

He has covered in His Perfection every evil angle we will try to goad Him with. 

It simply won't work for He is Sovereign God.

Only by The Blood shed at The Cross by The Son of God, who is God, may we receive Eternal Life with Jesus, as a brother or sister. We've been grafted into the Vine.