2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in Righteousness.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of Grace, that we may obtain Mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need.

2 Peter 1:16

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses to His Majesty.

2 Peter 3:17

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

1 john 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us.

1 John 2:15a

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.

1 John 2:25

And this is the Promise that He has promised us, even, Eternal Life.

1 John  4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His Will, He heareth us.

2 John 1:10

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.

Jude 1:5

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Revelation 20:15

And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Friend, if you feel depressed please know that Holy God loves you!

We all desire that others love us and find us worthy to be loved, but God's Word tells us that we are all infected with evil and this being Truth, we must understand that no other human can love us in the way our soul cries out for.

Some of us find true love and enjoy it's rewards but even if we asked those people if they felt loved 100 per cent of the time we would find that they all would say, "No. But it is enough that I feel truly loved."

The Truth is that we are incapable of loving another in the way their soul longs for. This is because God has created us so that only He can fulfill us 100 per cent.

Ah hah! He made us this way! So confront the depressed feeling that tells you "You are not loved, not lovable, not worthy."

Speak to the accusation in this way, "God loves me! The Most Perfect and Holy God of All Things, loves me! He says I am worthy to be loved! He died for me on the Cross to fulfill the Father's Plan for my Redemption. Praise God, Hallelujah! I believe!"

In His eyes you are not unworthy. Perhaps you are a sinner, but He died so those sins could be forgiven. You just have to accept that what He did is sufficient for the Father's Love for you to be Pure.

Other people's judgements of you are not at all interesting to God. He sees you in a different Light. He knows that when you turn to Him and reciprocate that love, you will listen to Him and be able to discern how to turn your life around so that you will heal and be filled with His Spirit where depression cannot live.

It may be a short journey for you to finally feel whole, but that is the direction God will take you in when you place all your trust and love in Him.

Friend, are you one who will go to great lengths to justify the way you have made for yourself; the sinfilled bog you are mired in?

Without the Holy Spirit released freely in your soul and spirit you will never see your own sin for what it is. An abomination to God.

Many of us get caught in sexual sin.

We love to justify own own brand of sexuality. The hardest sin for humans to admit is immorality, before God.

We want to believe that all we  believe about human ardour is allowed, perhaps not what others indulge in, but our own lusts and abberrations, are ok!

How ridiculous to Holy God! 

Today we are bombarded by television ads, magazines, movies, and pictures that continuously push the boundaries open to expose more and more what satan knows will enslave us into a bondage that is difficult to escape.

Satan has always used images and words to do this ( plenty of evidence in history) but today he has new mediums to work in and many are there, of our brothers and sisters who blindly do his bidding, getting rich off his generosity.

It's all a trap.

God asks us to listen to Him. He does not deny us satisfaction in this area of our life but He has designed a way for us in this area that will keep us clean before Him, untainted by satanic sin.

We must know Jesus personally, and we must have the Spirit in us.

The Spirit's Holy oil helps all the moving parts within us to be free to move. Without Him, we are unbelievers or just creaky old barely alive in Christ, vessels. 

We read so much information when seeking and searching for Truth, that is so obviously not filled with the Spirit that it is just "mumbo jumbo." Desperate attempts to convince oneself and others that the path they have chosen is "historically correct" therefore leads to the ultimate afterlife experience.

Those souls are lacking true knowledge. Deluded, deceived and it will be proved to them, either by the Holy Spirit whilst alive or by the Father in the afterlife.

Personally, I would not wait until the afterlife to find out I may be wrong.

Best to want the Truth now and plough on, taking the new Path to search and seek for Truth for myself with the Holy Ghost's help, not some satanic demon disguised as a guru.

Let this be a warning to every soul who is so self righteous in their beliefs because of what has shaped their past, that when they deny Truth, it is recorded, duly noted that the Son of God was never given the place of Highest Honour. 

No, better to leave the past at the foot of the Cross, ask for the Spirit's help to find the Truth, and then be available for the journey. Humble and ready to know Jesus and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

What better witness for God than a repentant sinner who is saved by Grace and Mercy and fully embraces the Lordship of Jesus over their lives because they have a personal relationship with Him.

Jesus is your Friend!

Yes, He desires to have a friendly relationship with you. He is not a friend as the world counts a friend. He is a Friend who loves and cares and helps and is always there, who gives the best advice, who sees ahead the dangers that await you, and can guide you on the Righteous Path that leads to closer fellowship with Him and Everlasting Life for you.

He will never leave you, even though you may leave Him, forget about Him, forsake Him in many ways!

Jesus will not help you be a thief, or commit any sinful deed and will remind you of sinful thinking that is not tolerated, but He will rejoice with you in times of joy and happiness, and will fill you with Love and Peace and Truth, Wisdom, and a sound mind.

Are you ready for those things, friend?

Just turn to Jesus and ask Him to be your Friend. He is the all-weather Friend. He is available to you at all times. He is ever watchful over you. He will alert you to troubles that lie ahead.

Don't worry, be happy! He will soothe your angst, your restlessness and angers at the injustices that have been heaped upon you.

Just be childlike in your faith and believe in Him. He is God and will go before you as a Mighty Warrior to slay the demons that have you bound. Just allow Him to do what is His Will for you and walk in His footsteps from the darkness into the Light of Christ.

Friend, God wants committed strong believers but He calls us first as small children asking us to have a child-like faith.

Children are very open and innocent and look to adults as the sustainer and nourisher and soother of all their needs. They fully believe that we will supply everything they need to be alive.

They trust fully ( until we break their trust ) that we will supply love, food, warmth, shelter, entertainment etc.

They have happy hearts, they sing and dance in the moment, assume that everyone loves them, that nothing is impossible for them.

This is how God wants us to look to Him. Our faith needs to be child-like.

He asks us to believe that He is the One who Loves us and will provide all our needs. And like any good parent, He will show us when we have stepped over a boundary that will bring us harm if we continue down that path.

Become a trusting child of Almighty God! The benefits are so fulfilling to our souls.

Let  your answers always be "Yes, Father."  

When you notice that He convicts you of a sinful thought, perhaps critical of others, immoral, selfish - you will know it if you're listening with a child-like spirit, immediately your response should be "Yes, Father. Help me to cleanse that from my thinking."

Jesus told the disciples in Mathew 3:3 Except you become as little children you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Worldy ways had become the norm for them. Masculine ego was a part of their personas. They had to make livings to survive and their days would be filled with upmanship.

Jesus asked them to humble themselves to Him and not use these worldy ways in their faith with Him.

He knows we have to live in the world but He asks us to have a child-like faith in Him.

Friend, we must ask ourselves the hard questions about our mortality.

I have found that we like to put them off. We try to hide from God and we also while denying that He exists, rail at Him because of our circumstances!

We can't have it both ways!

He either exists to us or He doesn't.

It's a fact our bodies come from the womb and our bodies cease to live at some time; we die.

It's a fact that while we live, we think.

Our thoughts cover all kinds of subjects. Not only food, shelter, danger as we perceive the animals doing.

No, our mind is capable of much more complicated thought processes.

But there is not Purity in our thoughts. They are definetly tainted with impurity; anger, revenge, greed, malice, pride. We have unbalanced egos.

WHY? That is a big and hard question that we must ponder.

Why are we born only to die like the natural world when we are at the top of the food chain?

Why must everything die?

Are we just evolving like evolutionist thinking proclaims?

Why do we not see the changes happening?  When did evolution stop? What era or year was evolution ground to a halt? When did it know that man was now "ready" just to be "man" and no more evolutionary growth was needed?

Why do we find everything has an innate mathematical part to it? What is that all about?

Why are there Laws of the universes that cannot be broken, but must be accomodated by us? Those Laws control us, not we them!

Why is this world the only and perfect place for us to live ( even though we spend billions on trying to find another world)?

Why do our finest minds in the scientific communities know they are only discovering what is already in place; that they are not discovering something new, but just another layer of something very Perfect that already exists and has existed for a very long time?

Are these things worth thinking about, for you? Do these questions simmer at the back of your consciousness while you go about living?

This is the Spirit helping your spirit to seek answers.

Have you embarked on a course to find the answers and believe you have found something that gives you all the answers?

As a guide to examining the present course your life is taking you should find a starting point from which to peel back the layers.

The Holy Bible is a great foundational work that a person can use to seek the perfection of the layers of belief we have stored up within our psyche.

It can be the Sounding Board that you bounce your thoughts and ideas off while investigating what you see as a truth yet one that is a bit leaky, not fully formed, having no end or beginning, recognizing immorality in it that cannot be Holy, not feeling absolute, requiring too big a leap of faith, giving no guaratees. 

Many are the souls who have done this and have found the One True Way and have that guarantee of Life Eternal with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Friend, ask yourself the hard questions and let the Holy Bible be your source of information.

Friend, there are many "ways to heaven" described in a myriad of books, taught as truth, which to God are abomination, because satan has inspired them through his knowledge of God and the Heavenlies. After all, satan held an exalted position in God's Presence. He was privy to what God had revealed, but not privy to all God knew!

These books, scrolls, manuscripts, passed down "knowledge" speak of other dimensions, heirarchies, schemes, worship of nature and ideas, other worldly dieties and so forth.

Let's suppose that all are real for the sake of this one small article and just a small space in it.

Some highly evolved minds after observing nature, or taking part in meditative thinking, or ingesting hallucinogenic plants and tapping into satanic traps, have penned their deluded findings and through their own (evil inspired) thinking have hit upon some aspects of God's Universes, and His Knowledge, and His Plans etc., and have deceived many through the ages. 

But friend, they all miss this one thing.

God; who can do as He pleases, because He is Law; owns it and makes it and carries it out to the letter, but never changes what He has put in place because He is perfect and makes no mistakes; has come to earth as He planned in the form of a baby, humble, poor, full of simplicity and not of greatness (to confound the wise), to fulfill the Law that was written by the prophets of old who were guided by the Holy Spirit; who told them what to write even though they may not have understood fully the Plan of God.

These chosen by God holy men, were wholesale believers in God who is Perfection, therefore why would they add to the Word given, and wrote as directed through Holy Ghost inspired, visions, visitations and dreams.

The fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies is Jesus of Nazareth. God did not give up His Diety when He came to earth as a manchild.

His Mother when she asked Him to perform his first public miracle of changing water to wine, knew her son Jesus could do this. Why? Because she had witnessed that everything He touched in the home was made beautiful. It is written in the Bible that His clothes were so highly desired when He was crucified, the Roman soldiers tossed "dice" for them!  He did not have money to spend on the best! He didn't need it. His Father provided the best for Him. He could put on an ordinary garment and it would be immediately transformed into perfection. The water became wine, and the best wine as spoken in the Bible, because He inwardly desired it to. The water obeyed Him.

God coming to earth as a man but fully God. Only Jesus of Nazareth's birth, life, crucifixion and second coming (still to come), was prophesied. None other. 

God says there is no other Name by which man can be saved.

He will not accept all our own ideas - which are influenced by the evil one of this world whether we believe that or not. God knows it is this way as He knows all - to our very core - even the things we don't know about ourselves.

God specifically tells us that His Law (which is anything He says because He never speaks an untruth) provides for One Way for us, today while we live in this world.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life Everlasting. Jesus Saves.

We live in the time after the Great Sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary and belief in the Son is the ONLY way God will accept for us to be allowed into Eternal Life with Him.

He says all other ways are owned by satan and are skewed copies of His Plan, but the stamp of approval is going to be the stumblingblock known as Jesus that many will not humble themselves before, because they have been deceived by satan through other worldly teachings which they prefer to believe. And that is their free will choice.

The Father does not want anyone who wants to argue with Him.

We cannot prove one thing to Him. He will prove all to us at the Judgement. Our souls do know this fact but we cover it up with layers of "not wanting to believe that."

Friend, unpeel the layers now!

This Jesus is the One Who divides the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, the believers from the unbelievers. It's the simplest and most profound Way all at once. 

Some very good and lovely people who are wise in their own eyes are just not able to bow the knee to Jesus. He's not the King they want.

If in all your studying and researching and finding you do not find that Jesus is God's Son and He is God, then you have a false religion. It may be close but that one fact will not be there. He may be described as a teacher, prophet, wise man, spiritual being, leader, but never as God's Son. You may be told that you can be elevated up the ranks by doing "whatever" but friend, you will hold that position in hell only, not in the Presence of Almighty God. Only those who claim Jesus as Lord and Saviour will be welcomed into Heaven.

Satan will never say that Jesus is God, King, Lord, Saviour, Redeemer. Satan can't disprove Jesus's existence so he allows Him to be a teacher or some lesser person, never Who He Is, God.

It's that simple.

But one day He will return as the Majestic King, full of Power and Glory but it will be too late when they see Him then, as God will have closed off the Way.

The only reason this hasn't happened yet is because God has workers in the fields and He sees those whose hearts can be snatched back from satan. Yes, He wants your heart and soul. He is doing all He can to reveal His goodness to you!

Friend, today is the day to explore what this post has alluded to. Begin your journey of spiritual awakening with the Holy Spirit as your guide and put aside all of your previous knowledge of whatever religion you have aligned yourself to. (You could always go back when you decide you are an unbeliever through and through.)

How many times must you be witnessed to by the simple people of the Carpenter from Nazareth?