GET RADICAL!!!

Mark 16:15 And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. This is my last blog as a college student and New Life Bible College. MY life has totally been transformed in the last four years that I have been here in Cleveland. This portion of scripture is the scripture that New Life is founded on. We are called as born again christians to go out and do what this Word says. We are not called to be ordinary. We are not called to be complacent. We are not called to be good "christian" people. We are called to be radical, sold out children of the most high.Our God is radical about everything He does and Is. He is a radical lover, healer, and savior. He radically gave His life up on the cross so you could be radically saved. God is desperate to use His kids on this planet to reach the lost and desperate of this world. Get desperate for Jesus. Know that He is head over heals in love with you. Allow yourself to fall head over heals in love with Him. Expect that every time you fellowship with your father, that you will be changed. The beautiful thing about this relationship with God is that we NEVER stop growing. Get filled up with God. Get to know Him like never before. GET RADICAL ABOUT YOUR WALK WITH HIM. Then go out and represent your radical God and let Him do everything He wants to do through you. I know that I am never going to be the same and neither will this world because of my God inside of me!!

I Love You --God

This is a really cool video just to remind you how much God loves you. We can read a famous verse in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus died for the whole world. He loves you and He wants you! Just let Him love you and watch yourself fall helplessly back in love with Him!! He's good!! He loves you!!! He wants you!!! He needs you!!

Take no thought! God cares for you!

If we read the great sermon on the mount that Jesus preached in Matthew 5-7, we can learn so much, but one part I really want to focus on in this blog is that nobody as a child of God needs to take thought or care for their lives. When we become born again, we become children of God, and God always takes the ultimate care for His children. It says in Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Jesus tells us not to take any thought for our lives because we have such a good heavenly father that wants to meet our every need. If you read on through verse 34 which I highly recommend, you will see how Jesus explain that the lilies of the field and the birds of the air and how they don't do anything but yet God takes care of them perfectly. It says in verse 26 are ye not much better that they and in 30 shall he not much more clothe you, o ye of little faith. God wants to take care of you, He paid a HEAVY price for your freedom from care. He paid a major price so that you would never have to go without or be in need. Trust in Jesus and let Him be your care taker, allow Him to do what He wants to do and meet your needs. Get this part of scripture inside of you, Jesus preached this for you!! God loves you, receive His love and walk in abundance!

Stop Being Mad at Yourself part one 1

This is one of a few teachings titles stop being mad at yourself on Youtube by Joyce Meyer. Just watch this and listen. God made us righteous and we need to decide before we do anything else to receive the gift that Jesus has already paid for. It does us no good to mull over past sins and failures and feel bad for ourselves. We need to accept the price Jesus paid and walk the good and full life Jesus made available!!!

GROWTH IN GOD= realizing WITHOUT HIM you can do nothing!

I believe the more I get to know God, to hear the Holy Spirit, the more I realize that He wants to be a part of everything in my life. He wants to help me make the big and the small decisions. He wants to hang out with me while out and when I’m at home working around the house or cooking dinner. He loves me more than any friend, husband, mother, father, or anyone ever could. He never leaves me, He never forsakes me. He is the best friend I could ever have. He is the comforter. He helps me to understand the Word of God that I am reading. I can’t effectively really read the Word of God and learn new things without Him speaking to me and being my guide. I am learning more all the time that I need to depend on Him for everything. We are told in John that without God we can do nothing and it is so true. It also says that in Him we live, move, and have our being. I believe that the more we understand how much we can’t do with God the more God can do through us and I have definitely learned that He does a WAY better job. It says in the Word that God gives grace to the humble. This is because people that realize how much they can’t do without God, the humble, are able to receive grace from God. We need grace to do EVERYTHING God has called us to do. We can do none of it on our own. SO I would say that this is the area of my life as a Christian growing in the Lord that I have grown the most in, learning of my inability without Christ. Religion always has and always will teach us what we need to do but the truth is Jesus did everything on the cross and only through Him can we do any of it. I believe that when we begin to understand the love God has for us and like the verse in 1 John 4:10 says, ( herein is love, not that we love God but that God loved us and sent His son as the propitiation for our sins) we will begin to truly fall in love with God and that is what will birth true change in our lives. I believe I have really begun to understand how much God loves me and I see the evidence of it in my every day life. I Think that this leads to growth in every other area. I want to read my Bible not only because I know I should and I need to learn things about who I am but I can get to know even more intimately through the Word about my God who loves me so much and that I have fallen in love with. This relationship is a love walk and I plan on falling more in love with my Jesus and the result of that will always be me acting more like Him as well.

ONLY BELIEVE!

Mark 5: 36, Jesus says, Be not afraid, only believe! When we see Jesus say this in scripture, it is directly following people telling Him that a girl He was going to pray for had died. Nothing moved Jesus!! He was a man like you and I, who got to know His Father God, and knew that He would do exactly what He said He would do and never even thought of another option. See, Jesus knew that it was God's will to heal, that it was God's will to prosper, that it was God's will for people to be free in their mind, etc. He knew God's will concerning these matters and that settled it. Jesus didn't just tell other people to only believe. He only believed every time without any second thoughts and we know and see in the Word that Jesus always got results!! He went on after telling the people to not be afraid but to only believe to telling the people when He saw the girl that she was not dead, but sleeping and He was laughed at. As  we can see in scripture, He was not moved because He was laughed at. If we are convinced of something we don't care what others say because TRUTH always wins. We have to get convinced of what the Word of God says and apply to our lives everyday. Jesus continued on put the people that didn't believe out of the room and told the girl to rise up and walk and that is exactly what she did. Jesus never even thought of another option. He knew that when He told that girl to rise up she had to because He knew His Father was true and true to His Word. We need to get convinced like Jesus was convinced. There is no other option. The Word is truth, completely ALL THE TIME, EVERY TIME and we must start walking in it and be convinced of it!

Joseph Prince - Speak God's Language of Faith - 31 October 2010

2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith and not by sight. We need to speak God's Word no matter what things look like. God's Word is true and it is real. When we speak the truth we will see it, but we must believe it in our heart before we will see it. Speak it until you believe you it !!