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Ode to Joy

Posted: November 22, 2015 in Chains from sin truly broken off...by JESUS...Mighty to change your life!, Uncategorized
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How does one achieve joy permeating their lives? Today’s headlines are determined to sap joy and replace it with fear…which is the diabolical plan revealed in the Bible verse that explains how the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.  Not only bodies are being stolen through evil and murder, but joy is being hijacked right alongside.

You see, satan is the great deceiver and counterfeiter. If God comes to give abundant life and joy, then the opposite, spirit of antichrist, prowls looking for ways to bring cowering fear, oppression and suppression of knowledge that Christ promised to return…that believers’ will have a secure heavenly home full of the joy of their Lord. I hear people say that following Christ…being a Christian…looking forward to heaven…is just a big buzz-kill — having to give up earthly carousing, addictions…bowing to the Biblical teaching that a person’s body is the temple in which Holy Spirit lives. But the opposite is actually true.

Heaven will be a place of light, joy and love from the whole trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Worship won’t be some kind of required ritual…but will be spontaneous when presented with the glory and majesty that is God surrounded by His heavenly host of angels and crowds of witnesses to His truth. Joy will burst forth with the realization that you chose to follow Him of your own free will while living on earth for that short time before we all step through death’s door and into eternity.

Hell is not some big frat party. It is the eternal absence of all that is good, holy, lovely and perfect. No light…but memory.  Remembering the chances to choose Jesus, but not repenting out of stubborn pride and arrogance that somehow YOU would be the first person to cheat death of another soul. Time to choose has lessened by one day since yesterday. If you still have breath, you still have time to choose joy.

God’s power can break your chains that tie you to the dark side. So many wait with joyful anticipation of the new Star Wars movie saga. It explores the idea of a dark side and a good force, but from a fictional set of Hollywood authors.  There is a real battle waging for your soul so don’t overlook that you must choose. Not choosing God’s son will become a choice for the “dark side” that will have eternal consequences. Use sound judgment in separating truth from fiction.

The Joy of Forgiveness vs. Strongholds of Bitterness

Posted: August 6, 2015 in Chains from sin truly broken off...by JESUS...Mighty to change your life!
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“Our God, you bless everyone whose sins you forgive and wipe away. You bless them by saying, ‘You told me your sins, without trying to hide them, and now I forgive you.’ (Psalm 32:1-2)

How amazing is that? Right from scripture — doesn’t really even need a commentary or explanation. God gives us each a chance at FREE forgiveness, if we only come to him repentant and wiling to change. Wow…what if the Costco sample people were giving away forgiveness instead of free food tidbits.  Would there would be a mad rush of pushing crowds begging God to hear their simple pleas…or would they take a pass and rush towards stomach-filling options rather than Spirit-filling relief for the soul.

King David of ancient Israel, writer of many of the praise songs we call Psalms continues by explaining the weight of guilt under the conscience which was placed within us by God himself: “Before I confessed my sins, my bones felt limp, and I groaned all day long. Night and day your hand weighed heavily on me, and my strength was gone as in the summer heat.” (Ps. 32:3-4) So we can take away that an unprotected soul — without Holy Spirit’s protection — can make a person feel physically ill.

Logical answer: “So I confessed my sins and told them all to you. I said, ‘I’ll tell the Lord each one of my sins.’ Then you forgave me and took away my guilt.” (Ps. 32:5) So simple, yet so profound.

Are you stubborn or submitted?

Posted: April 11, 2015 in Chains from sin truly broken off...by JESUS...Mighty to change your life!
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In Jesus’ day, the crowds surged around him viewing hundreds of healing miracles day after day for three-and-a-half years proving He was indeed the Son of God he claimed to be. Mark 3:10 records for history: “After Jesus had healed many people, the other sick people begged him to let them touch him.” Common, everyday folks like you and me recognized Him and put faith in Jesus. In the Gospel of Mark 3:11 even the demons immediately recognized him: “And whenever any evil spirits saw Jesus, they would fall to the ground and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!'” Now remember, the Bible is a book of truth, holy-inspired scripture of the Holy Spirit given to God’s loyal prophets to record because God is truth. There is no falsehood (lying) in Him.

Immediately before this scene in Mark 3:  , Jesus heals a man with a crippled (useless) hand on the Jewish Sabbath, or holy day in full view of the religious leaders (Pharisees). Instead of submitting to Jesus as the Messiah and giving God glory for this amazing act of mercy and healing, scriptures record in Mark 3:6 that “The Pharisees left. And right away, they started making plans with Herod’s followers (politicians of the day) to kill Jesus.” THEY WANT TO KILL HIM!

Jesus knows this full well. He responds in Mark 3:5. “Yet he felt sorry for them because they were so stubborn.” This is just one of the many instances recorded where pride wrestles with faith, as is the theme for much of recorded biblical history. So my question for you is are you going to choose the side of stubbornness or submission? Ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior over your life today. Every chain connected to those evil spirits from verse 11 will fall off of you. You will be a new creation.

Break every chain…

Posted: March 14, 2015 in Chains from sin truly broken off...by JESUS...Mighty to change your life!
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I find two songs very moving and anointed for that truth that God wants to break every chain that has been wrapped around you by the enemy of your soul. Afflictions and disease are not from God…he wants you well and healed.  The power of Jesus Christ living in you frees you from the snare of addictions as a replacement for the empty hole in your heart that powered that need for worldly replacements of love and activity-substitutes through addiction. “came so that we could be free indeed.

Song 1: “Break Every Chain” by Jesus Culture sings the truth that there is power in the name of Jesus to break EVERY chain.

Song 2: “Set Me Free” by Casting Crowns sings of a man tormented by demonic activity who is set free by lifting his chains to the God-man (Jesus) who walks by and freely offers healing and hope to all who believe in His name and saving grace.

Try loading them onto your listening devices and listen to truth…tune out the lies of the enemy.

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