Has God forgiven you

You may, sometimes, have doubt of your Salvation, especially when you find you are no much better than before.

Don’t rely on anyone else to get the confirmation, rely on Jesus and the word of God in the Bible, which says,

 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us.”( 1 John 1:9)

GOSPEL IS FOR ALL

No one preach ‘Gospel’ by force, all are telling others the Love of God reveal in Jesus Christ. None is force to respond. But all who enjoy the love of God in Jesus Christ are commanded to tell others that they may receive and enjoy the Love of God with all the blessings.

What God said to our Lord Jesus Christ is written in Isaiah 49:6 – “He says: “It is too small a thing for You (Jesus) to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacobs and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make You a light ( to give the message of God’s Love for all) for the Gentiles (all tribes other than Israel) that You may bring salvation to the ends of the earth(all people living on earth).” (Isaiah 49:6)

Therefore, Jesus came to the world and after teaching the Good News of Salvation of God through Him, He died on the cross as a sacrifices for all that all who believe in Him (Jesus) and accept Him as Lord and Saviour (no longer make sacrifices to please God as Jesus has sacrificed His life once for all for who believes in Him), have everlasting life with God. This is called Gospel. 

Love others as you love yourself

 “Love your neighbour as you love yourself” says Jesus in Matthew 22:39.

But, do you love yourself? 

If you do not love yourself, you are not qualified to love others!

If you love yourself you must care for your life, body, mind and spirit. You must eat and drink what is best for your body, mind and soul. You must love your creator God, who created you to be His obedient child. You must come to Jesus, who love you and died for you so that you may become the beloved child of God. You must accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour. You must always pray for His constant help so that you may live a good life. If so, He will send the Holy Sprit  to help and guide you live a good, success and joyous life, a life worthy as the child of God.  When you love your creator God and have life with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit guidance life, you will be qualified to love others.

LOVING OTHERS

God created man to have close relationship with Him. God created woman (Eve) to be a helper and companion of man (Adam). Genesis chapter 2 says that after God had created Adam,He created Eve to be his helper, read : “ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Genesis 2:18)  “ Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.” (Genesis 2:22)’
Therefore, God’s design is that we must have relationship with Him and also have relationship with other human beings as friends, family, co-workers, neighbours and so on.
Jesus tells us that our first duty is to love our Creator God and love others as well saying 
 ”‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-39). 

GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION COMPLETE IN JESUS CHRIST

The Word Became Flesh :
In the beginning was the WORD(Jesus), and the WORD (Jesus)was with God, and the WORD(Jesus) was God.  HE (Jesus)was with God in the beginning. Through HIM(Jesus) all things were made; without HIM(Jesus) nothing was made that has been made.  In HIM(Jesus) was LIFE, and that LIFE was the LIGHT of all mankind.  The LIGHT shines in the DARKNESS, and the DARKNESS has not overcome (Or understood ) it.
 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.  He came as a witness to testify concerning that LIGHT, so that through him all might believe.  He himself was not the LIGHT; he came only as a witness to the LIGHT.

12. JESUS IS OUR FRIEND

Every person need friend, to accompany, to share and to help him. True friendship is what everyone need. We may not have true friend here on earth. However, Jesus is our true friend in every situation and everywhere.
Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ says, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15:15).
Be proud to be a friend of Jesus, the Son of God. He is all powerful and can help you in everyway. He accompany you everywhere and in every situation. He promised to be with all the believers ( who accepted Him as Lord and Saviour) specially in His work: 
“ Then Jesus came to them and said,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)

GOD IS LOVE

 God is Love. Out of love, He made a plan to save us from eternal condemnation even though we have sinned against Him. We know that life is full of misery. ‘Sin’ enters into the world and brought all problems in the life of human being - pain, suffering, injustice and diversified problems. All these are the result of mankind turning away from the Creator, God. Yet God love us so much that He had planned a plan to save us from the power of sin since the very onset of sin and its ravages. So, the Bible says, “God is love. This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:8,9).

        “God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

        By knowing God is Love, we must live a worthy life to be in His love. We will be able to live Christ like life only by depending on God’s love. Study the Bible daily and pray continually. Ask God to fill you with the Holy Spirit to help you in His love.

RELY ON JESUS TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus know very well our weakness that we can not live a good spiritual life in and obey His teachings without His help. So, He wants us to rely on Him as small children completely rely on his parents. If we rely on Him, He can help us life a perfect live and follow even all the teachings of the Bible.
Jesus says, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. (John 14:1)
Jesus also says that we will do many good works (bear fruits) if we get His help. Read :
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” (John 15:5-8)
A small child believes that his mother and father are the strongest, the richest, the most powerful and having everything. He cries when he thirst and mother give him milk. He cling to his mother or father when he fears something and believe (without any doubt) that his parents can protect him from any threat. Our Saviour Jesus wants us to trust Him like that. He tells us to come to Him in any problem. Read :
 “Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
Write ‘Amen’ if you commit to come and ask Jesus to help you always. May Jesus be with you always.  

Accept Jesus to become God’s Child

All who live in Christian family or members of the Christian Church are called Christians. But all are not Christian in the true sense. ‘Christian’ means ‘follower of Jesus Christ’. We find that not all Christians follows Jesus Christ truly. In other words, ‘Christian’ is those who have life in Jesus Christ or who have the life of Jesus Christ. A true Christian is one who believes in God and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
There are many Christians who do not ask and accepted Jesus Christ to be his or her. Lord and Saviour. They live in Christian Society, live in Christian family and are members of Christian Church, but never call on Jesus and ask to forgive their sin. Some even don’t know whether they are sinner. Many Christian consider one is sinner he or she committed sin – is drunkard, adultery, murderer, a thief and non-believer. They do not know that it is a sin against God if he or she does not ‘believe that Jesus is the Son of God and is the Christ (Messiah), They do not know that Jesus died on the Cross to deliver on behalf of us, to deliver us from the eternal death penalty we ought to have due to sin. They do not ask forgiveness of God as they do not truly understand. They did not confess their sin against God and called on Jesus, did not accept Him as their personal Lord and Saviour. These Christians are nominal Christian.
The Bible tells us that all have sin against God and have to die eternally. God loves us so much that He does not want us to die forever. He, therefore, sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world to die for our sins. The Bible says,
 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

When you sincerely ask Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and to be your Lord and Savior, you are accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
Again, the Bible tells us saying, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."  (John 1:12-13)
Therefore, you become a child of God, when you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior,. Your sins are forgiven by God and accepted you as His adopted child and gives you have the right to have eternal life in heaven. He has given you a new life in Jesus Christ to live a blessed life even here on earth.
You are not a Christian because you are a good, perfect, member of the Church or live in Christian family. You are a Christian because you have sincerely asked forgiveness for your sins to God and asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior and have accepted Him as the Lord and Saviour, to control you of your life. This  is why the Bible says in John 17:3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
Write ‘Amen’ if you call on Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Saviour and become ‘God’s child. May God bless you.

Have a blessed Life -Part 1

Without God, Life is miserable. Dreams shattered. Life on earth seems full of flattery. Health, too gives us problems some times. Our beloved ones become selfish. Many lost hope and faith in everything and become frustrated. Out of frustration, many persons turn to alcohol, drugs and other intoxicated things and lead miserable life. Some joint anti-social elements and many girls destroy their life  
God does not created to be so. He created us to be happy and live a joyous life. God loves us and want to bless us. When one fail to get God’s blessing, life become miserable. Majority of us fail to receive His blessings due to ignorance that lead us to negative way. We have to learn how to receive His blessings so that we can have a blessed (full of satisfaction) life.
God tells us to love each other as He loves us. This love prepares this simple but effective guide with prayer to God. Please study prayerfully few lines daily with prayer to God from this ‘Have a blessed Life’ page and receive the blessing of God in Jesus name.
When we were infant and up to childhood, we lived very much in touch with our parents, as we fully depend on them. Our parents cared us so much that they provided all our need and we also trust our own mother and father to be the strongest, the most powerful and be able to give us protection from any threat and also can provide us whatever we demand. A child in his mother’s breast is never afraid of anything. If he finds some threat, he cries and immediately clings to his mother or father and feels fully safe and secure. When man was with God in the beginning, man was like the child. Even, if we are with Jesus Christ, we behave the same way.
God created all the created being in the beginning. He created man and woman to live with Him as His children. God created them in His image and breathed life through their nostril. Man became living being. This ‘life’ which God gives them means God gave them His Spirit by breathing in His ‘spirit inside the man He created. Thus, man became a ‘living being’ with the ‘Life and spirit’ of God. This ‘spirit’ of God bears the ‘image’ of God. Till man has this ‘life’ and ‘spirit of God, he had no problem but live without any disturbances in the sight of God.
God loves man He created in His image. Out of love and care, God had given them free choice for living life. Unfortunately, Man had chosen to live on his own will and disobeyed God’s will. This disobedience of God is ‘sin’ against God. Made became a mixture of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ (see Genesis 3). God is Holy but man became ‘Mixture’ or ‘unholy’. ‘Holy’ means ‘the most pure, only good quality without any mixture’. We may, therefore, say a ‘mixture’ is ‘unholy’ and the term ‘Good and Bad’ signify ‘mixture’ or; unholy’. Man, after entering ‘Good and Bad’ in his body, became a ‘mixture of both Good and Bad.
‘God is Good’. ‘Sin’ is ‘Bad’. Man, after consuming the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Bad’ became a mixture of ‘Good and Bad’. Therefore, God sent out man from His presence to preserve His Holiness. Since then, man live miserable life by living life far away from God.  However, God knew that man was deceived and led to ‘sin’ by the power of sin (Satan – here ‘serpent’). Therefore, though He sent out man from His presence to preserve His Holiness, God also made a plan to purify man again.
God plan to save again from the power of sin, to purify man again so that man may become His child. God told about His plan to both man and Satan that He would cause enmity between man and Satan. The enmity will continue in between the children, descendants of man (and woman). Ultimately, the power of sin (Satan) will be defeated (crushed or killed or totally defeated) by the ‘offspring’ (descendant) of woman. Thus, God declared the ultimate ‘Salvation’ of man from the power and bondage of Satan.
Why, God ‘offspring of woman’ or ‘Eve’ (Genesis 3:15) and not the ‘offspring of man’ (Adam) when in all other cases God talked only to and about man (Adam)?
This is a clear indication that ‘the Saviour’ who will defeat Satan will not come through man but through woman! This ‘Saviour’ has already been born, in a virgin woman (Mary), who had conceived before she married Joseph and born Jesus (the Savior) 2000 years ago in Palestine. Jesus was not born from the blood or seed of man but from God (the Holy Spirit).
Let us repeat – God is Holy. He can not live with bad, even with a mixture of ‘Good and Bad’! He, therefore. Set apart His Holiness and kept man separate (far away) from Him. This was set aside for sometime, to make it clean later. So, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to clean man from sin (a mixture of ‘good and bad’) by deadly defeating the power of sin (Satan) in man( John 3:16).
God consider and accepted man to be with Him again as ‘Holy’ when Jesus Christ cleansed the sin stain man.
God made very easy for His created man ( all man and woman) that He consider ‘Holy’ whosoever believe and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour – not because of their good deed and living a good life but because of Jesus. Jesus Christ clean and live in any one who believes in Him and accepted Him as Lord and Saviour. God accepted the believer as His ‘adopted child’ and give the Holy Spirit live in that believer. Thus, the ‘Holiness of God’ is restored in that man and is consider duly qualified to be called ‘the child of God’, worthy to live with the Holy God again! Praise the Lord!