Heaven, God's Will for Your Life! Hell, Satan's Greatest Desire for You.

 

Greetings and Love in Christ!

  God will never force His salvation upon you or anyone.  He can make circumstances that certainly lead us to Him, and He moves mountains for us, undoubtedly!

It is the Holy Spirit of God Who draws you to salvation.  God can do all things, above anything we can imagine.  He works in little and big ways; nothing is too hard for Him, especially when it comes to us!  Working in situations and people's lives, the Lord is omnipotent and unlimited in abilities, strength, resources and creativity. 

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. 

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV)

 

Ask, Seek, Knock

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." 

Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

Jesus Christ is the Door of Life.  He stands, ready to answer you and to open the door.  He wants none to perish.

"The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance."

2 Peter 3:9 (AMP)

Almighty God

The Lord God is Creator of everything in the world and universe, including us, Whom He loves dearly~ above everything else that He created. 

He is holy. 

All people have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  The payment of sin is death.  That is why only the perfect Lamb of God, His Son Jesus, Who was and is without sin, paid the full and heavy price for each one of us, so that we who ask Jesus into our hearts and lives will be forgiven and live in eternity with God and Jesus~ the One God, the Triune God, Who includes the Holy Spirit. When you tell the Lord God that you believe Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior, then ask for forgiveness of your sins, He will forgive you.  It is as though He has forgotten all sin whatsoever; to Him, the sin is gone as far as the east is to the west. 
Ask Jesus to be the Lord of your life now and forever.  Make that decision...it is a choice, and it affects your destiny from now, forward into eternity.

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

John 14:1-7 (NIV)

 

God is bigger than any sin you have committed. 

Read about the apostle Paul:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2022&version=GNT

 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jeremiah 29:11-14 (ESV)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 3:5-7 (ESV)

 

 

 Do you know who wants you to go to hell? 

The devil- his name is Satan.

Satan is the greatest Deceiver; he is a master of confusion, evil, and the counterfeit.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 5:6-11 (NIV)

 
There are various aspects to get yourself to Hell, but the end result is eternal separation from God. It is horrible, beyond my ability to describe. Whatever you have seen in horror movies, those scenes most likely pale to the reality of being in the place called Hell forever and ever, with no reprieve and no way out.  The only beings there will be Satan, his demons, and other people who did not choose Heaven. 
What is the most horrifying, other than the fact of this place of evil itself, is that the person herself or himself chose Hell by ignoring or refusing
Christ, the Messiah. 
Please, do not let yourself be kept from God forever by stepping over and on Jesus Christ, ignoring the free gift He has given to us.  Please, do not let the way you were brought up, or the way you were not brought up, something someone said or did that devastated you, or even the way the world laughs in God's face all the time- trivializing and joking about our Creator, Giver, Healer, Protector, Provider, and the Lover of our Lives- let none of these factors keep you from the love of the Lord. 

 

Almighty God Wants You to Choose Life!

The One sure Way to go to Heaven for Eternity is to Believe the Truth Who is Jesus Christ! 

Does Jesus want you to be separated from Him forever? 
Absolutely NOT!  
Both the means and the manner whereby this Salvation is accomplished are clearly revealed in the Scriptures many, many times
(over a span of more than 1,500 years, Old Testament and New Testament, genuine prophets of God and other individuals pointing to Christ alone). 

"This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus Who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time" (1 Timothy 2:3-6). "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4:12) 

~SALVATION PRAYER~

Talk to God in your own words and tell Him from your heart that you want to be in His Kingdom and that you accept His gift of Life Eternal.  You may say this prayer, from your heart, if you like:

Dear Heavenly Father, I know I have sinned, and I want to be saved and live now and forever in true freedom.  When I pass on, I want to be in eternity with You.  I believe that Jesus, the Son of God, died on the cross for my sins; He took my place.  You spared not Your own begotten Son for me.  He arose from the grave and was with the disciples and other people who saw and believed in Him, then He arose from us to be with God, the Father, in Heaven to sit at Your right side to intercede for me.   Jesus also said that He must go in order to send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to help me.  I give my life to You, and I will follow You.  Thank You, Lord, in Jesus' Name, Amen.

 

I am writing a new post very soon to continue this subject- namely, to discuss the wonderful, exciting things of Heaven for which to look forward!  The goodness and greatness of it is magnificent! 

I ask the Lord to continue to help me in writing on the subject of Heaven as well as other topics of Jesus Christ that come in
"The Healing is Always Christ."

In Christ Alone, may I continue to write helpful and necessary postings.

 

In memory of a special Christian lady and friend, Carol G.

My beloved son edited this posting! Thank you.

Also, thank you very much to my advisers: my special pastor~ Chris Winn and dear, precious friends at church~ Nancy W. and Jan B. 

 Resources: The Holy Bible, Heaven by Randy Alcorn, 21 Most Amazing Facts about Heaven by Dave Earley

Breath of Life~ You are, LORD! At the Edge of Spring, He Brings Us Refreshment!

Sheer Beauty

Stretching

Your Hand out

 In Love,

Speaking~

To create the universe-

The land, sea, and air.

                             ~                               

Creatures of singular

Ability, shape, color, and size:

A tall giraffe wading through

A Sudanese river;

The beak of penguin

Nuzzling his baby

Under deeply fluffy

Stomach on feet.

                             ~                                

Shimmering horizons

Glowing,

Massive and deep mountains

Oceans of blue,

They-

All coming from You.

                                                           

   ~

A mother’s smile,

Holding babe the first, ecstatic moment.

                                ~                             ~

  Cavernous grandeur

In mighty waterfalls,

Seas,

Wandering whales, dancing

Breaking above the waves

As family.

~

Every fifteen minutes

Dolphins greeting and acknowledging one another,

Just because

They want to.

 ~

Herds

Moving as one

Across great expanses

~ 

Glorious fields of grain,

Growing hill-steps of beans,

Glistening, snow-packed mountains

With eagles rising way up high.

~ 

All,

Spoken by Jesus,

Savior and Lord of Life!

~ 

By dust we came,

Your most beloved,

By dust

We go.

 ~

In Christ,

We meet You daily and

In the bliss of Heaven

 Donna M.,

November 11, 2010

             Copyright 2012            

           

Abiding Love

 In God’s love for us

Through Jesus, His Son,

He showed us the beauty of

His creation

By taking away

ALL of the sin debt

Ever was, is, and would be,

So that

We

Can live forever

With Him,

Back Home

Has He ever taken away

All the beauty of the world?

Not ever.

The Ark

The Cross

Animal Kingdom

Weather

Herbs plants trees

Oceans and skies.

Most of all,

His pinnacle of Love,

Us!

 Word of Beauty~

Be alive in me!

Donna M.

c. 2010

                

The Living Word Who is Jesus Christ Himself (Updated & Re-shared, February 25, 2020)

The Living Word is Jesus Himself

and the Word is The Holy Bible

Did you know that the Word of God is the Bible, and it is also Jesus Himself?! Read the Book of John; it is my most favorite.  To get started, read these words, full of Life-giving Water (soon, read the story of the Samaritan woman at the well with Jesus in John, Chapter 4), that The Word Became Flesh:

~Scripture Passage~

(John 1:1-18, ESV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life,^[a] and the life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. ⁸ He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. ¹¹ He came to his own,^[b] and his own people^[c] did not receive him. ¹² But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, ¹³ who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh [my emphasis]and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) ¹⁶ For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.^{[d] 17} For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only God,^[e] who is at the Father's side,^[f] he has made him known.

~~~I am filled with such emotion and Joy in the Lord every time I read these words because I know in my heart that it is the magnificent truth of God and Jesus.  Beyond my ability to explain fully, I am wonderfully thankful to be a daughter of the Lord and already welcomed into His Kingdom when I first truly said "Yes!" to Him at the age of 25.  And so it goes, I am secure in the love and protection now, and forever and ever with God.~~~

Please see the prayer below****and pray it to God, or tell Him in your own words if you have not, as of yet, accepted Him as your personal Savior...also, if you are uncertain that you are saved- then...make sure now.

 Suggestions for Books of the Bible to Begin Reading and for Further Enjoyment

Other good books in the Bible are Genesis, Job, Daniel, Isaiah, Psalms and Proverbs.  In the New Testament (or New Covenant) you may enjoy these books: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, of course.  Favorites of mine are 1 and 2 Timothy, Ephesians, Romans, Philippians, and 1 and 2 Peter, to name a few.

Two and One-Half Years Ago (Now, 4 years at update, 02/15/2017) I Had No Intention to Write This Blog

The actual idea for this blog, The Healing is Always Christ, came from a small booklet of my poems, about 20, that I felt nudged to put together as a theme or topic and to give to friends, but during that time I heard from a most wonderful lady of the Lord, Joni Ames, who has God-given spiritual gifts in teaching and the prophetic, and she uses them to encourage believers and to edify God.  She mentioned my writing on more than one occasion and inspired me to write!  Specifically, she felt I should be writing a blog- of all things, I thought!  http//:www.joniames.com/

"A blog," I thought..."that is the very last thing I would want to write!!"  What would I say?  Some individuals appreciate poetry, and that was my writing interest over the last thirty years...  By the end of a year or so, the Lord had completely changed the way I thought about writing a blog.  I began thinking of topics; they would come to me as I was driving, then scribbling them down, themes and points were being put together. 

Now I can see the endless possibilities!  God has been faithful each time for the postings, and I have a complete trust that He will continue to give me ideas that lead to writing what is useful to the Christian community online, fervently believing that we can grow in our walk with Christ and one another.  Without a doubt in my mind, finding soon-to-be-believers is the main reason I am writing.  It is more difficult to be sure in the natural, but I am sure that He is faithful and provides what is needed to be written and to be read~ by specific readers/viewers~ for His plans to be accomplished within the readers' lives and other important situations.

Even including the technical know-how, basics and programs to start a blog: God took care of me in those things.  My dear, close friend, Michele Cole, sat down with me and through her already doing a blog, she knew how to help me make selections from the options of space on the format to make what I wanted, so that I could use it to make postings about God and how He heals us, among other things.  Thank you so much, Michele, for your technical know-how and help with this blog.  I could only accomplish what God has set before me through a mechanism online- this blog- so she made it happen!!  Michele also encouraged me in the prophetic of what she was seeing for me.  Praise God. 

(See Michele and Ken Cole's blog at: Want Insight? Sonlit Fields)

^{Lend Your Ear!}

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
⁷ Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Proverbs 3:5-7 (ESV)

As of this update, today, 2/15/2017, God has blessed the blog with going on 35,000 page views...Praise His Name!  I am so grateful and only boast of Almighty God; He is the Only One worthy!  The Lamb of God, Who is Christ Jesus.

We are almost at 5,000 total page views (as of 4/17/2014) now with every continent being represented, and many new! countries coming on to view this blog, plus many more from over the world already!  Praise the Lord for His righteousness and faithfulness!  He loves us in extreme proportions!!  The Lord wants to have a close relationship to us, to rely on Him, need Him, and talk to Him, then to pass on and love others as Jesus Christ, the Son of God, showed us how: reaching, teaching, caring for, giving, healing, helping to reconcile folks to God.

God wants every person not to perish but to have eternal life with Him!! He is no respecter of persons, which means:

He loves each and every person, all peoples, and 

He wants you in His Kingdom, forever, enjoying the full Life that only the LORD can give us.

1 Timothy 2:4 (Amplified Bible, AMP)

^{4[God] "}Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth.

He paid your sin debt in full.  God the Father sacrificed His Son Jesus Christ so that Jesus would be our substitute.  God is holy and requires justice. There had to be the perfect, spotless Lamb of God because

God wants no one to fall, He wants each one of us in Heaven.  He created you and me, you know?  He loves you more than you can realize or calculate.  

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)

Here is a prayer that you can say to accept Christ's gift of salvation for you.  The only thing needed by you is a willing heart and spirit.  God will not force anyone to worship and to love Him.  He did not make robot-like creatures.  We are human beings made in His likeness, and He gave us free will.  If you are ready, pray this prayer or say one in your own words; talk to Him:

****Dear Father in Heaven, I know that you cannot have sin for you are completely Holy.  You are also patient and longsuffering, kind and loving.  You made me because you simply want me to be made in Your image so that we can have a genuine, loving relationship together. 
I have fallen short, made mistakes, and sinned many times.  You know that I am not perfect and cannot be perfect in this world, but I do want to say, "Yes, Lord!" I believe in You, Jesus, as my personal Lord and Savior.  Please come into my life and make me a new creation.  I know you love me more than I can fully understand right now, and You can help me to grow and to live in your will for my life.  I want to live always with You, not separated for eternity.  Thank You,
In Jesus' Name, Amen.

If you have asked Jesus Christ into your heart as your Savior and Lord, Hooray!  This decision secures your place with God in Heaven, and you will find yourself looking at things in a new way. 

Will you be perfect and make no mistakes?  No.  Yet, you will want to do the right thing.  Will you face temptations and desire to do things the old way?  Yes, you will.  However, the Holy Spirit now lives within you and will help give you strength, comfort, and guidance.

1)  I suggest that you talk with other Christians, new ones and certainly "maturing" believers who have been followers of Jesus for awhile.   2)  Find a good church!  It needs to be one that focuses on God and puts Him above all, centering on Jesus Christ and using The Holy Bible as the important guide for life. 
3)  Read the Word every day. 
Additionally, get a good devotional as a support such as Oswald Chamber's My Utmost for His Highest, or God Calling, edited by A.J. Russell. 

Write me for other books or devotionals.  (You may contact me directly at my personal email: dmh8285@yahoo.com  Please put the word BLOG in the subject title and some refernce as to what you are writing about; thank you!!)  
Ask your question/s to a Christian you trust.  Find him or her 
at your church...Important suggestion- please select a person of the same gender: woman to woman or man to man to study or mentor.  I know from personal experience when I was much younger- nothing immoral happened, but the temptation is easily there.  Between Satan trying to wreak vengeance upon believers and our own minds in a broken world, especially with all that we see in film and society, it would be easy to fall.
By the way, when we face a situation that we feel uncomfortable or are thinking thoughts that are unhealthy and wrong, 
TURN
and
 WALK AWAY, RUN IF YOU MUST.
My pastor taught me the turn, walk, and get away idea in a sermon some years ago in the last decade.
4)  Pray often! (The Bible says unceasingly.) Ask God to help you as a new (or older) Christian.  Tell Him what is on your mind.  He wants to communicate with you, more than we can fully realize!

God bless you and keep you in the most important decision that you will ever make. 

Have Joy! at what you have decided in accepting- you are in the family of the most blessed people on the face of the earth, truly! 

ENJOY THIS VIDEO ABOUT HOW ONE FOLLOWER OF JESUS SEES THE LORD!!

Click on the link below to see and to hear a video on youtube:

That's My King! by Dr. S.M. Lockridge (Official) Most Excellent!!

HAPPY EASTER!

CHRIST IS RISEN!

+++Praise God for His uncountable ways to send His message of salvation to all people, in all nations!!! 

As the song, We Worship You by Israel Houghton says, "People from every nation and tongue, from generation to generation! We worship You, Hallelujah, Hallelujah! We worship You for Who You are...You are Good! All the time, You are Good..." and so it goes.  Click on this link:

Israel Houghton, LORD, You are Good!
(Young Christian people worshiping God and singing and dancing for Him)

 Donna M.
 Updated April 17, 2014
and again on February 15, 2017 and February 24, 2020
THANK You, PINTEREST, for the lovely picture at top!  God bless you.
May Christ richly bless you as only He is able.  He is your Creator and mine.     :)

The Healing is Always Christ Thursday, December 27, 2012 Emmanuel, God With Us! What a God We Have That He Would Come to Save Us! And...A Prayer of Salvation!

Merry Christmas, A Most Sacred Time of Year

Sending You Blessings, Joy, and Love in Christ, the Lord Jesus

 Hi, Friends!  I am re-sharing/re-releasing this posting

for Christmas 2018 and the New Year 2019!  
May you grow closer each day to the One God, Who loves you more than you or I can truly imagine at this time.  I hope you have accepted His gift of Salvation, for He is LORD!  He is loving, kind, longsuffering, merciful, trustworthy,  just, and Holy~~~forever and ever.  With Him, that is where you and I want to be for eternity!  Do not pass this moment up to commit or to re-commit to the Lord God Almighty, 
only through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior.  
Love came down that Christmas-time in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago!  
He came to teach us, to love us, and to show us the Way, through the total sacrifice of Himself for our sins because He is the only Perfect Lamb of God- Jesus is fully God and fully Man, and He is interceding for you and your loved ones now in Heaven on High!  
The Holy Spirit of God comes to indwell your life when you accept Christ as your Living Savior- 
the Living Water and Bread of Life!  

I have put a ***Prayer of Salvation for you to say for Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior now and forever; it is located toward the very bottom of this posting.  When your life here on earth ends one day, you will go to Heaven and live fully alive without fear, illness, accidents, heartbreak, starvation, sadness, but with all of the remarkable and lovely things we can only imagine, as God meant from the beginning for us when your mortal life here is over.  Right now and continuing onward you are in the Kingdom of God, and you will begin to grow and to be able to see the things of the Lord in a more blessed, assured, and enlightened way!  You can pray directly to God the Father. He will give you insights through the Bible and His fellowship; He will guard and protect you in even more ways.  God bless you!  Always know you can talk to the Lord God at any time about anything; ask Him for your needs; praise Him for the good things you do have.  
(We are to praise Him in all things, and I see this more and more...please read

Romans 8:28, or go a little farther with +++Romans 8:28-31, See below.)  
For Salvation and to walk with God each day, you can read the prayer from your heart with your true intention, or~~~ just tell Him in your own words that you believe His Son Jesus died on the cross for you, ask Him to forgive your sins, and tell the Lord you commit your life to Him...

Waiting for the Promise

 I love the way

Everything just stops

For a little while

At Christmas…

All of the craziness

Ceases,

And we bow down

To worship

Our Lord and King, Jesus.

It’s so soundlessly

Beautiful,

As we all stop

To stare

At the newborn Savior

Of heaven and earth.

Donna M., >>>Copyright 2008

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sweet little Dove

From heaven above:

Come down, from on high,

To prove Yourself King,

By and by.

Donna M., Copyright 2008

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Shepherds and knowing kings

Still follow Him.

Donna M., Copyright, 2008

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(Written about my mother in her last few years.  Now, she is in Glory forever, basking in the Love and Light of Jesus.  Oh, how Royce and I miss our parents, but they are at their very best in age, appearance, ability to do ALL that is there to do and to enjoy! with no problems of any kind...we would never want to call them back from that, nor would we be able to do so.) 

She was so weak in her circumstance,

Yet she sought the knowledge- the Word – of her Lord,

And she sought His desire for her life in prayer.

So the Savior gave her His comfort, strength, and love.

What more could she ask of Him? 

Donna M., Copyright, 2010

Perfection in Snow

Being together on

a snowy day,

From within~ peeking outside,

Just beyond the door.

What do we see?


White, fluffy snowflakes,

Floating from the sky

Down and around us.

>



>

~~

****

* ** *

Peace. Comfort. Love.

That is how it feels

With family,

When snuggled in

Together.

While the snowstorm
Gently surrounds us,

From celestial heights,

Safety and comfort

From God reside.

Only He can make us secure

In complete white;

His Season has arrived.

It is sure,

And all is perfection.

Donna M., Copyright 2009 

The Wee Babe

From so far above,

Came down to reign

In our hearts with His love.

A new heart so tiny,

Yet with everlasting Life,

As He lay in the manger,

His life would be one of sacrifice.

Knowing our weakness~

He knew before time,

It must be that he would die for us,

Little Lamb of God sublime.

That night in the barn,

Stars, shepherds near,

Kings from afar;

Angels did, indeed, prepare them all.

The Bethlehem star, above in the east,

Was set by God’s Hand

As His ultimate timepiece.

 Donna M., Copyright 2010

With You

Those utterly most precious moments

Just with You~

Serene or full-tilt,

There’s nothing that compares.

Oh, how I covet those sweetest moments

If they are only for a few seconds-

Eyes filling with tears of Joy

I guess because I get a hint of the Love

You feel for me…and for all of us.

Such supreme happiness and appreciation,

Because: You have healed me.

You have been there even when I

Did not know it through the tough times.

You have shown me friendship in like-minded and the needy.

You have given me the most beautiful Jesus as my Savior

And the Holy Spirit to comfort and guide me…

Because: You Love me.

Thank You, Lord!

Donna M., Copyright 2009

“Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments…
Deuteronomy 7:9

***A Prayer of Salvation

Dear Father in Heaven, I know that you cannot have sin for you are completely holy. You are also patient and long-suffering, kind and loving. You made me because you simply want me to be made in Your image so that we can have a genuine, loving relationship together.

I have fallen short, made mistakes, and sinned many times. You know that I am not perfect and cannot be perfect in this world, but I do want to say, "Yes, Lord!" I believe in You, Jesus, as my personal Lord and Savior. Please come into my life and make me a new creation. I know you love me more than I can fully understand at this time, and You can help me to grow and to live in your will for my life. I want to live always with You, not separated for eternity. Thank You,

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Jesus said:

“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."

Matthew 5:43-48

Please be sure to go to this lovely poem ~~ from my very close friend and 
Christian mentor Jan Bracken.

From Crib to Cross to Crown and I Am a Present

+++"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" 

Romans 8: 28-31, NKJV

We are the most blessed people on the face of the earth and forever~~~ because we have 
Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, always!

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Jesus Christ!

Donna M.