MAKE DISCIPLES

Matthew 28:16
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Okay most of us are familiar with this scripture verse but really if we are honest with ourselves how many of us are doing this? How many of us are living this kind of life. There is more to it than just going to church. More to it than just knowing the scriptures. More to it than preaching at church! I have been listening to the Holy Spirit and what Jesus is saying to us all right now and it is simple.
MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS!
Revelation 2:1
1"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. 4Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Okay here is what I get out of this “You have forsaken your first love”. I can remember when I first really gave my life to Christ. Everyone I meant knew about it and knew what He did for me. I could not help but to talk about Jesus and who He is and how much He loves us. I was like a little kid in the candy store that was promised I could have anything I wanted. I was on cloud nine per say.
I think the Holy Spirit is telling us, that unless we get back to that first love status, and start really making disciples of all nations we are in big trouble. Especially as a country. Look at the miss USA pageant Ms Californian is being hammered just for stating that she believed marriage should be between and man and a women. What would have happened if she would have said anything about Jesus? What kind of Nation is this that we can no longer speak the Truth? What has happened is that we have fallen asleep.
Revelation 3:1
1"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. 3Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. 4Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. 6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Lets wake up as a Nation as Christians and get back to just telling people about Jesus and stop worrying about what the world thinks. It does not edify the Church or God for us to set around and simply complain as our Nation our Christian Nation slips away because we can’t motivate ourselves to share our Lord with others.
Heavenly Father we hear you and we ask you to bless us with the right word to bring our nation into a discipleship with you. We ask you to hide us from the enemy as we share with others about you and to water the seeds and make them grow and for us to help you however you need us to. Form Man to women, from Son to sister, from Neighbor to co-worker, from shopper to door person. Allow us to share your Word of Truth to everyone we meet.
AMEN.

A prayer

Revival
Please pray for everyone that you know and everyone in general that was baptized as a child or adult that surrendered their lives to Christ. But for some reason or another have decided to slip away from Church and God. Pray for God/Jesus to put a revival in their hearts. Our country needs this and so do these people that have slipped away.
Thanks,
Lord God I pray for everyone that knew you that surrendered their live to you at one time or another that have seemed to slip away, Lord put a revival in their hearts.
AMEN

What do you need to be healed for?

What do you need to be healed for?
Many of us walk through each week taking on the world and really taking the world in. For instance TV, I am more and more convinced the modern day TV/Cable programs are killing our society. I believe we should take on the world by prayer, living the examples of Christ Jesus and loving others. If we spend more time watching TV programs than prayer and loving others than we will be taking in the world and all its crap that says everything is cool and acceptable, nothing is bad and all is good. Not true for us as Christians.
So my question for us is what do we need to be healed from every week? Any why do we need to attend Church weekly?
For me it is the TV/Cable programs I watch and could possibly slowly accept. Like the show called saving grace. Sounded like a cool name and has an angel that appears to the lady named grace. Sounds good right? Wong!!! Show is packed full of sexually immoral crap. I am taking this show off of my TiVo and refusing to watch it. And plan to contact the programming director complaining of the issues I have with this show. As Christians we should do more than just refuse to watch, “I believe.”
I am not going to throw out scriptures just simply ask you to examine yourselves and see what it is each week that boggles you down with worldly crap. Take a look at the things you do and ask you, “What do I need to be healed from?”
Take one thing each week and ask God to heal you from that. He will reward you for this I just know it. Paul requested us to do this before we take the elements of the body and blood of Christ examines yourselves and ask for forgiveness before you receive. I think this will improve our walk with God if we take the time to do this weekly instead of once a month.
Thanks,
“Lord please heal us all from our weakness and our daily intake of worldly things that hinders us and please keep us in step with you and where you want us to be. Amen”

Wake up and forgive.

Matthew 18
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[f]
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents[g] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.[h] He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.
29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."

I woke up this morning agree at a man that I had trusted that had failed me, lied to me and my family, stole from me, and damaged my home. I was angry that my own cousin had this man as a friend on her face book page. On my way to work I was praying and talking to God and suddenly this passage spoke to my heart. Instantly I began to speak out forgiving this person, although I am still agree, and will most likely never trust this person again. I can’t help but wonder if I have really forgiven him. I hope that I can. When I ask Jesus to forgive me of so much more than anything this guy did to me, Jesus did without beating me up and asking me to return anything.
This is a wakeup call! Please even though someone wronged you. Forgive them. For me nothing anyone else can do to me could compare to just how much God forgave me for. I heard so many say I forgive them but can’t forget, I think that if we don’t really let it go and forget about it, we very well possibly have not forgiven them from our heart. That is what is commanded of us. From our hearts not our minds, or just from our mouth. How can we love someone if we are constantly reminded of how they wronged us? Love and forgiveness go hand in hand.
Forgive, Forget, Trust & Love, these are the things that come with really forgiving from the heart.
Lord I forgive all, will forget all, will trust & love again.
Thank you Jesus!

Something to think about

God gave up His only Son for the world not to condim us but to save us because He loves us.
However Jesus laid down His life for us? No one in the world could ever have do more for me than both of these.....Who loves more? God, Jesus or you?

What is the Truth

Jesus is the way the Truth and Life.

Church's

Just a thought.
I attended a Church for about 12 years, my longest run ever in any Church. I rarely missed a Wednesday or Sunday service, at first loved it. I felt needed there mainly because I felt like there was so many things that we could be doing that we were not doing. In the end this was want got me. If you go into a Church thinking things need to change here or they need to do more. Then most likely you should run from that church is dead. I mean the more folks I seen give there lives to Christ each year there twice that many left that church hurt beaten and battered. I think that is because those leaders those that started that church was hurt by a prior church they attended and have passed those bad things down to this new community attending there. I have heard several ministers and other say that that pastor is hurting and needs to be restored before he hurts anyone else. The more control this pastor has the more lives he ruins.
The cool thing about it is that the church I attend now is nothing like the last and there is not one thing I'd like to change. Nothing I need more of, nothing that i feel is missing. I am being feed well, I am receiving blessings from God and I am able to worship in spirit and truth. There is no one being disruptive during church, no screaming kids, no cell phone going off during service, everyone is respectful, no one comes in late every time they come, no security is needed, no schedules missed, no stress because the other deacons aren't there again, the deacons have always been there at my new church every time I walk in the door I see them first, everyone Carry's a bible here, bible studies are going on before church, and still the pastor teaches as long the the old church did.
Just remember chances are if you feel that the church you have been attending is missing something, hear that the church was formed from some split in another church. Chances are you could be in big trouble. The split off church's will always be talking about those others and how they worship. I have not heard one thing from my new pastor dogging on other church's and how they worship not once. Its all about God, Jesus & His Holy Spirit.
Just a thought.