Posted on 03/09/2011 4:22:54 AM PST by RGrizzle
I believe that Christ died to save me from my sins. . . . unless of course they’re the ones I enjoy. I believe that God has a plan for me . . . I just don’t trust Him enough to follow said plan. I believe that apart from Christ sinners will spend eternity in Hell . . . . I sure hope they figure that out somehow. I believe that God answers prayers . . . especially those that I wrap in worry and fret. I believe my church does an awesome job . . . . I just wish they would do it with someone else’s money. I believe that the way you act in church on Sunday is the way you should act during the week . . . that’s why I don’t go to church on Sunday.
I believe we all need to reassess what we truly believe.
To be clear the goal of this ministry is not to condemn, but we do want to challenge Christians, myself included, to give ourselves fully to Him. Why? We have discovered, too often the hard way, that life outside the center of God’s will is chaos. To find His peace, we have to honestly take stock of our walk with Him.
Do you believe the Bible has the answers . . . Read it! Do you believe that Christ came to save sinners. . . Tell them! Do you believe that sin is harmful to us . . . Turn from it! Do you believe God hears and answers prayers . . . Pray to Him! Do you believe that God is in control . . . Trust Him!
“God in heaven, you know me for who I truly am. Please search me and reveal to me the ways which I am not living by faith in you but am seeking my own desires, my own path, my own answers. Help me, Lord, to yield fully to your will for me knowing that you love me and gave yourself for me. Amen.”
Hebrews 10:23 (New King James Version) 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Arrow #4 (see tagline) ALL OR NOTHING "Have you decided to follow the Lord all the way? Have you counted the cost of this ultimate commitment? Have you faced the truth that He requires everything you have? Do you understand what it means to follow Christ in these last days?"
..."We do not possess the power or the will to achieve this level of spiritual maturity in and of ourselves. Invite the arrows in to seek out and destroy all that you cling to which belongs to Him. Then allow Him to work, thanking Him for every trial that comes with a transformation to holiness."
Matt. 10:39. "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
I believe in Jesus Christ. After a uniquely sinless life, he bled and died on the cross for to be the perfect payment for sin...my sins and the sins of all who put their faith in him. I believe God raised him from the dead, as testified by the Apostles, even under penalty of being put to death themselves unless they renounced.
Above all, I believe the love, grace, and blessings God bestows on us are beyond our comprehension...and I am deeply grateful.
I believe... guns don’t kill people. But, husbands who come home early do.
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