The Way of Salvation – Day 13:

I suggest that you read day 12 blog first by clicking here.

You were meant to live with God Forver:

Man is destined to live eternally, the question is where? In the Gospel of John Chapter 14 verses 1-6 Jesus is quoted saying, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

² In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

⁴ And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

⁵ Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”

When Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God, sin entered the world through them and was passed down to all their offspring, all the way down to me and you. For this reason the scriptures state that “²³ ….all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23. The scriptures further state that “¹⁰ ……There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Romans 3:10-12. The Old Testament scriptures echo the same message “⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6. The book of Genesis records man being driven from the presence of God because of sin (Genesis 3:23-24), the New Testament heralds the message of the Savior of the world (John 4:14). In the Old Testament, a lamb had to die in order for God to temporarily forgive man’s sin, in the New Testament, Jesus became the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world once and for all if believed (John 1:29). After Adamic sin, man had no way to God. In fact God having driven man out of the Garden of Aden, an angel and a flaming sword that turned every way were placed there to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24). Man then, began a long journey, as if blind folded, trying to figure out his way back to God; a matter that accounts for all the religions of the world today. Having been driven away from God’s presence, man found himself naked both physically and spiritually. Man used the leaves from a tree to cover his nakedness (Genesis 3:7), but God deemed the covering of leaves incapable of covering man’s sin because without the shedding of blood, there no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22). God had to kill a lamb, in order to make a covering for man (Genesis 3:21). The construction of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is another miserably failed man’s attempt to reach God in his own effort, in my view the equivalence of organized religion. Then God Himself gave man the law through Moses but it turned out that no one could fulfill the whole law (James 2:10).

When man was in this disparate state, Jesus stepped on the scene of history and declared “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

² In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also…… ⁶ ….. I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” John 14:1-6. No need to cover ourselves with the leaves of religion, no need to console ourselves with the tower of Babel (human endeavor and achievement), no need to kill a lamb, for Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, came to take away the sin of the world. He is the only way back to the tree of Life.

Jesus came first and foremost to save sinners. In Mark chapter 2 Jesus said to the palylized man, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.” While Jesus would go on to heal the man of the bodily infirmity, he addressed the man’s spiritual condition first. Call on Jesus today, like the paralytic man, sin can paralyze anyone. The Good news is that Jesus is telling you today “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.”

Model Prayer: Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. Dear Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. I am sorry for my sins, and I ask you to forgive me, wash me with your blood, and give me your Holy Spirit to teach and guide me. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

If you believed and prayed the above prayer, you are now a born again child of God.

I would love to hear from you and will be more than glad to be of further spiritual assistance. Feel free to email me at: info@heavenlyspringschurch.org

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God’s will for all mankind – The Salvation of our souls-Day3:

I suggest you read Day 2 first, by clicking here.
There is a story of a farmer, who found the eggs of an eagle. He took the eggs and stealthily inserted them into the nest of one of his chickens and mixed them within her eggs. Then the mother chicken predictably started brooding her eggs, including the eggs of an eagle. When time came for hatching, chicks were hatched out of the chicken’s eggs and only one egg from the eagle hatched an eaglet. The eaglet started to run around with chicks, eat worms like chicks, scratched the soil like chicks and assumed all the mannerisms of chicks. As time went by though, the eaglet’s physical make up – wings, eyes, beak, legs and its general appearance – became strikingly different from those of the chicks. However, the eaglet continued the mannerisms of chicks, run and hid with the chickens, when the mother chicken made an alarm sound, warning the chickens of a coming eagle. The eaglet though, started to wonder why he did not look like the chicks. One day, an eagle flew majestically across the sky, made an eagle sound and came down for a prey. All the chicks run and hid but the eaglet remained. The eagle obviously could not eat a fellow eagle but just started to want to socialize with this young eagle that was raised like a chicken. The young eagle finally realized that he was an eagle not a chick. He even tried the eagle sound and all the chicks and chickens in the village run for cover. After a few minutes of practicing eagle manners with the visiting eagle, the young eagle was able to fly across the sky just as majestically as the adult eagle.

We are God’s children. The scripture states that, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:” Roman 8:16. Like the eaglet, there is something in every individual that bears witness that we are created by God. That is why despite religious persecutions of Christians, Christianity still expanded all over the world, the bible has sold more copies than any other book known to man and even people who may not have come to fully confess their faith, refer to God as “a man upstairs”, “higher power” and so forth. It has take more conscious effort on the part of man to dismiss this intuitive connection with his maker, than to embrace it and explore the relationship. Like the eaglet, the bible tells us that we were hatched in sin. Psalms 51:5 states “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”  We became raised as sinners when we are meant to be saints. Fallen nature taught mankind to live in the mannerisms of a sinner, talk like a sinner, walk like a sinner, act like a sinner, live like a sinner and the whole nine yard. We inherited that fallen nature from our common ancestor Adam. But then came the second Adam, the man Jesus Christ. Scriptures tell us that “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. Jesus came to show us that we are eagles and not chickens. That is why he ate with sinners, allowed prostitutes and tax collectors to hang out with him. The religious folks couldn’t take it. They cried “foul”, he is eating with sinners. The re-occurring theme of Jesus ministry was simple “Go and sin no more”. Simply put He was saying “stop living like a chicken, you belong to the eagle class”. In the book of John chapter 8 verses 1 through 11, there is a narration that highlights Jesus’ approach to sinners. Jesus’ approach to you and me is still the same today. Please read on:

“Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

² And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

³ And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

⁴ They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

⁵ Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

⁶ This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

⁷ So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

⁸ And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁰ When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

¹¹ She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Jesus said to this woman that everyone wanted to make a spectacle, “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more”  God is not mad at you and He is not out to get you. He wants you to know that you are not a chicken, you are an eagle. Stop acting like a chicken, go and sin no more, case closed. John 3:17 states “ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” God never wastes his time telling chickens that they are chickens but He will take His time to tell a chicken that it is an eagle. Please read the following statement from Jesus “When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Mark 2:17.  (To be continued on day 4 blog)

 

 
Model Prayer: Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. Dear Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. I am sorry for my sins, and I ask you to forgive me, wash me with your blood, and give me your Holy Spirit to teach and guide me. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
If you believed and prayed the above prayer, you are now a born again child of God.

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Where you build and what you use to build matters:

In real estate they say “it’s location, location, location”. May I say that it is also “material, material, material”. In the book of Matthew, chapter 7, verse 24 to 27 Jesus told the following parable:

“24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”

Jesus likened people that believed in His message, and practiced his teaching, to a wise man, who built his house on the rock. When this house was subjected to severe weather conditions brought about by rain (we may call it el nino in our times), it remained standing because it had a firm foundation. On the other hand, Jesus likened those who rejected his teaching and refused to practice it as a man, who built his house on the sand. When the house faced the rain, the floods, and the winds, it fell greatly.

In the book of I Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 9 through 15, the Apostle Paul likened the very life of a believer, to a building as follows:

“9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” Paul continues to elaborate that, the foundation of the building is Jesus Christ Himself and that there is no other viable foundation, other than Christ Himself. According to Paul’s account, men may elect to use a range of materials from the most precious as gold, to the least costly as stubble. However, with an understanding that, the integrity of the building woud be tested by fire. This story does coincide with Jesus’ story, that both the building on the sand. and the build on the rock, would be tested by severe rainy weather conditions. Life’s fires, rains, storms and floods face both those who are building on the sand (their own agendas without God), those who are build on the rock (have put God first in their lives), and those who are building with gold (God,s word) or building with other cheap materials (hay).  Only those who are building on the rock (Jesus foundation) and those who are building with choice material, gold (representing God’s word), will survive severe rainy weather conditions and the fire respectively.

Where are you building your life, your career, your marriage, your business?

In the book of Luke, chapter 12, verses 16 through 21 in the New International Version (NIV), Jesus told another parable as follows:

’16  “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”’

In yet another instance Jesus said “36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36

They say “Life is fragile, handle with prayer” I would like to say that life can tend to be chaotic, handle with Christ”.

Model Prayer: Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. Dear Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. I am sorry for my sins, and I ask you to forgive me, wash me with your blood, and give me your Holy Spirit to teach and guide me. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

If you believed and prayed the above prayer, you are now a born again child of God.

I would love to hear from you and will be more than glad to be of further spiritual assistance. Feel free to email me at: info@heavenlyspringschurch.org

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Authored by: Pastor Godfrey Twahirwa

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A Prayer for Spiritual Revival.

Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess that we as a nation and a s people we have drifted away from your ways. We have followed the dictates of our own hearts. We have turned to idols, the work of our hands and we have followed the lusts of our flesh. Father we are incapable of changing ourselves to turn and follow you. Hear my prayer today. Open the flood gates of heaven and pour your Holy Spirit on us, on our families, on our communities, on our churches, and on our lands. The the nations stagger under the weight of your glory. Ordain praise in the mouth of babies and let the youth shout for Joy. Raise a new generation of worshipers across the land.

Send the rain of you Holy Spirit on this dry and thirsty land. The deserts be filled with springs and parched lands be filled with lilies.  Let the cloud of your glory descend and enter into every house of worship and let the priests, pastors, apostles, evangelists, missionaries bow down under the weigh of your glory. Take over every mouth piece in this land and let your voice be broadcasted across the nations. Arise Oh God and let your enemies scatter. Have mercy Lord and visit our land. Revive us oh Lord and we shall be revived, heal us oh Lord, and we shall be healed. Draw us near to you Lord and manifest yourself to us. Open eyes to see your glory and open our ears to hear your voice. Let a river from your throne room flow across this land bringing healing and deliverance to multitudes in this land.

Jesus, reign in our hearts and in our land. Let your kingdom come and let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.