Father God, let this touch someones heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Let’s say I am riding down the street and I see a turtle walking across the street. I stop my car and put the hazzards on . I get out of the car and run over and pick up that turtle, go and put it in the floor board of the car. I shut of my hazzards and proceed to drive off. I take the turtle to the lake. I take that turtle out of the car and put the turtle down in the grass. I watch as that turtle gets in the water. When the turtle is safe I leave.
What I am saying is I took the time to make sure that turtle was safely home. Even though I had to go some wheres else. This is what God does for us. He don’t wait till a car runs us over and then pick us up. He takes that time to guide us home. It’s a wonderful thing to know that God would save us. It is even greater thing to know that we can be saved and know that we’re saved.
How you think that turtle felt once he was able to be back in the water. The turtle was at home. The turtle knew he was saved. We don’t have to say, “I hope I’m saved,” “I think I’m saved,” or “Maybe I am saved.” We can Thank and praise God knowing that we are saved. Not only can we be saved and know that we’re saved, but we can also know without a shadow of any doubt that we can never lose our salvation. Not only does God save us by His grace. He also keeps us by His grace. Our submission of faith is to him alone. We bind ourselves to him even as that means going to Jerusalem and witnessing his passion. Moreover, as Paul reminds us, we bind ourselves to him in the midst of our own tribulations. And we do so know that he has also irrevocably bound himself to us. The Bible tells us that God reveals Himself to humans in four primary ways. All that God has created in nature discloses who He is. Our consciences (the human mind and heart) bear witness to the existence of God. He reveals Himself to us through His Word and the person of Jesus Christ.
It reads in Ephesians 1:2-14, Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment, to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.
“The longest sentence in the Bible.” It begins with grace, and it ends with glory. This is the most complete statement in the Gospel. In these verses, the Apostle Paul mentions God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and what part each have in our salvation and unity in all things in our security. The Apostle Paul can’t stop talking about what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ and praise to the Trinity. Paul speaks of God the Father. Praise to the Father and praise to the Son… Paul speaks about what God the Son has done.God the Father planned our salvation before He laid the foundations of the world. Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit. Our Salvation was planned by the Father. When did He choose us? God the Father planned our salvation before He laid the foundations of the world. Our salvation was always in the mind of God. God is love, and love is not content to live alone. We have been chosen.
Different kind of life and death. It is called “death” and “life” because it is similar in many ways to physical death and life. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is one of the most comprehensive letters written by Paul to explain to us the nature of God and God’s great plan and purpose for His creation, especially the future of mankind. Sadly, it has been greatly misunderstood by almost everyone who reads it. ” Back to a turtle in the road. If I drove down the street and saw a turtle that was run over by another car. I would be upset because I was unable to be there before that turtle was crushed. God wants all of us to be saved before you are crushed. This gift God gives us freely with no strings attached. How awesome is this?
It reads in Ephesians 2:1-8,~ And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory for this life to soften my heart to receive Your peace and grace. Let me focus on the works that You have prepared for me. Give me Your provision, humble spirit and deeper understanding. I believe that Your Spirit will more and more open my understanding to this unique gift that is mine from You. Make me bold in proclaiming the saving blood of Lord Jesus to those that are born dead in their sins and use me in the furtherance of Your plans and purposes. I want to rest in Your mercy in Your Precious Name Jesus Amen.
{Power Verse}
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
Psalm 116:1
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