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Will YOU Go to Heaven?

Will YOU go to heaven after your life on this earth is over? There is ONE and ONLY ONE way to heaven. Are you 100% sure that you will go there? Or will you end up in hell and the lake of fire in everlasting torment apart from God which is the only alternative? Do you know the ONE and ONLY way to heaven?

God loves YOU so much that He sent His only Son Jesus to the earth to live a perfect life, to the cross to pay the punishment for YOUR sins, and raised Him from the dead.

But why? If you believe ...

Need Wisdom

Need wisdom? Facing a challenge? Needing to make a decision? Trying to figure out the best way to go? Don’t know how to handle a tough relationship? Have a family member you are worried to no end about and don’t know what to do? For any reason whatsoever, do you need wisdom and direction?

The number one place to go is to the Lord God almighty.

The number one way to go to God is through prayer along with praise and worship and thanksgiving if and as you are led as you enter into His presence to p...

Message for the Struggling

I was walking on the beach on a gloriously beautiful night when as I looked out at the endless sand and the magnificent ocean with the exquisite multicolored sky God comforted me in a season of exceeding struggle. He reminded me that He is greater than my circumstances, my struggling, all I faced, and my brokenhearted-ness. Then He went on to remind me that He is also bigger than all the struggling and suffering of this world. And He gently, lovingly, mercifully made clear I needed to get my foc...

Be Strong BUT –

“Be strong,” the world tells us.

In other words, when we are weak and struggling, the world tells us we should muster up all the strength we can come up with and get on with life. We should conquer our challenges by ourselves. We should overcome our obstacles in the flesh. We should be strong in and of ourselves.

Oh, but not so when it comes to God.

The Lord tells us to BE STRONG IN HIM. In other words, to BE STRONG IN THE LORD. And in what? THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT. Essentially it is GOD’S STRENG...

My Prayer for the World

I pray day and night. I love the Lord with all my heart. And I love to pray, pray, and keep on praying. Sometimes I pray longer prayers, sometimes shorter ones. I believe God hears them all. Even when they are short ones. Like this one I cannot help but share with you.

“Help this world to fall on its knees and worship you oh Lord,” I prayed simply but passionately.

Oh, the cry of my heart is that people worldwide would repent, turn from their sins, believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, and in His dea...

The Dangerous Person in Your Life

Sometimes we have dangerous people in our lives God wants us to sever ties with but we hold onto them with any and all sorts of excuses which is rebellion against the Lord Jesus Christ and most assuredly grieves God’s heart.

The dangerous people may be abusers, criminals, drug addicts tempting us with drugs, believers in false gods who tempt us to turn away from Jesus, other people’s spouses, people who are temptations to commit adultery or maybe we already have, distractions from God and His wi...

Don’t Let Satan Steal Your Praise

I am probably not alone in this. When life is hard, when challenges seem endless, when the battles and storms seem relentless, when I am exhausted and worn down, when I face yet another mountain of yuck, it is not uncommon that the last thing in the world I feel like doing is praising God. And when I am not careful, I find that I allow my praise to get stolen.

The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10), and I believe the devil loves to try to steal our praise when we are struggling...

This Is Hard

“Jesus, this is hard,” I told the Lord as tears meandered to the corners of my eyes.

His answer was immediate.

And simple.

And with love beyond measure.

“I know,” I heard the Lord speak gently deep into my heart.

I have carried a sorrow indescribable in my heart for decades, and though it waxed and waned it times, it never left.

And now, as I spoke quietly to the Lord in my heart, though I was peaceful as I had not been for much of the past, the sorrow had burrowed its way deeper given the lates...

The Eyes of a Friend

God used a beloved friend, sister in Christ, and co-servant of God to help me see what I could not see. In my limited fleshly perspective I saw my challenging situation as really dark and virtually hopeless. But by the love and power of the Holy Spirit of God my friend helped me see the hope in Jesus, all God had already provided for me, and shared her strong faith that all would end up better than imaginable.

The Lord strengthened me through my friend’s heart and eyes, but truly it was not her ...

Hungry and Thirsty

“I am hungry for your Word [the Bible],” I prayed to God in the middle of the night. “I am thirsty for your Spirit,” I finished.

Then I added, “And, yes, I am hungry and thirsty for righteousness.” I was done.

I believe we typically think of hunger and thirst as relating to food and drink with which God blesses us to nourish and satiate us.

But there is truly no more important hunger and thirst than the hunger and thirst we bring to the Lord Jesus Christ and no more vital nourishment and satiati...