ANGEL WING 
DON’T LOOK AT MAN>>>KEEP YOUR EYES ON CHRIST AS OUR EXAMPLE IN LIVING OUR LIVES
I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again."
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23 ).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. "For the wages [payment] of sin is death" (Romans 6:23 ). This includes eternal seperation from God in Hell.
"...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement" (Hebrews 9:27 ).
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. "...He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21 ).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Lev. 17:11 ). "...without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]" (Hebrews 9:22 ).
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, "God...now commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17.30).
This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "...'Sirs, what must I do to be saved'? And they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...'"
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected.
His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.
"But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name" (John 1:12 ).
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved". (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Just pray: "Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank you for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen."
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God's simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, "Surely, it cannot be that simple." Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God's plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this letter over and over until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36 ).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.
God's power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God's promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to pratice daily for spiritual growth: Pray - you talk to God. Read your Bible - God talks to you. Witness - you talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord..." (2 Timothy 1:8).
"Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My father which is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32 ).
THE DESIRE FOR JOY
BIBLE STUDY
I had a patient one time who buzzed me to her hospital room. She was frantically searching for her eye glasses. I quickly entered the search with her. We searched the entire room. We even emptied the trash can and searched through the trash trying to find her glasses. I drilled her on where she may have had them last. Did she think she may have left them on her lunch tray? But oh the tray had already been removed from the room! My patient settled back on her bed. “I just don’t know where I had them at last!” And as she reached to rest her hand on her forehead, my attention was drawn to the top of her head where her glasses safely rested right where she had put them. She had been looking in all the wrong places and even my well meaning attempts to help her did no good. It was only after she gave up her frantic search that she realized that her glasses were there all along, just waiting for her to
reach up and find them.
Can I tell you that finding real joy is very much the same way? We launch ourselves into our lives frantically trying to find fulfillment, contentment, and joy. We say we are trying to “find ourselves”. Well can I tell you that you will never find yourself or find real joy, fulfillment or contentment until you surrender your life to God. We “find ourselves” when we find our place with God. We have to totally humble ourselves before God. Stop yearning for joy and yearn for God. Yearn to be pleasing to God.
We all must come to Him the same way: in repentance and with a humble heart. If we have pride in our own understanding or pride in what we can do for God, grace can not enter in. God requires us to repent of our sins and pride is sin. When we recognize and acknowledge our sin before God, we have to tell God how sorry we are
for our sins and repent.
Then put your trust in Jesus Christ who paid the price for you on Calvary . Trust him with your life now. Know that John 3:16 speaks the truth when it says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life."
God sent his Son to shed his blood to cover our sins so that we can be made righteous before God. The Bible says there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. Jesus bailed us out He paid the price for your fine. He was the innocent lamb that walked the earth and did not sin.
There was no sin in him. He was the unblemished lamb of God who beared the entire sins of the world when he hung on the cross. That’s How Much God Loves Us!
And I finally realized how I had been blocking
God's blessings from my own life.
Even though I prayed the sinners prayer long ago, went to church, studied the bible and professed to be a Christian; it was only very recently that I truly and fully grasped the real understanding of how I had only gone part of
the way to claiming my salvation. I finally realized
how pride in my own capabilities had gotten
between myself and true righteousness.
Real humbleness means you die to yourself, and you give God total control of your life! I finally realized that my life was never really my own. Jesus bought and paid a dear price for me and I had not grasped the true meaning and significance of this until now!
The joy that I have now is an abiding joy. It is not joy that comes and goes. It is a sustaining joy that is there in good times and in bad times. It is a gift from God and for me it was a vital missing element for being a
useful servant of God.
My walk with God through developing this ministry has been a wonderous enlightening of God’s mercy and love for me. He has given me spiritual growth beyond myself.
Vonda Garrison
Bible help to Overcome Personal Depression!
DON’T LOOK AT MAN>>>KEEP YOUR EYES ON CHRIST AS OUR EXAMPLE IN LIVING OUR LIVES
I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again."
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. "For the wages [payment] of sin is death" (Romans
"...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement" (Hebrews
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. "...He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Lev.
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, "God...now commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17.30).
This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "...'Sirs, what must I do to be saved'? And they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...'"
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected.
His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.
"But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name" (John
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved". (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Just pray: "Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank you for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen."
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God's simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, "Surely, it cannot be that simple." Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God's plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this letter over and over until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.
God's power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God's promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to pratice daily for spiritual growth: Pray - you talk to God. Read your Bible - God talks to you. Witness - you talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord..." (2 Timothy 1:8).
"Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My father which is in heaven" (Matthew
THE DESIRE FOR JOY
BIBLE STUDY
I had a patient one time who buzzed me to her hospital room. She was frantically searching for her eye glasses. I quickly entered the search with her. We searched the entire room. We even emptied the trash can and searched through the trash trying to find her glasses. I drilled her on where she may have had them last. Did she think she may have left them on her lunch tray? But oh the tray had already been removed from the room! My patient settled back on her bed. “I just don’t know where I had them at last!” And as she reached to rest her hand on her forehead, my attention was drawn to the top of her head where her glasses safely rested right where she had put them. She had been looking in all the wrong places and even my well meaning attempts to help her did no good. It was only after she gave up her frantic search that she realized that her glasses were there all along, just waiting for her to
reach up and find them.
Can I tell you that finding real joy is very much the same way? We launch ourselves into our lives frantically trying to find fulfillment, contentment, and joy. We say we are trying to “find ourselves”. Well can I tell you that you will never find yourself or find real joy, fulfillment or contentment until you surrender your life to God. We “find ourselves” when we find our place with God. We have to totally humble ourselves before God. Stop yearning for joy and yearn for God. Yearn to be pleasing to God.
We all must come to Him the same way: in repentance and with a humble heart. If we have pride in our own understanding or pride in what we can do for God, grace can not enter in. God requires us to repent of our sins and pride is sin. When we recognize and acknowledge our sin before God, we have to tell God how sorry we are
for our sins and repent.
Then put your trust in Jesus Christ who paid the price for you on
but have eternal life."
God sent his Son to shed his blood to cover our sins so that we can be made righteous before God. The Bible says there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. Jesus bailed us out He paid the price for your fine. He was the innocent lamb that walked the earth and did not sin.
There was no sin in him. He was the unblemished lamb of God who beared the entire sins of the world when he hung on the cross. That’s How Much God Loves Us!
And I finally realized how I had been blocking
God's blessings from my own life.
Even though I prayed the sinners prayer long ago, went to church, studied the bible and professed to be a Christian; it was only very recently that I truly and fully grasped the real understanding of how I had only gone part of
the way to claiming my salvation. I finally realized
how pride in my own capabilities had gotten
between myself and true righteousness.
Real humbleness means you die to yourself, and you give God total control of your life! I finally realized that my life was never really my own. Jesus bought and paid a dear price for me and I had not grasped the true meaning and significance of this until now!
The joy that I have now is an abiding joy. It is not joy that comes and goes. It is a sustaining joy that is there in good times and in bad times. It is a gift from God and for me it was a vital missing element for being a
useful servant of God.
My walk with God through developing this ministry has been a wonderous enlightening of God’s mercy and love for me. He has given me spiritual growth beyond myself.
Within the Pages of the Bible are the answers to man's most pressing needs. At this moment, you may be very discouraged about life. Life may now appear to you as an endless, tragic treadmill, not really worth living or having. Perhaps you are saying, right now, life holds nothing for me, it is only a bum rap, a lousy trip. Nobody loves me; nobody cares if I live or die.
In the midst of your despair, and your doubt, and frustration, and hopelessness, I want you to realize that Jesus Christ offers to you another view of life; a view that is truly beautiful. Jesus has some special words for us: He said, "I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). With these words, Jesus lifts life above the physical realm and assures us that the abundant life has a divine and eternal quality. The Bible tells us that we were created in the very image or likeness of God, and you can be sure that if God made us like himself, then our lives must have tremendous meaning, destiny, and purpose.
Jesus came to give each of us a good life. And you can enjoy the benefits of that abundant life right here on the face of this earth. Life can have many beautiful moments which you can and should enjoy and cherish. It is very true, of course, that life has it's high and it's low points. Being moody and despondent on a temporary basis is a natural part of every personality. However, please don't allow your deep and despondent moods to control your very being. I know that you may be tempted to blame yourself unduly for all the things that ever go wrong. You may want to punish yourself and others for the deep personal problems which you encounter.
However, the abundant life which Jesus gives prepares our hearts with a mature love which can endure pain and suffering. The Apostle Paul says that this mature love "bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails . . . " (I Corinthians 13:7,8).
Please listen to me very closely. It is important that you understand this. God really cares for you. In John 3:16, we read, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life". There are Christian people who really care for you too. We care whether you live or die. We want you to experience and enjoy that abundant life in Christ. We want to introduce you to that love that never fails. John also tells us in I John 4:18, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear . . .". This love really can be yours and you can have and enjoy a life that is meaningful and purposeful. If you would enjoy life, then serve the giver of life - God. Again, the Apostle John says in I John 5:3,4, "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith".
Depression has become our nation's number one emotional illness, and it is increasing steadily. Rising suicide rates, especially among the young, show the final end to which depression takes people. Broken, unhappy homes and wasted lives are often the result of unfettered depression. Some depression is good because it tells us we need to stop and take stock, have a rest, or perhaps have a physical examination to see if there is a medical problem that needs to be cared for. However, depression is most often the result of a selfish, self-pitying, ungrateful heart. The wise Solomon said: "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7. In discussing depression, we must believe fully that God has a remedy for every problem and that we can-go to Him for help. Here are some positive, Biblical steps to take to overcome depression:
Recognize that God created you in His image and therefore you are good. He wants you to be happy. He gave His only begotten Son so that you might have eternal life (John 3:16). Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Believe that God is faithful to do what He has promised for you. Look for His abundant life. God has promised to meet our every-need (Phil. 4:19; Eph. 3:20; Matt. 7:11). It is not ours to worry about food, clothing and shelter. God has promised that if we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, He will add these material things to us (Matthew 6:25-33). Let His spirit dwell in you richly, causing you to have a song in your heart, an attitude of thanksgiving and a submissive spirit (Eph. 5:19-21). No misery or depression can exist in such a heart. Practice thanksgiving and praising the Lord for all things. To praise the Lord when things are going against your will is to show a submissive spirit. Be thankful in everything (I Thess. 5:18). ,
Think on positive things, things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report (Phil 4:8). Realize that all things do work together for good to them that love the Lord (Romans 8:28). Do not dwell on past unhappy experiences, bad news in the world today, or ways in which life seems to have cheated you. Think about all the ways life has been a blessing to you.
Have a forgiving spirit. Bad feelings or unforgiven hurts toward your fellow beings can cause you to feel very depressed. Telling others you are sorry you have wronged them or that you have forgiven them for something they have done to you in the past can often be the most therapeutic means of bringing about a peaceful heart.
Try giving yourself away. Luke 6:38 tells us how richly we will be rewarded if we give of ourselves. One of the best rewards will be freedom from depression. Gal. 6:2 tells us to help bear one another's burdens. Finding some hard physical work to do, for ourselves or for others, is often the very best medicine needed for depression. Plan with God's help and prayer not to be depressed. Live one day at a time instead of taking on your whole future life at once. Let God's spirit rule your life. Ask your Christian friends to pray with you and for you about your depression. Hebrews 13:5,6 say, "Let your life be free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, 'I will never fail or forsake you"'. Hence we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?" Remembering this verse, we can "Rejoice in the Lord always," as Paul suggests in Phil. 4:4.
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