LIFE IS IN SESSION

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convicted.

williszhang:

“The question is not do you wanna go to Heaven, or do you want to escape hell. The question is that has God worked so in your heart that you WANT God? The question, as I said, is not do you wanna go to Heaven, because EVERYONE wants to go to Heaven—The DEVIL would like to go to Heaven as long as he doesn’t have to bow his knee to God. Not everyone who confesses with their mouth ‘Lord, Lord’ will be saved.” -Paul Washer

You know what. I like this man. I like this man along with a few other pastors like Craig Groeschel. Honestly, I would like with all my heart to go to a Christian church and listen to the sermon or the service and listen to what one of these preachers have to preach pertaining to the Word of God, but I’m content with finding this stuff online as well. 

God is not looking for followers who are willing to only give Him 25% or 50% or 75% of their hearts, their soul, their mind, or their strength to Him. He’s not looking for the followers who are willing to give up an hour of their time on Sunday to sit in the pews and stare into space. He’s not looking for followers who reblog pictures of people having sex or pictures of people having fun while drinking or pictures of people smoking yet reblog that ONE picture that glorifies God. To me, that is DISGUSTING. It’s disgusting to have all these pictures that are EVERYTHING God is AGAINST yet have that ONE picture that illustrates everything God is FOR. God is not looking for that. 

What is God looking for? TRUE, WHOLE-hearted followers, and nowadays, it’s becoming so hard to find that. I used to be a half-hearted follower but what pushed me to become a WHOLE-hearted follower was for someone to tell me the TRUTH. And I pray, you guys, that you receive the knowledge of the Truth and work it into your lives. I was stuck between posting these messages and not posting these messages because I thought I was too condemning. It’s been troubling me recently and so I prayed to God and told Him what was troubling me. And He gave me 1 Corinthians 13. In short of that whole chapter, if one does NOT have LOVE, then their works, their faith, everything they stand for are meaningless. And He gave that to me to tell me to keep doing this—to keep sharing the truth—but with LOVE, and NOT with condemnation that say “You’re going to hell.” So I say this to you all, because I care about you guys with the LOVE of Christ:

Do NOT think that God is OKAY with you being half-hearted. Do NOT think that God is okay with the fact that you don’t read the Bible. Do NOT think that God doesn’t care that you don’t pray before your meals (something I had trouble with for SIXTEEN years of my life). Do NOT think that God doesn’t care that you don’t PRAY every stinking morning and night of your day. Do NOT think God doesn’t care about YOU. Do NOT think that God doesn’t care that you say His Name in vain OR curse. Do NOT think God doesn’t care that His OWN children are REBELLING against Him by NOT seeking the TRUTH. What is the Truth? THIS IS THE TRUTH. 

THE TRUTH IS THAT JESUS IS LORD AND IF YOU DO NOT CONFESS THAT WITH YOUR TONGUE AND WITH YOUR SOUL AND WITH YOUR HEART AND WITH YOUR MIND AND WITH YOUR STRENGTH THEN YOUR FAITH MEANS NOTHING. Do not simply think that you can float around in church and pass through everything that goes around you. Do not for one second believe that BECAUSE you SIT in a pew every Sunday and face a PRIEST or a PASTOR that YOU ARE SAVED. Do not think that because you heard or read a verse of a Bible only ONCE or TWICE in your life that you’re a good Christian boy or girl—Granted, that’s a START, but that’s not the END. Do not think that you can go on living your life without reading the Bible, because the Bible is the BASIS of our FAITH. Do not think that you will be with God if you’re SCARED about the end times because you WANT to keep living your life here on earth, no matter how DIRTY and SINFUL the world becomes as another year passes by. Do not be SCARED to give up your HUMAN life for Christ when He gave up HIS life for YOU. And Do not think that because you GREW up in a church, you automatically KNOW Jesus. 

My brothers and sisters, KNOW God. KNOW Jesus—KNOW him, not ABOUT HIM. Develop a RELATIONSHIP with the One who Created you. You are wonderfully and fearfully made in God’s image. He created you for a reason and you are put here on this earth for a reason. Do not live your life giving half your heart to Jesus and the other half to doing things that make you look “cool”. Read the Bible! Read the Gospels and I pray that you will KNOW Jesus. I lived 16 years of my life not KNOWING Jesus and only knowing ABOUT Him and I can tell you this: the ONLY way I got to KNOW Jesus was by reading the BIBLE and through prayer. I received that and much more—I SAW my Lord and I knelt down in wonder and awe before my King, crying. Search the truth, my friends. Stop turning away from it. Stop closing your ears and opening it when you hear something you WANT to hear. If you want to know the Truth, open your eyes, open your eyes and realize that you are not getting any younger and the world is not getting any better. 

I really pray, you guys, that you read this and that the Holy Spirit touches your heart tonight. Today is Jesus’ day, not our day. If we are Christians, we belong to the Lord. He is in control of our lives, not us. And He does’t want bits and pieces of us—He wants all of us. Turn to Him, read your Bible, pray, grow not physically but spiritually. The day that Jesus came to us was the day that God’s promise of salvation was fulfilled. It is a GIFT and it is YOUR choice whether you accept WHOLEheartedly or not. 

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count your blessings

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

—Steve Jobs