God offers you a gift. Will you take it? No matter what you have done in your past, you can be forgiven by God, through receiving the gift of Jesus’ death on your behalf. I urge you to receive this gift for yourself and enjoy peace and eternal life.
Author: John Johnstone
Dealing with our sin
If we deny our sin we delude ourselves. Stop making excuses, come to God and confess. Why? Because he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins. All of them.
Witness and mission
We need to pray for the power and presence of God by his Spirit, if our witnessing to Jesus is to be effective. Be encouraged! As we speak to family members and colleagues and neighbours, we are not on our own! And once again notice the pattern, when we are filled with the Spirit, what happens? We tell other people about Jesus.
No other name…
Jesus’ name means ‘God saves’ and his offer is given to the whole world. That includes you. God will welcome you if you humbly admit your sin and ask for forgiveness. What have you done with this offer?
Bad news and good news
Do you want to be part of God’s new and restored world? Then you must repent and believe in Jesus so that your sins may be wiped out and that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (See Acts 3:19)
Miracles and signs
What can we offer people as a church? We can help to feed the hungry and befriend the lonely. But the main thing we have to offer people is Jesus himself. As we pray for the lost, we ought to be pleading with God to perform spiritual miracles in people’s lives, for God’s glory alone.
The impact of the Holy Spirit
Imagine that each of us began to earnestly pray to know more of the Spirit’s power in our lives. This will only happen as we ask God for it, and as we prayerfully study the Bible. Are we doing that? Then imagine the impact the Holy Spirit will have on us all, from the shyest to the most extrovert. In different ways, with different people, we’ll begin to talk to people about Jesus more than we ever have before.
Jesus’ ascension
Is your heart troubled today? What a truth this is to help us to keep perspective – Jesus is getting everything ready for us to spend eternity with him in Heaven. Let’s think about the ascended and reigning King Jesus more than we sometimes do!
Encouraged to witness…
We are called to be witnesses for Jesus. That’s one reason why we need to get involved in our communities, and in the lives of friends and neighbours. That’s why we need to keep on praying as we do this, depending on the power of God. And we need to go out in faith, with the message that Jesus Christ is the only King and the only Saviour. We have been given the power to do so.
Forgive as God forgave you
If we refuse to forgive others, we need to ask ourselves the question: have I really been saved myself? Have I truly been forgiven by God? One of the evidences that we are a child of God is that we do forgive others. And if we struggle to forgive others, we need to remind ourselves of the enormous debt God has forgiven us. Will you do that?