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June 23rd, 2025

DAY 1 EPHESIANS 2:1-10.

Scripture.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously according to the ways of this world according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit it now working in the disobedient. We too all previously lived lived among them in our fleshly desires carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also. But God being rich in mercy because of his grace love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus. So that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of Jesus. For you are saved by grace through faith and this is not from yourselves it is Gods gift. Not From works so that no one can boast. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

EXPLANATION.

Have you ever been scared of death, have you ever wondered when I die what will happen. Well I’m going to share with you a way you can have eternal life in heaven. Ephesians 2 talks about how God saved out of despair in hell forever. Christ died for you so that you would not burn in the lake of fire forever in hell. You can have great joy in Christ no matter how hard it gets in this dark evil world, because if you are in Christ you know were your going one day into heaven with Jesus. How could you not be joyful that you don’t have to spend eternity in hell in severe pain. If you do not know Christ I encourage you to turn to Jesus today.

PRAYER.

Father God thank you for what you’ve done for me thank you for saving me help me to never forget what you did for me I pray this in your name amen.
Easter

April 20th, 2025

Happy Easter ! Today I want to share with you the meaning of Easter . Many people consider easter to be just a time of fun with family and friends. Easter has been popular because of the Easter Bunny, candy, and eEaster egg hunts. Are those things or good and fun but the greatest thing of all on Easter is the free gift of Jesus. Jesus loved us so much that he died for us. God wasn’t just willing to die but to die in the most brutal way possible. He got whipped and humiliated in front of many people. Then carried his cross up the hill without complaining or crying. Then they stripped Jesus naked placed thorns on his head and put a robe on him and mocked him. They nailed him to the cross while people scoffed at him. He then died, but today he is risen. Jesus is the greatest gift of all time. I urge you, if you haven’t, to give your life to Jesus today.
Christmas hope

December 25th, 2024

For some Christmas is time for happiness, but for others Christmas can be a hard time. There are those who wake up on Christmas Day with joy in their hearts, and others who have a mitey amount of greaf in their heart. I don’t know were your at in life at the time of me writing this blog, but were ever you are there’s one truth you can hang onto. its the truth that Jesus will return one day to make everything right. An example of this would be the minor profits in your Bible. At the time of the minor profits there was what may be the darkest time in history. There was war, wicked people, and kings that did listen to the God what so ever. there time was a lot like our time but God is working and he’s coming soon. remember know matter how dark the world gets God is in control.
James

November 22nd, 2024

Chapter 4 don’t be double minded.

James 1:8 says, being double minded and unstable.

The literal Greek definition of double minded is somebody whose mind and soul is divided between good and evil. I have three reasons why we should not be double minded. First, it’s the way of satan. Double minded is one of the key ways satan temps you to get on the wrong path. Satan will have you hanging on the fence of good and evil, and eventually he gets on the evil side of the fence. So we need to make sure we’re staying on the good side of the fence, and leave Satan on the evil side where he belongs. Second God is better. What Satan dose is he gets us on the fence and eventually gets us on the evil side by telling us God isn’t worth living for. That’s not true God is the the only reason we’re living. Everything else is of the world and Satan but God is true and the devil is stupid. Third your lose your salvation. If you never get of the evil side then your not being a Christian instead your being a hypocrite. Your somebody who says there a Christian yet walks in the ways of the devil. Eventually your lose your salvation and your become so content with sin that your heart becomes so hard that you don’t care so don’t become double minded.
James

November 5th, 2024

Chapter 3 don’t doubt, James 1:6 part 1.

James 1:6 says, but let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surcharge sea, driven and tossed by wind. In this chapter I’m going to cover the first half of James 1:6. I have three reasons on why we should not doubt God. First God hears and knows you. When you pray or go through a hard season God not only knows you but he hears you. He hears your cry’s, he hears every word you say. God is the alpha and the omega he’s all knowing. There is not a second where God is not God therefore he hears and knows you. He hears your prayers and cries. God knows and hears you. Not only does God know and hear but secondly he loves and cares for you. Through your hard seasons God loves and cares for you. Even when it doesn’t seem like it God loves and cares for you. He has cared for you from the day you were born and will continue to until the day you die. Lastly your loose faith. If you turn to Matthew 14:28-31 there’s this sequence where Jesus and peter are walking on water and peters doing great but he gets frightened by the wind and starts to sink into the water. God says why did you doubt me. Don’t be like peter but be faithful.
James

October 20th, 2024

Chapter 2 trials James 1:1-5.

James 1:1-5 says, James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To the twelve tribes depressed abroad. Greetings. Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Now if any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God who gives to all generously and untrustingly and it will be given to him. I bet that we can all agree that trials are never fun. In James 1:1-5 James speaks to twelve tribes who are depressed according to James 1:1. James gives this interesting image about trials in verses 2-5. I have 3 reasons for trials. First we must have great joy through trials. In verse 2 James says to consider trials a great joy. Now when he says have great joy through trials he doesn’t mean to be happy. He means have a great joy that God is in control of these trials. He doesn’t mean for us to push of trials and pretend its ok. He wants us to be joyful because God is in control. Even when your trials are so dark and miserable that you wonder if God even cares he’s in control. We must be joyful because we know that in the end we’re be ok and because Gods in control. Second trials are a test of faith. You wonder if God loves me so much why does he put me through trials. Trials are a test of faith. God puts trails mostly in our lives when things are good. He puts these trials in your life so that he can see that you trust him in dark times. Two people come to mind in the Bible when i think of this. The first one is Abraham. In genesis 22 God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Most of us probably know that God stoped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, but God made Abraham sacrifice Isaac to test his faith. The second person that comes to mind is job. Jobs life was great he was wealthy, healthy, and he feared the Lord. Eventually though God took away jobs wealth, health, and family. Job went through trials. Third we must endure through trials. Through trials we can’t become lazy we must endure through trials. In verse 4 James says and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Through trials if we start lacking we will be weakened.
James

October 13th, 2024

Chapter 1 introduction.

The book of James is a book that is tough and uncomfortable but if you carefully read the book of James it’s life changing. I want to start off with an introduction. For this introduction, I want to cover the format and author of the book, and two reasons to study James. The format of the book is a letter though it’s not written by Paul who you probably know wrote many of the letters in the New Testament. It’s written by James, who was the half brother of Jesus. Now two reasons to study it. One, to examine the relationship between faith and works. On one hand, James refers to faith 14 different times. On the other hand, this letter from James is filled with commands to obey. The point of the book of James is trials, suffering, and the relationship between faith and works. Something that gets mixed up all the time is the difference between faith and works. People think that good works is the way to be saved but because God died for us and we believe in him we are saved. People also have this idea that good works pleases or makes God love you more. There is no way to make God love you more because God loves everyone the same. Then, people think that all we have to do is believe in Jesus. People think they don’t have to do good works. James 2:17 says, “in the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.” So it’s vert important for us to examine our faith and works. Second, to explore the impact of our faith on the life in this city and in this world. Faith doesn’t only impact you, it impacts other people and the world. What this is saying is our faith doesn’t just matter to us but it matters to others. Brothers and sisters we are living in a day of age where there’s more unbelievers than believers. Think about the world around us. There are many people who don’t know Jesus and God calls us to share the gospel. The gospel was not made just for you to believe and nothing else. The gospel is made to be shared.
Revelation

August 19th, 2024

Revelation 2 8-11 says write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: thus says the first and last, the one who was dead and came to life: I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look the devil is about to throw some of you in prison to test you, and you will experience affliction for ten days be faithful unto death and i will give you the crown of life. Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death. For this set of scripture i have three things first Jesus always reigns in fact he even reigns better in dark times. Have you ever been in a dark room at night asleep and somebody turns on a bright light, but a light shines in the light if a bright light turns on when the light is on you can’t see it. See in the dark You can see his glory in the light you dont see him as well because since you’ve been going through good times you dont see what God can do. Also remember Jesus reigns when your suffering in your darkest times times when you have no idea what Gods doing you have to persevere and cling to Jesus. Second Jesus has a purpose for your suffering God isn’t making you suffer so he can see you suffer he’s making you suffer to teach you something. Have you ever maybe whenever you were a kid get a spanking as punishment for doing something wrong that’s kind of what Gods doing. Third your suffering could be a rebuke this is a time when you need to check your faith. Think of a shepherd and one of his sheep keeps running away and he can’t get it to listen eventually he breaks the sheep’s leg thats what God dose to us are running from Jesus if you are he will come break your leg. We need to wake up we’re living in the last days and if you go up on judgement day and you don’t go to heaven because you kept running from God dont blame but yourself.
Revelation

August 11th, 2024

chapter 2 the church of Ephesus.

Turn to Rvelation 1: 12- 2:-7 then I turned to see whose voice it was that had spoken to me. When i turned i saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was one like the son of man, dressed in a robe and with a golden sash wrapped around his chest. The hair of his head was white as wool- white as snow – and his eyes like a fiery flame. His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of cascading waters. He had seven stars in his right hand; a sharp double eged sword came ou of his mouth, and his face was shining like the sun at full strength. When i saw him, i fell to his knees like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said, don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, but look i am alive forever and ever, and i hold the keys of the death and hades. Therefore write what you have seen, what is, and what will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp stands is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches. Write to the angel of the church in Ephesus: thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lamp stands: i now your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call them selves apostles and are not and you found them to be liars. I know that you have preserved and endured hardships for the the sake of my name, and you not grown weary. But i have this against you: you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember the an how far you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, i will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place, unless you repent. Yet you do have this: you hate the practice of the nicolations, which i also hate. Let anyone who has ears to listen to what the spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, i will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. For this scripture i have three truths to ask yourself. First do you love God as you once did do you remember the day that you were baptized or saved think how much did you love then. What happens is when we first are saved or baptized we loved God a lot but we’re in a day and age where couples are struggling in relationships and getting divorced is that your relationship with God. Or are you loosing love what happens is at the beginning of a relationship with God we love him so much but we loose love for God. Are you loosing love for God like a couple and one of says I used to love but not as much now most of you probably know that leads to a divorce. We can not loose love for God or on judgement day you will stand before God and he says you abandoned your love for me and you will spend eternity in hell. Second are you getting a divorce with God the more you love for God the harder your heart becomes and then it’s just a matter of time until you decide you know what i don’t love God anymore than you stand before God and he says you abandoned me. Third and this is where we’re end do you believe in the power of God you may love God but do you believe in the power of God. If you don’t love God you better go back and start loving because if you don’t love him God will show you his wrath. Don’t think o i may not love God that much but I’ve done some pretty good things I’ve been pretty good reconsider your thoughts no matter how many people you helped or how many good dead’s you’ve done God will come before you with is wrath. If your a Christian and you’ve lost love for find help feel free to comment me about your love for God and I’ll try to help you. Brothers and sisters we’re living in the last days get your love for God straight or you will spend eternity in hell.
revelation

July 16th, 2024

Revelation 1:9-20 I John your brother and partner in the affliction kingdom and endurance that are in Jesus was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus I was in the spirit on the lord’s day and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet saying write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches Ephesus, Smyrna, pergamum, thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and laodicea. Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me. When I turned to see whose I saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was one like the son of man, dressed in a robe and with a golden sash wrapped around his chest. The hair of his head was white as wool white as snow and his eyes like a fiery flame. His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of cascading waters. He had seven stars in his right hand; a sharp double edged sword came from his mouth, and his face was shining like the sun at full strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said don’t be afraid. I am the first and last and the living one. I was dead, but look I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and hades. Therefore write what you have seen, what is, and what will take place after this. Now I would like for to take a couple minutes to think over this. Ok let’s break this down I have four truths on how we should live in tribulation. First the the plan of Christ involves tribulation. Gods plan for us is to suffer and serve we are to be Christians in tribulation. We as Christian’s are to travel the narrow road we must go through tribulation. There is no other way to Christ we must go through tribulation. Second don’t take shortcuts through tribulation. We as Christians can not take shortcuts through tribulation Gods plan for us is to take the narrow road when we take shortcuts we’re going to Despair. If we keep taking shortcuts you will be dead spiritually. We’re also loose the interest for God and gain the interest of the Devil. In the long run when you die you go to hell we as Christians can not take shortcuts. Third don’t let the devil tempt you into tribulation. The devil is creeping around every corner looking for ways to deceive you into tribulation. We must pray to God to not let us get tempted by the devil we as Christians must be careful of the devil. The devil can tempt you with out you even knowing we must be careful of the devil. Fourth don’t loose God through tribulation. When we’re going through tribulation it is easy to loose God. We must always through tribulation have our mind on God not how terrible and stupid your life is. If you don’t have mind set on God you will loose God an die spiritually. Now I have two questions you should ask yourself about tribulation. First are you going through tribulation. You must ask your self am I going through tribulation am I taking shortcuts around tribulation. You to ask your self this or you will end up dead spiritually, and in the long run when you die you spend eternity in hell. Second is my mind set on God through tribulation. You must ask yourself this or you will get yourself in bad situations in the future, and your heart will become hard as a rock, think on this.