Christians and Sickness

Jesus Christ never promised good
health, wealth or prosperity to those who follow Him. He promised
them eternal life on certain conditions. Those conditions were that
we follow Him, obey Him, stay with Him and endure with Him until the
very end.

He promised us that we will be hated by
all men, that we will be persecuted, that we will enter the kingdom
of heaven through much tribulation. He never promised us an easy
time. We will learn through what we suffer if we follow Jesus Christ,
but we have to endure with Him until the very end.

Children of God will suffer. They will
suffer sickness. They will suffer persecution. They will suffer
misfortune. They will have to give up many things in life, they will
have to give up the pleasures of sin to follow Jesus Christ. It is a
road of suffering not of the pleasures of the flesh, however if we
endure with Jesus until the end we will be saved. If we endure with
Him we prove that we are worthy of Him, but if we give up and turn
away from Him when things go difficult, when we have to endure
persecution, when we get sick, when we lose our job, when we're
rejected by people because of Jesus Christ, if we would give up, then
we are not worthy of Him. We have to endure with Jesus through all
circumstances until the very end.

Jesus promised that He will never leave
us. He will never forsake us. He will be with us in tribulation. He
will teach us and He will guide us, He will always be there for us,
but we have to stay with Him. Are we worthy of Jesus? Are we willing
to stay with Him and to endure with Him until the very end? Only
those who endure with Jesus through all circumstances, through all
tribulation and trials, only they will enter His kingdom.

May Jesus bless you.

The PAIN of Leaving Church

Church organizations are man-made institutions that do not and cannot submit themselves to Jesus Christ, because they are not part of the kingdom of God. The church serves itself and not the kingdom of God. Many people are born into church and they are indoctrinated into the doctrines and the teachings of the church. Those believers who are serious about their eternal destination and their relationship with Jesus Christ quickly discover that the teachings and the doctrines of the church do not line up with the words of Jesus Christ, that are the words of eternal life. If they start questioning the teachings and doctrines of the church they are quickly branded as troublemakers and they are pushed out, they are excluded.

Many people who discover the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ become unsettled in their church and they seek the truth. When they confront the leadership of the church organization with the truth they are branded as troublemakers and heretics, and they get pushed out of the church. It is extremely unsettling for these people to be pushed out of the church that they have been in since they were born or since they first believed in Jesus Christ. But the only way to follow Jesus Christ is to separate yourself from the church and its doctrines. You cannot be part of a church organization and part of the kingdom of God. You cannot serve two masters,you cannot be loyal to the church and be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

When you oppose the church organization with the truth, the persecution starts. The persecution and can be severe and many people cannot handle the rejection by those people who who once where their friends, their fellow believers, but you have to make up your mind and follow Jesus Christ if you want to go after Him.

Many people get so involved in trying to correct the errors of the church that they do not even realize that they themselves, even though they have discovered the shortcomings of the church, that they themselves are not suitable for the kingdom of heaven; that they themselves are not following Jesus Christ. They fail to realize that it is about their relationship with Jesus Christ. You cannot change the church organization, you have to work out your own relationship with Jesus Christ.

Separate yourself from everything and everybody that stands between you and the truth, between you and following Jesus Christ. You need to work on your own relationship with Jesus. Get out of church and get into your prayer closet. Start seeking Jesus Christ with all your heart and you will discover many more

lies that you have been taught ,that you've been indoctrinated with, you will discover many more things that you believed to be true, that are actually deception. Jesus Christ will guide us into all truth if we follow Him. There is only one way to walk in truth and that is to be led by the Holy Spirit of God and when you walk with Jesus you will find yourself on your own, with Jesus, for most of the time. Following Jesus Christ is a lonely road. You will not find much fellowship with other believers who are serious about following Jesus, but your fellowship will be with Jesus Christ Himself. Once you have secured your own relationship with Jesus Christ and you have become a disciple, a true follower of Jesus Christ, you will be able to make other disciples, to bring others into fellowship with Jesus Christ, and that is what Jesus Christ call us for. Man-made church organizations are Antichrist, they only benefit themselves. Separate yourself from those. Go after Jesus Christ. Seek Him with all your heart He will guide you, and He will each you. Stay with Him until the very end and you will have eternal life. Jesus Christ alone is the way the truth and the life, follow Him.

May Jesus bless you.

Who will protect us?

The world has become a terrible place and people are concerned about their safety. They ask:"Who will protect us?" Many purchase firearms and improve the security of their houses.

Your safety depends on whom you trust in and whom you depend on. If you depend on yourself and on other people you will be disappointed. There is only One person who can

keep us safe and that is Jesus Christ. I speak from experience.

For some time we lived on a farm in a remote area of South Africa. It is an area that is extremely unsafe where farmers get attacked and killed daily. We had no weapons, we did not try to protect ourselves but Jesus Christ protected us. One night Jesus showed me a vision of a huge horse with a rider on top of it at the entrance to the farm but this rider and horse were immensely huge. It was an angel that was keeping watch over us.

Not so long ago I had a dream one night of this person who was helping me but I did not realize that he was that tall. I looked up and I saw that he was about twenty feet tall (7 meters). This person was protecting me and he would shrink himself to the size of a normal man. I said to him:"You are actually a tall guy." He just smiled at me. The purity that I saw in his face I have never seen in a human face. That was an angel of God.

The Lord knows how to protect His own. He sends out His angels to protect and to keep those who belong to Him. Our safety depends on Whom we trust in.

I read Psalm 91

1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

            Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

      2I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress,

            My God, in whom I trust!”

      3For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper

            And from the deadly pestilence.

      4He will cover you with His pinions,

            And under His wings you may seek refuge;

            His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.

      5You will not be afraid of the terror by night,

            Or of the arrow that flies by day;

      6Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

            Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

      7A thousand may fall at your side

            And ten thousand at your right hand,

            But it shall not approach you.

      8You will only look on with your eyes

            And see the recompense of the wicked.

      9For you have made the LORD, my refuge,

            Even the Most High, your dwelling place.

      10No evil will befall you,

            Nor will any plague come near your tent.

      11For He will give His angels charge concerning you,

            To guard you in all your ways.

      12They will bear you up in their hands,

            That you do not strike your foot against a stone.

      13You will tread upon the lion and cobra,

            The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

      14“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;

            I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

      15“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;

            I will be with him in trouble;

            I will rescue him and honor him.

      16“With a long life I will satisfy him

            And let him see My salvation.”



In whom do we trust? In people or in ourselves? Or in the Lord? He gives His angels command to protect those who serve Him.

I read from Hebrews 1:13.

"13But to which of the angels has He ever said,

            “SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

            UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES

            A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET”?

14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?"

In whom do you trust? Do you trust in Jesus Christ? He is the only One who can protect you. He looks after His servants.

May Jesus bless you.

True Christians will suffer persecution

Jesus Christ did not promise His followers prosperity or good
fortune, He warned them that in this world they will suffer
persecution.


We read the words of Jesus in John 15:18 He said to His
disciples:“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me
before it hated you. 19“If you were of the world, the world would
love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you
out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20“Remember
the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his
master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if
they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21“But all these
things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not
know the One who sent Me. 22“If I had not come and spoken to them,
they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23“He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24“If I had not done
among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin;
but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
25“But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in
their Law, ‘THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.’

If we follow Jesus Christ and we associate with Him the world will
reject us and they will hate us like they also rejected, hated and
persecuted Him.

Before Jesus was crucified He once again warned His disciples. We
read in John 16:32“Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come,
for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone;
and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33“These
things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the
world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the
world.”

If we follow Jesus Christ we must be blameless, pure and holy and
the world will hate us, WITHOUT CAUSE. Many professing Christians are
SINNERS like the rest of the world and they are the ones who
persecute those who follow and obey Jesus Christ, those who are LIKE
Jesus Christ, those who OBEY Him, those who live according to His
words. But we have to OVERCOME.

Jesus Christ OVERCAME, not by fighting but by doing the will of
His Father, by seeking the approval of the Father. We need to
overcome in this world of wickedness, not by fighting back, not by
doing as the world does but by living in obedience to Jesus Christ,
by being BLAMELESS, by being PURE, by SUFFERING PERSECUTION, by
turning the other cheek, by following the guidance of the Holy Spirit
and thus doing the will of God and then we will have the approval of
Jesus Christ.

We WILL suffer persecution, we will suffer tribulation if we
follow Jesus Christ, if we associate with Him. If we do not suffer
tribulation and persecution then we are not of Jesus, then we are of
the world, then we fit in with this world. But if we are of Jesus
Christ they will hate us and persecute us without reason.


Are we being persecuted for the sake of righteousness and for the
sake of obeying and following Jesus Christ? Are we of Christ? Are we
overcoming the world or are we giving in to temptation and to sin?
Are we also sinners like the rest of those who profess to be
Christians but they are not like Jesus Christ? If we are truly like
Jesus and we follow and obey Him we will not be accepted by this
world. They will hate and persecute us but we have to OVERCOME and
thus prove that we are children of God.











May Jesus bless you.

CHEAP CHRISTIANITY will leave you ETERNALLY disappointed

Jesus Christ paid a dear price for the salvation of the world and those who follow Him will also pay the price. Jesus said of those who follow Him that:”You will be hated by all men.” He also said that :”Narrow is the door that lead to life and few there be that find it.” Jesus said that:”Whoever wishes to come after Me, must deny Himself, pick up his cross and follow Me every day.”

IF we follow Jesus Christ we WILL BE persecuted and hated. We will be rejected by the world. We will pay a price, a very dear price. If we are not rejected and persecuted, if we are not hated by the world then we are not following Jesus. There is no cheap Christianity. Those who follow Jesus, in whom Jesus lives are hated by the world. If you are not persecuted and rejected for Jesus then it shows that Jesus is not in you and you are not following Him and in the end you will be dearly disappointed because you don't know Jesus and He will say to you:”Go away I never knew you, you worker of wickedness.”

Those who follow Jesus will pay the price. It will cost you EVERYTHING, it might even cost you your life. Are you following Jesus or are you part of CHEAP CHRISTIANITY because in the end you will be the loser. You will end up in damnation with the hypocrites. Are you following Jesus? Are you paying the price?

May Jesus bless you.

Join the struggle

To follow Jesus Christ is a struggle every day and if you do follow Jesus you WILL feel the pain. Jesus said that we must deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him every day. He also warned his disciples that they will be hated by all men. If you follow Jesus Christ this world will hate you and reject you.
Jesus said that we must take His yoke on us because his burden is light and His commandments are easy. That is when you FOLLOW Jesus and STAY with Him, then He will help you to overcome. He will help you to bear the load, but you will be tried, you will be tested and only those who endure until the end will have the prize of eternal life.
If you follow Jesus you have to sacrifice yourself unto the Lord. Therefor Paul writes in Romans 12:1 He says:“I beseech you brethren that you present your bodies as a living and a holy sacrifice, acceptable unto the Lord. That is your reasonable service.” That is what the Lord requires of us if we want eternal life. We need to sacrifice ourselves and present ourselves unto the Lord for HIS purpose to do HIS will. Only those who STAY with Jesus until the end and who overcome evil, themselves, the flesh and who OBEY Jesus Christ, only they will have the prize of eternal life.
It is a struggle until the very end. You have to overcome to win the prize. Stay focused on Jesus or else you will not be able to make it.

May Jesus bless you.