Do Not Open The Door

The very same as you should not open the door of your house to any stranger, you must not open the door of your heart to evil. If you do, they will come in and destroy you.

If you open your heart to temptation, lust, envy, jealousy, evil desires, rage, pride,  self pity, anxiety, fear, animosity, hatred, enmity, doubt and other demonic influences,  then you have allowed them in and given them legal right to live in you. They will entangle and enslave you so that you will not be able to exercise your free will any more. In the end they will control you and cause you to do things that you do not want to do, that will destroy your life and cause you to end up in hell.

Jesus said:"Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin."John 8:34 The wages of sin is death. Jesus came to set men free from the bondage of sin and addictions. “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed."John 8:36. If you accept Jesus and invite Him into your life, He will set

you free from the bondage of sin, but then you have to reject and evict those evil forces that you invited into your heart.

Once Jesus has set you free, if you open the door to the devil and his demons, they will come in and enslave you again, and you will be worse off than before. Jesus said:"43“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44“Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. 45“Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”Matthew 12:42.

That is why Christian believers who once accepted Jesus, were set free from the bondage of sin, and then opened the door to sin, often become worse sinners than they were before. Many have been deceived to think that they are saved, even if they go back to sin. They will perish if they do not find repentance and deliverance from their sin. If you sin you will burn. No sinners will enter heaven.

Do not open the door to satan. If you have become entangled in sin and addictions again, you need to run back to Jesus. Only Jesus can set you free. The apostle James wrote:"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you."James 4:7.

Do not open the door to satan. Do not become conformed to the world. Do not watch TV and movies. Do not watch pornography. Do not participate in the same senseless sinful entertainment that the sinners do, in drinking and parties. Do not waste your money on sports. Do not play video games. You will be trapped by the devil. Be holy. Avoid temptation. Keep your mind clean, reserve it for Jesus. We read in James 4:4 "You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?" If you open the door to the devil, he will come in and destroy you and you will end up in hell.

Invite Jesus in, invite His Holy Spirit to dwell in you. Pray, seek Him, listen to Him, follow and obey Him.  Reserve  yourself for Jesus and do what is pleasing to Him. Stay with Jesus and you will stay free. Do not open the door to satan.

May Jesus bless you.

Are You Conquering?

Jesus calls us to triumph over evil, to destroy the works of the devil and to build His kingdom. Jesus calls us to victory, not to defeat. If we follow Jesus and we remain in Him we are more than conquerers, because He goes ahead of us and He is in us.

Most professing Christians are losers. They cannot even stop sinning. They say we are all sinners. They are slaves to sin. They have no selfcontrol, they cannot contain the lusts of their flesh. They are compromisers. They are fearful, giving in to satan without resistance. They say they believe in Jesus and they believe they are saved but they are no different from the world. They search the scriptures and study the end time prophecies, predicting the sudden return of Jesus. They hope for a rapture, for Jesus to pick them up and fly them to heaven before the great tribulation starts. They are deceived and lost. lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. They just believe in Jesus, but they do not follow and obey Him. That is why they are powerless against the devil. They are not conquering. They are not building the kingdom of God and they will have no inheritance in the kingdom of God.

We have to follow Jesus, then  we will conquer, overcome and win.

We read in Revelation 21:7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. 8“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Are we conquering? Are we overcoming? Are we following Jesus?

May Jesus bless you.

We All Struggle

We all have struggles trials and
temptations, and if we follow Jesus Christ, we have a cross to bear.
We need to pick up our cross and follow Jesus Christ every day. What
is important, is that we overcome. We can only overcome trials and
temptations and struggles and be pleasing to Jesus if we stay with
Him,if we follow Him. Without Jesus we can do nothing but with Jesus
all things are possible, if we are committed to stay with Him.

We need to stay focused on Jesus and
when trials and temptations come our way, we need to turn to Jesus
first. He is with us. He will never leave us and He will never
forsake us, but if we take our eyes off Jesus we are bound to fail.
We all have struggles, we all have trials, we all have temptations,
we all have a cross to bear, we will all be tested, and we will all
be tried, but it is important that we overcome.

Only those who overcome will inherit
the kingdom of heaven and win the prize of eternal life. Don't give
up. Deny yourself, pick up your cross every day, stay focused on
Jesus and follow Him, and He will guide you every step of the way.

May Jesus bless you.

The POWER In You

In this world we will have tribulation, trials and temptation, but it is only those that overcome, that will have the prize of eternal life.
Jesus Christ gives you the power to overcome. If he lives in you, if His Spirit is in you, it is the Holy Spirit the Power that keeps you alive and that gives you the power to overcome, but you have to fight, you have to resist the devil, you have to face trials and temptations, and you have to overcome in the Name of the Lord. But if the Lord Jesus, His Holy Spirit, is not in you, then you cannot fight in His Name. Then you do not have the power to overcome. If you have not submitted your life to Jesus, if you do not yield to Him, if His spirit does not dwell in yo, then you will not have power to overcome. If you are living in sin and disobedience to Jesus, then you will not have the power to overcome.
You need to be led by the Spirit of God not by your own lusts, not by temptations, not by the things of the world, you have to be led by the Spirit of God, to walk in the power of God. Do we have the power of God in us? Do we have that Holy Spirit power in us?
Are we fighting in the power of the Spirit? Or are we being defeated in our own power? That is why many believers cannot
overcome, they do not have the Spirit of Christ in them. They do not have the power to overcome. Do we have that Holy Spirit power in us? Are we overcoming? Are we overcoming and are we
living and walking in victory every day, because we have the power the Spirit of Christ in us?
May Jesus bless you.

Victory IN Jesus

Those who are IN Christ overcome the world. They overcome all things because Jesus Christ is IN them. Jesus said that if we love Him we will obey Him and Him and the Father will come and live IN us and He will reveal Himself to us.
If we are a temple of the Holy Spirit and Jesus dwells in us then we are OVERCOMERS, we overcome all things. We have the VICTORY  because Jesus Christ in us has overcome all things.
Are we IN Christ? Do we have victory over sin, over the world, over satan? Are we overcoming? Is Jesus Christ in us?
If Jesus Christ is in us and we are in Him we will BEAR FRUIT. He is the True Vine  and the true vine only bears good fruit. Are we overcoming? Are we IN Christ?
May Jesus bless you.

Overcome the World

Jesus Christ said that unless a person is born again he cannot see nor enter the kingdom of God. The apostle John wrote in 1 John 5:4  that whatever is born of God overcomes the world.

The reason why most believers cannot stop sinning and cannot overcome the flesh is because they are not born again. If we are born again of the Spirit of God, we overcome the world, we overcome the flesh and we do the will of God.

Those who are born again of the Spirit of God and who walk according to the Spirit, who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, but those who live according to the flesh, they will perish.

The soul that sins will die. Jesus said:"SIN NO MORE.' Those who sin will perish. Those who cannot stop sinning are not born again. They are not born of God.

Do we overcome the world? Are we born of God? Are we children of God?

May Jesus bless you.

Overcome Obstacles and Stumbling Blocks

If we follow Jesus Christ we will encounter many obstacles and stumbling blocks. It is important we be very careful that we do not stumble and that we do not sin.

Many of those who want to follow Jesus have a spouse that does not want to follow Jesus and then they divorce, they leave the other person, they sin, they do what is wrong in the sight of God. Many justify their sin with scripture or they say they had special revelation. Jesus Christ does not lead us into sin, He does not lead us into compromise. He leads us to OVERCOME.

Many of the things that we come across will be impossible, like mountains, like walls that we cannot get over but if we stay focused on Jesus He will guide us through. He will remove the stumbling blocks if He so wishes, but in everything we must remain blameless, we must NOT SIN. We must do the will of God.

If we endure with Jesus Christ until the very end then we will look back and confess, testify, that without Jesus we could not do it, because if you walk with Jesus you do not compromise, you do not sin, you OVERCOME because you follow Him. Jesus Christ leads us to the VICTORY if we follow Him.

Only those who overcome, who endure with Jesus, only they will have eternal life. Without Jesus Christ we can do nothing but with Jesus we overcome all obstacles.

Stay focused on Jesus and He will keep your feet from stumbling.

May Jesus bless you.

The POWER of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ sets the captives free. Those who believe in Jesus Christ and accept Him as their Lord and Master are IMMEDIATELY, INSTANTANEOUSLY set free from the bondage of sin. They are not slaves to sin any more, they are BORN AGAIN and they are CHILDREN OF GOD. The children of God are FREE, they are FREE from the bondage of sin. That is the POWER of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The MOMENT you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Master He sets you free and you are FREE to SIN NO MORE. You are free from the damnation, you are free from the bondage of sin.

If you are still a sinner and you practice sin then you are separated from God. Many people confess to be Christians  but they also confess to be sinners, they say: We are all sinners. As long as you are still a sinner you are not a child of God. A child of God is FREE from the bondage of sin. The sons of God are FREE from sin and they SIN NO MORE, they serve the Master, they serve Jesus Christ. That is the POWER OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. He immediately sets you free, sin has no power over you any more UNLESS you go back to sin and you get entangled into sin again. Then you have turned away from Jesus, you have despised His grace and you have become a slave to sin again.

If you have become a slave to sin after accepting Jesus then you need to turn back to Jesus and ask him to set you free because as long as you are a sinner you are DOOMED and destined for DAMNATION.

Jesus Christ sets the captives FREE. That is the POWER of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Are you FREE? Are you a child of God or are you as slave to sin?

May Jesus bless you.

Jesus will give you the POWER

The wages of sin is death. The soul that sins will DIE, will PERISH IN HELL, without exception. But here is the GOOD NEWS. Jesus Christ came to take away the sins of the world. He who sins is a slave to sin, but Jesus Christ sets the captives FREE. He sets the slaves FREE, those who are SLAVES TO SIN, so that they will SIN NO MORE and He forgives their past sins, so that they can live in holiness and righteousness by His POWER in them, so that  they can have eternal live.

But Jesus Christ will not take our sins away from us if we love sin. If we want eternal life, if we want to be free from sin He gives us the POWER, He sets us FREE and He gives us the POWER to overcome temptation. He gives us the POWER to SIN NO MORE, to BE SAINTS, to be children of God  He gives His Spirit IN us to guide us into all truth. He gives us the VICTORY if we ASK Him, if we STAY with Him, if we FIGHT against evil, He gives us the POWER to overcome.

We have to SUBMIT ourselves to Him, TURN AWAY from sin, RENOUNCE sin. HATE sin and WANT to be free, and He will set us free. Those whom the Son of God have set free will be free and free indeed, because they WANT TO, they WANT TO be children of God, they WANT eternal life, they WANT Jesus Christ, they LOVE Him, they FOLLOW Him and they OBEY Him and He EMPOWERS them to overcome.

Eternal life is for those who overcome. Do you want to overcome? Do you want eternal life? Ask Jesus, submit to Him, repent, obey Him, be baptized in water and He will give you the POWER to fight off the wiles of the devil, to resist temptation and to endure in holiness and righteousness until the very end. ASK Jesus, STAY with Him and He will give you the POWER to overcome.

May Jesus bless you.

Do not STUMBLE

The wages of sin is death. If we stumble and fall into sin it can cause us to end up in hell. Satan is doing his best to make us stumble so that we can end up in damnation. Even though we might be very careful we might stumble at times. The only way that we will NOT STUMBLE is if we STAY FOCUSED ON Jesus, if we keep our eyes on Him and we get our guidance from Him, if we do not act on our own, our own judgment, our own initiative but if we live constantly, moment by moment under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In everything we have to FIRST ASK JESUS how to react, what to do, or else we will stumble.

If we keep our eyes on Jesus, stay focused on Him, He will not allow us to stumble. Make sure that you do not stumble. Stay focused on Jesus, always in prayer, always ask of Him and He will guide you so that you will not stumble, you will not sin, you WILL be pleasing to Him. The only way to have eternal life is to follow Jesus Christ step by step. If you take your eyes off Him YOU WILL STUMBLE!

Do not stumble, follow Jesus.

May Jesus bless you.

How Strong is your FAITH?

How strong is your faith? Does it hold together in difficult times? Does it sustain you when the storms of life come at you? Does your faith still hold or do you panic, do you fret? Do you fall into anxiety or do you just keep on trusting Jesus? What is your faith made of? What is it based on? Is it based on the Bible? Is it based on what other people say, on some motivational talk from the pulpit of your church? Or is your faith based on your relationship with Jesus Christ?

Does your faith hold together or does it fall to pieces when you are threatened or tempted? How strong is your faith? If your faith is not based on your relationship with Jesus, HEARING from Him, TRUSTING in Him and walking WITH HIM every day, then it will fall to pieces because then IT HAS NO FOUNDATION.

Many believers claim to trust in Jesus, to trust in the Bible but when their faith is tested then they fall over, their foundation crumbles because it is not built on a real relationship with Jesus Christ, THEY DO NOT KNOW HIM.

You need to KNOW Jesus Christ FOR REAL and then you will not falter, you will not fail. You have to trust HIM and go with Him every step of the way until the end. If your faith is not based and built on the WORDS OF JESUS, what you HEAR FROM HIM then you are building on sand and your foundations will crumble when the storms of life come against you.

Jesus is coming. Do you KNOW Him? Will you stand in the evil day? Are you READY?

The POWER of God IN YOU

If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Master he immediately accepts you as a child of God and He give in you the POWER OF GOD which enables you to overcome satan. He gives in you the WISDOM OF GOD that enables you to refute all worldly wisdom because it is not your power, it is God's Power. But you have to exercise that power, through your utter dependence on Jesus Christ. You have to LEAN ON HIM every moment and then the power of God will work in you, but you have to RESIST the devil. You have to stand against him and then the power of God in you will destroy the works of satan, will help you to overcome.

You will be able to stand against temptation and against sin, you will have the wisdom to refute all the wisdom and the knowledge of this world because it is not your wisdom, it is the wisdom of God in you.

Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Master, do you have the power to stand against the devil? Is the wisdom of God in you to destroy and to refute all arguments of this world? They will not like you, they will not accept you, they will HATE YOU but you will overcome them if you STAND IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, if you STAND as a child of God.

Are you overcoming? Are you standing against satan? Is the wisdom of God working in and through you because you are walking with Jesus whom you have accepted as your Master? Are you truly a child of God? Is the power of God working in you? Is JESUS IN YOU? Is the power of God working IN and THROUGH you?

Jesus is coming! Are you READY? Has the Kingdom of God become REAL in you?

More POWER

Those of us who follow Jesus Christ and have the HOPE of eternal life have to endure until the end, we have to overcome and we have to DO what Jesus requires of us. Many people say that they do not have the power to stop sinning, they do not have the power to resist temptation.

All POWER and all authority belongs to Jesus and all the power that we have comes from Jesus, and He GIVES POWER to those who ASK Him, who SEEK Him. We have to OVERCOME, it is only overcomers who will have the prize of eternal life. Jesus will give us the POWER to overcome if we ASK Him. We have to SUBMIT to Jesus, whatever our problem is and we must RESIST THE DEVIL, STAND in the Name of Jesus and when our power runs out then Jesus will give us the power to overcome.

We FIRST have to STAND with ALL the power that is in us and when it feels that we cannot endure any more then the POWER OF JESUS comes in and we overcome! We HAVE TO overcome. If we need more power we need to PRAY MORE and Jesus will give us the power to overcome.

May Jesus bless you.

GO ALL THE WAY

Many people eagerly start out following Jesus Christ but very few are willing to go all the way and endure until the end. Jesus' disciples were also often tempted to leave Him. We read in John 6 when Jesus said to them:”If you do not eat My body and drink My blood” most of them wanted to leave Him. And Jesus said to the twelve:”Don't you also want to leave Me?” Peter said:”Lord, where will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.”
Even Peter himself swore, He said:”Lord I will go with You all the way, even until death, I will die for You” but he denied Jesus three times. When Jesus was led away to be crucified all His disciples deserted Him. He was all by Himself, all alone, they had all left Him. It was only afterwards, after they had received the Holy Spirit that most of them went on to die for Him.
If we do not go WITH Jesus and follow Him ALL THE WAY until the end, then it is all in vain. Jesus said:”Whoever puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not worthy of Me, is not worthy of the kingdom of God.” Many people are only willing to go with Jesus up to a point, for a short while. When they have to choose between Jesus and friends, popularity and acceptance of men, they choose their friends, they deny Jesus. When they have to choose to obey Jesus they stop following Him. When they have to choose to be baptized in water, they refuse! When they have to choose between friends, their wife, their husband, their children, their job and Jesus then they deny Jesus. They turn away from Him. They go after the things of the world. They rather go for the pleasures of the world than to obey Jesus Christ. They rather go for Bible study and church activities than to LISTEN to Jesus, PRAY, GO where He sends them, DO what He tells them to do. They are not willing to follow Jesus ALL THE WAY.
Many believers are UNFRUITFUL. We can only be fruitful if we remain IN Christ, if we are LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT and if we DO what Jesus himself tells us to do.
Very few are willing to go all the way, to LISTEN and to OBEY until the end. If we are not willing to go WITH Jesus ALL THE WAY until the end then we are not worthy of Him and everything that we have done, everything that we have given up, up to that point, is a waste, its all in vain! If we don't go all the way we will not enter the kingdom of heaven, we will not have eternal life.
Are you willing to go all the way and to endure until the very end, even until death? If you are not willing to endure you won't make it!

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.