Category Archives: Christian Living

A New Want To

I found this in my draft file. 
It appears to have been there for a while, like sometime between June of 2020 and January of 2021.
I’ve read it and guess what, it’s still true! So I thought I’d add a bit more and press the publish button. 


Sin.
It’s been on my mind heavily, lately.
Mine and yours.
The ‘yours’ meaning what we see every time we turn on a digital media screen or perhaps just walking public streets.
Seriously, have you noticed all the sin (evil) paraded in our world?
I mean people tell lies like it’s the truth.
Womb Babies are killed like they are nothing – a vegetable or less.
People kill. They steal. They destroy lives, families, marriages, property, industry, education . . . on and on goes the destruction.
That reminds me of Scripture. Something YESHUA said when He was speaking of Satan.

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  source  John 10:10

Sin destroys.
But we still do it.
Why?
Why do people sin?

I’ve heard for years that people are not sinners because they sin; they sin because they are sinners.

I have no doubt it is true.
People sin because we are sinners.
And here it gets really ugly. We sin because we like it!
Oh more than like it, we cherish it!  That’s why we keep doing it. 
Only when we see the ugly, awfulness of our sin do we even get the inkling that we might like to stop. The only thing is we can’t. 

We do not have the power to stop sinning even if we had the want to!

Don’t believe me? Try it!

Pick out your favorite sin, oh what the heck, make it easier, pick out your least favorite

and NEVER do it again.

Our flesh is totally depraved it cannot NOT sin. 
BUT when JESUS makes us a NEW CREATION we CAN. 
As we yield to HOLY SPIRIT, we can lay down any sin we want to. 

Now we must ask, how’s our want to
And if we don’t have a new want to; it just may be that we are still lost in our sins – no salvation has occurred. 

Does this mean we become sinless on this side of Heaven?
NO.

But it does mean we sin less than we used to.
It means day by day or perhaps year by year, we see ourselves more and more choosing to obey our Father.
We see ourselves conforming more and more to the Image of JESUS. 

Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; source

Stand Your Ground

I think this is important.  I hope you will watch and hear.

I watch Amanda often  – each time she publishes another video. 

JESUS IS the turning point.  HE is the crossroad. HE is THE HILL to live and die on. 

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We have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to do RIGHT in this WRONG world,

Please know your honest questions are welcome here, via comment or email.

 

At this day

Abba, this hurts so much and what hurts more is it is so totally unnecessary.
We are here, at this moment, the day after the Election not knowing who or what next, but knowing that millions of people have voted (either with eyes wide open or closed and deceived) for the slaughter, murder, and mutilation of children to legally continue in America. I can see You taking into account, personally and individually, how this was done. You know their names and You know their dwelling places. And I know You love them still and You desire for them to repent. Holy Spirit, please help them repent before it is too late for them to be made whole.

How You have been so gracious to us since 1973 is a mystery; and yet here we are at this day. 

I don’t know what You do next but I am here asking You to yet save us.
I pray that we, Your Sons and Daughters made so by the Blood of Yeshua, will weep and wail over our own sins and the sins of people around us.
I pray for conviction to fall upon us so heavily that we are broken beneath it in order for us to arise and go forth in power and humility because we have repented in sackcloth and ashes.
I pray for mercy for myself, ABBA, that I will know and experience with You real repentance and surrender to You as my LORD and SAVIOR. Please wash me clean and fill me with Yourself so that I will forever come out from this world; still to be in it as You will, but never a part of it.  I ask You to walk with us through this day and every day following that You give us.  I am so sorry for the murder, the corruption, the apathy, and the spiritual blindness and deceit that has filled this world. I am so sorry for my many contributions and I pray to make amends in JESUS name.