Backsliders will SUFFER

Those who once accepted Jesus and experienced His deliverance, His love, His joy and His peace and then despised His love and turned their back on Him, who backslid and like the dog went back to their own vomit THEY WILL SUFFER. Jesus accepts all those who come to Him and He is faithful but if they are unfaithful they will suffer. Jesus warned. I read from Matthew 12:43 “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. “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. “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.”  Many who once knew Jesus turned their back on Him and went back into the world after the pleasures of sin and they are now demon possessed and they cannot get loose, they cannot get back to Jesus. It will not be an easy way back. Jesus will not just take you back like the first time because you despised His love. He loves you but He will allow those demons to torment you to chastise you, because YOU TURNED YOUR BACK ON HIM. If you do not show that you are serious then Jesus will not deliver you as easily again. This time around, you will battle. Those demons will torment you, YOU WILL GO THROUGH HELL because you despised the love of Jesus. Is it because He doesn't love you? No. It is because you despised Him. He wants to teach you a lesson but if you do not do your utmost best and humble yourself before Jesus, YOU WILL PERISH. This world thinks that they can just go back and say:”Lord, I am sorry, Lord I am sorry.” You are not sorry and Jesus is not a fool! He is not listening to your prayer. He has delivered you to your desires, and now you will suffer. HE DOES NOT ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT SERIOUS. If you are not serious and you do not SHOW BY YOUR DEEDS that you are serious, if you do not resist sin to the point of rather dying YOU WILL PERISH in your sin because you have despised the love of Jesus. He loves you but you need to show that you are serious with Him by turning your back on sin, by rejecting the devil, by fighting him off. You need to show Jesus that you are really serious or else you will perish in your sin. The road back will be extremely hard. It is up to you whether you want to perish or want eternal life but this time around you will work very, very hard to get through to Jesus. Start working, my friend, He is waiting for you, but it will not be easy! Seek Him and you will find Him. May Jesus bless you.

Why me?

If we follow Jesus Christ our life will not be easy, it will not be all plain sailing. He warned that we must go through much tribulation into the kingdom of God. There will be times that life will be difficult, that things will happen to us that we don't understand and we say:”Lord why me? Why did this happen?” But all His ways are loving kindness. He will never forsake us. He guides our footsteps, He is the good Shepherd. He will take us through dark places but He will also bring us to green pastures where we can rest. Sometimes He will suddenly, abruptly bring our life to a standstill. It might be sickness, it might be an accident, something that happened. It is the hand of God because He wants to talk to us. He wants us to understand that He is God. It is not us doing the things, it is Him. Without Him we can do nothing. The psalmist says in Psalm 46:10.“Be still, and know that I am God.” Without Jesus we can do nothing but it is sometimes important that we be quiet before Him, that we take time to LISTEN because very often we are TOO BUSY, too resourceful, too busy doing things FOR THE LORD, too busy with our own mind. Sometimes we need to be pruned. Every branch in Him that bears fruit, He prunes so that it can bear more fruit. The branch that does not bear fruit will get cut off and burned. It is in those times when the Lord stops our life that we get time to reflect, pray, and seek the Lord and once again come to the knowledge and realization that HE IS GOD! WITHOUT HIM I CAN DO NOTHING. That brings a security that God is my Father and without Him I can do nothing, but He will never leave me, He will never forsake me. He watches over me. It is important that we are cut back, CUT TO SIZE, that we can know WHO THE MASTER IS. And then after that we adore Him more. We come to understanding. The psalmist writes in Psalm119:17 "It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Thy statutes.” Psalm 119:67 "Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Thy word.” All His ways are loving kindness. Psalm 25:10 says “All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.” God has not rejected you, He has not deserted you,, He cares for you. But He knows how to work perfection in us. He wants to draw us closer to Him because IT IS ALL ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. Without Him we can do nothing. Submit, wait on Him, rest in His arms and He will guide you and He will teach you. He will make you know that He cares for you and without Him you can do nothing. That is why He makes things happen to us. It is all because He loves and cares for us. May Jesus bless you.