Today I would like to call you back to Jesus. You may think, “I don’t need to come back to Jesus!” But, have little things invaded your heart and taken His rightful place? Have things like sports, food preparation, the Internet, work, friends – even church – supplanted Jesus as your first love? Revelation 2:4 says, “Nevertheless, I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.” Leaving our first love can go to the extreme, as in Jeremiah 2:32, where the Lord says, “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” Many of us have forgotten the Lord for “days without number” by neglecting prayer throughout the week and only remembering to spend time with Him at Sunday morning worship.
In Isaiah 55:7 God tells us, “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him – and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” It is never too late to return to the Lord. The clock hasn’t struck midnight, either for the world or our individual lives. His love always calls us closer.
In the garden of Eden, after man fell into sin, it was the man that hid. God was looking for the object of His love and fellowship. He is the same today. He is desiring that communion He made us for. The Lord will help us with this. He hasn’t left us on our own. Jeremiah 24:7 says, “And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart.”
Right now you can pray these words of returning, “Lord, I come to You with my whole heart. I love You, Jesus.”
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Holy and unblamable
Dear Saints, Jesus is going to present you holy and unblamable to God, He will keep you from falling and present you faultless before His Father in Heaven. For His glory, majesty, dominion and power is now and forever, this is the assurance that we have received in our hearts when we professed that Jesus Christ is Lord.
We must remind ourselves daily of Christ’s victory on the cross, for sin and death was paid for in full, and it no longer has any power over us, for His blood was poured out for a sacrifice to cleanse and cover you so that God would accept us, for Christ’s blood is an atonement for us.
Now, Jesus freed Himself from that cruel cross and is alive forevermore, and because He lives we can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone and I know He holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives.
Now, Jesus is waiting with great patience for men, women and children to receive His wonderful word so that He can present us all to His Father. So let us preach His saving grace to everyone that we can, for He said, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to ever creature.” {Mark 16 v 15}.
So let us be more urgent than ever before, for we see that His coming is but a moment away. May the Lord’s kindness and great love be upon you now and evermore, in Jesus name.
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” {St. Mark 16:15}.
EVANGELIST BILLY BOLITHO
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