Tag: Forgiveness

Why do I hate Halloween?  Because my family lived with a literal demon from hell the entire time I was in high school, that’s why!  There is nothing fun about a haunted house.  It was terrifying and it almost ruined our lives!  Hear me now, the only reason, and I mean the only reason our lives were not ruined is because of Jesus Christ!

I am warning anyone who thinks Halloween is a joke to not be so careless with your soul!  Anyone who has read my book knows what I have been through.  I love Jesus with all my heart because He rescued me and my entire family from real evil!  I don’t make any money on my book.  I give it away for free!  I have only sold a little over 100 copies and I purchased about 100 of those and gave them away to my entire family.  It is my testimony and I am sharing the Gospel through it.  If you would like a free copy, just contact me through my blog contact page, give me a good email address, and I will email you a free copy of my eBook directly from Amazon.

Here is something I just wrote in the comments section under a post I read regarding haunted cemeteries:

“I must caution anyone who might want to mess with these things on Halloween or any other day.  As someone who lived in a real haunted house all through high school, I must warn everyone not to mess with these evil spirits unless you believe in Jesus Christ and are called to do battle against them by the power of the Holy Spirit!

If you do not know Jesus, please stay away from any place that is said to be haunted! It is no joke!  Angels and demons exist, and if you don’t know Jesus, then demons can mess you up real bad!  Read my book!  Demons masquerade as many things and they can manifest visibly and audibly, and they can touch things in our physical reality.  I hate Halloween because demons love it and satan uses it in a big way.  It is not funny, nor is it fun, and it is no joke!  Our family was delivered from that evil because of Jesus!  My advice to all is to take the spiritual realm very seriously, don’t mess with demons, and give your soul to Jesus!  You need the protection of His blood over your soul!”

-Ryan Callahan (Author of One Man’s Very Strange Supernatural Life)

I am dead serious folks!  Do not mess with the spiritual realm or provoke demons!  Run to Jesus and receive His salvation, forgiveness, and protection!  I plead with you with all my heart, run to Jesus!  He loves you and you need His protection from the very real evil that exists on this earth!

You cannot imagine the fear our family lived through!  Lights turning on and off!  Our dog getting kicked by a force out of thin air!  It made a breathing sound in my ear!  That demon terrorized our family for four years night and day!  That is why I hate Halloween!  I had to live that nightmare every day 365 days per year for four years!

Does it make more sense now why I love Jesus so much and why I am on here preaching about Him all day?  We are in a spiritual war folks!  Whether you like it or not, you are in it too.  You must choose a side and choose wisely before you die.  I am here trying to help you make the most important decision you could ever make regarding your soul!  I know it is not easy and there are a lot of cultural differences in the world, but Jesus died for everyone!  He wants to save your soul!  God does not want anyone to perish!

Yes, there are “spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” just like the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians!  I have lived through it and so has my little sister, my Dad, and my Mom.  I have also engaged in spiritual battle against those forces!  After I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I went home in the power of the Holy Spirit and cast that demon out of our house in the Name of Jesus!  No more demon after that!

I hate Halloween.  No, we don’t celebrate it.  Our church does a thing for the kids where they can get dressed up, but it is called “Fall Festival” and it is an outreach to share Christ with all the families that come.  Our kids know what happened to me and they know we don’t celebrate it.  I don’t hand out candy either.  I hate scary movies too and I won’t let that filth into my home.  It is real and it is not to be messed with!  There is nothing funny or fun about demon possession of homes or people!  My younger sister woke up one night and saw the thing standing in the corner of her room watching her!  People, listen to me, I am pouring out my heart here!  The spiritual realm is as real as this one and everything the Bible says is true!

Please accept Jesus and His love for you!  He defeated sin, death, and evil when He died on that cross and He did that for you, for me, and for everyone!  God has me out here telling my story, so that people can make a more informed decision about their souls.  He knows most people have never experienced angels and demons.  He knows I have, so He wants me to be brave, and tell people.  I must obey Him, so here I am.

I pray this post encourages you and helps you come to Jesus if you do not know Him yet!  I pray you are all reconciled with your Creator who loves you so deeply it is beyond all we could imagine!  Jesus has already defeated the evil one!  Claim your victory in Christ and overcome the world!

Grace and peace to you all in the Name of Jesus Christ!  Confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” believe with your heart, and be saved!  God bless you all!

 

Hello everyone!  Blessings to you all!  I had to mow the lawn this morning.  I thought I was done for the year, but it is still growing!  Hopefully that is the last time.  As I was finishing up, our local neighborhood family of deer were moving through the open space we back up to.  We have lived here since 8-31-2006, so we have seen many deer grow up here.  This young buck is looking healthy and strong and he will be magnificent when full grown!  Seeing them today reminded me of God’s provision and care for me.  It also reminded me of the verse in Psalm 42:1.  Just like the deer pants for streams of water, my soul pants for God!  Our souls are thirsty and we need Jesus to quench that thirst!  Amen!

Here are some of the babies following their Mama!  They stick close.  They use the path just like we do!  Many nights they sleep close to our back fence and they use our backyard too!  They love to nibble on our big pine trees.  Pine needles are full of vitamin C and they actually make really good tea.  That’s an old Colorado mountain man recipe that I have done several times while camping.  Just boil some water and steep a few pine needles in your cup and you will have a refreshing and healthy tea that tastes kind of minty and piney at the same time.

Sorry for the rough photo.  Not my best shot for sure!  The camera focused on the tree instead of the deer.  The Mama is off to the left with babies in tow.  So cute!

Here is Papa again.  He has a nice velvet on his rack and he is looking good with his thick winter fur coming in.  We have to be careful with the deer in the fall.  October is the peak of the rut.  If you are not familiar with that, the rut is when all the bucks chase the does and make the babies that are born in Springtime.  They can be very aggressive and they want to fight.  Be careful walking your dogs!  Many of our neighbors have had dogs get attacked.  If you keep your distance, they generally stay calm.

This young buck really likes those purple leaves.  If I was a deer, I would be eating those purple leaves too!  I bet they are tasty to deer and packed with nutrients!  God takes care of all of us so good!

I love the look on the deer’s face in the photo below.  He is like, “Oh, what’s this?  A delicious purple tree.  Well, I don’t mind if I do, praise the Lord!”

May the Lord encourage and lift up your heart today in the Name of Jesus!

Grace and peace to you all!

 

 

Many people on this earth struggle with anxiety!  It can become so bad that it debilitates people.  Let me tell you a comforting truth: God cares about you and He does not want you to suffer under the weight of anxiety.  He has the perfect solution for that problem too!  Take all that anxiety and cast it onto Him!  Believe me, He can handle it and we cannot!  We were not meant to live this life without God.  We were created and designed to be loved by God!  That is why He came and died for us, so we could have a deep loving relationship with Him for eternity!

I am writing this today because I used to struggle with anxiety so bad that it would be hard for me to breathe and I thought I was going to have a heart attack.  It knocked me to my knees many times for many years as I fought to catch my breath as my chest tightened under the weight of all the anxious thoughts flooding my mind.

It all started a year or so after my Celiac diagnosis.  As it became increasingly clear that my suffering was going to be very long, I started having anxiety attacks that became more frequent and more severe over the years.  I couldn’t provide for my family and the physical suffering was unbearable.  The anxiety that caused was immense!

I would be walking through the house and out of nowhere a flood of thoughts and intense emotions tied to those thoughts would race through my mind.  Thoughts about being broken and not being able to work, thoughts about the disease and what was going to happen, thoughts about not being able to provide and the future, thoughts of what my kids thought of me, thoughts of my wife and what she thought of me, thoughts of my friends, parents, father in law, and the list went on and on.  I felt like a broken loser and it would knock me to my knees as I panted hard like I had just run a mile.  This went on for about three years.

The problem was that I was still trying to be in control over a situation that I had absolutely no control over!  When I finally gave it to God and realized that I am truly not in control as I watched God provide for my family and take care of my health, then I was at peace.  I cast all my anxiety on Him as He was caring for me.  His love and care for us are incredible!

The last couple days I have been getting hit with some of those same thoughts.  Yes, they are familiar attacks, but it still hurts.  I am so much quicker to give that anxiety to God though because I have learned my lesson!  I rebuke those attacks in the Name of Jesus and I give it all to Him!  He has my Celiac!  He has my finances!  I am not a loser!  I am victorious!  I am redeemed!  I am loved!  I am forgiven!  I have purpose!  Our family is provided for and protected!  God’s got this!  C’mon man!  Get back up!

I literally cannot stand under the weight of anxiety.  None of us can because we were not meant to carry it!  Whatever it is, take a big ol’ deep breath right now, and just chuck that anxiety and cast it onto God who cares deeply for you!

Thank you Jesus!

Grace and peace to you all!

Alright, here is some TobyMac to dance and praise God to!

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning everyone!  The Lord spoke this verse to my heart today.  It is a simple and powerful prayer that I have been praying for many years.  It is a great way to start the day and a great way to start a new week!  Whatever you have going on this week, give it to the Lord, commit it to Him, and may all the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing in His sight!  Amen!

There is great blessing in pleasing the Lord!  I am praying for everyone as we start another week!  Remember, God is in control and we are not, and praise God for that!

Grace and peace to you all!

 

Hello everyone!  Blessings to you all!  I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday of rest and peace!  I wanted to share a song that really lifts my heart up!  It is called “I’m Good” by our brother in Christ Tedashii from the 116 crew.  I love the message of standing firm in the Lord in this song, and the beat is soooo nice!  Enjoy!

Oh yeah, I made a couple more Scripture pins too!  Lovin’ it!  Thank you Jesus!  Man, I am soarin’ in His love and I pray you are too!

Grace and peace friends!  Jesus loves you, and that is no slogan–that is eternal truth that saves your soul!

Bless you all in the Name of Jesus!

 

 

The Lord is giving me a good rest today, and I am just keeping it light with the blog.  I wanted to bless you all and say rest in His grace and peace today.  May the Lord strengthen you and encourage you wherever you may be on your journey in life.  Let your heart be comforted in the truth that God loves you and He has forgiven all of your sins through Jesus!

God bless you all!  Grace and peace to you all!

 

 

 

 

These are photos I took on 9-27-18 during the trip to the mountains that became my “Fall Time in the Rockies” post.  These are two of my favorite photos from that day!  May God’s creation and God’s Word inspire you today!  I’m having fun making these Scripture quotes!  Enjoy!

Grace and peace to you all!

 

Hello everyone!  Blessings to you all in the Name of the Lord Jesus!  I hope this fine Saturday finds you well and at peace.  I am praying for all of you and your countries daily!  I’ve been having some fun with my photos today!  I made these Scripture pins on PictureQuotes.com with photos I took with my Canon PowerShot SX50 HS camera right here in Colorado.  I am still playing around with it and I’m not quite sure if I want to put my website on them or what.  Please feel free to use them on your blogs!  I made different variations of them.  Let me know what you think!  If you have a better way to make these types of pins, please let me know that too!  I love to learn new things, especially when it comes to making cool Bible verse picture pins!  Enjoy!  God bless you all!

I am praying that all of you have a blessed weekend!  Jesus is Lord and He loves you!

Grace and peace to you all!

Man I love that verse!  Through Jesus every single person on earth can be forgiven of every sin and justified completely before God!  Please take that in for a moment.  That is a whole lot of sin folks, and the Blood of Jesus paid for it all!

The Bible talks a lot about forgiveness.

“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

Ephesians 4:32

“Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”

Colossians 3:13

“For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

Matthew 6:14

I have found that one of the biggest goals of our enemy, the devil, is to steal our joy.  I have also found that his sharpest weapon in accomplishing this goal is with reminding us of our past sins.  The devil loves to beat us over the head with everything we have done wrong, and he will bring it to our attention, so that it paralyzes us from accomplishing our work for the Lord.  That kind of regret is from the devil and he uses it to steal your joy that you have in the Lord!

Do you know how to beat that attack?  You rebuke his lies by proclaiming your forgiveness and freedom in Jesus Christ!

I want to ask you something important.  We talk a lot about forgiving each other.  I want you to ask yourself something, have you forgiven yourself?  Have you proclaimed your freedom in Christ over yourself?

For years I suffered under the weight of shame and regret that I could not seem to shake off.  I had asked for forgiveness from God and from everyone I had hurt, but I was still suffering from the onslaught of bad memories.  The enemy loves to accuse us and it hurts enough to drive you insane if you let it.

The Lord showed me that I had asked for forgiveness from everyone, but I had not forgiven myself.  Not only was the evil one beating me up about it, but I was beating myself up about it.  The Lord had to show me and remind me that I was forgiven and clean in His sight through Jesus and there were no chains on me!

Don’t ever let the evil one chain you up in a dark corner of past sins and regrets!  Rebuke his lies in the Name of Jesus and proclaim your freedom and forgiveness in Christ!  Please, in the Name of Jesus who loves you, forgive yourself!  You are forgiven and those chains are broken!  Amen!

Rest in His love and forgiveness and give Him praise!

Grace and peace to you all!

Check it out!  I just made a picture quote with one of my photos from the trip to the mountains yesterday!  I have been praying and trying to learn how to do this.  God answered!  PictureQuotes.com is cool!  Feel free to use this pin on your blog!  Praise God!

 

Proverbs is the Book of God’s wisdom.  God gave His wisdom to Solomon who was King David’s son.  Solomon wrote Proverbs by the power of God and by God’s wisdom that he was given.  I highly recommend that you read the entire book!  I read Scripture from it every day and pray that the Lord will give me such wisdom as I pray through the verses!

There is an exciting promise from God regarding wisdom too!

“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”

James 1:5

God wants us to have His wisdom, so we can live wisely, which will result in praise, honor, and glory to God!  He does not want us to suffer under any kind of foolishness.  Ask God to give you His wisdom, and He will give it to you generously without finding fault!

I can’t tell you how many times the above Proverb has blessed my life!  When I was a younger man starting out in the work world, there were many times I had to speak my mind bravely, and that Proverb was always right there with me!  I never backed down from speaking the truth because God is with me and I don’t fear man.  I even had to speak up in truth and rebuke a couple of my managers at my old job, but I never once got fired.  Fear of man is a snare, and I won’t get caught up in it!  The Lord keeps me safe.  It was intense at times preaching on campus in college, but the Lord was always with me!  I still don’t back down!  If I was afraid of man, I would not have ever published my book or done this blog either!  Thank you Jesus for your courage and strength!

That Proverb is just one of many amazing pieces of wise advice for living a righteous life!  I encourage you to read Proverbs today.  Ask God for His wisdom, and it will be given to you!

Here are the first 7 verses in chapter 1 to get you started.  This is what you will attain and acquire by reading Proverbs!  May God bless you with His wisdom!  Pay attention to verse 7 about the “fear of the Lord.”  Remember, Jesus is Lord!  Your eternal relationship with God is through Him!  He is the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, and He loves you so much He died for you!

“The proverbs of Solomon

son of David, king of Israel:

for attaining wisdom and

discipline;

for understanding words

of insight;

for acquiring a disciplined

and prudent life,

doing what is right and

just and fair;

for giving prudence to the

simple,

knowledge and discretion

to the young–

let the wise listen and add

to their learning,

and let the discerning get

guidance–

for understanding proverbs

and parables,

the sayings and riddles of

the wise.

The fear of the Lord is the

beginning of knowledge,

but fools despise wisdom

and discipline.”

Proverbs 1:1-7

Grace and peace to you all!