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Tori Kelly’s new album just came out! It’s called Hiding Place! It is a beautiful album and she gives all the glory to God! I bought it yesterday on Amazon!
Please enjoy this song from her new album! Grace and peace to you all! Have a great Saturday!
I read a really cool section of Scripture to my daughter before tucking her in for bedtime tonight. It is about the supremacy of Jesus and it is a powerful description of who Jesus is and what kind of authority He has. After reading these verses you will know exactly who Jesus is.
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
Colossians 1:15-20
Jesus is the image of God.
He is the firstborn over all creation and He is before all things, which means He was with God in the beginning of creation! As the Book of John says:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
John 1:1-3
Jesus is the Word. Jesus is God. He was there at the beginning of creation and nothing was made without Him.
“while we wait for the blessed hope–the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ..”
Titus 2:13
All things were created by Him and for Him.
He holds all things together.
He is the head of the church.
God’s fullness dwells in Him.
God is reconciling all things to Himself by making peace through the Blood of Jesus!
It is very clear. God made Himself a man and died for us! That is why Jesus is supreme over all creation and everything in it!
That is awesome! Grace and peace to you all!
I want everyone to know that I truly am here to help! So, I hereby proclaim that I am doing a free book promotion forever! Just shoot me an email through my Contact page. Let me know you are taking me up on my free eBook offer and give me a good email to send it to. I will send it directly to you from Amazon as quick as I can!
You do not need a Kindle. You can get the Amazon Kindle App and it turns any device into a Kindle reader. It’s a really cool app and the eBooks look sharp too! My eBook is a fast read. For a couple days after publishing it was #1 on Amazon’s “45-minute short reads” list. It is a quick read, but it is packed with a lot of heart and soul! It is my life testimony and memoir of how I came to Jesus and why I have served Him since 1996! You will learn about demons and how Jesus defeats them, angels and how God sends them, and how Jesus still performs miracles to defeat death in the power of the Holy Spirit in our time! Most of all you will learn how to come to Jesus and go to Heaven! Not a bad deal for free folks! Please take me up on the offer and enjoy!
IF YOU NEED PRAYER, Please contact me!
If anybody needs prayer, and you feel comfortable sharing it with me, please don’t hesitate to contact me. My contact page is a private direct message to me that goes directly to my personal email. All of your information will be kept confidential and I will lift you up to the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit! Contact me anytime. I am in Mountain Time USA, and I usually go to bed around 10 p.m. and get up before the sun comes up.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Please don’t ever feel like you are alone or you don’t have a way out! I felt like that for years and I know what the tip of a cold steel barrel feels like pressed up against my temple. Don’t ever harm yourself! That is a lie from the evil one! You are a precious child of God and you are worth so much to Him that He died for you! Don’t ever forget that! Please, if you ever need to talk or you need prayer, just let me know! If you don’t have anybody else, you have me. If no one else will say I love you, then I love you in the holy love of Jesus! You are loved by God. Don’t ever give up on life! Let Jesus save you! Please contact me if you need help. I don’t have any kind of counseling degree, but I have the Wonderful Counselor the Holy Spirit of God inside of me and I care. Don’t be afraid to take me up on that!
JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU!
I love Jesus with all of my heart! I want you all to know what He has done for me and I want you all to know His love and be saved!
Grace and peace to you all!
P.S.
Seriously, get a free book! It’s all good! God bless you all!
Okay, I have been wanting to focus on this specific part of my life since I started the blog. I have touched on it a few times, but I need to fully explain it. If you have been reading my blog or you read my book, then you know that I stopped breathing on April 28, 2012 due to anaphylactic shock. What happened after I stopped breathing is what I want to talk about!
Many of you are familiar with the true historical account of Lazarus in the Bible. He is a man who died and was in a tomb for four days before Jesus brought him back to life! It is an awesome section of Scripture and I highly recommend reading it. You can find it in John 11:1-44.
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26
“When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
John 11:43-44
I am telling you that Jesus is still the resurrection and the life and He still pulls off Lazarus miracles in our time! Yes, I am proof of that, and no, I’m not crazy! It happened to me a little over six years ago. My wife was there and she witnessed the whole thing! Let me explain.
After being diagnosed with Celiac Disease on January 6, 2012 my whole world fell apart. I was dying from starvation due to severe damage to my small intestine and I only weighed 128 pounds. I am just an inch over six feet tall, so that is deathly thin folks, deathly. I immediately went gluten free (no wheat, barley, or rye) and also found out through painful trial and error that I could no longer have dairy, soy, eggs, coconut, or NSAIDS either. The doctor forgot to mention that oats can kill some people with Celiac. I found that out the hard way!
On 4-28-2012 I ate an oat bread sandwich that was supposedly “gluten free.” Well, oats are not gluten free because the protein in oats causes the same or even more severe reaction than the protein found in wheat. Celiacs should never eat oats!
About an hour or so after I ate that sandwich, I went into anaphylaxis. The pain was unbearably torturous over my entire body! Like hot knives stabbing me! I did not have an epi-pen because the doctor who diagnosed me never told me I needed one. I suffered in agony from around 11:30 a.m. that day until around 11:30 that night. At the end of that fight, I died. Wait, let it sink in. Yes, I died. Only for a short time, but I was gone, done, end of the road.
Is it starting to make sense why I am so passionate about Jesus and I will never ever stop talking about Him and giving Him glory?! Yes, my friends! I have had a very strange supernatural life and that is why I am out here doing this telling it to the world!
What happened that night in 2012 you ask? As midnight approached, my chest started becoming very tight. I could not fight the extreme pain of my body attacking me in a full blown auto-immune nightmare anymore. It started feeling like something heavy was pressing on my chest. I was army crawling on the floor laid out on my stomach trying to get away from the pain, but I couldn’t. I started to feel my breath leaving and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to take another breath. You can feel the elasticity of your lungs going away. It’s very weird.
Right at that moment with my last breath I yelled out loudly, “Help me Jesus!” After that, I left my body and I was in a peaceful place just floating there and I wasn’t in any pain anymore! I was still me, but I wasn’t in my body and I was fully aware of that! Once I realized what had just happened, I felt the Lord walk over to me from my right and He simply said, “It’s okay.” I could not see Him, but I knew it was Him! I know His voice and I could feel His comfort and love all around me and through me! He did not let me see Him or Heaven. It was like lying down in a peaceful place with your eyes closed. It didn’t matter. He was with me and He protected and comforted me in my greatest time of need! The peace and painlessness was so beautiful I can’t explain it. There is no pain, none at all! I was in perfect peace! I am not scared to die! I am quite looking forward to it.
I wanted to go with Him, but as I turned towards Jesus I saw an image of my kids like in a picture off to the upper left. That is the only thing I could see and as I turned towards my kids, I was immediately caught up in a rushing wind. It was all around me and it felt as though it was blowing straight up from my feet to my head in a swirl all around me. The wind put me back in my body and I heard it come to a stop, then I opened my eyes and I was back in my bedroom again full of searing pain. Do you know what the wind was? The Holy Spirit just like in Acts!
“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.”
Acts 2:1-2
My wife was kneeling over my body praying for me. She told me later that as she prayed, the sound of a rushing wind came into the room, she saw my mouth open, the wind went into my mouth and I took a huge deep breath and came back to life! My wife said she watched me die and I was dead. She said there was no breath in me. She prayed over my lifeless body and I came back! I know, it still blows my mind too, and I’m the one that lived it!
Please understand what I am telling you! This is not a joke and I don’t get paid for this. I give away my book for free to anyone who wants one (contact me through my blog and ask for one and I will do it). Amazon is just a means to deliver my testimony to the world. I write about my faith for free every day on this blog. Freely I received from the Lord, so freely I will give. I want you to go to Heaven and that is a free gift from God!
Okay, deep breath. So, I shouldn’t be here right now. I am only here because Jesus put me back. It was not my time to go yet. He still had work for me to do and I am doing that right now. He is still the resurrection and the life and He says when it’s time for me to go. Death thought it had a hold on me, but it did not and it does not. When it is my final time to go, I will pass from this life to eternal glory in the power of the Holy Spirit and I will live forever in His glorious peace! So will all of His children!
I am so thankful to be alive! I am so glad my kids still have their Daddy and my wife has her husband! I give you glory Lord Jesus!!! It is still very hard for my wife to talk about that night. She has a memory of my dead body laying there on our bedroom floor as she cried out to God to bring me back. She thought she was going to be a widow and a single Mom. I try to help her focus on the part where I came back to life though!
I stopped asking God why my life has been so strange a long time ago. Look, I got saved because I lived in a real haunted house all through my high school years. My walk with Christ has been supernatural ever since. Angels, demons, and Holy Spirit wind! Is it weird and kind of hard to hear somebody talk about these things? Yeah, I’m sure it is, but I have to tell everyone. God told me to share it, so people can come to Christ. I am not worried about people judging me or mocking me. I trust that the Spirit will confirm these things to everyone. I am accountable to God and He is sovereign over my life.
Don’t waste your time on this earth. You only have today and the breath you have in your lungs is very precious. You will find that out when it’s your time to go. You cannot earn salvation on your own. If you could, then Jesus would not have had to die. Everything in the Bible is true! I cannot stress that enough. This is not a game. There is a battle for souls going on all around us, and you need Jesus to be victorious and go to Heaven! No other faith offers forgiveness of sins. Only Jesus can offer you that.
Jesus still raises people from death and the Holy Spirit still sounds like a mighty wind! May the Lord reveal Himself to you in new and mighty ways and may He open your minds and hearts to His truth! In the Name of Jesus, Amen!
Grace, mercy, peace, and forgiveness to you all!
I love that verse! What was the work of Jesus? To destroy the devil’s work, that’s what! You know, that evil work of sin and death the devil started way back in the Garden of Eden!
“We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true–even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.”
1 John 5:19-20
Yes, this whole world is under the control of the evil one, which is satan or lucifer (I refuse to capitalize his name). But Jesus destroyed the devil’s work and He overcame the world! Jesus is the true God and eternal life! That is the best news ever in the whole world!
“He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.”
1 John 3:8
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Jesus speaking in John 16:33
Guess what? When you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you overcome the world too! The evil one has no hold on you anymore and you are no longer under his control! Jesus destroys the work of the devil in your life and gives you His new life in return! I know what it is like to live under the control of the evil one, and all he ever tried to do was make me his slave and kill me! I rebuke him in the Name of Jesus! Hallelujah!!!
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Jesus speaking in John 10:10
So, what is the devil’s work? To steal, kill, and destroy! That is his mission 24/7 365 days per year, including weekends and holidays! You can’t tell me you don’t feel it, right? We can all sense and see his evil work wherever we live. Terrorism, depression, suicide, murder, war, disease, suffering–pick one. I have been on this earth for four decades, and I had enough of seeing the devil’s trail of destruction a long time ago! I think in the times we are living in it is pretty obvious the evil one is real–he has his work running rampant in our streets and he is not hiding much anymore! Yes, he is real! We have an enemy and he is violent. The devil wants our lives ruined, and he wants to destroy us all! That is why he “prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8). That is his number one job!
Do not despair, I have great news! The evil one has already been defeated by the Blood Jesus shed for the whole world when He died on that cross! The evil one knows he is defeated. That is why he is angry and he wants to take as many people as possible down with him. Don’t let him! Get the victory in Christ and be victorious in your life! That freedom is right here at your finger tips every single day! Grab it while you still have breath in your lungs!
Have you had enough of the devil’s work?! Do you want to tell depression to go away? Would you like to rebuke his dirty work away from your life and be free from it?! Would you like some of that Jesus work in your life for having life and having it to the full?! You can have all of that and more! He can do that for you just like He did for me!
Jesus finished His work when He died for the forgiveness of the whole world. When you know Him, the work of the devil in this world and the devil himself has no hold on you! Jesus starts doing a new work in your life, so you can have life to the full!
“When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
John 19:30
It is finished folks! He paid for our sins in full and defeated the evil one at the cross. Anyone who believes in Jesus has overcome the world and is no longer under the control of the evil one! Before I accepted Christ, I thought the Bible was a joke. Then in January of 1992 when I was in 8th grade my family moved into a house possessed by a demon, and I wasn’t laughing anymore. We had to confront and live with real evil for four years and it was no joke! Yes, the evil one is real! So is Jesus and Jesus Christ rebuked that darkness out of our lives and I will forever praise Him for releasing me and my family from the grip of the evil one! Jesus is Lord! He is King of kings and Lord of lords, and He has set us free!
He is waiting for you with open arms!
Grace and peace to you!
P.S.
If you would like to learn more about the supernatural events I have lived through and how I came to know Jesus, I would love to send you a free copy of my eBook “One Man’s Very Strange Supernatural Life.” Just contact me through my blog, and I will email you a free copy directly from Amazon! God bless you all!
Do you want to know what happens to the evil one at the end of the Bible in Revelation. Well, here is the short version:
I have great news for you today! Jesus offers everyone in the whole world forgiveness for any and all sins we have committed! That is a freedom you can truly rest in! If you have not received His forgiveness yet, I pray you do that today! Today is the day of salvation! I also have a great TobyMac song for you on this fine Friday! God bless you all!
“That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16
We all need forgiveness folks. None of us are without sin, and if you are honest with yourself, then you know that is true. Give those sins to Jesus in exchange for the free gift of eternal forgiveness today! You do not need to carry those burdens any longer!
I hope you all receive that precious free gift from God!
Please enjoy one of my all time favorite TobyMac songs on this fine day the Lord has made! He even features Lecrae on this song, which I love! Enjoy!
Grace, peace, and forgiveness to you all in the Name of Jesus!
Today is Thursday, and that means trash day in our neighborhood. I took out the trash this morning and I am glad it is gone! I figured since today is trash day, it would be a good day to throw out all of our past regrets, mistakes, and sins too! Many of us beat ourselves up over things we have done wrong in the past. Myself included! The Bible is clear that love keeps no record of wrongs in 1 Corinthians 13, so we should not be keeping a record of wrongs on ourselves either! Repentance=forgiveness=freedom!
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails…”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Jesus cleans our past, so our sins are as white as snow. Since we know God is love (1 John 4:16) and love keeps no record of wrongs, then God keeps no record of wrongs on those who have trusted in Jesus for their salvation! We are clean in His eyes through Jesus, and that promise is for every person on earth!
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Not counting men’s sins against them! That is fantastic news! I pray everyone in the whole world receives that precious gift from God!
“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
Hebrews 8:12
Remember them no more! Take that record of wrongs and throw it in the trash today! Thank you Jesus for the freedom you give us! Hallelujah!
Grace and peace to you all!
I want to share some very good news! The Lord has squashed the disagreement I had with my good brother in Christ, and we are reconciled in the love and forgiveness of Jesus! Folks, that is how true brothers in Christ love each other. I respect this brother very much and I am very happy and encouraged that we are okay now! I love you brother, thank you for your kind words of encouragement!
It is okay to disagree with each other. The Bible says we only become sharper through the friction of what I call “strong fellowship.” I already feel sharper and better for it. I am just really pumped that the evil one never has a hold on us and he can’t keep good brothers down! We are victorious in the Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Hallelujah!!!
Hey, listen, we are real brothers and we had a pretty good brother fight! It’s all good! I have a younger sister, but my friends and I sure would go at it when we were kids! I remember plenty times rolling around on the ground wrestling it out or hitting each other with sticks! It got nuts sometimes! Don’t worry, I won’t wrestle or hit any of you with sticks. My point is that real trusted brothers disagree sometimes and sometimes we have to engage in strong fellowship to work it out, and that is okay…as long as we do what my brother and I did–forgive and move forward in love. Boom! Jesus is Lord and He reigns up in here! That’s how real brothers in Christ do it!
I hope you read this tonight brother! Grace and peace to you! You will always be my brother!
Forgive and love each other folks! Grace and peace to you all!
Ryan
Please enjoy this awesome encouraging song by TobyMac!
Grace and forgiveness to us all in the Name of Jesus! Love to all of my brothers and sisters–even the ones I disagree with! Peace!
I just want to make it very clear to everyone in the whole world that I have never in my life claimed to be a prophet and I don’t have any fancy titles and I don’t use fancy phrases. I never went to seminary, and I am not a pastor. I have served Jesus since October of 1996 and I’m just me. I did receive four years of training in the Bible, discipleship, and evangelism through Campus Crusade for Christ when I was in college (’96-2000), and that solid foundation of training has been a blessing in preaching the Gospel and ministering to people in need. I am currently medically unemployed due to Celiac Disease and I don’t pretend to be anybody. I am nothing. Just dust and breath. A sinner saved by grace, and nothing more. I don’t pretend to be anything. I received salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Freely I have received, freely I give. If you would like to read my testimony, please click the link below.
I have been open and honest about who I am and who I was before I knew Jesus. I have never hidden my “true nature” from anyone. I have been honest about my sinful nature and how God saved me. From the day I started this blog, I have been straightforward about my life and my faith. I have shared stories and pictures of my family. I have shared my struggles. I have preached the truth in love. I don’t have to hide from anyone. I am a redeemed child of God! Be careful who you judge and the kind of judgments that come out of your mouth. Calling someone a “false prophet” is very serious! I don’t know any prophets and I’m sure not one! I am just a man who God has called to preach the Gospel like He has with many Christians around the world. That’s it. I rebuke anyone in the Name of Jesus who calls me a prophet or false prophet! I am neither of those titles and I never will be!
I have never given myself a fancy title and I never received one from God or man. I don’t use fancy phrases. I just write how I write. If you feel that is fancy, well okay, I’m not trying to be. This is just how the Spirit writes through me. All the glory goes to God for everything that is written on this blog.
It is sad when Christians try to justify their sins and mistakes instead of repenting. It is hurtful when brothers in Christ lash out in sinful anger. For instance, cussing is cussing. The D word, The S word, The F word–yes, all of those are cussing and considered “unwholesome talk” (Ephesians 4:29), and if you don’t know that or if you use those words and try to justify using them, then you have a lot more to learn. As I said in my post titled Tongue of Fire, I struggled with bad language for a long time. I do not judge anyone. I leave that to the Lord and His Word. His Word is convicting enough! If you want to fight God over His Word, okay, enjoy that. You are going to lose that fight.
I am just a sinner saved by grace striving to live out His Word, and I pray for the strength to do it victoriously. Am I perfect? No, but I keep moving forward in His grace, forgiveness, and love every day, and so should you.
Grace and peace to you all!
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