Pastor John Collins asks God is calling you, will you answer?
Despair, chaos, hate, and confusion is all around us. We question is God really in control? Why is this happening? When will this end? How can we have hope? The bottom line is that God is there,
Jesus is there and They are waiting
for us to hear Their call to us. Pastor John Collins
is an award winning nationally and world known evangelist who
has been spreading the news of the Gospel for many years. His words are those of encouragement
and truth. Pastor John
Collins preaches it like it is, whether it is through sermons,
radio broadcasts, written documentary, or in person. Pastor John Collins
lives what he preaches, and sets an example for all of us to work toward.
Our struggle is real. Ever since the law and rules were set for the
Israelites in the Old Testament,
and again the teachings of Jesus
Christ in the New Testament, our desire to compartmentalize faith
and religion as humans continues to take us away from the love of God and Jesus
Christ. Pastor John Collins
takes the scriptures
and brings them to a point of
understanding that no other pastor seems to be able to do. He presents daily devotionals
for our understanding and to bring us back to God
and the love that has been there for us since the beginning of time.
From devotionals by Pastor John Collins:
“Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 (NKJV).
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18 (NKJV).
God is calling you. Will
you answer? God wants His people to wake
up and pay attention. There is nothing
that any person has done that cannot be forgiven. There is not a person that is unable to be
saved for the price has been paid, but there are many who are unwilling to believe
and claim the prize. Unfortunately,
there are many who think that they have already claimed it and have never truly
understood the value. How is it possible
that a person who genuinely knows the gift that has been given can go into a
church on Sunday morning and greet and meet with fellow believers, drop a
twenty on the offering plate and by the time that they pull into the driveway
of their house be back to living and sinning with abandon? It happens, too often. We all know it and that is why there are so
many who just see Christians as hypocrites and judgmental fools.
Repent! For the
kingdom of God is at hand. How is it
possible to repent if you don’t have any conviction in your soul for the sins
that you have committed? How is it
possible to come back to God if you think that you are already there, that you
have never left or that your efforts are good enough? Whose standards do you live by? Don’t you know that the human heart is
desperately wicked and deceitful above all things? How does that work, exactly? Well, we fool ourselves and most of all we
justify ourselves. We have determined
what is right and wrong in our own eyes and we have stopped living according to
God’s standards as a people. We look
left and we look right and then we look in the mirror knowing that the best way
to feel good about doing something that is wrong is to get another to join you
and if that doesn’t work then find a reason for your desires whether that is a
hurt, a reward or someone else’s fault.
Honesty comes at a price and belonging to God comes a price as
well. Salvation is free and offered to
one and all but you have to choose to accept and that acceptance has a
price. You have to agree with God to
want to obey God and you have to obey God in order to claim salvation. You cannot just live your life according to
your own moral code and your own rules and redeem your ticket to heaven.
God wants people in heaven who want to be in heaven. God wants people to live in love and peace in
the kingdom that He created that hold dear the things that He holds dear. God cherishes goodness, love, charity,
kindness, meekness and sacrifice. God
really loves sacrifice but you must know that sacrifice is not a sacrifice
unless you willingly give up something that you hold dear or once held
dear. Where your heart is, there also is
your treasure. Do you value your desires
and pleasures more than you value God?
Most people want what they want in life.
In order to claim the prize you must decide if you truly want it and if
you do, then you need to learn what God values and what God views as righteous
behavior and seek to value those things and do what is right in His eyes and
then you can receive all of the promises.
It is easier than many think and there is nothing that would prevent
anyone from claiming salvation. God is
willing, are you?
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Jeremiah 17:7
PASTOR JOHN COLLINS
BELIEVE THAT
This blog, and others like it, is meant to bring the message
of God and Jesus Christ to those who may not otherwise have that opportunity
using the devotionals of Pastor John Collins.
Pastor John
Collins consistently has answers to questions that are difficult
for most ministers to answer. The links
within the content will lead you to other presentations by Pastor John
Collins.
