PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, LOVE THAT CROSS MINISTRIES: Easter, He is Risen!

Pastor John Collins, Love That Cross Ministries, who is recognized as an influential pastor in America, is reaching out in his passion for truth and salvation in this post from his Facebook pages.  He gives us a no nonsense and to the point call to examine our hearts, as Christians,  and how we approach the political correctness that we face in sitting on the fence with our faith and how we view evil in today's world.  He calls it like it is.  We need to get to know our God, up close and personal.

Pastor John Collins of Love that Cross Ministries posts devotionals on his Facebook pages.  These short, touch the core of your soul mini sermons make you evaluate your life, your faith, your salvation.

 Pastor John is identified as one of 15 influential pastors in America today.  It is easy to see how as you read through his posts. His words come from the heart.  He is biblically correct. This blog chooses a post from previous archives, but these posts are just as appropriate now as they were when they were created.  Love That Cross Ministries was launched in 2015 as a means for revival and salvation.  Pastor John brings a fire of life to evangelism and salvation.


This daily devotional is from a recent post on  Pastor John Collins' Facebook.  This post is a gentle reminder that we have a responsibility to our children to teach them what Easter is about, not just the commercialism of chocolate and Easter eggs.  We all struggle in this world, and our perseverance and reliance upon God and Jesus is what helps us get through those struggles. It's our trust as Christians in God and His Son that will give us strength to get through this life. It's up to us to teach and guide our children to heaven.  Enjoy Pastor John's devotional. Happy Resurrection Day.

Happy Easter to all of you! As we gather today to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ we should have grateful hearts that are full of love. Many of us today will be getting together with family and will entertain the little ones and share joy in watching them. As you gaze upon those precious children today, I want you to think of their heavenly futures and know that it is your responsibility as parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and loved ones to guide their precious souls toward knowledge and truth in Jesus Christ.

Let us not forget our foundation of faith and remember to pass that on. Our belief and hope is to be shared with our families as we know that family is important to God. We are meant to come together and be able to speak of the gospel and Christ and to rejoice in the hope that He provides.

Every holiday has become commercialized in so many ways that we need to avoid getting caught up in it all. Let us have gracious attitudes and welcoming homes and hearts today. And be encouraged and encouraging to others to not let this be just one of the days of the year that you celebrate Jesus.

Our Lord and Savior loves you and wants you to acknowledge Him in your hearts, homes, prayers and lives. Be open to His love and be ready to serve Him with loyalty and devotion and be prepared to receive peace and blessings.

LOVE THAT CROSS, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BELIEVE THAT

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PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, LOVE THAT CROSS MINISTRIES: Do you hate?

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, LOVE THAT CROSS MINISTRIES: Do you hate?

 

Pastor John Collins, Love That Cross Ministries, who is recognized as an influential pastor in America, is reaching out in his passion for truth and salvation in this post from his Facebook pages.  He gives us a no nonsense and to the point call to examine our hearts, as Christians,  and how we approach the political correctness that we face in sitting on the fence with our faith and how we view evil in today's world.  He calls it like it is.  We need to get to know our God, up close and personal.

Pastor John Collins of Love that Cross Ministries posts devotionals on his Facebook pages.  These short, touch the core of your soul mini sermons make you evaluate your life, your faith, your salvation.

Pastor John is identified as one of 15 influential pastors in America today.  It is easy to see how as you read through his posts. His words come from the heart.  He is biblically correct. This blog chooses a post from previous archives, but these posts are just as appropriate now as they were when they were created.  Love That Cross Ministries was launched in 2015 as a means for revival and salvation.  Pastor John brings a fire of life to evangelism and salvation.

 Pastor John recently posted this daily devotional on his Facebook page.  There has been a lot of violence, kidnappings, killings in the news these past few days.  This is not the work of God, it is the work of evil and man's will.  The more hate is generated, from leaders to neighborhoods, the more the spirit of Satan grows and spreads.  Hate is that poison, and violence is the child of it.

“The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.” Psalm 11:5

What is wrong with people? The shootings, the killings, the attacks, the intent to harm and the general hatred of our brothers and sisters here on earth has brought us face to face with the spirit of Cain. Why don’t people care? Why are children harmed and families destroyed? Goodness, why have we systematically removed God from our lives? People, don’t you see or care that the spirit of Satan is alive and well and growing?

We hate each other, we hate ourselves, we hate our lives and we hate the rules. We hate listening, we hate obedience and we hate being wrong. We hate and whether any of you want to admit it or not, there is a judgmental and hateful attitude that fills this world up and violence is its child. People are rude, nasty, dismissive and cruel. People are selfish, ugly on the inside and malicious.

There is a day coming that will bring shock and that will scare people into listening to the truth and desiring the will of God. There will also be those who will always choose evil and will always thrive on the pain of another. It is imperative that you choose which way you want to live your life because small things turn into big things and before you know it your heart is full of hate. An argument that is unresolved turns to a grudge that becomes spite and hateful words can turn into a raised fist or a bullet shot from a gun.

Every little piece of you makes up the whole picture and you cannot be a person that carries anger, bitterness, frustration and rage around in your heart and not act out in ways that are vicious and mean. You cannot be a smack talking parent who berates their child and insults casually those who despise without raising a hateful human who turns out to be filled with malice. Hate trickles down and poisons the children that it touches. Hate spreads out and poisons the communities that it touches. Our world is infected and there is just not enough people willing to stand up and tell the truth; that this world has chosen evil over good and the only way to right this wrong is to return to God and the Lord Jesus Christ so that we can be healed. There are many that are not able to claim salvation but the saddest thing is when salvation is so close and people just won’t grab on to the holy hands that are held out to them.

People need to be willing to let go of hate, let go of hurt and to stop the violence, to stop the vicious cycle of destroying one another in any way possible. People need to begin to think of their eternal destinations and not their earthly battles and daily struggles that are keeping them imprisoned by the spirit of evil. People need to stop the hate day by day, hour by hour if needed and to choose to turn to Christ and be healed.

“Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. And so this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.” Romans 13:10-12.

  LOVE THAT CROSS, PASTOR JOHN, BELIEVE THAT

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Holy Bible excerpts are from New King James Version bible. 

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PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, LOVE THAT CROSS MINISTRIES: Choose life!

Pastor John Collins, Love That Cross Ministries, who is recognized as an influential pastor in America, is reaching out in his passion for truth and salvation in this post from his Facebook pages.  He gives us a no nonsense and to the point call to examine our hearts, as Christians,  and how we approach the political correctness that we face in sitting on the fence with our faith and how we view evil in today's world.  He calls it like it is.  We need to get to know our God, up close and personal.

Pastor John Collins of Love that Cross Ministries posts devotionals on his Facebook pages.  These short, touch the core of your soul mini sermons make you evaluate your life, your faith, your salvation.

Pastor John is identified as one of 15 influential pastors in America today.  It is easy to see how as you read through his posts. His words come from the heart.  He is biblically correct. This blog chooses a post from previous archives, but these posts are just as appropriate now as they were when they were created.  Love That Cross Ministries was launched in 2015 as a means for revival and salvation.  Pastor John brings a fire of life to evangelism and salvation.

Pastor John posted this devotion on his Facebook page in the fall of 2015.  He tells us our salvation lies within the choices that we make.  Each choice has an impact upon how we will spend eternity.  It's up to us to determine where our eternity will be spent. 

God judges us on those actions, and our actions alone are what determine where we will be spending the rest of our life, after this one is gone.  Decide what is important to you. 







“A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9

“The way of life winds upward for the wise, that he may turn away from hell below.” Proverbs 15:24

There is a process to growing up, claiming adulthood and proceeding to live your life. There are choices that you make and each one of those choices determines who you are and who you will become. Those that are aware of their eternal soul and want to go to heaven learn to make those choices by determining the good will of the Lord and choosing to do His will.

You may not think that it is any big deal to tell a lie, omit the truth or to be selfish in this one small matter. You may think nothing of passing up an opportunity to be kind and compassionate just this once. You may think that work is more important than that baseball game or that home cooked meal. You may think that you can make it up to them at another time. You may think that you deserve to let loose and finally have some fun so who will it hurt if you have that fling, you deserve it. You may think that there is plenty of time in the future for you to settle down and be boring and do what the Lord expects of you but He knows your motives and intentions and all of those things will be taken into account.

Each day you will make choices that will lead you toward righteousness or toward wickedness. Each day will determine your character and where your eternal resting place will be. Each little choice that you make adds up to the totality of your life. Choose Jesus and choose to live.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10

                                     LOVE THAT CROSS, PASTOR JOHN, BELIEVE THAT

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PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, LOVE THAT CROSS MINISTRY: Christian persecution still happens today.

Pastor John Collins, Love That Cross Ministries who is recognized as an influential pastor in America, is reaching out in his passion for truth and salvation in this post from his Facebook pages.  He gives us a no nonsense and to the point call to examine our hearts and how we approach the political correctness that we face in sitting on the fence with our faith and how we view evil in today's world.  He calls it like it is.  We need to get to know our God, up close and personal.

  Pastor John Collins of Love that Cross Ministries posts devotionals on his Facebook pages.  These short, touch the core of your soul mini sermons make you evaluate your life, your faith, your salvation.  Pastor John is identified as one of 15 influential pastors in America today.  It is easy to see how as you read through his posts. His words come from the heart.  He is biblically correct. This blog chooses a post from previous archives, but these posts are just as appropriate now as they were when they were created.  Love That Cross Ministries was launched in 2015 as a means for revival and salvation.  Pastor John brings a fire of life to evangelism and salvation.

In this post, Pastor John pulls our attention to Christian persecution and how we as Christians need to draw closer to God in these times of turmoil. Over and through it all is the need for prayer. Prayer is our defense for everything in this world:

Evil is real and it infects our lives. There has been persecution for the righteous since Cain slew Abel. There have been times when the persecution has ebbed and times when it has peaked. There is persecution in the world today for the Christian and it is a time when faith needs to grow stronger and not weaken. It is a time for people to KNOW that they belong to Christ and to not bow down to evil.

We may not see the persecution of Christians up close and personal in a way that they may come face to face with it in the Middle East but that does not mean that we cannot pray for those who are persecuted, that does not mean that we cannot choose to draw closer to God and our Lord Jesus Christ and that does not mean that our faith should be found wanting.

Choose to take some time and pray today for those who are in jeopardy because of their faith and praise the Lord for providing Jesus. Take some time today and pray with thanksgiving in your heart for the safety that you and your family are experiencing and pray for comfort to find those who need it. Take some time today and pray for those who need strength in the Lord that their faith will keep them. Take some time today to let the Lord know that you are grateful for your life and loved ones and praying for His people. God bless each and every one of you! 


Heavenly Father,

I pray to You today and ask You to wake up those who are sleeping, those who are resisting You and please Father help the little ones who believe in You. There are children hurting, children being murdered, children being abused and these little ones have such a need for Your protection Father, so please comfort them and please bring help for them into their lives.

Father God, I know this world is defiant and this world is full of stubborn people, but You are bigger than any problem here, You are more powerful than any resistance here and You are needed so very much by all of us here. Please know that You are our hope and our future and we are thankful to You, God and we have hope because of Your precious Son, Jesus, who I ask to watch over our children and to help their little hearts to know that they are loved.

In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.

                                    LOVE THAT CROSS, BELIEVE THAT, PASTOR JOHN

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Holy Bible excerpts are from New King James Version bible. 

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