From John Collins Ministries:
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We are not promised a blissful life on earth,
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“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.” Hebrews 12:14-15 (NKJV).
Bitterness
is something that we must be on guard against and we
must have complete honesty
with ourselves if we are to monitor
our hearts so that we can repent
if we find ourselves gone astray.
Bitterness will creep up
on you and it is easy to allow it to happen. We like to think of ourselves as
deserving the best
and we become very offended
when others hurt us, reject
us and when we perceive
that we have not received
our ‘due’.
We must be careful
to find the balance
of self-worth and humility.
Sometimes people just don’t think things through with faith.
Do you deserve health, happiness, wealth, love, respect, honor, recognition or
to walk through this life without hurt? Does the Bible promise that?
What about Lazarus?
What about our dear Lord Jesus
Christ who not only died on the Cross for
us but was rejected, told
he had a demon,
was cursed and taunted, beaten and tormented and forced to carry his own
instrument of death?
God
does not want us to hurt but there must be a desire for God
inside of us and we must come to recognize His
lessons and His
love. There will be seeds planted in our hearts; seeds of love, anger,
hate, joy, bitterness, forgiveness and the list just goes on and is replenished
regularly. We must make the choice about which seeds we choose to water and
which seeds we choose to pluck out.
We are the children
of God and we have Jesus. This world is evil and has no hold upon us. Our
home is in heaven and if this is what we know then we should act like it.
Remember that we are not promised a blissful life on earth but we are promised
that blissful life in heaven,
but you have to get there first.
“Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper;I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” Hebrews 13:5-6 (NKJV).
LOVE THAT CROSS, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS
Pastor
John Collins and John Collins Ministries are determined to change the face
of Christianity and redeem the truth of the Gospel and the word of God.
You can hear Pastor John Collins
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This country needs to hear the truth of God and Jesus. This world needs
to hear and understand what the rules are in order to get to heaven. They aren’t preached and they aren’t taught,
and it’s time for people to hear to hear that truth. Pastor John Collins and John Collins
Ministries is bringing that message with passion and fervor. Take the time to listen. If you want to reach Pastor John Collins,
contact him for preaching, prayer, revival, guest speaking at jcollinsministries@gmail.com.
We need to get it right.
