HOW DOES GOD WARN US?

THERE ARE 5 DIFFERENT WAYS GOD TRIES TO REACH US!

TO WARN US ABOUT THE DESTRUCTIVE PATHS WE ARE ON!

GOD WILL ONLY STRIVE WITH MAN FOR SO LONG THEN HE LETS THEM GO TO THERE EVIL WAYS….

NONE OF KNOW HOW LONG GOD WILL STRIVE ONLY HE KNOWS….

DO NOT BE DECEIVED…. THINK ABOUT WHAT IS BEING SAID HERE…

1. CREATION

HOW CAN YOU LOOK AROUND YOU AND NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR IS A CREATOR WHO IN FACT IS GOD HIMSELF….OUR MINDS ARE SO LIMITED EVEN THE SMARTEST PERSON ON EARTH IS NO MATCH FOR THE ONE WHO CREATED HIM!

2. OUR CONSCIENCE

GOD GAVE US THIS TO KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND TO KNOW HE EXISTS!

3. THE BIBLE

GOD GAVE US THE BIBLE WHICH IS HIS WORD! IN WRITING! WITH CLEAR UNDERSTANDING CLEAR DIRECTIONS AND CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS!

4.OTHER PEOPLE

GOD SENDS PEOPLE INTO OUR PATHS TO TELL US ABOUT HIM! ALSO TO TELL OTHERS HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN! THINK ABOUT THIS: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE SOMEONE APPROACHED YOU AND TALKED ABOUT THE GOSPEL???

5.DREAMS AND VISIONS

GOD WILL GIVE PEOPLE VISIONS AND DREAMS SO THAT (TO KEEP BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT JOB CHAPTER 33: VERSES 14-24)
GOD GIVES EVERYONE THE OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THE ROAD THEY ARE ON AND WE ARE ALL WARNED ABOUT HELL.
WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE GOD ONE DAY AND THE ONES WHO DO NOT ACCEPT THIS FREE GIFT OF SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST WILL BE GOING THERE AND THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STAND IN FRONT OF GOD AND SAY: BUT YOU NEVER WARNED ME!

THE NEW TESTAMENT REFERS TO OVER TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR WARNINGS ABOUT HELL AND JUDGMENT THAT IS COMING!

LET’S LOOK AT SOME VERSES:

BUT YOU HAVE PROSTITUTED YOURSELF WITH MANY LOVERS, SAYS THE LORD. YET I AM STILL CALLING YOU TO COME BACK TO ME. JEREMIAH 3:1 NLT

COME BACK TO ME, AND I WILL HEAL YOUR WAYWARD HEARTS. JEREMIAH 3:22 NLT

“RUN UP AND DOWN EVERY STREET” SAYS THE LORD. “LOOK HIGH AN LOW, SEARCH THROUGHOUT THE CITY! IF YOU CAN FIND EVEN ONE PERSON WHO IS JUST AND HONEST, I WILL NOT DESTROY THE CITY” (CAN YOU SEE THE LORDS HEART?? HE DESPERATELY DOES NOT WANT TO ADMINISTER PUNISHMENT, BUT MERCY! JEREMIAH 5:1 NLT

I SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT IT REPEATEDLY, BUT YOU WOULD NOT LISTEN! I CALLED OUT TO YOU, BUT YOU REFUSED TO ANSWER!!! JEREMIAH 7:13 NLT

WHEN PEOPLE FALL DOWN, DON’T THEY GET BACK UP AGAIN? WHEN THEY DISCOVER THEY ARE ON THE WRONG ROAD….DON’T THEY TURN BACK? THEN WHY DO THESE PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR SELF-DESTRUCTIVE PATHS? WHY DO THE PEOPLE….REFUSE TO TURN BACK…EVEN THOUGH I HAVE WARNED THEM? JEREMIAH 8: 4-5 NLT

PERHAPS THEY WILL LISTEN AND TURN FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS…THEN I WILL CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT THE DISASTER I AM READY TO POUR OUT ON THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS. JEREMIAH 26:3 NLT

IF YOU WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME AND OBEY MY WORD I HAVE GIVEN YOU. AND IF YOU WILL NOT LISTEN TO MY SERVANTS….THE PROPHETS- FOR I SENT THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN TO WARN YOU, BUT YOU WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THEM—THEN I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE. JEREMIAH 26-4-6 NLT

FOR THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN TO MY WARNINGS. JEREMIAH 36:31 NLT

AGAIN AND AGAIN I SENT MY SERVANTS, THE PROPHETS, TO PLEAD WITH THEM. “DON’T DO THESE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT I HATE SO MUCH” BUT MY PEOPLE WOULD NOT LISTEN OR TURN BACK FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS. JEREMIAH 44: 4-5 NLT

FOR HE DOES NOT ENJOY HURTING PEOPLE OR CAUSING THEM SORROW. THE LORD HAS NO PLEASURE IN ALLOWING PUNISHMENT. HE DOES NOT AFFLICT FROM HIS HEART. HE DOESN’T WANT TO , BUT HE IS PERFECTLY JUST. THE LORD OVER AND OVER PLEADS FOR PEOPLE TO SIMPLY TURN BACK TO HIM FOR HE DELIGHTS IN SHOWING MERCY. LAMENTATIONS 3: 33 NLT

YOU MUST GIVE THEM MY MESSAGES WHETHER THEY LISTEN OR NOT. GOD ALWAYS WARNS BECAUSE HE IS PERFECTLY FAIR AND JUST. GOD ALWAYS WARNS BECAUSE HE IS PERFECTLY FAIR AND JUST. IT IS OUR CHOICE WHETHER WE LISTEN. EZEKIEL 2:7 NLT

DON’T YOU REALIZE HOW KIND, TOLERANT AND PATIENT GOD IS WITH YOU?? OR DON’T YOU CARE?? CAN’T YOU SEE HOW KIND HE HAS BEEN IN GIVING YOU TIME TO TURN FROM YOUR SINS? BUT NO, YOU WON’T LISTEN. SO YOU ARE STORING UP TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT FOR YOURSELF BECAUSE OF YOUR STUBBORNNESS IN REFUSING TO TURN FROM YOUR SIN. ROMANS 2: 4-5 NLT

IT IS THE DESIRE OF PEOPLE HOLDING ON TO THEIR SINS THAT ENDS UP SENDING THEM TO HELL…NOT REPENTING AND TURNING TO GOD FOR HELP…

ALL OF US NEED GOD BECAUSE APART FROM HIM WE CAN DO NOTHING!

BOOKS I RECOMMEND 23 MINUTES IN HELL AND HELL BOTH BY THE SAME AUTHOR BILL WIESE

HIS STORY IS TRULY REMARKABLE AND IT SERVES AS A WAKE UP CALL TO ALL OF US THIS BLOG POST IS DEDICATED TO BILL WIESE FOR HIS CALLING HIS COURAGE AND HIS HUMBLE SPIRIT. SOME MATERIAL IN THIS BLOG IS FROM THE HIS BOOK ENTITLED “HELL” MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL

BE BLESSED!

God cares for the birds…How much more does he care for us?

Today I wanted to share with you what happened to me yesterday and what I learned about God’s amazing love for us…sometimes he will use nature to show us just how much he cares and loves us.

I was out yesterday with my daughter and her friend. We went to the movies did some shopping and went for some smoothies. While we were out, I was pulling out of a department store when I saw a bird who was injured. It could fly a little but it looked like something was wrong with it’s wing. It was trying to fly upward but could not go very high and everytime it would try to me it looked as if it was making whatever it did to beginvwith worse off.

So I stopped the car but there was someone behind me so I pulled over and then she almost hit him she saw the bird hurt but to my surprise she did not even care.

I got out of my car and went over to the bird it was on it’s back and flopping around. My heart just sank. I felt so bad for this thing and I thought what am I going to do? I just can’t pick it up and fix it. I have no idea what or how but I knew I had to do something. I could not just simply walk away and leave this poor helpless bird to die.

Then I went to the car pulled out a towel and thought to myself “God if this bird can be put in a place away from traffic near some trees or something then if it will just take some time and rest then it might be able to fly off and be ok.”

Sometimes birds will hit something and they get hurt and they get startled and dazed so I thought this could have been what happened to the bird.

I took the towel and went over to the bird. I tried to catch it so I could put it in a safe place but it tried to fly off so I was having a hard time. At one point it flew up over the trees and I thought ok, this bird must not be hurt that bad, but then it came down just as fast as it went up and it hit the ground pretty hard.

It was at that point I knew it needed my help and I was not about to turn my back on it. I thought if I could just get this bird out of harms way it might have a chance to sit for a while and recover and be able to fly away.

I went back after the bird and this time I asked God to help me catch it. I took the towel and gently grabbed ahold of the bird. To my surprise it did not even try to fly off or move around it just simply stayed calm.

I covered it with the towel and got back into the car. We then went to a place where we could let the bird go and it would be safe. A place with trees and no traffic.

I took the bird and gently opened the towel and the bird just walked off and didn’t even fly away. He just sat there and started to clean his feathers.

I really felt like the bird knew we were not trying to hurt it but help it. What a great feeling we all had.

Now as I reflect back to what happened yesterday I came to this understanding. That bird represents people who have been hurt, broken-hearted, and simply lost. The lady represented how Satan treats all of us, with no care or concern at all. She did not even care if she ran the bird over. And that is how Satan feels about humans. He has absolute hatred for us. He does not care for our well being at all.

But then I came along and saw the injured bird and my heart went out to it. I wanted to help it no matter how many times it tried to fly away from me. I was not going to give up on that bird who needed my help.

And when I scooped the bird into the towel and gently carried it to a safe place so it would be protected from any kind of harm, I realized that God does the same thing for us!

Even when we run from him….and we get hurt….he still will try and help us simply because he loves us.

In Matthew Chapter 6 Verses 25 Jesus teaches about Worry….I thought you would find this interesting! It says: That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life-whether you have enough food and drink,or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?

Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? The birds are precious to God…How much more precious are we to God?

Personal Testimony

Hi my name is Tina Bradley and I would like to share with you my journey with the Lord. My life as a child growing up in a dysfunctional family, living and striving on conditional love from parents and thinking that it was a normal way of living only brought me to a place of loneliness which led to many years of being in torment.

Religion in my family consisted of a few short years of my mother being involved with the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Along with many regulations, laws, and a certain way of living, I had my mother being the self-righteous (good) and my father was a mean, cursing, never show his love, distant and cold towards us.

Really it was like having in a sense Jesus and Satan all under one roof. Mom was saved and trying to work her way to heaven and Dad was not saved and it showed in his actions towards all of us.

My teenage years were very rebellious and I was looking for acceptance and love in all the wrong places. What I found out was I did not find love but others who used and abused me in every way. I wanted so much to just get out of the house I found someone at the age of 16 who was in the army which I loved or at least thought I loved and that was my ticket to freedom but in the end it led me to another road of torment and bondage.

I married when I turned eighteen years old and moved up to Alaska only to isolate myself away from any of my family and friends people who knew me.

I dated my ex-husband for two years before I married him so I thought it was long enough and that I knew him well but I didn’t. He had a drinking problem and I should have seen it before we married but I wanted so much to be away from home or anything that had to do with home I just didn’t think about that being a problem plus when your eighteen drinking is cool no big deal.

He was verbally, mentally, emotionally, and physically abusive to me and for a couple of years I went through ups and downs in my marriage. Things got so bad that I didn’t even care if I died.

We had a little girl during our marriage and I kept thinking to myself I could not see her growing up in this and I wanted a better life not so much for my sake but for hers. She kept me alive and fighting.

I picked up what pieces I had left of my life and left with my daughter. I was angry, bitter, shattered, and lost. I had no hope.

I thought to myself why is it so hard for people to love me why do I have to try so hard what is so wrong with me?

I started to party go out with friends. There I found friends that were cool and that liked me so I was happy well at least for the time being. Dating and hanging out at the clubs was my lifestyle for a few years. I worked hard as a single parent and felt that it was ok to enjoy myself.

I did my duties as a mom well being the provider but then I started asking myself am I really being a great mom it’s not like I had good role models growing up. I smoke, drank, and I clubbed often. Although my daughter was not around any of the lifestyle she did see little of me and more of the babysitter.

I kept the drinking and party life away from the home front but it still affected her. Mom was not around much and that was wrong. I always dated the wrong guy one who was abusive and I could not figure out why I would attract such people.

So long story short abuse after abuse guy after guy it was like I was being gutted from the inside out.

I kept thinking to myself is this it? This is life? This is what everyone goes through, then what is the point of even living?

My sister left the house at a young age also. She was taking drugs, drinking, stripping, and it left her in ruins until God came into her life. God changed her life and I seen that change.

Even though for a long time I did not care but then after a while I looked at her and thought to myself what is going on with her? She is different. She’s happy.

I am not. At that point I had moved from Alaska to Tennessee and had lived there up until just a couple weeks ago when I moved here.

I would visit my sister in Ohio often and every time she would insist I go to church. Well to be honest, I could care less about church and I would get so sick of her bugging me about going I would go just to shut her up.

She attends the Newark Baptist Temple in Newark, OH. Little did I know that all those years my sister prayed for my soul, not giving up hope for me she knew I needed Jesus and she was not going to give up on me.

I could see something happening in my sister’s life and I wanted that also funny thing is I did not want the church, Jesus and I did not want to be the bible thumper either.

I did not understand it was God changing my sister’s life not her changing her own. The first few times I went to the church I felt really out of place everyone was dressed funny and you could tell I did not fit in there.

But much to my surprise everyone was so very nice to me and when I say nice I mean like really nice to the point I was like what is wrong with them they are to nice to me they don’t know me and if they only knew my past oh my gosh they would really not want anything to do with me! If they only knew where I came from that would change their minds.

They enjoyed having me there so much after a while I started to enjoy being there. I started to look forward to going so that I could get all the free hugs and hand-shakes I was like a kid in the candy store! Seems like the place to go I always seem to have people treat me mean so I enjoyed the attention they made me feel loved.

Now I still went out to the clubs and went to parties I even lit the cigarette as I left church services, but that is when things started to change in my life.

In June of 1999 I gave myself to the Lord. I remember it was a guest speaker who sat up on a stool with a lump of clay in his hands and I thought this is crazy what is he doing up there.

I listened and then something in me sank. I felt that I was the only one in there and that the preaching was just for me. I was so overwhelmed and didn’t even know why at that point but I started to cry.

I tried to hold back the tears but I could not I felt so embarrassed and I was so ashamed still not understanding why at the end of the service they did the alter call well I was not going to go I was afraid embarrassed confused well prideful and I was just going to sit there.

But something in me was saying go forth and I felt this pull like someone or something was pulling on my shirt pulling me out of me seat and I got freaked out I was fighting it crying all the way and then the moment came, my sister looked at me knowing what was taking place with tears streaming down her face she says:

“If your afraid I will go with you” and then she took my hand and we left the seats. I confessed I was a sinner in need of Jesus Christ and I got saved. It would take me a very long time to tell of everything Jesus has done in my life and is still doing.

I can not put into words what love can do to a person’s life how it can change. The love of my sister and her church brought me to Jesus. I am humbled at his forgiveness mercy grace and his endless love for me.

One year ago I was told by my husband who is Chris Bradley that God loved me no matter what I have done and that he knew what he got when he scooped me into his arms.

I have had my moments and from my past I had a wrong view of God and his love I thought that I had to earn or work my way to, change on my own, get good to get to God and I knew of him but did not have a relationship with him.

I knew things about him but it was not a personal relationship. I view God like I viewed my parents love as being conditional. If I did good then God was happy but as soon as I messed up then it was run as fast as I can away from God.

But in these few shorts months I learned that it was fear keeping me from my relationship with him. How can someone become friends with another if he or she is afraid of them? It’s possible but not the way God intended.

After learning and the Lord showing me in many different ways just how much his love towards me was pure perfect and complete I started to understand that all he really wanted from me was my heart with no strings attached!

Just me all of me the good bad and ugly even everything in secret. And when I started to fall in love with him I wanted to do things that were pleasing to him not doing them out of fear of what he would do to me.

Now it’s love not fear that motivates me and I am after his heart not his hand. I want to see his face and just simply hang out with him. I want the real deal! And everyone I come into contact with I share what he has done in my life, I want them to know that what he has done for me he will do for them also. Thanks be to God for my salvation and to him be all the Glory.