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Newsletter of Hope - Following Jesus


 

Following Jesus                                                                        

I have heard so many people say that following Jesus is hard.  It’s a hard and challenging life.  Even someone just this weekend past said this to me.  This does not sit well with me.  You see for me following Jesus has brought me such a freedom, a joy I never had and a peace I never felt, a love I never knew, before I became a Christian.  

I am not saying that I have not had some struggles and trying times, for their have been many, what I am saying is that life in itself has times of struggles, times of decisions, times of hardships whether you are a Christian or not.  I would much rather do this life with Jesus than without! 

Before I asked the Lord to become my Lord and Saviour I had had many trials in my life the first that I can remember was my father abusing me at a young age. Then there was sickness, there was division and strife in my family, there were times of lack in my business, there was confusion, hurts and rejections that were like a knife in my heart that I thought I would never heal from, BUT then I met Jesus and let Him become Lord of my life.  He healed my broken heart, He took one piece at a time and made me whole once again that I can now say I am healed, I am free, I am now complete through Jesus my Lord and Saviour.

What I am saying is that now I cannot do life without Jesus.  I wear a teeshirt with a print on it saying “I have decided to follow Jesus, NO turning back”.  I have no desire to turn back, I have no desire to go back to who I was.  The Lord has set me free.  I say this with sincerity and love.  I am Free!

John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold the new has come.

Jesus has the same plan for you if only you would let Him.  Let Him into your life and be made whole.  He wants to heal you of those things that cause you pain, that cause you torment, that cause you to be broken.

Psalm 147:3  He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. 

You were not born to live a life of brokenness, you were born on purpose, with a purpose, victorious.  The Lord knows you by name, he even knows how many hairs are on your head. 

John 10:10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.  I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

God loved you so much that He sent His only son to the cross, so that you could be forgiven.  Jesus took those stripes on the whipping post so that you could be healed and walk in health. He went to the cross and rose again after three days. That we could be reconciled to the Father.  He did that for YOU! He went to the cross for the joy that was set before Him, even though He knew what was to come, what pain He would endure, the shame and rejection He would face.

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should no perish, but have everlasting life.

Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

So I ask you today, are you ready to make a change in your life, to take that step and ask the Lord Jesus Christ into your life?  He is waiting on YOU to call onto Him, to ask Him to forgive you, to come into your life, to fill you with the Holy Spirit.

This is how I see my journey of following the Lord Jesus Christ:-

Psalm 37:4-5  Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.  Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him, and he will act.

Psalm 37:23  The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way.

God Bless you, Love Denise

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