02/19/2024
I was just thinking of free stuff and you might be asking “why?” when you hear something is free you always think to yourself weather it’s a horse vehicle anything you might think I wonder what’s wrong with it why do they want to “give it away” so a lot of times a lot of us get guarded and skeptical 🧐
Or the buy one get one free and if this is on TV and you have to call and or go on the Internet or any of that you end up on a annoying mailing list.
Satan has done a very good job on manipulating our minds so when something is up for free we wonder what’s wrong with it? Or I wonder what the next mailing list I’m going to end up on my emails?
Then people hear about the free gift of Jesus Christ dying for us and weather conscious or unconscious lots of people may treat it as such as it’s for free what’s wrong with it what do I have to give for it? So many churches take up offerings why would I have to pay in order to be a part of this?
The answer is no you do not have to pay to be a Christian you do not have to give an offering to a church The Lord Jesus has given you everlasting life that you can take a hold of if you just accept him into your life he will give you life, once he gives you life when you ask for forgiveness, he will ask for something in return He will ask for your stress for your worry for your shame for your hurt for your anxieties for your depression for your anger and your frustration and He will put it on himself and carry it for you and you will never have to carry yourself you will be able to walk in freedom and not have to carry all your negative baggage.
Jesus died for you because he loves you He died for me because he loves me The Bible says He was beating so bad he wasn’t even recognizable as a human The whips they had pieces of metal and bone that ripped into and through the skin in that time the Romans had a way of hanging people on the crosses where every breath was an effort they had to lift themselves up even to get a breath which was agonizing pain with the nails in there hands and feet and the crown of thorns was huge thorns that dug and ate into the skull.
He was willing to do that to give you and me eternal life in Him to wipe us clean from our sins by taking the ultimate punishment for our sins.
And Jesus came to life in three days after persecution because He is life itself he is our healer and our deliverer He’s not only arose in three days but His entire body was completely and totally healed from His persecution showing not only did He die to take all of our stress all of our pain all of our guilt our sin but He also came to heal our bodies as well to take away the appearance of sin in our bodies.
In the Bible it says God loves a cheerful giver
”Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.“
2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
God‘s compassion of sending his only son to die for us and is excepting his love and Walking and His freedom and our hearts are full of joy the giving should come out of compassion and love of Christ and not because we think we have to or to be a part of the church it’s because we are blessed and we want to share our blessing and I don’t just mean our blessings of money I also mean our blessings of joy of happiness and give the Lord a chance to expand His blessings in our life
Sometimes we don’t give the Lord a chance to expand His blessings on us whether it be financially whether it be with Joy of the Lord because we’re so busy focused on what we don’t have instead of thanking the Lord for what we do have and staying in alignment with His word and guidance to be able to walk through new doors that the Lord has open for us.
Prayer for your day 🙏🏼
In Jesus name I ask for complete and total healing of my heart my mind my soul Lord I ask that you heal the things that need to be healed in my body Lord things that need to be cut out of my life that they be cut out of my life Lord I yield my my spirit up to you Lord I yield my will up to you Lord, Lord because you are the only one that can save me Lord you are the only one that can do anything for me Lord you are my refuge my fortress and you I will trust so Lord I ask that you guide protect me and my family.
Amen 🙏🏼
