Grace is now 11 years old ! How did ten years go by that fast? I remember how hard it was to imagine her as a ten year old. Now, I can't imagine my kids as adults. But, I know it's coming soon. I am thankful for Grace, because..... she has a sweet and caring heart, she is beautiful inside and out, she is a very good and helpful big sister, she loves to work hard. She is always asking if she can help in some way. She loves to read books, loves animals, loves her friends, and loves to cook. She has a great imagination. Always has something funny to say. She is currently square dancing, and loving it. (her grandpa Dennis and grandma Nancy, took her and her brother Sheldon, to lessons, and now are going to big dances about once a week). I pray the Lord will use her precious life, her gifts, and her love for people, to bring Glory to Him. I pray she will serve the Lord with all her heart, and I pray the Lord will bring a special man into her life (later, not now!), that knows the Lord as his Savior, that will love, honor, and respect her, be a man integrity. But, most importantly, choose to put God first. Because, if he puts God first, he will be the man that God has called him to be.
WARNING: Do not put your trust in me, I am human, I will Fail you...
TRUST IN THE LORD...
Isaiah 55: 8 & 9 says;
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts".
Are you trusting in Jesus ALONE for your Salvtion?
~Eternal life is a free gift~ Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~You can not earn a place into heaven, it is a gift~ Ephesians 2:8-9; 8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
~We do not deserve heaven~ Romans 3: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3: 12...there is no one who does good, not even one James 2: 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
~You can not save yourself~ Titus 3: 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy
~God is just-He must punish sin~ 2 Peter 3: 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. Exodus 34: 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished Romans 6: 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven~Who is He, and what did He do~ John 1:1,141In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. Romans 5: 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 1 Peter 3: 18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit John 14: 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. ~ Believing is not enough~ James 2: 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that and shudder
~True Faith is, turning from your sins and trusting in Jesus Christ alone for your your eternal salvation~ Acts 4: 12 And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved. John 1: 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name Acts 16: 31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household Romans 10: 13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED"
~How do you know, if you have eternal life?~ 1 John 5:11-13 11And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
~My hope and prayer is that anyone who reads this and is not sure of where they will spend eternity, will look over these verses, and I pray that their hearts will be opened to the power of the Gospel~