Numbers
14:11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and
how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed
among them?
What
evidence has God already shown you that He is God and that He does exist? The
very air you breathe, that you breathe at all is solid proof that God is!Look
around you, how can you possibly believe that this beauty just happened. That a
giant boom created all of this?
A giant boom
did happen, when God said let there be light! BOOM – there was light.
When God
separated the firmament: Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day. BOOM! The earth and the sky exists.
Matthew 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot
save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
will believe him.
Faith believes
that God IS, first, then signs and wonders will be evident. Jesus was there on
the cross, everything He had done was denied by these crucifying Him. They were
lying when they tempted Him to show His power. He could have came down. They
didn’t believe Him before when He walked about doing good, healing and raising
the dead. Why would they believe now?
Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe
the LORD your God,
What have
you lost by not believing God? He tells us in His Word, you have not because
you ask not. James 4:2
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What
things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
shall have them.
Believe! You
can believe this, that all those things you did in your life, God himself was
watching over you. Keeping you safe even if you don’t acknowledge it. He was
there with you all the time. Ever watchful, waiting for you to “see” Him and
know Him!
Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the
child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
John 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples therefore said unto
him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his
hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26 ¶ And after eight days again his disciples
were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and
stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy
finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my
side: and be not faithless, but believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My
Lord and my God.
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou
hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
have believed.
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the
presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might
have life through his name.
Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are
justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of
Moses.
Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe?
shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every
man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
YOU MUST
BELIEVE TO HAVE SALVATION. You must believe that God is (exists), you must
believe that Jesus Christ is the propitiation for our sins, you must believe
that God is just and true.
1John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins.
This is not
just another fairy tale. Be not deceived, God is real, Jesus died for our sins,
and the ONLY way to salvation and Heaven is through Jesus. The great I am, the
door, just knock and it shall be opened unto you
Seek and you
shall find Him. He is waiting on you.
Believe that
God loves you. Believe that salvation is for you. Believe!
In Him is
hope, in Him is whatever you need. He even hears and sends you the desires of
your heart. He will make your enemies be at peace with you. They won’t even
know why. Whatever is troubling, a problem in your life… give it to Him. Let Him
have control of your life.
We often
want to fix things ourself. We think no one else can do it but “me”. At the
very least, no one will or can do “it” to our satisfaction of how we want it.
Well, I have to ask, how is that working out for you? Unless you have Jesus on
your side, working on your behalf – I can answer that for you. It Isn’t
working! Without the hope of glory, without Christ, all we have is despair,
heartache and pain with no way out.
Oh, but
there is a way out. Believe on the Lord, He is your way out. Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Not even
just for you, a way of escape for your loved ones too. They will see what He
has done for you and want to follow.
1Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to
be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I watched a video today of a womans testimony:
A muslim woman had followed Islams rituals all
of her life. Nothing was going right for her. He Mom was dying with MS, she had
prayed to Allah all of her life. She decided to just end it and kill herself.
Her Mom said if you do this, you must kill me too.
They made
the agreement they would do this on a specific day and time.
Then on the day, on the tv her Mom was watching a preacher who said if you are planning suicide and
ending your life, call me. Call me right now.
The young
woman got angry when she heard her Mom on the phone with the evangelist. She
told her she would go to hell for praying to Jesus. She should pray to allah.
Why was she committing blaspheme in the last few minutes of her life? The Mom
pled with her daughter to just talk to this minister. The daughter refused. Mom
dropped her head crying. Then the daughter came back and took the phone.
The minister
spent more than an hour on the phone with her. She would not be swayed.
Finally, he told her “you said yourself the Allah had never done anything for
you. Give Jesus one week. You can still kill yourself in one week.”
She agreed.
In one week she would tell Allah that even her death was for him.
The next
morning she awoke to a sound. She got up and found her Mom walking. Walking
perfectly. She took her Mom to the hospital immediately.They tested her and
found she no longer had MS. They argued; with the daughter telling him it must
be a mistake. The doctor said “no”it is a miracle. No MS. He asked her what
Imam she had prayed to. She told him, no Imam. She had prayed to Jesus.
When she
said those words, her heart was changed. She knew Jesus was real. He had shown
her that He was the living God. He healed her Mom completely. “He cleansed and
filled me. Today her and her Mom are apostates (muslims that convert to
christianity, punishable by death in Iran). They risk their lives working in
the underground church in Iran.
Believe! He
is real, He is sovereign, He is the supreme God today, yesterday and forever
the same.
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