Prayer - God desires you.

“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”  1 Timothy 2:8

Prayer is two way communication. We speak to God and God speaks to us. He doesn’t speak in an audible voice even though he could. His spirit speaks to our spirit.
C.H. Spurgeon said “The goal of prayer is the ear of God”
Prayer isn’t reciting our needs and wants in a shopping list format. It is much deeper than that. It is coming humbly before an awesome, all powerful God seeking to be in his presence and under his will.

May you have a blessed week. 

With much love and prayers, 
Pastor Anthony

God longs for you.

God longs for you. 

The father in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) is a representation of God the Father desiring his sons and daughters to return to him. 

I envision God the Father sitting on the front porch watching the horizon longing for his children to turn from their life and turn to him. I can see the Father leap from the porch and run to his children at the moment we make that first step to return unto him. 

He doesn’t ask where you’ve been, nor does he condemn you for where you’ve been. He just greets you with loving arms saying “Welcome Home, I’m glad you’re back!” 

Would you “come home”? 

With much love and prayers, 
Pastor Anthony 

Warning of Helll!

Week after week I stand before you and present the Gospel. What is the Gospel? The word Gospel means “good news”. 

The “good news” is that God loves you, He sent his son Jesus to die on a cross for your sins, after three days in the grave he arose again, walked around before many witnesses, and he now sits at the right hand of the father. In the “good news we find the formula to have a secured eternity in that “if we believe in him we shall have eternal life” (John 3:16).  That’s the condensed version of the Gospel. 

Now unfortunately for us to have a “good news” with must inevitably have a “bad news”.  The “bad news” is that satan hates you, he wants to destroy you, he wants you to join him in the ground, and be totally separated from the Father. 

Today we are going to focus on the “bad news” not because I want to but because it the Word and we must accept the whole word. 

Satan hates you and wants to destroy you. His purpose in life is to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). 

Satan wants you to join him in hell totally separated from the father. Satan’s objective in life is to cause you to not receive the good news. He wants to deceive you into believing that you can live however you’d like and still enter in heaven and God’s presence. This just isn’t so! 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21 gives us a list and tells us that those who do these things “SHALL NOT” inherit the kingdom. 

Satan even tempted Jesus in the wilderness to try to separate the son from the father (Matthew 4). 

Revelation 20:15 says that “whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Hell is a real place that is designed to be a prison of sorts. Jesus speaking in Matthew (25:41) says it is a place that was designed for Satan and all the demons (fallen angels). It isn’t a place that was designed for you and I. But because of sin and an unrepentant heart it is a place where we (mankind) to will spend eternity. How do I know it wasn’t designed for mankind? Because 2 Peter 3:9 says that God wishes “that none should perish but that all should come to repentance”.  So why would he had made it for mankind if he wished that we all would repent. 

Hells is described in Luke 16:19-31. It talks about an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. They both die and the rich man enters hell. Lazarus enters into Abraham’s bosom. The rich man was in pure torment and was crying out for Lazarus to drop his finger in water and drip it on the rich man’s tongue.

It also describes the great separation between heaven and hell; “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.” (Luke 16:26)

Hell is also described in Revelation 20:10 as a place of torment. It is called a lake of fire and brimstone. 

People at the moment of our death our eternal destiny will be forever sealed! There will be no second chances! 

I want to close with the “good news”. 

As a child of God you won’t have to ever worry about hell or an eternity separated from God. 

Romans 10:9-10 says “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” And verse 13 say “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 

I ask you “will you receive Jesus as you Savior and lord today”?