This is what the people asked on the Day of Pentecost after Peter spoke and told them about Jesus. (Acts 2:37.)

Jesus Himself called “salvation” being “born-again “, and it is just that. When you receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you are giving your very life to Him, letting go of all the past things you have done… you literally become a whole new person as it says in 2 Cor. 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.”

Wouldn’t you like to be a whole new person? Wouldn’t you like to know that you are going to Heaven? It’s easier than you think… just follow the simple steps in the scriptures below and you will begin your new life today! (more…)

Today I was thinking about my friend, Ruth, who recently has gone home to be with the Lord, and I was reminded of one of our favorite scriptures, which we discussed many times.  I meditated on this today and I thought perhaps you would enjoy this nugget of truth.

 Is. 30:18 – Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.  For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him. (NKJV)

What is neat about this verse is the truth that God is waiting for us just so He can be gracious and merciful to us.  And then when He’s gracious and merciful, He gets glory and is exalted!  This is an interesting cycle.  Until I read this verse I never pictured that God Himself would wait on us so He could bless us.

The other kind of waiting this verse discusses, is us waiting for Him.  So there are two kinds of waiting, one where God waits for us so he can be good to us, and one where we wait on God to be good to us.  So basically, God waits on us to wait on Him…. and then He’s gracious to us and He gets the glory in the end.  It’s like a never-ending circle of grace!  Awesome!

Sometimes when I’m reading in the Bible I find little tidbits of truth that I’ve formerly missed when reading the same verses. This happened today so I thought I’d share the little tidbit with you.

Lately I’ve been brousing around in Romans and I’ve been using several versions to compare: NKJV, NCV, Amplified and Greek, with KJV. Today I was reading Romans 5 about how God has reconciled us with his grace, through faith, and one verse stood out…. verse 17.

NKJV says, “much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness – will reign in life, through the One, Jesus Christ.” I’ve read this many times but this time I noticed particularly the phrase about “reigning in life”. I’d missed it before but this scripture is talking about our dominion over the earth, which was lost with Adam, and regained with Christ’s sacrifice. This is just another verse that reinforces who we are in Christ! We should be reigning in life! (more…)

Every believer needs to know who they are in Christ.  This knowledge is the very essence of our faith.  It enables us to have complete and total confidence in Christ and the assurance of our transformation in Him.  This knowledge will give back what the enemy is trying rob from you, an understanding of your special place in God’s kingdom.

 Have you ever doubted God’s love for you?  Have you ever fallen into sin and had thoughts of despair.  You are not alone!  God never gives up on us. He remains steadfast in His desire to bless us, even when many of us are tempted to doubt His love. The great tragedy is that so many of us spend our lives trying to earn something we already have, the gift of life which God freely gives us when we decide to follow Christ.

That life in Christ is meant to be lived in victory and the sad part is many believers live in defeat.  In the articles I write for this website I plan to show you “Who you are in Christ.”  We are in this journey together… God bless you all!

These are my benefits according to the Bible:

1.  I have Redemption and Freedom from sin:

I have redemption through Jesus’ blood.  Eph. 1:7

I’ve been justified freely by His grace.  Rom. 3:24

I am free of the law of sin and death.  Rom. 8:2

I am a new creation in Christ.  2 Cor. 5:17

I have escaped the corruption that is in the world.  2 Pet. 1:4

I am passed from death into life.  John 5:4

Sin has no dominion over me.  Rom. 6:14

I’m redeemed from the hand of the enemy.  Ps. 107:2 (more…)