Month: June 2025

Jesus taught it isn’t how we are treated or what is said to us that matters, those things will most assuredly happen, it’s how we react that matters. Try seeing yourself and others through that lens. Be self aware intently for a time. When someone triggers you, however your instant reaction is, stop, remain quiet, no gestures, examine it, think it through. Recall past words, gestures, responses when you were proud of yourself and when you weren’t. Did someone, or something get the “best of you”, and actually brought out the worst of you. So, so many times in the 27 letters, we read the words of Jesus, Him teaching, preaching, counseling, advocating us that it isn’t what happens TO us that matters, it is how we REACT that does. Why did he say that so often? Want examples, I’ve got plenty, read on. This is part one, part two coming soon.

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If there is one message, I could say to everyone right now, and only one, it is this.   Wake up sleepers!  It is the end times, the battle of good and evil rages, and they are both trying to own your soul and your eternal life. Every soul on the planet will have to decide for themselves this question: is Revelation 13:16 true prophesy, or foolishness. 

And, before I get started, let me just say that my words of persuasion or anyone’s words will never, I said never, persuade anyone to give their life to Jesus.  No apologies to all you preachers, pastors, and teachers, but your skills at speaking and your ego’s cannot write the check for the lost souls you have lead astray. I used to think I could talk the talk and others would follow right to Jesus. But I learned after receiving the Holy Spirit baptism that was not true. And, over the years, I’ve seen too much to know better.  We may plant a seed, draw them closer to God, but ultimately the decision to Trust Jesus with their lives has to be made completely and solely by the person’s “will of the soul”.  It’s an act of will, not reasoning.  It’s an act of faith, not understanding. It’s a complete trust in a person (Jesus) not an idea, religion, or anything of this world. 

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