Your Father in Heaven Loves You!

I bring Grace and Peace to each one of you in the name of Jesus the Savior of the world! 

I am reminded today of a Father in heaven that loves me.  Yes, today is Fathers day and this week has been a very trying one in the life of being a Dad, but I am so thankful that I can look at my earthly father as well as my heavenly one and see the unconditional love that makes me melt in knowing the source of the love I have for my own children. 

John 1:14 (MSG)

The Word became flesh and blood,
      and moved into the neighborhood.
   We saw the glory with our own eyes,
      the one-of-a-kind glory,
      like Father, like Son,
   Generous inside and out,
      true from start to finish.

I do not know what your situation is when it comes to being a father or having a father here on earth but I am here to tell you your Heavenly Father loves you!  He loves you so much that He does not see your faults.  What He sees is Good. 

Genesis 1:26-31 (MSG)

 26-28 God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them
      reflecting our nature
   So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea,
      the birds in the air, the cattle,
   And, yes, Earth itself,
      and every animal that moves on the face of Earth."
   God created human beings;
      he created them godlike,
   Reflecting God's nature.
      He created them male and female.
   God blessed them:
      "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge!
   Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air,
      for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."

 29-30 Then God said, "I've given you
      every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth
   And every kind of fruit-bearing tree,
      given them to you for food.
   To all animals and all birds,
      everything that moves and breathes,
   I give whatever grows out of the ground for food."
      And there it was.

 31 God looked over everything he had made;
      it was so good, so very good!
   It was evening, it was morning—
   Day Six.

Today I want you to meditate on two verses that God brought to me this morning and I pray that you receive them as gifts from your Father in Heaven that loves you so dearly. The first is found in Matthew;

Matthew 5:48 (MSG)

"In a word, what I'm saying is, Grow up. You're kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you."

It is funny how in reading I find myself in the first book of the New Testament and then end up getting confirmation out of the last.

Revelation 3:21 (MSG)

"Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I'll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I, having conquered, took the place of honor at the side of my Father. That's my gift to the conquerors!

I tell you today from a father’s heart live out your God-created identity and be the Conqueror that Jesus proclaims you to be in life and live generously and graciously towards others!

I just want each and every one of you to know today that God loves you and sees you as Good!  God wants you to have all that He has for you.  You are royalty, a child of the King.  How do you walk, talk, and carry yourself.  Believe that you are a Conqueror in all areas of your life and know that you sit alongside Jesus at the head table!

I end today with a precious verse found in 2 Corinthians 13:14 (MSG)

The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you.

Live life knowing who you are because of the Heavenly Father that loves You!

God Loves You! You Are Blessed!

Have I Told You Lately That God Loves You?

As I write to you today I find that sometimes we just need to be reminded of the love that God has for each and everyone of us, and yes that includes You!  I am here to tell you God loves you so much that he gave His Son Jesus and all that He accomplished; to You, and You, and You, all mankind back into right standing with Him.  Why? Because He loves you and wants to have relationship with you because that is why you were created in the first place!


God is interested and wants to be a part of everything that you do.  That is why He sent the Holy Spirit, His Spirit to dwell with you to comfort and guide you.   


Ephesians 5:1-2 (MSG)


Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.


Today God wants you to know whatever you need He is there for you.  Jesus the Son of God and representative of all mankind is there for those who choose to believe.  Jesus said “go and whosoever will.” That does not mean to go and manipulate or judge others, it means to love others because God loved first.  When God made man He looked upon His creation with Agape Love, He was so amazed that it took His breath away and with that breath God breathed Life into man.  Life formed out of the Love of God.  


It is because of that love that mercy found grace and we now through the gift of His Son Jesus Christ have been given the gift of righteousness, personal relationship with Him forever.  The way it was meant to be!


I leave you today with Paul’s words found in Ephesians 3  


Ephesians 3:14-19 (MSG)


My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.


God Loves You! You Are Blessed!

What is the “Meat” that You Hunger for?

I bring Grace and Peace to each one of you in the name of Jesus the Savior of the world!


As I write to you today I know it has been a while since my last message and I pray that each and everyone who reads this today has come to the understanding of how much God loves them and that He wants more than anything for you to enjoy life the way He meant it to be!


As I awoke today my thoughts went back to a subject that has always intrigued me and that is the fact why people in the organized church today move from church to church.  In talking with these I hear the same thing that I used to say when doing the same thing.  I am just not getting fed when I go there.  As I look back now it was the wrong meat that was being served.  Thank God for the Grace message for when I dine at the Lords table I never go hungry.  


To expound on this further I want to bring you to a story in the book of John.


John 4:31-33 (MSG)


31 In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, "Rabbi, eat. Aren't you going to eat?"
32 He told them, "I have food to eat you know nothing about."
33 The disciples were puzzled. "Who could have brought him food?"


What I want you to see here is Jesus said “I have food to eat you know nothing about.”
To understand this lets go back to the beginning of John 4 where Jesus had left Judea to go to Galilee and had to go through Samaria to get there.  Jesus was physically tired took rest at Jacobs well and the disciples went into the city to find food.  Even though there is a lot more to be learned from this passage lets go back and read what it tells us.


John 4:7-15  (MSG)


7-8 A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, "Would you give me a drink of water?" (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)
9 The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, "How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (Jews in those days wouldn't be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water."
11-12The woman said, "Sir, you don't even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this 'living water'? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?"
13-14Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."
15 The woman said, "Sir, give me this water so I won't ever get thirsty, won't ever have to come back to this well again!"


I know we are talking on the subject of meat but Hunger and Thirst always presents itself at the same time.  Let’s drop down a few more verses and see what is says there.


John 4:21-24 (MSG)


21-23 "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. You worship guessing in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day. God's way of salvation is made available through the Jews. But the time is coming it has, in fact, come when what you're called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.


 23-24 "It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration."


After this the Jesus told the woman that He was the messiah that she had spoken of and she left her pot and ran into the city telling others of this man who spoke these words.  


Now we are back at the beginning where the disciples were asking each other where Jesus found food.  As we look again in John we find the answer.


John 4:34-35 (MSG)


34-35 Jesus said, "The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It's harvest time!


Eat from your Fathers table; you will never grow hungry or thirsty again.  Rest in that Jesus is the tithe and that there is always “meat” in God’s house.




After the Samaritan woman went back and told others of what had happened they returned themselves to see Jesus and asked him to stay with them. They had found the truth.  As we read further in John we find the secret that was revealed to them so lets read on.


John 4: 39-42 (MSG)


39-42 Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman's witness: "He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!" They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days. A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say. They said to the woman, "We're no longer taking this on your say-so. We've heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He's the Savior of the world!"


“Jesus the Savior of the World!” 


In Hebrews you will also find;


Hebrews 13:8-9 (MSG)


8 For Jesus doesn't change—yesterday, today, tomorrow, he's always totally himself.       9 Don't be lured away from him by the latest speculations about him. The grace of Christ is the only good ground for life. Products named after Christ don't seem to do much for those who buy them.


Jesus in his own words in John 6 says it this way, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.


For those who are living under the law or in mixture which is no better will always hunger and thirst and will always be looking for more feeling empty or need for more substance.  Look no further the Gospel of Grace, Jesus nothing more nothing less will fulfill your hunger and your thirst.  So come and dine at your Father’s table and rest in knowing that all has been taken care of for you!


God Loves You!

Does Grace Breed Apathy? by George Christ Odero

Does Grace breed apathy? Let me be sincere. I got saved in 2002 and became friends with Maurice Glory Adero. Both of us were appointed youth leaders that sane year. We were the most "spiritual" guys in the town. We spent sleepless nights praying in church, on mountains and in caves. We preached @ market places every lunch hour. We fasted, tithed, went for missions, etc. In 2007 I got tired and quit. Then I stumbled into my first grace message via godtv. It was The True Nature of God by Andrew Wommack. I stepped down from leadership. All I wanted was to sit and listen to AW alone!!! I shared the goodnews with Maurice and he too quit fasting, praying all, etc. And the church new we backslid.

Slowly but sure, most youths were beginning to listen to AW and losing interest in church. Pastor began to preach against listening to tv preachers!!! But this just made guys 'rebel' more. I began preaching again in 2010 at commuter train. One pastor Peter Kimusyu laid down his ambition to pastor and stopped preaching. He was a great intecessor but he lost it all when he opened his heart to the grace message. Today he is a radical grace preacher and seeing more and better results than he had when he was striving to please God. Time may not allow me to talk about tens of people who have gone this direction, but let me talk about pastor Daniel Kwesi who I met in town about 4 weeks ago and for the last 3 weeks he has refused to preach in his church. He either has me preaching or someone that I send. Last Sunday my friend Henry Christified Minister the minister preached in that church and this coming Sunday 20th Feb am preaching there and the following weekend 25th-26th we have a conference in that church.

If you are new in Grace, beware of people who misquote James where it says faith without works is dead. They try to use it to get you to prove something or to get you back under works. They do not understand what it says! Religion makes people to PURSUE RIGHTEOUSNESS but they never attain it. But Grace gives God's righteousness to people freely by faith. The reason Grace is offensive to religion is because it gets you out of the way and lets Christ alone be the way, the truth, the life. As God told Saul to slaughter all the animals in the land they were conquering but Saul spared the fat and good looking to offer to God, many people have come to grace with the strength they had under the Law. They have slaughtered their lying, stealing, gossiping but they have spared good deeds of the Law as means of justification. They feel qualified to ask God for a miracle when they have fasted or given to the poor but they feel disqualified and begin to beg for forgiveness before they can ask for a miracle if they failed to do something for God. They are not happy and prayer is NOT a delight to them. Where is the joy they first had? It went out when they came in.

Beloved, accept God's verdict over flesh. He says "The flesh profits nothing."(John 6:63) It doesnt matter whether the deeds are good or evil, it matters the source!!! Consider yourself today to be dead to your devotions and all you've been doing to please God. Let the Lord make You lie down and rest! 

You will be amazed what things you can accomplish, yet not you but the grace of God working in you.

"For me to live is Christ."(Phil.1:21)

God Loves You! Grace Be!

"TELL THE WORLD HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM"

In the name of Jesus I bring you Grace and Peace so that your Joy may be full.  Today I will be bringing to you a message that God wants the world to hear until it becomes known by all.  Here is what our loving Father has told me to tell you today.

“Tell the world of My Love for them, and how much I desire to have relationship with them.”

From the beginning God made man for relationship, this was His reason for giving man free will so man could freely choose to have relationship with God.  When Adam made the choice to eat of the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” instead of eating from the tree of “Life” ...he chose wrong and death came into a world and brought chaos to where before only peace was known. 

God had you on his mind before the foundations of the world a plan to redeem, take back, and make His relationship with you, to be the way it was meant to be and that was to abide in Him.  In Romans 5 you will find:

Romans 5:17-19 (KJV)

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one (Adam); much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

For as by one man's (Adam) disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one (Jesus) shall many be made righteous.

From the foundations of the world Jesus knew that God loved you so much He would send him to redeem you and bring you back into right standing with God.  You might ask; what about the law?  The law was made to point to Jesus the promise, the savior of the world.  Jesus came to fulfill the law. 

Galatians 3:19 (KJV)

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Romans 8:3-4 (KJV)

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Galatians 3:13-14 (KJV)

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The standard or the law written on stones brought death, Jesus came to bring Life.  You might ask; “then why was the law given?”  God wanted relationship and again man chose different.  Instead, Israel in their pride said: “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” Exodus 24:7b Jesus said in:

John 10:10 (KJV) 

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus came to earth born of a virgin, lived a sinless life was found without blemish. He took on the sin of the world and became the ultimate sacrifice for all mankind.  He was beaten, whipped, and nailed to a cross, died buried and overcame death and the grave, ascended into heaven and will soon return.  Why?  Because God Loves You! Believe and receive your salvation.

John 14:6 (KJV)

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

All that is required is your belief in the Son of God given as a sacrifice for you, you are redeemed, proclaimed innocent, and your action of Faith gives you the gift of salvation and puts you back into right standing with the Father. The way it was meant to be. Believe and receive all that is God has for you! God Loves You!

God said that Israel was a stiff necked people; Paul said the Galatians were foolish, it all goes back to one thing; from what tree do you choose to eat “the knowledge of good and evil”, or the tree of “Life”? The law has been fulfilled; Jesus paid the price for you.  The only sin left to be judged is the sin of unbelief.   

God’s Law is just, holy and good and it points to Jesus. You have been made clean through the blood of Jesus sprinkled on the mercy seat.  Jesus came to redeem the world while pointing to the Father and His love you so that you might freely choose to have relationship with Him… the way it was meant to be… so rest in knowing that GOD LOVES YOU!

God loves You!  Grace Be!

This is my Beloved Son in who I am well Pleased!

Below you will read a letter sent out on FaceBook written by my 15 year old son Kyle Shultz.  I thank God for the Grace message because when it comes to my children they do not have a lot of the self image issues or any other issues that a lot of teenagers have today and I know it is because of fact that both Katelyn and Kyle know who they are in Christ.  I hope that you are as blessed as I was when I read it....

“The church doesn't save you God does, the church is divided by race but God never ever had it like that. See God sees us all the same not by color or what you have done in the past he will love you no less he loves us all for who we are he has a plan for every single last one of you Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I believe in God not the church, the church is a place you love and worship him not some hell hole where people think your bad person if you don't go to church or pay your tithes. See when Jesus died on the cross for are sins he set us free from everything, if we asked him into are hearts in the bible John 3:16 says - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. I believe every word of this oh and you think you’re a Christian cause you go to church every Sunday think again Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith. Not because you go to church the definition of church is a building for public and especially Christian worship it says nothing required in there to be a Christian correct? John 1:12 says - Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. If you believe you receive what God has promised to you in Titus 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. I believe in every word of this so you say Church and you must pay your tithes I say Grace and believing is receiving so if you ask me if I love religion and Christianity ill disregard and look at you and say I love Jesus my lord and savior and the grace, and mercy He has on us. I am going to end on this. The church rejects people but Jesus never did and in my opinion the church is almost everything Jesus didn't want it to be. We are set free by Jesus not by the Church."

Sincerely Kyle Shultz

Thank you God for giving my son such an open mind, I know this is the first of many expressions of inspiration and revelation as he rests in the future that you have for him.

God Loves You! You Are Blessed!

Become FRIENDS with GOD; HE is Already a FRIEND with YOU!

John 15:14-16 (The Message)

"I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you. I'm no longer calling you servants because servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard from the Father.  You didn't choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you.”

 

 

Today is the last day of 2011 and I just wanted to take a minute to thank God for his constant love for me.  For drawing me closer in everyway to take rest in him, knowing that He is my Daddy and I am His son.  For making relationship with Him possible; the way it was meant to be.  God wants relationship not religion with you today; grab hold of the Gospel of Grace and start living in the Grace Zone!

 

You have heard me say before that God made man for relationship and that he sent his son who was born, birth; life made new, lived among us, the lamb of God; Savior of the world, died, took on all death; sacrificed for us, paid the price in full, arose from the grave, claiming victory over death for us; so that we who believe can have life everlasting, and will soon return.

 

Glory to God, Thank you Jesus!

 

I will start today reading from 2 Corinthians 5:14-20

 

2 Corinthians 5:14-20 (The Message)

 

Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.

Because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don't look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.

God seeks to have relationship with you.  The world was created so we could live and breathe and have relationship with him.  To walk in the cool of the day, to fly with the eagles, to lie down in green pastures, to run and never grow weary, David’s psalm tells it this way.

 

Psalm 23 (The Message)

 

God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing. 

You have bedded me down in lush meadows, 

You find me quiet pools to drink from. 

True to your word, you let me catch my breath 

and send me in the right direction.
Even when the way goes through Death Valley,
I'm not afraid when you walk at my side. 

Your trusty shepherd's crook makes me feel secure. 

You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing. Your beauty and love chase after me 

every day of my life. I'm back home in the house of God for the rest of my life.

As 2011 comes to a close today and we embark on 2012 and all the New Year has for us God wants you to know that He seeks relationship with you. God wants you to grab hold of life the way He meant it to be since creation.  He wants you to know how much he loves you and cares for you and that he is there in every situation. Right now he is asking these questions;

  

Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message)

"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

 

God sent his Son Jesus to proclaim you innocent, to be sacrificed for all your sin; past, present, and future, to rise in victory over death to give you life, believe in this and receive the gift of salvation given freely for you today.  Do you want this relationship that God seeks to have with you?  If so pray this prayer with me today…

 

Dear Daddy God, thank you for sending your Son to proclaim me innocent, Thank you for loving me so much. Thank you, Jesus for taking all my sin to the cross past, present, and future. Because of your sacrifice I am now a Son (or Daughter) of the most High God. My heart leaps full of Joy knowing that you have sent the Holy Spirit to guide and comfort me. Most of all thank you Jesus for giving me your gift of Peace, because of you Jesus I am free from death and will enjoy life eternal ! Amen

 

If you prayed that prayer today I want you to know that you are now living in what I call the “Grace Zone”.  All that God has is yours. 

 

Matthew 6:26 (AMP)

 

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? 

YES YOU ARE!

As you move forward in 2012, rest in knowing that God is there for you every step of the way.  You are now a New Creation, old things are past away, and all things are made new.  Let God’s peace and understanding fill your heart and soul, for there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

 

God Loves You!  You Are Blessed!