FOREVER...........

Forever………………

Can you comprehend it?

I have been thinking a lot about it lately. My soul and everyone else's soul will be in eternity forever. We think of eternity as describing the term "forever" but in the biblical sense it is really a realm of being not an adjective to describe time.

God lives in "eternity" it has no beginning and no end, we humans use the term "forever" because we have not seen eternity for ourselves.

If we got a glimpse of what really awaits us in eternity, would we change our mind about how we act and what we do in this life? The answer is yes. The bible does give CLEAR direction to what awaits us.

I have heard many people say well if God wanted us to be with him why does he not show himself or tell us. He actually did….think about it…

He sent Jesus and gave His written word through the bible. God has given us literally thousands of years to learn about Him and find Christ. And to accept Jesus.

Why and how God manifests himself is not the issue, the issue at hand is that he does it because His ways are higher than our ways, so He does not do things the way we think He should, He does them that way because He is God and he is good and smart.

After I accepted Jesus I could not believe I had resisted God all those years when He kept calling me to him. Through trials and tribulation I blamed him, but in reality it was supposed to make me hit my knees searching for Him.

I think a lot about death to. Morbid, maybe, but a true reality none the less. Does not acknowledging something make it less of a reality? Not in this case. We will all experience physical death, but when you accept Christ you will have spiritual eternal life. Thinking about death is unpleasant, but just because something is unpleasant does not mean it is not a reality in which we must face. Dishes, laundry, garbage are all unpleasant but we have to face them. We believe these things exist because we have experienced them with our natural senses so we know they are "real", unpleasant but "real".

The problem with the human race is this is how we think, if we can "see" it then it's real, and anything we cannot see just does not exist. Thus our faith is distorted into thinking that anything that we cannot see with our natural eyes just really is not there, and the theory of forever in hell, well it was made up to scare us into acting a certain way.

Well I have news for you. That is one of the biggest lies Satan has used to get us to believe that we can die and nothing bad will happen if we don't accept Christ. Thus, we have lost an urgency to tell our family, friends and neighbors about Christ.

I think about some of my friends and family and if I will see them again or not. If they were born again Christians, believing in Christ for their salvation, then the answer is yes and my heart rejoices at that, but if the answer is no my heart is quick to sadness. Then the reality of "forever" really sets in. And I have a hard time with wrapping my mind around the concept and reality that I just might not never, ever see some of friends and family if they did not accept Christ. It is a harsh reality that sometimes I can't stand to even think about. I am just distraught over it.

Hell…..that is the reality awaiting those you do not become born again of God's spirit through his son Jesus. Hell was not created for humans it was created for the ones that were disobedient to Him. But our disobedience of not accepting Christ and learning to love and follow God through Christ will land us right there…Hell…..

I have read about people who God allowed to go there so we could get a glimpse of what it really is. And it is a horrible, horrible place. If you don't really think it exist. Read the book "23 Minutes in Hell" by Bill Wiese. It is terrifying. And I am heart sick to know that if a person does not accept Christ that is where they will go. Separated from God and all the ones that they love, "forever". There is no turning back or getting out of it. You are stuck there, tortured, tormented day and night.

My heart struggles with this and I think about the possibility that some of my friends and family may have gone to this awful place because of their decision not to accept Christ. And yes it makes me heart sick to think about it. I want everyone to really take true inventory of themselves. It is fun??? No it's not at all. You will come face to face with the reality that you really have to choose one side or the other, and by not making a choice the default is hell.

I struggle with how to talk to my friends and family about this issue, without them thinking I am judging them. But the reality is that I am not the one judging, I am sharing, the message of God's word is judging their hearts and motives that is why they feel judged. Because the holy spirit came to convict the world of sin, so they start to feel conviction (judgment) by the holy spirit when the word of God comes on the scene and they reject it because it makes them feel uncomfortable and goes against the worldly thinking of being a good person saves you.

I know that my friends and family as they read this will be thinking, who is she to make statements like this, the fact of the matter is that it's not my self righteousness that makes me right with God it is believing in the righteousness of Jesus that makes me and everyone else right with God and confessing with my mouth and believing in my hear the Jesus rose from the dead. That is the only way to spend eternity in Heaven and not eternity in hell. Realizing that when we have committed just one sin no matter the size, sin is sin to God. And just one sin makes us guilty before Him, and thus we can't earn our way into heaven by our own righteousness, but only through Jesus’ righteousness is this obtained. We are not saved by our good works, we are saved for good works. What does that mean? God expects us to manifest His love towards others in the outward workings of our everyday lives to show and tell people how good he is. Now let us not confuse good with our circumstances. If our circumstances are bad it does not mean God is not good.

Circumstance does not indicate God's character.

I know people struggle with the theory, well if God is so good why did He create hell. He did not create that place initially. Satan forced him to create that place because Satan got kicked out of heaven, not to be allowed back in, so God had to create a place for Satan to be put into for his disobedience to God. Because God is holy and sin has no place in heaven so when Satan sinned he got kicked out instantly, and was sent to earth like a bolt of lightning, and thus started this rivalry for the hearts of the human race.

Why God created it is not really the issue at the moment. The issue is we the human race, all of us, have a choice to make.

I am here to sound the alarm, like the watchman on the tower. Like the sirens that go off during a natural disaster.

Well if no one stands up and sounds the supernatural alarm to let you know a supernatural disaster is coming, how will you know?

So here it is I am sounding the alarm. Incline your ear to hear and who has ears let them hear.

Who and what are you going to choose?

Because your choice will be forever…………….

Here is a link to an excerpt of the book 23 Minutes in Hell
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/188/story_18811_1.html

Here are some Christian Resources to Learn about Salvation:
http://www.gotquestions.org/crucial.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/questions_salvation.html
http://www.prayertopraise.com/

CheapCandyWrappers.com

Ok so here is my next adventure in addition to Candies4Christ.com.

CheapCandyWrappers.com will be a digital download site for wrappers I created myself to sell to other candy wrappers in the candy wrapping community.

The difference between Candies4Christ.com and CheapCandyWrappers.com is, Candies4Christ sells tangible products already printed and/or assembled where as CheapCandyWrappers is digital downloads of wrappers that can be personalized by the purchaser for their customers.

The profits of both websites will be still be donated to my church's youth missions department.

Here is the vision and mission of CheapCandyWrappers.com

The vision of this company is humble. Our vision is to be a viable source to raise money to donate to my church’s youth missions department for them to use it to send our youth and teenagers on missions all over the world. They help the sick, the dying, the lonely and the desperate. They help with children’s programs already in place, they also go and help missionaries go and start new programs.

Imagine the desperation a parent must feel not being able to even meet the basic necessities for them and their children. As a mother and wife I can’t imagine the hurt and the pain people must feel seeing what is happening to their families. The youth of our church go out and seek out these people to help them. And tell them about Jesus and feed them God’s word because as it states in the bible Matthew 4:4 “Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God”. Our youth tends to their needs in the natural as well as the spiritual. The human soul cannot live without hope. Faith gives us hope. Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ

In this season of my life I am a wife and a mom to a wonderful little boy. So I am not able to adventure out into the mission field just yet. In Matthew 25:14-30 it talks about being given talents. Just because I am not able to actively travel into the mission field, doesn’t mean I can bury the treasures that God has put in this earthen vessel. I have talents and treasures within me that I can use through Christ who strengthens me to try and help send our youth to where hurting people need the bread of life to be feed to them.

Romans 10:15 “And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news”

So in this season of my life I can harness the gifts that God has deposited in me and use them to raise money to send the youth out there.

MARK 16:15

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”

Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible

In your purchase today you are helping bring not only physical life to someone but also spiritual life. If you are not purchasing anything today and just stopping by for a visit, thank you for coming to learn about what the vision is and we ask that you pray for the youth and the hearts of the people that they are going to visit, that those people’s hearts will be tenderized to accept the message.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand. Matthew 6:30-44. Do you remember that story? If not read it. There are so many miracles in that one short story. One of them is do not send people away hungry for the gospel and God’s word when you can feed them the gospel yourself. And don’t ever think that God has not given you enough supplies to feed the people. He multiplied what was there….why???? BECAUSE THERE WAS FAITH INVOLVED. God can’t work where there is no faith. If you have faith as much as a mustard seed you can move mountains. Too much we believe the lie that we don’t have enough to feed the people that are hungry for God’s word so we back away. That is not true. It’s like a stone thrown into a pond, the stone is little, but put in the big water it ripples outward, and spreads a lot bigger then that little stone, reaching the shores farthest from which the stone was cast.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

God’s word will not return void, it will return to Him for the purpose by which He sent it.

Hebrews 11:1 – Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen.

1 Chronicles 21:24……"I will not offer a burnt offering that has cost me nothing”

True worship of God is not only in song and dance, but also of a great full spirit which manifests itself by living a life pleasing to God in the spirit of true biblical repentance.

Don’t just hear the word of God, live by the word of God.

By faith I am casting out my talents in hopes that people on distant shores will hear the word of God and have them build their foundation of living on the rock which is Jesus Christ.

Please also be prayerful about our military men and woman and their families both here at home and abroad. They help make America great by fighting for us. Don’t forget them in their time of need. Great or small, reach out to them and remind them that America loves and supports them and their sacrifice

Free Candy Wrapper - May 05/23/08

I started a website to help raise awareness of Christ our Savior and using my talents to raise money through the sale of my products at my website at Candies4Christ.com.

I want to make contact with people for them to read and learn about Jesus. And people love free stuff. So I am going to try a new idea. I just started to learn how to design wrappers. So as I learn and practice I will post free wrappers. I will try it maybe monthly or even weekly depending on how I am feeling and how much time I have.

Terms of Use of the Wrapper you down load. It may be used only as a hand printed product. You may not share it, sell it in digital format, or sell it on a CD collection. You may only sell it to your customer as a tangible printed product.

If you download please stop by Candies4Christ.com and learn about what it is about and how I am trying to lead my talents to the body of Christ to help raise money to send to our youth to the nations.

Thank you so much and have a blessed week.