The day with dianne Louise

“If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ For years growing up, I was taught I had to earn my salvation. I was raised in a Catholic home. As a young child, there was a period of time where, in the dead of winter, I would ask my mother to wake me so I could go to church, daily. The Catholic Church did not teach me that salvation came through believing that Jesus was Lord, and confessing the same I would be saved. I laboured under a load of doing. It was not until I was 19 that I encountered Jesus personally and made Him Lord.  Many years later I found one of the priests who had ministered to me and I preached the gospel to Him. He was a very old man and I wanted to be sure that he found the Jesus I knew. Today I look for those who do not know Him and share my faith with them. Jesus is the best news I ever had. He is the saviour and liberator of all mankind. He is the only way, th...

“And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” Mark‬ ‭16‬:‭15‬ ‭NLT‬‬ What do we classify as ‘good news’? A clean medical report? A financial win? A successful bid on a house?  I think the best new I ever had was Jesus forgave me my sins and wanted me to walk with Him through life, in other words, He wanted a close relationship with me. I remember the night this happened like yesterday. I am still grateful! I woke the next morning and danced to work. I was sooo happy! Whoever asked why I was happy heard my ‘good news’.  Today I must carry the same joy with me so that whoever asks is told the story, ‘Jesus set me free!’ We want to tell others about our good news. Go armed and ready! Amen! Put on joy!

“The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.” Psalms‬ ‭32‬:‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬  Those who know the Lord and saviour have been given the Holy Spirit as a guide. He steers us to the right path. Our lot is to keep a listening ear and not to have a stubborn and self-willed heart. In this Psalm David deals with the effects of unrepentant sin and the joy of finally confessing his sin. When his sin was unrepentant he suffered in his body but healing flowed in repentance. A guilty heart makes for a troubled mind, a heart clean before the Lord is a free mind. Knowing we are right before the Lord is peace and joy. A listening ear is good! Keep the soil of your heart fertile to the word of the Lord! A fertile heart receives God’s word with joy and much fruit comes from it. The psalm gives the outcome of the wicked: ‘many pains come to the wicked!’ but ‘the ones who trust in the Lord will have faithful love surrounding them.’ I know which...

“Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.” John‬ ‭20‬:‭21‬ ‭NLT‬‬ How was Jesus sent? Jesus announced this when He read from the scroll of Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord’s favor has come,  Isaiah‬ ‭61‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NLT‬‬ There was one sentence Jesus omitted, the very last: “and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies.” He constantly told people He did not come to judge the world but to set it free from it’s sin. We read this in John 3:17: “God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” John‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Jesus portrayed what being sent looked like: He taught, healed, delivered from demonic oppression and fed. He also pa...

“It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Paul, in this chapter, is dealing with factions developing within the Corinthian church. The enemy was dividing the people with their loyalties. One was devoted to Paul and another to a man called Apollos. I am grateful for this message because Paul reminds us that it is God who gives growth to the seed. We can, so easily, become distracted and make idols of people, only to have them torn down before our eyes. I listen to many preachers and they are all different, but all good. They each have a different flavour. However, I find my time, alone, in the word with the Lord the best, because He is the best! He brings me revelation...

“For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭13‬ ‭NLT‬‬ The first to call upon the name of the Lord was the thief on the cross. For him to do this he would have had a revelation that Jesus was who He said He was, the Son of God. He said, “Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom!” And Jesus replied, “today you will be with me in paradise!” (Luke 23:42,43). The thief was not a godly person, had not sat at Jesus’ feet, was not a disciple, he saw and believed. There will be many unchurched in heaven. Beside all the aborted babies who grow up there, there will be many who have such a conversion at death, then the rest of us. The heart of God the Father is that none be lost, He is forever reaching out. Let us be likewise! Amen! https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dhU-Omwg2rU&si=DkrRiAotVGT148sR

“Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Acts of the Apostles‬ ‭2‬:‭38‬ ‭NLT‬‬ What Peter said is basically what is needed to be a Christian. I am not a Christian because I was raised by parents who took me to church; by living in a Christian country, but by actually having an encounter with the Lord. I still remember the night He came and showed me my sins, I was grievously aware of them and repented and asked for forgiveness. He then told me, “go to Anne!” Annie was a Christian friend who knew Jesus like I did not, she had a personal relationship with Him. I went and she opened my eyes to the scriptures. we prayed together and i knew had become a new being. i resisted baptism as I had been baptised as an infant, however, watching others be baptised and the change it brought, I joyfully joined in. A few weeks later I was baptis...