“You weren’t ready…”
Are you kidding me!?

 

Sometimes Christians get things wrong. (And: I take a great pleasure by saying: “Duh!”) I’ll say it again: “Duh!”  Even pastors can be wrong! Why? Who is the only One who is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient? Right! God, the One who created all!

Selah.

With that in mind, I want you to grow and think like the Berean Jews in Acts:

 

Acts 17:11
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

 

That’s right! Don’t automatically put your mind in obedience-gear by accepting just any teaching you may hear from just anyone (even your own pastor) and do not treat it as gospel when it is not.

Selah (Pause, reflect, meditate, think.)

I strongly believe most people are not equipped to die:

 

Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

Selah

Yet we Christians have proven Scriptures (very numerous Scriptures) regarding our rights to:

• a long life
• peace with God
• peace in the Church
• love
• peace in our thoughts
• health
• prosperity
• forgiveness
• godly relationships
• mercy
• security
• and more

 

Sadly and truly even a lot (if not most) Christians do not attain and retain what Christ Jesus has already done for us…

Selah.

CASE IN POINT:
Have you ever had someone say to you: “You weren’t ready.”? I have. And you know what? As I am a mature daughter of God I know that is one of the stupidest statements ever made! These are falsely caring words that may help a person choose eternal separation from the One who loves him most…  Encouraging anyone that is not their fault they are not right with God is endorsing a curse. And just what happens to people who put God off and ‘suddenly’ die in their sins because they were not ready?! Hell! Eternal separation from God is never, never acceptable to Him: Let’s look at 2 Peter 3:9:

 

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9

 

People perish to the fiery lake of burning sulfur because they hate God; they don’t want to know Him, love Him, worship Him. And He will not let that pass!

Selah!

 

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.  For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

 

Amazingly, I recently and briefly talked with a woman at my church I did not know — my church in which the pastor does not compromise the Bible. My church is a true part of the Church: not a lukewarm, dying, false, or dead church. And yet in our short conversation as I told her my joy and blessing of not dying in my twenties and not going to Hell where I deserved to go, this is what she said: “You weren’t ready.”

This woman was older than I am and should have known far better…

Selah.

I truly wonder at her beliefs; and question her Christianity.

Let me ask you: how much do you think she mourns, weeps, and wails over loved ones outside the love of God, refusing Him as I did once upon a time? How often does she pray for those (and that is including people she doesn’t know) to come to Christ, have that blessed relationship with God and man, and know they are forgiven, healed, and on the right path to God’s heavenly home?

 

Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

How often? Sure makes me wonder how concerned she is about people going to Hell? And yet, she was very social… But social in what way?

Selah.

HERE’S THE FINAL PROCLAMATION OF THIS ARTICLE:
You can’t possibly dare to put off God. As anyone outside His covenant could die at any time, they need to shift and decide to be prepared for life after death: life after death then spiritual death – the lake of fire. Life after death then spiritual eternal life… Heaven!

My prayer for any of you who read this and isn’t ready to shake the stupidity out of your head, your soul, your spirit; shake forever off the lies of Satan, his demonic realm, his people AND those who truly may be children of God. I rightly urge you to stop being a liar and love the God you know exists!

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

 

 

Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

 

Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.

 

Ephesians 4:17-24
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.  Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.  You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

 

CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE:

Joshua 24:14-15
 “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

 

DON’T TAKE CHANCES WITH YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL:

Dear God,
I surrender to you now, right now. I am done in trying to invent a working lifestyle without you. I humble myself and call out to You. I’m done with lying, with pretending, and explaining away ungodliness…

 

 

 

Romans 1:18-21
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.  For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

 

 

God in Heaven,

I come to You in the name of Your only begotten Son, Jesus. I have sinned. I now believe and know that Jesus is fully God, fully Man. He lived a sinless life and took all of my sickness and infirmities in His body. He died on the cross for my sins. I believe and know that He was raised from the dead so I might be saved from Hell and have eternal life in Your Kingdom with you forevermore.

Jesus, I ask you to be my only Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of my sins and wash them away with Your holy blood; never to be remembered again. Please take my sickness or any health issue I have by the stripes You endured for all mankind…

I will now strive to live my life for You to my best ability and with the help of You, Holy Spirit, I strive to seek You, study You and worship You all the days of my life, which are forever, amen!

I denounce Satan and his kingdom now and forevermore!

I also ask to be baptized in You, Holy Spirit, with the evidence of this by praying in other tongues, my heavenly language.

(To receive your heavenly language – take it by faith – just as you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Simply start speaking syllables – do not say anything in your known language/s. It WILL come – just believe. Satan will tell you it is false – never listen to the father of lies. Pray in tongues every day!)

Thank You, God, for forgiving me, cleansing me, healing me in every way, staying with me and praying with me.

In Jesus name, I pray this, amen.

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS:

 

Romans 3:21-26
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

 

Philippians 2:12-13
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,  for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

 

Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

 

1 Peter 2:24
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

 

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

 

Romans 10:9-10
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

 

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

1 Corinthians 14:2
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.

 

DO NOT BE DECEIVED! You must continue your relationship as a child of God!
Live this way:

 

2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

 

Hebrews 3:14
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

 

Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.