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MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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.
2 Corinthians 5:14-20 The Message by Eugene H. Peterson
God is indeed an awesome God --
One who has created incredibly intricate and beautiful creatures,
the majority of which never get seen or appreciated by most of His greatest
creation: humankind.
But that hasn't dissuaded Him or slowed Him down one bit in His lavish creative
expenditures.
But there's an even greater work that this awesome Creator God is presently
engaged in --
it is the hidden work He's doing inside of individual hearts, making each a new
creation
through the Person and work of the One who gave Himself up to get us back:
Jesus.
Check it. He's
getting us ready for the new heaven and new earth He promised.
Eye has not seen and ear has not heard what God's prepared, but for real
--
God's butta in that place is gonna be fly -- far betta than any'a man's butta!
Step up to the Savior's plate, batta. Don't be bitta 'n say, "Why
botta?"
Talk it over with
Him.
Transact with Him.
Your spot in His
New Crib depends on it.
Please don't ya miss out on it.
He 'n we love ya too much for that.
Lord
Jesus, I gotta move on this if You're gonna save me.
I know I messed up. I've sinned and I been sinned against.
It may be their bad, but I need You now to deal wit' my bad.
I gotta look to You, 'cause You're the Only One Who's
truly good.
I believe You when You say You love me,
and You proved it when You poured out Your life's blood to save me from my sin.
Even if I was the only one around, I believe You
would have come
'n died 'n be raised again to life jus' for me.
Have mercy on me, a sinner -- I want right now to
receive You as my Savior,
so You can receive me as Your child.
Forgive me all my sin. Send it away.
Deal with my wayward heart, my warrin' soul and my willful spirit.
I give You my wounded humanity.
Cleanse me with the blood You said You shed for me.
I now invite You to come into my heart -- and my world -- and make yourself
right at home.
Make me Your brand new creation.
Thank You for saving me.
In Jesus' Name.
Amen.
If
this is the prayer of your heart, please don't keep this to ya self. Let
somebody know!
Click here to peep more on your invite to the New Crib
Your life and mine is a
gift given to us, something we've received from One Who,
for no apparent reason other than simply wanting to love us, has called us into being.
He showed He wants us back with Him by givin' up His whole life-savin's for our life's savin'.
How 'bout you? What ya gonna do with what He did for you? Don't wait 'til it's too late.
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