Standing Strong in His Grace

I am letter C of this writing ✍️ challenge and my word is “Church.”  I have had some good church experiences and some not so good ones… I remember church ⛪️ from a early age.   I started going around the age of 8 years old.   I went to Hillside Baptist Church.   It was actually on a hilltop. I got saved outside that church on a Sunday night in 1982.   After that night I change churches and denominations. Ever since that time I have been in several churches sad to say.  This is very difficult to write about because of the fact that I do not base my salvation or deliverance on church attendance.  People in churches and leaders are not perfect and it’s really not about being religious but about having a relationship with the Jesus…I have struggled with being religious in my past and have used that mask.   I am to the point where I don’t want to wear a mask.  I desire others to see me for who I am and being religious can be a mask well-meani...

In this moment I do not need a car.   In this moment I do not need a house.  In this moment I don’t need a wife. In this moment I don’t need a big inheritance.  In this moment I don’t need to ‘get’ a life.   In this moment I don’t need sleep.  In this moment I don’t need a job.   In this moment i don’t need fame or fortune.   In this moment I don’t need food. In this moment I don’t need alcohol or drugs or a cigarette.   In this moment I don’t need sex.   All in all I don’t need all these things. I don’t need anything but Jesus Christ.  He is everything I need.  I have had these things and lost them in the blink of a eye they have gone through my fingers like sand.   Some of these things go through my mind daily some not as much as they used to.   I really needed to make this list for my own sanity because all these things are temporary fixes that were not meant to fix me.    It would be a blessing to have s...

Jesus is that faithful friend who will never leave you hanging on the high ledge of life.  He will rescue you when you call out to him for help.   He will throw you the rope…don’t give up on Jesus!   At just the right time he will pull you through whatever your facing today!! He will never abandon you.    He promises to be there for you until the very end.   He is not finished with you yet.    He will be there for you until you breathe your last breath on this earth. He has promised you forever with Him in all glory with all the saints who have gone before you   He desires to be your best friend when you cannot count on anyone else… He will not forsake you when you need Him the most.   He desires you to draw near to him.  Maybe you have been abandoned by others in this life.   Maybe others have not been nice to you.   God is not a maybe God.  It’s a definite yes with Him.   If he told you something it will come t...