Graceway

Jesus amazes me.
I look back over my thirty plus year walk with Jesus.
God Himself plucked certain people out of my life and replaced them with people I needed to help fine tune and strengthen with my mental and spiritual walk with Jesus.
God is amazing.
This past three and half years the Lord has statically placed men of great faith and personal years and years of walking with God through thick and thin and now I get to call them friends and they pour their experience and hope that is in Jesus into me.
Wow, is all I can say.
If God does this for me, He can do it for you.
Jesus loves you so much that He will hand pick your friends and those mentor like people you need to grow closer and stronger in Jesus.
I had to allow God to do His hand picking. It was difficult at first, child hood friends I loved and cared for began to slip away. I fought the Lord for a while, but then I woke up and realized the people God began to place in my life had a real life relationship with Jesus, I wanted what they had.
I love my childhood friends but these men that God has placed in my personal since I have been in Augusta is by His choosing and I aoaking up the benefits of their personal walk with Jesus.
If your struggling with life, addictions what ever allow God to begin to hand pick the right people to be His mouth piece, hope and strength in your life.
I am the man today because I serve and submitted my life to the One that not only changed my behavior, Jesus changed my character. Gave me new life- born again experience.
If He can do it for me, He can do it for you as well.
Goliath had his own personal shield bearer. The Bible speaks of our faith is a shield. Goliath may have placed to much faith in his sheild bearer. Be cautious whose faith you follow. Goliath was taken out by a stone, where was his sheild bearer- faith?
Submit and and surrender your all to Jesus, keep pressing in and allow Jesus to rearrange friendships and years down the road you will look back at the amazing journey Jesus has taken you on.
Thank you Jesus for the few great men and woman of God that You personally placed in my wife and my life just in 3 years.
We are better for it.
Amazing God I serve.
Thank You Jesus.

This world does not need Jesus is a theme I am beginning to hear. I agree this world does not need Jesus to be the quick fix like a drug addict needs another quick fix.
This world does not need Jesus to pitty and shower this world with blessings out of pitty and not nessessity and honor.
This world does not need Jesus being soft on sin and rebellion because this world is full of humans.
This world does not need Jesus to stand by the road as people walk themselves to hell when their hand baskets are full.
Yes I agree with those who say this world does not need Jesus.
But I have to say this world does need Jesus for mercy and compassion only an amazing loving forgiving God has for His creation.
This world needs Jesus to break every addiction know to man, drugs, alcohol, emotional, mental, spiritual addictions.
This world needs Jesus for leadership, guidance and strength for boldness and perseverance.
Most of all this world needs a Savior full of mercy and restoration and His name is Jesus.
So I agree with those who say this world does not Jesus to pitty and stand out of the way as we walk to hell on our own.
However this world needs Jesus to stand in our way and lead us in God’s direction to heaven and eternal rewards with Father God.
The world without Jesus is just that a world without Jesus. But a world with Jesus is life changing and salvation granting- peace and joy like never before.
Something to think about, live life without Jesus and be left to your demise or live life with Jesus and in the end hear well done good and faithful servant enter in.
With or without Jesus is a choice the individual needs to make.
We all need to count the cost before answering with or without.
Something to think about as the days are getting darker and gloomier. Without without Jesus choose wisely.

Reading John chapter 8.
The first 11 verses of chapter 8 deals with the Religious leaders of the day catching a woman in the act of adultery and they used this poor woman to try to make Jesus look bad to the crowd Jesus was teaching.
Jesus bent down and listened to the Relious leaders and when they had finished accusing the woman. Jesus simply said let he who has no sin cast the first stone.
One by one the accusers drop their stones and walked away.
Hear me this morning there is not one person alive today that is perfect or without sin. The born again person has had their sins forgiven, before that they too were sinners.
But the common denominator of all people alive today, we all have a soul that Jesus loves.
You and I have not been called to judge but to be a light. The remaining of chapter 8 of John, Jesus speaks about being a light to the world and His truth sets us free from sin and the grave!
I am not saying we need to allow sin to run ramped or agree with the sinner.
I am saying we need to look past the sin and be a light to the person. Jesus using you and I to illluminate a new path for the sinner. A path that leads to Jesus and the forgiveness of sin, a path full of Jesus Truth and Love that will cause the sinner to repent and Jesus desires to forgive us all for our sins. But we need to go to Jesus in the right way. The born again believer needs to have good intentions with those around them.
Never pray a curse on anyone.
Jesus is the righteous Judge not you or I.
If the religious leaders of the day cared about the letter Law - where was the man. For the woman caught in the act of adultery tossed at Jesus feet , where was the man absent?
Jesus knows our intentions no matter what circumstance or time of day.
Let’s leave Judgment to Jesus and let’s be a bright light to the people around us as Jesus called us all to be.
Lets focus on leading people to Jesus with the right thoughts and intentions. Our goal should be to only bring the person in the light of Christ and when that happens, lives will change and their sins will be forgiven and repentance following.
Jesus the righteous Judge, the Child of God is only a flash light in the hands of Jesus. We are charged to leading others down the path of righteousness of Christ.
Let’s shine bright for the Lord. People’s eternal life may depend on if we are Jesus lighted path or a worldly judge with gavel in hand.
Something to think about.

Someone needs to hear this this morning.
Keep walking no matter what your life looks like, feels like or is like.
Life may look bad and maybe life looks like it’s ending but hear me, Jesus is walking through this life and your mess with you. Stop looking behind and look ahead towards Christ.
The Bible speaks of a woman that gave all she had to the doctors of the day to be healed by man. Then one day she heard Jesus was coming to her hometown and she knew if only I could touch Him, she would be healed.
The day came and Jesus was there surround by a large crowd pressing on Him.
The woman pushed her way through the crowd and did not stop until she touch the hem of His clothing. She received her healing through perseverance and faith in the only One that could healer her of her sickness.
Jesus knew someone touched Him and it was by her faith in Jesus that cured her of her sickness.
This morning I am saying to someone are you willing to press through the crowd the noise of life? Don’t listen to those who say this is the end and you may as well die or give up.
That woman in the Bible used all the strength she had pressing in and pushing through the crowd. Jesus will be found by those who diligently seek Him!
She was on her knees at the end pressing through until she could touch Jesus!
Do not give up my friend- keep pushing and seeking Jesus.
Psalm 23 of the Bible says Yea though I WALK through the valley of the shadow of death… It does not read yea though I camp in the valley or buy property in the valley the Bible teaches us to keep walking through the valley of death in faith and without fear!
If you decide to sit and entertain your plight nothing good will come from that, you are allowing the crap in life to laugh at you, rule you and control you.
Get up and begin to walk towards Jesus, cry out to Him to save you and restore you.
The Bible also teaches those who cry out to Jesus shall be saved!
Be encouraged draw close to God and He will draw close to you.
Do not give up, do not throw in the towel but keep pressing into, pushing through and placing your life and all the situations in life to Jesus!
Jesus has the answer for all life’s issues, but He is not camping out in the valley of pitty with you.
Hear this morning, get up and take Jesus by the hand and He will lead and guide you and give you the strength to walk through the valley you find yourself in this morning.
Cry out to Jesus what else do you have to lose?
You have done all you can and still you end up in the middle of the hurricane of life.
Jesus wants to calm the storm and restore your health and being, if you are willing to walk with Him.
Something to consider this morning. Do you want to stay in the pig pen of life or do you want Jesus to restore your soul and life.
The choose is yours choose wisely this morning.