Important Message

The Most Important Message You Will Ever Read!

     Like many people, I chose to believe that there was no God, or at least not a God, who was willing to provide the peace necessary to allow my pain to stop and the healing of my mind begin. Yet, in reality, He does exist and He was able and willing to do what I believed was impossible. There was just one little catch. He needed me to do something first, but I was stuck. My tall urban cowboy good looks, money in my pockets, and many choices of beautiful girlfriends hid my pain not only from the world, but myself too. Truth is, I was drowning in wrong choices which led to more and more bad choices. With each passing year the pain became more intense, as new sorrows were added to the old ones. The answer was near, and yet, so far away. How was I ever going to be able to receive the peace of mind which God wanted to provide for me? As it turned out, that was a lot easier than I realized. Taking the first step wasn't the hard part. The hard part was realizing that I needed to take that first step, in the first place. One evening, in desperation, I walked outside the control room of a large chemical plant, where I worked. I looked up, and said these words from my heart. "God, I do not understand you or know much about you, but my life is a mess, and I am making even a bigger mess of it with each passing day. I am now asking you to take my life and make of it what you will. God, I choose to believe in you as Lord of all and I choose to believe every word in the Bible whether I understand it or not". It was a simple statement and I meant every word of it. There was no third party to hear what I was saying. It was just a conversation between God and me and I did all the talking. With those words, it was as though I had turned on a light. Instantly I felt a hope for the future, which I had not felt since turning my back on God many years before. I said those words to God over 35 years ago. Was I faithful to instantly turn every single situation in my life over to Him at that point? Heck no! However, He was faithful to me. When I started straying toward my usual way of thinking out my problems, His newness of mind, would create in my "thought life" fresh inspirations to do things differently. I would listen to the thoughts He put in my head instead of just continuing to do things the same old way.

     I had actually confessed Jesus Christ, God's Son, as Lord when I was 8 years old but then denied Him when I was 12. Now, I was making the choice to establish a relationship with Him for good. Christians can do that by talking to God like one would talk to another person. First, you talk and then you listen. Christians call it prayer but prayer is nothing more than carrying on a conversation with God. That may seem silly at first. From the very moment I started talking to Him, He started talking to me. It wasn't an audible voice. It was more like telepathy. I knew it was God's voice, because every thought He placed in my head had to do with being totally concerned with the welfare of others in a situation, and nothing to do with calculating thoughts on how the situation would or would not benefit me. That didn't mean that I started instantly obeying everything that voice said, however. I still continued to reject these thoughts where I thought I would be doing too much and getting too little out of the deal. However, I started acting on some of those thoughts as long as those actions didn't cause me too much trouble. In other words, as time went on, that voice wore me down, and I became less and less concerned with how I was going to benefit in a situation and at the same time became more happy when the other person benefited.

     God started changing two things. He started changing my circumstances and He started changing me. Many times those changes were uncomfortable. I studied the bible for myself, instead of reading a lot of books about what other Christians thought. Believe me when I say this. There are a lot of screwed up Christians who believe a lot of things that are not in the bible. Some of them have large followings. I studied the bible, for myself, and asked the Holy Spirit to help me understand it. He did. Amazingly, as I grew in the knowledge of God's word, I automatically started making better choices which allowed me to receive more and more peace, healing, wisdom, love and even greater material blessings. Yes, almost every change was very uncomfortable at first, but the outcomes kept getting better and better. The good news is this. What I am continuing to experience as an old man is available to anyone who is taking the time to read this. Maybe the reader has never confessed God's Lordship in the first place. That's okay. You can do it now. You can confess him as Lord of all and start receiving his peace of mind at this very minute. (Romans 10:9) It's a choice though. God is not going to draw close to you until you draw close to Him (Hebrews 11:6) and the only way to do that is believe on the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who is also God. The decision is in your hands. God has already provided His part, in the form of His son. In order to stop the pain and start experiencing this kind of never-ending relationship all the reader has to do is choose to believe what I have just said.

     In our hearts, we already realize that there is an all-powerful, all knowing and omnipresent God. However, if one continues to believe the world, instead of what I have just said, then the ability to believe that truth will diminish. One's circumstances will eventually worsen, no matter how much worldly success is achieved. Today, I am old. I shutter to think of where I and my family would be now, if I had not made the right choice when I did. The world is falling apart. Messengers of this present darkness work overtime to blindly pull others down with them, as they preach lies which are nevertheless very tantalizing. To make matters worse, the world is also strewn with Christian leaders who are deceived into moving away from the truth by compromising God's word. Know this. Jesus Christ has only one church and that church is built and empowered by a true knowledge of His word. Yet, many simply lack the ability to grow in the knowledge (2 Peter 1:2-8) of God or worse yet have bought into lies. Don't do that. Instead, do this.

     Listen to your own heart by first asking God to allow you to hear from your heart. Don't listen to any other voice other than that speaking from your own heart. Here is the way to know that it is your heart speaking. Once you get in touch with this "deep inner you" which God's word calls the heart, it will confirm to you that Jesus is who he says he is in the bible. He is Lord of All. Then God, through His Holy Spirit, will agree with your heart, and confirm that this is really true. Say it out loud. "Jesus Christ is Lord of All". If that does not feel true to you, then you are listening to the wrong voice. That voice is not coming from your heart. Stop listening to that voice immediately. Better yet, tell that voice to stop speaking to you and leave your mind immediately. If it doesn't stop speaking, cry out to God from your heart, and ask Him to make this voice of unbelief leave your mind. Then, confess Christ as Lord again. Do this until you experience a deep peace come over you. As you take this action, you are glorifying God. Glorifying God makes Him more real to you. He is already real but an unbelieving heart doesn't believe that He is real. As you acknowledge that He is real, you glorify Him. If you are not already born of the spirit, you need to do only one thing to experience the power of God. That one thing is to turn the light switch of belief and unbelief to the "on" position. That "on" position is the decision to believe on His Son, Jesus Christ and confess Him as Lord of all. (John 1:12) (Rom. 10:9) After you have done that one thing, God will start showing you a great many things, but He will not force you to do anything which you choose not to do. What He will do, however, is provide more and more peace in your life, as you choose to do more and more things his way.

     If the reader has read this far, it is definitely not too late for you to receive the great gift of life and peace which God wants to give you. However, don't wait any longer to act on what I have said. The following scriptures tell what will happen if you wait too long. (Rom. 1:19-22 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shown it to them. For the invisible things of him (a knowledge of God) from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools) Don't become a fool. Some very famous and powerful people have become fools and their lives here on earth always end badly. don't do that. Do this instead. Without any further ado, here's how to begin this incredible journey toward peace, healing, joy, and hope which will displace the pain and anguish. It’s simple. Find a quiet place, where you can get in touch with your inner self (your heart). Then, again, I say let your heart tell your wavering mind (the place were all your jumbled-up thoughts are located) that you are going to listen to your heart instead of your head (again, the place were all your jumbled-up thoughts are located). Don't follow me, but follow what I have already done years ago and proven to be true. It worked for me and it will work for you. I am just one proof of that. There are many others who have trusted God to shape them into the unique person, which they were already created to be. (Next Page)