God's plan for you.

GOD loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.

GOD created you and He loves you more than anything in this world. Not only that, He wants you to know Him now and spend eternity with Him. Jesus said in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Jesus came so that each of us could know and understand God in a personal way. Jesus alone can bring meaning and purpose to life. But, what keeps us from knowing God?

All of us are sinners, and our sin separates us from God. We sense that separation, that distance from God because of our sin. The Bible tells us in Isaiah 53:6 that "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way..." The result of sin in our lives is death -- spiritual separation from God. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23.

Although we may try to get close to God through our own effort, we inevitably fail. There's a gap that exists between us and God and no matter how much we might try to reach God through our own efforts, we still fail. We may try to do good things in life, or earn God's acceptance through a good life or a moral philosophy. But our good efforts are insufficient to cover up our sin.

Jesus Christ is God's only provision for our sin. Through Him, we can know and experience God's love and plan for our life.

We deserve to pay for our own sin. The problem is the payment is death. So that we would not have to die separated from God, out of his love for us, Jesus Christ died in our place.

On the cross, Jesus took all of our sins on himself and completely, fully paid for it.

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit."1 Peter 3:18.

And in Titus 3:5" he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy..." Because of Jesus' death on the cross, our sin doesn't have to separate us from God any longer.

When Jesus rose from the grave, he proved beyond doubt that he can rightfully promise eternal life, that he is the Son of God and the only means by which we can know God.

And in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4“that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,"

That is why Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Instead of trying harder to reach God, he tells us how we can begin a relationship with him right now.

In John 7:37-38, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

It was Jesus' love for us that caused him to endure the cross. And he now invites us to come to him, that we might begin a personal relationship with God.

We must individually accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

The Bible says in, John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”

We accept Jesus by faith. Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

Accepting Jesus means believing that Jesus is the Son of God, who he claimed to be and then inviting him to guide and direct our lives.

Prayer....

Father, You Loved the world so much that you gave Your only begotten Son to die for our sins so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

Your Word says we are saved by grace through faith as a gift to You. There is nothing we can do to earn salvation.

I believe and confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is Your Son, the Savior of the world. I believe He died on the cross for me and bore all of my sins, paying the price for them.

I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead and that He is alive today.

I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins, and I ask You to forgive me. By faith, I receive Jesus Christ now as my Lord and Savior. I believe that I am saved and will spend eternity with You! Thank You, Father I am so grateful! In Jesus' name, Amen.

If you sincerely asked Jesus into your life just now, then he has come into your life as He promised. You have begun a personal relationship with God.

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