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"God's Plan for You"
GOD WANTS TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP
WITH YOU
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
"How can I have a personal relationship with God?"
I'm glad you
asked.....
While many people believe that God is
real, many also believe that He is only
"watching them from a distance" and
has no real desire to know them personally.
GOD'S LOVE FOR YOU
Actually, God is very interested in you and desires for
you to have a
personal relationship with Him.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
"How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are
innumerable!
I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of
sand!" Psalm 139:17-18b
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD.
'They are
plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and
a hope.'"
Jeremiah 29:11
"God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world
so that we might have eternal life
through him." 1 John 4:9
HERE'S THE PROBLEM
In the beginning,
Adam and Eve lived in perfect harmony with God
and as the Bible puts it,
things were "very good."
However, Adam and Eve disobeyed
God. Because of their disobedience,
sin entered into the world and because of sin, humankind was separated
from God.
You see, God is pure and Holy and cannot be joined together with sin.
It makes no difference how much or how little you've sinned,
you still
fall short of God's perfection.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
"For all have sinned; all fall short of God's
glorious standard." Romans 3:23
HERE'S THE SOLUTION
This puts us in a bind, because
God tells us in the Bible that
the punishment for sin is death–not just
physical death, but a spiritual death
which will cause separation
from God and His kingdom for eternity.
The good news is that God wants you to spend eternity in heaven with
Him.
Two Thousand years ago God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to come to
this earth
and die on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but
have everlasting life."
John 3:16
In other words, even though you are separated from God because of your
sin,
God made a way for you to come back to Him. And, He is
offering this salvation to you
as a free gift. All you have to do
is receive it.
HOW DO YOU RECEIVE
THIS GIFT?
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Admit
your spiritual need, "I am a sinner."
Believe
that Jesus Christ died for you on the
cross to take away your sins.
Repent.
In other words, be willing to turn from
your sin.
Receive, through
prayer, Jesus Christ into your heart and life.
Pray this prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus,
I know that I am a sinner and need Your forgiveness. I believe that You
died for my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I now invite You to come
into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my personal
Lord and Savior.
In Jesus' name. Amen.
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU?
Now that you've
prayed and committed your life to God
through Jesus Christ, what has
happened to you?
THE BIBLE SAYS:
y:
YOU
ARE DELIVERED FROM JUDGMENT AFTER DEATH!
Jesus said, "I am
the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved." John
10:9
And again, "Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved." Romans 10:13
And again, "there is no condemnation
for those who belong to Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1
YOU
ARE A CHILD OF GOD!
THE BIBLE SAYS:
"But to all who believed him and accepted him,
he gave the right to
become children of God." John 1:12
YOU
WILL LIVE FOREVER WITH GOD!
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
Now that you believe in Jesus Christ, you can say with confidence that
you are
completely accepted by God and you can now begin to live
a life that truly pleases Him.
YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
You can be sure
that you are saved by trusting what the Bible says
and not by
trusting your feelings or emotions. Your feelings will change from time
to time
but God's "undeserved favor" towards you never changes!
THE BIBLE SAYS:
"My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
And I give them eternal
life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone
snatch
them out of My hand. My father, who has given them to me, is greater
than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand"
John 10:27-29
When Jesus says that "no
one is able to snatch you out of God's hand"
He really means no one! Not even you can cause God's
love toward you to end.
LET'S REVIEW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS:
For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth
in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
~ John 3:16 ~
For all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.
~ Romans 3:23 ~
For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ Romans 6:23 ~
But God
commanded His love toward us,
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
~ Romans 5:8 ~
"That
if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead, thou
shalt be saved; for with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made, unto salvation.
For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved."
~ Romans 10:9-10, 13 ~
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