@AdmiralPrune Good morning, Admiral. And thank you for your questions. Thank you for asking honestly. I’ll answer you straight and honestly from my experiences. You said you were serious about this, honestly asking me. So I've taken you on honestly and seriously and have given you from my heart what your question deserves. Since you're being honest with me. So while this may be long, it's also why you asked. And for that reason, I wanted to give you my best. Here it is. I do hope you'll take the time to read it. But again, that's up to you. Nothing says you have to, but I hope you will. ♥ This is just me saying I'm really glad you asked. And I am. I'm being honest with you about that, because I care about you. With that said, let me answer your first question. And thank you for reading it. You're important to me. You're worth my time. This was worth my time.
But more importantly, you're important to God, because he loves you far more than I ever could. So I'm hoping maybe some lazy afternoon or morning or evening, you'll have time to read this. It doesn't have to be all at one time. Haha Take your time. You could even read part of it now and part of it later. However you want to do it. Think of it as a letter from a friend, and it really is, because these are things God wants us to know. I think of it as his love letter to us, cuz He has proved to me just how much he loves each and every one of us, not just some.
What did His voice sound like? It wasn’t an audible voice like you’d hear on the phone. It was inside -- like a thought, but not my own. John 10:27 says: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” It’s gentle. 1 Kings 19:12 calls it a _“still small voice.”_ God doesn’t yell. He speaks to our spirit when we’re listening. Just like the more you visit friends or family, the more comfortable you feel with them, get to know them, and feel closer to them. The closer we get to God and listen for him, the more we are able to recognize his voice... and just as we feel love from those who love us back, you will recognize that same closeness when we fellowship with him. And that comes from taking the time to talk to him in prayer, because he hears all our prayers, and we get to know him, through His Word, what we call the Bible, which in effect, is a diary of his life, that gives us an account of his life and all, so we don’t have to guess.
The more, for example, you would visit a new friend and hang out with that new friend and talk and get to know him or her, the closer you will feel to that friend as you get to know them. Otherwise, that contact might feel empty and meaningless. The missing piece is that communication that would have been there.
That's why I love to commune with God through prayer and reading his word so I know his character. I learn about him, who he is, so many things, and that makes sense because obviously we're not living in the day where we could have seen him on the cross and then resurrect from the dead and walk amongst the people for like two more weeks until they finally witnessed him returning to his father in Heaven. But others witnessed that firsthand and they wrote about it. That's where communication between Jesus and I comes in. We can read about him in the Bible and get to know him through his word, learn who he was, why he came, and why that's important for us today.
Because God's character, his personality, and purpose did not suddenly disappear, just because he lived 2000 years ago, he was crucified, rose from the dead, then went back to heaven. That didn't change who he is and why he came, in any way. His love and his offer for salvation is still as genuine and fresh today, as it was the day He was born.
He accomplished his mission, and what was that, you might ask? It was to save mankind from the condemnation that sin tries to place on us. He revealed himself to us, fully and honestly; then when his mission was over, he returned back to his Father in Heaven, but he wanted to make certain there would be no guessing about who he is or why he came to earth.
It's a matter of placing your belief in what he told us, and trust that what he said is true and honest, and I did that, because he is trustworthy. He has proved that to me these 53 years, that he's no liar. He proved to all of us, how much he loves us, by the sacrifice of his own life. He showed up in person and told us how to get to heaven.
And you know when a person does that without regard of their own welfare and puts ours, above his, I don't know about you, or anyone else, but I can't ignore that. Because when he died to pay for my own sins on the cross....he wasn't just saying he loves me, you...and the world...He proved it. He wanted to ensure there would be no room for misunderstanding about why he came, and how to get to heaven. That's the pure definition of love, my friend. That's not selfishness; that's sacrifice. That part was way too important, for him to just leave us guessing.
No, he was not stupid, he knew exactly what he was doing when he went to the cross. He was one of us. He knows how we feel. He knew some would believe him, and some would not. He also knew the decision to follow him or not, was their choice, not his. His mission was simply to tell us, then let us decide what to do with it.
We can ignore it or we can trust him and his word, but he is no liar. That's one of the things the Bible tells us. Jesus' character is that he is without sin. Sinless...he cannot lie. That means if he was going to lie to us, then he could not reliably call himself God. He could not claim to be our Savior and Redeemer If he was a liar. And he definitely would not have been worthy to pay for our sins on the cross, had he been full of sin himself. But that's the very reason God the Father chose him as Savior of the world. But don't get that mixed up.
Many don't understand. He wasn't forced to pay for our sins on the cross. He volunteered. and that my friend, was him showing us just how much he loves us. It was that important to him, that we don't get this wrong; that we make it to heaven. He knew something we didn't. And that "something"....our choice... makes the difference in where we spend eternity. If our sins keep us separated from God without repentance, there's no way we're going to drag our sins into a holy heaven, my friend. That's what Jesus was trying so hard to tell us. That's why our decision is so important. Crucial. I'm so thankful Jesus gave me that choice, instead of my sins condemning me to a place I don't want to go and he don't want me to go.
I'm very grateful for that choice and that's why I dedicated my whole life in total love and gratitude for what Jesus did for me on the cross and what he saved me from. I can't ignore that and there's nothing in this world that can substitute for that. That's the point! What will it profit, the Bible says, if I would gain the whole world, fortune, fame, riches, but then I would lose my own soul? No way. This world is not worth it because it's going to pass away. Jesus will give us a better world, he promised in his word, where there's no more of this terrible sin, temptation, drug overdoses, people sick all time, diseases, tears and sadness, rape, murders, you name it, none of that will be in heaven. And that's all because of Jesus. This Earth might pass away, but when I pass away, I won't be dying in that respect. I'll live forever because our soul lives on forever. It cannot die. This body can die, yes but not our spirit. Our spirit belongs to God who gave us life and loved us enough to sacrifice his, just so we could have heaven for eternity. Now that's love.
And because of him and his love and his sacrifice, when I stepped through that door into eternity, my spirit will continue to live forever and I decided that. Not God. He was never willing that any should perish but that particular choice is up to us, not him. And you might say well doesn't he want everyone to go to heaven? Of course he did and he proved that on the cross, but you know we don't think like God. God wants every single person on Earth in heaven with him, but then you know there's people that say, "Oh boloney! I want no part of "GOD!" He's a phony! And they curse at him, lie about him, after all he did for them, and even spat on him when he was here. And just as they did in that day, they do the same to him today. They laugh at him and they mock him. They want nothing to do with him, and so what is God to do with that choice of theirs? They have tied his hands to save them. He'll give them the desire of their heart. He's not about to force them to love him. That's on them, not God. But by doing so, they've spited themselves. They've rejected the one and only person who could haved saved them. But now... Their unforgiven sins, still condemn them. Jesus said, "I offer you rescue and Redemption, but you refused my lifeline." That breaks Jesus' heart because he wants everyone to be saved in this world. Think about it. If there was even a drop sin in heaven...then it couldn't be called heaven. Common sense! So now you see how this works. This is not God rejecting man. This is man rejecting God, the only person that could have saved them. And anyone in this entire world can be saved simply by being honest with themselves and admitting yes...I have sinned, but I know you love me Lord. I know you died on the cross to save me, and right now, I'm going to ask you to forgive me, and I accept you as my Savior by inviting you into my heart and life forever. We all want honesty? No that's honest. That's being honest with God. Honesty for honesty.
Am I “special” because He speaks to me? Buddy, I have to tell you. I had to laugh at that one, hahaha. No, Admiral. Jesus speaks to the world. He's speaks to one, just like he does the other. God doesn't categorize people. He loves us all the same. Everyone. And that's why he died for all, on the cross.
Acts 10:34 says: _“God is no respecter of persons.” He speaks to anyone who comes to Him. It’s like family. You hear your mom’s voice because you know her and spend time with her. Same with God. James 4:8: _“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.”_ The more time I spend with Him in prayer and reading His Word, the clearer I hear Him and the better I get to know Him.
Is God male or female? The Bible always calls God _“Father”_ and _“He.”_ Jesus came to earth as a man, died on the cross as a man, and rose again as a man.
Luke 24:39 — after resurrection He said: _“Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
People in heaven still know each other. Luke 16:23-24 — the rich man recognized Lazarus. Our identity doesn’t disappear.
God loves you, Admiral. Jeremiah 29:13: _“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”_ If you’re really asking, He’ll answer you too. ♥🫂
@roxette Miss, I just want to write and tell you thank you so much for honestly telling me what is on your heart. I can understand that. This is not the first time I've heard it. In fact, many people feel the way you do. But let me just say this from my heart:
You deserve honesty back. That load of crap is not me, God, or what I said. It's not from those. It's Satan that feeds people a load of crap. That's what he does, deceive people. And he's so good at it and he's been doing it for so long, some don't even recognize it, and that's why he gets by with it. More than anything, his agenda is to deceive us so we are filtered away from the truth. It is true, that the truth sets us free and that's what Satan doesn't want us to be, so he feeds us lies, to keep us away from God and salvation. He wants us to be tied up in knots and tangled up in the worries and affairs of this world. God wants just the opposite: to set us free from the lies of the devil and the things that keep us away from honest truth from His Word, heaven, and salvation.
And Satan is really good at that. He's had practice for thousands of years. He knows exactly what buttons to push so we'll believe his lies. There's something the Bible tells us that is so important, amongst all the other things. But because many have believed Satan that God and salvation are just all lies, they don't bother to even pick up their Bible and read God's truths. So they miss things that are so important they affect where we spend eternity. That's what Satan loves, to keep us from God and Heaven for eternity. That's why he's here and that's why he works so hard and you can see it yourself in this world, all the hate, lies, destruction, murders, stealing, I mean it's just in our face we can't avoid but see it and those don't come from God sweetheart. They come from Satan. That's why Jesus wants us in heaven so he can save us from all that but he can't do that unless we're willing to allow him.
But here's that important part I was telling you about we need to look at and not just take anybody's word for it but we can take God's word for it because he came to Earth to make sure we would know and not miss heaven. That's how important this is that we get it. Sin is something that absolutely destroys everything in its path including keeping us from heaven. Think about it this way. You don't have to believe it, just think about this for a minute. It makes sense. In God's world, in heaven, there is no sin. That's exactly why it's called heaven, because if sin could enter into it, even one Speck of sin, then it couldn't be called heaven. Common sense. It just couldn't. Likewise, we cannot expect to walk into heaven with sin on our heels. God is not mad at our sin. He doesn't hate us or want to beat us over the head or condemn us or anything else just because we sin. He doesn't like it, but he loves us as a person. And the only reason he hates sin and not us, is because sin Keeps Us separated from God in heaven until we ask Jesus to rescue us and we tell him we're sorry and he wants to save us, but he can't do that until we give him permission. Once we make that decision to have our sins forgiven, and that's all of this by the way not just some of us, Jesus is MORE than willing to forgive us. HE WANTS US FREE OF SIN, the same sin that brings us condemnation, unless we allow Jesus, who loves us more than words could ever say, to save us. There's nothing hard about it. All any of us have to do is just simply come to God with an honest heart. That's not hard. It's Jesus that did the hard part for us when he paid for our sins on the cross so we wouldn't have to. He does not condemn us, he condemns sin that tries to take us away from him forever. The very second, and I mean the very SECOND we say "Lord, forgive me. Thank you for what you did for me on the cross. I ask you to forgive me for when I sinned, and I want to ask you to come into my heart and life as my Savior. Thank you for forgiving me."
That right there? The very second you said those words, Jesus forgave you instantaneously and not only that. The best part is that once we're forgiven, the Bible says Jesus remembers our sins no more. Our sin debt is immediately erased, obliterated. Never to be brought up and thrown in our face like the devil does, but forgotten for eternity. A new slate. Your sins are washed away by the blood of Jesus and nothing on Earth can separate us from his love. Not even in our sinful state before we were saved. I say Amen to that cuz nobody else can give us that friend. Nobody. That can only be found through Jesus. There's no substitute for it. Not in this world. We see what we get in this world from what Satan throws at us. But not Jesus. You'll never see that from Jesus. His sole desire and purpose, is never to harm us, but to save us, rescue us, and he never breaks a promise. John 3:16. But I hope you won't dare miss John *3:17*, right after that verse 16. That's the most important of all! That verse says, but Jesus never came in to this world to condemn us. He came to save us. And you know what? Once we are saved, that doesn't give us a license to go out and sin again of course, but when we are saved, God goes a step further. He takes us as his child and seals us with His Holy Spirit of promise...and that means nothing can separate us from the love of God, ever. That means we're bought and paid for by his blood and rescued from sin that wanted to destroy us for eternity. And God's grace, Keeps Us in Him. God seals us as his own. He bought us with his blood just so he could save us. It wasn't himself he was thinking about on that cross. He had you and I on his mind and his sole purpose for going to the cross, he focused on not himself but on paying our sin debt on the cross with his own blood. No one will ever love us like Jesus any proved it. He proved his love for us, he didn't just talk about it.
It's like this, and that's all I'll say. If you were out in the ocean in a boat and suddenly the boat capsized. Maybe you hit something or maybe there was a leak in the boat you didn't know about. Our sins represent that leak which leads to spiritual death unless we do something about it. Remember. Can't walk into heaven with our sins on our heels or it wouldn't be heaven. But there you are out in that boat in the boat is starting to fill with water and sink you to your death unless you're rescued. You cry for help, God hears you, and all of a sudden there's somebody, maybe a rescue boat, that has appeared on the horizon. It's coming to rescue you. That's God. So when the rescue team comes to your side, there's really no team there's just one person that can save you and that's his sole purpose to make sure you don't drown and die. He offers you his hand and Rescue. But you say nah... I don't need your help. I'm good. I know how to swim. I'll take care of myself. Thanks, but no thanks." So you try to save yourself, but it's to no avail and now you realize that. The truth has finally sunken in but it's too late because your rescue is gone. Now you have sealed your own fate because you were not willing to accept rescue. Now you're fate is sure and there's no reversing it and that's obvious to you. It's not the man's fault that you lost your life. You made a terrible decision. You turn down the only soul that could have saved you. God wants to offer you his hand and Rescue. Just just quietly think about that for a moment and what that can mean for you. Our sins are much more powerful than that leak in the boat because if we refuse rescue, we refuse the only person that could have saved us. And that's sad. That's what tragedy looks like. But it doesn't have to have an ending like that. We can be rescued and a part of God's family. It only takes one prayer. Then you'll have that security that if anything ever happens to you you know you won't have to guess where you're going. You've already been rescued and there's a seat that's reserved just for you in heaven. Wouldn't that be nice? That would be precious and something we could never lose. Something no one could ever take from us. That's just like God. So loving and so merciful that nothing can separate us from him and his love.
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39
I will leave you with this final thought. Jesus loves you more than words could ever say, regardless of how you feel about him. And so do I. But this is not about me at all. It all has to do with God's love for you. And that's why he came. Just for you. He would have came for you even if you had been the only person on Earth because that's how much he loves you and he always will. Thank you so much for writing. Much love. ♥🫂 Grace
@AdmiralPrune 😂😂😂 Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are.
Let us read from God's own text, Admiral Prune:
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in, till afterwards.”_ PROVERBS 29:11 😂😂😂
♥ Yours, till the moving truck pulls up north of Centralia._ 😆
After I had prayed, and took care of business letters, the Housing Authority Supervisor called me the next day, and told me she's looking for a place for me that will be suitable.
@DanielsASJ I don't know about that but they do come in God's good and perfect timing. And when it's his timing, everything falls into place and doesn't have to be forced.
