The Path where God Leads is Safe

The path where God leads may lie through the desert or the sea, but it is a safe path.
  Patriarchs & Prophets page 290 E G White

He who slumbers not, who in every crisis has been the strength and dependence of His people, will carry out His eternal purpose. He will thwart the designs of wicked men, and will bring to confusion the counsels of those who plot mischief against His people.

He who is the King, the Lord of hosts…amidst the strife and tumult of nations guards His children still.

 When the strongholds of kings shall be overthrown, when the arrows of wrath shall strike through the hearts of His enemies, His people will be safe in His hands. E G White

Jesus is our friend; all Heaven is interested in our welfare; We may find rest and peace in God, casting all our care upon Him; for He cares for us. See 1 Peter 5:7
  Patriarchs & Prophets page 294 E G White

Christ will never abandon those for whom He has died. We may leave Him and be overwhelmed with temptation, but Christ can never turn from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life. Prophets & Kings page 176 E G White

Pursued with Loving Kindness

God says, "I love you with eternal love, pursuing after you with loving kindness.

Whoever believes in Me and keeps My Commandments loves Me, and My Father will love those who love Me and I will love them and manifest Myself to them.

 For God so loved the human race that He gave His only Son, that anyone who believes in Him will not suffer eternal death but will have eternal life."

This is love: not that we love God, but that He loves us, and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. No one has a greater love than the One who lays down His life for His friends.

Dear Friend, since God loves us this much, we should love each other. We love because God first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates someone, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. Jesus said, "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for others."

Dear Friend, I close my letter with these last words. Be a mature Christian, pay attention to what I have written, be in unity, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you always.

 And to know the love of Christ, which surpasses all understanding….

 Now to God who is able to do all things super-abundantly beyond what we think or ask...to Him be the glory... throughout all generations, forever. Amen!


The above quotes come from these Bible texts (variety of versions): Jeremiah 31:3/ 1 John 14:21/ John 3:16/ 1 John 4:9-10/ John 15:13/ 1 John 4:11,19-20/ John 13:35/ 2 Corinthians 13:11/ Ephesians 3:19-21

Jesus' Death Foretold in the Old Testament

Jesus says, "search the Scriptures for...they are they which testify of Me." And starting with Moses and the prophets He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.

The Lord God has spoken to Me and I have listened. I did not rebel nor turn away. I gave My back to the whip, and My cheeks to those who pulled out My beard. I did not hide from shame. They spit in My face. Because the Lord God helps Me you will not be dismayed. They gave Me gall for My meat and vinegar to drink. They bargained for My price thirty pieces of silver.

The Father says, "See, My Servant will prosper, He will be highly exalted. Yet many will be amazed when they see Him...they will see My Servant beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know He was a human. So shall He cleanse many nations."

The Son says, "My God! My God! Why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My roaring? But I am a worm...a reproach of men and despised by the people. All they that see Me laugh with scorn. They stick out their lips and shake their heads saying, `He trusted in the Lord that He would deliver Him, let God deliver Him, seeing He delights in Him.' They gape at Me with their mouths as a hungry and roaring lion. For dogs have encircled Me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me. They pierce My hands and feet. They part My garments among them, and cast lots for My vesture."

"Into Thine hand I commit My spirit. For God will not leave Me in the grave, neither will You allow Your Holy One to decay." He keeps all His bones, not one of them is broken. He will see the results of His sufferings and will be satisfied. Because what My Righteous Servant has experienced many will have faith and be counted righteous before God, for He will bear all their sins. I call Him Mighty and Great because He died for our salvation. He was counted a sinner and He bore the sins of many and pled with God for sinners.

But, oh, how few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal His saving power? Before God He was a tender shoot, sprouting from a root in dry, sterile soil. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness about Him, nothing to make us want Him. We despised and rejected Him - a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with bitter grief. We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way when He went by. He was despised and we didn't care. Yet it was our grief He bore, our sorrows that weighed Him down. And we thought His trials were a punishment from God for His own sins!

But He was wounded and bruised for our sins! He was chastised that we might have peace. He was lashed and we were healed. We are the ones that strayed away like sheep. We left God's path to follow our own. Yet God laid on Him the guilt and sins of every one of us! He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He never said a word. He was brought as a sacrificial Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep is silent, so He stood silent before those condemning Him.

From prison and trial they led Him away to His death, but who among the people of that day realized it was their sins that He was dying for? That He was suffering their punishment. He was buried like a criminal in a rich man's grave, but He had done no wrong and had never spoken an evil word! Yet it was the Lord's good plan to bruise Him and give Him grief. But when His whole being had been made an offering for sin, then He will have many heirs. He will live again and God's plan shall advance.

Jesus says, "I will not forget you. See, I have engraved your name upon the palms of My hands. I will always remember you.”

The above quotes are from these Bible texts: John 5:39/ Luke 24:27/ Isaiah 50:5-7/ Psalm 69:21/ Zechariah 11:12/ Isaiah 52:13-15/ Psalm 22:1-8,13,16-18;34:20;16:10/ Isaiah 53:11,12;53:1-10;49:15-16

HOPE

Jesus is our Friend; all Heaven is interested in our welfare; ...We may find rest and peace in God, casting all our care upon Him; for He cares for us. See 1 Peter 5:7
 Patriarchs & Prophets 293-294, E G White

Christ will never abandon those for whom He has died. We may leave Him and be overwhelmed with temptation, but Christ can never turn away from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life.
 Prophets & Kings 176, E G White

New Signs

last weekend earthquakes in Kansas, Oklahoma and 2 in Los Angeles.
Then earthquakes this week in Chile, China, Panama, and Yellowstone in Montana.
 Now today tornados in Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and one tornado just outside of Saint Louis, Missouri.
 AND ALL OF THIS IN SEVEN DAYS!!!!! Sounds like right out of MATTHEW 24!

God hates no one - the devil hates everyone

Many bad things happen, but God doesn’t cause these problems - God hates no one. The devil hates everyone. Bad things happen to good people, it’s because of sin - not because God has forgotten you.

God is strong enough to force us to love Him, but God doesn’t use force, because He loves us. Jesus determined, (in council with His Father) to do everything possible, no matter the cost, to rescue sinners. Jesus loves you more than He values His own life - He died for you! Trust yourself to Jesus – He will care for you.

God planned for you before the world began. He longs for you to talk to Him about anything and everything that is on your mind - He always listens. I went to Jesus with all my problems, and He always looks after me. As a small child I learned these things – it made all the difference in my life.

Often your mind may be
Clouded because of pain.
Then do not try to think.
You know that Jesus loves you!
He understands you.
You may do His will by simply
Resting in His arms.


Casting all your cares upon Jesus; for He cares about you. 1 Peter 5:7 The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, clears away all our sin. 1 John 1:7 There is no other Name [Jesus] under Heaven, given among men, whereby we are saved. Acts 4:12