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Jesus wants you

Foreknew (προγινώσκω) to know beforehand

Romans 8:29a (NASB95)
29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son

This verse does not say that God chose us and excluded others. It says that He knew beforehand if we would respond to Him.

2 Peter 3:9c (NASB95)
9 The Lord . . . (is) not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

The above verse means He wants you.

The Lord knew I was perishing because I thought I was good enough, better than others. So, He gave me mental illness for ten years until I had nothing and was ready to accept Him as my Savior. (Then He called me . . .)

Repentance does not mean to clean yourself up to give yourself to God, either. That is impossible. Repentance means you change your mind about sin and ask JESUS to give you a new perfect spirit from Him.

Ezekiel 36:26a (NASB95)
26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you

And getting a perfect new spirit doesn’t mean you will have immediate perfect new actions, either. Your soul (thinker, feeler, chooser) is not your spirit and isn’t new or perfect. However, now as you obey Jesus the lies you believe that drive your wrong actions are replaced with the truth, and your soul is renewed.

Romans 12:2 (NASB95)
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Jesus would rather die than live in eternity without you, so He did. He loves you so much that He has done everything so you can live with Him forever. He knows how hard life is. He knows our weaknesses, our faults and our failings. He doesn’t fault you. He took the blame Himself. There is nothing He would not do in your best interest. Even Mental Illness has become a blessing to me because God uses it as a platform for me to tell all people how much Jesus loves them, just as they are, mental illness or not.

He loves you, He is waiting right now to hear from you. Take that leap of faith. He will catch you, every time.

What would you want Jesus to do?

Jesus got to shore and was met by a man who had been acting “crazy” most of his life.

The man lived naked among the graves and no one could control him. The man pulled to pieces any chains he was in and he often cried out; cutting himself with stones.

Jesus had compassion on the man. But he couldn’t help him.

You see, this man was of another religion and it was against the law to convert him to following Jesus, which Jesus knew would happen if Jesus healed him.

Also, the media had been misreporting that when Jesus said, “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God” that Jesus was really rebelling against the government and advocating that people not pay lawful taxes.

What would they report if he removed evil spirits from a man not considered competent to give informed consent?

And what about the people who said mental illness was a myth? What if they said Jesus should value the man’s differences, not judge his lifestyle, and coexist with him?

And what about the mental health community? They don’t believe in demons. They would be offended if Jesus cast out demons into pigs, and the pigs immediately committed suicide, proving that demons do exist. They might lobby to have Jesus’ license to practice counseling revoked.

And what about the owners of the pigs? Did Jesus ask permission to send demons into them? Was Jesus going to pay restitution?

What if you were the man or woman standing there in front of Jesus, with your future and your sanity hanging in the balance. What would you want Jesus to do?

Just in case you didn’t understand, the above is satire. For what really happened see Mark 5 in the Bible.

The above was my response to the politics of 2016. The below is what might be actually happening now and may be worse and should be satire.

And so I have questions.

In the UK is politically incorrect thought/prayer near abortion clinics now a crime?

Was the U.S. president’s speech full of distortions about U.S. “MAGA” voters? Were “MAGA” voters vilified by the U.S. president for the crime of having a different point of view?

Could emails that were found and released by Elon Musk be interpreted as First Amendment Freedom of Speech censorship prompted by the government?

Was a U.S. government agency weaponized to intimidate those who are against the legalized killing of babies in the womb?

Are pharmacy companies talking about creating disease so they can make money healing the people they infect?

Why would someone get “fired” right after standing up to big pharma? Would that cast suspicion on the Board that “fired” you?

Bad is portrayed as good.

Good is censored.

Dear Jesus,

we need

You.

How Jesus has kept His Promises to me and more importantly “the helpless”

1 How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

2 The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he shall be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

3 The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed;
In his illness, You restore him to health.

Psalm 41:1–3 (NASB95)

Jesus has fulfilled this promise to our family.

We bought roughly a dozen brand new winter coats, deep discounted, tax-deductible on regular price, and gave them to In The Image because In The Image gives its goods away free to the materially challenged. Why did we buy the coats? God suggested it when we went through that major department store.

We support kids in under-developed countries to give them food, medical care, education and the opportunity to know Jesus if they desire. Again, Jesus prompted the giving.

We have supported our church and that church tangibly demonstrates and shares the love of Jesus for all people. God through the Bible suggested it.

We support a Pastor who reaches desperate married couples on the edge of divorce with a proven, powerful, message and plan that can eventually bring their marriage to wholeness. We do this because of God’s prompting.

I and my team invested hours upon hours bringing our Mental Health Support Group to life. People that had been told that mental illness was their fault, that they weren’t obedient to Jesus, that they didn’t have enough faith, etc. were told the truth: Jesus loves them just as they are, mental illness is not being disobedient, mental illness is not their fault. Our group was known for hope, healing, and hilarity. God led me for over six years to help make this successful for three years. God again prompted this.

So we have scratched the surface of helping the helpless.

Did God keep his promise?

He has saved me from trouble and death:
I have witnessed God saving me from car accidents times without number and occasionally saving me from even death.

He sustained me on my sickbed:
Even though I’m in my sixties, majorly overweight, completely out of shape, when I got COVID-19 God healed me.

He blessed me, thwarting the plan of my enemy:
When a supervisor made a false accusation about me that I wanted to harm her, God had already had me interview for another job an hour before I was informed of her plan to force me out. I believed God was sending me a message to leave and I quit without knowing if I had the new job. I got the new job two weeks later.

Jesus told a parable about a servant that was working, came in from the field, first served his master dinner (gave his Master the true and rightful credit) and then afterward he ate dinner (Jesus said, “the slave doesn’t deserve praise for doing what he was told does he?” We slaves are to say: “We are unprofitable servants, we have only done what was expected”).

If you choose to help the helpless in real and meaningful ways, Jesus will help you in real and meaningful ways. We don’t work to get Jesus to love us, we work BECAUSE JESUS ALREADY LOVES US.

(Consider: Jesus says not to do things to obtain the praise of men. But what if we do things because we love people because Jesus loves us? I think if we made this distinction we may flood the world with communications of what Jesus is doing through his people).

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