Choose Life

Romans 3:23

23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 6:23

23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


Yes we are all sinners and without Jesus we would have died without any redemption from God. Yet God showed compassion upon us by sending His Son Christ to give us a way out. As I travel I hear we have all sinned yes we do and then the next thing I hear is no one will get to heaven and that is a lie.

Enoch walked with God and went to heaven. Elijah the Prophet went to heaven. David the warrior, musician and King went also. Even the man who had little possessions died named Lazarus as the rich man also died and went to hell. There are many who went to heaven throughout the entire bible from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Yes and they did sin but the key is they didn't stay in this state.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Our good is like filthy rags unto God. Our good, good deeds don’t help us get into heaven. Heaven is not a points system where we earn and accumulate enough in our lifetime to achieve the goal of living in Heaven with God. No, no the way is through Christ and obey the teachings within the bible of living Christ-like and denying ourselves the pleasures of this world. We cannot be on a path to ruins and expect the luxury of life.

For then we become like the pigs who are unknowingly are given the better things in life and have trampled them under-foot.

Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Those who practice sin and know it is a sinful act will die and go to hell. Why for they chose not to change their behavior or habit.

The bible is our instruction manual for daily living and successful living in Christ. In the bible there are many, many examples of joy, love, deceit, anger, revenge and also teachings in them and great rewards.

We have a choice either choose life or death? Every decision we make have two roads to travel on and which one we will pick. We get to choose eternal damnation or eternal life.

One thing strikes me is this that we can live forever with God and live. Most people live for the moment, next week, next year but what about the future, what about living daily to get to heaven to live eternally with God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost?

Wow wouldn't that be phenomenal to live forever with God the one who created us. No more paying bills, not going to work on a job just to pay rent or feed the children. Think about it we live the righteousness of God and obey His word and we will be in place of comfort. No more murders and everyone coming together and playing with the animals who on earth were ferocious now will be kind and patient in heaven.

Choose life and live eternally with God, Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost, other men and women and the animals. Choose life for we gain more with Christ and lose out more when we don't.


I send blessings and peace unto my brothers and sisters in Christ.


Minister Merv

Part II Just Be a Willing Participant

One day we will be on trial and this trial will be like no other. There will only be one judge and no jury of your peers. A sentence will be carried out and you will either be a son or sent directly to hell. Judgment day is coming and we need to be ready. At this state there will not be a plea, officer or a stenographer typing every statement being made in a court room.

Our plea will not matter for our living will be a testimonial enough to convict us of our residency to heaven or hell. Playtime is over. Faking the funk is over. We must come to realization and pay the dues for our living wages. If it be sin then hell will be our permanent home. If we endure until the end of our death in the righteousness in Christ then heaven we will be.

There's coming a time where we are either ready or not. Getting ready is the timing now and not later. Later may be shock to some for later may never come. Stay the course and don't be derailed for pleasure to lose out your soul for a few minutes of fun.

When Christ arrival comes it’s by then too late to change. The stage in our lives cannot be delayed any longer and the time to get right in God is now.

Live righteousness now and put down the disturbances which places hurdles to jump over that makes it more difficult to see and travel on this road leading to everlasting life with God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.

Do not be one to gnash his/her teeth for refusal to serve the true and living God and end life. For death is just a part of the end to the ultimate end by the righteous judgment of God. (Romans 2:5)

To put this explicitly those who seek darkness instead of light; rather seeking the things or ways of the devil more so than God will perish.

In scripture I haven’t heard of many places where Satan will make his permanent home besides hell and those who follow him will be his co-tenants of disastrous defeat. The defeated foe will not stand or be able to endure the wrath of God and what makes us think that we will be able to?

It puzzles me so that those who desire darkness seek knowledge in deceptive practices and train their minds to accept devilish tidings instead of good tidings. If knowledge is applicable then there are choices and choices are conscious decisions of thought with two sides and no middle ground. The right choice and the wrong one and which one will we make. It will either be life or death.

Will the faith dwindle or rise to the occasion and the toughed skin man stand or fail miserably to stand because his flesh have given more precedence than his spirit? Are you willing to give your life and die now to Christ or allow the riches of this soon coming world to end and to show its ending was mere fact because all will pass away some day?

Come on and fight the fight with faith, love, kindness and the fruit of the spirit in Galatians chapter 5 and March to victory in God. Don’t give up for not only our lives depend on God so does those who watch you on a daily basis needs to pull strength from your living a Christ-filled life. Stand up and be willing to go the extra mile not just for your own sake but for those who need Christ and may not read the word for the word they read most is the faith, trust and belief in the God in whom you serve.

Stay hooked up into the vine where the resources are live and breathe the breath of life through Jesus. He is our connection unto God where we gain strength from. Hold fast to God’s unchanging hand and don’t let go.

Start emptying the baggage, the closet, the mindset, the behaviors, and release all unto God so he can sweep clean your heart and reside in the inward parts of your heart and let Jesus dwell in all parts. Cry if you have to, talk to God if you have too for there is a release in the atmosphere to lay aside every weight that easily beset us so we can live and live in heaven with our Father up in Heaven.

Release, release and let it go talk to the Father (God) and he will care your every need. Let go and let God come into the innermost parts of the heart and live and live in Heaven when His only begotten son Jesus returns.

I send Blessings and peace unto my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.

Minister Merv

Just Be a Willing Participant

Just Be a Willing Participant

Galatians 5

 ¹Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

 ²Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

 ³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

 ⁴Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

 ⁵For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

 ⁶For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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So simple the Gospel of Jesus Christ have come to rescue us from a dying fate of no-return. We were destining to die and be in Hell. Yet God sent His son Jesus to give us an alternative outcome. Shall we then be in sin and die and end our lives with meaningless values? Should we except what is before us and not look for a way out. We will be tread upon as if we are garbage and over salted to no-good and be thrown out and spewed into the atmosphere as a vagabond and not worthy to be looked upon? Because sin has taken place in our hearts and now is infecting our entire body.

Sleep no longer awake and be agile in the things of Christ. Grace and mercy have given us room to get our lives together before Christ comes to this earth the second time. Soon the covering of grace and mercy will be lifted and as we are taught in Holiness in God how to live we must do so without flickering and wavering. We must live our lives without spot or wrinkle before Jesus comes again to take up those who endure until His arrival once more.

Jesus died on the cross to help us who were dead and ultimately would have died had not God sent His forgotten Son to come and save us from ourselves, people, the devil and our attitudes and behaviors. Basically Jesus was sent to save us from us and the wicked adulterer Satan. Who purported he is the way (and his claim is voided by trespass of the Holy Ghost which he is only a copycat of  God and his wicked angels with no evidence of true power and master of falsehoods) as if he is God or  affluent in love or care in those who are followers of thwarted pious sect. 

Instead the devil has fooled many into believing he, and then Satan has power. The father of lies we call this dragon. Let's set this record straight the devil is not more powerful than God nor will he ever be. Why you ask for him to the wicked one was made from God. (Lucifer angel and name changed to Satan)

Some didn't know any better until we learned that God is our Father and His plan was for us to be reconciled back to Him. 

The gospel has been preached God's words have been sent and its outcome is astronomical. In Romans and throughout the bible there are numerous people who believed in other Gods only to satisfy their hunger and greed of foul tasting stench which perfume the nostrils of wicked-evil doers. 

I ask today are you a by-stander or a way-maker? Have you stood by so long that you have decided to be what everyone else is? Life is not a one way road which people seem to think. It doesn't vicariously become a gift to live and live anyhow you choose. Whether we know this or not we earn our living. There are rules, disciplines, teachings, regulations etc... that we must learn and have to follow in order to travel along the pathway to righteousness of Christ. 

Have you decided that telling others about the Fountain of Living Waters (Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13) that flow in us are of God, Christ and the Holy Ghost? Have a decision been made to satisfy the belly to speak worthy of God who we became the willing participant of true justice have been acknowledged in us is evident of the cross Jesus bore? 

Just as we believe in products that work to our benefit as buying furniture, electronics, food etc… we need to tell others about the one who saved us from our sins. If we are convinced that Christ is the way our walk and faith will stand as a testimonial to those who befriends us or watches our every action.

Our works mean nothing without sacrifice; Christ motives a good heart and love for your fellow neighbor. Be in the race and run it with patience.

Bless you until next time brothers and sisters in Christ.

Minister Merv

Help Others

This morning I heard the words it is well with my soul and remembered how songs with comfort and joy could bring you out of a state of being in self and make you realize that we are not here on this earth just for ourselves but for others.

Jesus died so we (the world) may live if we choose Him. Is there anyone you know who don't know Jesus? What are you doing about it? It's time to think of others who are on their way to hell and for those of us who are Christians to help them out of the deepening waters and sinking sand and destination hell to know Christ so that they can live and make it into heaven.

It Is Well With My Soul

It Is Well With My Soul
When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Refrain:
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life,
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

But Lord, 'tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh, trump of the angel! Oh, voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Horatio Spafford

LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT

Hebrews 12:1-4 (GWT)
1Since we are surrounded by so many examples of faith, we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us. We must run the race that lies ahead of us and never give up.
 2We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God.
3Think about Jesus, who endured opposition from sinners, so that you don’t become tired and give up.
 4You struggle against sin, but your struggles haven’t killed you.

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In this passage of scripture we are directed to having weights upon us. Well we know in the physical area of our lives that if weights are too heavy to carry we soon  will drop them. We can’t manage to carry weights that overwhelms us and without help we will give up and quit. We also call weights baggage. Sometimes unnecessary baggage we carried from previous relationships, experiences and from the past.

We carry baggage every day and even from previous events in our lives which can pile up and be as big as a mountain. We can have physical baggage and spiritual baggage that are associated with burdens in our lives daily. We can see them and sometimes can’t identify them. And can identify them and not see them or cannot see them at all. It’s easy to see someone else’s baggage than it is to see our own.

Now both baggage or weights can accumulate to an unbearable size  and we need to use a tool, helper, to help motivate us to get rid of the baggage we carried for such a long time. One tool we can use is faith.

That’s right faith. If we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move larger objects like mountains and burdens out of our way to relieve of excess weight and dead weight.

Matthew 17:20 (WEYNT) "Because your faith is so small," He replied; "for I solemnly declare to you that if you have faith like a mustard-seed, you shall say to this mountain, 'Remove from this place to that,' and it will remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

So even though we have large problems in our lives we can use our faith in Christ to help remove our stress-relievers, burdens and the load will be manageable for us to bear and  will be easy to get rid of those we don’t need to carry.

So for example: boyfriend is not Godly or girlfriend and they want to go against God’s word (biblical teachings) believe in Christ and pray and God will deliver you.

Sex is for marriage and if you are not married no need to practice marital benefits. For it is a sin and you are out of order and being in sin you get what is associated by the sin you practice in.You have lived for years without it stay celibate or a virgin until marriage. This is an honor and a privilege amongst married couples.

Don’t even fall for the line we are getting married anyway for if you are then the day of marriage is appropriate for marital benefits. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. This is a door-way the enemy the devil uses to break down the forces and barrier put up because of him (meaning Satan).

Let’s go here a true marriage is between a man and woman as according to the bible (Genesis 2:18-24). If you have a problem with that then God is the one to be addressed in this matter for His word is true and I believe every word of it.

Committing adultery with a person who you not espoused or spoused to is a sin. In this day and time things are a little lenient. For adultery one punishment was to be stoned to death by a group of people. Now in different religions and parts of the world it varies on punishment. This is part of the Ten Commandments; Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery. (Exodus 20:14, Deu 5:18, 22:22, Matthew 5:27, 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9)

It may be that not any of these things that plagues you and it may be something else? Just use your faith in God and He will give you instruction.

A way to remove some baggages is to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we made in the past and learn from them. We must ask God for forgiveness in the areas we tend to over-look or pass by purposely.

Today let’s look inside ourselves and ask God to help show us our piled up weights or baggages and teach us to use our faith in Christ wisely so we don’t become overwhelmed where we easily give up and quit. If we follow Christ our days here on earth will be much more pleasant and satisfying. This is not to say that we will not encounter trouble sometime we will but at least we would know how to react and handle them.


God Bless you Saints in Christ!

Prayer: God help us to use our faith so we can lay our burdens down and give them to you and do your work in Jesus name we pray Amen!



Minister Merv

Pouring into New Wineskins

Pouring into New Wineskins

Matthew 9:14-17

14Then the disciples of John came to Jesus, inquiring, Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast [a]often, [that is, abstain from food and drink as a religious exercise], but Your disciples do not fast?

15And Jesus replied to them, Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16And no one puts a piece of cloth that has not been shrunk on an old garment, for such a patch tears away from the garment and a worse rent (tear) is made.

17Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are [b]torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.

Wineskins  - made from animal hide sheep or goat to hold wine. The skin of the animal is sewn up and it is a preserver.

It is useless to pour wine into old wineskins for it will burst and it will become a waste. The old wineskins will be good for nothing. It is also called a leather bottle in the Greek.   

Jesus parable speaks about how sewing a new cloth onto an old material will make it worse. Why? for it will not bond or become one with the sown material. After a while the hole which is patched would tear and be greater than the original hole. Even so the wineskin which is patched because of leakage will still leak for the garment would not be whole and the bottle that holds the liquid will spill onto the ground therefore is useless and is good for nothing but to be thrown away.

The value have depreciated and once was of great value and appreicated is now worthless material and can’t be of use to noone.

Pouring new wine into old wineskins is like throwing money away. Nothing can be contained in the wineskins and must be replaced or thrown out. Everything has a time and purpose and limitations accept God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).

As I was at the gas station pumping gas into the car this very night I heard God said He is not pouring new wine into old wineskins. For the foundation is rocky and there is no stability in it.

Many times God have given a word and some have listened and some have not. He spoke about shifting and others are still in the very same spot they have been in for years.  God is not pouring into old wineskins because we are at a place of disobedience.

The old wineskins are the representation of our flesh and how we live on a daily basis. The many situations that arises and how we perceive them and react to them. From the outside it may appear to look beautiful but the inside is a wreck, torn apart in some places,in some areas and we are trying to hold it together with scotch tape, nail gun, re-sewing with thread, glass blower. Yet the hole will eventually tear again and be worse than before. After all the trys have been done we begin to get the light, we need new wineskins. So the old man must leave in order to build upon new foundation.

We need Christ to help us in our journey of life so He can cultivate and pour into us the Word of the Lord. It starts by the cure-all to the brokeness of relationship and mending with new fabric and leather bottle in Christ is with Christ and our repentance.

Because of wear and tear, abuse and excuse we’ve come to a place in God where His word have become a plight into our lives instead a light unto our soul. In other words we think of the negative before we embrace the positive aspect of life into our thoughts and cancel out what we don’t understand or try to understand.

Matthew 7:6 Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

Obedience is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22) and the church have sunk their carnal ways into the lives of people. For the church lives only what they have experience or know. Some have lived and learn and others are ignoring by acting like it doesn’t exist.

Be not like the disciples who were with Jesus and then left and returned no more. (John 6:60-66)

We are injecting our own doctrine into the church and theory instead of applying the lessons left to lead us to eternal life in Christ in the bible. When was the last time you have asked God what did He wanted you to do? We are doing things for God and not have asked Him if this is what He wants done? Many of us are trying to shine in our churches, conferences, anniversaries and have left God out though we say we are doing it for Him. God knows our heart and we have not even talk to Him about many things and we expect Him to put his stamp of approval on our projects without counsel from Him.

Who? God is not pleased and we must clean out the junk out of our lives in order to receive the blessing from God. Yet he can’t pour anything in the our old wineskins that are faulty, amiss, defective.

We are vessels of God that should be pruned from the world ways, our ways and habits. We should adopt God’s ways as a daily practice.

God raises a standard and the world lives anyhow.

Let us become new wineskins so God can pour into our lives then Christ can be repeated in other people lives. Then the world will become new wine for the new wineskins as disciples and childre of the most high.

The new wine represents the blood of Christ, redemption and death to the old ways of man that gives new life, joy and freedom in God.

Knowing what God hath done in our lives should motivate us to help someone else be free from bondage and sin through the introduction of Christ unto them.

When we wear new clothing or get a new game or shoes we feel good when we wear it. We feel special excited and wanting to show off our new clothing, cell phone etc… We want complements and when we get them we are joyous. So does the word of God.

We should be compelled to share the Gospel to everyone we meet with joy and gladness. Operating in Christ with His new wine we have drunk by believing His Word, living the righteous life in Christ and not wanting anyone to perish or go to Hell. Jesus had compassion so should we too have compassion.

Compassion for our brothers and sisters not to go to Hell and damnation which was only for Satan and his demonic servants (fallen angels from heaven).Matthew 25:41 41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

It was designed as an everlasting eternal place for the devil but if we choose not to follow Christ it will be the home of those who have taken the devil as their father.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Choose whom will you serve today and pray that God will hear you when you call Him.

Prayer: Oh Lord I pray unto you today to help me become a new wineskin so you can pour your wine into me and I become a servant of the Lord. Forgive me of my sins and teach me your ways. In Jesus name I pray Amen!

Minister Merv

Look Not To Yourself

The World is growing weary and getting worse because of sin in their lives. It's time to make a change and serve the Lord. But first the church needs to repent and do their  first works over and clean out the mess they called bless. It starts from the Pulpit to the door. This also includes the mess that is going on in the homes and being brought to the church where there are no difference between the clean and unclean (the sacred and secular). For they are mixing together like a spiked hot fudge sundae. There are very little differences.

1. Like the music is sounding more worldly and if that is the offering up to God He wouldn't bother listening to it.

2. Our clothing have become so sexy. We are calling each other diva's and don's and it's escalating. We mimick the world and the world is suppose to mimick us. 

3. We are becoming filthy mouthed and minded. The world have not completely left us for we can recollect how we used to be and would return to our old ways when needed. Pray for those that despitefully use you.

For the spirits in our homes have accumulated and are traveling salesperson being brought to destinations where we go. If we go to the grocery store, church, outings, dinner, movies, to see relatives etc.. the spirits we have are traveling with us. 

The blind can't lead the blind and God called the church to win nations. 

Our testimony have become corrupted for we as Christians know the truth but some have decided to feed their flesh and ignore God. How can we help the world if there is a speck in our eyes until we clean the speck out of our eyes then help our brother or sister who needs help. 

Repent, repent, repent for as Christians we don't live this life just for ourselves? We live this life for every eyes to see how to live when all is going awry.

In Philippians 2:3-4 (NLT - Tyndale House) Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.

Philippians 2:3-4 (CEV) 3Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves. 4Care about them as much as you care about yourselves.

Our lives should be a testimony not a speckled calf not fit for any use but held up by the strength of the Lord to be shone as light unto this dieing world. Salt that has not lost its savor is how we are suppose to be.

Bless you and keep looking to the true and living God for all that you need. 

Minister Merv

Placing Judgement Upon Others When They are in Need. (Biblical Journal Studies 1 (September 06, 2011)

Placing Judgement Upon Others When They are in Need

John 5:8-13

 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 

 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 

 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry      your mat.”

 11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

 12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

We put limitations on God and as diplomatic as He is He will not force those of us to receive His blessing upon us unless we receive Him first. In order to receive Him we first must accept Christ, believe in him and realize where we are, know what we need, view our mistakes and then be truthful, repent, start all over and live like Christ did. This is when the blessing of God is manifested daily, earthly and heavenly in our lives.

Somehow stumblingblocks are placed before us and find it hard to move around the obstacles for it challenges our thought process and belief in Christ. It's like when Satan challenged Eve of eating of the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Where said not to eat of it or you will die by God. While beguiling her (serpent, Satan) stating that she (Eve) would be like gods in Genesis chapter 3. Knowing all well what God had said and commanded a stumblingblock just dropped before her. Why, for she knew what God said but another thought had interjected into the air and it started to become real even though God commanded not to eat of the fruit. It weighing heavily the thought upon her mind that it could be true. Half-lies are full lies and lies are just lies. For half, little or big are still weighed the same as just lies. There is no-way around it.

Now in the case with the invalid who had been at the house of Mercy (Bethesda) for thirty eight years was delivered from his infimities by Jesus on the Sabbath and he (invalid) was made whole. Now tell me being sick for thirty eight years isn't that long enough? A woman with the issue of blood for twelve years isn't that long enough? What I mean is what difference does it make if someone was delivered on the day of the Sabbath or not? But the Jews were wreaked with anger because of their authority (teachers) being overstepped and vexed them with anger. 

Because the law in which the Jews half-way followed by their own teachings of the scriptures became a stumblingblock for those who follwed their teachings under the law which Moses gave unto the people by God. According unto the law that was considered to be work were not to be done on the day of the Sabbath and would have to wait until the Sabbath day was over for it was considered to be a day of rest and for Christ. 

Tell me my friend if you are sick, in pain and distraught how are you resting and thinking about Christ? I'm not saying that those who are doesn't exist they do. And are great examples of Christian warriors for Christ. Don't get me wrong it can be done for peace will come over you. I am asking can you for those who are thirty eight years in pain and disabled. Hurting for twenty four hours in a day and finally have a chance to get healed even though it is the Sabbath wouldn't you choose to be healed and finally be free also?

So did the thought come across to Jesus with compassion and the man was delivered and healed totally for he was made whole. The disabled man spoke unto Jesus truthfully because of his condition and was honest about his circumstance. Also this man was instanteously made whole by the truth and the compassion of Jesus Christ. Just by Jesus saying take up your mat, bed, couch in different translations and walk. It didn't say Jesus prayed for the man, touched him etc.. just said and spoke these words take up your bed and walk.

This was a man who wanted healing and who knows if Jesus never would have came by would he still be there or would he have died there? 

This is the question we must ask ourselves would we still be where we were  if Jesus would have not come by? If so, why? If not why can't we help someone today to know Christ for the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few (Matthew 9:37, Luke 10:2).

The truth will set us free. How many people you know don't know the truth and what are you doing about it to help them get out of their situation to help them find the truth?

Prayer: Lord we repent and want to do our first works over in you Oh Lord and become a better person and Christian for the rest of our lives. Lord helps us to see what you see and have compassion on our neighbors and help us to win them to Christ. Amen!

Blessings and Peace unto you my Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

Pray for the manifestation of God to come upon so others can be freed from their bondage and accept Christ.

Minister Merv