NO BAND-AID ZONE!

Since my childhood I have been able to see and draw comparisons from the natural world and the spiritual world. If we are born with sight we can see with the natural eye the things in the natural world.

It is only at our re-birth into Christ Jesus that we are truly gifted with the ability to see the world with our spiritual eyes .

When God's Creation repents (change the mind) about our hopeless condition and fallen nature (a sinner) ... something truly amazing can happen.

We are drawn by God, The Holy Spirit to recognize Jesus and His sacrifice as the only way to be forgiven, saved, and made righteous before Holy God. In the moment we place our trust in Jesus, God breathes HIS Spirit into us, we are sealed for the day of salvation and our vision here on earth is corrected . We now have the ability to see the things that are real and truly important.

1 Corinthians 2:14 -16

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

ALL GOD'S WORK! A GIFT THAT IS OFFER TO EVERYONE!

A humble repentant heart and spirit is blessed and gifted by God with the able to believe and take by faith what Christ Jesus did for them personally on The Cross, for 3 days, at The Resurrection, The Assentation, and The Seating.

Romans 10:14-15 - But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!

These verses should inspire us to action and highlight the importance of telling the children the Good News!

The world offers band-aids at best! NO HOPE, HEALING, WHOLENESS, NEW LIFE, OR TRUE JOY.

The world's culture is killing our young at a staggering rate! The enemy of their soul works hard to keep them unware and unable to understand spiritual things.

Sadly, here are many worldly churches who claim "Christianity" that are also in the band-aid business!

They are not able to understand spiritual things!

Do band-aids really help? Not really! A band-aid might give you a sense that it can protect your wounds from reinjury and it may keep your friends and family from the unpleasant sight of your oozing.

Now apply that concept from a spiritual perspective!

The world loves to offer a patch or counterfeit sense of protection and healing. The world offers ways to cover up our sin in an effort to sooth the conscience and offers only a very temporary reprieve from pain.

CEF Good News Club does not offer band-aids to a dying generation!

Good News Club offers Jesus!

THE HOPE & HEALING TO ALL GENERATIONS!

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4

A Book Every Christian In America Should Read ASAP!

From the back of the book:

"Each day, you watch America turn further from Christian values and the core principles of liberty. It's frustration to feel you can't assert biblical truth without facing condemnation, and frightening to witness outrage and victimhood replace respect and reason. Amidst this dissent, how can you not only stay rooted in your faith but continue to publicly testify for Jesus?

In We Will Not Be Silenced, Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer prepares you to live out your convictions against a growing tide of hostility. Gain a better understanding of nonbelievers' legitimate hurts and concerns regarding issues like racism, sexism, and poverty - and identify the toxic responses secular culture disguises as solutions.

In the process, you'll see how you can show compassion and gentleness to those outside the faith without affirming their beliefs,

We Will Not Be Silenced will ready you to move beyond fear and boldly accept the challenge of representing Christ to a watching world that needs Him now more than ever before."

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I highly recommend putting this book at the top of your Christmas list for gifting to your teens, adult children, family members, friends, and neighbors.

Robin

Firm Steps. Strong Hands.

Psalm 37:23-24 Reminds us that it is the Lord who makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with His hand.

In these uncertain times we can be sure that God will make firm our steps even in the midst of a culture that seeks to trip us up. God's hand is there to uphold us!

I am happy to report that several Good News Clubs are meeting again but, we have a long way to go!

The Covid 19 shut-down has produced a hard, rocky, uphill climb for so many and especially for the children. In the midst of all the fear and bad news we must continue to give the next generation Hope the great Good News!

God's Word is true and we can trust it in the good times and in the bad times, even when the only path up looks steep, wobbly and unstable.

We can stay steadfast, focused, committed, and joyful.

God's Word is life giving! When we read it, eat it, meditate upon it, it literally awakens us to life. God's Word makes us see things otherwise hidden to us. The Word helps us hear, smell, touch, and taste life.

My husband and I recently celebrated 33 years of marriage and we took a little trip out west. We did a fair amount of hiking, lots of sightseeing, praying, praising, and listening. I love the way God's Word is living and breathing. God never fails to amalgamate an experience in nature with truths from His Word to teach me a life lesson, answer a question that I have been asking, or enlighten me something that I need to know for the times. That sounds somewhat cliché I know... but hang with me for just a few more lines.

The human ego often thinks of things in nature as useful for self preservation or generally useless.

How unfortunate is conceit?

When we view all God's creation as revealed in His True Word we are able to observe nature and it teaches us that everything under Heaven has a purpose. We should value all creation even if it doesn't aid in our survival.

We observe in nature and glean from God's Word, that some of the best stuff follows bad stuff.

Clouds break, storms pass, winds lay, fog lifts, ice melts, and God provides shade as we need it.

I realize that there is much work to do!!!

We must remember to rest in The LORD and rely fully on His Spirit!

(Zechariah 4:6-7) Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

(Isaiah 61:1-3) The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives

and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—

to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord

for the display of his splendor.