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Walking the Talk

Open Your Heart to Jesus

"I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees. You shall live in the land I gave your fathers you shall be my people, and I will be your God." (Ezekiel 36: 25-28)

It is impossible to be good and live a holy life without the help of the Holy Spirit. It is difficult to even have the desire to live a holy life without help. The reason we need to be holy and cleansed from all of our impurities is because we cannot enter heaven, a completely holy place, with even a spot of sin. Since the Bible says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,: we are kidding ourselves if we think we live outside of this truth. Yes, you have sinned, so in and of yourself you are unable to go to heaven when you die. However, there is good news. A way has been made for you. This is the free gift of salvation offered to us through Jesus Christ's death on the cross. It is simple. Just receive it. Ask Jesus to come into your heart and be your Lord and Saviour. He will forgive you of all of your sins and give you egverlasting life.

He will take you out of your darkness and into his glorious light. You will be his child. He will give you the power to be holy and will transform you into his image. You will have the strength to be kind, patient, loving, and forgiving. You will then shine his glorious light to a dark world that needs the love of Jesus.

So, even if you have no desire to be holy and you are quite content muddling in the sin that is so familiar to you, this is not God's plan for your life. He has a higher calling for you. He wants you to be holy as Christ is holy. He wants you to be with him in heaven after you die and not go to hell in everlasting torment with Satan, his demons and all of those who have died in their sins. So shake out of your old habits and unhhealthy surroundings and receive Jesus. He wants to remove every area of darkness in your life and cleanse and heal you. Even Christians can be in bondage to sin. There may still be some areas of sin that you are enjoying from time to time and you don't really want the Lord to come in and change this area of your life. The flesh is still screaming for satisfaction, yet the Spirit of the Lord in you is grieved. Remember, if you even have one small chain of bondage to sin in your life, then you are still chained. Our enemy, Satan, is looking for any area he can grab hold of to tear us completely down. Don't forget that we are in a battle. He preys on your weaknesses. Jesus wants to set you free from every chain in your life. he came to set you completely free!

"To be in Christ means being a completely new creature. Everything of the old is gone, now everything is made anew." (2 Corinthians 5"17)

Ask the Lord to shine his light in every area of darkness in your life. Ask him to give you the desire to be holy. He will come in and bring his healing power to transform you into his image.

Cyndie Grozelle