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| Hello Friends, I welcome you to join me on this journey as I share this time in words of praise to God, devotion to Him for His faithfulness in my life and instruction I've received through my own time with God. I welcome you to come and relax with me, have a cup of tea and enjoy this time together. Justene |
| Hi All, I would also like to welcome you to join in our journey. I hope to bring you along with pictures of the people, places and things in our life. There are so many things to say, see and do and we pray that this little spot on the computer can give you peace and pleasure in the presence of God. Blessings, Jana |
| Hi, I'm Brenda. Welcome to our place of prayer, praise and peace. As we continue to come together in fellowship we pray you will join us. Come back often to see the things God is doing in and through us. |
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The Wages of Sin
by Mary Justene Martin
February 5, 2012
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God
created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created
them male and female, and He blessed them and named them
Man in the day when they were created. (Genesis 5:1,2)
When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became
the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image,
and named him Seth. Then the days of Adam after he became the
father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons
and daughters. Of all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred
and thirty years, and he died. (verses 3-5)
Here we see that even after man sinned he lived hundreds of
years. And obviously Eve was able to bear children well into her
hundreds. To me this is evidence of God's original plan, that
man would live forever on the earth, in a perfect environment.
But we know that Adam's eventual death was the result of his
“missing the mark” the one true sin, thinking for himself. Eating
fruit was not the sin that caused man to fall, but making the
wrong decision.
Today man's refusal to obey God still results in death, but what
if man began to listen once again to the direction of the Holy
Spirit? We have been in the habit of making our own wrong
decisions for so long that now many do not even know about
Holy Spirit, or what His purpose is. Holy Spirit is the power that
created the entire universe. Jesus was empowered by Him on
the day He descended on Him when John baptized Him. Jesus,
who was part of God, was reconnected with the third person of
God and He became Supernatural. In other words He was
empowered with extraordinary power to live as God on the
earth. He did not go to heaven or leave the earth at this time, He
walked the earth healing and doing the mighty works of God.
Before this He was just a man, born as man. I do not believe He
would have accomplished the great works He did had He not
been reconnected with Holy Spirit.
We are made in the image of God. We are all tiny pieces of God,
but without Holy Spirit to direct us, we are destined to keep on
making our own bad decisions. It's not enough to be filled with
His Spirit, we must be willing to hear and obey this Spirit. This
takes the work of restoration which Jesus finished on the cross.
When He was resurrected to live again forever, He was showing
us what our destiny would be once we receive the restoration.
The problem is, most people are waiting to be restored after
they die and leave the earth. Jesus already did that so that we
could remain on the earth.
I do not know what the new heaven and the new earth will be
like, but I know it is the promise of God that all things will be
restored. We are not waiting to die, life is waiting for us to
receive the restoration Jesus purchased. To give up and die is
to tell those who went before us in faith, that restoration is again
delayed because of our wrong decisions.
by Mary Justene Martin
February 5, 2012
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God
created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created
them male and female, and He blessed them and named them
Man in the day when they were created. (Genesis 5:1,2)
When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became
the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image,
and named him Seth. Then the days of Adam after he became the
father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons
and daughters. Of all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred
and thirty years, and he died. (verses 3-5)
Here we see that even after man sinned he lived hundreds of
years. And obviously Eve was able to bear children well into her
hundreds. To me this is evidence of God's original plan, that
man would live forever on the earth, in a perfect environment.
But we know that Adam's eventual death was the result of his
“missing the mark” the one true sin, thinking for himself. Eating
fruit was not the sin that caused man to fall, but making the
wrong decision.
Today man's refusal to obey God still results in death, but what
if man began to listen once again to the direction of the Holy
Spirit? We have been in the habit of making our own wrong
decisions for so long that now many do not even know about
Holy Spirit, or what His purpose is. Holy Spirit is the power that
created the entire universe. Jesus was empowered by Him on
the day He descended on Him when John baptized Him. Jesus,
who was part of God, was reconnected with the third person of
God and He became Supernatural. In other words He was
empowered with extraordinary power to live as God on the
earth. He did not go to heaven or leave the earth at this time, He
walked the earth healing and doing the mighty works of God.
Before this He was just a man, born as man. I do not believe He
would have accomplished the great works He did had He not
been reconnected with Holy Spirit.
We are made in the image of God. We are all tiny pieces of God,
but without Holy Spirit to direct us, we are destined to keep on
making our own bad decisions. It's not enough to be filled with
His Spirit, we must be willing to hear and obey this Spirit. This
takes the work of restoration which Jesus finished on the cross.
When He was resurrected to live again forever, He was showing
us what our destiny would be once we receive the restoration.
The problem is, most people are waiting to be restored after
they die and leave the earth. Jesus already did that so that we
could remain on the earth.
I do not know what the new heaven and the new earth will be
like, but I know it is the promise of God that all things will be
restored. We are not waiting to die, life is waiting for us to
receive the restoration Jesus purchased. To give up and die is
to tell those who went before us in faith, that restoration is again
delayed because of our wrong decisions.