Today, we live in a culture ruled by the spirit of deception that has allowed the mainstream media to become the prophets of Baal and schools the centers for evil and perverse indoctrination of our children. Innocent children are told the absurd lie that they can change genders. When young people were asked the most important political issue in the election, they said climate change?! They’ve been taught to believe the centuries-old climate cult lies politically used today to destroy our economy, create inflation, fuel fires, and war on appliances, cars, and the American way of life. Yet, the world hasn’t ended and it won’t until God says it will. He spoke the world into existence and only God knows when the end will come.
In the interim, many children and adults live in fear believing untruths about themselves and their world. Truth is mislabeled a “conspiracy theory” or "misinformation." God tells those who know Him as their Savior not to fear but to learn and share the truths that will set the fearful free of doubt and worry and offer them eternal life with Jesus.
When I was a new believer at the age of eleven, it was hard for me to fathom how God could care so much about me that He sent His One and only Son to die for me (John 3:16). Maybe someone would die for all humanity, but the emphasis was that I was that important to God.
My mentors assured me that God could and would listen to my prayers as if I was the only person praying. As a young child, I found it fascinating that God loved me so much and was capable of not only hearing but also answering my personal prayers!
As I grew in my faith, I started hearing words like omniscient and omnipresent. I began to understand that my finite mind couldn’t comprehend God’s infinite capabilities, but I could trust them to be true.
We have a prolific raspberry plant in our garden and when I’m harvesting, I don’t want to miss a single ripe berry, even though my basket is already brimming over with ruby red luscious fruit. I’ve clawed my way under the prickly bush to rescue the one lone berry that fell onto the ground. Every time I make that dive through the branches, I think this is what God did for me when I had fallen away from Him.
12 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! Matt. 18:12-13 NLT
Instead of the Devils Lies, Christians MUST Fill the Truth Vacuum with What God Says in His Word!
We’re each unique, wonderfully made, and no one has our DNA or fingerprint. That’s true for every aborted baby. I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Jer. 1:5 NLT
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Ps. 119:13-14
God created us in His divine likeness and designated our gender. So God created
human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Gen. 1:27 NLT
God wants us to treat our precious body as a holy temple because the Holy Spirit resides in us. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Cor. 6:19-20
God knows the number of hairs on our head! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:6-7
God is our heavenly Father. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12
Live Out Who God Says You Are
We each have special gifts and talents with a specific plan and purpose to use them for God’s glory. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jer. 29:11
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 1 Peter 4:10 NLT
It took a few years before I fulfilled the calling God had on my life to serve Him in ministry as a Christian author and speaker. I’m also a wife, mother, Grammie, and friend. All worthy callings and blessings. Every Christian has a calling to share the gospel wherever God places us.
Eventually, I awakened to the truth that as a Christian I possess the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16) and He wanted me to put my mind, talents, and energy into the work He has for me to do. What an awe-inspiring and bold concept. I can do all things through Christ because He will give me the strength and opportunities to fulfill His purposes (Phil. 4:13). Praise God, Christ lives in me, as He lives in every believer. We need to honor and please Him by professing His goodness to a suffering world void of God’s truths.
We have access to the Father (Eph. 2:18). Every believer possesses God's power. As Jeremy Camp’s song “Same Power” attests, the same power that rose Jesus from the grave, lives in us (Eph. 6:10)! It’s important to remember that God’s power works through us when we step out of the way and let Him take over our words, thoughts, and actions. Like the apostle Paul, “I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power” (Eph. 3:7).
Many fail to realize that as Christians we share in God’s divine nature. Again, it’s mind boggling, but the Bible assures us it’s true! We are who God says we are not what our doubting mind, critics, skeptics, or the world tells us. 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Pet. 1:3-4
There’s no doubt we live in an evil fallen world, but God doesn’t want me, or you, to take on the identity of a victim or live in fear. My identity, your identity, is in Christ. With the Lord’s help, we display His characteristics!
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 2 Pet. 1:5-7
We are overcomers! For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4
God has a path for all His children, and the only way we’ll know that plan is to stay close to Him in prayer and reading our Bible. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph. 2:10
Focus on what God says about you because God is the only One who matters. As you accept the truth of how special you are to God, negative thoughts and fears disappear. We rest secure knowing our Father watches over us.
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. Ps. 17:8
I would not forget you! 16 See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Is. 15-16 NLT
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:7-12
Every morning, will you pray with me to be a light and a witness to God’s goodness to everyone we encounter during the day. Together, we can fill the truth vacuum with Jesus. 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. 14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matt. 5:13-14
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