Last weekend I had a chance to attend AFMIM UK Midlands regional Easter conference in Coventry and it was really a blessing. I went there expecting God to speak to me and he did not let me down. There are times when I looked at myself I always saw a dirty person who does not deserve the love that God give me. During the conference I got to understand that we are all saved by grace through faith [John 3: 16-18] 16"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. From the passage it can be seen that we are saved by faith and not works. [Eph. 2:8-9] 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. I now know that if I have faith then my judgement is passed as not guilty by God's grace.
So to receive God's grace we need to have faith, and to have faith we need to have God's word in our hearts [Romans 10:17] 17So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Paul also said that we are all saved through the word of God [1 Cor. 15:2-6] 2and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you unless you believed in vain. 3For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
Whenever we hear the word of God we should keep it in our hearts and thrive to seek more as God speak and lead us through his word. [1 John 2:25-27] 25And this is the promise that he made to us eternal life. 26I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie just as it has taught you, abide in him. A true christian life produces righteousness as it is led by Christ himself [Titus 2:11-15] 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. 15Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Finally we should always watch out for those people who can distract us in our faith and change God's grace in our lives. [Jude 1:4] 4For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Sao it is easy to be saved, all we need to do is know the word of God and take himon his own word for he is saying [Isaiah 55:11] 11so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty,but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
God Bless
