It Doesn't Matter Which Version Of The Bible That You Read .. The Good News Stays With You

Last year I decided to made it my goal to read the entire Bible each year.

Not only to read the entire Bible each year, but to really understand what I'm reading, and to make good use of what I'd learned from reading the Bible in my everyday life.

I started off reading my old King James Version Bible that I'd read and studied for years. I really had a hard time understanding some of the verses. By the time that I was almost finished with the Old Testament, I was pretty flustered.
I wasn't satisfied with the way I was understanding what I had read. 

 

 

 

 

So I went to a Christian book store in my neighborhood and explained my problem to the store's manager. I told her that I not only wanted to read the Bible in a year, but I wanted to understand what I was reading. After a lengthy conversation I purchased a New International Version of the Bible and took it home with me.
Since I wasn't happy about the way that I understood what I had already read in my King James Bible, I decided to start completely over, and read my new NIV Bible from the very beginning.
Wow, the Bible looked new to me. I was finally grasping each and every word.
And I've been reading my new Bible ever since!

But a funny thing happens everytime that I read my new NIV Bible. I seem to always remember the same verses in my old Bible that I read and studied back months ago.
I guess that it Doesn't matter which version of the Bible that you read and study, the "Good News" will always stay with you...

Bible Versions: http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/

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God And Heaven Are As Close As Saying A Prayer

 

 

In my last blog yesterday, I talked about knowing that God and Heaven Exists.

Living forever in Heaven with God.

To get away from the everyday stress of life and work, many of my friends go to the movies. I myself love to watch comedy movies to get a laugh or two. Doctors say that just laughing out loud and putting on a smile each day takes away stress, makes you healthier, and even makes your life span longer. Sounds good to me!

In many movies like Dracula, Blade Runner, Picture of Dorian Grey, living forever and having eternal life is one of the main themes of the story line. If you've ever seen one of these movies, or one like them, do you remember thinking wouldn't it be cool to never get old, and to never die.

To live forever eternally !

Do you know that you can ? How .. By asking God to forgive your sins, and to come into your life. So what this simply means is that you say a prayer to God asking him to clear your slate of all the bad (sins) things that you've done in the past, and to come into your body & soul, and to be there with you. Take some time each day to read in the Bible, and to talk to God. Whether it's only ten or fifteen minutes a day, you'll start to feel the difference in the way that you look and feel about the whole world around you. Remember that no human being is perfect, except God. So each day ask God for his forgiveness of the things that you've done wrong.

God will always be there for you. He loves you no matter what.

 

This Bible Verse says it all.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6

 

This Will Change Your Entire Life ..

It Changed Mine !

 

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Begin Your New Year With Asking God Into Your Life

God does always have something for you.

He created you and gave you life in your earthly birth. He knows what's going to happen to you in your entire life. He knows what you're going to say before it comes out of your mouth. And he knows what's in your heart. So whom better to go to for help in running your life?

If you're like me and everyone else in the world, you've made plenty of wrong decisions in your life. Constant struggling with what life is giving you .. Trying to make ends meet ..

 I'm tired of being tired!

Is there anything out there for me?

There Is!

Ask God into your life.

It's easy as saying a prayer!

Here's an example of what to say to God in your prayer.
But remember that the best way to talk to God is through your heart.

Salvation Prayer
 

 Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness.

I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin.

You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved.

Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved.

Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself.

Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.
Amen.

http://www.salvationprayer.info/prayer.html

Make a special time each day to spend time with Jesus, reading the Bible.
And end this special time with a "Heart To Heart" talk with him through prayer.

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My Blessing Passed On For A Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year 2013! ..

To most people wishing you a "Happy New Year" means may this new year be better than the past 365 days. I've got to admit that it would be very easy for me to agree with that feeling too!

I lost my mother early last year, and I'm still recovering from surgery that I had this past summer in August. But as one who loves Jesus, I believe that my mom is in a much better place called Heaven. She's out of Earthly pains, and back with her family that have passed in previous years. She's much happier now back home with Jesus. As for my surgery. I had a tumor removed in August (Not Cancer) from my right jaw bone, and have been experiencing complications in my right eye from the surgery when my Doctor hit one of the nerves near that eye. It's getting better though. I've recovered my entire vision back in my eye, and all the movement too. While I was under anesthesia  during the surgery, a Blessing of a lifetime happened to me. Jesus came to me in a vision. I could see a very bright light behind him, and what looked like puffy white clouds in the background. So the surgery that I went through in August was actually a Huge "Blessing" to me. I've only told a few close friends about my encounter with Jesus up to this point. Now I hope through my blog that I can share my Blessing with many others .. If I could do it all over again and turn back time and not have had to have the surgery in August, and not got to have my encounter with Jesus .. would I have changed things? No way! My faith is much much stronger now, and I was given the biggest blessing possible by seeing Jesus with my own eyes. To me I feel like if I can get through to only one non-believer in Christ through my experience, and turn their belief around and believe in Jesus, it was all worth it ..

Seeing is Believing !

 

Have A Blessed 2013 ..

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