Following Christ Alone!

Many brothers and sisters in the Lord are facing friends and family who have spurned their warnings and correction. They are pressured by society to stay in contact along with their own sense that they will be alone if they do anything to alienate these people.

When we do things God's ways we remove the pressure of the culture, while learning and experiencing the blessing of peace in our lives. Often we have to endure unsaved loved ones and their constant drama and lifestyle nonsense, but we don't have to stay in it, we can minimize the contact and reduce the evil that invades our existence.


We don't ever stop loving them, but we have to learn to love them from afar while demonstrating faith that God can work in them without us. It makes no sense at all to continue to bang our heads against a brick wall, knowing that the banging isn't making any dents in the bricks.

Relationships have a purpose for the believer, one is to bring the gospel to the unsaved and next the spiritual growth of believers. When the unbeliever doesn't want what we offer then we must move on. When the believer is stubborn and resistant to instruction, correction, rebuke and encouragement in righteousness, then we are to walk away, leaving them to God.

Faith is demonstrated when we can leave someone to God while carrying on our lives as the Lord has directed us......according to the Word.

Ezekiel 3:19 ""Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself."

Jeremiah 7:16 ""As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you."
Jeremiah 11:14 ""Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster."

Isaiah 26:10
"But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the Lord

Mark 10:28-30
"28 Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You."
29 Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake,
30 but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life."

Matthew 10:37
"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me."

We wish our families would join us in our journey to walk with Christ, but if they will not, then we have to keep focused on our journey even if they do not follow.

The Unsaved Know There Is A God

God put the knowledge of Him in everyone's heart, mankind knows there is a God and refuses Him. Those who say unbelievers have an excuse because they can't know the truth, that is not the truth, they do know and choose. Why would a non-believer go to hell if he was not accountable because he didn't know? Of course they know, that's why they are hostile to those who warn them. If they didn't know and didn't feel conviction they wouldn't become hostile.

Titus 1:16 "They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed."


1 John 2:24 "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

These verses show that man knows about God but chooses to remain in control of their own lives rather than trust Him.

Romans 1:28 "And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,"

It's Coming Are We Ready?

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For some time now my husband and I have been wondering why the Lord was holding off in punishing the Pacific Northwest for its wickedness. It is possible He is saving the worst for this area of the country.

1. Oregon was the first state to legalize abortion in 1968 before the Roe-v-Wade decision (5 years before).
2. No fault divorce was legalized in Oregon in 1970.
3. In recent years assisted suicide has been legalized in Washington and Oregon.
4. Legalization of gambling.
5. Legalization of same se'x marrige.
6. 11,000 riders in the naked bike ride in Portland Oregon.
7. The mayor of Portland had sex with an underage boy while never being prosecuted for it and even being elected again after the dust settled.
8. The governments of Oregon and Washington refuse to allow the execution of legally convicted people who should have been executed for their crimes.
9. The legalization of medical and recreational Marijuana.
10. This region has the lowest church attendance in the nation, an indication of lack of interest in God or morality.
11. Seattle and Portland are cities that pride themselves as in the top 15 most liberal cities in the nation.

This region defies God on every level, without conscience over it even proud of their evil.

Jeremiah 6:15 ""Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD."