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12 Steps to Peace with God
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4 Spiritual Laws
Where we spend eternity and the peace that we have
inside ourselves depends primarily on a single decision that you make here in
this world: the decision of whether of not we will accept the path that
God has laid out for us to take.
If we obey the pre-determined logic
of our computer systems
then we usually get the results that we want. If we
provide our automobiles with the proper fuel, maintenance and care according to
the rules of the manual we usually get worry free performance. If we
construct a building in accordance with the engineering rules that the engineer
lays down, then usually the building will withstand a certain degree of wind
without collapsing. If we take the time to maintain our relationships with
loved ones according to the commonly known rules of courtesy, preference and
honor, we usually get the result of happy relationships. The pattern we
see here is that everything in life usually has a definite right and a
definite wrong way in which something must be done. Also, we notice
that someone who has studied or manufactured a given "thing" has
established the rules for what makes the "thing" work at it's very
best. Also, these "someone's" usually write down an instruction
manual for the best way, and sometimes only way, to make the 'thing"
operate. The choice then becomes whether the person reading the
instruction manual will heed the instructions found therein.
Now there are several things that
become curious at this point.
Usually no one reading these instruction manuals for
"things" ever seriously doubts
(1.) that there was a knowledgeable writer,
(2.) that there was a very good reason for what the
writer wrote or
(3.) that they will get the results that they want if
they follow the instructions.
In fact we very ardently expect that the written instructions must be
correct. Now notice that we are expecting this "perfect
knowledge" about the "thing" in question from a "someone"
who is merely human like ourselves. Further, if we're honest, we will
admit that most of the problems that we encounter with our "things"
have to do with either our lazy unwillingness to read all the instructions or
our unwillingness to follow that which we do read. Either way, most of the
malfunctions of our "things" have to do with our "problems"
not the "thing's." problems. When this happens, we have to take
the "thing" to the repair shop for a technician or specialist to fix
it in accordance to "someone's" pre-determined specifications.
We, like these "things", have to go to God for repairs caused from our
own or someone else's "sins" (pride, selfishness, self-absorption). When
we realize that our life isn't "running right" it's time to go to God
for repairs.
There are really four spiritual laws that rule our path to peach with God.
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Law 1: |
Why is it
then, that so many people are trying to find
some way to PEACE with GOD besides His way.
If you're reading this then you're probably searching for something to fill an
unexplainable void in your life. You know that you're not at peace with
life and you're feel that if you can just find God then maybe this void
will go away...well, you're right. The Holy Bible contains
instructions on how to find Peace with God. But don't wait until you
"get good enough"...you will never get "Good Enough" and
further more you don't need to get good enough. God will accept you just
as you are! All you have to do is accept, by faith, that When Jesus died
on the cross, he died for your sin. If you will accept Jesus as your
personal Savior, God will totally forgive and forget all that you've done wrong
in life. But you have to do this by faith click here to read the scripture. To
make it easier for you, here are a few basic instructions to reach this peace
and they're all for your benefit. Consider accepting the following
12 steps to Peace with God:
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Action to Take |
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1 |
Know there is a God. | |
| 2 | Be willing to do whatever God says to get Peace | |
| 3 | know that God is Absolute Truth and Love, therefore the Holy Bible is His Word | |
| 4 | know that God sets the standards for "Right and Wrong" | |
| 5 | Realize that Gods is perfect and nothing impure can stand in His presence. | |
| 6 | Confess to God that you are a sinner--you're selfish--you want your own way | |
| 7 | Sincerely ask God to Forgive you for your sins and to be willing to turn from them. | |
| 8 | Sincerely ask Jesus Christ to enter your Heart and become your Savior and Lord | |
| 9 | Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with His power | |
| 10 | Start praying and reading the Bible everyday, start with the Gospel of John | |
| 11 | Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you the meaning of confusing Bible text | |
| 12 | Ask God to lead you to a church where you can be nourished, spiritually |
Simply Pray This Prayer aloud:
Lord, I realize I have sinned against you. I need you to forgive me,
please forgive me. I receive you into my life and heart. I ask you
to be my Savior and Lord and ask you to fill me with your Holy Spirit.
| 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. |
| 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph. 2:9 |
| 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. |
| JN 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." |
| EX 20:3
"You shall have no other gods before me.
EX 20:4 "You shall
not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the
fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6
but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and
keep my commandments.
EX 20:7 "You shall
not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold
anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
EX 20:8 "Remember
the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall
not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your
manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your
gates. 11 For in six days
the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and made it holy.
EX 20:12 "Honor
your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the
LORD your God is giving you.
EX 20:13
"You shall not murder.
EX 20:14
"You shall not commit adultery.
EX 20:15
"You shall not steal.
EX 20:16
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
EX 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet
your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
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| 44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground. 45 I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy. |
| 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. |
| 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. |
| REV 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. JN 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." |
| 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." |
| PS 119:97 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. |
| JN 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. |
| 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching. |
