{"id":4958,"date":"2021-12-17T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:08:21","slug":"with-jesus-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/with-jesus-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"With Jesus I Can"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Artist: Vanessa Maddoux<\/h6>\n
I can\u2019t, but\u2026<\/h6>\n
With Jesus, I can.<\/h6>\n
Jesus loves us conditionally. You know how I know; this is true? Because he didn\u2019t die for me after I accepted him. He didn\u2019t die for me before I cleaned up my life. He didn\u2019t die for me after I was saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit. No.<\/h6>\n
Jesus died for me, even though I was lost. Jesus died for me, while I was in darkness. Jesus died for me, while I was unclean. Jesus died for me while, I didn\u2019t even believe in him. Jesus died for all of us while, we were still, empty, broken, foul mouthed, murderers, liars, steeped in idolatry, prejudiced, prostitutes, sadistic, heretics, Godless, unholy and full of dead men\u2019s bones. Man, woman, boy and girl\u2026you are the reason he died in the first place. Even before you were born, the Son of God, Jesus, died for you and me.<\/h6>\n
This morning in my alone time with my precious Savior, the King of Glory, my dearest friend\u2026He listened to me as I poured out my heart and soul to him. Sometimes you just have to get down to it\u2026to the place where nothing or no one else matters except being bare naked and with raw honesty before the living God. Jesus doesn\u2019t manipulate us. He doesn\u2019t say come to me and I\u2019ll save you if you\u2019ll just serve me and work for me. He doesn\u2019t want our carnal, intellectual prayers or our fleshy good works. That\u2019s not what he asks of us. He wants our devotion to be from the heart and of the spirit to love him as he loves us. Unconditionally, no strings attached kind of love.<\/h6>\n
Because of His great love for us knowing what he did for us and has done and is doing for us that we love him so much we get to serve him. We get to love others and serve them because of what He did. Not because of what we think we will receive. No praise. No recognition, No applause from the crowds. Our hearts must be like His\u2026even if we are rejected, persecuted, stripped of everything we have, accused or even put to death\u2026we are to love, and treat others just as Jesus has done for us.<\/h6>\n
We get one life, it\u2019s a one-way ticket through this life and if you are blessed enough to accept Jesus, as your Lord and Savior, don\u2019t waste one minute trying to live by someone else\u2019s idea of who they say He is. Know him for yourself. Get alone with Him. Talk to Him about everything. We have an enemy it\u2019s not your neighbor, family, foreigners. The enemy is the accuser\u2026He is a liar, and he comes in all shapes and sizes to kill you, destroy you and steal your life. He\u2019ll use people and make you think it\u2019s them, but he is behind every evil thought and action. You can\u2019t fight him on your own merit or knowledge. It\u2019s spiritual and can only be fought with spiritual weaponry.<\/h6>\n
I have one answer for you it\u2019s the best answer you\u2019ll ever receive. It\u2019s right in front of your eyes and has been all along. It\u2019s so simple that most people miss it. What is the answer you ask? When I tell you don\u2019t roll your eyes or, dismiss its importance. If you are wise you will adhere to it, you will take it and it will transform your life forever.<\/h6>\n
It\u2019s the Holy Bible. God\u2019s words written down to instruct you in every area of your life. Financial, family, marriage, children, government, history, environment, prayer, strategy for war, past, present and future. There\u2019s just one thing required, YOU HAVE TO READ IT AND OBEY! That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all I got! The rest is up to you and Jesus.<\/h6>\n
I can\u2019t, but with Jesus, I can do all things because he gives me strength.<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill December 17, 2021<\/h6>\n
Philippians 4:13 New King James Version<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
13\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>I can do all things\u00a0through\u00a0[a<\/a>]<\/sup>Christ who strengthens me.<\/em><\/h6>\n
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 The Passion Translation<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
3\u20134\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>For although we live in the natural realm, we don\u2019t wage a military campaign employing human weapons,\u00a0using manipulation to achieve our aims. Instead, our\u00a0spiritual\u00a0weapons are energized with divine power to effectively dismantle the defenses\u00a0behind which people hide.[a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>We can demolish every deceptive fantasy[b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought[c<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0and insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Footnotes<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
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    10:3\u20134<\/a>\u00a0Or \u201cstrongholds.\u201d The Aramaic word for strongholds can also be translated \u201crebellious castles.\u201d Paul seems to be referring to demonic strongholds or centers of opposition to the light of the gospel.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    10:5<\/a>\u00a0Or \u201ccitadels of argumentations,\u201d which include fantasies.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    10:5<\/a>\u00a0Or \u201cevery scheme.\u201d Paul is using the concept of taking prisoners of war, but in this case the prisoners held captive are faulty patterns of thought that defy God\u2019s authority.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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