Putting God first is the most important thing that one should do. It will bring the most glory to God, which He requires. In fact God created all things for His glory. Yet God does not need glory because He is totally selfsufficient and lacks nothing. Since God lacks nothing, why does God want us to glorify Him? It is for our own good and the good of the world. Like one who throws a ball on a wall and it bounces back to him, so it is with glorifying God. Glorifying God has possitive boomerang effects on the one who glorifies Him. 

Many person wrongfully think, consciously or subconsciously, that when they give or surrender to God they are losing. So they are detered from committing themselves to God. But let me tell you, they are DEAD WRONG. The bible says, he that lose himself by surrendering to Christ will find himself. So by losing one's self he gains and by refusing to surrender one's self to God he loses.

God's perfect plan for us is to have life to the full, but the devils plan is to rob us of it, kill and destroy us, John 10:10. How can we prevent the devil from doing this and experience the full life that God has for us? Jesus answers the question: He says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." All these things includes everything that will cause you to experience the life that Christ has for us in full. Therefore, PUT GOD FIRST.

To achieve success in anything in life requires perseverance. As the saying goes, "The race is not for the swift nor the battle for the strong, but for those who endure to the end."

Many have started out with great vigor and expectations for success but never continue, because they were not willing to do what was required until success came. It would be good to listen to the words of Bayard Taylor who said, "Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant." 

My encouragement to you is to find out what God wants you to do always and work at it through the power of God until it is accomplished.

The bible declares that God is absolutely good in nature, thoughts, words, and deeds. Everything He created was good and all things together were very good. So how did evil come into being? The bible tells us that God created angels and man with wills to choose and some angels and man chose to disobey Him and cause evil to come into being.

Even the French Philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau admits that "Everthing is good when it leaves the creator's hands; everything degenerates in the hands of man." 

The only way to clean up the evils of the world is through the redemption that comes through Christ as a result of His dying on a cross to pay for man's sins. Those who put their faith in what Christ did for them are forgiven of their sins and are made righteous by God. When Christ returns the second time He will eleminate from the world all those who refused to repent and become righteous and all those who repented and became righteous He will make perfect. He will make the entire world righteous again. 

If you want to be apart of that righteous world forever, you must repent in this world and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. DO IT NOW, IF YOU HAVE NOT!!!

The restoration of God's plan for sinful man is God's great purpose for each of us. If we fail to make use of God's provision for this, then we choose to exclude ourselves from participating in it forever. 

Romans 8:29, tells us that Jesus came to restore man to God's original purpose that is stated in Genesis 1:26 - 28, but restoration has been thwarted in the majority of mankind from Genesis 3 until now. The purpose of God is to restore man to image of Christ. This is the ultimate predestined purpose of the birth , life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The coming of the Holy Spirit is to put into effect, in the lives of Christians, the benefits of the finished work of Christ that He accomplished for them. The Holy Spirit Helps Christians to duplicate on earth the priestly and kingly ministries that Christ has been executing at the Father's right hand in heaven. This will continue until the second coming of Christ to established on earth His everlasting kingdom.

LET GOD CONTINUE TO RESTORE THE IMAGE OF CHRIST IN YOU!!