Tiffany Cole- Her Heart Moves Forward into Lovelier Things

Tiffany Cole is on death row in Florida.  As an intercessor for Praying Without Ceasing: Prison Ministry for  Women on Death Row I am honored to have been given the privilege to even receive anything that she write to me. We  often make the mistake of drawing conclusions and making presumptions about the women on death row. The name Tiffany comes from the word epiphany, the day when  the Thee kings first saw the Christ child. The name means the manifestation  of God. One would hardly think that a manifestation from God would come from inside prison walls but it can surprise you.

This very week I received a letter from Tiffany; when I opened it, I almost couldn’t contain myself. The greeting said “Happy Resurrection Day.” Here it is that I am outreaching to the women on death row with the assumption that they are far removed from a relationship with the king and I am awed by and embarrassed by the manifestation of God. I should of been the one sending out  Happy Resurrection cards but I was the one receiving such. I am humbled.  This is a lesson to everyone who thinks they are wise, the bible says, where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty and that liberty is well beyond our limited views and expectations.

In every letter Tiffany has written thus far, she mentions her love for Jesus and for Bible reading and prayer. She also prays in the heavenly language  and it is good news to learn that she has been baptized with the fire of God from on high. Just the thought of this is truly amazing. John 17:3  says And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.My Pastor Dr. Olapade Oyagunwa preached on this scripture recently. It is marvelous to learn that knowing the one and one true God  Jesus Christ  will give you eternal life  and there is no prerequisite. When you KNOW Jesus Christ as the only one true God you are guaranteed eternal life.

The Bible  is filled with detailed accounts of many sinners besides Adam and Eve. Some of these sinners were priests,  others were leaders and others were kings. All of those who committed crimes during biblical times were definite candidates for today’s death row. Jesus made a habit of hanging out with  sinners. He choose Matthew a tax collector to be a disciple and to top that off He went to dinner at Matthews house and ate with more tax collectors. The conversation would be incomplete if I  leave out David the giant slayer who killed Goliath. He was a King who killed on of his mighty men ruthlessly by sending him to the front lines of a war. He did so after lusting for and fornicating with the mans wife. Not only was King David a fornicating adulterer but he was a plotting, scheming murderer, who God called a man after His own heart. Next. we have  Saul who Jesus blinded on the road to Damascus, he was guilty persecuting and murdering Christians. Saul who later was converted renamed Paul, used to drag people out of their homes and throw them in prison. God’s ways are not our ways, He’s the one that changes hearts and we know  and should believe this: saying of Paul himself : “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners–of whom I am the worst.” 1 Timothy 1:15
Let me end with this.. Mark 2 16-17

“When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?” 17And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Keep Tiffany Ann Cole on Florida’s death row in your prayers.

Pray for her to keep her heart wrapped around Jesus and Her mind stayed on Christ because he will keep her in perfect peace.

In His service,

Intercessor Abu

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We stand in need of  evangelistic  materials to support the ministry of  salvation based correspondence to women on death row. Presently, it would be helpful for us to obtain christian tracts, bibles, scripture cards, stationary, envelopes and stamps needed to communicate with these women on a bi month basis. In addition, we would like to spread the word through advertizing and create community and global awareness about the plight of the women on death row while educating the public about how to lobby against proponents of the death penalty. Advocating  by creating awareness  through workshops and media is one of our goals. In addition, we intend to plan for and sponsoring intercessory prayer gatherings and to participate in conferences and other events geared to compelling others to champion the redemption and salvation women on death row.

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The Mind of Christ and Women on Death Row

1 Corinthians 2:16

“For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.”

The U.S. Supreme Court had re instituted the death penalty in July of 1976 after having struck down all state death penalty statutes almost exactly four years earlier. After so much wishy-washyness, and inconsistencies state by state, I am seeing that attitudes are changing toward repealing the death penalty throughout the U.S. For example, in Washington, the Governor has called a moratorium and several states have defacto moratoriums due to challenges to the lethal injection process. Several of these states claim they cannot find sources for the drugs and others have appeals court regulations that are being reviewed. Whatever, the state positions are, I see inequities in the system of deciding who gets to live and who dies. Intellectually speaking, in my opinion the process of deciding who dies and when should be scrutinized. It is not morally rational nor sound for former California governors to to collaborate to initiate a bill to facilitate a quicker appeals process for those on death row. Who are they to be conspiring to advocate quick appeal processes when many times people on death row get exonerated after spending many years imprisoned.

This year 2014 the Lord mandated intercession for the women on death row. What I know is…We don’t have to understand the mind of Christ, because the bible says that God’s way are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. A God example of this is King David, after committing adultery and murdering one of his “mighty men” became a man after God’s heart. When I intercede for the women on death row I don’t try to judge or take any position about the crimes they supposedly committed, I  seek to promote soul salvation through scripture cards and prayers and when i write them, I do so through the lens of Jesus who came to set every captive free. I stand in my position as an intercessor. An intercessor is an advocate. They are to represent another or plead the cause of another. Scripture tells us that both the Holy Spirit and Jesus are intercessors. They petition the Father on our behalf so that His life and will can be accomplished through us and in us. An intercessor stands before God for those that are lost or for an unholy situation to request God’s intervention and the working out of his will. The activity of intercession involves confronting forces of darkness to enforce victory from Calvary, pleading for another before the throne of God. The role of an intercessor and the action of intercession MUST be combined with a praying church.

Today I am excited about a the victory won by Michelle Byrom a women on Mississippi’s death row. The Supreme court decision to executed has been  reprieved. I believe this is confirmation of hat God said he was going to do for the women on death row when he commissioned me to start praying. The Lord said that He would champion the cause of women on death row in 2014 and I believe this is just one example of what He is about to do.

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When we are interceding we must remember that God has the answer to everything, no matter how big or how small. Because of this we can pray from heavens perspective. We are not beggars trying to get God to do something. We are His children and we have access to everything He has. So when we ask Him about situations and people, He shows us things. We can then partner with heaven for breakthroughs on behalf of others.

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When Interceding For Women on Death Row- Think of Prophet Jonah

Intercession:

As a people who stand in the gap for individuals, situations and nations, we need to see people the way God sees them. We need to let go of our personal opinions and ideas about things. This is what happened in the bible with the prophet Jonah. God sent Jonah on a mission to Nineveh. Specifically, God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh to cry out against the sin of the people and to preach. Even though though the Ninevites walked in wickedness God wanted them to know his love and he wanted to give them a chance to repent.

But Jonah disregarded the Lord’s request and got on a ship headed for Tarshish, instead he was fleeing from God (Jonah 1:3) Running from his assignment made Jonah end up being thrown overboard and eaten up by a fish. While inside the fish he repented and God had the fish spit him out. Later Jonah tells the Ninevites about God and interceded for them. Nineveh repented and God had mercy on them. This made Jonah very angry. Jonah wanted to see the wrath of God express on Nineveh, but God had compassion and mercy and wanted to save them.

Jonah more than likely believed lies about Nineveh, himself and God and this what caused him to miss his calling to be used as a vessel of hope,love and life. He knew God was s

low to anger and full of love which is why he fled to Tarshish. (Jonah 4:2) But what Jonah knew about God did

not line up with what he wanted to see happen to the Ninevites.

When God commissions us we are not to let our personal feelings impact on what we are being sent to do. We need to be firm and stable in our connection with God and other people. This is important, so that we can pray without letting our own problems derail us from the purposes and plan of God

Unless we allow God to renew our minds we about our own personal identity we are likely to have thoughts from our own thoughts and mind. Isaiah 55 v 8-9 says, “For your thoughts are not my thoughts, nor your ways my ways, declares the LORD, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Until we have allowed the Holy Spirit to change our thinking, we will have poor results!

Generated Curses that Carry over

Exodus 34:6-7 (NIV) And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.”

 

Just like physical buildings, the totality of our lives and destinies is being built day by day by our actions and inaction and also by the actions and inaction of those who have generated you. Wisdom requires therefore that we pay great attention to the foundations upon which we build our lives and destinies, especially what transitions from one generation to the next—because there is a carryover

Kings 4 v 1-7 Provides us with a POWERFUL  story about the wife of a dead Prophet who tells Prophet Elisha that her two sons will be taken as bond servants to satisfy a debt that her dead husband owed. Think about this —Here is a case where the children of the debtor would be required to be slaves to pay the price for something they had no knowledge of and had no responsible for— they needed a miracle. (read the story of the widow’s oil below).

This is the case for many of the women on death row. Many have inherited a faulty foundation from those who have generated them and stand in need of a prophetic miracle.  There may be forces at work in there lives that have their origins in previous generations. The bible says If the foundation is destroyed what can the righteous do? If the foundation of the life of a man is faulty, it is unlikely that he would live a fulfilled life let alone finding and fulfilling the purpose of God.

I pray right now that God sends a miracle to the foundation of every woman on death row. Many have been systematically victimized and suffer from a lifetime of molestation, incest, sexual abuse and domestic violence. Several have been slaves victims of people who dominated them and cause them to commit crimes. I am praying that every generated cursed carried over through blood lines, family curses and abuse be cancelled now in the name of Jesus. I am praying for  Elisha’s to rise up to come  to their aid. I pray for a prophetic miracle and an end to the death penalty in the mighty name of Jesus.

2 Kings 4 : 1-7

4 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”² Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”³ Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. ⁴ Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”⁵ She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. ⁶ When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.⁷ She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you. Isaiah 49:15b

Isaiah 49:15  Good News Translation (GNT)

¹⁵ So the Lord answers,“Can a woman forget her own baby
and not love the child she bore?Even if a mother should forget her child,
I will never forget you.

The women on death row are an ignored and forgotten group. You cannot find a dated collective listing for the women on death row group on-line. These are lists but they are outdated or incomplete. The list that i created was  painstakingly made through a tedious process of checking and cross checking death row inmate locator’s through out America’s death row prisons. This is very telling; I assure you that they have been forsaken, forgotten and ignored. Suzanne Basso (below) was the last female to be executed on America’s death row.  On February 5th, 2014, she became the 14th women killed on Texas death row.

Death by lethal injection was her punishment for allegedly masterminding the torture and brutal murder of a mentally impaired man. It was said that Basso lured the man from New Jersey to Texas under the pretense of wanting to marry him. Soon after signing up to receive his social security benefits, it is claimed that Basso had an army of people torture and torment the man to death.

My question is why did Suzanne Basso go to her death in a wheel chair? The truth is she was a vegetable paralyzed  from her waist down, according to news reports.  I wonder, since she did not enter prison with any paralysis, why  it is reported  that Basso became paralyzed while she was imprisoned, at the hand of a jail guard. If a prisoner comes into institutions to get a beat down by those whose job it is to administer justice- what’s the point of capital punishment? If by the time the inmate is to be executed, they are paralyzed and mentally impaired, what will be accomplished by killing them? It is totally inhumane, repulsive and inherently wicked to think that someone who came into the prison system whole, left it suffering, bruised, and broken. Know that every spirit of infirmity was  upon them when they were ordered to be killed on death row. Think about it, no compassion, no forgiveness, and no mercy; just murder for murder, and then we do it grossly through lethal injection.  Ponder, the  many innocent lives have been taken  because we feel that this is a humane practice and an effective response to attain justice.

The lives of the women on death row can be redeemed.  Jesus says…even if a mother forgets her child, I will never forget you. (Isaiah 49:15b) . His love for them is unconditional. I want the women on death row to know that nothing can desperate them from His love for them.

God’s Everlasting Love is describe in Romans 8:31-39

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”^[a]37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If the women on death row will turn to Jesus He can and will raise them up.

Teresa Lewis was executed on  Virginia death row despite thousands of appeals to save her was a good example of someone who Christ redeemed.  Here are her last words:“Man wants me to die, but I’m not worrying over this, I’m trusting Jesus,” she wrote. She urged the prisoners to turn to Jesus promising, “He will forgive you of all your sins and He will bring you into His loving arms.”

Thank You Jesus for the Heart of God

Some wonderful person who I will keep anonymous send me this–Yesterday on my birthday.
Greetings of Love to you Sister~ In Jesus Precious Name! Today I am rejoicing with you in the goodness of the Lord. Since I read your testimony, you have bean heavy on my mind, and in my heart, in a special way daily. Here you are…one year later to the day….and the Lord has brought you through…..for a reason….for this season…for such a time as this. I know we don’t believe in coincidences…no such thing….simply God’s perfect timing! To be given the very real possibility of a death sentence on your birthday…was no mistake….but preparation for the ministry God called you to….faithful obedience….plain spoken truth in love…no frills….God’s Word. He has given you a special love…a special calling…a special ministry few are called to…a special compassion…a special way of looking past the labels, the sins, the shattered lives to see the person’s heart and their need for a Savior….You have been given the mind of Christ for this purpose….all for His Glory… to minister to the broken~hearts….to the hopeless….the reviled….the forgotten…as some of us were. To shine God’s Light in the darkness…..to show the Love of Christ….joy and peace in spite of circumstances….each life is special…each person matters….there is something worthy of love in every person ever born…The truth is~~we are all on death row…from the moment we are born. Most people are uncomfortable with that thought….it is in our human nature to deny our own death….right up until that last moment…our final breath….we wait for a miracle…a reprieve…..There is one abiding grace and mercy in knowing the final hour…that final moment…..there is that final opportunity to repent…prepare to meet God……sometimes there is time for a testimony…..and there is a new peace…an acceptance of sorts…other times….only God and one person know what transpired in that final second. The thief on the cross said “Remember me!” there was no time for service….baptism….just a moment for the “Do not pass me by” Gentle Savior. You have been called to a painful….troubling…disturbing ministry…it is a great gift and blessing for you…to be counted worthy…to have a love for others….to care for them through their darkest days…..for this…..you have been spared! I feel this so strongly in my spirit~~all of life is fleeting….the stays of executions may be few and far between, if at all…..but the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord is precious and priceless. Thinking of Carla Faye Tucker…..Sam Burkowitz (Son of Sam)….Carla’s life was not spared, but God gave her a voice and a ministry…..Sam is still a voice in the wilderness. Perhaps if these had never entered the prison system….they never would have received Christ…..Perhaps this is what it took for God to reach them….and in His Great Mercy he touches them and draws them to Himself. You probably realize that we don’t agree on everything in regards to the death penalty…..but we do agree that God loves each of these women….He would have gone to the Cross for them alone….He wants them to be clean…washed in the Blood of the Lamb…He wants to restore them and call them His own….He careth for them….He careth for you….I pray he will make a way….for you….for these woman….for His ministry…all for His Honor and Glory~~~In Jesus Name…He is able to make all…all…ALL Grace abound!!! I love you Sister….you are in my prayers…Birthday Blessings…Many More….and Lots of Hugs!!

It Takes Feet to Win Souls.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God Reigns!” Isaiah 52 v 7

In the prior post, I shared another scripture about feet. It is also a beautiful scripture:Romans 10 v. 15: “And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Its amazing how the Lord says that feet are beautiful. He could have said the hands, or heart or the mind of the person is beautiful but He specifically said the feet. Why? because, it takes the feet to go out and share the good news of the gospel. When I was just coming to Christ, I wasn’t very bold, so I would look for unique novelty pens and pay to have scriptures customized on them. Then I’d visit restaurants and distribute them. But now, that I have matured in my walk with Christ;  He has given me so many beautiful assignment. The assignment that I am engaging in right now is a good example: writing to the women on death row. Oh Lord, I want to thank you for allowing me to become a soul winner for you. In Proverbs 11 verse 30, it says that “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Very few believers today are soul winners. They think its the job of the Evangelist, so when they are in the doctors office, on the grocery store line, at the bus stop or even on an air plane, they fail to share the Good News with others.  Trust me; they are not opening up their mouths to bring about the salvation of the lost. God gives us many opportunities to share the gospel. How many times has someone come to you to tell you about some problem or difficulty they have encountered? How many times have you used their situations to share that the resolution to what they are experiencing lies in the risen Christ? The believer who fails to share the Gospel with others is foolish. Hell is real, life is short, and   we are vapors. Don’t you know that  people need to be born-again to escape the wrath of God? (John 3:36; Romans 5:9; 2nd Thessalonian 1:8-9). You may have thought we were saved from sin but Paul says we are saved from wrath. (Remember, this is not God’s wrath towards sinners, but his wrath towards ungodliness and unrighteousness and those things which keep us from him.) Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Rom 5:9)

The bible gives us a parable that describes the believer as being the salt of the earth,  it says that “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for nothing except to be but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men. What an analogy; we are flavoring, enhancing and preserving life. The question is asked, “What good is salt if it has lost its flavor?” What happened to the passion, the fervor, the fire that was burning in your bones when you first believed? I t needs to be reignited because without it you will not be a threat to the devils kingdom.

As I reflect on the biblical notion of feet, I think of the sinful woman who washed the feet of Jesus with expensive anointing oils, tears and her hair. She didn’t know it but it was to prepare him for his crucifixion. The outcome was, she was forgiven of her sins. Notable too is the humility of Jesus; he washed the feet of  the disciples before he went to the cross. Both activities involved the washing of feet, and invoke the feeling that feet are uniquely special.  I am decreeing and declaring a spiritual foot washing for those who are not sharing the gospel. Truth be told, if you are not sharing the gospel you couldn’t possibly be opening your bible. I am praying for a revival in your soul;one that regenerates you and propels you to witness, one that compels you to keep your saltiness, because if you are not soul winning, you are  spiritually dead and already on death row.

And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?

Romans 10 v. 15: And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God.

What a powerful word. Meditate on this scripture for a moment and then think and realize how profound it is to be sending the word. Yes, to be sending the word. This is exactly what I am doing. My mission is to send the Word(God) in the form of the scripture to the women on death row and when the word gets to them… The bible says that it will not return void.

Imagine God going some place and not accomplishing His purpose. Oh that’s impossible. Isaiah 55 v 11 says “so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” What is it that the word has come to do. Well, John 1 verse 14, we find out: The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. When you send the word of God somewhere, that is exactly, what it does. It becomes flesh and dwells! I am sending the word of God to dwell in the presence of the women on death row.

You may have  the thought in your mind right now that they have the bible, they can read the word. Yes, that may be true. Nevertheless, the bible says in Psalms 107 v 19-21 “Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses. 20He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destruction’s. 21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving-kindness, And for His wonders to the sons of men!” God’s practice is to SEND HIS WORD!

In fact, there is a story in the bible about a Centurion leader seeking healing from Jesus for one of his men. He comes to Jesus and says that he is a man of authority in such that commands an army of men. He further elaborates that whatever he tells them to do they do, and wherever he tells them to go that is where they go. One of his soldiers is on his sick bed and He is seeking  healing from Jesus and the fact that he is not requiring that Jesus go anywhere and is only requesting that He sends the word. Matthew 8:8 gives us the account “The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.” Jesus responds to the Centurion by commending him for such great faith, one that is rarely exhibited. Jesus then heals the solider.

Today I am prayerfully mailing my first batch of letters and scripture cards to the several of the 50 odd women on death row because the word will bring about conviction. Hebrews  4 verse 12 says. “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.”

Nothing Can Separate You From God’s Love

Come Near to God’s Love:

Move toward God’s love. Accept and embrace His hope for your life.

“Submit yourselves, then to God…Come near to God and He will come near to you…Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. ” James 4:7-10. 

Many of the women on death row may have a defeating  perspective of themselves and what they have done. This way of thinking masks feelings of unworthiness that might be acted out in acts of rebellion. Its a camouflage, a smoke screen for hiding the guilt and the shame, when the bottom line is that they feel unlovable,or  unworthy of God’s love. And to make it worse, they have lived out a lifetime doubting God’s love for them. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that “hurt people,hurt people,” as this is the reason why they have encountered death row.

But the message of the Gospel opposes this view. Regardless of how angry, rebellious, defiant and worthless we feel, when we  surrender our lives to God we will find that He embraces us. Another version of this same bible scripture says “draw near to me and I will draw near to you,” and right after it is revealed how: with clean hands and a purified heart..God does not condemn us; God is seeking a changed heart. He is ready to come to us but he requires a new way of thinking, a new disposition, a heart of repentance, a purging of the old self and a regenerated mind.  Romans 12 verse 2 says “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” God has already declared His love for us but He is waiting on us to turn to him, to submit to Him and permit Him to have His way in our lives. God is willing to lift us up, in fact He is flooding us with His love right now, at this very moment. For one the bible says in Job 22 v 29 “When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.

The beauty of God’s message is that He loves us unconditionally and nothing can ever separate us from His love. Romans 8 v 35-39 “Does it mean (Christ) no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death?…I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from His love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away…Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Let me repeat that nothing can ever separate us from the love of Christ. His unconditionally love for us renews us, restores us and redeems us. This is the redemptive power of Christianity. It is what it means to be a Christian. No other religion offers the hope of transformation, renewal, and restoration that God offers through the blood of Jesus Christ. When we humble ourselves before a loving God, he can lift us up and give us a new life in HIM! But the beautiful part is that once we know Him, nothing can ever separate us from Him again.