You Are Worth More Than Many Sparrows…

Good Afternoon Family,

I want to tell a recent story from my life that I hope will be able to encourage someone:

A little over a year ago I ran into some financial difficulties and I began to worry about my finances for the future. I was disappointed with my situation because previously I was very successful financially, but I had walked away from my old career because I was called to leave it all behind to follow Jesus and focus on God’s will for my life.

When I walked away from my old life I did it with full faith. I believed that GOD would take care of all my needs, because I was obeying what GOD was telling me to do. Things were going really well at first; I still had a good amount of money saved up, and I was able to live off my savings and maintain a similar lifestyle to the one I had previously. I had no worries and my focus was only on God.

Eventually, my savings began to dry up, but I still wasn’t worried because I just believed in my heart that at any moment God will going to make a Million Dollars magically appear in my house because after all God told me to leave my old life.

I waited and waited for the million dollars to magically appear out of thin air, but the million dollars never came. And I eventually began to wonder if I had made the right decision. I thought “Did God really tell me to leave my old career?” I also thought “Maybe I was just being overly zealous and acted impulsively. Surely if God told me to leave my old life he would have provided a big opportunity for me by now right?” “Doesn’t the Bible say God will provide? I believed this word, so what is wrong in my life?”

I had all these thoughts and I experienced many different emotions, and eventually, I didn’t know what to think anymore. It seemed like my prayers were all being met with silence. Eventually, I got on the phone with my Dad and he also didn’t understand what I was going through. My dad who is a man of God also, was proud to see me choose to follow Jesus, and he also was surprised about my circumstances. So we decided to pray together over the phone that God would bring an end to my worries and tell me what was going wrong in my situation. After this prayer, I was confident that I would get an answer to my prayer.

The next day I woke up in the mood to fire up my grill and make some sausages and burgers. Prior to this, I had not touched my grill in many months but this day I was in the mood to use the grill for some strange reason. I had everything to use the grill ready, but I couldn’t find the sandals that are used on the back patio. I began to look for them and I remembered that the sandals were upstairs in the living room behind the big bean bag chair. So I went upstairs into the living room and lifted up the bean bag chair and underneath the bean bag chair was a dead sparrow.

When I saw the sparrow I stopped, I was in shock because it seemed impossible for a sparrow to fly into my house, up the stairs, and into the living room to die behind a chair without me noticing it. And that’s when this Bible Verse entered my mind:

Mathew 10:29-31
“Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.”

Could it all be a coincidence? A person might think. But that’s impossible if we believe God’s word because God’s word says not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from the will of God. So this sparrow that fell and died in my house was part of God’s will and plan. This was God’s answer to my prayer. Not only did God answer me with the Bible, but he also answered me with a physical dead sparrow in my home. The bible verse came to life right before my eyes.

From that moment on all my worries were gone. Things have not been perfect, but God has taken care of every need that I have. All the things I was worried about losing, I have been able to keep those things. God has been faithful to me and my needs have been met with his provision.  In closing: I make this post to say, put your faith and trust in God. The way God provides may not always look the way you expect it to, but God is faithful and his Word is true. If God says not to worry because he will provide, he will do what he says he would. God is not a man that he should lie(Numbers 23:19).

Mathew 6:26
“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

Thank you for reading.

God bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.

Eddie Fews

The Devil Can Bless You Too

The Devil Can Bless You Too:

Yesterday I was having a conversation with a man who was telling me that he prays with rosary beads because the rosary beads have produced good results for him. He told me that several times in his life while in desperate situations his rosary prayer had rescued him from his situation. However, Ironically enough, he never considered the possibility that those rosary bead prayers were what was getting him in those desperation situations in the first place. Why did he always find himself in a desperate situation in which he needed to use the rosary beads to escape? That’s the bigger spiritual issue that was left unaddressed. Isn’t that something A devil would do? Wouldn’t the devil get you into a bad situation, and then help you escape the situation that the devil put you in? All so you can credit the tool of the devil for your rescue and forget he was the one who made you need rescuing.

Here is the thing:

If the devil’s methods didn’t produce results the devil would the devil have a single follower? Therefore yes, Rosary beads can produce results, witchcraft produces results, black magic produces results, meditation produces results, visualizing your future produces results, chanting produces results, praying 5 times a day to allah produces results and so forth. These all produce results because if they didn’t produce any results NO ONE would do it and keep on doing it. People do these things BECAUSE it produces results, however, are those the results the will of God or the will of your own self? When you face The Lord on judgment day and have to give an account for your life who will you say you served? The True God or yourself or other Gods? What does Jesus say?

Mark 8:36
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

You can gain the whole world using the devil’s methods and you can get ALL the results your heart desires, but at the end of your life will those be results that pleased GOD or results that didn’t please GOD?

I was once a young man who didn’t have money or success, but after reading a few books about how to manifest my own reality and visualization techniques I began to practice these things. After a short time, I had climbed up the ranks and had more success than I ever expected to have. I was grateful and happy and I thanked God every single day for all the success I believed that God was granting me. I told everyone “All glory be to God for blessing me with this success” but was it really God blessing me? How could it be God blessing me when I was living in sin and the Bible says that any person who continues in sin has never seen God and does not know God?

1 John 3:6
“Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”

I prayed to God every day, but did I know God? In my own brain, I thought I had a relationship with God, but the Bible says I did not, because I was in sin and sin separates us from God. So how could be blessed by GOD if according to the Bible God did not know me? The reality is my relationship with God was an illusion because I was living a sinful lifestyle, and my success was not coming from God but was coming from the Devil. Have you ever seen celebrities at award shows who make music and movies about all the things that GOD hates thanking God for their awards? Are their awards from GOD or the devil? Their rewards are from the devil because GOD would not reward their sin, however, just like me, many of them believe it is God who is blessing them. When the devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness this is what he said to him:

Lukas 4:5-7
“Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

The Devil told Jesus “All the kingdoms of the world, all the wealth, and all the power and the splendor of this world are mine and I give it to the person I want to give them to.”

Do you know the Bible calls Satan “The God of this World”(2 Corinthians 4:4)? Do you know that Satan rewards the people who worship him in this life? He gives them wealth, power, and status so that he can use them to lead more people astray. Do you know the number one way people worship Satan? Not by sending him songs, but by living a lifestyle that is pleasing to him. The majority of the people who worship satan have no idea, they think they’re worshiping God. But you can not worship God if you are living a lifestyle of Sin.

In Closing: The Bible says there are many “gods” and many lords”.

1 Korintus 8:5
“For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),”

There are Fallen Angels, Evil Spirits, and other Powers and Principalities that exist in the spirit realm and they have the power to listen to the prayers of those on the earth who pray to false gods and reward them accordingly. Don’t think because a rosary prayer produced a result that this result was from God. Witchcraft produces results every day and witches know their result is not from God. It’s no different from every other religion in the world that tries to get to GOD without going through Jesus Christ. If the devil didn’t give people results people would stop following him. The devil can bless you too.

If you’ve done these things please repent. Don’t mistake getting results for your resulting being “The Will of God”. And if God does bless you, don’t mistake God’s kindness, to think God has acceptance of a sinful lifestyle. The Bible says God shows mercy to both good and evil people (Lukas 6:35).

God bless you all who are in Christ Jesus

What If Adam & Eve Never Committed Sin?

Have you ever considered what the world would be like if humans had never sinned? Do you realize that every moment of every day our lives are being impacted by the consequences of sin? GOD told Adam and Eve not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil(Sin) because if they ate it they would die. Some who read that verse carnally say “But Adam and Eve didn’t die when they ate the forbidden fruit, God only removed them from the Garden of Eden”, but Adam and Eve did die. They died on multiple levels.Level 1 – The Carnal Death: Adam & Eve both died. Adam died at age 930. God didn’t say if they ate the forbidden fruit that they would drop dead instantaneously, he simply said that they would die. Like a prophecy that will come to pass. Just like when God had David crowned as King; David didn’t sit on the throne of Israel instantaneously(spiritually yes but not physically), however, in God’s timing it was brought about. The spiritual death is first, and after the spiritual death, that which is spiritual will manifest in the physical realm.

Level 2 – The Spiritual Death: The spiritual death Adam and Eve experienced was immediate and instant. That’s why Adam and Eve hid themselves, because they realized they were no longer covered. They were no longer under God’s spiritual covering because they had sinned and that reality manifested itself in the physical realm in the form of Adam and Eve realizing they were also physically uncovered/Naked. Do you see how the spiritual and physical work in conjunction?

The Bible says that sin separates us from God(Isaiah 59:2), and if God is the source of all life, separation from God(life) is death. Take a tree for example: As long as a tree has its roots in the ground it’s living, it’s growing, and it’s bearing fruit. However, if someone were to pull the tree out of the ground from its roots and decided to lay the tree flat on the ground the tree would die. Would the tree decompose instantly? No, however, the process of death has begun in the tree, and day by day the tree with whither, its leaves will dry out and after some years it will be completely decomposed and turned back into ashes. It’s the same as us as humans. Once humans sinned we were pulled up from the soil that sustained our life. And like the tree, we didn’t die instantly, but the process of decomposition began. For humans that process takes 72.27 years on average since that’s the current life expectancy for humans globally. For trees, the process of decomposition can take between 46-71 years after it’s removed from the soul to fully turn to ashes.

So when man sinned we were removed from the soil which is God’s life and now we all grow old and die, but this was not the original design. Because before sin there was no death, there was no decomposition. There is a verse in the Book of Romans that touches on this subject really well:

Romans 8:19-22
“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of [a]corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.”

Because Sin/Death entered the earth now all of creation dies. Animals die, Plants die, and Humans die etc. Every single hour 200,000,000 of your skin cells die. Every day the average human loses 50-100 strands of hair. Everyday 300 Billion of your red blood cells die and need to be replaced. Every day you develop an odor and need to shower because of the breaking down of protein molecules, and bacteria in your body. Every day you get tired and you have to sleep and if you go too long without sleep you can “die”, every day you get hungry and if you go too long without eating you can “die”. Every day you get thirsty and if you got too long without water you can “die” And do you know why all this is? Because of SIN. Because man has sinned, all these different manifestations of death are made visible without our bodies every day. Every time you get hungry, thirsty, smelly, or tired it’s because of SIN and the death that came because of sin. Because if you don’t eat what will happen? “Physical death”. So the feeling of hunger is merely a consequence of SIN.

This is why Jesus said HE is the BREAD OF LIFE(John 6:35). If we spiritually eat the bread that is JESUS we won’t hunger anymore. That’s why Jesus said he would give us “LIVING WATER (John 4:14)” and with this, we will never hunger or thirst again. Does he mean we won’t be physically hungry? No this physical body will turn to dust and so will the bread the body eats. Remember at the beginning what I said about David, “We are crowned Spiritually first and then the fullness of it will manifest”

We have been anointed like David, we have been given the Bread of Life and The LIVING Water from Jesus, and now we must endure (Like David in the wilderness being chased by Saul) until it’s our time to be seated with Jesus on his throne (Revelation 3:21). In Closing: When we look in the earth we see all the consequences of sin. Do you know why a rose needs to grow thorns? To protect itself from death. Do you know why a sparrow flies away the moment you try to get close? Because it fears death. But when death is finally put under the feet of Jesus(1 Corinthians 15:25-26), and there is a New Heaven and New Earth how then will the creation look? Sparrows can let you get as close as they want because there is no more death, Roses no longer need thorns because there is no death to protect themselves from. These creations will all not need to conserve energy because there will be no limit on energy. All of creation can be in its fullness of life working each second to perfect itself without fear, going from glory to glory. Dogs will no longer shed their fur, cockroaches will no longer carry diseases, mosquitoes won’t drink blood to survive, trees won’t need thick and rough bark to protect themselves, and so forth. The Bible says all of creation groans, waiting for the Son of God to be born, because then creation will no longer be subjected to death. The Death that came as a result of our sin. Where there is no more death, there is no more fear, there are no more parasites; all of creation will take the form it was originally intended to be in before creation was subject to futility because of Sin.

This is the world that awaits those who believe in Jesus. If you have not repented and put your faith in Jesus, do it today. GOD has something beautiful prepared for his children in the world that is to come. There will be a New Heaven and a New Earth(Revelation 21:1).

GOD Bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.