“His Promise…”

"His Promise…"

And He cannot lie…

They Trusted
They Followed
They Learned
They Fished

When we trust Jesus, follow Jesus, and learn from Jesus — He promises to make us fishers of men.

Repentance — is saying to Jesus — REPURPOSE MY LIFE

Our lives must be repurposed and refocused by and for Jesus to get in on His promises.

Repentance is a plea, a cry of the individual who has completely reconsidered what's most important and calls on God to salvage what I am — for You, Your kingdom, Your glory, and whatever You need of me.

Recycle and repurpose my life — put new life and light in me and redirect and repurpose me for Your pleasure.

My life apart from YOU is destined for the dung heap, salvage it for holy and heavenly things.

Repentance — is saying to Jesus — REPURPOSE MY LIFE, RECREATE, RECYCLE, RENEW, RESTORE, REFRESH — my life for Your goodness and glory sake.

Let's look at an example of how this works and was applied in Thessalonians

"...how you turned TO God, from idols, TO serve the living and true God. And TO wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, namely Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10).

The Word of grace and truth took root and took over the lives of the believers. They turned in faith to the Father and turned from serving themselves and the useless things of this world to serve, by faith, and as a way of life, the living and true God, as they worked and waited for the promised return of Jesus. They became followers of the disciples and Jesus, and living examples for other believers. Complete and utter transformation of nature and living. They had been interrupted by Jesus and invaded by His red