You're The Alpha Omega

One of the most powerful messages I’ve ever heard, this is from Pastor Steven Furtick

Some of you have been trying to fix your relationship with God by doing more, trying harder. “I promise I’ll do better, I’ll really do better this time. I’ll really really really really do better this time, God.” You need to be born again.

The most famous verse in all of the Bible is John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him will not die and have eternal life.” Interesting to think about the fact that while that is the most popular verse in the Bible, it it is also the most dangerous verse. Jesus would have no need to say this to Nicodemus if believe simply meant to agree with and to understand. Nicodemus had that down, he had 5,300 verses of Scripture memorized. Nicodemus had it going on in the daylight. But to believe might mean something different than you think it means. […]

The word believe has been so stripped, the phrase born again has been so stripped of meaning in our society. I want to breathe some fresh wind back into that term again.

To believe: to trust entirely in Jesus with your future plans and your eternal destiny.

To believe: to cast all of your cares on Him.

To believe: to rely confidently in Him for the hope of your salvation.

To believe: to trust ONLY in Him for your salvation.

If you still try to get there by doing more, by adding things, by  going further, doing better, making promises, you haven’t got it yet. 

If you’re still struggling with patterns of sin that emerge in your life over and over again and when your back’s against the wall, you’re searching deep down in your heart, receive the grace of God today. You can be born again. You must be born again. This same Jesus died and was brutally murdered on a cross, He was torn to shreds on your behalf. The Bible says, that the punishment that was yours was placed upon Him, that God placed on His body the punishment of us all. And that now, we can believe in trust and start all over and be born again.