New Life Ministries

1 John 5: 11, “And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in the Son.”

     The life is in the Son.  It really sounds simple enough, doesn’t it?  His life is in the Son, not in us, so the only way we can experience life is if the Son is in us.  It’s kind of like scuba gear.  The air is in the tanks.  What’s inside the tanks will keep you alive under water, where man can’t survive.  Man can’t breathe on his own under the water because he brings in air through his lungs, which can’t pull air out of water.  Gills can pull air out of water, so fish, who live in water, have gills.  But man doesn’t have gills.  So how can we go under the water and survive, or, have life?  We put on the air tanks and breathe what’s in them.  And so we have life, but not on our own, we breathe and survive by what’s in the tanks.  It’s the same way with our Lord.  We will never survive and have true life in this world on our own.  We must put on spiritual air tanks which will give us life.  So we put on Christ and breathe the breath of life through Him.  He is our breath and the very air that we breathe.  So if you don’t feel any life today just get out your spiritual air tanks and get some Godly air to breathe.  Let Him wake up your spirit with His breath.  Be filled with the  very breath of God and live life abundantly today.  Put on Jesus and have a blessed day.   Hallelujah!    God Bless,  Rusty

Galatians 5:1, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free.”

     Many Christians have minds filled with so much confusion that their walk with Christ is totally unfulfilling.  When they try to pray, they can’t concentrate or read the bible only to forget everything they just read.  A lot have thoughts of self doubt, “I don’t know enough, I’m not strong enough, I’m not good enough.”  Instead of being victorious Christians and winning people to the Lord, they’re confused and not even able to function properly.  They are deceived and need to be released form their torment.  Christ has died so that we could have freedom.  I pray that if you’re not experiencing that freedom, you start praying and asking God for deliverance.  It’s Independence Day!  What a great day to start!  You are smart enough and you are strong enough.  All you have to do is get Christ working for you in the areas of your life that are messed up and you will have your own 4th of July.  I’ve been there and done it.  It’s wonderful being free, so why don’t you start the process.  It’s time, don’t you think?  God Bless,  Rusty

Matthew 25:40, “ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even the least of them, you did it to me.”’”

     That’s quite a comparison.  Jesus is telling us that every time that we reach out to someone in need, we are actually reaching out to Him.  He’s actually telling us to adjust our vision. Who do we see on the street in need?  Who do we see laying on the corner in a drunken stupor?  Who do we see in our church, sitting next to us?  If the person is in need, we need to focus our eyes on Jesus.  We need to see that person as one who was despised and forsaken of men.  Look at people down on their luck as people who are full of sorrow and acquainted with grief, one who is despised.  That’s the one who looks like Jesus.  If we help just the ones that need help, we’re missing the whole story.  Jesus didn’t even have an appearance that would have attracted us unto Him.  He was just a man who had worked hard His whole life in the carpentry business.  His skin was dark and wind burnt.  His hair was dark black and He probably did not shampoo and crème rinse every day.  He probably looked like someone we’d tell to go home and clean up before they came to church.  He probably didn’t have a chance to stop and have His nails or feet done at the local shop.  He probably looked like someone who you’d stay away from to avoid trouble.  Oh Yeah, He was just like so many people we avoid today.  But He would never avoid us.  In fact, the smell of this earth on us would probably draw Him to us.  That’s what He’s talking about.  He’s saying, in my terms of course, “Let’s get real.”  If we can’t take care of the people around us and in our cities what good is the church.  What good is He if everyone is hurting and in need?  Wait a minute, I have the solution to take care of everyone.  It’s a way that we can take care of them and not really have to come close to them or do our job.  I got a great name for it to.  Let’s call it the Welfare system.  Yea, that will work.  Okay now let’s just not worry anymore about those people because, after all, the government is going to take care of them.  Problem solved!              God Bless,  Rusty  

Joshua 24: 15, “And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

     Bob Dylan wrote a song called, “You’re gonna have to serve somebody.”  In it he says that you’re either going to serve the devil or the Lord.  His lyrics probably echoed what Joshua told the people so many years ago.  We all do, in fact, serve someone.  The truth is that we serve someone regardless of whether we make a choice to or not.  In other words, if we decide to serve the Lord, we make a conscience decision to do so.  Some people also make a conscience decision not to serve the Lord.  The ones in limbo, so to speak, are the ones who don’t really make any decision at all.  They’re just not concerned one way or another.  These people are the ones who make a choice without knowing it, and that’s what Dylan tried to tell us.  You see, to not choose to serve the lord is automatically, whether we choose it or not, making a choice to serve the god of this world.  We can no longer sit on the fence, rotating between two ways of life.  Neither can we not choose to serve the Lord.  The lines are being drawn and we are going to have to take a stand.  The days are short and the times are becoming darker then ever.  Joshua is crying out across eternity today and the choose is right in front of us.  It’s something that can’t be put off, “Choose this day who you will serve; but as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.”                       God Bless,  Rusty

Jeremiah 31:25, “For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes.”

     The topic is inner, or emotional healing.  Yesterday we looked into the Lord binding up our wounds and today I want to talk about another way that we can receive healing.  The word says that He satisfies the weary ones.  How does He do that?  Very simply, His word does.  The more that we get into the word, the more refreshed we will be.  You know, instead of reading Christian books all the time.  Now, there is nothing wrong with most Christian reading material but if we spend more time reading about the bible then reading the bible itself, we’re missing it.  God’s word is the only thing that can heal.  I didn’t even mention TV or other books or hobbies, which we know we all spend to much time with.  The point is that the only thing that can refresh us is the word of God, period.  That’s why God gave us His word, to reveal Himself to us.  The more we know Him, the more we will be able to receive His healing power inside.  The other part of this scripture plays right along with this, “He refreshes everyone who languishes.”  The word refresh actually is the word fills.  His presence in us, which is revealed by the word, allows Him to grow up and fill us.  There is no better way to be refreshed and to have pain in your life disappear then to be full of Him every second of your life.  Staying in His presence is vital!!!  Staying filled up with His presence, or being filled with the Holy Spirit every day and every waking second is the key to receiving and walking in our healing.  God is good.  There is no sickness or disease in His presence.  It’s that simple.  There is no sickness or disease in Heaven.  God doesn’t have sickness and disease for us, just, “life and life abundantly.”  So today I pray that you would become so full of Him that He becomes real to you.  More real then ever before.  I promise that you’ll feel better then you’ve felt in years, and your healing process will start, it’s really that simple!      God Bless,  Rusty