BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Jesus will carry you

Have  you ever been sad, sorrowful, frightened, fearful, lonely, so miserable you felt you just couldn’t get out of bed?  We all have at some point in our lives.  We are human, we have these emotions-the loss of a family member, the loss of a pet, the loss of a job, the loss of a home, friendships gone wrong; whatever the reason or source of the emotion, we all have had them.  The difference is, as a Christian, we have Jesus there to carry us through it.

According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching at BRINGING BACK GOD, in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, Jesus is there for us all the time.  All we have to do as Christians is ask, and we receive….It is written in red “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8). PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches “Jesus Christ is your bread when you’re hungry. Jesus Christ is your comfort when you are lonely. Jesus Christ is your peace when you are feeling tense. Jesus Christ is your rest when you are feeling weary. Jesus Christ is your joy when you are sad. Jesus Christ is your strength when you are weak. Jesus Christ is your living water when you are thirsty. Jesus Christ is your wisdom. Jesus Christ will supply you with fullness when you feel empty.” All we have to do is ask, to allow Him to do what He came here for in the first place.  To be our Salvation.

God loves us. Even for as bad as society is today, for all the evil that is out there, He loves us.  He loved us enough to send Jesus to take care of all of us over 2000 years ago. Jesus suffered for us, took a flat out beating for us, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS. So that we could live, so that we can survive, so that we can be happy both here on Earth and an eternity in Heaven. We have become so calloused and so hardened because society has told us to fit in, to comply, to follow everyone else, that most of us have no idea who Jesus is and what He means.  And that is sad.  That Man took a beating, hung on a cross for nine hours and suffered for us, rose again, and is still there for us to save us from ourselves. From Satan. From eternity in Hell. We as a culture just don’t know that all we have to do is seek him, accept him as our Savior, repent our sins, seek forgiveness, and ask.  That’s all.  Give Him your soul, your heart, and ask for help when you need it. So if you are feeling so low you want to take your life, if you are so sad you feel like you could cry from the soles of your feet, you feel so alone that there is no one who could want you, there is Someone there for you.  Jesus. He will help you get up off the floor and give you the strength and courage to endure.  And that is a Gift that has never stopped.

Go to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins to hear more sermons of hope and salvation.  Watch video clips of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on YouTube.  Want to see what BRINGING BACK GOD is up to, go to www.bringingbackgod.com.  If you would like fellowship with PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, you can email him at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God: God’s Got This

“I’ve got this”-God.  It’s a slogan seen on a t-shirt from a nationwide Christian bookstore.  What a statement.  Think about it.  God’s got this.  He really does.  He knows what we need before we need it and he provides it to us when He knows that we need it.  How awesome is that? PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, MARIETTA PA and BRISTOL, TN, BRINGING BACK GOD, has preached in his sermons that all we need to do is believe in God, give Him our lives, pray for what we need, and He will provide.  It is the ultimate trust.

Taking the leap of faith: committing yourself to Jesus Christ and to God means trusting that they exist.  And they do. They are right there beside you.  Ever wonder how those small blessings come about everyday?  Things that seem strange or next to impossible that they happened?  That’s God.  It really is.  Ever notice when you are feeling your absolute worst and you think ‘man I could really use a hug‘ someone comes along and gives you a hug.  Out of the blue.  It’s enough to make you cry.  A simple hug gives you hope because it came from God knowing what you needed.  Wow.  Ultimate trust.

Matthew 6:8(KJV) says “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Believing in God, that He is right there beside you in all you do, is an act of total confidence in the plan and purpose of God for you.  The next step is to obey his will for you.  100%.  It’s simple, but it’s hard, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.Hearing God’s will, then doing it.  Our will gets in the way.  We say-really?  You want me to do that.  I’m not sure…..then next thing you know, you aren’t as blessed as you should be.  Because you didn’t listen to God’s will.  Nike has a slogan that applies in this instance.  When you hear and understand God’s will for you, JUST DO IT.  No questions.  Have faith that he knows what you need.  He does.  Don’t question it, and you will be rewarded. Why is that so hard for us to understand?  Because we’ve gotten so far away from God and Jesus, that we don’t even know how to listen for them any more.  But they are really right there for us.  All we have to do is ask for them to come into our lives by making a commitment to them.  Commit your life.  Ask for salvation, repent your sins, pray asking for forgiveness, be baptized with water.  Help your neighbor, give them a hand up, not a hand out, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at BRINGING BACK GOD, MARIETTA PA and BRISTOL TN.  God will reward you.  Because He’s got this.

God bless you

Bringing Back God: Once saved always saved?

Some believe that if you repent once for all your sins, that you are always saved by your repentance until you die.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS in MARIETTA, PA and BRISTOL, TN while preaching at BRINGING BACK GOD says that you need to repent your sins daily.  The only way to heaven is through Jesus and his salvation through His sacrifice upon the cross.  Just because you repent of your sins today, it does not give you permission to be rebellious in spirit and act in any manner you feel is right.  You can’t go rob a bank in the name of “I’ve been saved and accepted Jesus as my personal Saviour, therefore anything I do is forgiven”. You can’t take a machine gun and mow down a crowd of people just because you have repented your sins today.

Salvation is not unconditional……God’s love is unconditional as it is said in Romans 8:38-39  “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (KJV). Salvation is conditional….you are saved only if you continue to seek repentance for your sins “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” Hebrews 10:26 (KJV). In the Old Testament, Ezekiel 18: 26-27 states “When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.  Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.” (KJV). Sin and lack of repentance for those sins will drive us far away from the cross and salvation promised by Jesus’ sacrifice, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.

The Holy Bible speaks of the Prodigal son as a parable of someone who sins and sins greatly.  It comes to him that he had more in his home as a servant than he did working for someone in a another place.  His father receives him back into the household not as a servant, but as a son and gives the son full forgiveness. Forgiveness is there for everyone through Jesus, which PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches in BRISTOL, TN and while in MARIETTA, PA.

The promises in the Holy Bible for salvation are conditional.  Once saved is not always saved. If we want to spend eternity in heaven, we must repent our sins and seek forgiveness, be baptized of water, obey God’s laws and commandments, become pure in heart, do God’s will, believe in God and Jesus with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength, help your neighbors, do works and deeds that are pleasing to God-ask if what you do would be pleasing to God and Jesus. Ask for forgiveness every day.

If you want to hear more of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS’ sermons, stop by the church in BRISTOL, TN at 1505 Broad Street on Wednesday at 7:00pm or Sunday at 10:00 am. Or, you can hear him at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins and on WIGN on Saturdays or Top Gun radio stations on Sundays in BRISTOL, TN.

God bless you.