Behind the Cabin Door April 2023: " When a person accepts Jesus into their heart they are no longer a sinner. This is a piece of the Good News!..."

I have some good news to share! The Good News of the Gospel! Anyone can receive this free gift from God of freedom from sin and so much more!!! A person never has to earn this gift of being saved or do something or even have to follow rules to receive it! This is a grace gift right from the Father's heart! You are or can be completely free from anything physical, spiritual, or emotional that has held you down because of this free gift! God sent His Son Jesus to be sin for us so that in Him and through Him we will be in the righteousness of God!
When a person accepts Jesus into their heart they are no longer a sinner. A sinner does not know the fathers heart! I will repeat, if someone has accepted Jesus into their heart they are not a sinner. That is no longer their identity or their character because they are a new creation in Christ and ALL old things from the past has been washed away! This Good News is that even when we mess up in the future His grace completely covers us! When we mess up in life we do not loose this special gift from God or loose His love for us! We never have to work so hard to receive this gift!

Recently I had a block of my day where I messed up. I was feeling tired and overwhelmed as a wife, mom, school teacher... just the fullness of life in the moment. I honestly needed a break to refresh myself with Jesus and probably eat to refresh my body but didn't see it until I blew up at my family. I was short, had a bad attitude, and was rude to them. I got so angry with myself and started to hear voices in my head begin to beat myself up and tear me down. For me, my family is my greatest joy and calling in life, they are my life, and I hurt them with my actions.! I felt like I let my family down and I let God down. Then God and His sweet love reminded me this is why I need Him! This is why I and we all need a Savior! We cannot do life without Him and we need His guidance and direction every day and in every way!  And this is who He is!!! He never condemns us for our mistakes and we don't loose His love or have to try so hard to get it back. THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS OF GOSPEL! He will never leave us or forsake us! He tells us that all old things are passed away and that He has new and refreshing things for us. We can live everyday in this refreshing truth of His love!!! 

I pray you are encouraged today with this Good News! As believers we can allow ourselves to forget why God is in our lives and miss Good News moments. I want to encourage you, if you have been encouraged, to share this Good News of the Gospel with someone this week! Allow God to lead you to the right person and allow Him to speak through your mouth. You never have to be concerned with thoughts like, "What do I say... or how will I respond..." He will speak through you when you say yes and open your mouth! We need to let people hear this Good News!

Here are some too good to be true words from God's heart for you today! Be encouraged to live them out!

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him
we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians5:21

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And
I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,  may have power, together with all the
Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know
this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19