Jesus is the way and the truth and the life
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Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
My Beloved is a Carpenter.
Let others boast of wealth.
Let others marvel at fame.
Let others be impressed by the achievements of men.
Other men build businesses, reputations, and monuments to their own names.
My Husband is building a place for me.
My Beloved is a King upon a throne.
He is a Shepherd over His flock.
He is a Warrior who will return in righteousness and glory.
Yet when I think of Him, my heart often lingers on something simpler.
My Beloved is a Carpenter.
Others see the crown.
I think of His hands.
The hands that formed the stars.
The hands that shaped the mountains.
The hands that touched lepers and blessed children.
The hands that bore the nails for me.
The hands once stained with sawdust are even now preparing a home for His bride.
I cannot see that home yet,
but I know the One who is building it.
Every room is planned with perfect wisdom.
Every stone is laid in love.
Nothing will be forgotten.
Nothing will be unfinished.
Nothing will be lacking.
My Husband has always been a Builder.
He formed Adam from the dust.
He instructed Noah in the building of the ark.
He filled men with wisdom for the tabernacle.
He gave the pattern for the temple.
He walked among us as a carpenter.
He is building His Church even now.
And at this very moment,
He is preparing a place for me.
I never worry about the home my Husband is building.
Everything He has ever purposed,
He has accomplished.
Everything He has promised,
He will perform.
His plans do not fail.
His measurements are never wrong.
His work is never abandoned.
And this is what amazes me:
He is not building a palace for Himself.
He is building a home for us.
The King desires His bride.
The Bridegroom awaits His beloved.
And He is making ready a dwelling place where we will never be parted again.
So while the world chases treasures that fade,
my thoughts often wander home.
Not because of streets of gold.
Not because of gates of pearl.
Not merely because sorrow and death will be gone.
I long for that place because He is there.
For what makes a house a home
is the one who lives within it.
And every promise of Heaven shines because my Beloved is its light.
How could I not boast about my Husband?
His love is stronger than death.
His faithfulness has never failed.
His word stands forever.
His scars testify that I was worth redeeming.
And soon,
very soon,
the work will be complete.
The trumpet will sound.
The shout will come from Heaven.
My Bridegroom will come for His bride.
Faith will become sight.
The home He has prepared will be revealed.
And I will finally see the face I have loved without seeing.
Until then,
my lamp remains lit.
My eyes remain lifted.
My heart remains fixed upon His promise.
I am listening for the trumpet.
I am waiting for the shout.
And with joy I say:
"My Beloved is mine, and I am His."
I trust His hands.
I trust His heart.
And I cannot wait to be home with Him.
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Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
Never become so obsessed with how you thought your life should unfold that you become frustrated with how God is actually leading you. One of the greatest traps in life is becoming emotionally attached to a particular timeline, outcome or expectation until every unexpected change feels like a personal failure. Learn to hold your plans firmly enough to pursue them, but loosely enough to adjust them.
Life requires more than determination; it requires discernment, flexibility and emotional maturity. Not everything that changes is going wrong. Not every closed door is rejection. Not every delay is punishment, and not every detour is a setback. Sometimes, what you interpret as an interruption is an opportunity to learn, grow, reconsider and discover a better approach.
Here are Some truths to live by:
1. Don't worship your timetable. Your calendar is not your creator. Make plans, work diligently, but allow God to determine the seasons and direct your steps.
2. Stop punishing yourself for what you cannot control. You cannot control every decision people make, every opportunity that disappears or every unexpected situation. You can control your attitude, response, preparation and next move.
3. Give yourself permission to start again. Changing your approach does not mean you lack discipline. Sometimes, wisdom means abandoning a method that is no longer working.
4. Don't allow disappointment to blind you to new possibilities. When something unexpected happens, ask yourself, "What can I learn from this? What can I do differently? What opportunity might this situation be presenting?"
5. Protect your peace from unrealistic expectations. Celebrate progress, however small. Stop measuring your entire life against somebody else's achievements or your own imaginary deadlines.
6. Remain committed to the destination without becoming stubborn about the route. Faith does not mean refusing to adjust; it means trusting God even when the direction changes.
Remember Isaiah 55:8–9: God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours.
Above all, understand this: You can be delayed without being defeated, redirected without being rejected, and interrupted without being destroyed.
Don't let an unexpected chapter convince you that your entire story is falling apart. God is not limited by the route you originally imagined. Keep praying, keep learning, keep moving and keep trusting.
Your peace should not depend on everything going according to plan. Let your peace come from knowing the God who holds your future. Be flexible enough to adjust, courageous enough to begin again, wise enough to learn and faithful enough to trust God through every season. Life is not a competition against time; it is a journey of purpose, growth and obedience to God.
#PstKimeamihia
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
Hell is not full of people Jesus turned away.
It is full of people who turned away from Him.
Jesus never rejects anyone who truly comes to Him.
He said, “Whoever comes to me I will never cast out” (John 6:37).
The door stays open from His side.
Hell is filled by the choice people make to walk the other way.
God is not looking for reasons to keep you out.
He wants you to come in.
That is why He sent His Son.
You can still turn to Jesus today and find the welcome He promises. 🙌
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
I’ve read the Bible my ENTIRE LIFE… and I just discovered this hidden detail that will blow your mind.
We all know about John the Baptist and how he was a peculiar guy.
Well, in Matthew 3:4 … we get a very interesting description about John the Baptist. We learn that “he wore a garment of *camel’s hair* and a *leather belt* around his waist.”
Now, why would Matthew bother to give us this detail?
Here’s where it gets crazy.
400 years before John the Baptist, the prophet Malachi said that one day, God “would send the prophet *Elijah* before the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5)
In other words, before the coming of the Messiah, one like the prophet Elijah would come.
Now fast forward to the New Testament, here comes Matthew saying “oh yeah, John the Baptist… yeah, he was dressed with camel’s hair and a leather belt.”
Why?
Because guess who else in history was dressed this way?
In 2 Kings 1:8, the messengers of King Ahaziah’s describe an encounter with a mysterious prophet… and say “He wore a *garment of hair*, with a *belt of leather* around his waist.” And the king said, “Oh… It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
John is wearing the same thing as Elijah.
Matthew’s point in telling us what John wore… is that John the Baptist is that new “Elijah” preparing the way for the coming of the Messiah. So if John is the new Elijah, and John points to Jesus… then Jesus is the Messiah.
But wait there’s more.
Elijah calls the nation of Israel to repentance.
John the Baptist calls the people of God to repentance.
Both prophets BOLDLY confront the wicked political power of their time.. and BOTH are HATED for it.
Elijah confronts King Ahab, and King Ahab’s wife, Jezabel, wants Elijah dead. (1 Kings 19:2).
John confronts Herod Antipas, and Herod’s wife, Herodias wants John dead. (Mark 6:19).
New days. Same demons. (that’s the Jezabel spirit)
Elijah crosses the Jordan river before he went up to heaven.
When Jesus shows up, John the Baptist is at the… Jordan river. And that’s where Jesus’ public ministry begins.
Elijah's ministry was followed by Elisha, who received a double portion of his spirit (2 Kings 2:9–15) and had a greater ministry.
John's ministry prepared the way for Jesus, who obviously had an *infinitely* greater ministry.
Here’s the point.
John wore Elijah's clothes, carried Elijah's message, and came in Elijah's spirit and power because he was pointing to the Messiah…
And his name is JESUS.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
"One who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of the Almighty."
—Psalm 91:1
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
“He who made the Pleiades and Orion and overturns the shadow of death into morning, who also darkens day into night, Yahweh is His name.”
~Amos 5:8🕊
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
"Satan has deceived 1/3 of the angels, imagine what he is capable of doing with a generation that does not read the Bible."
-Charles Spurgeon
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
Seven signs of spiritual maturity:
1. You repent quickly.
2. You forgive freely.
3. You receive correction humbly.
4. You pray before you panic.
5. You obey Scripture over your feelings.
6. You care more about holiness than appearances.
7. You want Christ to be glorified more than you want to be noticed.
Christian maturity is not measured by how much you know, but by how faithfully you walk with God.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
To the ones who feels the shift in your spirit today —
the weight, the trembling, the quiet awareness that something has changed,
do not let uneasiness settle in your heart.
“Do not be afraid, little flock” —Luke 12:32
What you feel is not chaos.
It is confirmation.
The hour is moving.
The Spirit is stirring.
The ground beneath the familiar is giving way, not to shake you apart, but to wake you up.
Some of you feel a pressure. Some feel clarity rising where confusion once lived. Some feel the veil thinning, the moment sharpening, the call becoming unmistakable.
This is not a threat.
This is a sign.
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” —Luke 21:28
The shift is not meant to trouble you,
it is meant to align you, to steady you.
Let your heart rest.
Let your spirit listen.
Let the shaking become your confirmation that the Shepherd is near.
If you feel the shift, it is because you are being drawn. If you feel the weight, it is because truth is approaching. If you feel the moment, it is because the hour has arrived.
You are not losing your footing.
You are finding your direction.
The wise will understand.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
No matter what happens, God is on His throne. He rules, He reigns and He is in control.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
My father-in-law, suffering from an advanced case of bone cancer, asked to pray as we left his hospital room. He said three things to the Lord:
First, he thanked God for being good in all circumstances, even when it didn’t match our definition of good.
Second, he asked God to help him be a good example to others during his suffering.
Finally, he thanked God for the rich life of blessings he had been given.
I was blown away. This was a man who did not go to seminary. He couldn’t communicate the theology that I thought I had mastered so well. But in that moment, he revealed a deeper and richer understanding of the sovereignty of God than I ever had.
It’s probably the most powerful prayer I can remember.
It seemed that Bert had every right to complain, but he was joyful. He could have asked others to serve him, but he asked God to help him serve others.
Bert didn’t question God and ask “Why me?” He didn’t bring God into the court of his judgement and say, “Is this what I get after a lifetime of serving you?”
No, my father-in-law’s words were edifying. His tongue was pure. His vocabulary was God-honoring. Why? Because the sovereignty of God ruled in his heart, and out of the abundance of his heart his mouth spoke (Luke 6:45).
I am deeply persuaded that the primary reason we complain, grumble, and accuse is because the sovereignty of God doesn’t rule in our heart.
When people frustrate us, when our plans are thwarted, and when suffering enters our door, our lips dispense words laced with anger, bitterness, envy, doubt, confusion, and fear. All of these emotions are given room to grow when there is a void of rich understanding and belief in the sovereignty of God.
We have forgotten that God’s dominion is an eternal dominion and he does as he pleases (Daniel 4:34-35). We don’t remind ourselves that his judgements are unsearchable and his ways inscrutable (Romans 11:33). We have neglected to meditate on the truths that God rules over the specific details of our lives for his glory and our good (Acts 17:26-27, Ephesians 1:4-6, 20-22 and many more).
It’s easy for us to proclaim these truths during a Sunday worship service, but at street level, does the sovereignty of God really have deep roots in your heart?
That moment in the hospital was God’s revealing grace to me. He was not rejecting me or condemning me for weak theology, but rather opening my eyes, softening my heart, and wooing my soul to trust in him more.
May our Lord do the same with you today!
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
“The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be my God, the Rock of my salvation!”
~2 Samuel 22:47🕊
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
Heaven is full of worship.
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”
- Revelation 4:8-11
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
How do you know God has actually forgiven you?
You confessed it. You meant it. You asked God to forgive you, maybe more than once. And yet it still sits there. It shows up when you try to pray, when you hear a worship song, when you lie awake at night. Part of you wonders if God is still holding it against you, quietly keeping the file open, waiting to see if you’ll really change this time. So you keep apologizing for the same thing, hoping that one day the guilt will finally lift and you’ll know it’s settled.
Here is what Scripture actually says God does with confessed sin. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” 1 John 1:9. Notice the reason given. Not because you confessed with enough tears. Because He is faithful. Your forgiveness rests on His character, not on the strength of your feelings about it.
And He doesn’t just forgive. He removes. “As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us,” Psalm 103:12. East and west never meet; you can travel forever and never arrive. “You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea,” Micah 7:19. “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins,” Isaiah 43:25. The God who knows everything chooses not to hold it against you. There is no open file.
Remember the prodigal son. He rehearsed a whole speech on the way home, ready to beg for a servant’s place. He never got to finish it. “While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him,” Luke 15:20. The father wasn’t waiting to be convinced. He was already running.
So why does the guilt linger? Often because forgiveness is a fact before it’s a feeling. The enemy loves to accuse what God has already acquitted. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” Romans 8:1. Not less condemnation. None.
Try this: the next time that old memory comes back, don’t confess it again as if it’s still unpaid. Thank Him instead. “Lord, thank You that this is forgiven.” Gratitude is how you agree with what He has already done.
You don’t have to keep carrying what He already took from you. You’re allowed to set it down.
Jade B ✝️🇦🇺 retweeted
A family of 14 was inside their home as a massive fire spread through the house. Several children were still fast asleep, unaware of the growing danger.
But as the fire spread, something strange was happening miles away. A father driving home with his 13-year-old son kept getting directed down an unfamiliar road by his GPS. Even after changing the route several times, it kept sending him back. Eventually, he followed it, with no idea what he was about to discover.
It happened near Lyerly, Georgia. Casey Sparks was driving home with his son, Cayson, when his GPS kept rerouting him. After following it, he noticed an orange glow on a nearby hill. As he approached, he discovered a house on fire and a teenager desperately fighting the flames with a garden hose.
Casey told his son to call 911 and rushed inside, shouting for everyone to wake up and get out. As the family scrambled to escape, he found a young girl in a hospital-style bed who needed help.
He scooped her into his arms and headed toward the door he’d entered through. But the flames had already engulfed the exit.
With the little girl in his arms, Casey found another door, carried her outside, and handed her over a fence to a neighbor. Then he went back inside to help the others escape.
All 14 family members survived. Their home was destroyed, but not a single life was lost.
Casey later said he believed God had directed him down that unfamiliar road for a reason. What seemed like a frustrating GPS detour had brought him to a family that desperately needed help.
Sometimes God puts us exactly where we’re needed, even when we don’t fully understand why.
