Quotes, Scriptures, & the way to heaven

Just something I am passing on to a family member, thought I would share it with my three followers :)

Some quotes I love:

Remember when the Lord is silent in our trials that the teacher is always quiet during tests.

Don’t tell God how big the storm is, tell the storm how big God is.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference (this has been my favorite prayer since high school).

Some verses I find encouraging:

Psalm 57

Psalm 1:1-6

Psalm 4:4

Psalm 55:22

Psalm 27:1

Ephesians 4:31-32

Luke 17:4

Isaiah 41:10

Deuteronomy 31:6

Matthew 11:28-30

Phillippians 4:13

John 16:33

2 Timothy 1:7

I love you and I hope these help!! 

One more thing I find important to stress, that we can only truly go to heaven and be saved if we have confessed that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and that he died for our sins.  I feel that this confession must be made out loud, using your mouth in witness to at least one other person.  There are many people who believe that Jesus is the savior, and truly worship him as one, but have never confessed it with their mouths; unfortunately they will not be saved and will not make it to heaven.  Personally, growing up, I don’t remember EVER confessing that Jesus died for MY sins and that God raised him from the dead.  I remember saying a bunch of “prayers” that everyone says at the same exact time that you know by heart and I rarely think about the words when I say them.  That won’t get us into heaven.  Rituals and prayers that are centuries old that we don’t say with our HEARTS, but we say out of tradition, will not win us favor in God’s eyes, for his grace, his gift of Christ, is just that, it is a gift.  We cannot earn the gift, ever, no matter how many Hail Mary’s we say or how “good of a person” we think we are. 

Romans 10:9

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (NIV ß New International Version)

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (NLT ß New Living Translation)

Notice, these verses do not say: be a good person, do good things, be fair and kind hearted, and you will be saved. 

Romans 10:10 goes on to say:

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

In John 14:6 Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through him.  That means that no one can have a relationship with GOD if they do not first believe in Jesus, and we cannot go to heaven except by being saved.

Okay, so enough preaching.  If you want to know more about this, I am always open to talk about it.  This is a hard subject for me to broach, because we all get a little bristly when we talk about religion and faith, and I just want to see you in heaven when I die!  I love you and I want you to experience the awesome love of God that Kris and I have experienced, even in all our trials.