● Good news, Bad news ●

Instructions

● Good news, Bad news ● Hey, Jesus loves you and I want to tell you more. I will be discussing the good news and bad news, if you are confused or have any questions on choosing Jesus as your Savior please let me know and I will do my best to help lead you down the right path. ● Who Jesus is ● "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." - John 1:14 Jesus is the Word of God, sent to go out and teach others about God and Himself. "who, although He existed in the form of God. did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men." - Philippians 2:6-7 Jesus is God in human form. "She (Mary) will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." - Matthew 1:21 Jesus came to save us from our sins by dy!ng on a cross, for more on that see my Good Friday and Story of Easter projects. "Jesus said to him (Thomas), "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me." - John 14:6 Jesus is the only way to heaven, no one can get to it except by believing in Him. "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep." - John 10:11 Jesus was telling the disciples of what He is going to do, be crucified and d1e to save us from our sins. "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one." - John 10:29-30 Once saved, always saved. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (Jesus)" - John 3:16-18 If you would like to read about the cross and resurrection of Jesus you can find it in John 19-20, Matthew 27-28, Luke 23-24, and Mark 15-16 Or in my Story of Easter and Good Friday projects, which will be linked below. ● My testimony (story) ● When I was 10, back in 2020, my friend began to bvlly me profusely. I still question why to this day but I believe it was to help me be here today. I had been a believer my whole life but when I was 10-13 I questioned my faith and began to run from God. I danced away from the topics of Him, slept in on Sundays to not go to church just cause I thought He was mad at me. The enemy, the devil, placed lies in my head to make me think God hated my guts and wanted nothing to do with me, I daily thought I was useless and weak, I had panic attacks every night. I believed I could fix myself, I turned to the internet, scrolling for hours late into the night to numb the mental pain I was going through, I turned to the world and myself to fix myself. I was depressed, drained, anxious for 4 long years till one night I snapped, I shouted at God in anger, I thought He was to blame till I came to a selfish conclusion that I was nothing but a toy for Satan to use. And I lived with that for a full year, just this past year, in July of 2024, I sat down with a book my mother got me, called the egadnob (read not backwards, it thinks there is a bad word) breaker by Neil T. Anderson and that was eye opening. It explained what I was going through perfectly, it opened my eyes to the truth and showed me that God was saddened that I had been bvllied, used and hurt by all my friends, sad I was lead astray, sad I was running from Him. He wasn't mad, He was waiting for me to find Him again. It told me I couldn't do this on my own, I needed Jesus. I needed to be set free from the lies the enemy placed in my head. July 10th of 2024 I gave my life back to Christ, was I already a Christian? Yes, but I had strayed away so far that darkness surrounded me and told me that /myself/ was all I ever needed but Jesus stepped in and said no. I can't do anything on my own, I needed Him, and still do. So that night, through pain-filled tears and sobs, I gave my life back to Jesus. But it seemed the opposite of what I wanted to happen happened that next morning, my friends left me, my usual worldly copes stopped working, my thinking changed yet I struggled with anxiety still, my therapy stopped working. I was confused, till I sat down to read my Bible and it all made sense. Everything that was "working" that stopped "working" was because they lead me away from Jesus, so today. If you give your faith to Jesus, things may change for the worse for a bit, but that is just Him cleaning out the sin to make way for His blessings.**