Kept By the Power of God

Dear Weekly Readers!


We in the USA are praying that each of you have had a wonderful Spirit filled week. We always need to be in prayer that the Lord would fill us to overflowing, so that we would be encouraged to go forward through this world that often is so hurtful, sad, and trying. All Christians, however, can be so thankful that we learn from the Bible in 1 Peter 1:5 that we are those “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

We are kept by the same God that has all the power! The one that created the entire world, universe, and everything ever created. God’s power has never been diminished, but rather He is still as powerful as ever. God sent His Son Jesus to save all the people in the world from sin. He wants to recreate us, to place our feet upon the Rock, Christ Jesus!

We cannot stand on our own, we will surely fail. We are so thankful for scriptures that say things such as Lamentations 3:22: It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

We are as it says in Isaiah 53:6: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.


We have nothing to boast of ourselves. We deserved punishment and death. We need to be thankful we have such a merciful God! The compassions of our Lord fail not. Let us turn toward the Saviour in our time of trouble.

Every morning He desires to give us His Faith! Great is Thy Faithfulness! Even Faith is not our own, it is a gift of God! Ephesians 2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Here the Word of God teaches us that even faith is a gift of God! We have nothing good to offer of ourselves, it is all from the Lord! We therefore have nothing to boast of in ourselves!

We also need to take note of verse 10. We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…! When we are in Christ and He in us, we are recreated unto good works! God has ordained that we should walk in them. I believe the reason it says this is that in these last times, (the time after Jesus dying and rising again, and the end of all time) the Lord works through His servants on earth so that others can come to Jesus! He has…committed unto us the word of reconciliation...2 Corinthians 15:19

The most important thing for our Lord Jesus who died for the sins of the entire world is that man would be saved. This is even shown to us by the fact that all of creation and all the books that could be written about that are recorded in only a few pages in the beginning of our Bibles. The rest of the Bible is really about the Redeemer, the way of salvation through Christ Jesus!

That is how important the salvation of man is to our God! He wants that man would be saved! He knows our hopeless state without Jesus! He knows that fallen mankind needs to hear His Holy Word in order to be saved! Here is a portion of scripture that very clearly shows the importance of preaching and hearing!

Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?


15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

"The Love of God is greater far, than tongue or pen could ever tell," is what is written in one of our songs.

God Loves the World so much!

John 3:16 King James Version (KJV) 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This applies to you and me and everyone in the world! Let’s ask God to allow us to see this fact for ourselves through faith, and then ask that He would use us to share this message with those we come in contact with.


May God Bless your week!
John Ruotsala
FM Administrator