Easter Season Greetings

              Easter season greetings to our dear brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world

 

Dear precious brothers in Christ,

 

May the love of God through Jesus Christ our Lord continue to fill your heart as you serve Him!

 

As I think of you and remember the precious words of our Lord and Savior Jesus that we have shared  and the love and caring that has been mutually shared and the reaching out with the love of Christ to many, I pray that the love that is in the heart of Jesus even as we remember this Holy Week and the great price He paid to purchase us, lost and condemned sinners on that first Good Friday, would cause your heart and soul to be filled with thanks giving and praises and joy overflowing and you would be compelled to speak to all you come in contact with of the reason for that hope which lies within in, and the great price that has been paid for us when Jesus willingly and lovingly gave Himself and suffered and died as payment for our sins and even now He offers fully and freely the forgiveness of all our sins in His Precious Name and by the Power of His Blood when we believe and come just as we are admitting and confessing our sins and faults and asking for forgiveness which is offered fully and freely because Jesus has paid it all and made it possible for us to approach His throne of Grace, the mercy seat knowing that whatsoever is forgiven here on earth is also forgiven in Heaven. 

 

Jesus has given to us even as the Father has sent Him so He sends us as His Ambassadors to freely proclaim this Gospel, The Good News, proclaiming the forgiveness of sins to penitent sinners. Speak this message of forgiveness of forgiveness which He has given to us, The Church, His body of believers, and sends us throughout the whole world to freely preach and proclaim. Practice it in your own lives, with your family, and your Christian brothers and sisters and in your churches. Do not let sin, offenses and hurts separate you from the love that is in Jesus even towards one another. Allow the blood of Jesus Christ to freely flow in His body of believers, of which we are members when He has purchased us with such a great price and His blood cleanses us from all sin and brings life to each member. 

 

Freely believe all your sins are forgiven. God remembers them no more. Continue to walk to walk in Grace and Joy, knowing that our names are written in Heaven and one day we will be with Him and see him just as He is when we are clothed with the blood washed robe of His righteousness Even today as we know Jesus lives, and we celebrate His victory over sin, death and the devil, on Easter Sunday, know that He lives forevermore even in our hearts now and He has promised that He will never leave us or forsake us, but will be with us even to the end of time. He promises us a crown if we are faithful to the end. Let us strive to that end and encourage and lift up one another in that most blessed hope. Soon He will be coming to take us home to be with Him. When we see Him face to face then we know it will have been worth it all. May His love always remain with us even to the end of time, and may that love be the very power that draws our hearts together in one christian love as we labor together bringing His message of salvation to a lost and dying world. May He strengthen each of us to that end.

 

Give our greetings and love to your families and to the body of believers in your areas.

 

God's Peace!  In His Love!

 

On behalf of the Apostolic Foreign Mission Board

Pastor Bob Maki