Billy Joe Daugherty - God is Not Mad at You!

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You Can Enjoy Heaven On Earth Now!

Imagine a God Who would pour out the totality of His Son's innocent, sinless blood to give life to people who are caught in the grip of sin, some even willingly! That is a demonstration of love that never will be surpassedand Jesus did that for you and me!

When someone becomes a Christian he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!

All these new things are from God who brought us back to himself through what Christ Jesus did. And God has given us the privilege of urging everyone to come into his favor and be reconciled to him.

For God was in Christ, restoring the world to himself , no longer counting mens sins against them but blotting them out. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.

We are Christs ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers yoube reconciled to God.

For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured Gods goodness into us!

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 TLB

Your view of God's attitude toward you will determine the way you live. It will determine the love, joy, peace and victory (or the lack of it) that you experience in your life.

Many times, a person's attitude toward other people is a direct reflection of how they perceive God sees them.

Many people feel that God is mad at them. Because they don't understand how God views them, they are embarrassed to speak of the Lord or afraid to approach Him in prayer.

The good news is , God is not mad at you! God hates sin, there will be judgment against sin, and there is a hell for the people who totally reject Jesus Christ, but God does not want anyone to go there. That's not His plan. His plan is heaven for everyonenot just after we die, but He wants us to experience the goodness of heaven on earth now.

Jesus said to pray for God's Kingdom to come and His will to be done in earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). God's attitude and plan for us are that we experience His economy, blessing, fullness, bliss, joy, goodness and satisfaction in this life.

...I came that [you] may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

John 10:10 AMP

God Is Not Mad at You!

When the prodigal son was in his father's house, he began to think about life away from his home. He wanted his father's money, so he basically said, "I wish you were dead, Dad. Give me the inheritance now that is coming to me when you die."

A certain man had two sons.

And the younger of them said to his father, "Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me." So he divided to them his livelihood.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

Luke 15:11-16

The prodigal son ended up in the pig pen once he spent everything he had on riotous living, wild partying, drinking, immorality and uncleanness. When he ran out of cash, he also ran out of friends! Maybe you have experienced that. They weren't really his friends, but they were moochers when the young man could pay for their alcohol and parties.

When the prodigal son was stripped of all material possessions, scripture says, "He came to himself."

But when he came to himself, he said, "How many of my fathers hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

"I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

"And I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."

Verses 17-19

That's prodigal son mentality! He went through the servant routine, "I'll just serve you. I'll no longer be your son, but just let me be an employee on the ranch. At least I'll have something to eat."

And he arose and came to his father.

But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Verse 20

That's not a response of anger, but one of total love, acceptance and forgiveness! The father's actions revealed love rather than condemnation.

And the son said to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son."

But the father said to his servants, "Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

"And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

"For this my son was dead [in sin] and is alive again; he was lost and is found." And they began to be merry.

Verses 21-24

Jesus gave us the parable of the prodigal son to give us a graphic picture of the Father's view of those who have failed or have gone away from Him and are in a backslidden condition. The father never rehearsed the prodigal son's wrongdoing, but he said, "Put a robe on his back, a ring on his finger, shoes on his feet and kill the fatted calf so we can celebrate that my son who was dead is alive."

Religion would dictate, "Isolate or ostracize the son. Let him sit it out for a while to make sure he is straight," implying that the shed blood of Jesus Christ that is applied when genuine repentance takes place is not sufficient to take care

of the matter. Treating a person according to what he, or she, should be, instead of what he, or she, has been, is one of the greatest lifts you can give to cause them to want more of this kind of Jesus!

It delights God's heart when you come to Him, regardless of your circumstances, just as it delights an earthly father's heart when his children come to him. My children bring me great joy. If they do something wrong, I correct them for the wrong action, but I'm not mad at them. I love them.

Discipline and correction come out of the goodness of a person's heart, because unless the action is corrected, it will lead to disaster. But don't punish to vent your own frustration.

When you realize that God is not mad at you, it will change your prayer life, it will change the way you live and it will change the way you treat other people. Many people are oppressed and depressed, discouraged, full of fear and ineffective in their prayer life because of the thought, "God is against me. He is mad at me." When that kind of thinking is removed out of your life, you will wake up every day with new joy, realizing, "Lord, You are in love with me. You are not mad at me."

It's the accuser of the brethren, Satan, who wants you to think God is mad at you. When you know that God is not mad at you, you will be bold in witnessing to others.

Many people would witness, but they are continually reminded of their past mistakes. The devil says, "God is going to be upset with you if you try to witness after the way you've acted." Many people are shot right out of the saddle on sharing their faith because of this attitude.

Settle it right nowGod is not mad at me! He loves me, accepts me and forgives me!

Jesus Became Our Righteousness

God is not holding our sins against us, because Jesus Christ took the penalty for our sins.

For He [God] made Him [Jesus Christ] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Galatians 3:13 says Jesus Christ was made a curse for us. "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.... "