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Have you ever wondered?

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

— John 8:32 KJV.

Do you ever wonder about your conscious? Why is it there or what is it really? I remember growing up and my mother told me every time I wanted to do wrong my “guilty” conscious would whisper to me privately in my mind. I remember watching and listening to things and wondering if what I saw or heard was the truth or even real and hearing that inner voice inside me tell me yes or no. I recall many a time when I would procrastinate things and I would be reminded by the little voice in my head. I can think of times in my life when I was doing wrong or bad things to myself or others and heard that same voice over and over tell me that what I was doing was not right. Even when I spend money, I hear the voice.

Truth be told, that voice is in all of us from childhood and it has helped in our decision making process all of our lives as well as being a constant reminder of past decisions we have made.

But the question still remains, is what exactly is that voice?

Another question is, is “how is that voice, bible truths, prophecies & promises related?”

Over the next several months I would sincerely like to invite you to join me and others and see what it all really means. Perhaps we may all see what the meaning of life is after all 🙂

I invite you to explore the many topics using radio, video, text, and more with us and encourage everybody to interact as well with your own feedback, comments, and testimonies during this walk/season.

Peace and Thanksgiving to you,

Alan K.

Does pride get in the way?

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Galatians 6:4 KJV

Many people today take pride in what they do. When we see things done by people who take pride in what they do, it tends to be a good thing. Especially if we hire a person for a particular job. If that person takes pride in what they do, we seem to approve of it more positively. I think this is a good thing.

But is it a good thing when a person’s pride gets in the way? We as humans sometimes have too much pride when it comes to admitting we are wrong. We let pride blind us to the facts sometimes, or we will not listen to another opposing opinion. Too much pride also sometimes leads to judging others or things in a wrong or incorrect way.

All the time we can see this in politics in the United States. We very well know the politician is wrong and we see what they are doing, but because of their own pride, they do things that go against what we believe is true. We see this also when they are caught red handed, but their pride prevents them from seeing that they did anything wrong.

Too much pride can also make us not want to try new things. For example, when it comes to dieting, we know full well a right diet is good for us, but our pride says we will never eat something that looks or tastes like that. Perhaps we know we should exercise more, but our pride tells us that we are in the best shape of our adult life.

This same pride also gets in the way of when a person decides to get saved or not by Jesus Christ. The truth is we feel we can save our own selves from the evils of this world and try over and over again to do so.

Be of the same mind one toward another *. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits..

Romans 12:16 KJV

Sometimes people even think they are well off and do not need the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 26:12 KJV

Pride is the one of the biggest reasons that people refuse God, His word the Bible, and that hell truly does exist in my honest opinion.

When it comes to giving your life to Christ, we tend to come up with all kinds of excuses why we don’t need Him. And this is a sobering reality that truly is sad.

The Bible plainly tells us that when we die, we go to one of two places. Heaven or Hell. There is no in between. No grey, only black or white. The truth of the matter is, that every single one of us will get to live for all eternity. It is just a question of where.

The Bible clearly states that there is coming a day when all of mankind will be judged and there will be no more second chances. It tells us of a day, when God Himself will return and bring His judgement to all mankind.

Does our pride prevent us from seeing the truth of this? Will our pride get in our way and stop us from reading more about who Jesus Christ is and His free gift of eternal salvation? Time and time again Jesus witness people who had too much pride that prevented them from seeing and believing He was the Messiah.

The only thing we really have to do to see what is coming, is to read the bible. If you have not allowed Jesus into your heart, I beg of you to do so today and just pick up the New Testament of the Bible and start in the book of Matthew. You won’t be sorry. And any pride you may have preventing you from His saving grace will be replaced with pride of knowing Him!

God Bless and Peace be with you!

Why is this happening to me?

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV

Do you ever have one of those days or situations in life where you have to ask, “Why is this happening to me?”. Life is full of ups and downs and at times the downs seem to be at their lowest, whether it is our own fault or someone else’s. A bad day at work when everybody seems to be on your back. A relationship where the other person is nothing that you expected. Someone treating you badly for no reason. Some accusing you of something you didn’t do. Or perhaps something you are trying to accomplish and nothing is going right.

There are a million reasons why we shake our fists up in the air and yell, “Why me Lord, why me?” One reason is not better or worse than the other. The fact is that life drives us to ask this question over and over. And for a lot of Christians in the world we often wonder why got allows some of these things to happen.

Even for non believers or unsaved people, we tend to ask God to get us out of some messes or misery when the level of our problems, issues, or challenges are at their worst. A person that commits a crime and is getting ready to get caught sometimes pleads at that very moment to God to save them or help them. A person deep into drug addiction or alcoholism tends to ask for God’s help when they just can’t take it anymore. Even well to do people tend to ask God for help in situations at the last moment hoping He will give them the help or answers we desperately need.

Just to back it up for a moment and to pose another question…”If God loves us, why does He allow us to go through the pain and suffering we deal with in today’s times?” I often hear this a lot from people and I know what they are going through. It is hard to live a life in today’s “It’s all about me” lifestyle, and to wonder if it is all worth it and if there is a God, let alone wonder why He would allow things to happen.

The truth is very clear in the Bible. He loves us like nobody else can. He sacrificed His Son on the cross so that we may have forgiveness of our sins and eternal life with Him. But when we are struggling to get out of the situation we are in, it is hard to see this as a reality.

But to put in a better perspective on how much God loves us, He has declared us as all his children.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 3 KJV

Just like we are children (sons) of God, we also have children here on earth. The way we love our children is the same as God loves His children, only He loves us way more than we could ever imagine. Just like we don’t want our children to suffer in this world, neither does God want us to suffer.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

2 Corinthians 1:3 KJV

The truth is, that just like us, God wants to hear from his children, just like we want to hear from our own children. We know that our children do things that get themselves hurt and in trouble. Our children suffer in sorrow as well and we want to be there for them when they do. The same is for God. He allows us freewill to do the things we want. We make the decisions to do things that get us into predicaments that we care not to be in. And our Father, God, wants to help us and be there. And just like the world gets a hold of our children and offers them situations that we have no say in, the same goes for us. Death, sickness, war, poverty, famine just to name a few put us in a place of mental anguish and depression we had no choice in.

Now let me ask this. When your children come to you for help, are you not glad that they do? Are you not thankful it is you they call on for the help that you know and they know only you can provide.

The same goes with our Father in Heaven.

He did not create us just to be miserable. He created us out of Love. Just like we create our own children. We want what is best for our children. And our God in Heaven wants the same for us.

There is well know parable in the Bible called the “Prodical Son” which speaks of a son who leaves his father to go live a sinful lifestyle out in the world only to lose everything he owned. After wallowing with swines, eating the same things they did, he had had enough and went back to his father and asked for forgiveness and merchy which he gets more than he deserved. (Luke 15:11-32 KJV)

the Prodigal Son – Luke 15:11-32 KJV

The father of this son was so happy to see him again that he through a feast in honor of his return.

The same things happens when we cry out to God for help. He is glad that we have finally come to him for help. Even if it takes a situation that no human could help or forgive us for, God can. And He will.

He has told us in His Word, the Bible, that we can lay all of our problems at His feet.

28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:28-30 KJV

And when we do this, we start a relationship with our Father. And this is what He wants from His children. Just as we want it from our own children. This relationship with God will work in our hearts and we will draw closer and closer to him. Again, this is what He wants. And we should want this too. It will cause us to see what God really wants us to do. Again, this is what He wants.

When we cry out, “Why me”, God just may be answering back “Because I love you and I want to help you, just come and ask Me”.

For me it was a life of drinking and drugs, that caused me to ask God, “Why me?”. Today I am a “Born again” Christian and am saved. I have hope for a future. I am still a sinner, but I have a relationship with Our Heavenly Father. Life will still be miserable at times, but I know I can lay my worries at His feet and let Him guide me on how to deal with them.

If you are going through some times in your life, and have to ask, “Why me?”, ask God to help you in the same breath and He will.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Luke 15:7 KJV

What is inner peace?

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

-John 14:27 KJV

It seems the world has many different ideas and teaching on what inner peace is. From finding your perfect mate to perhaps finding the perfect job.

Some say that when you are content you have inner peace. Some say when you finally see justice done, it gives a person inner peace.

Webster’s dictionary says that inner peace is, “a state of concord or tranquility Webster’s dictionary says that inner peace is,”

with all the different ideas of what inner peace is, the world also has a plethera of ways to achieve it, whether it is by “religion” or “spirituality”, “self-acceptance”, “finding oneself”, “meditation”, “yoga” as well as 1000’s upon 1000’s more.

And many of these ways are all well in good and I think everybody should have some form or method of alleviating stress and/or anger and finding the joy of peace within. I think everybody would agree to that.

I guess the real question I want to ask is does “inner peace” solve everything? Or does it only put a band aid on life’s many storms and hurdles it wants to put in our paths.

No matter how you obtained inner peace, there is always that chance that the inner peace will be shattered by an event or circumstance. We can be happy go lucky one minute and then the next our world can be turned upside down by many unforeseen situations, whether it be a death in our family, loss of job, car accident, argument, etc. All these things tend to put havoc, sadness, grief and more back into our life just when we are feeling so good about things.

For many of us, this is the time we turned to drugs and/or alcohol to either dull the miserableness that inner peace leaving us has made us feel. Or to try to put a form of it back into that void. Perhaps some of us seek out some sort of counseling once again. Some of us even resort to prescribed medication to give us that feeling of happiness once again.

No matter what it seems, inner peace comes and goes and for some of us, it is a revolving door that gets more and more rusty as time goes on.

Now a question is brought up in this conversation. Is there something better than inner peace? I would now have to answer that with a full blown YES! I believe the better alternative to “inner peace” is HOPE. I say this because no matter if we have inner peace or not, we can always have hope. And depending on what we have “Hope” in, hope can last forever.

Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalm 146:3

I have only been recently saved in the last year. I am 54 years old and before I got saved, I put my “hope” and “faith” into things like the stock market, or my job, or my family. I had hope that I would one day become quite rich and be able to do most of the things I wanted to do. But with every new thing I put my hope in, I found myself seeing that what I had hope in wasn’t going to amount to much of anything.

I put my hope into things like the government to take care of me when I got old and was able to retire. And we all see how that is going.

I put my hope into my businesses that I ran, but after one failure and another, my hope in my abilities to run a business quickly vanished.

One time I put my hope into the “New Age” philosophy and “Mother Earth”, but soon realized that rocks, stars and dirt couldn’t even talk, let alone take care of me and give my happiness the rest of my days.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 KJV

I am thankful that an individuals came to me and talked to me about the saving grace of God, the Father over the course of my life. It would take over 40 years of different people talking to me about Jesus and what the sacrifice of His Blood on the Cross meant to me and my salvation and the gift of Eternal Life.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 5:24

It was not an instant thing of talking with me, but a lifetime of ups and downs, letdowns, drugs and alcohol, and more for the Holy Spirit to convict me and to save me.

Now I have “Hope”. Every day I see things that aggravate me. I see things that disgust me that the world is doing and has done. I see things that make me quite angry. I see things that take away any “Inner Peace” that I may have at any given moment. But now I have a “Hope”. Hope in a future that will not have the things I see now in it. When I go home at night after a day of long hours, aggravating situations, tragic events, etc., I get to lay my head down and night and have that inner peace, knowing full well that soon My Lord and Savior will save me from this imperfect life and give me a perfect eternal life in a place where inner peace will be in abundance.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4

Do not get me wrong about salvation. Salvation does not make life a bed of roses or all peachy keen so to say. We are promised in the Bible that we will be perscuted by people because of Jesus’ name. We will still have heart aches and miseries just like everybody else. The only difference is that we have an eternal hope now that allows us to have inner peace whenever we want to.

Just like you, I may lose a job. I may lose a loved one. I may slip and have a drink again. But my hope will remain forever.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31 KJV

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Ephesians 1:18-19

Am I doing it for the right reasons?

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Colossians 3:17

Do you or people you know ever do things that they say are the right thing but in your heart you very well know they are bad? Every single day the world does things only to boast about how good they are doing or how what they are doing/do improves the way of life, etc. Do you ever get tired of seeing these so called acts of kindness and/or goodness?

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:4

Every day it seems that I see many acts being done to glorify oneself (I am no stranger to doing this same thing either) instead of God. We must remember that all good comes from God.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

James 1:17

And to think it comes from us is insane. We were created by God, not by man. So therefore we must follow the examples of the Hypocrites during Jesus’ days on earth, but to give all the glory to God.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:1-2

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another

Galatians 5:26

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name

Psalm 29:2a

In closing, I just want to say I am guilty of wanting and trying to get the glory for myself for when I do right or do an act of kindness. I wish though that that the world sees that it God, Our Heavenly Father that should and will get the glory ultimately. Today I will pray for this ability to always give God the glory and to give it with love.

Do you ever get so angry…

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Psalm 37:8

Do you ever have those days when you get so angry at others and their ways, that you wonder if is a sin to do so? In the course of some days, I find myself so mad at certain individuals I just want to yell and scream at them and get it into their head that they are wrong in what they are doing. It could be many different things, but the thing that I find I get the most angry about is when they profess to be a Christian, yet their ways, works and acts tell a completely different story.

Most times I can pray about it and ask God to lift the anger from my heart and to replace it with an understanding heart. But there are times when it feels that I just keep getting angrier by the minute.

But I find in Proverbs that there are two different types of people. The Wise and the Fools. And when I read them I see the things that cause me anger and why.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Proverbs 11:9

And I see this all the time. A person professing they are a Christian but are always talking about other people in a bad or negative way and it drives me crazy.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:18

So I guess this post only shows that even Solomon, who wrote Proverbs seen the evil and the fools just like we do today. I often wonder how he dealt with them and if he got as angry as we do today.

I currently do not have an answer or a way to fix the anger that I get when seeing the “fools”. But I do know I need to pray more about my heart and not be so judgmental as well as be more forgiving.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Matthew 7:3

My name is Alan K.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

-Romans 3:23

All of my adult life I have been a drug addict, alcoholic, a thief, a cheat, a liar, a selfish individual and so much more. I have done things that I am so ashamed of that I keep it a secret from most people I know.

Before 2019, I did most things for myself and my glory and my benefit and basically used most people that I knew, including my own family and friends for my own selfish gains. I did things so I could get high. I got high so I could do things…and so on and on and on.

And that is putting it mildly.

Today I am saved. I gave my life over to the Lord Jesus Christ in Sept. of 2018. I confessed my sins to Him. I laid my life at His feet. I called upon His name to rescue me from my own doings, both past and present. I asked Him to come into my wretched life and to save me.

And He did!

Now I am trying to do his will and tell others about my life and what it means to be saved and why it is crucial now. I want to tell others I that are like me, that I know the answers to the questions they have just as I had. I want to tell others about the saving grace of Our Heavenly Father.

I want to tell others it is urgent that they come to know Jesus Christ now before it is too late. That the last days are here. And that tomorrow is not promised.

I am writing/creating this website to to just that. I invite any and all to take part in the discussions and messages given on this website by myself and others so that they too may see/hear what I did and do/take part in what I have.

To get a glimpse of some of the questions we will pose on this website, ask yourself these questions…

  • Is there a purpose to life or do we just die and that is that?
  • Is there life after death?
  • Is there any hope for myself that have spent an entire lifetime of doing drugs or drinking and doing the wicked things that are associated with them?
  • Is there any true religions out there or are they all a just a way to control mankind?
  • Is there really a God?
  • Is there any hope left in this world or do we just give up?

If any of these questions raise more questions, than I lovingly and encouragingly to subscribe on the Home page so you can be updated with content that will help you to answer these same questions I asked all of my life.

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