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There was a man at my former church who gave up his career to serve in full time ministry. Back then I thought "What? Why? This guy is a fool." Now I get it. I fully comprehend it and applaud him for his humility and selflessness to pursue something bigger than his own life and desires. Isn't saving souls for eternity far far more important..far far more valuable than a temporary career, bank account, titles, prestige, and anything and everything of this world that will one day pass away?  My heart weeps. There are past regrets where I could have led others to Jesus, but my love for this world got in the way. I thought of me first. My wants. My career. My bank account. My image of what others think of me. But those things are nothing! Nothing compared to saving souls and gaining eternal brothers and sisters in heaven. My heart is shaken with devastation for the day when Jesus Christ returns..there are still so so many who do not know Jesus yet. And once Jesus returns..that's it guys! Oh man! I don't know.. I feel so burdened. So heavy. So please if you're a Jesus follower, make it a mandatory daily and primary goal to tell others about Jesus. If every believer did this, this world would look a lot more different AND heaven would be more crowded. Please if you do not know Jesus yet, get to know Him today. I truly believe that we are living in the last days and there's not much time left. This is not a time to be lukewarm. This is not the time to be nonchalant. This is not the time to play games with God. For everyone, let's make it our goal to fully know, love, obey and serve Jesus with ALL of our heart, soul, mind and strength. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyJesus  (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp10MUhqxb/?igshid=ilfughnxfe3n

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Grace vs faith vs works (1/2) "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.  For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:15-17 One of the most confusing debates is grace vs faith vs works. Ephesians 2:8 says that it is by grace through faith that we are saved, but James 2:26 says that faith without works is dead. Huh? Wait..I thought we're saved by grace not works? Yes we are saved by grace and we can never ever earn our salvation in Jesus Christ. However, once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior you are required to be different from the world. You are required to die to yourself so that Christ can live in and through you.  Why did Jesus die to save you? Once you're saved, why didn't He just take you up with Him to heaven? Because you have a purpose. A purpose to tell everyone of God's unfailing love and amazing grace. A purpose to make disciples of all nations. A purpose to save souls from God's wrath. Jesus didn't die for us so that we live our own selfish lives. Jesus didn't save us to be lukewarm Christians. Jesus requires us to deny ourselves and pick up our cross daily. Are you willing to give up the things of this world for Jesus? Are you willing to die to yourself so that it is Jesus who lives in and through you? 📯Part 2 in the next post 📯 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyJesus (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEnIeE4BVq0/?igshid=70fcj5cggxlw

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Wrong heart (2/2) 💔Let down your pride and anger. This is what Jesus told me: Aggie, wouldn't it bring more glory to Me if even the abortionists will turn their hearts to Me and be welcomed into the eternal family of Mine? Isn't that who I died for too? Isn't that My greatest desire for EVERYONE to be saved? Shouldn't that be your greatest desire too? Yea you're right Aggie, they don't deserve my grace, forgiveness, love and kindness but neither did you. Or did you forget from what I've rescued you from? Did you forget how far you were from me? Basically He told me to check AND change my heart. Whatever cause you are fighting for, don't let that become your idol. Be rooted in Jesus first so that you are doing it with the right heart. With Jesus's heart. Love and pray for your enemies even if your feelings tell you otherwise. Picture Jesus on the cross, whispering in His last breaths "Forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." Remind yourself why and who the cross was for. Reflect on how far Jesus has redeemed you too when you least deserve it. Let's share Jesus's unending grace, unshakable love, eternal hope with everyone. Let's make heaven crowded!  "He must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyJesus (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkux77BvfR/?igshid=1ip14ek7i2p3x

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Wrong heart (1/2) When I first discovered how a baby was aborted, I got so so angry. I mean, how can you cut and rip off the baby's body into pieces so brutally? You know..they can feel every single pain..ah..thinking about it just devastates me. I got so mad that I got absorbed with everything against abortion. Most of my time was spent on researching abortion facts and trying to expose the evilness of abortion. I got so absorbed and distracted that I forgot about Jesus. I didn't have the time nor desire to spend time with Him. Eventually I got drained and overwhelmed with anger, bitterness and sorrow. I knew I couldn't go on like this. So for 40 days I took a social media and anything about abortion fast and spent more of my time with Jesus. During that time, He comforted my weary heart AND lovingly confronted me that I was doing it all with the wrong heart. 💔I put that before Jesus. Although I had good intentions to help stop abortion, exposing it consumed my time and heart. It became my idol. 💔I wasn't rooted. I let my feelings be my god.  Because I didn't spend time with Jesus, my mind was weak and my heart was deceptive. The enemy loves to attack you and is most effective at it when you aren't grounded in Him. I let my emotions of anger, bitterness and pride rule over my heart, where Jesus commands us to love and pray for our enemies. In fact Jesus said hating someone is equivalent to being a murderer and therefore eternal life is not in that person. Yikes! As soon as He showed me the ugliness of my heart, I repented. Thank you Jesus for patiently confronting me, because nothing is worth loosing my salvation over! So I apologize if I came across harshly or condemning, that wasn't my intention.  💗Part 2 in the next post💗 #runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyjesus (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEhl0Zbh2MJ/?igshid=18llteadpfzfy

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What does JESUS say about abortion? Did you know that Jesus's heart is weeping every time an innocent baby is torn apart in her or his mother's womb? And every year 40-50 million babies are aborted. 40-50 million of innocent lives being forcefully and injusticly ended.  Abortion is AGAINST God's word and so as Jesus followers we simply can not vote, agree or support abortions. Period. No buts and ifs. No exceptions. As Jesus FOLLOWers we must FOLLOW His word and He says that abortion is wholeheartedly wrong.  👶"BEFORE I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you." Jeremiah 1:5 👶"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be." Psalms 139:16 👶The Lord hates hands that shed innocent blood. Proverbs 6:17 It doesn't matter what society, culture or ourselves feel or think about abortion. Are we following God or are we following culture? Is Jesus our Lord or are our feelings and our own "knowledge" our Lord? Where do we get our truth and knowledge from? Our source of truth should solely and only come from God's Word. Not the news, social media, culture or even friends and family. Go back to God's Word because only His word is unchanging and fully true.  Don't just take my word for it, pray and ask Jesus for wisdom and clarity. Ask Jesus to show you what He thinks about abortion. Ask Him to break your heart for what breaks His.  👶Side note: I prayed that prayer. He revealed to me His heart about abortion for just a millisecond and I couldn't stop weeping. It hurts Him deeply. It grieves Him tremendously. It devastates Him immensely.  👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶#runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyjesus  (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVUKRMhlAK/?igshid=jx5mw86n9pc8

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What does JESUS say about abortion? Did you know that Jesus's heart is weeping every time an innocent baby is torn apart in her or his mother's womb? And every year 40-50 million babies are aborted. 40-50 million of innocent lives being forcefully and injusticly ended.  Abortion is AGAINST God's word and so as Jesus followers we simply can not vote, agree or support abortions. Period. No buts and ifs. No exceptions. As Jesus FOLLOWers we must FOLLOW His word and He says that abortion is wholeheartedly wrong.  👶"BEFORE I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you." Jeremiah 1:5 👶"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be." Psalms 139:16 👶The Lord hates hands that shed innocent blood. Proverbs 6:17 It doesn't matter what society, culture or ourselves feel or think about abortion. Are we following God or are we following culture? Is Jesus our Lord or are our feelings and our own "knowledge" our Lord? Where do we get our truth and knowledge from? Our source of truth should solely and only come from God's Word. Not the news, social media, culture or even friends and family. Go back to God's Word because only His word is unchanging and fully true.  Don't just take my word for it, pray and ask Jesus for wisdom and clarity. Ask Jesus to show you what He thinks about abortion. Ask Him to break your heart for what breaks His.  👶Side note: I prayed that prayer. He revealed to me His heart about abortion for just a millisecond and I couldn't stop weeping. It hurts Him deeply. It grieves Him tremendously. It devastates Him immensely.  👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶#runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #endabortion #prolife #savethebabies #christianmillenials #reallove #christianposts #christianblogger #christianblog #christianlife #jesussaves #onlyjesus  (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVTpfGBKw7/?igshid=1dvs2ro6k2c3d

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🤔Do you love Jesus?🤔 We sing worship songs of how much we love Jesus. We pray every day saying how much we love Him. We talk about how much we love Jesus with others. But how do we really know if we truly truly love Him?  Jesus says in John 14:15 "If you love me, obey my commandments." And in John 14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me..." LOVE IS AN ACTION.  Loving Jesus means obeying His commandments. How is that love? It sounds so forced and dry... If you knew how much Jesus loves you, you couldn't stand breaking His heart by disobedience. If you knew how much Jesus loves you, you can't help but to love Him back. It is out of love that we want and desire to obey Him because that brings Him glory and pleasure.  The greatest act of love (in action) is that while we are still sinners, Jesus died for every single one of us. Yes, even those who mock Him, reject Him, blaspheme Him, want to destroy Him and His children. Yes even for them. That is how much Jesus loves every single person.  Jesus obeyed His Father's commandment and WILLINGLY went to the cross for you and me. He CHOSE to suffer a very painful and gruesome death so that you can have a friendship with Him. So that you are forgiven for ALL of your sins and mistakes. So that one day you will have life and hope beyond life on this earth. Did He have to do it? No. Did He follow His own feelings and ways? No. He obeyed because He loves you so so much. It is through Jesus's obedience and love that we can have eternal life.  Whenever it's hard to obey Him, let's remember and reflect on the cross. Remember how much He loves you that He died for you. Know that no matter how hard it is to obey Him, the reward is so so much greater than the pain.  "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. " John 15:13‭-‬14 👸🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸#runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #christianmillenials #reallove (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CESuedrhELH/?igshid=x9u0yuwsow6h

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When I used to live in Seattle, my friend would drive 3 hours to go to this famous bakery and pick up 10 boxes of the supposedly "oh my goodness so irresistible" salmon puff pastry 🥧. I told her: "You're crazy! 3 hours just to get pastries??" Little did I know she was right. When I finally tried it for the first time, the world seemed to be on hold for a moment. It was so soft yet crunchy, the sweet tangy creamy flowy sauce wrapped the salmon so perfectly, the warmth of the dough comforted my soul. It tasted so so good! (Especially on that day where it was freezing and raining) Words cannot describe it! But no matter how well I try to describe the amazing salmon puff pastry, you won't know til you try and experience it yourself. It is the same with knowing Jesus and accepting Him into your heart. His goodness is so good.. No words, no book, no pastor can ever ever fully convey it. Once Jesus lives in your heart, man! Your life is so dramatically (in a good way) transformed and you'd wish you'd accepted Him sooner. His love is better than life itself. His grace and kindness will move you to (happy) tears every single day. His goodness is..so incredibly, indescribably, irresistibly amazing. Nothing, absolutely nothing can ever ever compare to it. Once you have Jesus as your Lord, best friend, perfect Father.. Man.. You'll find indescribable joy, hope, love, victory, freedom, purpose, peace that no one and no thing can ever ever offer. I can go on and on and on, but you won't understand it til you experience Him yourself. Seek Him today. Ask Him to come into your life today. And be amazed at His goodness. "The best of life on earth is a glimpse of heaven, the worst of life on earth is a glimpse of hell. For CHRISTIANS this present life is the closest they will come to hell. For UNBELIEVERS it is the closest they will come to heaven." Randy Alcorn 👸🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸 #runforJesus #runforthechildren #allglorytojesus #withpurpose #nevergiveup #neverthesame #blog #blogger #bloggingforJesus #runnersofinsta #LosAngeles #la #run #runner #running #gettoknowjesus #christian #savethechildren #endhumantrafficking #christianmillenials #christianposts #christianblogger (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEK6F5_hY8-/?igshid=yuxmpzgkomwe