Your Destiny is in His River

The only way a true Christian can FIND purpose is by the mercy of God revealing it to him. The only way to WALK in purpose is by the mercy of God allowing you to be completely dead and lifeless in your own purpose and life so the same resurrection power that gave Jesus life on the 3rd day will cause you to walk in completeness of the newness of life in Christ completely surrender and completely a NEW MAN. That is the true purpose of a Christians life and when you reach that purpose all the rest either doesn't matter any more because it just seems to fall in place or is quickly revealed when the need to know arises. When skilled in walking in the Spirit purpose is given but usually in part. Just enough to lead us and everything else is just revealed as we walk in the right directions on a need to know basis. We see in part and know in part with prophecy, so the same could be said of knowing our purpose. That is how God works. He wants us to walk by ultimate FAITH. Destiny was meant to be walked into by the Spirit, not completely revealed. Even in the Book of Revelations we see in part although some high-minded individuals seem to have it all figured out. Beware of those. We don't know the end from the beginning. Jesus does! Get close to the Author and Finisher of your faith (Jesus Christ) and fear of the future will diminish.

Fear spiritual paralyzes us to not walk in the Spirit. Fear will always be there but you have to remember that you are not of the same spirit as fear. You have been delivered from that fear. You have received a new spirit in the new birth that causes you to have the same boldness Jesus had to fulfill his purpose and destiny while on the earth. You have not received the spirit of fear again to bondage. You have received Gods spirit full of power, love, and self-discipline. Godly discipline will always lead us to the same direction. DEATH! TO BE BURRIED in Christ daily so we can walk in the newness of the Spirit who is full of power and love. Our purpose fulfilled has many directions and many turns and curves but one thing is for sure it will always be to love our God with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The Golden rule is fulfilled by walking in the Spirit. John the apostle was one of the most powerful of all the apostles and it was said that his message of Love was still preach by his own mouth with simplicity right before his death. He simply preached, "Love is the fulfillment of the Law. Love God and Love your neighbor". So simple but so impossible without the mercy of God to allow us to completely die daily and live as a completely NEW MAN. For we have received Gods Spirit FULL of POWER, L O V E, and a DISIPLINED MIND.

So the BIG Question is, "How do we do this?" Great question! Most of it we don't. Most of it God does to us and through us. Philippians 1:6 (New American Standard Bible) 6For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. He, Jesus, is the one who will do it; He is the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith. So what do we do in the meantime? Another great question! Like I said before in the first paragraph, "He wants us to walk in ULTIMATE Faith!"  Soooooo, how do we do that? So full of good questions. The answer is different everyday. You must find that out for yourself. I don't know your purpose or your destiny so therefore I can't truly tell you how to walk by faith. So was it pointless for me to write all this for you? NO! If God does everything in and through you and He is faithful to finish the work he started in you, all you have to do is be faithful to obey every time the chance comes up. Every time you feel His leading. Every time you hear His voice. The Ultimate Question now arises. HOW, if I don't feel His leading, and don't hear His voice can I obey? My ultimate point is the answer to this question. TRUST n HIM!!!! He knows what He is doing. Have you ever gone rafting in a river before? It is possible to go upstream for a short while with much perseverance but ultimately you work to hard, sweat to hard, and eventually give up and flow in the same direction as the river flows. God has a river flowing from His thrown. We must trust Him. Quit fighting against Him and flow with Him in the direction of His River. His river flows differently every day we must jump in without a life perseveres, without a paddle, and quit trying to go our own way. Jump in and rest. The River will take you everywhere you need to go. To answer your question your only part in your destiny and purpose starts with absolute surrender to the King of Kings. In a country that is ruled by a King, if a citizen is working against the King he is no longer a citizen but an enemy. Don't work against God but work with Him. He is the King of Kings. The Ruler of the universe and every knee including all earthly kings will bow before Him and his thrown. Why wait till you have to. Do it know.

Take steps to surrender to God today. You have heard it before. Discipline is the key to being a disciple. You have also heard to read your bible daily, pray daily. This is true, but can be religiously done with no results to a true relationship with the Lord. Isaiah 40:31 (New American Standard Bible) says, 31Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. Waiting upon the Lord is a very important discipline in a true Christian's life. When you pray do you only pray for yourself. Is there life in your prayers? Wait for Gods Spirit in prayer to begin to move you. He will lead you. He knows how to pray better and more effective then you. He knows what really needs to be prayed and who needs to be prayed for. When you pray do you just pray for a certain set time and then say bye and that's it or do you WAIT for a response from the Lord. When you read do you only read believing the bible is true but does not relate to your life. Do you believe that it is God speaking to you? When you read know God wants to teach you and speak to you. Those times are times of refreshing, strengthening, and fulfillment. It is like the times in the wilderness during Moses time when every morning supernaturally God supplied bread for food in the morning called Manna. Jesus said, "I am the true bread who has come down from heaven." The truth is many read and pray yet never receive true strength from the Lord. Wait for his Word, it is what feeds you and gives you strength for the day. Those who wait on the Lord will gain NEW strength. Sore with God through the wind. Trust God in his river.  Run and don't get tired. Walk and don't become weary. Notice all this is in God's control except waiting on the Lord. That is all you are required to do. Don't discipline religion in your life. Discipline surrender in your life. Trust him. Give yourself daily to him. Fall in his river and He will push you to the finish line of your destiny in God.

The more and more you spend with God in prayer and not just your self in prayer and the more you allow God to teach you in His Word and speak to you, the easier it will get. For a short while you will probably swim upstream then flow with God down stream and start swimming upstream again. Trust me on this, just be faithful to jump in that river daily, soon you will get tired of swimming upstream and will rest in God downstream in His perfect plan. You may say, " I am to sinful to be with God daily." I would say, "Oh really!" Since when did sin become the problem? Isaiah the prophet whom I quoted earlier was a sinful man, yet he trusted in God to clean him up. He told God he was a man of unclean lips so there was no way he could speak the oracles of God. He was wrong God cleaned him up. He accepted the call to wait on the Lord. God cleaned him up all by Himself and Isaiah became one of the boldest prophets of all times. When you jump in Gods River, His River will cleanse you. Jesus washed the feet of the apostles one day and when He came to Peter's feet, Peter began to swim upstream and said, "Not so Lord, I will not let you clean my feet." Jesus pretty much said you would have no part of me unless you let me do this and that you are already clean by the Words that I speak to you. You see it is Jesus that cleans us. It is His Word that cleanses us. Ephesians says that we are clean by the washing of the water of the Word. Where do you think that water is found? Praise God it is in that river. Faithfully jump in everyday. Even jumping in will begin to clean you, but when you finally get in and stop trying to swim upstream and flow with God in it, the ultimate cleansing happens. Get in, many are already there. Plenty of help from other who are surrendered are all around you. Let them help you trust. But ultimately trust in God. Whether you run, walk, swim, or sore like wings of eagles, you have to trust God and quite fighting against him. WAIT upon Him for strength and do very little in your own strength. Daily surrender by asking God to help you. God gives mercy GRACEFULLY to anyone who asks. God is Good and is worthy of your praise today. Swim with author and finisher of your Faith. Trust in God and He will make you a brand NEW MAN. You will walk in the resurrection power of the Spirit in the newness of the Spirit. You will Sore to your Destiny. God Bless!!

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Spirit of Revelation

Is life really like a box of Chocolates?

Is life really like a box of Chocolates? Do you really not know what you are going to get?

When you think of this statement written by the great theologian Forest Gump it almost sounds believable and many people actually believe it. But if you begin to think harder about it you start to realize that it is not true. Ever had a disapointing Christmas where you just wanted to be suprised but instead you got everything you new your going to get. What about the law of Gravity, "What goes up must come down". Before this was a scientific truth written in history people still new of its truth. It just took a really smart man to take credit for it. We sometime know what we are going to get in life by what we put into life. I lived a pretty rough life for a while when growing up. I was in and out of jail many times for reasons I knew I would go to jail for. Many times when doing things we know there is a consequence for we do them anyway. Iif you decide to go to the gym you are doing this knowing that you will loose weight. So really in some cases we do know what we are going to get.

Life is like a box of Chocolates, you never know what your going to get. What about in the long haul? The special one to marry? Where to work? Where to live? What kind of Ministry? How about long term? We may know what life will bring when we are sowing good or bad things in our life, but what about things we haven't even sowed yet? What about way in the future. Could Forest be right? Not neccessarily, not when you have God as your Comforter and Guide who walks along side of you.

It is possible to know the future! It is possible to know all the future but most likely that won't happen. The truth is the Lord is willing to tell if we ask. He probably won't tell you all the future, in fact I don't think that are minds are capable of gathering that type of knowledge. I do know that God is willing to shed light in our confused blindfolded paths of life.

What is wisdom? Some people think wisdom is a wise saying that some very old Chinese guy writes on a fortune cookie. Others think that it consist only in words from people who are well in age considered wise. Here's the deal. Wisdom is the abilty to use knowledge. In other words wisdom is what we have to invent or prevent certain things to happen or not happen. Knowing that walking in front of a moving car could get you killed, wisdom would tell you to use that knowlege for your own good. Don't walk in front of a moving vehicle. Many more illustrations I could give you here but I want to talk about a different wisdom.

Wisdom is also a foreknowledge. It is a gaze into the future. God created the worlds with wisdom. He was able to see beforehand his creation and decided it was good and worth creating. This same kind of knowledge is given to us at certain times to encourage us for the future.

James 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)

5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.


When Jesus had allready died and resurrected he met up with Peter and all the other Apostle's on the beach for a quick brunch. Yummy fish for breakfast, LOL. After telling Peter what it means to Love Him, he began to give him some wisdom about the future.

John 21:18-19 (New King James Version)
18 Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish." 19 This He spoke, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, "Follow Me."

Wow Jesus really told him. He told him of the future that would be in his life. He let him know how he would die. We may try to predict how we will die but this wasn't a self-made prediction. This really happened. Historical writtings have been found that state that Peter was arrested and crucified stretch out on a cross upside down. This wasn't a guestimation this was exact. This was foreknowledge. This kind of wisdom is a wisdom you can't normally gather from facts of knowledge like the previous wisdom we discussed. This wisdom is from above. From the Father of Lights. The one who created the World and everything in it with all it's magnificent details.

Let me give you one more similar example:

Acts 21:10-14 (New King James Version)
10 And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 When he had come to us, he took Paul's belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
12 Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
14 So when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."


This is that wisdom from above. Again God speaks to another one of His faithful servants and tells them about the trials that await them. The scriptures above were written at the end of Pauls last missionary journey on the way to Jerusalem. Again this truly happened and you can read about it a few chapters later. This again was foreknowledge given by God. But why wasn't Paul scared. Well Agabus was just confirming the wisdom that was allready in Pauls heart. Chapter 20 Paul tells the ephesian elders that he doen't know what will happen in Jerusalem, but that the Holy Spirit had been testifying to him in every city that he was traveling too, that bonds and afflictions await him. The Holy Spirit was allready speaking to him a head of time. God was giving him foreknowledge. He was giving him wisdom. He was preparing his heart. Lets look even further in the past and we would see that right after Pauls conversion to Chirst at the famous Road to Damascus God was already preparing his heart with foreknowlege. While he was struck with blindness because of the scales on his eyes God promises another disciple of Chirst that He would show Paul the things he must suffer for the name of Chirst.

Acts 9:10-19 (New King James Version)

10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, "Ananias."
And he said, "Here I am, Lord."
11 So the Lord said to him, "Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. 12 And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he might receive his sight."
13 Then Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name."
15 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."
17 And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus,[a] who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." 18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.
19 So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.

I hope you see the point that I am trying to get across. A quick look again at the above passages. Not only did God promise foreknowlege or wisdom to Paul about his future, but he was doing the same for Ananias. Ananias recieved a vision from God. Again It wasn't a guestimation it was exact. Ananias followed the instructions and wisdom given by God and it worked out perfectly. Every thing that was said in the vision came to pass. At the same time Ananias was having a vision, Paul was to. Everything that saw in the vision came to pass. God is sooooo good.

This wisdom is what is available to you and me. The other day I had a dream about a friend of mine and things that were going on in his/her life. The Lord showed me in the dream that I knew how to minister to him/her but that I shouldn't becuase it would cause more problems in the long run. Sure enough that same day that friend confided in me with the exact problem that I had seen in my dream. I was able to respond in obedience to the Lord. God is good, I didn't even ask for this wisdom. Other times I have prayed and asked God to know certain things pertaining the future and He would respond, sometime almost immediatly. Sometimes almost unbelievable. Sometimes I second guess that the Lord speaks to me. We must not doubt. We must believe and be willing to be obedient. Ask and you shall recieve freely.

Go ahead ask him anything. Don't give up. Expect to hear from him.

James 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)

5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

God Bles all of you,

Richard Cohrs

FYI: just in case your were wondering, guestimation is a word. I thought I made it up but I happened to find it on http://www.urbandictionary.com/. LOL

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KNOW JESUS?

Don't know Him, but want to know some more about Him? JESUS

Don't know Him, but want to know some more about Him? JESUS

Well, first of all let me apologize for those Christian who haven't already told you about Him or tried but did it in a very judgmental way. So Sorry!!

The TRUE FACT is Jesus wouldn't judge you, but he may have too one day. The purpose of Him dying on the cross was so that He wouldn't have to judge you.

Let me start from the beginning. Way in the beginning! At the very beginning! Most people here in America have heard the story of Adam and Eve, I take it you have too, most likely. Well, way back there when God created the Heavens and the Earth and everything in it, He then created the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve. They were loved by God and God himself talked with them all the time. God gave them rulership over all the earth and everything in it. They were free!!

On the other hand God created two trees that had a huge impact on humanity. A tree of Life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God said to Adam one day that you can eat from any tree in the garden which these trees were in, but commanded him not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The reason why is because God loved Adam and was looking out for his soul. He told Adam the DAY that he eats from that tree he would die. God didn't want Adam to die.

Well everyone knows the story, Eve ate and Adam ate, and their eyes were opened and the saw they were naked and hid themselves from the Lord. We all remember that, this is what many people don't understand. Adam didn't die that day. It says that Adam lived another 900 something years and then passed away. Here is the question: "CAN GOD LIE". So many scriptures say that God can't lie. That is the truth, He can't lie. Everything he says is the truth. If today were Monday and he said it was Friday, every calendar in the entire world would change to Friday. It is impossible for God to lie, and scripture says the same.

The reason I say this is because Adam did die that day. Let me give you a little knowledge from the past. Before Sigmund Freud was alive and did his research, 99% of human beings believed man was a 3 part being, a spirit, a soul, and a body. Freud deceptively changed the knowledge of many to think that humans don't have a spirit, so that he could diagnose people with diseases instead of having demons posses their spirits. Scary stuff to think about something possessing your spirit, but I have seen some people who were and have prayed with people and seen them delivered from demons. Almost every religion still believes that man is a three part being and believes that the spirit is the innermost part of the human being. This is 100% true. God Himself is a spirit. The truth is the day Adam ate from that tree he died a spiritual death. His spirit died a death that would separate him from God for eternity.

Eternity!!! What do you mean by Eternity!! Well here is the deal. Every person who was born was given free will about everything in life except two things. 1^st one is to exist. We didn't choose to be born God did. 2^nd one is eternity. We will all exist for eternity. So how could Adam die if we all have no choice but to live for eternity? Well again, I said that he died a death that would separate him from God for eternity. We can't make a decision to exist for eternity but we can make a decision on where to exist for eternity. With God or without God? Some might say, "Who cares, God ain't every did anything good for me". Well if you don't choose to live with God then you have already chosen to exist in hell for the rest of eternity. Many people don't like to talk about hell but I feel like I would be lying to you if I didn't tell you. IT IS REAL, and many people are there already.

Well what does this have to do with me, I am good person? It has everything to do with you and everybody in this world that has have been born since Adam and Eve. Because of the disobedience that Adam did, all mankind has been born with same spiritual condition that Adam experienced. They are all spiritually dead. Their innermost being is dead and separated from God for eternity.

Now we are getting to the GOOD NEWS? Like I said before I am not here to judge and neither is Jesus, in fact that is the entire reason He died on the cross for you. He did it because He LOVES you. It is the greatest story every told and better than that it is the truest story every told. JESUS LOVES YOU! He knows your dead spiritual and that you will automatically go to hell, so he died and was judge in our place. Every sin that we have ever committed Jesus put on his own shoulders. The reason why is because sin is what causes us to die spiritually and it says we are all judged by our own sins. Not by Adams, sin was passed down to us be we all committed are fair share of them by ourselves.

The bible says that Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly. He didn't come to judge you and send you to hell, He came to resurrect life in you. His LIFE in you! Jesus died on the cross for you and everybody else. After 3 days he rose again from the dead with resurrection power, and if you believe in him and that He did this for you and then you call upon His name to save you, HE WILL!!! The same power that resurrected His life from the dead will give life to your spirit. It is so simple, you don't have to wait until your old or wait until you have cleaned up your own life, or wait till you think you are ready. There is no other time better than right now. You don't know what will happen tomorrow and there is no promise that there will even be a tomorrow. God loves you and hopes that you will make a decision to trust in Him today. The bad things you may have done don't matter to God right now. He want you to LIVE and he has given you free will in everything except to exist for eternity. Choose right now where you will spend eternity. Spend it with Jesus who painfully gave His life for you so that you can finally LIVE for real this time. A new life, a new start. Be bold and pray this pray and ask Jesus to save you.

Heavenly Father I know that I have sinned and am guilty for my own wrong. I know that my sins separate me from you. I want to know you. I want you to save me. Jesus I call on you to save me with the same power that resurrected you from the dead. Give me a knew life. Make me born-again. Fill my with your Holy Spirit and give me power to be a witness for you. Show me how to love you. Amen!!

If you prayed this prayer please let me know and I can tell you more about the true Christian life. Being a Christian really isn't that bad like people make it out to be. You can still have fun but the most important is that you are now FREE from sin and death. Start a relationship with Jesus!! Just pray, simply talk to him, read His Word, get involved with a bible based spirit-filled Church.

If someone forward this letter on facebook and you still want to talk to me, just search for Rich Cohrs. In the message part let me know you just accepted Jesus in your heart or that you want to know more about Jesus that way I can know to accept your friendship. Take care and love the knew life you have been given. Love Jesus!!

Your new brother in Chirst,

Richard Cohrs

P.S. here are some of the scripture references that I wrote this note about. I have made it easy for you. Most of them are in the gospel of John.

Genesis Chapter 2 and 3 the whole chapters.

Romans 6:23

John 17:2

John 15:13

John 3:15,16

John 11:25

John 10:28

*John 10:10*

*John 6:47*

John 6:40

John 5:29

John 5:24

John 3:36

*John chaper 3 the whole chapter. Born again spirit

*****Romans chapter 5******* Adams nature to us and the Free gift of eternal life from Jesus

That should be good enough for now. Email me with questions.

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