WHAT IF YOUR HEART STOPS NOW?

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What a dependable little organ is the human heart! Everyday, including Sundays and holidays,this little engine keeps on pumping nonstop.And it continues even while we sleep.

The heart never complains about the weather and never asks for a vacation.It works best when treated well,but continues to serve even when working conditions
are stressful.

How much we need the heart!If one eye is blind,we can still see with the other.If one ear is deaf, we can hear with the other. If we lose a leg,we can still walk with a crutch. But we only have one Heart.

WHILE WE LIVE
Our "pumping machine is about the size of one's fist and weighs just a little more than half a pound.It beats about 70 times a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day,and 32,792,000 times a year. The heart of a 70 year old person has beaten over 2.5 billion times. The heart generates enough energy in 50 years to lift a battleship out of the water. In the average lifetime,it pumps enough blood to fill 3.3 super tankers!

According to one encyclopedia, the heart pumps blood through about 12,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. That is about the distance from Pinson,Alabama to Idumuje Ugboko, Delta, or half way around the world.

Although this organ, which keeps our blood constantly circulating, can be weakened by disease and abuse, it generally gives excellent,ceaseless service for many years before it finally stop. When that happens...we die

WHEN WE DIE
This brings us to a very but important question:If your heart should stop five minutes from now, would you go to heaven or hell?
I hope you can say the following with assurance: "Yes I know that when I die I will go to Heaven. I have turned to God in repentance,and received Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour.I have put my trust in His precious blood shed on Calvary’s cross to atone for my sins. In doing so I have received the gift of God, which is eternal life. So I know I will go to heaven when I die."
But maybe all you can say is this: "No, I do not know where I will go after my heart stops, but I would really like to know for sure." If this is the case, read on.
The Bible tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23)
The word "all" includes you and me. In fact it includes everybody. But the Bible also says that “Christ died for our sins" -yours as well as mine (1 Corinthians 15:3).

WHAT TO DO
To receive God's free gift of salvation, the Bible says we must trust Jesus as our personal Saviour: "As many as received Him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12).
Here's how to receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour: Ask Him to come into your life, to take away your sins, and to help you live for him? Do this now, and should your heart stop in five minutes, you will know where you will spend eternity-in heaven!
Run for your life, Jesus Christ is coming soon, delay is very dangerous; commit your soul into his hands before it is too late.

Giving the New Year a Kick-Start

Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things i declare, before they spring forth i tell you of them."

Here we are once again - at the beginning of a New Year - a time for reevaluation and a season of new beginnings.

How many times in life have we started a new year without realizing the goals we had set before us or even taken the time to evaluate why those goals weren't made? We cannot live on yesterday's blessings nor should we dwell on yesterday's failures and disappointments.

This is a time to forget the past and move forward into the present and the future. Many people all over the world are in the process of making New Year's resolutions, of which many of them will never come to pass.

For us as Bible believing Christians this is an opportunity to look back over the past year to see if we were able to make all of the desired changes we set out to do.

* The beginning of a New Year can be a season of new beginnings for us.

* "It's a time to look ahead with a sense of anicipation and excitement towards the new things God wants to do in our lives.

* It is a season of setting new goals and putting into effect those things needed to realize our goals.

* It is a season to forgetting the past failures and strive towards new opportunities.

God desire that we be filled with a sense of newness and fresness of what He desire and wants to do in our lives. He desires greatly for us to be filled with a renewed sense of purpose and destiny. This is what is really needed before we can give ourselves a good kick start.

The beautiful thing about being a Christian and knowing the Lord is that we don't have to live our lives in guilt and condemnation for our failures and un-achieved goals. We get to wipe the slate clean and start over. God doesn't hold our past against us as long as we sincerely repent and continually press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Any attempt to dwell on the past, would be granting our present lives. We are a new creation in Christ every day of our lives.

We can experience newness if we stay with God and do His will. Newness comes by letting go of the past, by hungering and thirsting for it and by allowing God to renew our spirit.

We can kick start our new year: by relying on the Holy Spirit to help and equip us. Build on past successes and learn from past failures. We should have a great expectation in our hearts that new things and new seasons are going to break forth in our lives because this is God's desire towards us. It's just a matter of us agreeing with God's will and purpose for our lives.

Philippians 1:6 He who has already been doing a good work in you is going to keep on doing it until Jesus returns