JESUS HAS A "PRICE TAG" GIVEN TO HIM BY LIARS!!!

WRITTEN BY BONITA ANN (LOGSDON) RICHIE

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?

Luke 11:13

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Jesus' salvation does not have a price though so many "tag" Him as though there is a price to be paid by a person for Jesus' grace, mercy, forgiveness, spiritual gifts, callings into ministry, etc. Jesus' true salvation is free ONLY because HE paid the price for it on Calvary's cross. 

I was about six years old when I was in Church and felt the drawing and convicting power of The Holy Ghost to give my heart to Jesus.  Jesus saved me.  I was baptized in water.  I loved Jesus so very much.

As I grew up, I began my own spiritually down-ward spiral into compromise with the evil and ungodly world.  From Church pianist to the depths of sin did I plunge.  It was in 1991 that Jesus got my full and undivided attention.  I had served satan in my deeds, etc., and God, in God's faithfulness, love, and mercy towards me, let the devil destroy my world as I had ever known it to be.  I found myself so very depressed with regular trips to a graveyard begging to die.  I had failed God and I KNEW I had done it.  I had sold Him out for the world and all of the spiritual death it holds in it.  Yet God, in His faithfulness, love, and mercy towards me, was calling me back into His fold.  I shall never forget all that He did for me.  He truly went out looking for the lamb that had gone astray and He found me.  They say that a shepherd breaks the legs of a wayward lamb and then carries the lamb in his arms til the legs heal.  During the time of carrying the lamb, the lamb learns to rest in the shepherd's arms.  The lamb gets to know the shepherd during this time.  When the legs are healed and the lamb is let down to walk and follow the shepherd, it does so without fail.  So did Jesus do with me.  Because of all that He has done for me and taught me from His Word, I love Him with all of my heart and being.  I am so very thankful for His faithfulness, love, and mercy towards me.  Truly, He will never leave me and He will never, ever forsake me.

I got involved in Church in 1991 but found that something was said by so many that I could not understand fully.  They said that one "must be willing to pay the price" to have certain spiritual gifts from The Holy Ghost.  "Paying the price" and "gift" simply did not go together!!!  I had thought a gift was free....yet the years of hearing this said so many times was something I could not put to rest in my heart.

The night came several years ago that Jesus gave me a dream after I had sought Him again on the subject after hearing Benny Hinn refer over and over about "having to pay the price" in a program I had watched during the evening.  A man's voice spoke these words in my dream, "God has a price tag" and then appeared a blank price tag similar to the one in the photo on this page.  The blank price tag turned over in the dream and it was blank on the other side, too!!!  God interpreted the dream for me.  He showed me that indeed He has been given a "price tag" by so many who "tag" Him in such a manner falsely while, in God's reality, there IS no price to be paid for our salvation, healings, gifts of The Holy Ghost, forgiveness, ministries, etc.  How can this be, Beloved?  It is because JESUS paid the price for all of these things when He died on Calvary's cross!!! 

We don't have to pay God for His miracles.  We don't have to pay God for His healings.  We don't have to pay God for His mercy and grace and forgiveness.  We don't have to pay God for the gifts of The Holy Ghost or for our ministry use.  Tithes and offerings are something we do from our hearts towards God and His Kingdom work.  Fastings and prayers are our duty.  Walking with God in spirit and truth is to be what we are naturally going to desire with all of our hearts for The Holy Ghost dwells within each true child of God leading us to want the things that be of God. 

If you find yourself being told you are required to pay a price for God's miracles, healings, forgiveness, salvation, Holy Spirit gift, ministry, etc., remember that you are hearing false teaching.  You are hearing someone "tagging" Jesus with something that is false.  Run from such ungodly teaching and put it out of your mind lest it torment your mind as it did to me before God took time to explain the truth about the subject to me in a way I would understand it. 

NEVER FORGET, BELOVED....

JESUS PAID IT ALL!!!

REST IN THIS, BELOVED!!!

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JESUS PAID IT ALL

Written by Elvina M. Hall -1865

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Refrain:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

And now complete in Him,
My robe, His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet.

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