Hello my sister and 2 your family I say God bless. It has ben some time for me also that I have not ben here with u guys but God has made a way 4 me 2 come back. My prayers go out 2 all my family here on Gurardian.

With so many opinions, ideas, and perspectives in the world today, it is critical that Christians know the truth of God’s Word and allow it to be the final authority in their lives. This means finding out what the Word has to say for ourselves through our personal study time, along with asking the Holy Spirit to illuminate the Scriptures to us. It also means making sure we are receiving sound, Bible-based teaching that does not add or take away from the Scriptures. In these last days, deception about the Word is abounding; and there are individuals in ministry who are preaching and teaching, but what they are sharing with their congregations does not line up with the Word of God.

Receiving proper teaching from the Bible from someone who is a seasoned, proven, man or woman of God with the character to back up their calling, is essential to staying on the right path as a Christian. Otherwise, you run the risk of being led in a direction that contradicts the Word of God. This is especially true since we are living in a time when emotionalism and intellectualism are on the rise.

The Word talks about being aware of and protecting ourselves from deceptive ideas, teachings, and beliefs that contradict the pure, unadulterated Word of God. Colossians 2:8 in the Amplified Bible says this:

See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah). Go Here to read more...

Jesus said,...Make following Me a lifelong habit...(John 1:43) “God lavishes genuine happiness upon those who treat people with the same mercy and compassion as He does. He will show them the same kindness that they’ve shown to others..(Matthew 5:7)Jesus said, “Only God the Father can put the desire to belong to Me within the human heart; only the love of the One Who sent Me can cause someone to be drawn to Me. And for those who do come to Me, I will raise them from the dead on the Last Day.(John 6:44) “The truth is that this poor widow gave more than all those rich people combined. None of them were willing to give anything they’d ever miss, but she gave everything she had to God...(Mark 12:43-44)