PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES: REVIVAL BLOG

From John Collins Ministries: “Oh, that You would rend the heavens!   That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence- As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil- To make Your name know to Your adversaries,That the nations may tremble at Your presence! When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence.” Isaiah 64:1-3 (NKJV). God created mankind and has not left him alone. God has come down, given His word, directed and fought for His people and has given His Son for us. God has come down and instructed His people and God has given man free will . God has not given up on mankind and yet so many want God to come down again. What would you do if God came to you? Would you feel justified in His presence , would you welcome Him and would you feel good about discussing your life and your choices with Him ? If God came down would you be ready and would your fa...

From John Collins Minstries: Does the Bible promise us to walk this life without hurt? We become offended when hurt, and seeds of bitterness grow. It is up to us to pull out the weeds. Pastor John Collins, John Collins Ministries “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.” Hebrews 12:14-15 (NKJV). Bitterness is something that we must be on guard against and we must have complete honesty with ourselves if we are to monitor our hearts so that we can repent if we find ourselves gone astray . Bitterness will creep up on you and it is easy to allow it to happen. We like to think of ourselves as deserving the best and we become very offended when others hurt us, reject us and when we perceive that we have not received our ‘due’. We must be careful to find the bala...

  From John Collins Ministries:  “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’” Matthew 19:23-24 (NKJV). We have all heard this saying and we all know that the rich often struggle with greed and materialism . But what about those that are not filthy rich and those that have even less ? What happens in the heart of a person that places great emotional value on possessions ? What about that quilt that grandma made, those pieces of jewelry from mom, that set of china from great-aunt Susan, or those baseball cards from grandpa, not to mention the furniture that has been passed down and the T.V. that you worked so hard to buy and add to the living room that brings you such pride and joy because you have better than when you were a kid? When we...

From John Collins Ministries: THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE Pastor John Collins, John Collins Ministries, Evangelist “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” John 15:13 (NKJV). Jesus  spoke these words to prepare His  apostles  for His crucifixion.  Jesus  made the ultimate  sacrifice  for us. Many may not expect to encounter a  situation  where this is a possibility here in  America . Yet, there are soldiers that encounter this situation and face the possibility of  death  side by side there fellow  soldiers  every day while  fighting battles  for their country. There has been many wars that  America  has fought in and many men who have died. There is not a choice for a  soldier  to go to fight for their country;  they just do . Most of those men will tell you that they  fight  for the men at their side. They  face d...

From John Collins Ministries: "You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:27-28 (NKJV). Jesus  gave us an interpretation of the law that is imperative that we understand. Prior to Him speaking about these things, it was the focus of the law to look at the actions of a person. Do not kill, steal, lie, or commit adultery and so on. Yet, with the  words  of our  Lord , we learned that it is in our hearts that the sin begins.  Before  we will  commit adultery  we will  lust ,  before  we  murder  we usually  hate . That is why  Jesus  said that what  comes out  of a man is what  defiles  a man. Although we may  feel  that we  understand  this and we may even have given some thought to this, ...

A COMPLETE GOD Everyone wants to talk about how GOD is LOVE and just ignore the TRUTH that GOD is WRATH as well.  Remember that GOD is complete, and He judges justly. LOVE THAT CROSS!! John Collins, Evangelist   From John Collins Ministries: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NKJV). It is time for a serious  reality check  for every single  person  living on earth at this time: You are going to die an earthly  death  and will have to face the righteous judgment of  God . You may think you know what that means, you may not care but let me fill in the blanks for so many….whether you choose to believe in  God  or not, whether you find  God  fair or not, whether you agree with  God  or not, whether you end up dismissing  God  or...

Your two year old child plays with the key fob to your car and triggers the alarm system so that you can’t get the doors open.  When you do find someone to fiddle with the locks and get it open, you find that the engine won’t start because the alarm system is still enabled.  You are now late for work.  You go to use your cell phone call a tow truck and your employer to find that the cell towers are not working today where you live.  The next day, you discover that the water company has shut off the water main for an emergency pipe break and it is uncertain how long it will take.  Someone totals your husband’s car.  It seems like the bad just keeps going on and on.    You can choose to wallow in self-pity and tell your story to all your friends, post it on Facebook, or you can choose to give to Jesus in prayer, draw a line in the sand right then, and start fresh  in your heart.  From John Collins Ministries:  If ...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: Marriage and divorce What does it take to make a marriage last? “About 40% to 50% of married couples in the United States divorce, according to the American Psychological Association. The divorce rate among those who remarry is even higher” (Harrington and Buckingham, 24/7 Wall Street, Feb. 2, 2018).   Commitment to a partner is meant to be something special that God created for us, but our society and our lack of faith and the change in values of the course of decades has made marriage in the United States a statistic of 50-50% chance of lasting a lifetime.   Sins of the heart that the apostle Paul speaks of destroy marriages.   On top of that, long term relationships are developed without the commitment of marriage-living together is just as common as marriage when four generations ago, this would not even have been considered.   Our lack of faith in God and our denial of His word have turned us into a society of broken relationshi...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES:  Opening your heart. “Open the eyes of my heart” is a popular Christian song and it holds a lesson that Pastor John Collins of John Collins Ministries teaches in a recent message.   Consider closely what it is that you ask for when you consider your faith, your heart, your sin, and your path to heaven.   It’s how we get to our real final destination that we work on here in this life, says Pastor John Collins.    Pastor John Collins writes: “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” John 14:21 (NKJV). We know the story; that Jesus suffered for us, that He died for us, that He was separated from God for us, that He was buried and that He rose again. We know that Jesus is our Savior and that the work was completed by Him as our propitiation. What can Jesus do for you now? There...

Pastor John Collins: slice of humble pie... We are not meant to walk through this life alone.   No man is an island (John Donne)is truth.   Learning to accept and receive help and kindness is a life-long long process. Pastor John Collins of John Collins Ministries and Love That Cross says “Do not let your pride deny others of their opportunity to serve God by helping you. Do not lean too heavily in either direction so that you do not become a burden nor defensive…. This is true for all aspects of our lives. We will go through situations in our lives that will bring us low and sting our pride. We will go through times of being lifted up that will challenge our egos and tempt our pride. Both sides of this coin is needed to test our faith and teach us the ways of God. We must be able to become humble. It is not worth it to hang on to your ego or to cling to your stubborn pride. Be done with it and let it go because it will never serve you well. In order to enter the k...