Many times when I am closing a message or letter to someone, I use the closing admonition KLTJ... Keep Looking To Jesus. I know of no more needed message or higher encouragement than KLTJ.

Many times in this life can come trouble and trials that are difficult to understand and hard to bear. This can be particularly true if the trouble is life threatening. As I write this letter, thousands of precious Christians are imprisoned and many will be killed, strictly due to the fact that they are followers of Jesus. My admonition to these dear ones is KLTJ. He is the Deliverer. He is the Author and the Finisher of our faith, and He is Lord!

Some have sickness and disease that has stolen their health and their strength is fading. I say... KLTJ. He is The God that Heals. There is nothing beyond His reach. He knows every detail of your life and He Loves you. Jesus took stripes on His back for your healing, and He declares that you are healed.

I have held the hands of mothers and fathers as new life came into this world and as life passed away into eternity. The calm assurance of knowing God has no equal. I am told that as Buddha lay on his deathbed, he declared, "I am still searching for truth." Jesus says of Himself, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one can come to the Father except through Me." My Pastor, John Osteen as he was passing away from this life, looked into the distance and told those at his bedside, "He remains faithful."  Then John went to be with the One that he had served, and that He had trusted in. KLTJ.

Sadly, I have seen people dear to me turn away from faith in Jesus and that alone, and turn to other religions, or just become cold and calloused. Many times that is due to some big hurt, or some other really bad experience that involves the local church or a specific believer. But, no matter what has happened, He is not changed or moved at all. Once when a large number of people following Jesus left His group, Jesus turned to the 12 closest to Him and said, "Will you leave Me too?" They looked at each other and then said to the Lord, "and go where, you are Life." There is no other Name given among men whereby you must be saved. KLTJ.

Wherever you are in this world, and whatever the circumstances in your life may be, know this...God Loves you. Your situation is not beyond His reach, and Jesus is Lord. The Holy Spirit, the same One that went into the tomb and breathed life back into the mortal body of Jesus after He was crucified and died on the cross for your sin, right now lives in you. So, Keep Looking To Jesus!

KLTJ,
Dennis