This is the real life example of how two truck drivers found how Jesus Christ is alive and real and loves us. By Richard and Candace Liskow. Candace owned and ran an allergy clinic in Chicago, and Richard is a mechanical engineer.
We turned to truck driving to pay
the bills after a divorce settlement. We
had a nice residential/commercial lawn care business but at the end of the
summer we realized the money would stop over the winter. We bought a 1982 K-100 cab-over and started
with North American freight division in 1986.
Since we would be living on the
road, in rest areas and truck stops, we thought reading the Bible would keep us
safe. We started to read every day and
to take Bible studies. Then
we had questions. We went to churches as often as we could –
all kinds of ‘Christian’ churches – we would compare what they taught to what
we read in the Bible. More questions.
We wanted the Lord to see we were
seriously seeking to know Him. We were both 40 years old and didn’t know how to
be sure we were God’s children and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven. We sent away for a Bible school correspondence
course and compared what it taught to what the churches taught where we
visited. We also compared everything to
the Bible itself as we read it. We
called out to the Lord for answers.
We found we had to sort out our
questions one at a time. We prayed, “What does this scripture passage
mean, Lord?”
What we found began to build our
faith that God was out there and He was real.
He would put a magazine article in front of us, or He’d put a sermon on
the radio, or He’d get us a load to a church the next weekend somewhere in the
country where the preacher answered the question we had asked about the Bible. When we got answers, over and over, our stream
of specific questions became more unusual.
We saw the specific answers agreed
with the Bible teachings, consistently.
The Lord worked in our time schedule, and our load
assignments. He interrupted our plans to get us to see the answers to our questions - He worked Miracles.
As we learned more of the Old Testament and
New Testament Bible it was amazing – our questions were more wide-spread – and
all were answered - in harmony with all scripture. Not always immediate answers – but we got our
answers.
The writer of the Bible is alive and
real, and
He
wants us to understand His Ways, and
He
wants us to know Him, and
He
wants to give us the Holy Spirit
to guide us on the road,
and through life - JUST ASK HIM.
to guide us on the road,
and through life - JUST ASK HIM.
He wants to bless us.
It
has been 32 years. We have changed churches many times to be with people who
have grown in His Word and to be with people who seek to follow His Word
in Faith. “Without Faith it is impossible to please Him,” (Hebrews 11:6).
Abraham
is our father of faith in the Bible. God
promised Abraham in a covenant to be his God and that all Abraham’s descendants
would be God’s people (heirs of God’s promise and heirs of His Kingdom of
Heaven) – IF we keep His Everlasting Covenant. We are to change our goals
away from the physical world’s lust and boasts to God’s spiritual world and His
teachings.
At
first, the covenant required physical
circumcision in the flesh –for
males. This covenant is an Everlasting
Covenant and runs throughout the Bible from beginning to end.
In the New Testament, God requires all His followers to be circumcised in the heart – spiritually. That is, He wants us to cut off” the world of the flesh” and to become spiritually minded - to grow in the fruits of the Holy Spirit whom God sends to guide us through life to become like Him, i.e. growing in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, and His Ways.
In the New Testament, God requires all His followers to be circumcised in the heart – spiritually. That is, He wants us to cut off” the world of the flesh” and to become spiritually minded - to grow in the fruits of the Holy Spirit whom God sends to guide us through life to become like Him, i.e. growing in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, and His Ways.
Begin reading His Bible. It is only one book, not a stack of books! Don’t read about the Bible – Read the Bible. We found out - and we know that the
Take time out of your schedule to call out to the only true God – the God of gods. He will work miracles in your life so that you can begin to put faith in Him. You will know He is real and He is worthy of your praise and loyalty and allegiance.
”We found that if we add someone else’s
teachings to His Word – we are no longer following just Him and His teachings. The Bible promises, “Call to Him and He will answer you.”
How do you know answers are from Him? He will ALWAYS answer you According
to Scripture. This is the same way Jesus answered Satan
when he tempted Jesus in the wilderness.
Satan still disguises himself as an angel of light to deceive people,
but Satan will always try to lure you away from Trusting God and His Written
Word.
Jesus answered people
with scripture. He lived scripture. He died according to scripture, was
buried, and rose again the third day according to scripture 1Cor15:3-4).
Ask God questions from
scripture and God will answer you according to scripture – then you can know
for sure God is answering you. You must read your bible yourself
with the Lord to know what scripture says – or you can be deceived.
Hold on for an exciting
ride. We did.
Candace and
Richard Liskow
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YOU NEED INSURANCE – as you go through life.
If you travel without
Jesus, you travel at your own risk. If
you die before seeing your need of Jesus’ perfect righteous life which He
sacrificed as a gift, you have missed out on eternal life. Heaven is Jesus’ inheritance. He decides who
believes in Him. This is what Jesus
teaches. Human beings are not immortal
as many churches teach. Study your
bible. Trust Jesus’ sacrifice in
your place. God must abide by the
same Law He gave us or He would have rebellion in heaven and earth for not
being just.
The GOOD NEWS.
The Bible teaches facts.
Jesus came and lived according to scripture. He suffered and died as a criminal in our
place. We break God’s Law – Jesus didn’t (2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15, 1 Peter
2:22) . Jesus offers us His righteous
life to be credited to our account as a gift when we see how we fall
short of the standard He gave us - if we ASK for His forgiveness and REPENT. We should live to show our
allegiance to Him by trying to follow His Ways instead of the world’s
traditions, which are man’s laws of worship.
Read your Bible only
to know the difference.
He knows we love Him when
we suffer criticism and rejection because we discipline our lives to
follow Him. We are willing to spend
money, wager and take a chance on lottery tickets and we accept whatever rules
the state gives us to enter their contests to be eligible to win their
prize. WHY shouldn’t we accept God’s
rules that He gave us to live by to go to heaven? He doesn’t want legalistic lawyers in heaven – He wants people who love Him
because of what Jesus did for us. Realize
we can’t keep His laws perfectly. All we can do is desire in our heart to keep His Laws to show our
allegiance to Him, and our gratitude to Him for His substitutionary death in our place!
Going to heaven is a
journey. Consider an example of traveling on
earth. Suppose you drive a truck and
your goal is California. There are many
places on the way to stop. On the way to
California you’ll meet others that were on their way and you can talk with them
about their destination in California. They talk about troubles they’ve seen on
the way, and some stayed where they stopped.
But you haven’t made it
there yet – you didn’t care enough to continue!
You just talked about the goal and the journey. You stayed and
fellow shipped with others who had the same talk. Don’t let this happen in your
journey to heaven.
To reach the goal, you
have to separate yourself from talkers and get up and go.
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