First Love. My Story. His Grace.

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GRACE: The freedom to live, the power to love. A series coming this Spring via video/blog on the ability to live, love, laugh and embrace the life before you.

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Milk and Meat

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The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:2 "I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready."

In the Bible we have what we call Milk food which is the basic and simple fundamental truths of God's Word that we all need to know and only when we know and understand them can we truly have a strong understanding of our relationship with Jesus and our Father, God.

Next, we have the Meat food. The meat is much more deeper insights and heavier revelations that often come to those who have been walking with Jesus for some time. You cannot have and enjoy the true "Meat" of God's Word until you have fed on the "Milk" of God's Word and built up a strong healthy belief and understanding.

To many people are presented with the Meat before they are even offered the milk. And we wonder why so many in the Church are divided. People who are barely able to handle the simple revelations are suddenly attacked by someone with a much deeper revelation and they two come into a disagreement when in reality both are right but they are just feeding on different diets that the Word offers.

Think to a new born babies stomach. It is just barely able to hold down the milk fed to it by the nursing mother. Often the baby will have many stomach aches, random hunger spells, digestion problems, that are all normal it's just part of the babies stomach learning to handle the digestion of this new food. Imagine you suddenly gave this new born baby struggling with milk a big steak. The baby would no doubt love the taste of it I imagine. Mouth watering flavor drips from a well grilled steak. Yet the baby if it was even able to swallow a piece of that meat I can guarantee you that it would have stomach aches all night long much worse than what milk would cause it because there is just no way this babies stomach is able to handle such a lean piece of food.

In the Church I find people being endlessly herded from one steak house to another yet so few people are willing to be called the milk men. Even hearing that phrase we want to maybe chuckle because we find the thought of a milk man to not be anything desirable. But to be able to offer everyone a steak is much greater for advertisement.

Have we come to this? Are we a generation that is blessed with such ability to endlessly study history and writings, peer into the human body, look deep into space beyond what life may even exist but yet we are unable to teach people the basics of life. We have people wanting to see the Gifts of the Spirit operate in their life before they are even aware of why and for what reason Jesus has saved them. To be honest they find themselves more caught up in the Power of the Gospel than they find themselves in Love with the Gospel.

Suddenly life is not about walking in the beginning revelation that God loves me. That it was the Grace of God that has saved me from eternal separation. And from this beginning foundation begin to build up. Yet I find so many people get saved and are then ushered into an atmosphere were (esp. in the Spirit Filled Enviroment) they feel that they have to produce the products of what a meat diet give.

I for one am not so much about the display of power of God until you have a deep understanding of the love of God. Let the people understand how much they are loved and then the power will be easy to see manifest. There will be no hinderance to getting needs met, miracles happen, signs and wonder take place when the people realize "Who" they are and "Whose" they are.

In closing of this I find myself after being a Christian for 8 years with Bible School behind my belt and having many vast opportunities in ministry and even being put in select places that not everyone gets to be I yet do not seek a pure meat diet. I am still feeding on milk in certain areas of God's Word and I do not claim to be at a steak buffet when in reality if I even try to stomach the steak of some of this I would probably never want to taste any of it again!

I have a feeling this could keep snowballing into just a much bigger entry than what I originally intended it to be.

Basic point is this. There will be plenty of time for the meat of God's Word and you will understand the meat much better when you focus on getting all you can out of the milk. Just keep yourself feeding on the simple revelations and drain them for every drop of milk they hold. In doing this I firmly believe and find that the writings of Paul concurs with me that once a firm foundation is established then you can teach the people many endless things and see them succeed in so many great areas.

-Cain

An introduction!

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Special thank you for taking the time to visit my Blog. I am Jeremy Cain and I am a minister who has seen first hand this incredible love of Jesus and want to take the time in this blog outlet to share Jesus with as many people as I can. As you read and progress into the writings on this blog you will learn some about me, but my main focus is to let the light of Grace shine unhindered!

John 21:25 tells us that “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.’

I have a strong inclination that everyone of these ‘other things’ was nothing short of acts of love, mercy, compassion, and grace! Each one of the Gospels painted a picture that although they show different aspects of God yet they convey the love of a God who bankrupted the accounts of Heaven to save us from eternal doom!

Those bank accounts of Heaven are Jesus. The prize of Heaven became the stomping ground for so many men on this earth. I have often thought to myself how do you think those men who tortured Jesus felt when their eyes were finally open? I can only imagine the heavy weight that seemed to come crashing down on their mind. I imagine most of them began to sentence themselves to eternal Hell. Much like Judas I would say some considered suicide as the only option. I know of men who have committed lesser crimes and convinced themselves they are being cast away to everlasting punishment by a God who is angry with them.

I once was even guilty of that same thought. I have told it often in my testimony but I realize many people may read this who do not know the story of Jeremy Cain. Let me be kind enough on this first blog post to fill you in with a quick description of what I experienced as a child.

As I was lying in bed at the age of about 4 on Christmas Eve, I was trying my best to go to sleep that night as quickly as I possibly could! (No smart kid is going to mess up Christmas!) As I was lying there trying to go to sleep my brother decides he wants to show me a picture he found in his bible. Now take in consideration that my brother was only 1 year older than me and this was just kids being kids but nonetheless it had a devastating effect on me later on.

The picture that he had to so urgently show me was the picture of Jesus during his 40 days of fasting at the moment when Satan came to tempt Him. The artist drew a wimpy, skinny, pail Jesus who looked like He could not even put one foot in front of the other and then he had drawn this HUGE Satan with great big wings and monster features that Hollywood just had to copy I’m sure. I seen this and it terrified me! I could kiss my sleep goodbye and it was Christmas Eve I remind you.

Laying there contemplating the danger of me lying awake all night and missing Santa I decided prayer was my best way to fall asleep quickly. So I rolled over and got in my prayer position and began to pray a prayer that I have never forgotten to this day. I did not pray that Jesus would help me fall asleep or for Jesus to give me peace. My prayer was “Satan, if you will not scare me anymore I will serve you the rest of my life…”

To my surprise I rolled over and I was out! Slept the whole night and woke up with gifts under the tree.

Such a strange way to start off a life right?

In time I will dig deeper into the things that later came as fruit because of that seed and root that was planted that night however I will tell you early on in this blog and what may come of it that I did begin to pray to Satan on a regular basis as I did grow older and on many occasions I would try to summon demons and as most of this was happening in my teenage years I got to the point where I was drawing Satanic markings upon my body and trying to sell my soul to him, offering myself to him, and only wishing He would take me. Needless to say, I was LOST.

When I finally came to my senses and realized that Jesus is my only hope I didn’t hesitate and at the age of 18 I confessed Jesus as Lord and exchanged my life for Jesus’ life! I am forever thankful for the gift of salvation!

To connect this with what I said earlier about the men who tortured Jesus, I also felt I had done things that even after I had received salvation I still thought maybe it is to late and I just felt an “emotional” salvation but it wasn’t the real thing. Basically I had said to myself “Jeremy, you have done something so bad and by rejecting Jesus earlier in your life you have offended the Holy Ghost and your chance at salvation is forever lost. You thought you was saved but it was fake and Jesus did not receive you.”

I didn’t want to believe it but my eyes were not at that time fully opened to the beautiful Grace of our Lord Jesus!

Torture ensued and I began to deal with many stressing thoughts, low self esteem, clinical depression, and a deep cry in my heart of why does God not want me anymore.

I never took the time to read about how Jesus on the cross was praying for the forgiveness of those very men. He knew they were blind in what they were doing and if they only understand who He was then they would take Him off that cross and put Him on a throne.

Likewise I am glad to say that those lying devils were silenced one day forever and it came as I realized that there is a God who loves me. I remember even the moment that happened when I was lying on my bed and had the struggle going so strong in my mind one day and I just cried out to God asking Him "am I lost or am I saved?". In that moment I felt something like that of liquid light begin to rush through my mind and I remember seeing the word "Compassion" written. I at that moment seen a instant change and felt an oppression broken and lift off me. God did love me and He had loved me every step of the way. Satan had just blinded me so strongly to it.

I had to come to a place where I seen that I was maximizing the threat of my sin and minimizing the power of Jesus! I kept telling myself nothing is bigger than this sin I have committed against God, but I never realized that Jesus had already bore that sin for me. Jesus had already forgiven me of that sin before I was even able to commit it. There was so many things I did not understand about Jesus, Love, Grace, and etc... that because of my lack of knowledge I was perishing, quickly!

Today though I have found rest. I no longer have to keep a watchful eye to make sure my salvation does not disappear. I do not have to worry that my sins of yesterday have ruined my hope for today. Like John, resting his head on the chest of Jesus, so have I come to a place where I am finally able to recline in the presence of Jesus and be myself.

This blog is going to be based on one thing alone and that is Grace.

I am not coming to clean up the bad reputation that others have given Grace, Jesus is fully capable of taking care of His reputation! Need I remind you of Saul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus? I am simply going to proclaim what great things Grace has done for me and what it can do for you. Your choice of being offended, repentance, or laughing and calling this foolishness is all between you and Jesus, because actually Jesus is Grace.

-In part of sharing about my life I do want to mention those who have been of incredible impact upon my life and encourage everyone who comes across this to take the time to look into these ministers and there respected ministries.

Ronnie Pierce, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth E. Hagin, Joseph Prince, Andrew Wommack, Jim Richards, Ravi Zacharias, Oral Roberts, and Norvel Hayes.

And I am sure in the coming days many more great people will fill that list but this is a great place to start so look them up if you get the chance, facebook and google them and began your journey into the beautiful discovery that is Grace!

-Cain