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    Redeemed By His Love
    Redeemed By His Love
    Redeemed By His Love
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    Redeemed By His Love

    By Ida Mays

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    “And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman STANDING in the midst.” John 8:9 

    Stand In Who God Called You To Be! 

    Redeemed by His Love is a must read for anyone who wants to restore the honor, worth, and reputation stolen by past mistakes, bad choices, or riotous living. In this compelling book, evangelist Ida Mays exposes the lies of the enemy to hinder the children of God from living out who they are in Christ Jesus.     

    Discover how to push past labels that prevent your progress and pursue the purpose God has for you!  Whether you’ve been labeled by the legal system, society, family, or frienemies, there is a way to break free and stand in who God has called you to be! 

    Redeemed by His Love is available everywhere books are sold. For more information, please visit www.redeemedbyhislove.com or contact imays@redeemedbyhislove.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIda Mays
    Release dateAug 29, 2016
    ISBN9780997343205
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      Redeemed By His Love - Ida Mays

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      FOREWARD

      by

      BISHOP LARRY D.  MAYS

      My wife, Evangelist Ida S. Mays, for her very first book has produced a very insightful reading that reveals the unchanging character of God towards us. Great job, women of God! The times in which we live are indeed perilous, dangerous and uncertain. We face each new day knowing it will be filled with struggles, troubles and choices.  We discover each wrong choice brings with it consequences that prove undoubtedly that without God we can do nothing on our own.

      The book, Redeemed by His Love, written by Evangelist Ida S. Mays, becomes a must read for all who have made bad choices and attempted to avoid or flee from the consequences of sowing and reaping attached to a bad choice. She helps every reader confront their past with a new outcome and a different expectation when moving forward. Our past is always ground zero for self-destructive behavior that results from not knowing the depth of God’s love, for us all. His love will stop you from allowing your past to bully you out of a great future.

      We oftentimes choose to become fugitives from our past, but never really escape. Some have tried to assume new identities by changing where they live, where they work and who they marry. Others begin to hide out in church choirs, and small groups. You don’t have to do those things; you surely will stop them after reading this insightful book about God’s redeeming love.

      Evangelist Ida has chosen a text in the Gospel according to St. John Chapter 8:3-9.  It contains a story about a woman caught in the very act of adultery. Every reader can relate to this woman because all of us have been caught doing something wrong (all have sinned). She planned the sin, but did not plan to be caught and taken to Jesus for judgement. This book represents the true nature and heart of God who won’t leave you─ever. The story is a drama about a woman and her accusers. And they were right about the Law of Moses, and I can’t get upset with them for wanting to keep the law and the consequences prescript for her actions.

      That’s why this book is so powerful for the wounded, weak, cast-down, left-out, overlooked, broken-hearted, misunderstood, and those unsure about who really loves them. Evangelist Mays simply lets us know we all are Redeemed by His Love.  Love stooped down and when it did; the woman stood up and, was left standing, standing as a free woman, for whom Jesus paid enough to set free. The Savior exchanged places with her and with you, as well, on the cross. The King of King and Lord of Lord got us to come back and He recovered for us our destiny, our visions, our future, our families, our joy and the abundant life He promised we could pursue.

      His love has proven to be too strong, too powerful, too merciful, too eternal, and too divine. The accusers made a big mistake by bringing the woman caught in sin to Jesus. What did He do! She was Redeemed by His Love and this is the pathway we all share when we need help. So take your friends, family, associates, neighbors, enemies and yourself to Jesus, because Evangelist Ida S. Mays is right – He will Redeem You by His Love. 

      Stay Strong and Finish Well,

      Bishop Larry D. Mays

      Kingdom Impact Church Columbus, Ohio

      INTRODUCTION

      Sadly, we live in a world where many people are gainfully employed by Satan to help do his dirty job of gossiping, and slandering others. The matter even gets worse when believers, anointed of the Holy Spirit to talk life, love, and health─Christians with power in their tongue─ decide to lend this God-given, life-giving tool to the service of Satan in his ministry of defaming people, tagging them with names that only could be hatched from the pit of hell. 

      It looks like the world system under Satan does not have new ways of doing things; they just keep re-inventing and resuscitating old inventions. During the earth walk and ministry of the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the religious people that He had to put up with had names with which they branded people. Some people they tagged uncircumcised, others they tagged sinners, yet others they called dogs, and for yet another, they tagged unclean, still another they called the unlearned, untaught and cursed. The pious ones were the holy ones, the clean, the circumcised, the learned and the beloved, not knowing that they were the ones that those appellations fit better, until Jesus came to help them see who they truly were─hypocrites. (See Matthew 23:23-36)

      Far from Jesus, He never puts people down; He never calls people demeaning names, tags that will rob common people of their dignity and value. People are created with dignity, purpose and value and can truly strive in environments where those virtues are upheld by individuals, society at large, and the Christian community in particular.

      Jesus did something wonderful with a woman who came to Him in Biblical days looking for a way to have her sins forgiven and to have her value and dignity restored. Jesus was treated to a reception in a certain man’s house as a guest, and from nowhere this woman slipped in behind Jesus, weeping and washing Jesus’s feet with her tears, wiping them with her hair, kissing and anointing them with precious ointment (perfume). 

      Now hear what the Pharisee who invited Jesus to his house said to himself when he saw what this lowly woman did to the guest he refused to truly honor: Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw it, he said to himself, If this Man were a prophet, He would surely know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a notorious sinner (a social outcast, devoted to sin).(Luke 7:39, Amplified) Now, the King James Version and many other translations say: for she is a sinner.

      They knew her; that was what they had called her for years─a notorious sinner. She shouldn’t be the one touching Jesus, and why on earth did she come to my house to embarrass my guest. He must have been patronizing her─she is a prostitute. But not Jesus. He removed the tag off her, with His spoken word, by saying to her: your sins are forgiven...your faith has saved you; go in peace. (See Luke 7:48-50)

      Did she go in peace? Yes. Her sins were put away, her tag was removed and peace like a river greeted her soul. She was made whole.

      The world has not changed. People are still the same. They have called you all kinds of names that almost seem as if they took your life measurement before tagging you with the name─so much so that it fits perfectly. But are you going to accept that name? Whose report will you believe? Even if you have done something that merits that name, now that you have changed and God has tagged you CLEAN, who is it that should call you unclean when God has said you are no more? If by happenstance or even by your own errors people have badged you with all kinds of names, or if you were born, like Jabez, with a name that depicts circumstances, then you are the one that this book is for. For it doesn’t matter what people call you, what matters is what God and His word calls you, and what matters most is what you accept, agree to, and answer to. Don’t live your life to chance, don’t give your strength away; you are what you call yourself and not what others call you. It is only when you refuse to name yourself that you can accept what they call you. What do you call yourself?

      Let me illustrate my point more fully by telling you this little story:

      When I was a teenager growing up in the inner city of Columbus, Ohio, like most urban metropolitans around the country, young men strolled up and down the avenue in decked out cars trying to impress one another and get the attention of all the young ladies in the area. 

      I will never forget what my mother told me as we walked home from the corner store one hot sunny afternoon as this scene unfolded before us.  The young men were hanging out of car windows and blowing their horns, shouting, Hey baby, can I get your number? Come here, Shorty, let me talk to you.  You got a man?  As we walked through this random howling, my mother stopped, turned to me and said, Prostitutes answer to horns.  Don’t you ever respond to any man who would address you in such a manner.

      This taught me that, in my neighborhood, if I wanted to be treated like a lady, I had to demand to be respected.  It didn’t matter how cute the fella was or whether he was using terms of cultural endearment.  The first step to getting to know me was a formal introduction.  Not calling me the current name for girls, but asking, What is your name?  I’m not: a chick, a dime, a strawberry or whatever the latest term for women may be.  I am Ida. No matter what they may have called me as I grew up walking up and down the sidewalks in my neighborhood, I only answered to my name.

      Most women today can relate to this urban scenario; being labeled by others as: THOT’s, damaged goods, overweight, unattractive, uneducated, and a host of other demeaning names.  However, we must find the strength to rise above these heavy weights of defamations, repossess our character, and stand up to who we were truly created to be.

      If you are reading this book you have been hand-picked by God for a divine makeover. This is not a makeover of the outward appearance. This is much deeper than that, I am talking about a life changing, transforming makeover-revealing who you are in Christ Jesus.

      REDEEMED

      BY HIS LOVE

      By

      Ida S. Mays

      TEXT SCRIPTURE

      REDEEMED BY HIS LOVE

      REDEEMED BY HIS LOVE

      CHAPTER ONE

      WHAT’S IN A NAME!

      Did you know that you are your name? That your name is your identity? By the law of the universe, seen and unseen creation of God, everything has a name. The sun, the moon, the stars, etc., all have their names. Every tree has a name; every bird has its own name, too. Angels have names ─ individual names. It is by these names that they all find their identity and uniqueness and therefore are able to fulfill their God-given purpose.

      God gave names to everything in the unseen universe and Adam named everything in the visible universe: one, for identity; two, for purpose and destiny; three, for functionality; and fourth, for visibility and relevance.

      Power, reverence, virtue and excellence are vested in names. God understands this concept so much (it came from Him in the first place), that He gave Him (Jesus) a name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, of things on earth and of things beneath the earth (the visible and the invisible universe of God). Such is the power, excellence and might of names. If God in His wisdom did this, then that tells us something about names that we should seek to understand. (See Phil. 2:5-11)

      Have you ever taken notice of the fact that when God wants to begin dealing with a person, or comes for a visit with a person, the first thing He does to get one’s attention is to call his name? He will first call you by your name before He does anything with you. There is no nameless and faceless person or thing in this universe. It is even important that you know that your name is your identity, both in the realm of the spirit and of the physical. Nothing is nameless.

      Look through the Bible─you see God addressing people by their names, whether He was the one that named them, or they were heathen-gods names, or just ordinary names.  In fact, three to four times in the Bible, He (God) has had to name some persons even before they were born. To Adam, He called out when He came visiting in the cool of the day in the garden: Adam, where are you? (See Genesis 3:9)  To Abraham, He called from heaven when he wanted to offer Isaac up as a sacrifice on the altar: Abraham, Abraham, do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him... (See Gen 22: 11-12) He had even had to change his name prior to this time from Abram to Abraham to align him to divine purpose and destiny. This He also did to his grandchild, Jacob. (See Genesis 17 and 32) What about God calling out Moses’s name during the burning bush? How about the glorified Jesus calling the name of the die-hard persecutor of the early church: Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? (See Exodus 3 and Acts 9)

      Think of people like King Josiah, Cyrus, John the Baptist

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