Inheritance

My Mom repeatedly told me over the course of many years of her concern to leave something for her kids after she was gone. She didn't have much in life, but she wanted to leave something for her children, to be divided equally. The Bible also talks about the desire to leave an inheritance:
"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous."  Prov. 13:22
When we were kids, my Mom went to church and was a participant in the church activities, and we kids went to the traditional Sunday School. After we became adults, she no longer attended church regularly, but she certainly believed in God and Jesus.
Later in her life, I would sometimes bring my Mom to church with me, and she always enjoyed it, especially the music. She loved the pastors and congregation.
One year, shortly before Mother's Day, my Mom had a brain aneurysm that ruptured. It left her in a coma, with the doctors telling me that there was no hope for life or recovery. They sometimes showed their annoyance with the family's decision to give Mom every opportunity to recover. They viewed these decisions as being unrealistic, and prolonging of my Mom's suffering. My pastors and church faithfully prayed for her, and made trips to the hospital. The rest of the family were also always very supportive of Mom throughout the situation, and were involved in the medical decisions. 
After six weeks, my Mom miraculously woke from the coma, but the doctors now informed me that all tests and scans showed that my Mom was irreversibly brain damaged. In fact, they actually used the distasteful term "vegetable" to describe her. The hospital lawyers went to court to have my father made her legal conservator, since she was mentally incompetent. Contained in the hospital's documents to the court were the doctors' sworn affidavits attesting that the extensive brain damage they had discovered in my Mom was permanent and irreversible. My Mom, by necessity, went into a nursing home, where she began to show slow improvement. The staff there, who thought she would not live long when she first came in, called her their Christmas miracle.
About three years later, my Mom appeared before the same court and judge that had established the conservatorship. Throughout her life she had always been well groomed when she went out in public, and this occasion was no exception. There she sat, with her make-up on, her hair done, wearing her jewelry, dressed immaculately, having a conversation with the judge. She told him about her daily routine, how she lived independently, and did all her own cooking, and housework. The judge listened in amazement, and asked her many questions. He said that in his career he had sadly signed many conservatorships for unfortunate people, but this would be the first time that he had the happy privilege of ending a conservatorship. He could see that my mom had recovered, and no longer needed it.
The doctors were right in one small way- my Mom did pass away, but it was twenty years later at the age of 91. She had lived to see three great-grandchildren born.
So did my Mom leave that inheritance that she had always wanted to give to her children? Well, probably not the kind of inheritance she had been picturing. It wasn't an inheritance of money and possessions, but she left an even greater inheritance. She left an inheritance of miracles. Her husband, her children, her grandchild, and her great-grandchildren, witnessed with their own eyes that God does perform miracles. Hopefully this legacy of miracles will continue to be told to many generations yet to come. It cost Mom a lot of hardship to leave us with that inheritance, but our experience that nothing is impossible with God (Lk. 1:37), and that God heals, saves, and delivers from trouble (Ps. 34:17), is an inheritance more valuable than gold or silver (Acts 3:6). Money gets spent, possessions wear out, but the first-hand knowledge of God's unlimited love and power towards us, will never fade away, and will be treasured forever:
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."  Mt. 6:19-21
Scripture teaches this also about our special inheritance:
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."   Rom. 8:14-18
Like the good man spoken of in Proverbs, our Father has prepared an inheritance for us. It is the same great inheritance that He has given to His Son, because we are His children also.

"You are the God who performs miracles; You display Your power among the peoples." 
                                                                                                         Ps. 77:14

If you have not yet had a miracle experience, I'm sure my Mom would be happy to let you believe and be encouraged by hers, until you get a miracle of your very own.

Our inheritance from our Father is one of miracles!!


"God of Miracles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdGTzRXk64

Uttermost

I don't know about everyone else, but I didn't seek salvation. Salvation sought me. Salvation coaxed me along, drawing me with things that He (Salvation is a person named Jesus) knew I couldn't resist. Salvation knew me before I was even born (Ps. 139:13), and He knew what made me "tick". He used that knowledge to attract me, and to pull me to the place where He wanted me, to the place where He was waiting to finally reveal Himself to me. He didn't force me to salvation against my will, but He made the revealing so compelling, that I could not deny what was happening to me.
Salvation is not limited to a heavenly destination after death, but it is a process of transformation begun here on earth. The fullness of this transformation is the image, likeness and stature of Christ formed in each of us. It is a life-long process of "becoming" (Rom. 12:1-2). The Hebrew meaning of salvation is "save, victory, health, welfare, deliverance, prosperity, aid, preserve, defend, rescue, ample, opulent, liberty". It is also Jesus' Hebrew name.
Salvation is not a religious decision of a person, but it is a sovereign work and power of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Rom. 1:16, 1 Pet. 1:3-5, Rev. 12:10, Rev. 19:1). All of Their great power is directed towards salvation:
Who is this that cometh...that is glorious in His apparel, travelling in the greatness of His strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save."  Isa. 63:1
"Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy (heavy, hardened, insensible, dull), that it cannot hear..."  Isa. 59:1
"O God the LORD, the strength (power, might, force, prevailing) of my salvation..." Ps. 140:7
"...Now salvation and strength, and the kingdom of God, and the power of His Christ have come..."  Rev. 12:10
Before our Father even created the earth, He and His Son made the provision for our salvation (Rev. 13:8). It was His provision and plan for us before the beginning.
As you can see, salvation is not a weak thing. It does not come out of weakness, and it does not create weakness, but it is the great power and strength of God Himself.
The authority behind salvation is the authority of our Creator, whose authority is unchallengeable:
"My sheep hear My voice, and I (Jesus) know them, and they follow Me; And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them (to) Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand."   Jn. 10:27-29
There is no other authority in heaven or on earth that can countermand the authority with which God commands forth His salvation. There is no situation or circumstance, no distance or time, that is beyond Christ's ability to save:
"Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost (entirety, completely, perfectly, to the end, purpose, aim) that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them."  Heb. 7:25
Even those held captive in death before the manifestation of the Savior in the flesh and His work on the Cross, were not beyond Christ's ability to save:
"Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity (prisoner, taken away, precious stone of the priest's breastplate) captive, and gave gifts to men." (Now this, "He ascended"- what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?)"  Eph. 4:8-9 (Ps. 68:18)
"...by whom (the Spirit) also He (Jesus) went and preached to the spirits in prison."  1 Pet. 3:19
Even though it comes from the deepest part of the nature of God, which is His love (Jn. 3:16-17), and is the foundation of His plan and all of His will (Jer. 29:11), and is a miraculous mystery that can hardly be comprehended (1 Pet. 1:12), salvation does not require a complex religious ritual. Our Father makes it very easy:
"...if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."   Rom. 10:9
Even just the hearing of Jesus' salvation (Rom. 10:14), creates the basic but powerful belief needed to save, mentioned above in Rom. 10:9.
Scripture assures us that His power of salvation can be accomplished in the greatest simplicity:
"For whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."  Rom. 10:13, Joel 2:32
Another example of the ability of Jesus to save simply is shown in His statement:
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."  Rev. 3:20
Just the opening of a door. That is all a person has to do, and Jesus will handle the rest.
As much as we desire for others to receive salvation, Jesus desires it even more. Our heavenly Father gave everything, even His most Beloved, in order to make the way for His greatest power- the power of salvation.
If your heart is heavy with concern for the salvation of your loved ones, be encouraged. Let your heart know that Jesus hears your prayers, they are His prayers as well, and He is an expert at salvation. He will not fail. Remember how He led you to find Him. Remember how He saved you.
If you do not understand salvation, and have never experienced it, you can see that all you have to do is open the door of possibility to Him, and He will graciously deal with you personally, regardless of your circumstances, revealing Himself to you and teaching you all that you need to know- and the most incredible journey of your life will begin.

Our Father's plan is to save to the uttermost.

"One Thing Remains"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KXsMCJgBQ