Today

The unbeliever has many plans, he has his ambitions for the future, but the child of God has no plans. He has Jesus and he is walking in GOD'S PLAN. He does not concern himself about tomorrow or next year or what will happen because he is in GOD'S PLAN. He is focused on Jesus TODAY, doing the will of God TODAY, staying with Jesus TODAY. His only concern is to be pleasing to Jesus TODAY and every other day that the Lord gives him.

Jesus said:”Do not be concerned about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have enough of it's own trouble.” Jesus also said:”Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the other things will be added unto you.” God knows what you need. He said that food and clothing, and shelter are the things that the Gentiles the unbelievers are concerned about. That is why He taught us to pray:”Give us THIS DAY our daily bread,” because God knows what we need.

All that we need to do is to live for Jesus TODAY. He will supply in our needs for TODAY. He will guide us for TODAY and for tomorrow if we are here tomorrow, if that is in God's plan. The only way that we will find the narrow door into the kingdom of heaven is if we live every day for TODAY, to be pleasing to Jesus, TODAY.

Do you have plans? Are you planning your life, or are you following Jesus TODAY? All we need to do is LISTEN and FOLLOW and STAY WITH JESUS and He will guide us every step of the way. He knows what we need. All we need to do is stay with Jesus TODAY.

May Jesus bless you.

WALK WITH GOD

God loves us and He wants us to be in close communion with Him, as He also spoke through the mouth of Micah the prophet. Micah 6:8 ”He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” That is all God requires of us, is to DO JUSTICE to all people around us, to walk in righteousness, to LOVE KINDNESS and to WALK HUMBLY WITH OUR GOD.

God did not leave us as orphans. He drew us closer to Him through Jesus. Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us. God sent His only Son to come to this earth to reconcile us with Him but even more than that, He sent us His Spirit, HIMSELF, the Holy Spirit, to come and live with us, to be with us every moment.

If you accept Jesus as your LORD He immediately comes in, His Spirit comes into you and He writes His laws in your heart. His presence comes and lives with you, that INNER VOICE that wants to guide you, that close companion that is with you always. Have you invited Jesus into your life? Has that INNER VOICE come and lived inside of you? And then you need to LISTEN to that voice of His Holy Spirit. That is Emmanuel, God with you, Jesus living in you AND THEN YOU WALK WITH GOD, every day, every moment of every day! Not with people, not with friends, YOU WALK WITH GOD because He has pur His Spirit in you, but you need to focus on Him all the time. LISTEN intently, in your heart, He will speak to you.

When you first met Jesus you KNEW that you had met Him, he had forgiven your sins and He had given you eternal life. You had that joy of salvation, you KNEW God! And He has never left you but you need to walk with Him every day and you need to take others to Him. You need to focus on Him all the time, day and night, every moment, without waver. You have got to be focused on that INNER VOICE. If you need wisdom, you say:”Lord, please help me!” If you cannot hear His voice you say:”Lord, why can I not Hear You?” and He will show you. If you have done sin then the voice goes quiet. If you have disobeyed Him or if you have sinned, then you have left Him and you need to get back to Him. You need to REPENT, you need to OBEY Him! Obey Jesus, REPENT and be BAPTIZED in water and He will put his Spirit inside of you. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and you can WALK WITH GOD.

He called you to walk with Him every moment. ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD? Have you found Jesus. Is that INNER VOICE SPEAKING TO YOU are you LISTENING? ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD?

May Jesus bless you.

Deny Yourself - The Price of Eternal Life

Discipleship is not for everybody, but discipleship is the price of eternal life because if we want to have eternal life we must become part of another kingdom, the Kingdom of God. We must come under the reign of God. Jesus Christ becomes our Lord and we SERVE HIM as LORD. If we don't want to serve Him as Lord we cannot be part of His Kingdom and He does not force anybody to obey Him or to follow Him. That is why it is not for everybody. It is for those who truly want to follow Jesus, who want to be part of His Kingdom.

That is why Jesus said:”If any man WISHES to come after Me, let him deny Himself, pick up his cross every day and come here, follow Me.” He also said that if you want to follow Him you must first figure out the cost because if you get half way and you decide you don't want to do it any more then people will laugh at you. Following Jesus means, DENYING YOURSELF. Denying yourself means that now you become part of the Kingdom of God and you DO what Jesus wants you to do, you live a life that is pleasing to Him. If He is your Lord and your Master, you live to please Him. So how would we know what to do to be pleasing to Jesus? We need to first KNOW Him and then we need to FOLLOW HIM BY FAITH.

If you decide to follow Jesus and become part of His Kingdom then He blots out your previous sin, He forgives it, He gives you a clean slate, He makes you a new man, but then you must live in that newness. You cannot go back to your previous lifestyle because then you fall out of the kingdom of God, you go away from Jesus. It is only those who endure until the very end that will find the very narrow door to eternal life. You need to make up your mind first whether you really want to follow Jesus and be part of his Kingdom, and then you go on your knees and you ask Him to accept you into His Kingdom and to forgive your past sins, to blot it out, to make you a child of God and then by faith, you follow Him every day. He will write His laws in your heart, telling you what He wants you to do. He will give you His Holy Spirit to guide you, inside of you. Because you believe in Jesus, you LISTEN to the Spirit of God inside of you and you obey. You ask Him for His guidance and He will guide you in everything. The first thing is to turn away from sin, turn away from the things of the world because you don't belong to the kingdom of the world any more, you belong to the Kingdom of God and now you are interested in the Kingdom of God and not in this world.

You need to be led by the Holy Spirit or else you will be led by your mind, it will take you back into the world. Your mind must be set on Christ and on pleasing Him and then you will be led by the Holy spirit, YOU WILL NOT SIN because you are focused on Jesus and His Spirit will guide you into that which is pleasing to Him. You cannot be part of the world and have worldly aspirations and plans, you need to set your mind on Christ, deny yourself every day, not follow your own mind but pray and ask Jesus what He, the King, wants you to do today and you live your life that way until the very end. That is what it means to be a disciple. Its not taking on religion. That is what it means to walk by faith, it means that you set your sight on Jesus and you get your guidance from His Holy Spirit, and if you do not have the Holy Spirit then you cannot follow Jesus and if you do not LISTEN to the Holy Spirit and OBEY the Holy Spirit, YOUR FAITH IS DEAD. Its useless, its no good because you are not believing, you are not LIVING UNDER THE GUIDANCE of the Holy Spirit. If you go on like everybody else goes on in this world, you cannot be part of the Kingdom of God.

You need to get your focus on Jesus, pray all the time, seek your guidance from Him, every day of your life and live a life that is pleasing to Him. It is not living according to a book or to a set of rules. It is BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. If we do not have the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, we DO NOT BELONG TO HIM! We must be led by the Holy Spirit, deny ourselves every day, deny your own mind, your own thinking, your common sense, and listen to the Holy Spirit and He will guide you into all truth, but you need to DENY YOURSELF WILLFULLY. You turn away from it, it is not TAKEN away from you. You have made up your mind before you started following Jesus:”Lord I want to follow You, I will not go after my own desires. I want to be part of Your Kingdom, I want to serve You.” The more you trust Jesus, the more you seek Him, the more real He becomes to you. He becomes your life, becomes your reality, He becomes your King, you become part of the Kingdom of God. That is what discipleship means, a spiritual real relationship with your King, your Lord and your Master where you DO what is pleasing to Him.

May Jesus bless you.

The only solution

When you get into trouble from where nobody can save you, there is One who can still save you and His Name is JESUS.  I have been in impossible situations, in bad weather in aircraft, in an accident situation with a motor car.  In many situations where I have just cried out to Jesus and I said: "Lord help me!" and He always answered, He helped me.  It doesn’t matter what your problem is, whether it is a relationship, whatever.
  There is nothing that is IMPOSSIBLE for that one Name JESUS.  Just call out to Him friend and He will answer you.  The Psalmists says in Psalm 50:15 ”Call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”  Dear friend, JESUS will RESCUE you.  His Hand will PLUCK you out where no other Hand can come.  There is nothing that He cannot do.
Remember to CALL OUT to JESUS and DON'T FORGET to GIVE HIM the HONOR for RESCUING you for DELIVERING you, because He is the SOUL SOLUTION.  He is the only One who can help when nobody else can help anymore.
May Jesus bless you.

Fix your eyes on Jesus - Don't look at others

There is nothing more important for a child of God than to fix his eyes on Jesus and to follow Him, because if we allow ourselves to be distracted we will fail. I read in Hebrews 12:1 “let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, which for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.”

We cannot afford to grow weary and lose heart, we cannot afford to be distracted. We cannot afford to look at: “What is my brother doing? What is my sister doing? What are they not doing?” Many people are so concerned about what others are doing. We must concern ourselves with our own walk with Jesus, we must obey HIM and not allow anything to distract us. Peter was rebuked by Jesus a few times. Peter said to Jesus:”What about this guy? What about John?” We read in John 21:21 “Peter therefore seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” 22Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? YOU FOLLOW ME!”

We must follow Jesus, friends, we must not allow ourselves to be distracted. We must not allow the devil to distract us. Even Peter himself, he tried to rebuke Jesus, and what did Jesus say to him? He said to him:”Get ye behind me satan, because you are a stumbling block for me. You are thinking of the things of men. Dear friends, we must fix our eyes on Jesus and seek to be pleasing to Him all the time, or else we will not make it. We cannot be distracted, we cannot afford to look at what others are doing. Many people are meddlers, they are worried about what their brothers are doing. get worried about what god wants “ME” to do not what He wants “YOU” to do, friend! Because if we start looking at each other then we ourselves become unfruitful, because ewe take our eyes off Jesus!

He called you for a job and He called me for a job and each of us will be rewarded according to what we have done and also we will be punished for what we have NOT DONE! Narrow is the door and few there be who find it! May we run this race in such a way that we find that narrow door. May we work in such a way that we please our Master.

May Jesus bless you.