Strive for PERFECTION

We have to strive for perfection in our walk with the Lord Jesus Christ, our relationship with Him. We must do everything in our power to make sure that nothing comes between us and Jesus. Jesus warned, He said:”Narrow is the Door and straight is the Gate that leads to life and FEW there be that find it. Many will try hard and not be able.” Jesus also said:”Be perfect as your father in heaven is PERFECT.”

In a marathon even some of the best athletes might stumble, fall and get disqualified. Therefor we must make sure that we run the race in such a way that we do not get disqualified and lose the prize. We cannot make it on our own. We cannot make it on our own interpretation of the Bible or our own zeal, or our own mind. We need Jesus, we need the Holy Spirit to help us, to guide us, every step of the way. Without Jesus we can do nothing.

We need to strive for perfection in our relationship with our Lord and Master. We need to ASK Him, SEEK Him, WAIT ON Him and He will guide us every step of the way. He is faithful, He will never leave us, nor forsake us but we have to be faithful in our walk with Him. We must strive for perfection.

May Jesus bless you.

Sinners and Saints

In this world there are two types of people, SINNERS and SAINTS. SINNERS Belong to satan and SAINTS ARE CHILDREN OF GOD. They do not sin and they follow after Jesus Christ their Lord. Saints are in this world but they are not of this world, they are among sinners but they STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB, they don't fit in. They are rejected, hated, persecuted. They are PURE and HOLY. Their lights shine in this dark world. They are SALT and they are LIGHT. They are not part of the world and they are not conformed to the world. They do not go along with the things of this world but God put them here for His purpose to shine HIS LIGHT, to warn, to admonish and to bring light darkness.

God puts saints in amongst the sinners, the darkness, to warn them, to be light in this world and to bring sinners to repentance so that they can be born again and become children of God who are SAINTS. There is nothing in between, you are either a SINNER, a son of satan, or you are a SAINT.

Are you a child of God, a SAINT, or are you a SINNER, a son of the devil?

May Jesus bless you.

Bible Quoting Sinners - Sons of satan

If you really believe in Jesus Christ then you will FOLLOW and OBEY Him. You will SIN NO MORE. You will be HOLY as He is holy and you will do the WORKS of your Father, God. You will be GUIDED by the Holy Spirit and you will be a SHINING LIGHT in this world, bringing people to REPENTANCE and OBEDIENCE to Jesus Christ.

There are many Bible Quoting Sinners (“Christians”,) unrepentant hypocrites who think that if they quote Bible verse, that they are justified. The devil also quotes the Bible, he quotes the words of Jesus but he does not obey Jesus Christ.

A tree is known by it's fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree does not bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will get cut off and burned. The ax is already lying at the root of the trees and many will get cut off because their fruit show that they are bad trees. They are SONS OF sATAN even though they quote the Bible. Many Bible scholars want to tell others how God thinks and what God will do and how things work in the kingdom of God but they themselves do not even know God. If they knew God they would humble themselves before Him and be taught by HIM, they would not become teachers themselves but they would take others to Jesus so that HE CAN TEACH THEM.

It is about your walk, the FRUIT that you bear. Are you the LIGHT OF THE WORLD? Are you walking in holiness and righteousness and are you bringing people to Jesus so that they can follow Him? Your Bible knowledge will not save you, it is your relationship with Jesus. Without Jesus we can do NOTHING. If you don't have Jesus YOU ARE LOST! Humble yourself before Him, seek Him and He will guide you. He alone is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE, follow HIM!

May Jesus bless you.

According to Jesus Christ

Eternal life is ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST. Jesus Christ alone is the way and the truth and the life. Jesus Christ IS the Word of God. All that matters is what Jesus SAID and what He is SAYING and He Himself will have the LAST SAY.

He will say to many people in that day:”Go away I never knew you, you workers of wickedness,” because they were listening to what other people said. It is not what the pastor says, not what the Bible says, that matters, it is WHAT JESUS IS SAYING RIGHT NOW that matters.

“Man will not live from bread alone but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Jesus IS God. He is SPEAKING right now. Those who HAVE EARS will LISTEN and they will HEAR Him, OBEY Him and FOLLOW Him, they will have LIFE.

Are you LISTENING to Jesus Christ? Do you HEAR what He is saying? Are you seeking Him and are you following Him? Are you DOING what Jesus Christ is commanding you to do?

May Jesus bless you.

Everything is POSSIBLE

Everything is possible for those who follow Jesus Christ because He Himself goes ahead of them. Many so-called believers say they cannot stop sinning. It is because they are not following Jesus.

Make up your mind, deny yourself, pick up your cross every day and follow Jesus Christ and NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.

May Jesus Bless you.

Make Every Effort

We read in the gospel of Luke 13:24 that somebody asked Jesus whether those who are being saved are few. Jesus replied and said:”MAKE EVERY EFFORT to enter the narrow door because many will try hard and not be able.” Many believers say that they cannot stop sinning, they cannot obey the words of Jesus, they say they cannot be perfect as Jesus commanded. Jesus said:”Be perfect like your Father in heaven is perfect.”

How much EFFORT are we putting into following and obeying Jesus Christ? How hard are we trying? If we do not put every effort into seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness we will enter! We will not find the narrow door. How much EFFORT are we putting into following and obeying Jesus Christ? Are we putting every bit of energy, EVERY EFFORT into DOING THE WILL OF GOD? Or do we just believe that we will be saved because we believe in Jesus? Then we are living in a fool's paradise.

We have to put EVERY EFFORT into doing the will of God because many will try hard and not be able. How hard are we trying? How much effort are you putting into your relationship with Jesus Christ?

May Jesus bless you.

No Holiness NO Rapture

The situation in the world today is desperate and the only safe place is WITH Jesus. Many believers see the signs of the times and they are waiting, they are expecting to be RAPTURED out of this world to be with Jesus but these same people do not have a relationship with Jesus right now. Without HOLINESS no man shall see God.

We have to FOLLOW and OBEY Jesus Christ RIGHT NOW. He has put us here for a purpose, for this time, to be LIGHT IN DARKNESS, to bring souls to Him. Many are waiting to be raptured but they are not LIGHT, they are not SALT. They are DARKNESS, they are conformed to this world. We have to be TRANSFORMED into the LIKENESS OF CHRIST through the renewal of our mind. If we have the MIND OF CHRIST we are like HIM and we are WITH HIM right here, right now WHERE WE ARE because WHERE JESUS IS THERE HIS SERVANTS ARE ALSO.

All the calamity in this world right now, GOD IS IN IT, right in it in the center of it because man has turned his back on God and God has not abandoned man. He is drawing man unto Himself. The hand of God is MOVING through calamity, through signs and wonders to DRAW MAN TO HIM so they they will REPENT OF THEIR WICKED WORKS and SEEK HIM and realize that it is because they have rejected Him that these things are happening in the world.

If you are not living in utter righteousness and holiness you cannot be in the presence of God. You cannot be hearing His voice, you cannot be DOING HIS WILL, you cannot be in His presence. To be holy means to be PURE. You cannot be in sin AND in the presence of God. You cannot BELIEVE yourself into heaven, you have to FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST, you have to OBEY Him EVERY DAY. You have to be PURE AND HOLY to live in His presence and to be APPROVED by Him.

Don't expect to be raptured out of trouble if you cannot be WITH Jesus in these circumstance that are controlled BY HIM. Seek Jesus NOW and LIVE in relationship with Him and you will SEE His hand in everything around you, RIGHT NOW.

May Jesus bless you.

Be BAPTIZED for FORGIVENESS of your SIN

God will forgive your past sins and cleanse you of unrighteousness IF you REPENT, STOP SINNING. PLEAD JESUS FORGIVENESS and then BE BAPTIZED for the WASHING OFF OF YOUR SIN. After that you are clean but then you must SIN NO MORE. You must not go back to sin. You must follow Jesus Christ and OBEY God in the newness of Spirit and STAY CLEAN. No sinners will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Have you COME CLEAN? Have you had your past sins forgiven? Have you had your sins WASHED OFF? Are you CLEAN? Are you now following Jesus Christ in a NEW, HOLY, RIGHTEOUS LIFESTYLE?

Without holiness no man shall see God. No sinners will enter the kingdom of heaven.

May Jesus bless you.

OBEDIENCE resulting in Salvation

The kingdom of God is about DOING THE WILL OF GOD, being obedient to Jesus unto death. That is why Jesus taught us to pray:”Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done...” If we want eternal life we must SUBMIT to the will of God. We will learn obedience through what we suffer. Jesus Christ, although He was a son, learned obedience through what He suffered.
If you follow Jesus Christ you will have to SUBMIT TO THE WILL OF GOD all the time. It will be HIS WAY and NOT YOUR WAY, at HIS TIME and NOT at YOUR TIME, whatever HE WANTS not what You want. You will learn to OBEY Him through what you suffer. That is how we learn obedience, through suffering. Things will never work out the way that YOU want them to work out or expect them to work out. You will learn long-suffering (patience). That is what the kingdom of God is about.
God's way is the ONLY WAY and that WAY is Jesus Christ alone. LISTEN to Him, FOLLOW Him and OBEY Him regardless of anything else. He will make you CHOOSE. You will have to choose HIS WAY all the time. You will have to DENY yourself and go HIS WAY if you want to enter the kingdom of Heaven and have eternal life.

May Jesus bless you.

Filthy Works

Many believers think that they can buy God's favor by their works, by their Bible study, their church attendance, their support to their favorite charity, the money that they give to the church, supporting the church bazaar, going to the fellowship meetings. They think that it pleases God that they attend Christian fellowship and that they do praise and worship and dancing in the church, participating in the church activities. Those are FILTHY WORKS.
God is not interested in those works. God is interested in one thing only and that is in OBEDIENCE and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jesus said:”If you love Me OBEY MY WORDS” Jesus wants OBEDIENCE not sacrifice. He does not want your money nor the things that YOU want to GIVE to Him, the sacrifices YOU want to make. What is important to Jesus is that we OBEY HIM and give to Him the HONOR and the RESPECT and the OBEDIENCE that is due to Him, that we SERVE Him as LORD and MASTER. Our filthy works cannot buy the favor of God. God wants OBEDIENCE.

Are we serving God with REVERENCE and FEAR? Do we OBEY the words of Jesus. That is what is pleasing to God. May Jesus bless you.

Are you WALKING WITH GOD?

Eternal life is about WALKING WITH GOD, following Jesus. All other ways lead to destruction. We can only walk with Jesus if we turn away from everything else, even from doing our own thing, doing what we please. We have to FOLLOW JESUS to have eternal life.

It is like walking a tight rope over a high ravine, you have to keep your eye on the other side. If you look down and you lose balance you will plunge to death. A person who is walking a tight rope cannot look around, he cannot look down, he cannot afford to be distracted because then he will fall and even if he does his utmost he can also fall. That is what it is like to walk with God, to follow Jesus. The moment that you take your eyes, your focus off Jesus, you are bound to fail, you are bound to plunge to death.

Believers cannot understand why, as they say, God does not speak to them. It is because they are not walking with God. It is because they are not following Jesus Christ. If is because they are not LISTENING to Jesus. They are busy with other things, things more important, their own mind, their own ideas. They listen to the wrong voices, they are busy with the wrong things. They are NOT following Jesus. They will not reach the other side! They just won't make it.

Are you walking with God? Have you forsaken everything, even yourself and are you seeking Jesus all the time? Are you focused on Him or are you busy with other things? You cannot be sinning, loving the world, being conformed to the world, doing the things of the world and still be following Jesus Christ. You are to be RIGHTEOUS, HOLY, DEDICATED and always SEEKING Him, always focused on Him or else you are NOT walking with God and you WILL NOT MAKE IT into the kingdom of Heaven.

If you do not start walking with God, following Jesus Christ RIGHT NOW, you won't make it! You will end up in damnation. If you are not on the straight and narrow road right now, you will not find the narrow door into the kingdom of Heaven. Are you walking that straight and narrow path, following Jesus Christ? Will you make it into the Kingdom of Heaven?

May Jesus bless you.

Jesus saved me from hell

Just like millions of Christian believers I was also deceived by false teachings. I thought that I was on my way to heaven until, by His grace, Jesus Christ woke me up. On July 28^th, 1998 I had a heart attack, I died, I left my body and I found myself going down a deep black hole on my way to hell. But Jesus had mercy on me and He let me come back to warn other believers that hell is real and most of them believe a bunch of lies.

The road to eternal life is extremely narrow and I found that WAY, that WAY is Jesus Christ ALONE and OBEDIENCE to Him. Very few people are on that road. I was not on that road. I was on the religious road. I WAS baptized in water, I WAS baptized in the Holy Spirit, I did speak in tongues. I know the Bible well, BUT I did not OBEY the words of Jesus Christ. I also believed that I was saved. I also believed that you only need to believe in Jesus and confess Him to be saved, but that is not true!

I found myself on my way to hell because I was a wicked person. Jesus will say to many believers who SIN, who DISOBEY Him, He will say:”Go away from Me, I never knew you, you workers of wickedness.” Without holiness, UTTER HOLINESS and utter obedience to Jesus Christ, you will NOT enter the kingdom of heaven. The door is NARROW and FEW there be that find it, very few. That is why Jesus warned us to STRIVE HARD. That is why He said we have to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him every day UNTIL THE END, if we want eternal life.

Very few professing believers will have eternal life because they have been deceived, they are not living in holiness. They are not obeying Jesus, they do not have a REAL relationship with Jesus Christ, they are just busy with religion. They are deceived. I was also deceived but JESUS SAVED ME FROM HELL, He taught me the FEAR OF GOD. I fear God, I FEAR Jesus. It was for ONE sin that Adam died, it was for one disobedience that Moses did not enter the promised land.

Jesus requires UTTER holiness, UTTER obedience! If we love Him we will OBEY Him. Do you KNOW Jesus or will you also be disappointed when He says to YOU:”Go away from Me, I never knew you, you worker of wickedness?”

Narrow is that door and FEW there be that find it. I fear God, I fear Jesus! I fear His words, I seek Him EVERY DAY and I follow him because I have come to REALLY know Him.

Do you REALLY know Jesus Christ? Or are you just deceived into thinking that you are saved but you are on your way to hell? Make sure today! Repent, obey Jesus, live holy, seek Him every day, seek His voice and you will find Him. Endure until the END or you won't make it!

Wake up before it is too late!

May Jesus bless you

Polished to PERFECTION

Jesus Christ is working perfection in every one of THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING HIM, who have the hope of eternal life. He wants to present us as a perfect bride before His Father who is in heaven. I want to share with you some reading from the book of Hebrews.
We read in Hebrews 11 about the heroes of faith who endured until the end, and then we read in Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us,” (He is talking about those heroes of faith that have gone before) “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, who 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 will not grow weary and lose heart.4You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;”
Sin is the problem. If we sin we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven and therefor Jesus PERFECTS us through discipline and chastisement so that we can share in His holiness.
We read verse 5 “and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
  “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,
   NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
   6FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,
    AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
7It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
God disciplines all His children. He disciplines us through misfortune, sickness, pain and suffering. Things happen in our lives and we cannot understand why these things are happening. It is the hand of God that is disciplining and correcting us. There is no coincidence in the life of a child of God. Whatever happens in your life is the hand of God on your life. HE IS LEADING US TO HOLINESS, PERFECTION.
We read in verse12 “Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,13and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.”
What does he mean by that? Do not go and look for trouble. Stay on the straight and narrow road. Do not go to those places where you know that you are weak. DO NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF TO TEMPTATION BUT STAY AWAY FROM TEMPTATION. Keep your eyes on Jesus, stay focused on Him and on the prize of eternal life or else you will not make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
He says in verse14:”Pursue peace with all men, and the SANCTIFICATION WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD.” Without sanctification, without holiness no man shall see the Lord. If we sin WE WILL PERISH! And that is why God is working perfection in us, through discipline and reproof because we have to be a PERFECT bride for Jesus Christ.
Verse 5 “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; 16that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 17For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.”
It was for ONE SIN, ONE DISOBEDIENCE that Adam died. It was only one mishap that Esau made that caused him to lose his birth right. ONE SIN can cost you eternity. Jesus requires of us ABSOLUTE HOLINESS. Adam did not find any room for repentance, he disobeyed God and he perished. The very same God expects of us, PERFECT OBEDIENCE, IF we want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus Christ is preparing a perfect bride to receive a perfect Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven and therefor we have to be perfect. We must allow Him to have His way in our lives. We have to yield to Him, we have to be UTTERLY HOLY and OBEDIENT to Him.
We read in verse 28:”Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may OFFER TO GOD AN ACCEPTABLE SERVICE WITH REVERENCE AND AWE; 29for OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.”
We must YIELD to Jesus, we must YIELD to the Holy Spirit and live in UTTER HOLINESS, He does not tolerate disobedience because OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE, who is working PERFECTION in every one of those who ENDURES UNTIL TH EVERY END. Only those who ENDURE will in the PRIZE OF ETERNAL LIFE. Only those who DO THE WILL OF GOD will receive the prize.
We read in Hebrews 10:36 “For you have NEED OF ENDURANCE, so that when you HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD, you may receive what was promised.” Only those who ENDURE and DO the will of God will receive what was promised, the PRIZE of ETERNAL LIFE.
May Jesus bless you.

To confess or not to confess

It is important to confess our sins if we have sinned and to ask forgiveness, from God and also from the person whom we have sinned against. It is also important that we forgive others because if we do not forgive those who have sinned against us then we will not have forgiveness for our sins; because as Jesus taught us to pray, He said:”forgive us our transgressions as we have forgiven those who have transgressed against us.”

We must also ask forgiveness from those against whom we have sinned. But sometimes the other person does not even know that you have sinned against him and it is better not to confess to that person that you have sinned against him unless he knows about it. Especially in the case of adultery where one spouse has cheated on the other, if that person then confesses to his spouse or to her spouse that they have been unfaithful then it can destroy their marriage. As Jesus also said to the woman who was caught in adultery, He said:”Where are your prosecutors?” She said:”They have left.” and He said:”I do not condemn you ether, go and SIN NO MORE.”

There are some “purists” that will maintain that a person who has been unfaithful must confess to their partner that they have been unfaithful. Many people have been unfaithful without even realizing it. Many believers will tell you that they have never committed adultery, they have never cheated on a spouse but in their mind they have. In their mind they have lusted after another person and Jesus said:”If you look at a woman to lust after her then you have already committed adultery in your heart.” Then you are already guilty of adultery. So before we judge other people let us rather make sure that WE are pleasing to Jesus. Let us confess our sins to Jesus and live in utter holiness and purity because no sinners will enter the kingdom of heaven.

May Jesus bless you.

God's discipline is SEVERE

God is kind and merciful to those who repent from their wicked ways and who come to Him with a serious heart, with a contrite heart, who stop sinning and who obey Him, but He is severe on those who reject Him who disregard Him and who continue in their wickedness.

The words of Jesus, the words of life, are exact and if we want eternal life we must obey Him. By His mercy and His grace He forgives our past sin IF we truly repent. He promises us eternal life IF we obey Him, but if we disregard Him and we reject His words HIS JUDGMENT ON US IS SEVERE. The discipline of God is severe on those whom He accepts as children. He scourges every son that He accepts, He does not work lightly with His children. He does not spoil them. He treats them harshly so that they can learn His ways.

Jesus Christ, even though He was a son learned obedience through what He suffered. If you follow Jesus Christ and become a child of God you will suffer according to the flesh because those who have suffered according to the flesh have ceased from sinning. Jesus will not spoil you, He will work harshly with you when you sin because He wants you to share in His holiness. If you reject His discipline He will deal severely with you, harshly, you will END UP IN HELL.

Consider the mercy of God, that He accepts a sinner, an undeserving sinner who repents. He gives them grace and mercy but if they go back to sin and if they disobey Him He is severe and harsh and they will perish. God is not mocked. If you are a child of God you obey God. God is not a respecter of persons, He has one standard of obedience and holiness. If you are a child of God, you OBEY GOD, YOU DO NOT SIN. You live in UTTER HOLINESS and obedience to Him. His discipline is severe on those who are His children. He does not accept ANY DEVIATION. It is GOD'S WAY or it is NO WAY.

Are you following Jesus on the narrow way or are you disregarding Him because YOU WILL PERISH. There is only one way to be pleasing to God and that is through utter OBEDIENCE, UTTER DEDICATION. You GO where He sends you and you DO what He tells you or else YOU ARE NONE OF HIM.

May Jesus bless you.

Perfection through PAIN and SUFFERING

Those who follow Jesus Christ are perfected in holiness and obedience through suffering. If you follow Jesus Christ you will follow His example of suffering. Jesus, even though He was a son learned through what He suffered and if we follow Him we will also learn through suffering.

We read in 1 Peter 4:1 “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;” God disciplines every son that He accepts, so if you are accepted as a child of God then you will be disciplined and you will learn through what you suffer.

I have suffered much in my life because that is the way that God teaches His own children. If we do not suffer then we are illegitimate children, He will teach us through MUCH SUFFERING. God has taught me through, trials, pain, suffering. Right now I am going through some suffering. For the past three months I have had a little toe that has chilblains, or winters toe. I cannot wear a shoe. So I asked the Lord. I said:”Lord, what must I learn from this?” because there is no medication that helps for chilblains, you just need to move to a warmer place. So I said:”Lord, what must I learn from this small toe that is so painful?” it keeps me awake at night. The Holy Spirit teaches me that if the little toe suffers then the whole body suffers, because it keeps me awake at night, causes me to pray and spend more time with the Lord. You see, if the smallest member of the Body of Christ suffers then the whole Body suffers, and we have to care for each other, care for those whom we regard least because they are important. If they suffer then the Body of Christ suffers.

We learn through what we suffer. I have suffered much in my life since I have started following Jesus Christ but through suffering He has taught me to OBEY Him, not to love the things of the world. We learn through suffering and if you follow Jesus Christ you will suffer. There is no coincidence in the life of a child of God because God directs our footsteps. Whatever happens to us is in the plan of God because we are children of God. Whenever anything happens to me, pain, sickness, misfortune, whatever, I turn to Jesus and I say:”Lord, what are You teaching me?” because that is the way He teaches us.

Maybe He is speaking to you. He chastises those whom He loves. Maybe there is sin in your life. Ask the Lord why you are sick. Ask Him why you are running into misfortune. Ask Him why somebody drove into the back of your car. Is your car not maybe your idol? Ask the Lord why things are going wrong in your life. Because we LEARN THROUGH WHAT WE SUFFER.

Nothing is easy when you follow Jesus but if we YIELD to Him, we TRUST Him and we SUBMIT, He teaches us HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS, LONGSUFFERING and OBEDIENCE. We are changed into His likeness through suffering but WE MUST SUBMIT TO HIM. We must YIELD and let Him have His way in us and He will mold us into perfection.

If you yield to the discipline of the Holy Spirit and ACCEPT the SUFFERING and learn from it then you will be changed into His likeness and be suitable to enter into the kingdom of heaven. If you refuse correction you will not be suitable for His kingdom and He will turn you away. We learn through what we suffer IF we want to follow Jesus Christ.

May Jesus bless you.

Not a joy ride - FIRE.

Jesus Christ gives eternal life to those who BELIEVE in Him and then FOLLOW Him and OBEY Him. Jesus said that:”Whoever WISHES to come after Me must deny himself, pick up his cross daily and come here, follow Me.” If you follow Jesus Christ He will take you through the water, you will have to be baptized for the washing off of your sins and He will take you through the FIRE. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with FIRE.

If you follow Jesus He will purify you, He will cleanse you. You will have to BE WILLING TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING, your dignity, your family, your possessions, everything, even your life. If you are not willing to give up everything to follow Jesus Christ then you are not worthy of Him. If you follow Jesus Christ then you LISTEN to Him, and you OBEY Him. You do not run after your own plans and your own ambitions, you WAIT ON HIM and you follow HIM.

IF you follow Jesus He will take you through the FIRE. He will cleanse you, He will purify you. He will purify you of worldly desires, He will cleanse you of everything of this world. You will not FIT INTO THIS WORLD any more, you will not be of the world. You will have no desire for the things of the world. The world will shun you, reject you, persecute you but you will be suitable for the kingdom of God. IF YOU STILL FIT INTO THIS WORLD THEN YOU CANNOT FIT INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD, you have to GO THROUGH THE FIRE, be molded, purified and cleansed so that you can be suitable for the kingdom of God.

Are you willing to give up everything and follow Jesus Christ? Jesus will not take you on a joy ride, He will take you through the FIRE. Are you ready for the FIRE? Are you ready to follow Jesus Christ? If you want eternal life YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE FIRE.

May Jesus bless you.

Serious Business

You cannot follow Jesus Christ on an off and on basis, either you are totally committed to Him and focused on Him and follow Him every day or you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Without holiness no man shall see God. If you are not walking in utter holiness and dedication to Jesus, He will not speak to you. If you do not seek Him and go after Him every day, you do not have a relationship with Him.

Most believers just believe that they are saved but they have no relationship with Jesus because they don't pray, they are not focused on Him, they do not seek Him. Maybe they read the Bible and they are religious but THEY DO NOT HEAR HIS VOICE because they are not focused on Him. They are as much in the world and of the world as the rest of the world. They are just deceived they believe that they are saved but THEY DON'T KNOW JESUS. His sheep LISTEN to His voice and they FOLLOW Him every day.

Are you LISTENING to His VOICE and are you FOLLOWING HIM? You cannot be joking with your friends the one moment and be following Jesus Christ the next moment. Either you are dedicated to Jesus and to being pleasing to Him all the time or you are just not following Him. You cannot follow Jesus Christ on an off and on basis.

May Jesus bless you.

The Sacrifices of God

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.” Those are the words of king David in Psalm 51:17. The only sacrifice that we can bring to God is our own brokenness because if we are spirited and strong in ourselves we will not listen to Him, we will not obey Him.

Jesus said:”Blessed are they who are poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 5:3. It is only when we are poor in spirit, poor in OUR OWN SPIRIT, poor in our own ideas and opinion, our own resources, it is only then that we are willing to OBEY the King, to LISTEN to Him, to FOLLOW Him and to be useful, fruitful in His kingdom. People who are wise in their own estimation, who lean on their own understanding and their own Bible knowledge WILL NOT LISTEN to the Holy Spirit. We need to empty ourselves of our SELF, of our own resources, of our own plans and our own opinions and totally submit to the Holy Spirit, TRUST Him, LISTEN and OBEY or else we will not follow Jesus, we will not do what is pleasing to Him.

As long as we lean on our own understanding and we are adamant about our own opinion we are in direct opposition, in rebellion against Jesus Christ because then we elevate ourselves and we think that we are God, we think that we are more clever and more wise than Him and we will not follow in His plan. God is not interested in our opinions or in our plans.

Jesus Christ is LORD and if we follow Him, we serve HIM as LORD. Wisdom that comes from the mind of man is satanic and in rebellion against God. Unless we deny ourselves, deny our own opinions and our own ways we cannot follow Jesus and we cannot be pleasing to Him, we cannot be part of the kingdom of God because we will not submit ourselves to Jesus. What He requires of us is utter and total submission to Him, We cannot please Jesus unless we submit to Jesus and totally obey Him.

May Jesus bless you.

More than just words

If you are a born again follower of Jesus Christ then you will be like Him. It is not your words, but your life, that will tell the story. Jesus said to Nicodemus, as we read in John 3:8 “The wind blows where it wishes, you don't know where it is coming from and you don't know where it is going, and so is every person who I born of the Spirit if God.” It is because they are led by the Holy Spirit and they do what Jesus tells them to do, they go where He sends them.

Those who truly follow Jesus Christ will be hated by all men. They will speak His words, they themselves being disciples of Jesus Christ, will be making other disciples of Christ. They are not of the world, neither do they love the things of the world. Their only desire is to follow Jesus and be pleasing to Him. Their life tells the story, not their words. Anybody can quote scripture but not many follow Jesus. Not many of those who call themselves Christians, do really follow Jesus Christ. Not many of them do really have any relationship with Jesus.

If we follow Jesus we will walk like He walked and we will speak His words. If we want eternal life we have to follow Jesus and walk like He walked and speak His words and then our life will show that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

May Jesus bless you.