Friday, November 4, 2011

Too BUSY - Too OCCUPIED

This morning as I was spending time with the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit spoke to me. He said to me that believers are too busy, too busy to listen to Him and that is why they perish.
He reminded me of the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 55 and I read for you from verse 1.
"Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
and you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.
Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen that you may live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David.
Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
Behold, you will call a nation you do not know,
And a nation which knows you not will turn to you,
Because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel; has glorified you."
Do you believe that?
Do you believe that God Almighty wants to make a covenant with you, if you just want to LISTEN TO HIM.
I read further verse 6
Seek the LORD while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him,
and to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth
and make it to bear and to sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
So shall My Word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire,
and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace;
I read verse 13, He says: It will be for a memorial to the LORD, for an everlasting sign which will not be cut off."
Dear friends, our Lord and Master has destined the best for those who wait on Him,
who listen to Him but people occupy themselves with things that bring them no gain at all.
They are occupied with the television, with just talking nonsense on the cell phone,
running after things that are utterly useless, that cannot satisfy and they do not contribute to the Kingdom of God.
But the worse of all is that they don’t have time to spend with the LORD.
They don’t have time to listen,
they spend their lives wasting it on things that will bring them nothing in the end.
And here our Lord Jesus is waiting for you and for me
to come and spend time with Him.
What is more important? What are you working for?
Things that will perish, very soon those same things that you have been so worried about will be worthless,
you won’t even be interested in it and then you have wasted your time on TRASH.
Dear friend, Jesus is waiting for us to come to Him, to spend time with Him,
to listen, to listen to Him and see what He promises you.
Go read this chapter, Isaiah 55 and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart.
May Jesus bless you.

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