There are many who think they do and there are a few who actually do wake up acknowledging Him and walking with Him throughout the day. I’m not saying that you have to live your life this way but if you are saved and a believer in Jesus for your salvation you are expected to live this way. Jesus said for us to “take up our cross daily and follow Him”. If you aren’t doing this as a believer…why not?
Living your life daily connected to Jesus is also a part of being His disciple. You might say that you didn’t sign up for being a disciple but you did. Giving your heart and life to Him is not a little bit here or there, it is giving everything that you are to Jesus and pledging to do so every morning when you wake up and begin your day. We are not supposed to pick and choose parts of God’s Word to believe and we can’t choose to give Him part of our life and keep back some areas of it. Your salvation is for your whole life…all of it. Not just a piece of it here and there.
When you wake up, you have been given a gift. We do not have a guarantee of days and years of life but God gives us those to prove to us how much He loves us. Most people do not look at their daily lives as gifts from God but each day truly is. Each of us, as believers, has an obligation to fulfill because of the mercy and grace that we have been given even though we don’t deserve it. Our obligation is to use our daily lives as our witness to others for Him so that our faith in Him is visible every day and not just on Sunday at church.
Every Christian is saved because God called you or me. We can’t just choose to be a Christian because even though we may live morally and go to church and act like one, without the Holy Spirit changing our hearts and us living a Christian life according to His leading there is no way that we can truly live a Christian life. Jesus said that we can do nothing without Him, so seek Him in the Bible and learn about Him. Follow the example set by His disciples.
I’ve asked this question before, but when you consider the world we live in, there seem to be more broken people than whole people. Can this be changed? Yes, but not through legislation or anything that mankind can do. Our brokenness is due to our sinful nature; the only fix is accepting Jesus as your Savior…now, today. We must seek Him because no one is given tomorrow. You or I have no reason to put off accepting Jesus because we are not guaranteed tomorrow.
Being broken today is the most common condition in our world. We are broken because of war and diseases like COVID and cancer. We are broken in our relationships simply because we look at many of them as temporary, even marriages today are looked at as temporary. Brokenness is a chronic condition all over the world. Even countries that don’t look at the world through Christ’s eyes are broken more than they realize. Why are there so many people seeking Jesus today? Because He is the fix for your broken condition!
God loves you more than you can understand. Remember, He sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty for your sins and if you believe that He did this for you and ask Him to come into your heart and change you then you will be changed from that moment…IF you are sincere about your need for Him. Just saying the words and getting baptized or anointed in some way doesn’t change anyone if you aren’t convicted enough to truly change your life.
According to God’s Word, your life doesn’t end when your body dies. Your spirit lives on into eternity and it is that part of you that will suffer for eternity if you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior before you die and truly become a follower of Jesus for the rest of your life.
Our Creator knows you so well. He can tell how many hairs are on your head and He knew you even before you were born. But…do you know Him? I don’t mean “know about Him” or “I’ve heard about Him in church”. Hearing about your Savior is good but that is only knowledge, it doesn’t bring salvation to your soul.
When you hear about Jesus a spiritual seed is planted in your heart. It may sprout during that service or God may cause it to spring up a few days or months from now. Your call to be in His family will come in God’s time. I pray that anyone who reads this will seek Jesus Christ to be their Savior because that is the only way to be a part of God’s family.
Revivals are happening now in many places in America. The news media and our “social media” are not reporting any of this but it’s happening. God is moving in our country and many young people are seeking Him as their Savior. The problem is we are paying more attention to the so-called “news” rather than taking our Christian faith, which started our country so many years ago, and bringing our family back to God. Our country can’t change until the faith of our families changes first. The change has to begin at home.
People are seeking Jesus in places like Iraq and Iran and they are finding Him. Personal revivals are happening and they’re growing in number. God is moving because there are people that He wants to call into His house before the Trumpet sounds! God told one of His prophets to “prophesy to these bones” and the whole valley of bones came back to life. It was a valley of dry bones yet God brought muscle, sinew, and skin back to them and their skeletons lived again.
Don’t believe that God cannot do miracles anymore because He can! You and I can be revived to become children adopted into God’s family. All that is necessary is for us to accept Jesus as our Savior and believe in Him for our salvation, just as the thief on the cross believed in Him and was saved that day!
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:10-11 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/mal.3.10-11.KJV
Our lives would be so much better if we would give God His tithe from your paycheck. The first ten percent of your money has always been God’s. Your money is given to you from the Father in heaven, don’t cheat Him out of blessing you. The problem with our interpretation of tithing is usually the last ten percent of our income or whatever is left after we pay our bills. God never asked for your leftovers, He wants the first fruits. The first ten percent before your bills get paid.
I know, today we have automatic withdrawals that take some of our income out even before we get it. But God deserves the first part, even if there has been some taken out. Truthfully, I’ve had trouble with this advice. I mean…life gets in the way sometimes and you just can’t give like you want to or rather in the way you know you should. God loves us and He takes care of us even when we don’t give the way we should but I think it would be much better if we did give our tithes the way the Bible tells us to.
I am going to begin to do this from this point on. I’ll let you know how His blessings flow.
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