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Where are you today?  Are you happy with your circumstances?  These questions are irrelevant when you are abiding in Jesus.

If you follow His command, “Abide in Me”, you will not care where you are or what you are doing.  Your place in life will be filled with the joy of the Lord.  All of your activity will be completely satisfying and will bear much fruit.  What freedom there is in Jesus!

There is nothing in our lives that is too big or too small for Jesus.  He is waiting to comfort us and guide us through and intercede for us in every minute detail in our lives.  He is also waiting to be our burden bearer and provider through every seemingly unsurmountable circumstance that we may encounter.

Why should we rely on our own power when we have the power of the creator and sustainer of the universe available to us?  Rejoice and seek Jesus in all things.  Submit every breathing moment of life to Him.  He awaits!

What a shame it is for us to accept our salvation and then to remain mostly unchanged by the Holy Spirit within us.  In doing so, we are like the servant that buried the one talent that he was given without doing anything with it.

When we are inactive in our spiritual lives, we stunt our spiritual growth.  As a result, we cut off greater gifts from God and we deny ourselves the greatest rewards that He has stored up for us. 

We should actively seek the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in all that we do.  The rewards will be many. 

The abundance of all of God’s grace is available to us the moment that we accept our salvation.  All we have to do is submit to Jesus, allowing His Spirit to guide us in all our ways.

“Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28

It is so simple, yet so powerful, to access all that God has available for us.  Why do we insist on hanging on to the things that do nothing but hinder our progress toward complete union with Christ?  Why do we accept less than a full measure of God’s awesome grace when all of it is so readily accessible?

Once we knock on God’s door, we must be ready to submit to His lordship over our lives by accepting His Son as our Savior.  When we enter a saving relationship with His Son, we will never be the same.  

Through our relationship with Jesus, we each become a new person who is faced with the eye-opening need to let our old self die.  We come to the realization that we are in need of cleansing before we can enter God’s house.  God’s house is greater than any place that we have ever been or could even imagine.  We will never want to leave there.  

He has prepared a place for us there.  But before we get there, we will be in an ongoing process to cleanse and prepare ourselves for our visit to God’s house – our final home.

There is usually some sort of delay when God is answering our prayers.  Part of the delay is due to Him putting all the details in place for our answer to be complete.  Another part of the delay is to cause us to realize that we are truly relying on His grace for all things in our lives.

If God immediately gave us all that we prayed for, we would probably consider ourselves in control.  It is important that we understand that God provides all that we need, but He wants us to come to a place where we appreciate the depth of His perfect love and gracious provision.

What “promised land” are we missing because we are not being obedient to God’s calling in our lives?  God allows us to make our own choices, but He also changes His rewards based on our choices.  Our choices that take us away from the perfect path that He has laid out for us will diminish our ultimate reward. 

Moses was not allowed into the Promised Land set aside for the Israelites because He was not perfectly obedient to God.  We certainly risk the same fate when we are less than fully submitted to God’s rule and reign in our lives.

The name of Jesus is the greatest resource that we have.  It is a resource that we should call on and rely on 24-7.  We are missing an awesome power in our lives, if we only call on the name of Jesus when we need something.

The name of Jesus represents His Spirit that dwells within us.  His power is with us with every breath that we take.  When we submit to His Lordship in our lives, our wills come into perfect union with His.  According to His Word, this abiding in Him allows us to receive “whatever we shall ask” in His name.          

What an awesome gift we receive, when we receive the will of God in our lives through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  No longer do we go through life relying on the urgings of our flesh – which is weak and destined for death.  Instead we take on the will of the Son of God which is perfect and destined to lead us to our eternal place in heaven.  

Our salvation, which was complete as soon as we made Jesus Our Savior, is worked out through our daily lives in Christ.  Every day we learn how to make each choice in life based on the will of God and not on the desires of our flesh.  When we reach heaven, our will will be in perfect alignment with God’s.

When the Israelites went in to check out the promised land for the first time, they went in filled with fear.  They did not go in confident, carrying God’s promise that “I will in no wise fail you”.

Instead they entered the promised land cowered under the prospects of their own personal inability to handle their circumstances.  They completely overlooked God’s promises to be their helper and the source of their victory.

How often have we done the same thing?  How often have we let our perception of our own abilities be the sole driver for how we handle our circumstances?  How often have we proceeded forward with our plans in life without involving the wisdom, understanding, counsel and might of Our Heavenly Father?