Through Jesus' Love

As long as we are seeking the kingdom of God first, there is not a single desire of our hearts that God will not grant us.  If we are in proper relationship with God,  He will grant our desires in accordance with His perfect timing for our lives and the perfect needs of His kingdom.

We may not recognize much of God’s provision for us because much of it comes in the form of preparing us for what we are going to receive.  While we have been asking for His “good” favor, He prepares us to receive “the best” of all of His riches and favor before He provides it.

When the Spirit of Jesus Christ dwells within us, we no longer have to decide anything for ourselves.  All we have to do is put our faith in Our Savior.  He will always lead us to a better place than the one that we would have found on our own.

What a wonderful life it is when we can live without stress.  This is the exact result of putting all decisions in the hands of Jesus – no stress, no pressure, no mistakes.  All we have to do is call on Him.

Once we have established a relationship with Our Heavenly Father through His Son, we have no reason to fear anything.  Why would we?

If we have a relationship with the God who created the universe and still controls every precise detail of its existence, how could we lack confidence in Him.  Surely He will overcome any person or thing in the universe that would intend to harm us.  It does not make sense to question His power, His sovereign rule or His love for us.

We trust God to be true to His promise of eternal life for those that love Him and accept His Son as their Savior.  This is a mind boggling promise that Christians accept easily.

Why is it that we do not accept all of His other promises just as easily?  Specifically, He promises that if we seek Him, He will provide for our every need here on earth.  Yet we run ahead of His plans for our lives trying to amass wealth and accomplishments that we deem will secure our future.  In the meanwhile, Our great God of practicality is just waiting for us to put Him first so that He can give us the desires of our hearts. 

Jesus Christ is in perfect oneness with the Father.  He is now and He was when He lived as a man on this earth.

Once Jesus dwells in us, we, too, are one with the Father.  We become one with the plans that the Father has for our lives.  Jesus is there with us all the way as our flesh tries to steer us away from our calling.  Our Savior and Intercessor insures that we are good and faithful servants to the Father in this life and for all eternity.  

We have been raised in a world where performance and results are everything.  We feel measured by the things that we have and the things that we have accomplished.

These things that we hold so dearly hold no value in God’s world.  He promises to provide what we need and even promises the desires of our hearts – all based on us seeking His kingdom first.  The truly abundant life awaits when we make Our Lord and His righteousness first in our lives.

The physical condition of our body or the environment that we find ourselves can cause unfavorable changes in our mood.  We must not submit to these unfavorable moods.

We must take on the Spirit of the One within us and realize that we have already been given victory over our circumstances.  We must allow Jesus to do His good work and we must do our good work by standing against that which is trying to shape our mood.

Without tribulation, our flesh carries us away from God.  We tend to move out of His presence.  Our earthly joy begins to diminish our ability to experience the true joy available to us through our personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

When we are weak, when we are near defeat, when we are near death, we run to Jesus.  He promises to be our strength in every one of our times of weakness.  It is during these times that we experience His presence so clearly.  It is during these times of pain that we experience the fullness of His love.  What a blessing it is to have tribulation in our lives.

The Lord seeks to reveal His Son to the world through His children, every single one of them.   He will certainly use the elite evangelists of each age, but He does not want to rely on them alone.  He wants each and every child of every age and time to be useful in delivering His message.

He does not need any of us to accomplish anything, but it pleases Him to use us to reveal Himself to those who are in our everyday lives.  We are the instruments of God’s perfect love.

In the old testament days, every person needed a high priest to represent him or her before the throne of God.  Through the priest and the accompanying sacrifices, each persons sins were atoned for.  Without the intercession of the high priest, the individual person had no hope of salvation or even a hope for prayers to be answered.

Jesus changed this relationship with the Father forever when He died on the Cross and atoned for all sin.  Each of us now can gain our salvation through Jesus Christ.  We can also go directly to the Father with our prayers where Jesus stands as our personal intercessor.