DO NOT ABANDON YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS

Many believers accept Jesus, but very

soon they abandon their relationship with Him. Some were never taught
to work on their relationship with Jesus. They were told that they
only need to believe in Jesus and then they will have eternal life.

“Everyone who calls on the Name of
the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:13. Jesus saves from sin. He
pardons our past sin and give us a new beginning. He makes us a child
of God, if we repent and accept Him. He gives us the hope of eternal
life and the hope to inherit the kingdom of heaven. However, we only
have the hope of eternal life as long as we stay with Jesus and obey
Him. Jesus needs to know us.

If we go back to sin and living worldly
lives Jesus warned that He will deny us. Being religious, going to
church, reading your Bible, even preaching, working for the church,
casting out demons in the name of Jesus and doing miracles in His
name, will not ensure our salvation. Jesus said: “Not
everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will
enter. 22“Many
will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in
Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform
many miracles?’ 23“And
then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART
FROM ME, YOU
WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
“ Matthew 7:21-23.

Jesus only gives eternal life to those
who follow and obey Him. He said:
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28and
I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one
will snatch them out of My hand.” John 10:27,28.

Practicing
religion is not a relationship with Jesus. Our relationship with
Jesus is through prayer and walking with Him, hearing His voice,
following and obeying Him. We grow and maintain our relationship with
Jesus through constant communion with Him, in our spirit, through His
Spirit that He makes to dwell in us, if we obey Him. Sin and
disobedience breaks off our communion with Jesus, our connection with
Him. Repentance and obedience restores our communion with Him. The
moment we willfully sin, we separate ourselves from Jesus, and we
stay separated until we repent and go back to Him. We have to
maintain our relationship with Jesus through holiness and obedience,
always seeking and doing His will. He will guide us, if we FOLLOW
Him, but we have to seek His guidance.

Jesus
gives His Holy Spirit in those who obey His words and commandments,
and He guides them by His Spirit. Many believers do not obey the
words and commandments of Jesus as they are recorded in the gospels,
in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They refuse to repent and be
baptized and live holy. How will they then receive and obey the Holy
Spirit? That is why many believers never receive the Holy Spirit.
Others have received the Holy Spirit, but they do not obey Him. They
follow their own mind and their own lusts, not Jesus. Others follow
after other people, preachers and churches. They have abandoned their
relationship with Jesus and they will perish in hell if they do not
get back to Him, restore their relationship, and follow and obey Him
until the end.

How
is our relationship with Jesus? Do we obey His words and
commandments? Have we repented and been baptized in water as Jesus
commanded? Are we living holy and righteously? Do we pray and seek
Jesus? Have we received His Holy Spirit dwelling in us? Do we hear
Him, listen and obey, follow Him? Is our relationship with Jesus
growing. Most importantly: Does Jesus know us, and is He pleased with
us?

Is
our relationship with Jesus well and alive or have we abandoned Him?
Are we really following Jesus or are we busy with lip service and
religion?

May
Jesus bless you.

God will never abandon His Children

God never abandons His
children, neither does He ever take back any gifts that He has given
them. Not all people are God's children. We become children of God
by believing in Jesus Christ and accepting Him; bowing down before
Him and accept Him as our Lord and Master, and then He makes us knew
inside. We are born again by the Spirit of God, we become children of
God.

But not all children of
God are obedient children. Many of those who were born again, who
have become children of God, are disobedient. They go away from God,
they turn their back on God. They go after their own desires and they
forget that they committed to serve and obey Jesus Christ. Many of
those who have accepted Jesus and have experienced the joy of
salvation, refuse to obey Jesus. They refuse to be baptized in water,
they become religious. They do not seek Jesus, they do not obey His
words. They are children of God because God accepted them, He gave
them the New Life, but they turn away from Him, they turn away from
Jesus.

Jesus compared our
relationship with Him to that of the True Vine and the branches.
(John 15) Jesus said that:"Every branch in Me that does not bear
good fruit will get cut off and burned, and every branch that does
bear fruit will get pruned." If we are serious about following
Jesus, if we as children of God are trying to do His will then He
will discipline us. He will teach us and He will coach us. He will
prune us, like you prune the vine so that it can bear more good
fruit. But some of the branches refuse to bear fruit, they go their
own way, they turn back to their life of sin and disobedience; refuse
to be corrected refuse, to be disciplined, and those will get cut off
and burned.

Many have accepted Jesus,
they have become children of God, they're born again, and God has
given them a spiritual gifts. Many have been baptized in the Holy
Spirit and they spoke in tongues but they turned away from Jesus.
Some of them still speak in tongues even though they live in sin.
Others despise the gift and they lose it. God gives some gifts of
healing and other gifts, and they keep on practicing those gifts, but
for their own gain. Among them there are preachers who have turned
away from Jesus, they have churches, and by worldly standards they
are doing very well. They are successful, but they're not serving
Jesus any more. They serve themselves. Many of them cast out demons
and people think that they are true servants of God. They were born
again, but they're not serving Jesus anymore. They turned away from
Him. It is to them that Jesus will say in that day: "Go away, I
never knew you, you workers of wickedness," and i will say:
"Lord, Lord but we preached in Your name, we healed the sick, we
cast out demons." And He will say:"Go away I never knew
you," because these people fell away from Jesus. They use the
gifts for their own benefit. Many of those with ministries and
churches are like that. You see, God never takes back His gifts. The
calling and the gifts of God are irrevocable.

When Jesus called you to
follow Him, He does not take back the calling, neither does He take
back the gifts, but many go and use it for the out benefit, to their
own a detriment and they lead many stray with them. Jesus Christ will
never abandon us. He will never reject us. He loves us, He is
faithful, but we have to remain faithful to Him. Many have a
backslidden, have gone away from Jesus. Many once knew His voice but
then they returned to their first works of immorality and sin. They
have gone away from the Master; and many of those want to come back
to Jesus but they think that He will not accept them. You are still a
child of God, even though you're disobedient, even though you have
strayed from the Lord, but if you return to Him, if you repent, He
will accept you. He will gladly welcome you back, but you need to get
back to Jesus. Many of those who once followed Jesus and who fell
away, are in a big trouble, their whole life is falling to pieces,
because Jesus is calling them back, He is disciplining them and they
fail to see it.

Jesus will never abandon
His children. He does not give up on us, but if we keep on straying
from Him, keep on going back to sin, keep on going our own way, there
will come a day when we will get cut off and burned, we will end up
in hell with the children of disobedience. Once you are born again,
you are born again, you are a child of God, but not all children of
God are obedient children. Not all of them serve the Master. Many of
them serve themselves, and they serve sin. it is only those who
faithfully serve the Master, who stay with Jesus until the end, only
they will inherit the kingdom of God only they will have eternal
life. We have to endure with Jesus until the very end. If you once
knew Jesus and you've strayed. get back to Him before it is too late.
He never left you. He never abandoned you, you left Him, you
abandoned Him. Go back to Jesus before it is too late. He loves you
and He cares for you. Jesus Christ will never abandon His own.

May Jesus bless you.