Practice His Presence

Christian believers often are concerned that God has left them. However God says to His children:"I will never leave you nor forsake you." Why do these believers not experience His presence? Do they not believe that the Lord will not leave them, or have they left Him?

Jesus gives His Holy Spirit to be in and with those who believe and obey Him.We read in John 14:16"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you."

John 16:8"8“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."

The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ is ever present and He speaks to those who are born again, those who have repented and been baptized in water, and who were filled with the Holy Spirit. He wishes to guide them into all truth but many believers have not received the Holy Spirit, others ignore Him.

We have to PRACTICE HIS PRESENCE, be tuned in to the Holy Spirit; listen and obey when He speaks, warns, convicts, teaches and directs us. If we keep on ignoring Him, disregarding Him and rather choose to follow our own desires of the advice of others, He will be grieved and will not longer speak to us.

We must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, listen, obey and follow His guidance. We must keep ourselves aware of His presence, trust and believe Him and He will guide us into all truth. Then we will experience the presence of Jesus.

Sin separates us from Jesus and destroys our confidence. We cannot pray with confidence if we have sin in our lives. If we do not experience the peace and approval of Jesus, we first need to repent of all sin and remove the idols that we have allowed to come between ourselves and Jesus, then we will be able to experience His presence.

Are we walking in the Light, practicing His presence,  experiencing His peace and approval?



May Jesus bless you.

Seek the approval of God not of men

That which is highly regarded and
sought after by men is an abomination to God because it is idolatry.
The wisdom of men is foolishness to God. If we seek to be accepted by
people then we are not suitable for the kingdom of God. We need to
seek for the approval of God.

If the whole world loves us and praises
us then we are not suitable for the kingdom of God because Jesus said
that you will be hated by all men because of Me. Those who seek the
approval of men and seek to progress in this world disregard Jesus
Christ, they hate God. They seek to glorify themselves and for the
pleasures of this world and therefor they are not suitable for the
kingdom of God.

We need to seek the approval of Jesus
Christ and we can only have His approval if we obey His words, if we
deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him every day.

If we seek after the tings of the world
and the approval of men then Jesus Christ will turn us away the day
that we die. Jesus said:"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness and then all the other things will be added unto
you.."

Are we seeking the approval of God or
the acceptance of men because then we are unsuitable for the kingdom
of God and we will spend eternity in damnation.

May Jesus bless you.

Make DISCIPLES OF JESUS not friends

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The world wants to make friends with other people, with influential people. Christians like to use the names of famous name preachers, they want to be attached to and associate with famous names and great people. But that is not what Jesus called us for. He commanded us to make disciples of HIMSELF, not to make friends and influence people and build churches. It is all about Jesus and the Kingdom of God, about knowing Jesus and following Him, getting our wisdom and guidance from Him.

If we follow Jesus we will be persecuted, rejected, excluded from worldly people and we have to cherish HIS PRESENCE, His acceptance and His approval more than anything else. If you follow Jesus Christ you will often be alone but you will be with Jesus Christ. It is not about friends and being accepted by others. It is about our relationship with Jesus Christ and being pleasing to HIM.

May Jesus bless you.

FREEDOM in Jesus Christ

You find true freedom IN Jesus Christ IF you attach yourself to Him, you cling to Him, seek Him always, FOLLOW Him and DO what He tells you to do. But you first need to DETACH yourself from the things of this world, from friends, peer pressure, things that people do, convention, and all that you concern yourself about is WHAT JESUS WANTS.

You cannot find freedom in Jesus if you are still attached to the world, if you still want to fit into the world, be accepted by the world, be accepted by your friends, want to wear the same clothes, conform to the same conventions. Then you are a SLAVE because those things DRIVE you. If you still care about what other people think, what the family think, what your friends think then you CANNOT CARE ABOUT WHAT Jesus thinks. You cannot be seeking the glory of God AND the approval of people.

If you go after the approval of people you will stay in bondage but if you seek the approval of God and follow Jesus Christ YOU WILL BE FREE because you only need to be pleasing to Him. Are YOU free to follow Jesus and DO what he requires of you or are you still attached and in bondage to the world?

May Jesus bless you.

Selfish Fellowship

People go after fellowship with other people, with other Christians all because of selfish reasons. It is all about THEM. They don't want to be lonely, they want to be affiliated, they want to be accepted. People want Jesus for what they can get out of Him not for the sake of being with Jesus Himself and that is why they look for the company of other people.

If we love Jesus and we want to spend eternity with Him we will already do s RIGHT NOW. We will constantly make ourselves aware of Him and His presence. We will treasure HIS FELLOWSHIP. Where our treasure is there our heart will be also .

Is our heart WITH Jesus and with being pleasing to Him or do we seek the approval, acceptance and fellowship of other people?

May Jesus bless you.

The Profit Motive

The whole world is driven by the profit motive. People are always scheming, thinking of how they can benefit from what they say or what they do. Their motives are selfish. Even preachers and churches want to benefit from the people.

The child of God is motivated by the Spirit of God, his only desire is to be pleasing to Jesus. What is YOUR and my motive? Why do we do things? Do we want to achieve some selfish ambition or gain some benefit or are we seeking to be pleasing to Jesus? What motivates us, the Spirit of God or our own selfish desires? Are we TRULY children of God?

May Jesus bless you.

Chasing after wind

If you are not chasing after Jesus you are chasing after wind. In the end you will be a fool and a loser because the day you die you will face Jesus and if you did not know Him, love Him and OBEY Him then He will deny you. He will say to you:”Go away I never knew you, you worker of wickedness.”

Are you chasing after Jesus or after other things, knowledge, the desires of the flesh, to satisfy yourself, to impress other people? In the end you will lose it all. The only treasure that will last is Jesus Christ Himself. Where you spend eternity will depend on one thing only. And that is YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GOD, whether you loved him, followed Him and OBEYED Him.

If you reject Jesus you reject LIFE. If you disobey Him and deny Him He will also deny and reject you. What are you chasing after? Jesus or wind? Where will you spend eternity? Heaven of hell? If you do not love, OBEY and FOLLOW Jesus RIGHT NOW, you will spend eternity away from His presence in eternal damnation.

What are YOU chasing after?

May Jesus bless you

You don't need CHURCH

The modern self-satisfying man-glorifying Christianity emphasizes FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER PEOPLE and education, building yourself up whereas Jesus Christ came to BRING US INTO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD, WITH HIMSELF.

Jesus said:”WATCH AND PRAY ALWAYS”. Modern Christianity tells you to COME TO CHURCH, TO SPEND TIME WITH OTHER PEOPLE, TO STUDY YOUR BIBLE. Jesus brings us into fellowship with Himself, being led by His Spirit, not into fellowship with other people. If we follow Jesus Christ then WE bring others into fellowship with Jesus Christ AND God our Father because we ourselves are in unity with God, WE have fellowship with God. But if we have fellowship with other people and if we are busy with ourselves, educating and building up ourselves we are busy with ME and MY and OTHER PEOPLE and not with the living God.

We cannot be led by the Spirit of God if we are not in communion with God, if we do not spend time LISTENING to HIM, following HIM, if we are not continuously TUNED IN and busy with our heavenly Father. It is not our relationship with other people that brings us into the kingdom of heaven, it is our relationship with the living God.

With whom is your relationship? Do you have relationship with other people or are you in fellowship with the living God, LISTENING, OBEYING and DOING what He commands you to do so that you can bring other into communion with Him also? Is your relationship with people or with God?

May Jesus bless you.

God's man or People Pleaser

If you follow Jesus Christ and obey Him you become a child of God and you do not fit into this world any more. You take on the likeness of Jesus and this world will reject you, hate you and persecute you like they did to Jesus Christ.

If you seek the approval of God then this world will reject you. You cannot be God's man and a man of the world. Who do YOU want to please? Jesus or people? Are you seeking the approval of God or that of men?

May Jesus bless you.