Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

God and Jesus want a relationship with you.

If you’re going to serve your God, how are you going to do that if you know nothing about Him?  What does it say about your relationship you have with Him if you never seek Him?

Jesus wants a relationship with you.

Matthew 7:7-8-  7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

The Lord wants you to seek His face.  To have a relationship with the Lord we need to seek Him.

Psalm 119:2 – 2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart—

He wants to bless those who seek Him and have relationship with Him. 

Proverbs 8:17 – 17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

To choose to love God…..hard to believe but many choose not to do so.  Many choose to worship things, mainly because there is a void there to fill.  We’re made to worship.  However, what does the rest of the verse say….”Those who seek me find me.”

Many can’t accept that someone who sincerely follows their faith could end up in hell.  God makes it clear that anyone who seeks the one true God will find Him.  Our God is an established Being.  He isn’t just whatever someone wants to create in their own mind, that’s why sincere people will end up dying without knowing God.

The Lord desires a relationship with us.  

However, if someone doesn’t want a relationship with Jesus, there is scripture for that also.

Matthew 10:33 – ³³But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.  KJV

Luke 9:26 –  ²⁶ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Serve your Lord and have a wonderful relationship with Him.

I’ve heard a lot of this in my lifetime.

This is my life, leave me alone.  Nobody else walks in my shoes.  The good Lord gave me a brain and I intend to use it the way I see fit.

Where these may seem like real strong popular ideas on the earth and in the good ole day and age we live in, they’re not the words we’re told to live by according to the Lord.

Proverbs 14:12 – ¹² There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Isaiah 55:8 –   ⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.

We know by these passages that in our fallen state we don’t think as the Lord thinks.  Now are we going to get closer to the Lord by having the above attitude that I am the only one who knows what’s best for me?

I would say Proverbs 14:12 and Proverbs 16:25, which says the exact same thing, say that humans don’t know what’s best for them.  We don’t have the thoughts of God, because we have fallen into sin.

The Lord wants us in that brain he gave us, to choose Him and His ways by our own freewill.  How do we do that?  By dying to our wants and wishes and saying yes to His.

Galatians 2:20 –  ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I think Peter says it best when talking about what our lives should be when living for God.

1 Peter 4:1-6 – ¹ Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. ² As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. ³ For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. ⁴ They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. ⁵ But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.

God didn’t give us a life to live selfishly for ourselves.  Our attitude isn’t to say this is my life leave me alone.  The attitude we need to have is, “Lord, my life without You or when I’m not living for You, is a mess.  Not only that but it’s not how I’m supposed to live.”

Submit your life to the Lord and come time to sit in front of the Judge of all, you’ll be glad you did.  Reflect on this, I really believe the time is coming to a close concerning the church age.  I believe the rapture is near.  How near?  I don’t know.  The signs of His Second Coming are everywhere and we need to all live like its tomorrow.

Colossians 2:6-7 – ⁶ So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Do we live for Him, or do we live for us?

It’s a question that we really need to ask ourselves.  Because when we live for ourselves we have a tendency to completely choke out our relationship with God.  It’s a spiritual issue.  Test it and see.  The more you listen to Christian music, read Christian books, watch Christian TV, attend church a couple of times a week, you’ll constantly be praising the Lord in between.  You’ll be thinking of the things you have been filling your spirit with.

3Ephesians 5:8-10 – ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) ¹⁰ and find out what pleases the Lord.

On the flip side if all you’re thinking about is worldly things which pass away.  Jesus isn’t in that.  If you’re doing things like this:

Galatians 5:19-21 –  ¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

You might be in more trouble when you take your last breath than you wanted to believe or anticipated.

The scripture right before it tells us to live by the Spirit.

Galatians 5:16 – ¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Habits.  Habits, Habits, Habits.  What we fail to sometimes realize is that habits are formed by the conditioning of the flesh, or the conditioning of the Spirit.  We can also put in there the lack of conditioning the Spirit.  Having a drink almost every night is a habit.  Smoking or having a chew on a regular basis is a habit.  Thinking thoughts of worldly or fleshly things all the time is a habit.  Reading the Word everyday is a habit.  Turning that radio to a good Christian station instead of one that’s not is a habit.

We need to live for Jesus, because without Him we are not living a life with purpose of which our Creator had in mind.

I leave you concerning this post today with this:

John 15:1-8 – ¹ “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

   ⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.