Day 1: An Attitude of Gratitude
This is to help the Christian to grow in Christ and to find the narrow path that leads to the small gate that Christ spoke of.
It is the words of our Lord Jesus taken from the New American Standard Bible (1974 edition) and the King James Open Bible, without a lot of discussion debating, or a lot of my opinions just the words of Christ Himself, and what the Holy Spirit has shown to me.
The words of Christ should be taken personal and our lives applied to them,
If you are not going to read the bible and adapt your life to it why bother reading it at all, if you don’t truly have faith in God and His word you are wasting your time. You are playing church.
Maybe my words are heard, and seem uncaring, but i do care and that is why i have written down what the Lord through his Holy Spirit has shown me and laid on my heart to share with you.
Check your heart, are these words uncaring and mean or is your heart attached to the wrong things?
Please take the time to read through, even if you don’t like me or what i say take the words of Jesus and consume them that they may become meat on your bones.
The things to follow are for your growth, they are for your good!
Please take your Bible sit down and follow through the scripters as we go. Take the time to not just read through, but the time to apply, the time for the words of Christ to absorb in to your being, your life, and become a part of who you are.
i have watched many Christians go to church and play the game, never really allowing the Holy Spirit to have the freedom to guide them through their life’s much less day by day walk. As many of you know the Lord started us on an adventure back in November of 2010 to find the narrow path that leads to the small gate spoken of in,
Matthew 7: 13 and 14
(13) “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it.”
(14) “For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it.” And further on in
Matthew 7: 21 we are given a warning.
(21) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will the kingdom of heaven; but he who dose the will of My Father who is in heaven.”
i realizs that a lot of what will be written here will not be popular with many and that as a Christian in America we have been lulled in to believing that if we show up for church we will have a permanent seat in heaven; as long as we show up, listen and perhaps take a few notes, do a few good deeds then we’ve got it made. i am sorry to say that this is not so.
Matthew 7: 22 – 24
(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.”
(24) “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.”
These scriptures tell me that it is not just good enough to show up for church to listen to the word or to even do good deeds. If we do not allow the Holy Spirit to have dominion over our lives and live in the manner set forth by the Lord, we will not enter in to the kingdom of heaven. Doesn’t matter how many times you went to church, how loude you sang, how many scriptures you memorized, how many good deeds you did, or even how many sermons you prepared and shared from the pulpit, if your heart is not right it is not right. This Christian walk is a serious walk, and takes a dedicated traveler to make it to the end, to enter in through the small gate to be with the Lord for eternity.
i have heard said so many times “once saved always saved” usually by someone who calls them self a Christian but lives their life as a true heathen. Many pastors and leadership are not any different, breaking laws, living in fear, living in doubt, manipulating others for their benefit, putting themselves up on a pedestal for all to admire. i could go on and on, but let’s not. Let’s get to how we need to live our lives out before the one and only living God, our creator and redeemer.
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