Revelations 3: 20'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.'
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As I start this post tonight I sit here in think back on this last week and the previous week. Alot has happened since our computer was in change over. I apologize we missed a week and half for this post. God has moved alot and he continues to move in the lives of his children.
Friends, I want to remind you that daily our Father longs to speak with us. Our everyday lives really are on a Go.. Go.. Go.. We make little to No time to sit with our father and speak. Imagine if your earthly father wanted to speak with you daily and you were so busy that you didnt take the time or enough time to sit with him. The truth is our earthly father will pass at some point. We all will pass. We dont really know when that time is which is why it makes it important to express your love for your family and friends. But our Heavenly Father, He will always be with us no matter where we are. He desires and longs to speak with us. Please take the time to sit with him each day. Even if it is 15 minutes a day.
What saddens me at this time of the season as we celebrate the birth of Christ is that there are many who will not celebrate Christs birth. One being they do not know about Christ at all and an other is many will ring in the celebration and festivities around Santa or Saint Nicholas. Many little children will not know or hear about the GREATEST GIFT anyone could ever receive. The gift of eternal life from our Savior Jesus Christ. There are many wandering the streets aimlessly searching for answers and a path or the RIGHT path to go down. With all the false teachings or misguided teachings out there, the proclaimed Christian one moment but worldly individual the next. Who can we trust? How we will recognize the truth when we hear it? What is truth?
Right now many people out there look down on Christians because there are some Christians and denominations the preach one thing and live the other. We can not be both, but we must be one or the other.
[NIV]Rev 3:14-27 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."God has been calling to each of us, He continues to call out to us waiting for our reply back to him. There is such an urgency to be right with God, To profess HIS TRUTH and ONLY His Truth. If we are not in our word daily, speaking his words, living by his words, Loving with his Love and reflecting Christ in our life all the time around everyone-- We will leave doors open with an invitation for the enemys deception. The bible is black and white!
I am disturbed at many in the body of Christ ignoring the call from Christ. I understand their are many reasons, I have been convicted of some as well. But I am disturbed the most with the two faced images some live in daily as well as the irresponsible unconcerened I just want to walk on Sundays with Christ image. I am ashamed at the response as well as the attitude. I have recently read a few articles on a few different churchs and the reply to the calls from Christ. I am ashamed of their response, their attitude on how they responded to different individuals. I will share more about this later on as we move in to the call of the church. This will be a doozy I tell you so be prepared.
Right now friends, RIGHT Now, God is shaking the foundations of the church and his people. He is trying to wake them from slumber, He calls out to each of his children, "Arise my children, Arise, I call to you, Awaken my children and answer my calls!" Will you answer his call? There is much to be done and little time. Tonight and her out especially in this holiday season, Many are searching desperately for help, for answers. Many are homeless, broken, afraid, feel abandon, many jobless in foreclosures. These and other individuals are out there crying and searching, praying or asking for help. Some feel like their cries fall on deaf ears.
If you are one or know this individual, I assure you God hears the cries of his children, But I ask you, Do you hear him answer back to you? Can you hear him as he calls for you? Please take a moment to spend some time with God. Your prayers are heard and will be answered. Right now God speaks towards you, He calls out for you. Maybe you can not hear his call right now, but search for him, Dont give up on him, Run to him, Keep pressing on, Cry out to the heavens and reach out for the hands the reach out for you. "come run in to my arms, cries our father, find your rest in me!" I assure you, If you will allow him a chance he will not fail you. What will it hurt to allow him to prove he is worthy of our love and our attention.
Remember God speaks to us daily in many ways. We can hear his voice, he may send a confirmation through another or do something for you that confirms his answer or shows you the answer, He will speak to you while reading His word. Prayer is powerful and Gods word is even more powerful.
God is calling to each of us, Will we answer his call?
I am reminded of a poem I read awhile back about each morning we wake up, Jesus stands there and waits patiently on us for our attention, through out the day and everything we do he stands there still patiently waiting for us. Later in the evening before and after our meals and evening chores he waits patiently on us for alittle of our attention a hello to him a simple prayer from us to him. Then bedtime comes we hop in bed and we are so tired after the daily agenda to even say a prayer to him to watch over us in the night, yet he still sits waiting patiently on us to call out for him.
He is ever so patient to wait on us like he does. He is ever so loving and understanding as he sits waiting just for a little of our love and attention. Imagine walking through out your day with your earthly father following you everywhere you go doing all you have to do, ignoring the very fact that he is there and has been there with you this whole time. Ignoring our heavenly father is a little easier then ignoring a tag along that you can see. But just imagine as you go through out your day.
For a moment think child like If you will, Imagine your children running anxiously to meet with you, to spend time with you, to hear you speak or call their name. Imagine yourself having no time to take out of your day to hear the voices of your little ones as they call your name. "Daddy daddy, I missed you, Mommy mommy, I love you!" Yet there is not an ounce of time in your day to give them back the same love and adoration they are despeartely wanting to give to you.
In the same sense this is us doing this to our father when we are to busy in our day to make a little time with the one who loves us most. Only in this sense we see it is reversed. The children anxioulsy awaiting to be with us their parents represent our Heavenly father calling to us, We the parents are the children that have no time to spend with our father who loves and adores us.
I hope these thoughts will be pondered and that each of us will take the time and make with someone who loves us unconditionaly anxiously awaiting time to be with us.
Blessings everyone!
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