What Is Your Will In Christ?

  We often stop to think about our own circumstances - our own wants and needs. Our own desires are continually within a hairs breadth of our current thinking... How often though, do we give any thought to what Jesus wants - to what He's allowed Himself to desire with a costly passion? Do those thoughts guide the response to Him that we're living out? When Jesus began His ministry in human form on earth it was with the desire to please His Father. He knew what He wanted and He already knew beforehand what it would cost Him. The price was very high, but wrapped up in that desire to please His Father was another desire also - because what the Father loves with such passion, the Son loves passionately as well.  As Jesus ministered to the people that came to hear Him along with the others that He encountered during those 3 years of His adult ministry, He demonstrated His love for His Father by His obedience, but He also demonstrated the love that He had for people. It was and is a...

Lord my God, I only wish that my heart and mind could fully describe your greatness, the pure beauty of your character, and your awesome power - the complete essence of the precious, loving, wonder and righteous, terrifying, power that you are. My attempts to capture you fully though, even in my thoughts, let alone my words, are merely an attempt at what is humanly impossible.  "A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”  Isaiah 40:6-8 (NKJV) In the midst of all of the troubles and distractions facing humanity - all of the chaos, distress, worries, desires, and needs, above all of the noise of it, there's a voice calling out constant and unwavering. It's the voice of the God who created man...

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it ." John 1:1-5 (NKJV) Rights and entitlements...   . .. - things that consume the majority of the secular mindset. My rights, my stature, my deservedness, position, possession, portion, and place seemingly have an overwhelming priority in the minds of current society.  Self, selfishness, and self exaltation - these things and the interest in them helped condemn the species of mankind from very early in his history. Yet the lesson of their cancerous effect and inheritance is seemingly never learned by mankind as he continues to allow himself to be exposed to, and strive after, the very things that have the potential to ruin him endlessly ... and permanently....

"He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."  John 1:10-13 (NKJV) A comment was made recently that rekindled my thoughts about the variety of fathers that children experience growing up. Whatever type of earthly father we may have had growing up, it's awesome to know that we, now belonging to Him through Christ Jesus, have the perfect and permanent Father that we were created by Him to have. There are very many who have grown up without an earthly father present. And those might lament the absence of a father to nurture, teach and guide them to maturity, while others may have had a father that made them wish at some point that theirs was one of those absent. Abandon...

The Lord's word to King David of Israel -  “And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” 2nd Samuel 7:16 (NKJV) There's a lot of conversation these days about Israel, anti-Semitism, and the possibility that the USA is over-investing in the protection of Israel. There are so many subjects relating to Israel that could be subject to the opinions of men and women in the world today. Now I'm not looking for an argument, though I'm sure there are thousands, or more, that would instantly rise up to correct me even over my own thoughts here. Anything I might say could be fodder for argument for those who have a tendency to like to argue. But for my own part, out of reverence and respect for God rather than men, I approach subjects with a certain amount of caution. I care very little for the politics and arguments of men - especially given the stain of corruption that mankind so often brings to them out of ...

I'm guessing that most people have seen a graphic of one kind or another, likely a map of some kind, with an arrow on it that also bears the words "YOU ARE HERE". It's intended to give one an understanding of where they are within a given dimension. Sometimes we need that ... and in some instances we always need that.  For instance, we always need to know where we are in terms of our obedient compliance with what God requires of us since we're all accountable to Him regardless of who we are, or think we are. As followers of Jesus, some who're dipping their toe in the world need to know where they are in terms of the dimension of time in order to realize that it's past time to get serious about their relationship with Christ.  By the way, looking around, does anyone see any arrows in scripture, giving us our location in time? "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters,...

  Lord God Yahweh ,  Always, as we bow our heads to seek your will, give us revelation and remembrance of your greatness over all that is and of your unlimited and Holy power to respond to our prayers. Grant to us true and clear remembrance and knowledge of who you are so that our prayers may properly enthrone and honor you first in all of our requests. Give us hearts and minds not only completely surrendered to your heart and desires, but committed to them in place of our own. Give us the words Lord as we pray to you that will alter the course of this world and the reward of our brothers wandering in the darkness of the enemy's plan. Put on our lips and our minds the words that will break the hand that shields their eyes from the truth of your existence and all that you have spoken. Give revelation to our hearts and minds of the prayerful words that will allow your glory and power to be revealed in the world in greater measure as we bow before you in reverence. Grant us Lord,...