What Is Your Will In Christ?

 "In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."   Matthew 6:9-13 (NKJ) While interceding for others in prayer, and even when petitioning the Lord on my own behalf, I've been repeatedly led by my own human emotion and wisdom in the past when seeking resolution to a particular issue or situation. In fact, I did that very thing for years without ever really giving it a thought - it just seemed natural. I knew what my heart desired and what the natural tendency of the human condition required me to seek - whether on my own behalf or that of someone else.  But one day as I was praying for someone, I began to feel as though the Lord was confronting me. “My tho...

 How far are you willing to follow Christ? ... All the way?  If the current culture leaves you behind while you're following Christ, are you willing to stay behind Him?  If we're truly following Christ, popular culture left us behind at the station long, long ago, but staying in one place wasn't what we were supposed to do. The word "follow" is a verb, describing an action, occurrence, or a state of being. So when we use the word "follow" in relation to Christ, what exactly does that mean? Something to think about while considering... "In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone."   John 1:1-4 (NLT) If you're familiar with the chapter, you know that John was talking about Jesus. What this mean...

 I won't allow myself to become ignorant and I'll do my duty, but I had had enough of the world's perverted news and politics some time ago. If you're a conservative Christ follower in the USA right now, you could easily fall into a trap that you might not be thinking about if you're focusing on the media and not watching where you're walking. I could call it The Fearful Worry Trap... Some people are drawn like moths to a flame when it comes to The Fearful Worry Trap and dutifully walk right into it every day - some do it on purpose. I prefer to think that it's because they might not have understood the truth about the need to watch where they walk and the dangerous choice they're making to walk into it. For anyone struggling - worrying around in it now, I have some potentially helpful advice - look away from the media and check where you're standing. If you're standing with one foot on the truth of God's word and His promises and one foot on...

“Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. Watch out! I have warned you about this ahead of time!   Mark 13:21-23 (NLT) ... They were Jesus' own words - a few among many that bore the truth about the time we live in. We can hear those words and dismiss them, relegate them in our mind to being a prophecy for another time, or understand that they're a serious warning intended to get our attention. They're in fact a warning to spare us harm, to send us into a deeper study of the biblical truth that we can count on and into a deeper relationship with the God who will call us before Himself when this short journey's through. Heeding that warning though, is just one of the choices among many we make. We can live for now as though tomorrow may not come - latching onto any worldly thing that bri...