JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH HIM

​A Closer Walk with the Lord

Genesis 5:24 

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. 

+How can we have a closer walk with the Lord?

John 14:23 

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man LOVES me, he will KEEP my words: and my Father will LOVE him, and WE will come unto him, and make OUR abode with him. 

ABODE: a place where someone lives or temporarily stays.  

+A closer walk with the Lord starts with total and complete Love for God and Obedience  to His Word. 

+May we continue to love and obey the Lord Intentionally, Purposefully, Deliberately and Consistently.  

+And surely our lives will not only be an abode for the Lord but also a place where His Presence is Manifested. 

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!

YOU WORRY TOO MUCH

It doesn’t matter who is president ,prime minister,governor,nor senator ,they are not the supplier of our needs,God is. When they are out of office,is dead and buried,God will still be there to give us everything pertaining to life,and godliness.

In Psalms 37:25,King David said,” I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread”. He was a man after God’s heart,so whose report are you believing.

LISTEN:

You are blessed of the Lord. 

•All of our needs and desires are abundantly and unlimtedly supplied with the inexhaustible provisions and riches of God in Christ Jesus. 

•In our relationship with God through Christ we are so loved, thought of, cared for, prayed for and we are also protected. 

•In John Ch-17 and Romans 8:26, 27 & 34 our Lord and the Holy Spirit are still praying for us. 

•Let us allow the peace of God to rule our hearts, His wisdom to rule our minds, and know that our God is also our source of comfort, Joy and strength. 

Numbers 6:24-26

24 The LORD bless you, and keep you: 

25 The LORD make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: 

26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. 

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!

God wants the best for you

​Wisdom and Blessings 

Isaiah 1:19 

If all of you be willing and obedient, all of you shall eat the good of the land: 

3 John 1:2 

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. 

•Obedience is evidence of love maturity, self-control and sound wisdom. 

•Our level of obedience, love, maturity, self-control and sound wisdom determines the amount of blessings that are manifested in our lives. 

•The more we mature in the things of God the greater the blessings of God will manifest in our lives. 

•Let us all be determined to increase our maturity level in the things of God by consistently walking in obedience, love, self-control and sound wisdom.

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!

Overcomers are victorious 

​Victory is Ours in Christ Jesus our Lord!

•Hallelujahs to Jesus this morning!

Psalm 47:1 

O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. 

Romans 8:31

…if God be for us, who (or what) can be against us (or get victory over us)?

• No one and nothing can get victory against us who are in Christ Jesus the Lord. 

•In Christ we have total victory. 

1 Corinthians 15:57

Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus.

1 John5:4-4 

4. For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 

5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

+Hallelujah!

+Oh victory in Jesus, my Savior forever He sought me and He bought me with His Redeeming Blood…

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!

LOVE KILLS HATE

Love suffers long and is kind (hate have no patience  and is unkind); love does not envy(hate is envious); love does not parade itself, is not puffed up(hateful folks love to show off  and are stuck  up); does not behave rudely, does not seek its own(hateful  folks are rude,and selfish  ), is not provoked, thinks no evil; (hateful folks gets upset easy,and always planning to their revenge);does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (hateful  people celebrates when things go bad for others);bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there  are prophecies, they will fail; whether there  are tongues, they will cease; whether there  is knowledge, it will vanish away.《1 Corinthians 13:4‭-‬8 》​

GOD SAYS,

“And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” {1 Peter 4:8 }

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.{1  John 4:18‭-‬21}

However ,in Romans 12:9 it says, Let LOVE be without dissimulation (hypocrisy)…

+If we cannot Love God, we cannot Love others, and we cannot Love other, we cannot Love God. 

1 Tim 5:21 

…doing nothing by PARTIALITY (personal prejudice or favoritism). 

+Love is always without PARTIALITY. 

+Love has no beginning, and Love never ends. 

+Before we came into this world Love existed, and after we leave this world Love will continue to remain. 

+There isn’t a time when Love is not needed.  

+Love always gives WHAT is needed, and WHEN it’s needed. 

+Love is Pure, Holy, Righteous, and True. 

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!

DON’T  LOSE FOCUS  

What are you like looking at ? Your problems,the troubles of this world?  The election,your bills. Listen : Change your focus,shift your attention, and look up.

The only  person  that ever give up their life,for you is Jesus,not the politicians , nor your friends . The only  one that never  ever break a promise  is God.  

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.《Hebrews 12:1‭-‬4》

While  everyone  is focusing  on the election ,and their problems ,Christians main concern  should  be the coming  of Christ. “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I  do,  forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the  degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that  they  are  the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is  their belly, and whose glory is in their shame— who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. 《Philippians 3:13-21》

IT’S  SIMPLE  :

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth,{ Colossians 3:1-2}
King David, changed his focus from his trials and tribulations, and without hesitation, he declared:
” I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord , which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.[ Psalms 121:1-8].
God suggests, through the Apostle Paul says,” I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.{Romans 12:1-3}
When people around you,can’t see the things you see,pray for them,like Elisha did, ” And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord , I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
{2 Kings 6:16-17}
Finally Remember:
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[1 Corinthians 2:9-14]

THE WORD 

​Fundamental Principles of the Word of God 

-If something is worth doing, do it right. 

-Never murmur and complain to God. 

-God doesn’t answer murmurs and complaints. 

-God answers PRAYERS that are prayed in FAITH, and PRAYERS that are based on His WORD. 

Mark 12:24 

Therefore I say unto you, What things whatsoever all of you desire, when all of you pray, believe that  all of you receive them, and all of you shall have them. 

1 John 5:14-15

 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us,And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired  of him. 

-Pray the problem don’t murmur and complain the problem. 

+++Blessed you are and blessed you will always be and to Jesus be all the glory. Amen!

TRY HEAVEN

​Don’t let the devil choose for you.

You have a chance to go to heaven. TAKE IT
Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who  is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.

[Hebrews 7:25-28]

LOVE WITHOUT LIMITS

When you love, is it to please others, please yourself, or is it to please God?
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends”, {John 15:12-13}.

Love is a very important ingredient in life because Jesus said,the same thing earlier in ,John 13:34
“A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another”.
-There are principles or rules to love.
-Love must always be in Holiness, Righteousness and in Truth.
-Love is to please God. Love glorifies God. Love is expressing the Christ in you  to others.
John 13:35
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.
-Love is a free gift from God. Never let anyone pay for it or beg for it. Love must be given without others asking for it.
-Love is not yours to keep. It is always to be given to others including your enemies.
+++Let the Word of God be the standard by which you love.
Without the Love of God we can do Nothing for God.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, AND HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING.
-Without the love of God we are nothing.
-This tells us that we all get our value or worth from God’s love.
-When we love others we are giving them worth and value.
-This is why Jesus said in John 13:34 a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you…
-Love is the most powerful act we can demonstrate one to another.
-Remember Love never fails because God is Love, and Jesus said continue all of you in My Love.

Wearing Love as Your Garment 

Colossians 3:12-14

12 PUT ON therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, (Bowels of Mercies) compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also must you do. 

14 And ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS (PUT ON) LOVE, which is the BOND of PERFECTION (and COMPLETENESS). 

+Love Solidifies, Perfects and Completes all that we do for the glory of God.  

+May our hearts not only be filled with the LOVE of God, but may we wear the LOVE of God like a garment for the glory of God. 

•Continue to let the WORD of God be the standard for your life. Always LOVING others like Christ Jesus loves us while keeping our faith, trust and confidence in Him. 

•BLESSED you are and BLESSED you will always be and to God be all the GLORY. Amen!