12 March 2011

WHAT DO WE SEEK???


Be honest. On a daily basis, what do we seek after? The things of God or the world?  It makes all the difference to our eternal soul right here, right now, this moment. We are in the last days and the end of all things is near. Do we not see what is going on in the world all around us?  Are we blind? Who do we serve? Really?

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." MATTHEW 6:33-34 Amen.

"But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." 1 PETER 4:7

God promises to provide for ALL our needs, not some, when we seek him first, when we put Him on the throne of our lives, when we serve His will and not our own selfish fleshy desires. He will provide ALL we need to do this, ALL the time, unto eternity. The choice is ours. Who do we serve? Really?  Do we give lip service to God on Sunday and live for ourselves all week? Do we think that God will wink at our sin and admit us into heaven when we die? Think about it, because each one of us could die today. We are not promised tomorrow, this life is short and then the judgment. We must not take pride in our own lives and things, but take joy and boast in the Lord and what He is doing in our lives for the kingdom to come.

"No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." MATTHEW 6:24

"Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father ye would love me for I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of myself but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not." JOHN 8:42-45

"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil." JAMES 4:14-16

Do we hate sin and the things of the world? Really? Or do we accumulate them in our heart and mind as thoughts that turn into evil words and deeds that deceive and distract us from God's voice? And as possessions, things that we do not need and clutter up our life for him in the storehouse of our home? Do not be led astray by all the fancy distractions of the devil in this world, tied up all nice an pretty to look like righteousness and love.

"Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not highminded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. That they do good, that they be rich in good works ready to distribute, willing to communicate. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life."  1 TIMOTHY 6:17-19

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." MATTHEW 6:19-21

Get rid of all the selfish clutter in life and start living kingdom minded, see those around you with the eyes and heart of JESUS. Bring His compassion to the lost souls of the world that they do not perish and have eternal life. Each one of us can see the lost around us all day, every day. Reach out and bring Jesus, get out of your comfort zone, your box, and know what it is to live for God.

"But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd."  MATTHEW 9:36

God is waiting for us to choose Him and His life for us, to forsake all double-mindedness and be focused single-mindedly on Him and his will for us.  Take the blinders off, pray the scales fall off our eyes. He knows the struggles we face in our worldly desires, our lusts. We ask for ourselves and not for God's Kingdom. Jesus lived and died as a man, the son of God, to conquer death for us, to restore us to God.. He provides always a way to him, even in the direst times (1 Corinthians 10:13). All we have to do is CHOOSE.  Hate the world, love God. He knows what we are capable of with Him and without Him. But we need to know without a doubt that a life lived without Him here will end up in an eternity separated from Him in the lake of fire with the devil and all sinners, of this we can be sure.

"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain, ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded. Be afflicted and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up." JAMES 4:1-10

Sin will kill us and damn our soul forever. Choose Jesus.

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 JOHN 2:16-17

"Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin." JAMES 4:17

DO THE WILL OF GOD AND LIVE... CRY OUT TO JESUS, THE ONLY WAY TO GOD... AMEN



JESUS IS LORD OF ALL

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