Are You A Follower of Jesus?

Jesus said in John 12:26, "If anyone serves me (you can see right here that Jesus is not to picky), let him FOLLOW Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor".

Jesus is the Word of God made flesh (John 1:14). God's primary purpose when He saved you was not to provide you with fire insurance, the avoidance of Hell after you die, but His real purpose for saving you was to make you His child, a child that would follow His eldest Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, the Firstborn from the dead. (What's your number?)

You were born-again for one purpose and one purpose only, to be a follower of Jesus by being His servant. The way the Father honors His born-again child is by receiving him into Heaven (the presence of God) after he departs the earth and saying, Well done, My good and faithful servant (Mt 25:21) and the honor truly comes from how you served Jesus on the earth with the years of your life there.

As you learn the Word and increase your understanding of it, it will guide your steps. You in fact will be following the Word and doing what it says. This is the true and accurate picture of the disciple who is following Jesus. When you follow the Word you are following Jesus, and when you do the Word, you are serving Jesus.

Now, Jesus said, If anyone serves Me, let Him follow Me and where I am there my servant will be also. Are you still following the Lord since you first believed? If not, you don't believe. Believing in Jesus is not a one time event, it's a continuous event (24/7). If you believe in Jesus, you will be following Him right now by where the Word has brought you to.

Jesus is always on the move. Always looking for that next person who needs to hear the glorious Gospel and be saved. He is always looking for that next person who needs to be delivered from sin, sickness, disease, pain, poverty, debt, lack, anything that comes because of the curse that is on this earth.

Jesus is on the move, are you still following Him or have you quit and found something else to believe in and give your life to. When Jesus comes upon the next situation that He wants to actively get involved with by ministering to it, He will look up and look at His servants that are following Him, and He will assign one of His servants to go in His Name and do the work of God there.

Here is the most important question you will ever hear. When Jesus looks up and looks upon His servants that are following Him, "WILL HE FIND YOU THERE?"

The answer you give to that question has Eternal significance, for Jesus said in Matt 7:21-23,

"Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in your Name, and done many wonders in your Name? And then I (Jesus) will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.

Forget the once saved, always saved doctrine. It's a man made doctrine, made by men, so that they can run off and do whatever they want to do without following Jesus but still have their fire insurance card in their pocket that they plan on showing Jesus when they depart from this earth.. This is the devil's doctrine and many men (& women) have left the narrow path of Jesus to follow it. There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is death (Prov 14:12).

Why does God want you to hear this today? He doesn't want to scare you, He wants to save you.

Repent, and get back to where you once were and follow Him. When Jesus looks up at His servants, let Him find you there. When He sees you there, then you can surely know that your honor and reward is waiting for you in Heaven. Now I know what you are thinking and the answer is, YES, a thousand times YES. You are saved by grace and not by works, but once you are saved, we are instructed to work out our salvation. Here is where the following Jesus comes in (please read Phil 2:12).

Now I know this is going to stir up a lot of religious spirits, but they will just have to go throw a fit for all I care.

My only care and assignment from Jesus is that you hear the Word of Truth, and I pray this day that you heed it. Let Jesus find you standing there when He looks for a servant to go and be a doer of His Word.

Be Blessed in all you do. Follow Him, and you're blessed!!

Do You Fear God or Are You Afraid of God

Why do I choose to live by faith? Because of my fear of God (Prov 1:7). Because I know God from being with Him in intimate fellowship and I respect Him and His Ways , because I am in awe of Him, and I am fearful to live my life any other way than God's way and God's way is the way of "Faith" which is believing Him over all other ways.

The genuine life of faith comes from a healthy respect of God and His Word (Jesus--John 1:1). The power behind the life of faith is the fear of God. That does not mean that I am afraid of God, but rather afraid to leave God's path for any other way, because I honor and love God with all my heart and I am thoroughly convinced that's God's Way for living is the right way.

Without the fear of God as your motivation to live by faith, your faith will have no power behind it, but it will only be mechanical as you religiously try to live according to the Word of God, but without the fear of God, you will be tempted to live your life another way, separate from God's way.

It's the fear of God that promotes the healthy lifestyle of living by faith. It's impossible to please God without faith (Heb 11:6), so why would you choose to live any other way? Because instead of being in awe of God and holding God in high regard by respecting His ways, you rather are afraid of God and His ways (the Bible--the Word of God declares His Ways) because you don't know Him (you may know of Him or about Him, but you don't know Him) and if you don't know Him from being with Him (fellowship with Him), then you will always choose the familiar way, which will be the way of the World, and instead of being led by the fear of the One True God, you will rather be led by the fear of the god of this world, whose name is satan (I refuse to capitalize his name).There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is "Death" (Prov 14:12) because satan's ways always leads to death never to life

You will only have a healthy fear of God by knowing Him through experiencing Him in fellowship with Him and you'll never get to know Him if you don't know His Son Jesus, for no one can come to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). How well do you know Jesus? That determines how well you will know the Father. You can't know Him (the Father) without being with Him (the Son) but once you know Him (the Son), you will fear Him (the Father) just like Jesus did when He was the Son of Man on this earth carrying out the assignment of His Father, and this my brother and sister is a good thing for you will be led to live your life God's way and that way is "by Faith" (2 Cor 5:7)

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (on how to live by faith), but fools (I hope that's not you) despise wisdom and instruction-- Prov 1:7

Be Blessed, for blessed is the man/woman who trusts in Him. (Ps 34:8)