The Lord asks us this question today. May our knowledge and growth in the Lord in 2015 be strongly established. May our experience of allowing the Lord “to be the Lord” be greater on 12/31/15 than today. However, I have to caution you, the ride will be challenging in our faith…… and why not…. if we are bowing to our awesome God. Faith is an action that needs to be worked like muscles….. So let us grow in faith mightily in 2015 as He reveals Himself.
Some say they know the Lord. But the most important question is…. does the Lord know you? Is He involved in our everyday life or are our days so tightly booked with our own agenda, that there is no room left for Him…. We tend to be very controlling in our lives in order we do not have to handle the unknown of the next minute, hour, day or week or year. In so doing, we are sadly forsaking the life in the Spirit learning Christ as Lord.
If we are that controlling of our lives, then we miss out on the wonderful experience of the revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives, acting as Lord and King. We miss out as His great love pulls us higher in His ways and plans. He puts us in tight spots so that our faith moves His hand. Then we know Him in a different Light. We then grow in the righteousness of the Lord and not our own….. May we allow ourselves to see there is nothing about us that is good but His neverending love for us. We can do nothing good without Him.
Instead of making resolutions of the coming year, I double dog dare you to answer the question of the Lord to yourself. Every tight spot or circumstance we are going to be in the coming year, instead of being upset about it, let us look for the place that He allowed so that He may show Himself strong in our weakness.
Let us look for the unveiling of a new revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our daily stuff! Get out of the boat and let Him teach us to walk on the water- new heights, new depths, new widths, new lengths of His love surrounding us and catching us and lifting us…. in the Father’s arms.
Today, as He is looking to enter your life to bring you into His realm in greater measure, He is asking…..
WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?
What is your answer and I pray that the lists are as many and neverending as eternity.
Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.
May the prayer of Paul be our way of life in Christ as he said in Phillipians 3:8-12, Yet, indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God through faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
But to get to the place, where we can live with the heart position of Paul’s towards the Lord, we have to also live this prayer also….2 Corinthians 12:9-10, And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
As the Holy Spirit enters our churches and homes, may He find us reflecting the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts and living the adventurous life of His. Jesus Christ alone is worthy of all our bragging rights!
I have asked so many souls if they know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Sadly, their answers are that they go to such-such a church….. Their savior is the church they go to and are involved with, they do not know the Lord…..What is the reflection in their answer?
God help us in America, but what if one day, it is forbidden to go to any assembly forming to worship the One True God and His Son…. What will happen if our dependency is on the gathering instead of the One who we are gathered to center on?………. Who Do You Say That I AM ?
That question needs to be answered by each one of us. So when the Lord’s Day is here, He can say, I know you with His loving smile. Hey, when the storms come, then we will be fully equipped to stand strong in the power of His might because we know He will carry us through…… We already have the Testimony of Christ within us….. Be sure of this, the storms are coming!
Let 2015 be dramatically different than all other years…… Filled with His Divine Presence in the Resurrected power of His life abundantly acting in our lives and through our lives.
May this year be the year that has never been before as we reveal the Lord Jesus Christ as our reflection in greater measure just as the moon reflects the sun….
May we shine HIM…. as He knows who we say HE IS…… our Great I AM.
Selah!
