Completely Surrendered

 

Sunday Message 10.8.23 

Completely Surrendered 

““You shall have no other gods before Me.’” For I, the Lord, am a jealous God. From Exodus 20:3, 5

🎼You Won’t Relent 

Today at church we were getting deep into the presence of God. At one point, our pastor ordered the lights to be turned off except for the backlit crosses hanging on the wall. All we focused on as we sang and worshipped was Jesus - nothing else! Sadly, I heard later that there was a lady and her mother sitting next to friends of mine and they were talking and laughing. One of them said they didn’t think it would be “like this!” The mother got up and walked out! 

What we keep hearing from the Holy Spirit of God is that He wants all of our heart. ♥️ He longs for us to love Him back as He loves us. A person might ask, “What does that mean?” All I can say to that is that we need to give Him our whole heart by keeping Him as our first love above family, friends, activities, belongings, etc. It means that He means more to us than anything and that we enjoy spending time with Him and reading His Word. It means that we will allow Him to lead and guide our daily life and be obedient to what He shows us to do. It means that His opinion of how we live our lives matters more to us than all others. 

We have gotten away from keeping Jesus first in the body of Christ. We have put the things we ‘do’ as more important than the One we supposedly do them for. I guess it would be like having a spouse or friend wanting to do certain things for us but they didn’t want to just spend time with us. That would hurt our feelings, wouldn’t it? God is a person too and He has feelings also. The bottom line is to start with our love relationship with Him first. Then, all the others can be appreciated and enjoyed after that. 

This week, we can repent and stop putting other things and people first and get to know not only the Words on the pages of the Bible, but get to know the One Who wrote it! I love and pray for you all! In Jesus wonderful Name! If you know anyone who would appreciate this weekly message, feel free to give them my number. Be blessed in His presence! ✝️♥️🙏🏻