Part 12
Intimacy with Jesus will change your life for the better!
We were created with a strong inner desire to be in a close relationship with someone. Who that someone is depends on who we pick . We all have a specific measure by which we decide who that special person or persons will be.
God created us; He made us a three part being. Our spirit and soul, that live in a body. Our spirit and soul never die; our body dies. The body is our ‘earth suit’. We need this body to be able to live on planet Earth.
Our soul is where our emotions, intellect, will and imaginations are housed. God gave us ‘freewill ‘. This is the ability to make our own decisions. We decide and make our own decisions, no one is forcing us.
We have all made decisions and chose to have an intimate relationship with a special person. In many cases we have been deeply hurt by that person we loved and trusted. We end up feeling rejected, lonely and in despair. It was not necessarily our decision that caused the unfaithfulness and pain, but the other person’s freewill choice.
I Just Can’t
This can cause us to declare, ‘I’m never trusting anyone again. I just can’t take the pain.’ These deep wounds can keep us from entering another relationship. For some, they can not trust Jesus because of what they have been through.
Pain can scar you and cause you to isolate yourself. It slowly builds a wall of protection for yourself. This wall of protection also keeps the good relationships and opportunities out.
Fall In Love With Jesus!
Intimacy with Jesus will show you that He is always there for you. He loves you unconditionally. The more you know Him, the more you will fall in love with Him and trust Him! He is intimately acquainted with you. Psalm 139 tells us clearly how much He knows us.
There will be a change in your life WHEN ……there is a change in you!
Change Is Good!
Change is a good thing when God is in it. Changing how you think to how God wants you to think will bring you amazing results. He created us and He knows what is best for us and also what we need.
Our minds will be renewed, to have the mind of Christ, when we believe and ask Jesus to be our Lord and Savior. We still have our old way of thinking and acting. When we have put on Christ and His way of thinking, a change will happen.
The Fruit of Change!
Peace will fill our soul.
The pain in our soul will heal.
Our emotions will become stable.
Joy will fill our soul.
We will freely give forgiveness to those who have hurt us.
We will forgive ourselves.
We will stop stressing over the future.
We will have faith to trust that He is taking care of everything.
We will give up our plans and trust His leading.
Be Open!
Change will happen in us as we grow in our relationship with Jesus, if we are open to it.
My Testimony!
It may be hard to believe that having an intimate relationship with Jesus will do all this and more, but it will. l know He will do it for you because He did it for me!!!
I write all this from experience. The Lord walked with me through many very dark and hurtful times.
I have experienced betrayal by a husband, a pastor, and friends. In this life, we will all experience many kinds of hurt and betrayal.
The Key!
Put Jesus first. Take His yoke upon you. Learn from Him. Don’t just know about Him, know Jesus intimately. So much so that your love for Him causes you to do whatever He asks you to do. Also to give up something that He is not in.
My life is so blessed now……I may have lost a husband, a home, and a family split up, but I am now in the center of His will, doing what I love the most. Feed My sheep is the Lord’s instructions to me. And that is what I do…I teach the Word of God.
Also God brought a godly man into my life. Stanley is my very faithful husband. He is my help mate in life and he heads the prayer department for Set Free to Soar Ministry. He diligently prays over your prayer requests.
Never say never!
With God all things are possible !
We have been studying the life of Jesus in the series Intimacy with Jesus. We will be starting a new series ‘Put On Christ’. In this series we will go deep into Jesus’s earthly life…..
His baptism.
His wilderness testing.
The start of His earthly ministry.
His character and nature, the Fruit of the Spirit.
He operated by the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
His sacrificial death on the cross.
His Resurrection.
RIGHT NOW!
Jesus sits at the righthand of God, ever making intercession for you. He loves you and calls to you….Come!
Bless you, dear friends. Pastor Barbara 41/23
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