Daily writing promptWhat’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?View all responses

The coolest thing I’ve ever found is an abiding, heart-to-heart relationship with the risen Jesus. I can’t keep quiet about how Jesus has freed me from inner bondage and daily fills my life with peace and joy.

Let Jesus be
Your sin dissolver,
Not merely
Your problem solver.
Deny
Yourself,
Rely
On Christ!

Inner freedom is far more important than free stuff. The internal freedom of the fruit of the Spirit will grow as a gift within you if you consistently work to surrender to and align your heart and your will with Christ in you.

The fruit and the gifts of the Spirit are far more important and valuable than anything physical that Jesus can give you. Work diligently like a farmer to cultivate them and make room for them to fill and overflow your soul.

Feed Christians with Scripture facts and they might know the Ten Commandments, but they won’t know how to consistently obey them. They will know some Bible stories, but they won’t know how to love their enemies. They’ll probably know who Jesus is, but they won’t know how to daily abide in an intimate, surrendered relationship with Him.

Churches need to shift from merely feeding people more and more religious information. It’s vital that churches begin to effectively train people to actually and literally abide in uninterrupted intimacy with and obedience to the risen Jesus. Christians are being lecturized, sermonized, systematized, and ritualized, but what we need is to be revitalized by the presence and power of the risen Jesus!

Church is too often Sunday déjà vu. The words may change but the program’s the same song and sermon routine. I always feel like I’ve sat through the same thing many times before. But in extremely rare times when the Holy Spirit is allowed to take control and people begin to move with and obey His inner promptings, all Heaven breaks loose!

When life’s rough
Churchy stuff’s
Not enough.
You need to
Rely on
Christ living
Inside you
To get through
All that’s tough.
Churchy stuff
Without Christ
Is just fluff —
A mere bluff.
Please uncuff
The Spirit
Of God now.
(1 Corinthians 12:7-11)

Be courageous! Christians who call people their enemies, need to at least have the courage to obey Jesus’ command to: “Love your enemies.”