My Need For God❗

Poor in Spirit = Spiritually poor = the humble = those who realize their need for God❗

I never put these together in my mind until recently when listening to a bible study last Saturday. I also began to learn what 'poor in Spirit' means. 

The meaning that resonated with me the most is, 'my need for God'. I must realize how much I need God and that I need God. My mindset needs to be that I need God daily and in each moment. 

I also thought of what comes in our minds when we say, "I need God!" Thinking about it, I realize that many times what came to mind was not what that verse means.

For one, the word poor throws many off. The word poor most times brings to mind financial poorness.  Who wants to be poor right❗ In our natural earthly lives we run from poverty. We plan and aim to NOT be poor. 

Then, I see that because I am programmed to avoid being poor, that same mindset is carried over to being poor in spirit. Since the bible says it, I know I need to be that, but, I don't want to be poor🤔 

Conundrum ❗

But, when I learned that poor in Spirit means realizing my need for God and walking accordingly, things started to change. I no longer dislike that verse. I want to learn from Christ what all that means and how it should fit into me. How I should look being poor in spirit. How I should act and think and what to say. What must be my attitude and mindset. 

All this and more I am learning now. I must live daily as a disciple who knows and understands, more and more, that I desperately need God in each moment. Even though I might think I got it, my mindset needs to change and let Him, God, deal with it.

My Heart's❤ Desire❗

Matthew 6:21 NLT 

Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

I have been learning this verse more and more, deeper and deeper. 

This time, I went pass answering the question, "where is my treasure" or "where is my heart" ? 

This time I saw the combination of more truths, how they link up. 

Christ is my treasure. My heart is with Him. And like Matthew 6:33 says👇

'Seek God first and ALL, EVERYTHING  else WILL BE added...'

My Creole version:

'Fala afta God more dan enyting else an evryting else wah come eena you life.'

CS Lewis seh👇

Once God/Christ dah(is) my heart desire more than all else, I wah could (can) be who I suppose to be way way beta(better). 

What/who is your heart's desire ❓

Come to Christ today❗❗❗

Seeing God Daily ❗❗

 Psalms 46:10 ❗

Someone shared this verse and it hit me. I needed to hear that right then. We must remember this each and every day. Every moment of the day.

I always knew part A of this scripture to say👇

“Be still, and know that I am God!.."

But ever since I have been introduced to reading in different translations, this sentence took on deeper meaning.

Here are the ones I read👇

📖 Surrender your anxiety. Be still and realize that I am God. [TPT]

📖 Let be and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God. [AMPC]

📖 Stand silent! Know that I am God. [LB]

So, with all of those translations, it reads:

"Be still, let be, surrender your anxiety and realize, know and understand that I am God"

Only in Christ we can do this. Come to Him right now, today❗❗🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️

A Change

Hi Reader,

So I was going to go more deeper into what it means to pick up your cross, but I am being lead by the Holy Spirit to post as He directs.

Thing is, the actions outlined in Luke 9:23 must be happening together, concurrently, for us to be living the life that Christ call us to in Him. 

So, going forward, I will be doing just that. I have come to know and recognize and acknowledge that when I do as God directs, His will come to pass and it works out for the good of many more besides myself.

I pray we all continue to grow in Christ as He desires for us to do.

Have a blessed day❗

Then He (Jesus) said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

Luke 9:23 NKJV

What is the cross❓

 

So which cross Jesus was talking about in Luke 9:23❓

It can't be a physical cross that we would make and carry around with us, because that has no power in itself. 

Paul said, 👇

Because of that cross(that Luke 9:23 talks about), my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.

Galatians 6:14b NLT

So, 'picking up my cross daily' as Jesus said in Luke 9:23, IS me/you seeing the world and ALL it has to offer us; ALL of it's demands and expectations on us, as DEAD. And, with this death, the world's interest in me will also die.

In the next posts, I will go even deeper in this, by God's grace.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

What The Cross is NOT❗

 

So in Luke 9:23, Jesus said that we must pick up our cross daily. 

Here are some things the cross is not👇

1. It is not a piece of jewelry, ornament or house decoration. While these are ok to have, these items in themselves are NOT the cross❗ They have no power to do anything for us. They cannot protect us from evil spirits and they don't make us holy in God's sight.

2. It is not a prayer item. This includes the crucifix and the holding of a cross to be able to pray or cast out evil spirits. 

3. It is not the problems and troubles and burdens and sickness in your life. In fact, Jesus put an end to all this when He died on the cross. 

These wrong applications of and beliefs about the cross MUST be corrected or removed from us. We cannot remove it by ourselves, otherwise we will not meet God's standard of removal. We MUST come to Christ ❗

Good Friday 2021

 

This year I got to be apart of a retreat with the theme, 'What is the cross?'. 

The teaching and panel discussions were very helpful and practical in teaching how to apply the true identity and meaning of the cross.

The cross that Jesus died on, what it accomplished for all the world for whom Jesus died. 

In Luke 9:23 NLT, it says👇

Then he(Jesus) said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must 

give up your own way(deny yourself), take up your cross daily, 

and follow me.

That right there, where Jesus said we have to pick up our cross daily, is why we need to correctly understand what 'the cross' is. 

In the following series of posts, I hope to, by God's grace, share what I have learn and what God puts on my heart to share.