Are you living in religion or Christianity?
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE
So many times Satan seduces and deceives us into a flat, 2 dimensional religion (Dos & Don’ts) instead of true Christianity. He deceives us and tricks us until he has us just going to church and doing ‘good’ deeds, which are really nothing more than works of the flesh to satisfy religion. Works of the flesh do not, can not save us and these works of the flesh can not and do not please God. But God calls us out of darkness and into a three dimensional faith in Jesus (His Death, Burial, & Resurrection). He (God) wants us to love Him with all of our being, in all of our actions, and with all of our might. He wants us to put our faith in Him into action, not based on what we can do, but what HE has already done for us. What He can do through us. And what HE can do with us if we will only let Him have control of our lives. When you make Jesus the Lord of your life, you give Him permission to take control of your life. If you haven’t done that, then you are just walking in religion NOT Christianity.
MY PRAYER
Father of all grace and mercy, I give all thanks to You. I thank You for being such a loving Father and Lord. Heavenly Father, I honor You as God Almighty (El Shaddai). I appreciate You for all Your kindness and blessings lavished upon me. I love You because You first loved me and sent Your Son Jesus to pay the penalty for my sin. I thank You Lord for making a way into Your Kingdom for me, where there was no way. Nothing I could have done would have been enough. Only through Jesus’ Blood am I made righteous. My heart’s desire today is to demonstrate my love for You in all I do, and say. Father, take my life and burn up all that is not of You in it. Purge me Lord and then fill me with Your will, Your desires, and Your plans for my life. Oh Father, that I may be a vessel worthy to be used in The Master’s hands. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen