"Abide...Words...Ask...Done"

"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you." 
Jesus

I want to highlight a point in our text.  "If you abide in...My words,..you will ask...."  To put it another way, Jesus is saying that abiding in Him is expressed in abiding in the "God-Breathed" Word and prayer.  There is one reason only that people don't pray regularly or read the Word regularly.  They don't believe "it works."  It is that simple.  And time is not the problem.  Belief is the problem.  There are millions of Americans who spend 8-10 hours per day, at least five days per week at their jobs.  Why?  Their jobs produce something------------a pay check.  They spend long hours at their job, because they know "that [their] labor is not in vain."

If you want a suggestion for a New Year's resolution, I have one.  Demonstrate this year that you believe Jesus Christ is a better Rewarder than that job.  Commit to praying through five Psalms each day, pray in the spirit for one half hour each day, and read the Bible for 15 minutes each day (that's all it takes to read through the Bible in a year).  It is not too late to start.  Prove to yourself that you believe Father hears and instructs through prayer and the "God-Breathed" Word.  Enough with talk religion.  Demonstrate that you really do believe Jesus when He said, "Apart from Me you can do nothing."

Father, in Jesus' Name, I need you.  I pray that what I do will confirm what I say.  Amen.
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I will be preaching this month in our CCE meetings, January 17 & 18)


"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2



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