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'Submit yourself to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you, draw near to God and he will draw near to you' James 4:7
I was doing my devotions and i started thinking, i want to go so much deeper with God, i want to have a relationship that is so intimate that it's flippen crazy!
How do i do this though? i was reading through the scriptures and i came across this verse, James 4:7 showed me a way of getting that intimate relationship with God, it showed me how to go deeper with the king.
The first part of this verse is all about being submissive!
Its about surrendering our lives to Jesus, about handing over all of who we are, into the hands of God! this is a daily thing, we don't just surrender our lives once and thats sufficent, NO! submiting our lives must be a constant thing. I don't want to live my life and think i am in control because the reality is that im not. So daily i must chose to submit myself to the king, its hard no doubt but once God is placed in control over my life then things start to happen!
When i am in submission to God i have put my trust in him, and trust is key to going deeper in our relationship with God.
The second part is about resisting the Devil
This is such a hard thing to do, even today i struggled with resisting the Devil, see the devil knows where i weakeness are and he attacks those places. We aren't resisting at all unless we are fighting the temptations. See our main cop out is that i couldn't resist the temptation, well that is completly untrue and unbiblical, Resisting isn't easy but do what Jesus Did and quote scripture and use it against satan. No temptation has seized us. 1 corinthians 10:13 says "no temptation has seized you, except what is common to man, and God is faithfull he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear, and when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" dont let the devil tell you it is impossible to resist his traps!
The thrid part is key to having a Deeper relationship with God, and its all about Drawing closer!
This is a choice, ofcourse it is, and its all about being intentional, we must daily choose to draw closer to God, what i love is that God never fails to draw near to us, it is us that fail to draw near to God, how often do we put other things in front of spending time with Jesus! its time to stop being lazy Christians and start drawing near to God, there isnt much i can say about this, Just go and do it!
Go and have a more passionate and intimate relationship with Jesus, its never becasue God hasnt showed up its casue you just weren't trying!
Blessings
I was doing my devotions and i started thinking, i want to go so much deeper with God, i want to have a relationship that is so intimate that it's flippen crazy!
How do i do this though? i was reading through the scriptures and i came across this verse, James 4:7 showed me a way of getting that intimate relationship with God, it showed me how to go deeper with the king.
The first part of this verse is all about being submissive!
Its about surrendering our lives to Jesus, about handing over all of who we are, into the hands of God! this is a daily thing, we don't just surrender our lives once and thats sufficent, NO! submiting our lives must be a constant thing. I don't want to live my life and think i am in control because the reality is that im not. So daily i must chose to submit myself to the king, its hard no doubt but once God is placed in control over my life then things start to happen!
When i am in submission to God i have put my trust in him, and trust is key to going deeper in our relationship with God.
The second part is about resisting the Devil
This is such a hard thing to do, even today i struggled with resisting the Devil, see the devil knows where i weakeness are and he attacks those places. We aren't resisting at all unless we are fighting the temptations. See our main cop out is that i couldn't resist the temptation, well that is completly untrue and unbiblical, Resisting isn't easy but do what Jesus Did and quote scripture and use it against satan. No temptation has seized us. 1 corinthians 10:13 says "no temptation has seized you, except what is common to man, and God is faithfull he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear, and when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" dont let the devil tell you it is impossible to resist his traps!
The thrid part is key to having a Deeper relationship with God, and its all about Drawing closer!
This is a choice, ofcourse it is, and its all about being intentional, we must daily choose to draw closer to God, what i love is that God never fails to draw near to us, it is us that fail to draw near to God, how often do we put other things in front of spending time with Jesus! its time to stop being lazy Christians and start drawing near to God, there isnt much i can say about this, Just go and do it!
Go and have a more passionate and intimate relationship with Jesus, its never becasue God hasnt showed up its casue you just weren't trying!
Blessings
posted by Evangelist for Christ at
12:20 AM
2 Comments:
I've always like the second part of that verse how it says God will provide a way out....that part kinda blows my mind so much that it's cool!
I've been in this spot of desiring something deeper with the Lord as well lately - good stuff.
A song by starfield - cry in my heart - that the Lord has been bringing me to through it all. If you don't know them, search and have a listen.
Blessings!
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