The Holy Spirit has really been highlighting and having us share the importance of making scripture personal. Staying tender before the Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to bring conviction and correction where needed.
Let us never get into a routine of just reading the Word and even casting it off as if it is not speaking to us, but others around us. This is the first sign that a heart is beginning to become hard!
Friends, before you open the Word of God ask the Holy Spirit to first search you as you begin to read where He leads you. Ask Him to bring into the light anything within you that does not align to His truth! Then ask Him to help you overcome whatever it may be. Allow Jesus to have His rightful place in your life!!!
Below is what He brought to me this morning and had me make it personal, and said to share this. I pray that you will ask Jesus to give you a tender heart!
“If YOU claim, “I know God,” but don’t obey God’s commandments, YOU are a liar and are not living in the truth. But if YOU obey God’s word YOU truly show how completely YOU love Him. That is how YOU know YOU are living in Him. If YOU say YOU live in God then YOU should live YOUR life as Jesus did.
If YOU claim, “I am living in the light,” but hate a fellow believer, YOU are still living in darkness. If YOU love a fellow believer then YOU are living in the light and will not cause others to stumble. But if YOU hate a fellow believer YOU are still living and walking in darkness. YOU do not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.
Do not love this world nor the things it offers YOU, for when YOU love the world, YOU do not have the love of the Father in YOU. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything YOU see, and pride in YOUR achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that YOU crave.
But if YOU do what pleases God YOU will live forever.”
{1 John 2:4-6, 9-11, 15-17}