After God's Own Heart Ministries

Speaking The Truth In Love

What ultimately defines whether you are a Christian or not, is not what Denomination you belong to, but whether you know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in your heart. – Ravi Zacharias

Romans 10: 9-10 NLT If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.

What God is requiring from us is very simple in my personal opinion.

Confession and Believing

Everything else is us, going through the motions of trying to live a life pleasing to God, without doing what He has asked us to do.

1 Samuel 15: 22 NLT “What is more pleasing to the LORD:
your burnt offerings and sacrifices
or your obedience to his voice?
Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice,
and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.

You can continue to do things your way or trust that God knows what He requires from us, then do that.

He’s not trying to make this hard. Satan is. Our flesh is. The world and our Society are.

In our desires to be free and have it our own way, all we accomplish is a life, drifting further and further away from He who created us and has created all things. The only One who truly loves us for ourselves. The One who knows what sin has really done to us and the fate it has sealed for is, if we continue down this path of trying to live our own life.

No matter what you tell yourself, or what your friends say, or what society claims…(I’ll say this as lovingly as I can), Hell awaits those who chooses not to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and believes that He was resurrected as the Savior of those who choose to believe in Him.

Look around you and ask yourself, who or what do you really want to trust your life with: God or this world?

May the Holy Spirit speak to the core of your heart and give you clarity to the answer to this question.

He Is Awesome!!

“Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.” — Lloyd John Ogilvie

Luke 8:24-25NLT 24 The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” So Jesus rebuked the wind and the raging waves. The storm stopped and all was calm! 25 Then he asked them, “Where is your faith?” And they were filled with awe and amazement. They said to one another, “Who is this man, that even the winds and waves obey him?”

I was intrigued this morning with the thought of being “awed” by God and what does that really mean.

Awed is defined as: being inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence. -vocabulary.com

In my terms, it means to me, that God is so amazing, so wonderful, that its hard to wrap my mind around all that God is and all that He does.  Basically, my finite mind cannot figure God out. And I’m thankful that I can’t.

For if I could, then there would be no faith. God would be brought down to my level of thinking and understanding, and to be honest, that would not be a god that I would or could put my trust in.

I am so glad God’s ways are not mine.  I’m thankful that when I can’t love myself, He does.  When I lose hope, He provides it.  When I am weak, His strength is in abundance.  When I see test, trials and storms, God sees reproving, renewing, restoring, cleansing and unconditional love.

Are you in AWE of God today?  Does He fit in your box of understanding, and control, or do you simply worship and praise Him in fearful wonderment and reverence?

God isn’t “the man upstairs”. He’s not “the big guy in the sky”.  He’s not just “a force of nature”, a feeling or a religion.  He is God!  He is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  The Creator of All.  Omnipotent, Omniscient, Eternal.  Beyond our comprehension, yet right here with us. Loving us in spite of ourselves. Forgiving, patient, merciful and full of grace.

Do you stand, kneel, sit in awe of Him today?  I don’t know about you, but He is worthy of all honor and praise. He’s worthy of our worship and reverence.  He deserves all the glory. For He is God.

May He continue to reveal His awesomeness to you. May He bless you with all that you need today.