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Has Knowing Jesus Changed Your Life?

by Henrietta Decruz April 6, 2021

“Therefore if any person is [in grafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17 AMP) Accepting the Lord is the greatest decision we have ever made. However, we need to ask ourselves how much we have changed since the time we met the Lord. Some believers have known the Lord for twenty, thirty, and more years, and yet they haven’t grown much in the area of faith and in knowing Jesus personally or studying His Word.

Yield to the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit has been indwelling within us and He has been working in us from the moment we received Jesus Christ as our Savior. He often nudges us in the areas that we need to change. The Holy Spirit is so gentle that a lot of times we barely realize how much we have changed. However, some of us resist this change and stifle the Holy Spirit from doing His work of renewal in our hearts.

Hebrews 5:12 speaks about someone who did not grow, it says, “For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God’s Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food.”

Knowing Jesus: The Way Forward

Let us examine our hearts. Are we hindering the work of the Holy Spirit within us? And are there areas in our lives that we haven’t surrendered to the Lord? Are there secret sins that we don’t want to acknowledge and areas of weakness that we would rather leave unattended? Do our lives reflect the fruits of the Spirit as mentioned in Gal 5:22-23, which is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

If we continue to live as we are doing now, will we bring joy to the heart of our Lord Jesus who will be returning for His spotless Bride? Are we true ambassadors of Christ? Are we obeying and following the teachings of Jesus or living in opposition to what the Lord taught us?

The Lord knows it is hard for us to let go of control and give our lives to Him unconditionally. For this reason, He gives us more grace to overcome. 2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness!” AMP

Be More Like the Father

If we have been holding back from surrendering our hearts to the Lord, and fully knowing Jesus, we need to repent for it so that He can perfect the work He is doing within us. Just human children often like to imitate, behave and look like their parents, God the Father also wants us to become more like Him and His Son Jesus.

Let us pray: Dear Lord, I am sorry for not yielding to You. Please reveal the areas that I need to change. I want to truly reflect Your heart, Lord Jesus. Complete Your work in me so I can be Your instrument of change and transformation. I want to be the new creation You want me to be. Lord, have Your way in me! Amen.

April 6, 2021 0 comment

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Christians in Business: How to Grow Where You Are Planted

by Robin Dahms June 26, 2017

written by Robin Dahms

Grow Where You Are Planted

~If we allow people to be human and God to be God, we all have a fighting chance. ~ Robin Dahms

Do you ever feel like life is coming at you too fast?

Does everything seem to go wrong at the same time?

It’s easy to get discouraged when the storms of life over take us. In this noisy world, often times, it seems there is no calm and we cannot keep up. Are you tired and weary?

I met a lady that had made some bad choices in her life. Her parents were absent and by the age of 13, she was moving in bad circles trying to find her identity. She started using drugs and eventually began selling as way to earn an income.

She was caught and put in juvenile detention. After a while, she was released back into society with no family waiting for her. It wasn’t long and she was back to her old ways. She got caught again and was put in jail as an adult.

God Began to Work on Her

The quiet, undistracted time and solitude were refreshing; the noise of life faded into safety, security, freedom of not having to make a living, and freedom in living with rules and expectations. It was during this quiet time, the Holy Spirit began to speak to her. She eventually started a women’s prayer group inside the prison and instead of using their one hour of physical exercise outside, the women gathered around for prayer time!

After incarceration, she thought about those women often. She could not get them off her heart. She became an ordained reverend and started a Women’s Ministry Program inside that jail. The one thing she shared with me that changed my life? There is courage in community. As the women were released from jail, they had a ‘family, God’s family’ waiting for them. Re-incarceration became almost obsolete for these women because they had been renewed and resurrected!

Golden Nuggets:

Your ministry is often between your own two feet.
Jesus will meet you where you are but never leave you there.
Your biggest storm can become your biggest area of opportunity.
Having accountability and a family will help you manage the storms of life to victory!

Christian Business Leaders International (CBLI) understands business ownership is a lonely journey. Scared to “fake it until you make it” because it’s a lie, and business is challenging and you don’t know why?

CBLI educates, equips and empowers leaders and business owners through leadership and business training, spiritual training, mentoring and encouragement.

We meet once a month, online, for a Value Based Mastermind Training and Peer Advisory and once a month, online, for prayer. Experience unity in community!

~Building Like-Minded Spiritually Driven Leaders~

June 26, 2017 0 comment

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The Mustard Seed: Why We GO!

by GOD TV March 17, 2017

written by GOD TV

Mustard Seed: Why We GO!

A fresh reminder as to why we go. Jesus highlights the qualities of the mustard seed, likening it to the Kingdom of heaven. The seed starts as the smallest of seeds, yet becomes the greatest of all the herbs. In fact, it becomes a tree so big even the birds of the air can nest in it. Check out this 2 minute inspirational video speaking about the Kingdom of heaven, who we are, and why we’re here.

Jesus and the mustard seed

“Another parable He put forth to them, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.’” (Matthew 13:31-32)

Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.’” (Mark 4:30-32)

“Then He said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.’” (Luke 13:18-19)

Who We Are In Christ

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,’” (Galatians 3:13)

“And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,” (Romans 11:17)

“Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,” (Ephesians 1:5)

By the work of Christ alone we are united in Christ, heirs of the Kingdom of God. Therefore, we sow the seed of the Gospel that all may call on the name of the Lord and be saved.

Reminded by the humblest of seeds: the mustard seed.

Let’s GO!

March 17, 2017 0 comment