Good morning,
This Daily Thought is good! It is good for us:
https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt12-07
As I read it, I remembered a few times I have taken things to Jesus that I needed him to answer and put in my heart, and Jesus did answer!
I remembered hearing a man on the radio tell of God’s love and mercy. He was teaching the “get saved” doctrine that many Christians believe, explaining how we are all sinners and will always be sinners. The man was convincing, and I felt unsettled after hearing him. I believe I had just received the holy Ghost.
I went to Jesus about this, and Jesus said to me, “If I was ok with sin, I would have left you in it!”
That settled everything in my heart!
Another time, early on, I became fearful, wondering if the truth I was hearing from you was really the truth! I had spent my whole life believing that there were many ways to God, and not just one. That the truth was THE truth was pretty hard for me to take in. When I did search that out in the Bible, and believed it, I was terrified. I went to Jesus and told him how scared I was. I was scared of being deceived. Terrified of meeting Jesus and him saying he did not know me, that I hadn’t found the right way. My soul depended on knowing the truth.
Jesus said, “Look at the fruits.”
The truth proves itself. Jesus does not leave you guessing! The truth lined up with everything I was reading and feeling in the Bible, as I sought for Jesus. It lined up with everything Jesus was doing in me.
And one of the dearest things Jesus put in my heart, was you, my help, my pastor. And because Jesus did it, it has saved me from wrong thoughts over and over again. I have told you about it before, but it’s beautiful to me, so I will tell you again.
Many times, if I had wrong thoughts or got a little off in my spirit, a dividing spirit flooded in. It took me a while to realize it, but it never failed. That was the first thing that it went for, was to divide me from you, my pastor, and the body. Just self-pity thoughts and “nobody loves you” thoughts, I hate that thing.
One day I wrote you an email. Your response left me saying to myself, “He did not understand what I was saying; he got that wrong.” Over the course of a few days, Jesus walked me through that email. I cannot now remember what that email was even about, but I can still feel the awe I felt as Jesus put you in my heart. Not only were you right about that situation, but you were also miles ahead of where I was. Miles from me even forming a thought that resembled where you were. I remember telling Jerry, and telling Jesus, how amazing that was to me. I really was in awe. Then Jesus showed me you and him standing on a high-up plain. You were on his right side. I understood it all in that moment. You were working for Jesus. Jesus had you with him, over us. The order, the authority, and the love were understood in that moment of Jesus, showing you standing there with him.
Nothing can ever take that out because Jesus etched it into me. I rest in that. It is an anchor. I needed Jesus to do that for me. My soul needed Jesus to do that.
Beth