I enjoy Christian music and there is no doubt that it is so very anointed by God. This song will help you to be able to seek God in prayer, a song from the heart that will ask God for more, more of Him, His way, truth and life. Listen Up:
Jesus Increase In Me
What a beautiful song and hearts desire to have! I know if you prayed that prayer in song, that God will answer that beautiful heart’s desire to know Him more. I woke up with a thought on my heart today and it was: What if everyday we woke up and said to Jesus:🙏 “You are my King, my life is Yours, You can have this day, my heart belongs to You, everything I have is Yours! Make me more like You, on this day, I pray to decrease, and hope for You, all things You, Jesus, to increase in me.” I am thinking our day will bring about a Great God Adventure if we started it that way! Let’s do it!
“I know that you delight to set your truth deep in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of my heart and teach me wisdom. Keep creating in me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you. For the source of your pleasure is not in my performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my tenderness as I bow down humbly at your feet.” Psalms 51:6, 10, 16-17 TPT
Becareful! Stop The Drift
Everyday should be a day where God increases in us, and we decrease. What does that truth mean in our reality? Well, I am thinking that we declare with our mouth at times: “Jesus, You are my Lord”. Yet, do we act like what we have just declared? If God wants us to be like Him, and do something like He would do it, and we know it because it is in His Word, yet we choose to act in a way that is self-willed instead of leaning into God’s Sovereign sway, we increase in flesh, and God decreases in us. We can so easily drift away from God as we increase, and He decreases. Becareful! Read the scriptures below and then take a minute to listen up to the 1 Minute Encouragement Video on stopping the drift away from God.
Hebrews 2:1 This is why it is so crucial that we be all the more engaged and attentive to the truths that we have heard so that we do not drift off course. 2 Peter 3:17-18 As for you, divinely loved ones, since you are forewarned of these things, be careful that you are not led astray by the error of the lawless and lose your firm grip on the truth . But continue to grow and increase in God’s grace and intimacy with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. May he receive all the glory both now and until the day eternity begins. Amen! Hebrews 3:12 So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you unresponsive to the living God.
Choose To Be More Like Jesus
We can slowly drift from God when He asks us to be like Him, yet, even though we know what He has asked us to do, we make the decision that we don’t want to. We go our own way. We lean more into our personal comfort of “I Want”, than into God obedience. God’s way, it makes life uncomfortable for us at times, so we choose to stay in our place of comfort. This is where our relationship with God either grows forward or stagnates. In our day to day living, the question is: do we decrease, and does He increase? Do we say NO, dying to our fleshly reactions to life, and YES to respond like Jesus would. Do we bend our will to God’s Will for us? We can say YES to Jesus in our every moment to our every choice! Let’s Be So! More Godly Increase! More!
“Let me make this clear: A single grain of wheat will never be more than a single grain of wheat unless it drops into the ground and dies. Because then it sprouts and produces a great harvest of wheat—all because one grain died. “The person who loves his life and pampers himself will miss true life! But the one who detaches his life from this world and abandons himself to me, will find true life and enjoy it forever! If you want to be my disciple, follow me and you will go where I am going. And if you truly follow me as my disciple, the Father will shower his favor upon your life.” John 12:24-26 TPT
More Of God ~ Less Of Me
The season of Lent is often a time of reflection for me. I believe in Jesus Christ, and without a doubt, I believe He is the Son of God. I believe the Bible is the Living Word of God and it is powerful in the way it transforms my life. As there becomes more and more that I know about being a Christian, as God reveals to me more and more, there should be evidence of less of my human condition, and more of God’s life in me. As I reflect on Jesus’ life, I see the things in my life that need to change, so more of Him is evident in my moment to choice decisions and my Christian Character increases with Godly Characteristics. More Of God-Less Of Me!
And [Jesus] said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23) For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. (Mark 8:35)
“We are called to die to that life where we did what we wanted to do, when we wanted to do it, and how we wanted to do it. We are called to die to setting our own rules and living however we please. We are called to die to our rulership of our own lives. We are called to let go of our self-appointed sovereignty, living as if we’re the only master that we need, and to surrender ourselves and all we have to another master.” Quote From Worship Initiative Lent Devotional
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (Rom. 6:1–4)
“We are called to die to our desires for our own comfort, pleasure, and glory and give ourselves to seek the glory of the King and the success of his kingdom. We are called to die to our own righteousness and find our hope, help, and comfort in the righteousness of Jesus given over to our account. This death that I have just described is a process of daily scanning our lives to see where things still live in us that should not live, then praying for the strength to die once again.” Quoted From The Worship Initiative Lent Devotional
My old identity has been co-crucified with Christ and no longer lives. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me— we live in union as one ! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, dispensing his life into mine! Galatians 2:20
“By God’s redeeming plan we are united with Christ in his death and resurrection. In that way your moment of belief is a death and a resurrection. But there is more. Now that you are united with Christ, you are called to a very specific surrender, that is, dying to self. You simply cannot understand the gospel without this call to follow Christ in his death. We are called to die to sin. We are called to die to that life where we did what we wanted to do, when we wanted to do it, and how we wanted to do it. We are called to die to setting our own rules and living however we please. We are called to die to our rulership of our own lives. We are called to let go of our self-appointed sovereignty, living as if we’re the only master that we need, and to surrender ourselves and all we have to another master.” Quote From Worship Initiative Lent Devotional
I Want… Or God Wants? Which One?
Wants! I want… this is what we are dying to, what our flesh wants. Our fleshly reactions, the “fleshing out” of our human condition, the choices that keep us selfishly on the throne of our lives and serving no power or authority higher than ourselves. This is what we die to. We choose for there to be more of Jesus in us and less of ourselves. We choose to be like Him, more patient endurance, more self-control, more trust in God, more mercy, more forgiveness, more godly wisdom, more walking in truth, more mercy, more kindness, more compassion, more goodness, more common sense, more self-sacrifices, less of all things we want, and more interest in the interests of others. We die to selfishness and lean into God’s ways, truth and life, so He increases and we decrease! MORE!
“I know that you delight to set your truth deep in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of my heart and teach me wisdom. Keep creating in me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you. For the source of your pleasure is not in my performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my tenderness as I bow down humbly at your feet.” Psalms 51:6, 10, 16-17 TPT
Master – Observe – Restore – Energize
Am I wholly-holy aligned with the heart, mind, truth and life of Jesus Christ? Lord, I pray for an: Attitude Check! Heart Check! Soul Check! Spirit Check! Am I positioned underneath the Rulership of Christ’s Love? We should check our hearts everyday, everyday we should observe lent, observe Jesus, Who He was and what He did for us, and let there be more of Him, less of us. Jesus must increase, we must decrease. Let it be so. More. More of Jesus. MORE! 🙏Master, Observe, Restore, Energize!
“I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].” Romans 12:1-2 AMPC
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