SURRENDER The Fruit of Believing

Howdy everybody. Thanks so much for sitting down with me again as we explore the richness of God's Word together. This is a message God gave me for Christmas in 2004. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do !! We usually start off with prayer but this message contains a prayer towards the end.

Just as we believe that God the Son was born in the earth. Just as we believe that God humbled Himself to become a man...to rescue us from our eternal hopelessness. We also must believe that we shall be born of the Spirit if we only ask. With God, believing is more than a mental thought. His idea of believing is for us to see His humility in birth. To see His love and servanthood as a man. And to see with our spiritual eyes His great mercy on the cross and our hope in the resurrection. And with seeing such Glory and love we would fall in love with Him. That we would repent...surrender to Him fully and walk as He walked by the power of the Holy Spirit. After all, does He not say in His Word, "Be holy for He is holy and without which no one will see the Lord?" Does He not say, "If we are not led by the Spirit then we are none of His?" The Word also proclaims that, "If we do not lose ourselves and follow Him then we are not fit for the Kingdom." How about this one, "If we love Him we will be obedient !"
 
 So with God, we see His great love and we believe. We see His undying mercy and we believe. We see that He is trustworthy. And since we know that, then when He says that we will be born of His Spirit if we repent and accept Him as our God....we believe and it is so. But true believing will be seen in our everyday fruit. Our steady pace of spending time with Him, in prayer and in His Word. The fruit of someone born from above will be seen in their separation from the love of worldly things. The fruit of a true beliver will be manifest in their surrendered hearts to the things from above. And from that vessel we shall see God's love and fruits of righteousness pouring out for the whole world to see.

Oh God have mercy on me for Your Coming is at hand! Help me to work out my salvation with fear and trembling according to Your Word. Convict me of my sins and forgive me merciful God. Help me to receive Your great love and fall in love with You in broken surrender and obedience. Help me to be a person that says, "surely You are my God and King." Help me to lay my life down for you. I know Your gift of salvation is free. I just need assurance within myself that I am sold out to You Glorious God. Help me Holy Spirit to make God.....God. In Jesus Name..AMEN.

 On this Day (remember this was a past Christmas message) Your love for me was born in the earth. Help me to see it, receive it and really..really fall in love with you in return. I need You !! I need the fruit of true believing in my life. The fruit of a surrendered, obedient lifestyle. Oh precious God, give me fruit. Give us all this most wonderful fruit. With that fruit we will surely shine in this world of darkness. Your Kingdom come (in us) as it is in heaven. OH GLORIOUS DAY..OH HALLELUJAH !!