Author: Hal Hollister Ministry

Jesus is more important today than ever before. He wants to be a fortress of strength and protection for a believer. The challenge is how do you find the reality of the Living Christ?

Jesus is alive and very approachable. He desires to be your best friend and very proactive in your life.

The myth of Christianity is the importance of belonging to an elite private community. Jesus says go and sin no more. He despises religion. 

Religion wants to control believers; Jesus wants to set believers free.

The downfall of Christianity is the white washing of biblical truth to attract new believers and appeal to the cultural changes of society.

The purpose of Jesus is to walk in oneness with Him anchored to the Holy Spirit.

Jesus wants a personal and inviting relationship with a believer. He wants to speak consistently to a believer, provide omniscient wisdom, and teach His values. 

Jesus asks a believer to have unshakable faith and respond with obedience to His instructions. 

Jesus wants a believer to confess his sins and seek repentance through the blood of Christ.

The Christ follower can never be perfect but he must have an open heart to change and seek the good, acceptable and perfect will of Jesus.

We live in the End Times. The future will be very dangerous and almost impossible to survive. The signs are here today with wars, economic upheaval, and the deaths of many people caused by the evil acts of Satan. 

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is your only hope and protection for the future.

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust.”

Romans 13:14

The Holy Spirit has consumed me all day with the importance of getting right with God through the blood of Jesus. There is no other way. 

The sacrifice of Jesus is how you can be protected. This is not scare tactics but the reality of the End Times. 

Christians tend to hide their special treasures for themselves. But they will all go up in smoke. 

The treasures of your heart reveal the priorities of your life. Jesus very clearly tells believers to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the other things will be added.

We set boundaries in the worship of Jesus to preserve our desires and fleshly habits.

We reject the power of the Holy Spirit so we can pursue worldly treasures.

The heart of Jesus today is about repentance and getting right with the Lord.

If you ignore this warning it will be impossible to survive in the days ahead.

Come to Jesus and make a decision to live for Him above all else and seek His will for your life.

Take Jesus seriously and He will protect you and your family. He is a powerful God and desires to have a personal and embracing relationship with a believer.

If you deny Jesus He will deny you!

“Let us examine our ways and test them,
 and let us return to the Lord.
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
 to God in heaven, and say:
We have sinned and rebelled
 and you have not forgiven.” Lamentations 3:40-42

“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:30

Jesus invites all those who are burdened and have heavy troubles to come to Him. He offer rest to the downtrodden.

This rest comes from the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. He died so you can have the fullness of His life.

Jesus instructs believers to cease from striving and enter His rest. He has overcome the world.

Jesus is alive and desires to have a personal and embracing relationship with a believer. He wants to share His life and fill a believer with His powerful attributes.

Jesus says to take my yoke and learn from Me. He desires to teach a believer His values and learn how to walk in oneness with Him. Jesus wants a believer to draw upon Him for strength, comfort and protection.

Jesus is very approachable. He is gentle, humble and offers rest from the burdens of the world.

The yoke of Jesus is easy. He is not asking for a believer to be burdened with works, keep laws and regulations or become immersed in religion.

The burden of Jesus is light by yielding to the authority of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the life of Jesus and is sealed inside all believers. He wants to speak with you, guide your footsteps and develop a personal relationship built on faith and obedience.

Jesus is a living reality and your only hope in a broken world. 

Come to Jesus today! He is waiting to hear from you!

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:23

The Christian life is not about escaping trouble but accepting the troubles engineered by God.

The purpose of Jesus for a believer is to dwell in the secret place of the Most High and you will experience strength and protection. 

This is a command to seek Jesus through prayer, reading the Word and listening for His voice. 

Walking with Jesus is living one day at a time with Him anchored to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will keep a believer aligned with Jesus and filled with His omniscient wisdom.

Jesus instructs His people to find peace in Him but to expect trouble in the world. The world is the antithesis of Jesus and is not under His authority. The role of a Christ follower is die to self and live for Jesus severing his ties to the world.

Jesus has overcome the world and promises comfort and protection for His people. This supernatural peace can be found by letting go of worries and seeking Jesus with prayer and supplication (humbly petitioning Jesus) with a heart of thanksgiving. This will give a believer the peace that surpasses all understanding and guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

The life of Jesus is your protection and strength to be an overcomer. Jesus promises to deliver His people from troubles in His perfect timing. 

“There is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12

We get into trouble in making decisions that seem right in our heart and emotions without checking with Jesus. 

It is very dangerous to make decisions without the omniscient wisdom of God living in the End Times. Jesus wants to guard you against the wave of darkness and distress coming to all humanity.

Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. He sees all your strengths and weakness. He knows every detail of your future and how the End Times will impact your life.

The wisdom of the world is not acceptable for a believer. It will lead to trouble and adversity.

Many times we do what feels good in our inner being. The Bible instructs believers to inquire of the counsel of Jesus in making all decisions.

Jesus desires to bring order and simplicity to your life but you must seek His will through the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and is sealed in all believers.

Invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over your life and He will guide all your decision making. Jesus will protect you from evil and be a powerful refuge in your life.

Commit your works each day to Jesus and pray, read the Word and listen for His voice. Jesus speaks to His people.

Walk in oneness with Jesus yielding to the Holy Spirit and experience the good, acceptable and perfect will of Jesus!

“Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever!” Hebrews 13:8

We live in the end times. The world is unstable, filled with darkness and lacking the traditional moral values of the past. There will never be a “normal” again in the world. 

It is impossible to find peace in the world. There are wars, evil actions taking place, and people are dying. We have to deal with economic upheaval and work force instability. 

Jesus is the only hope for peace and having a virtuous life. He promises to give a believer an abundant life filled with His goodness.

The world will continue to disintegrate with chaos and adversity. This is the perfect plan of Jesus.

We cannot avoid the end times but there is one way to survive. Jesus is the answer. He has power and dominion over the heavens and earth. 

Make a decision to live for Jesus above all else is the starting point. This will give you the gift of salvation and the ability to be in the presence of Jesus forever.

Salvation is a living in a personal and embracing relationship with Jesus. The believer hears the voice of Jesus, abides in His powerful presence and is cleansed of all sin with the blood of Jesus.

Salvation is not about religion; it is experiencing the reality of the Living Christ and becoming transformed into a new creature with the values of Jesus.

Jesus offers powerful attributes to believers. He provides strength, wisdom and protection. 

Jesus desires to give a believer order and simplicity living in a chaotic world. 

Jesus offers stability, powerful promises and He never changes. 

Reach out to Jesus today and your life will never be the same!

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1

The Holy Spirit spoke to me last night about the suffocating influence of religion on a believer.

The Christ follower has to make a choice to live in the freedom of Jesus or become suffocated by religion.

Christianity requires a believer to keep laws, do works and abide in the rules of a church. The believer becomes immersed in religion and loses the personal and embracing relationship with Jesus.

Jesus despises religion because it wants to control a believer. The motives of most churches are self serving.

Jesus came to set people free from sin and give believers a new identity through a “born again” experience. 

The purpose of Jesus is to develop a personal relationship with a believer built on faith and obedience. He desires to consistently speak to a believer, teach him the values of Jesus and be very present in his life. 

Jesus is not about building your life on works. He wants you to get to know Him personally, understand His ways and walk in oneness with Him anchored to the Holy Spirit.

Jesus died so a believer can have the gift of salvation and live with Jesus forever. Salvation is living in the reality of Jesus one day at a time. 

Making a decision for salvation is a life changing experience. The believer dies to self and agrees to live for Jesus above all else.

The Holy Spirit is the portal to walk with the Living Christ. He is sealed in all believers and is the source to the powerful attributes of Jesus.

The believer must invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over his life and follow the omniscient wisdom and guidance of the Spirit.

Jesus offers a life of order and simplicity. Pray vigilantly, read the Word, and listen for His voice. 

Commit your works each day to Jesus and seek His good, acceptable and perfect will.

Jesus will give you a life you can never achieve on your own!

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63

Many times we read or hear the words of Jesus but cannot understand them. This can be attributed to our lack of spiritual maturity or biblical knowledge.

This also happens because we are not walking in oneness with Jesus and connected to Him through the Holy Spirit.

At times, the words of Jesus can be mysterious and difficult. Jesus is not asking a believer to attempt to connect the words into an accurate interpretation. The revelation will come in the perfect timing of God.

The words may be prophetic about the future. Jesus gives believers signs about their journey with Him but they are not intended for taking immediate action. 

It is impossible to interpret the words of Jesus with the human mind. The believer must be filled with the Holy Spirit and yielding to His authority. 

The sin of a believer will block the words of Jesus and grieve the Holy Spirit. We have to be clean with the blood of Jesus and open to the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

The words of Jesus are Spirit and can only be grasped by the Spirit sealed in a believer. 

This why the Bible instructs believers to abide in the teachings of the Holy Spirit comparing spiritual life with spiritual truth.

God has given every believer the mind of Christ. He will help you navigate through life with the omniscient wisdom of Jesus.

“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11

We hear Jesus through His words in the Bible and when He speaks to us through the Holy Spirit. The words of Jesus are alive and powerful. They are like a sharp sword piercing the depth of a believer and discerning his thoughts and actions.

The words of Jesus have a purpose and will never return void. They are to teach, convict and transform a believer.

The most important task for a Christ follower is to build His life on the precious words of Jesus. They will bring the goodness and protection of Jesus.

Praying to Jesus is about seeking His will for your life. Read the Word and listen for the voice of Jesus.

Jesus has given every believer the mind of Christ and desires to have a constant dialogue with His people. If you don’t listen and obey Jesus there will be trouble and adversity.

It is impossible to follow Jesus unless you are submitting to the authority of the Holy Spirit. Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. The words of Jesus are like treasures from Heaven.

We need the omniscient wisdom of Jesus for protection and guidance. This comes from the Holy Spirit.

Commit your works each day to Jesus and invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over your thoughts and actions. This will be like rain coming down from Heaven in the counsel of Jesus. 

Jesus desires for a believer to have the order and simplicity created by words of the Holy Spirit.

The mission of a Christ follower is to cherish and seek the precious words of Jesus!

“It is not by might nor by power but by My Spirit! “ Zechariah 4:6

Faith has to be real and lived out in a believer. Without faith you cannot please God.

The Christ follower reaches out to Jesus for his every need. He prays for the protection of the Most High. Then he rests in God with unwavering confidence.

The Bible teaches us to cease from striving and enter the rest of Jesus.

We wait patiently on Jesus with praise and confidence in His promises. We do not complain or attempt to solve our troubles through the ways of the world. This is a slap in the face to Jesus and a sign of fear controlling our actions.

Faith is believing in the promises of Jesus and not what you see with your eyes. God calls things that do not exist as if they did. This is how He will deliver you from your troubles

Faith is believing Jesus will give you exceedingly and abundantly more than you ask or think.  

Jesus is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him!