“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

God looked at humanity and knew a miracle was required to make people like Himself. 

Jesus, the Son of God, was perfect and formed in the image and character of God.

God decided Jesus would be a sacrifice for all mankind. God sent Jesus into the world to demonstrate the glory and power of God. 

God told Jesus he would die on a cross and be a sacrifice for all sin. 

The redeeming work of Jesus begins with a man or woman making a decision for Jesus. This creates the gift of salvation for a new believer.

The death of Jesus created a way for a human being to be forgiven for all their sins and restored to God. The blood of Jesus cleanses a believer of all sin and offers forgiveness. The believer can face Jesus blameless of any shame or condemnation.

The believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and transforms the believer into the character of God. 

The workmanship creates the ability for a believer to walk in and do the works of Jesus. 

The starting point is to be a powerful light for Jesus for all those in your life.

Jesus instructs a believer to pray vigilantly, seek the will of God, and listen for the voice of Jesus.

He must read the Bible consistently and learn to live by spiritual principles.

The believer is to submit to the authority of the Holy Spirit and walk in oneness with Jesus.

The works are orchestrated by the Holy Spirit. He is like a wind and will do as He pleases. The believer cannot tell where the wind is coming from or where the wind is going. 

This is the life of a believer born of the Spirit and truth.

There is no striving or intellectual involvement in doing the works of Jesus. 

The Holy Spirit anoints and equips the believer with the gifts of the Spirit and sends him out into a ministry ordained by God. 

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ the new creature has come” 2 Corinthians 5:17

The goal of sanctification cannot be fully attained until you are in Heaven.

The new creature in Christ has to follow spiritual disciplines in the process of change. Making a decision for Jesus is just the starting point. If you are not willing to change Jesus will be a no show.

There are many steps a believer can take to initiate and make progress in becoming a sanctified being.

The believer has to desire to be holy. He has to be willing to give up his fleshly desires and the values of the world.

He has to ask God to reveal compulsive behaviors and genetic dispositions that are hidden from him. 

The believer can only see glimpses of his personality but God sees everything.

Another positive step is to give the Holy Spirit authority over your life. This will unleash a strong dialogue with Jesus and guide your motives and decision making.

The Spirit works through the Word of God so spend quality time each day reading the Bible. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you learn how to appropriate the principles of Jesus into your life.

Prayer creates a healthy relationship with Jesus. Devote time every day for fellowship with Jesus. Commit your works to God, pray for your needs, listen for the voice of Jesus and seek His will for your life.

Pray for the simplicity and order of Jesus to be at work in your life. Jesus wants to be in all the routine and sometimes boring details of life. For instance, ask Jesus what you should do for lunch today and you will be amazed at how well He knows you.

Listen for the voice of Jesus and be obedient to His instructions regardless of the personal cost or lack of logic. Like Abraham, obedience to Jesus will be credited to you as righteousness.

Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal anything you are thinking or doing that grieves the Spirit. Repent and turn away from any darkness.

Jesus is patient and is not looking for perfection just a willing heart to change!

“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” John 12:32

The goal of Jesus is to offer the gift of salvation to all humanity. He has no favorites. All are welcome.

Jesus died and was lifted up to heaven by his Father.

Jesus works in various ways to get the attention of a non believer. However, the unbeliever must initiate contact and reach out to Jesus. Jesus will not respond until He is asked. 

Jesus works through believers, angels and the local church to save unbelievers. He will engineer difficult life conditions or create a crisis to cause a non believer to come to Jesus. 

The unbeliever must reach out to Jesus by faith and have an open heart willing to change his ways.

The call from Jesus is not about religion. Jesus desires to build a personal and symbiotic relationship with a believer. He wants the believer to get to know Him, hear His voice and live in His presence.

Jesus is asking a believer to walk by faith and be obedient to His instructions.

Jesus seals a believer with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and the portal to the powerful attributes of Jesus.

It is possible to have intimate contact and a strong presence with Jesus by giving the Holy Spirit authority over your life. This will put Jesus into all the moments of life.

Jesus desires for a believer to be clean from all darkness. Ask Jesus to convict you of all sin and cover you with His blood.

Pray to Jesus to reveal anything you are thinking or doing that grieves the Holy Spirit. Then ask for forgiveness and the discipline to remove the sinful condition from your life.

The reality of Jesus is awesome and He can be in your life forever!

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:20

The human mind cannot comprehend what Jesus did on the Cross. He was perfect and paid a steep price for a human being to belong to him. Jesus was taken into a horrific sewer while dying on the Cross. He died for all sin with His blood.

The reality of changing from your natural life to a new creature in Christ cannot be taken lightly. This cost Jesus dearly.

The gift of salvation provides eternal life, forgives all your sins with the blood of Jesus, seals you with the Holy Spirit who is the life of Jesus, and transforms you into the character of Jesus. You move from a death sentence to an heir of God entitled to all the promises of Jesus.

The instructions in the scripture above are to glorify God in your body and in your spirit. Salvation is a powerful gift and a believer is obligated to die to self and live for Jesus.

The believer is asked to present his physical body as a  living sacrifice holy and acceptable to Jesus. The bad habits and compulsive behaviors have to go away.

Pray for Jesus to purify your thoughts and actions through the Holy Spirit and help you honor and respect the redeeming work of God. 

Do not be conformed to the world but be transformed to prove the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. Walk in oneness with Jesus and sever ties with worldly beliefs and values.

The relationship between Jesus and a believer is a symbiotic union that benefit both parties. The believer cannot just take from Jesus and expect to get His favor and blessings.

The responsibility of a believer is to concentrate on Jesus through prayer, reading the Bible and listening for His voice. 

He must vigilantly seek the will of God with a surrendered heart to serve Jesus.

He must comply with obedience to the instructions of Jesus regardless of the personal cost or lack of logic.

He must live under the authority of the Holy Spirit and ask Jesus to reveal anything he is thinking or doing that grieves the Spirit. This will keep a believer in check with Jesus.

The Christ follower is accountable to Jesus for his every thought and action!

I woke up today to the voice of Jesus speaking the word “sacrosanct”. 

Sacrosanct is defined as something sacred, holy, and important which cannot be changed or interfered with in any way.

Jesus never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Jesus has power and authority over the heavens and earth.

Jesus is perfect and without sin. He is a holy God.

Jesus is unconditional love and has no favorites in dealing with humanity.

Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. He sees all of your personality traits and genetic dispositions. 

Jesus is omniscient and knows every detail of your life from birth to the end. Today He will hear your every thought.

Jesus is a God of power and glory. The presence of Jesus can be terrifying and intimidating at times.

Jesus is a jealous God. His jealousy is like a consuming fire. He wants all of a believer and will not share him with other gods or idols.

Jesus desires to give you more than you ask or think but He must come first in your life.

Jesus died to forgive your every sin with His blood.

Jesus lives in heaven and manages a powerful network of angels. They protect believers and fight off evil.

Jesus is very approachable. He desires to have a personal and embracing relationship with a believer. Jesus wants you to get to know Him, hear his voice and live in His presence.

Jesus has no interest in religion, keeping laws, or doing works. He wants a symbiotic relationship built on faith and obedience.

Jesus is a promise keeper. He honors His word!

Jesus is a mighty rock that never changes and He wants to become your best friend!

This narrative deals with impropriety which covers a wide range of sinful conditions. The world today condones almost any behavior. The attitude is anything goes!

We have been born with an inner nature to defy God and live for self. This impropriety distances a human being from God.

The idea of trying to be squeaky clean will never work. Don’t even try. You will just create an artificial personality and a superior attitude towards others.

The natural man can never overcome sin regardless of how hard he tries to be clean. 

Jesus does not want you to attempt to change for the better with self discipline techniques because He knows they will fail.

Jesus teaches we are to be righteous people and powerful lights for Him.

So how we get from our natural life at birth to wearing a crown of glory.

To understand this we have to examine the death of Jesus on the Cross. He died so you can be “born again” with a new identity and transformed into the character of Jesus.

The decision for Jesus causes a man to die to self and live for Jesus. He becomes a new creature in Christ and old things fade away and are replaced by new things.

The believer thinks differently, has a new set of moral values, and a spiritual perspective on life. The world becomes less important to him as he matures into a Christ follower.

This does not happen through human ability or discipline. God seals a believer with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and does the work of sanctification in a believer.

The believer just needs to have an open heart to change and a willingness to submit to the authority of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit will teach, correct and transform the believer into the character of Jesus.

Commit your works each day to Jesus and yield to the authority of the Holy Spirit. This will give you intimate contact with Jesus and build a life of faith and obedience.

Ask Jesus each day to reveal anything you are thinking or doing that grieves the Holy Spirit. This is your safety belt in walking with Jesus.

Concentrate on Jesus through prayer, reading the Bible and listening for His voice.

Develop these spiritual disciplines and you will hear Jesus say “Well done good and faithful servant”!

“That they may be one just as We are one” John 17:22

The ultimate goal for a believer is to walk in oneness with Jesus.

Unfortunately, a human being is not wired to do the things of God. He has an inner nature to live for self and his personality is opposed to the principles of God.

The future ahead will be chaos for all humanity. God is bringing judgments that will wipe out two thirds of the population and cause many catastrophic disasters.

The only hope for a man is to surrender to Jesus, let go of the world and seriously seek the will of Jesus. This seems too drastic for most to take seriously. But it is the only hope for survival.

This is further complicated because most of Christianity operates with twisted motives and whitewashes the truths of God. The churches are not relevant to non believers and fail to introduce the reality of Jesus to society.

In the past a man could make a decision for Jesus and breeze through life retaining his individuality and pursing his goals. 

This option is now closed. It is all or none.

The decision for Jesus is serious and life changing. If a man (or woman) comes to Jesus he must be willing to surrender all to Him and seek the will of God with all of his heart and soul. There can be no more wavering between light and darkness. It is all for Jesus or face the consequences of the wrath of God.

Jesus wants nothing to do with your natural life at birth. It is contaminated. 

Jesus died an ugly death on the Cross to forgive all your sins and give you the gift of salvation. 

If a man makes a decision for Jesus he will be “born again” with a new identity and set of values.

Jesus offers a believer a new life filled with His goodness but this only comes with hard work and concentration on Jesus.

He must pray zealously, read the Bible and listen for the voice of God. 

He must develop a personal and symbiotic relationship with Jesus built on faith and obedience. 

He must give the Holy Spirit authority over his life and yield to the wisdom and correction of the Spirit.

He must repent from his sins and ask Jesus to cover him with His blood. 

He must be obedient to the voice of God and respond promptly to His instructions. Like Abraham, he acts by faith to fulfill the requests of God and is rewarded with His righteousness.

Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. He wants to give you a new life you can never achieve on your own.

The wind (Holy Spirit) blows where it desires. You cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. This is the life of a Christ follower!

Jesus is trying to show you His priorities. The gift of salvation provides eternal life, deliverance from sin and transformation into the holiness of Jesus. This work of sanctification will continue all of your life on earth.

The most important priority is learning how to walk in oneness with Jesus.

Jesus is not looking for works, asking you to keep laws or to be involved in religion. Jesus wants you to have intimate contact with Him and build a symbiotic relationship based on faith and obedience.

Jesus desires for you to live in total surrender to Him by appropriating His words; “Not my will but Yours be done.” Jesus wants all of you.

The  Christ follower needs to experience the awesome nature of God and see his power and glory. The presence of the Living Christ shows you how insignificant you are compared to Him.

Meeting the Living Christ is a terrifying experience. There is no one like Him. Jesus can shake the earth and turn the sun into darkness. Nothing is impossible for Jesus!

The reality of Jesus creates a strong desire to be in fellowship with Him at all times. He becomes your best friend and a powerful fortress of protection.

Jesus hears your every thought and knows every detail of your life from the past, present and future. How can you not be filled with awe and respect for Him?

The goal is to live in perfect union with Jesus by yielding to the authority of the Holy Spirit. Jesus isn’t looking for perfection just a willing heart to change.

Ask Jesus to reveal anything you are doing which grieves the Holy Spirit. Then ask Jesus to cover you with His blood and help you remove any sinful behavior from your life.

There can be nothing standing between you and Jesus if you want the fullness of His presence in your life!

“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the other things will be added.” Matthew 6:33

The covenant with Jesus is a “two way street.” It is a symbiotic partnership that benefits both parties.

Unfortunately, many believers attempt to take from Jesus without paying the price. The priority is Jesus comes first and a believer’s needs follow. This order can never be reversed.

The believer must zealously seek the will of God above all else. He must submit to the authority of the Holy Spirit who dwells inside all believers.

Jesus desires fellowship with a believer. This happens through prayer, reading the Bible, singing hymns or Psalms and listening for His voice.

Jesus wants obedience to His instructions without delay or questioning Him. Obedience to Jesus is regardless of the personal cost or lack of logic.

Jesus is not interested in works, keeping laws or religion. He just wants all you.

The believer is not free to do as he pleases. He must come under the authority of the Holy Spirit.

He must come to Jesus with an open heart for correction and repentance through the blood of Jesus. 

 Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal anything you are thinking or doing that grieves the Holy Spirit. Then act immediately to seek forgiveness and to make the changes to please Jesus in your life.

As you employ these spiritual principles in your life Jesus will honor your prayers and pour out His goodness upon you.

Walking in symmetry with Jesus will make you a powerful witness for Him and you will be empowered to do the works of Jesus.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27

We all desire to wake up in the morning and have a peaceful and productive day. 

Jesus views peace differently from the perspective of the world. He is stating there is no lasting peace in the world. This is because the world is under the influence of Satan and he desires to steal, kill and destroy believers. The world operates on self seeking motives and pleasing self.

So when you wake up to start a new day there will be darkness around your at every step.

Jesus instructs believers to seek the peace of God and not to be troubled or afraid of the worries in the world.

Jesus died to seal a believer with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and promises to give a believer peace regardless of the conditions in his life. Pray by faith for the peace of Jesus to envelop you. Jesus keeps His promises.

Reach out to Jesus and cast every concern that causes worries or fear on the shoulders of Jesus.

Put on the armor of Christ to protect you from evil. Pray, read the Word, and listen for His voice.

Jesus does not operate with worldly solutions; He creates Godly solutions built on the Word of God to protect and deliver believers. 

Jesus instructs believers to walk under the authority of the Holy Spirit and commit your works each day to Him. This will produce a steady flow of wisdom from Jesus to create order and simplicity in your day.

You can be living in a whirlpool with no way out and experience the peace and joy of Jesus.

The Cross is your ticket to an abundant life filled with the goodness of Jesus.