One At A Time…

One At A Time…

When God moves He moves one person. As we remember all the masses of people that were in attendance at the great Sermons that Jesus Christ delivered, according to the scriptures, at two different Sermons there were thousands in attendance yet, not one person is reported to have followed Jesus afterwards. Why would that be? Is there a difference today? Not one person heard directly from the mouth of God the greatest stories, the greatest Sermons and the greatest lessons the world will ever know and yet no one was moved to change their life. Breathtaking to say the least.

God is always looking for individuals. Always on the look out for the one person that will change a community, change a region and change a nation, then change the world. Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, is searching hearts and minds where the inroads can be made to present the one person to the Father to move everything, change everything. Those in prayer, those in the field, those in office and those on the street – Jesus is searching. He is looking in the places one would not think to look. Jesus is looking among the lepers, the hookers, the drug addicts, the thieves, the murderers and the fishermen.

Jesus always finds the person that is at a loss, doesn’t know what to do, how to do, what to know or how to know how to deal with the situation at hand. Jesus locates the appropriate person to face the giants attempting to overtakes lives and makes them to step forward and lead.

Our relationship with Jesus Christ, Emmanuel – God with us – is so specific that we must walk with Him as we know Him, not as anyone else knows Him. Our identity in Christ is ours alone, He knows us and we know Him – one-on-one and no other way.

Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor. David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them off. He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. ~1 Samuel 17:38-40 NKJB

We are unable to battle our lions, our bears or our giants while adorned, while “clothed”, in someone else’s relationship with God. It will not work. Our relationship with God is ours alone. This is the very essence of the complete reading of Step 3…

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

How can we form our relationship with Jesus, as He is conquering our enemies, when we have given up our identity in Him? If Jesus doesn’t know us, how can He fight our battles?

No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord. ~Isiah 54:17 NKJB

Either the Scripture is the divine Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.