21 – Seek God’s guidance through Lord Jesus

Lord Jesus says that He is “the WAY, the Truth and the LIFE” and that nobody “comes to the Father” except through Him. (John 14:6) What do these words mean to you? When I first became a Christian in 1995, as I was reading the words that Lord Jesus spoke over 2,000 years ago, which are recorded in the Gospels in the Holy Bible, a “fire” was lit in me.

Before becoming a Christian, I had argued for years with so many Christians about Lord Jesus being the “only” way through to God. After the huge spiritual transformation that happened to me in 1995 when I said the “prayer of repentance”, asked God for forgiveness and gave my life up to serve Lord Jesus, I then found myself repenting quite a number of times and feeling ashamed that I had been so arrogant and so wrong in what I had been saying to Christians.

Once I experienced the reality of the living, true and real Lord Jesus, I knew with every molecule of my ‘self’ that Lord Jesus IS the way, the truth and the LIFE. I also know that we can’t reach God the Father except through Him. I know this. I do not just blindly believe this. I experienced something so life changing I can never go back to the way I was before having this experience.

I have been so shocked at times at the level of arrogance I had towards Christians who were telling me “the truth” that Lord Jesus IS “the Truth”! I had NO idea of what they were saying until I surrendered everything in the prayer of repentance I said during the Alpha course, with Nicki Gumble, out of Holy Trinity Brompton, in 1995, which was the course that led me to repenting to God for all of my sins and then asking Him for His forgiveness. I am forever grateful for this moment in my life beyond what any words could say!`

How much time did I waste arguing that Lord Jesus isn’t the only way to God? So much! I am still so shocked all these years later that I believed I was so right going down the path I was on in the new age movement, which kept leading me on and on in a maze that never let me out! I never found my way to the end of the maze! It was only Lord Jesus who brought me out of the maze of the world, or “mammon” as He calls it!

As I repented of my sins before God through Lord Jesus, it felt like my sin was sucked out of me by a giant vacuum cleaner in Heaven! I then felt like I was on a mountain top with a rainbow over my head standing in such a pure and beautiful place that it felt like I was in a time warp in the days before there was any pollution!

This was such a huge and life changing experience, it is with me forever. I know so deeply to my core that Lord Jesus is REAL and He truly IS the way to “our Father who is in heaven”(Lord’s Prayer Luke 11:2-5)! I used to argue with so many Christians that there were many pathways to God and I was on all of them! How could this even be possible? This was a delusion from the devil, whom Lord Jesus calls the “father of lies”.

The new age movement is full of the devil’s lies. If you have friends caught up in this movement, please let them know to contact me, as I understand deeply where they are “coming from” and have experienced the entrapment of the never ending enticement of the ‘new age’ world. Lord Jesus truly is the “WAY” to our Father in heaven and He is the ONLY way out of the false world.

The fire that giving my life to Lord Jesus and then reading His life changing words built in me is now huge and gets bigger every day. The fire started to grow bigger and bigger as I was reading the Gospels and asking Lord Jesus every question I had straight away “as a child” asking their teacher to help me to understand what He was talking about. He said that unless we come as a “child”, we will not get into the “Kingdom”. (Matthew 18:3)

He also said we will not get into the Kingdom unless we DO “His Father’s will”. (Matthew 7:21) When I read these words I started asking Him what I have to do to make sure I am doing His Father’s will. I was well aware from my journeys into the “new age” movement that in the spiritual realms there are demons and the devil himself. I discovered that not only does God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit speak, but the devil and demons also speak. So how can you make sure that you are really hearing from God?

When you know that Lord Jesus says that “Heaven and earth shall pass away” but HIS words will never pass away (Matthew 24:35) this shows us how important EVERY word Lord Jesus spoke when He was walking and talking on this earth is! We must take His words so seriously that we know to our very core that His words are bigger than “heaven and earth”!

Have you ever really considered this? When He says that we will not get into the Kingdom unless we do the “will of His Father”, He is not joking! My life changed dramatically when Lord Jesus answered my question as to what to do to be able to truly do His Father’s will.

When I discovered that He said, “Where two or three” are gathered in His name, He comes and is here with us in “our midst”, this changed the way that I lived forever more. (Matthew 18:20) I realised that when I was asking our Father what He wants me to do for Him I can pray with one or two other Christians and He will answer because our Lord Jesus comes and is right there with us!

Lord Jesus is the “way” straight through to our Father, so when we gather together with “two or three”, He comes to us and then takes our questions to our Father straight through to Him. Wherever Lord Jesus is, the devil can not be anywhere near Him in that moment! Lord Jesus said that the “prince of this world has been overcome”. (John 14:30) However to live in the victory that Lord Jesus has won for all people, we must be coming with Him in all ways.

He says that if we “love Him” we will obey His commands, of which there are many. If we don’t even know what He said how can we be obeying His commands? Of course we can not be obeying Him if we have no idea of what He said when He was walking on this earth over 2,000 years ago.

Since I became a Christian in 1995, I have been speaking to Lord Jesus every day, asking Him about His commands and for help to obey them. At first this was not easy, but the more I have turned to Him every day to ask Him for help, the more I have come to know Him. He is my greatest friend. He helps me EVERY day. He has NEVER LET ME DOWN! Not EVER!

If you are interested in being in an ongoing relationship with Him, you must start to talk with Him every day. You need to set aside time to do this. You also can speak with Him internally at any moment. The main thing is that you take His commands deadly seriously and keep asking Him, what He means, what He expects and so on.

If you are interested in being part of a group I am starting in “discipleship” training, please let me know. Please write your email address in the box on the right and I will receive your email and place you into my discipleship group, where I am sharing what I have personally learned since I started on my journey with Lord Jesus in 1995. There are 86,400 seconds in every day, I have been learning from Lord Jesus since the moment I surrendered my life to serve Him and then started to read His precious words that He spoke over 2,000 years ago which are recorded in the Gospels.

He has given me so many “tips” as to what to do to help myself in having a deeper relationship with Him. He has also helped me to find out what I have to do to be able to obey His Father and be filled with the Holy Spirit. He says that His burdens are “light and His yoke is easy”. (Matthew 11:28-30) Even though He says that His burdens are “light” and His yoke is “easy” this does not mean that we are to do virtually nothing in a day.

When He says that if we love Him we will “obey” His commands, this is not just easy to do. This requires great attention and caring every minute of every day. He has helped me to understand this state of “being” to truly place the Almighty God to be number ONE in my life. The world is so full of distractions, how does any person do this? Lord Jesus says that the number one commandment is to “love the Lord your God with ALL of your heart, your mind, your soul and strength”. (Luke 10:27) He of course is NOT joking! How easy is it to do this?

I have been a self appointed disciple of Lord Jesus for over a quarter of a century. I would love to share with you over time what He has given to me. This has been a great deal of work for me on a daily basis. The greatest work that is possible on this earth apart from doing our Father’s will.

This is an ongoing journey as He continues to answer my questions every day. There is a body of work He has led me to that spans back since 1995. Lord Jesus came to my husband William some years ago and showed Him that He is “raising me up to help Christians all over the world, have the ‘life in abundance’ which He has come to bring, but very few Christian in this world have”. If you would like to receive the help that Lord Jesus has brought to me over the last quarter of a century, please place your email address in the box on the right hand side of this writing and we can begin this journey together. God bless you, Kelly Newton-Wordsworth