37 – Come closer to Jesus

This recording has been made on the 31st March, 2023, coming up to Easter. I am so excited to talk to you about coming closer to Lord Jesus right now. Perhaps closer than you have ever felt or been. My experience of coming with Jesus every day, is that He brings me MORE during the day, the next, onwards and upwards on a daily basis.

When He says that we are not fit to be His disciple unless we “take up our cross every day”(Matthew 10:38), how do these words affect you. Do you really “take up your cross”? Every day? If not, or you don’t even really know what Lord Jesus means when He says these words, you can simply ask Him to help you! He says that He is our “only teacher”, so if you will let Him teach you He will! How exciting is that?

As we are coming up to Easter, I believe it is very exciting to really consider on a deeper level what our Lord Jesus means to us. What He did for us. The example He set for us. It is truly amazing and there is nobody else on this earth who can come near to Him! Except….all of us! He says that if we will “obey His commands” we can “do what He did and EVEN GREATER things!!

There is only ONE begotten Son of our Father, but He is telling us that if we obey His commands we can literally DO what He has done and EVEN GREATER THINGS! I STILL find this beyond phenomenal. This sentence is the reason I gave up my life to serve the almighty GOD, so I could do what Jesus did and even greater things. (John 14:12)

At that time though I had no idea of who Lord Jesus is, what He said and even all of the truly awesome things He did in His daily life when He was on this earth. Seven years after standing in a field and saying to God that I gave Him my life, He led me to His SON and then I gave my life up to Lord Jesus and started to learn from the beginning of the Gospels, what He said, what He did and what He expects of us.

I started an intimate relationship with Lord Jesus by speaking to Him personally any time of the day or night, every day. I also learned at that time that the devil also speaks, so we really need to be in touch with other Christians as much as we can so that we can pray together and make sure that it is actually our Father, Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit speaking with us or the one Lord Jesus calls the “father of lies”! Lord Jesus says that the devil has been a “murderer from the beginning” and he seeks only to kill and destroy.

As I often say, we must be very careful who we listen to. I have learned that any “voice” in my mind that speaks in a horrible or negative way is the devil. Our Father, Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit love us and would never say anything that would out us down or make us feel like we are nothing. They only want the best for us.

I learned years ago from a Christian woman who said that every time you are about to take a quantum leap in your life with Lord Jesus, the devil will attack you. This has been my experience for years. She told me to say, “Get behind me satan in Jesus’ mighty name.” I have been doing this from around a week since I became a Christian and this has helped me beyond what I can say. Lord Jesus Himself told satan to “get behind Him”. I also say “Lord Jesus please help me” and He always does.

Lord Jesus has really come to bring us “Life in abundance”. He is our saviour, our Messiah, our “one and only teacher”, our greatest friend and more. He always comes when “two or more” are gathered in His name. How about this Easter, you really spend some time speaking with Him and asking Him to help you obey His commands so you can “do what He did and even greater things”.

If you “open” your mind to Lord Jesus in a bigger way than ever before and find out what obeying His commands can do not only for you but your family, friends, community and even the whole world. Ask Our Father, Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit to come and “dwell in you”. Give your life anew to serve the most high God and see what happens in your life. You will be astonished at how exciting every single day becomes. With God there is ALWAYS MORE! God bless you and Happy Easter, Kelly Newton-Wordsworth Breaky with Jesus!

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