In the Gospel of John 6:35, Jesus says “I am the bread of life. He who comes to ME shall never hunger, and He who believes in Me shall never thirst”. Have you ever asked Lord Jesus what He means by these words? What kind of “hunger” is He talking about? Is He talking about spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical or some other kind of hunger? One of the most amazing things to me, is that you can ask Him yourself.
He says that He is our “one and only teacher”. When you surrender to this truth, your relationship with Lord Jesus will take a quantum leap! Not just today but every day! There is so much information coming from all over the world, which information is the truth?
God has led me all over the world into many amazing and sometimes quite dangerous situations. For instance, when I was singing for the ‘Peoples’ alliance for Democracy’ in Bangkok, Thailand (also known as the “Yellow shirts”) and on stage singing to around 200,000 people God told me to “leave now”. I left and a bomb went off under the stage upon which I had been standing.
I sang on this stage over many months. God asked me to do this. Before I sang there we prayed together where “two or three” were gathered. It was dangerous for me, a foreigner to do this and I have a huge testimony about the importance of learning how to listen to God better every day! This is really an understatement! It is in reality an emergency to be able to hear the living Lord.
One of the many things I have learned from my journeys all over this world, hearing God’s instruction, praying with others to make sure that I am hearing correctly, and then obeying His orders, is that Jesus really is “THE TRUTH”! There are so many situations I have been in, where I have learned that the “truth” is truly Lord Jesus! I used to argue with so many Christians, before I met Jesus, when they told me that He is “the Way, the Truth and the Life”.
After meeting Jesus, I have been repenting in many moments, for arguing with so many Christians about something I knew nothing about! I knew NOTHING about Him until I said the “prayer of repentance” and surrendered my life to Him. I now know for myself, that I could not have known Him until I gave up my enormous arrogance, of believing that what I thought was “the truth” or even what I believed about anything that I thought or had an opinion of was “the truth”.
I had to leap into the “unknown”. I had to let down my “guard”! What is this? To let down our “guard”, to leap into the unknown? In my experience so far, in this world, many people truly live in this way, where they seem to believe they know what is going to happen next. People have their plans and appear to me to live in this way where their plans are solid.
When things don’t go according to peoples’ plans, there appears to be a reaction which shows that people truly believed that their plans were real and bigger than life itself. It is as if a balloon they believed was solid has popped in their face and something shatters inside. I have seen little children when they have been playing with a balloon and they believe it is like a real ball. The first time they experience a balloon popping, they often get such a shock they cry or scream.
This to me is quite similar to what I have seen when peoples’ plans can no longer happen. There is a feeling of shock or disappointment in them. This of course is totally understandable. However, my experience since meeting Lord Jesus and coming to meet His Father, whom I now know is my own Father, and taking all ideas, plans and prospectively brilliant actions to take (according to myself), letting everything go, giving everything to God is phenomenal!
When God gives us His plans, He makes them happen, as long as we go about them His way. If we will not look to Him and listen closely to His instructions and obey them, we can’t serve Him. Therefore His plans for us won’t or can’t happen.
Can you believe that God’s plans for us are going to automatically far exceed our own plans? From my own life I know that His plans always exceed my own plans. He is the most High God. I am only one tiny human, made in His image. His plans are always going to be beyond anything I can even imagine.
The Almighty God is the one and only true GOD! Of course His plans will be greater than ours. It seems to be a silly question to ask whether God’s plans for us will be greater than our own plans, however I wonder how many people are really asking God for His guidance before they just go and do what they think, feel or what someone else thinks they should do.
How many people do you know, including you yourself, actually take a few minutes to check in with the Almighty God, before you take action with your own ideas or somebody else’s plans for you? This is a HUGE question. Are you going to do God’s will or your own”?
Jesus says that we will not get into “the Kingdom” unless we do the “will of His Father”. He tells the disciples that He has “food” they know “nothing of”. He says that His “food” is to do the will of the “one who sent Him”. Who is the “one who sent Him”? His Father who is also our “Father” who “art in Heaven”.
When Lord Jesus tells us that He is the “Bread of Life”, nobody “comes to the Father except through Him” and we “will not get into the Kingdom unless we do the will of His Father”, when you join the dots together of these statements, do they make any impression upon you?
He wants us to “feed” from Him, not from the world. He wants us to be in the world but not “of the world”. He wants us to look to His Father through Him and not through what we think is the way to Him. There is so much evil going on in this world right now. Jesus tells us that if we “love Him” we will “obey His commands”. He also says that “Heaven and earth will pass away but His words will never pass away”, so what is the true value of every word He ever spoke? His words He is saying, are bigger than this world!
If we as Christians are putting the world ahead of Jesus, what will happen not only to us, but to the world in which we live. Jesus tells us not “to judge lest we be judged”. Are you judging others? Ever? If you are judging in a moment you are going against Jesus. It is so important to know this, so that you can repent immediately, make sure you pay attention to what you are doing in every moment and make sure you stop judging others.
If you continue to judge others, you need to ask Lord Jesus to help you. You need to ask others to pray for you as you may need deliverance from something that happened to you when you were growing up. You may have come from a very judgemental family where you were often judged by others and therefore you have become a judgemental person.
This is the same with addictions. If you come from a situation where your parents were alcoholics or drug addicts, you may need others to really pray for you to be delivered from these addictions. Whatever happens, you can always start with asking Jesus yourself. You can talk to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit to ask for solutions. You can ask other Christians to pray for you. Keep asking for help until you are able to help yourself, by taking “command over sin”.
People talk about freedom. Lord Jesus says that if we will obey His teaching, we will be His disciples and know the “truth” and the “truth will set us free”. Jesus is “the Truth”! He is our one and only Saviour. If you will obey His words, ask Him, talk with Him, sit with Him and have Him at the forefront of your life, the difference in your life will be beyond whatever you can imagine.
God the Father, through Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit have trained me over almost thirty years to depend on Him and not the world, or “mammon” as Lord Jesus calls the world. I could talk with you about the LIFE He gives to me every day, all day. The stories of the miracles He has done for me, with me and through me obeying His commands are all real.
I pray for you to be delivered into the Life He has for you. The key starts with you. As Jesus says, you must ask, seek and knock at the door of God. If you don’t ask Lord Jesus what can He do. He is in the spiritual realms. You are in the physical realm. When you start to ask Him to help you and you receive His help, your faith will start to increase. The more you ask Him, miracles occur, your faith increases, more miracles, more faith and so on. It is quite logical really. God bless you in all ways, look forward to writing to you next time in ‘Breaky with Jesus’, put God first in your life and see the blossoming inside and outside, Love Kelly Newton-Wordsworth
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