Let's look into the three ways to renew ourselves daily, and thereby become the Lord's beautiful brides who can pass through the pearl gates of New Jerusalem.
point 01 "Do You Live in the Word of God?"
In the Bible are the ways to meet God and experience Him, and where the secrets to receiving answers and blessings and achieving sincere heart in perfect assurance. Only when you pray holding on to the Word of God, can you gain realization by the Holy Spirit's inspiration and feel the love of God more deeply.
Before people come to know the truth, they live by their own standard. They return hatred to those who hated them and they think it just. For their benefit, they trick others or break a law, and think it right because others are doing it, too. But when the word starts to fill your heart, then you begin to renew yourselves by acting upon the Word telling you to do, not to do, to cast off, and to keep (Psalm 119:9).
If it is difficult for you to cast off the lingering attachment to the world and you are short of hope for Heaven, you have to make bread from the messages of Heaven and Hell first. If you want to receive answers, check yourself according to the message of "Seven Spirits." If you are a student and wish to study well by the wisdom and strength of God, there is a message series "Secrets to Study." You may pray, "Let me go into spirit"; but you should not pray vaguely. You should arm yourself with the message such as "Spiritual Love," "Nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit," and "Beatitudes," and then you should pray holding to the Word. Then, you can be changed.
By the way, chances are that even those who have been Christians for long years do not live in the Word. They say they have made notes of the messages and that they have read many religious books. However, they received grace when they listened to it, but then they forgot. They did not keep it in their heart properly. Although they are not armed well, they think they know it well because they have heard it before. They even say the message is not in their style, or that it is not interesting because they heard the same message before. They fall into idle thoughts and doze off during services. Only when you put the Word in action and obey it after reading and listening to it, can you be renewed.
point 02 "Do You Apply the Word to Yourself?"
If you do not apply the word to yourself well, you may fall into one of two categories. The first are those who diligently study it and memorize it but think it does not apply to them personally.
For example, you memorize that, in order to accomplish peace you should cast off the heart of seeking one's own benefit and consider others. However, when you work with others, you still seek for your own benefit, and make conflicts with others. Moreover, you apply the message you hear only to others. You say, "He is so selfish. He has strong self-righteousness and frameworks. He breaks peace with me," and you judge him. You don't realize that you are obstinate and cause conflicts with him.
You need the grace of God to find yourself while listening to the word and apply it to yourself. In order that by the inspiration of Holy Spirit you discover yourself and understand the word that you couldn't understand before, you need a longing heart and true effort.
The second category of not applying the word to oneself is that letting go of the word that's been received. They just attend those meetings where they can receive grace, but since they fall short of an effort to make the word theirs, they are slow to change in their heart. There will be no fruit even though they seem diligent (Hebrews 2:1).
If you hang onto the messages for a week that reveal yourself, and you continue to pray, you will change little by little every day and spiritual faith will grow. When such a little change doesn't stop, the Holy Spirit in your heart will rejoice. And it will make your Christian life a happy one. Moreover, if you keep on making an effort in usual days, your faith will dramatically grow up in a special moment of grace.
point 03 "Are You Faithful to Your Duty with Gratitude?"
Just as Psalm 116:12 says, "What shall I render to the LORD for all His benefits toward me?" when you are changed by the Word and receive grace, you surely wish to do something for the Lord.
Even if you are a novice Christian, once you received the grace, you may have started cleaning various places of the sanctuary or doing volunteering works in Sunday school, traffic control, the church restaurant and so on. Even if you are not a church worker, you may be trying hard to gather together, take care of brothers and sisters in faith and give intercessory prayers.
You do not want to be acknowledged. You do not want to receive something in return. You do it because you are thankful for the grace. You do it because you feel happy as you can do something for God. If you are faithful with this aroma of thanks, God will be pleased to take it and help you change quickly.
Moreover, while you are faithful to your duties you may find more chances to discover yourself since you may have to deal with many souls. You may discover more of who you are and the things that need to be improved. You can embrace various kinds of people, and understand the deeper heart of God.
Of course, you can do this when you are faithful not with just your physical body alone, but with the aroma from the heart of thanks for the grace. You should also have a longing heart to discover more of you and change yourself. Let's renew ourselves to be faithful to our duty like this. If you renew yourselves in the Word of God, your spiritual faith will increase quickly and will eventually become the fruit of whole spirit and stand before the throne of God.
Let's change into a true holy child without any blame or spot and run with hope to find yourself in the arms of God.
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