CHURCH HOPPING VERSES GROWING PLACE
Have you ever known someone who goes church hopping?
They go one week to one church then move on to another.
They are trying to find a home church.
Even when they find a home chuirch they continue to jump around to
different churches.
I did that when I first asked Jesus into my heart.
What I found was I only got confused.
This is the reason Jesus is so against religion.
Every church should be teaching from one Bible.
Which would mean it doesn't matter where you go the gospel should
be the same.
But it is not the same.
Some churches make up their own Bibles.
That is so lame.
There is only one true God.
The word is the same today as it was yesterday and will be
tomorrow.
So why are they printing their own Bibles?
The reason is that man stepped in and picked a few verses and made
them the law so to speak for their church.
If they did not like part of the Bible they just omitted it.
When someone asks if you got religion what do you say?
My answer is I absolutely do not have religion.
I have the Lord Jesus Christ.
They say it is the same thing but that is a lie the enemy has fooled
many of Gods children with.
There is Jesus Christ.
There is Satan.
You have a choice as to whom you want to serve.
There is the Body of Christ.
The people serving Jesus are the church.
Did you catch that?
The people are the church not some building.
So when you go church hopping they are teaching you mans version.
We are the temple, the people.
We are the Body of Christ and we all should be working together.
The work is reaching out to the lost souls planting seeds by telling
them about Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.
We are here to worship and praise the Lord.
To bring Gods lost children into the light.
To serve the Lord in any manner He wants us to work.
Gods plan for us is a perfect plan.
But it is up to us how quickly we are trained and ready to serve Him.
Have you ever gone to work for a company and you have to take
classes for the job?
God will lead us to a church for a time for training.
A place to learn and grow in the Lord.
When we get to a point that we are no longer learning He will move us
to another church.
Your time at the next church building maybe a longer period of time.
When you moved to the second church building God put you on
another level.
The 2nd might take a longer time because the lessons are getting
harder.
The more you open yourself to the Lord the faster you will learn.
The closer you get to Jesus you will recognize Him when He is
teaching you.
Learning to know when Jesus is calling you is a very hard lesson.
You hear but you aren't sure if it really is the Lord calling you.
I took me a really long time to learn that lesson.
There are still times that I have doubts.
Sometimes it takes Him yelling my name.
Other times it is a whisper.
But oh how wonderful it is when He calls you.
Once you have learned to listen for Him the lessons start to move
quickly.
God is no where near done training me.
My flesh is falling away bit by bit.
The Lord is on my mind most of the time.
That is not to say I don't make mistakes.
He shows me the error of my ways through these words He has me
writing.
It is all part of the learning process.
Praise the Lord!!!
He is so good to me.
Jesus is so patient with me.
But not just with me with all of His children.
The Lord moved me to the home church I am going to now.
In the last 2 years the training time has increased.
There have been many days that I don't go to bed until 8 or 9 in the
morning.
Then I pray, praise, and worship Him for another 2 hours sometimes.
I feel so blessed to be in His presence for so many hours.
It is a honor to just rest in Jesus when I do go to bed.
Church meetings, prayer meeting, and training sessions with the Lord
are the highlight of my days.
When I have learned all that I am going to learn at the House
meetings the Lord will move me to the next place of yet more
lessons.
This is an exciting time of my life.
Even though sometimes it is hard.
I see things that are going on and I know they are not of God.
A sister or brother turns away from the Lord.
My heart grieves not only for the sister or brother in the Lord though.
My heart grieves for Jesus also.
I can feel the pain that Jesus is feeling.
God made us in His image.
That tells me He has those same emotions we have.
When one of His children walk away from Him it hurts deeply.
One of the brothers asked, how could the Israelites have turned away
from the Lord when they saw all the miracles?
I say the same thing but I know that I've walked away 3 times.
I pray that I will never walk away again.
Our flesh can make us think that there is a better way.
I also pray that my flesh will die.
That anyone who sees me will see Jesus.
That all that I do will glorify the Lord.
I tell myself daily I am nothing and Jesus is everything.
The only good thing in me is what the Lord does through me.
I look forward to each day.
I wait in antisapation what my lesson for the day will be.
My heart is filled with Gods love.
To put the words on paper as to how I am feeling is hard.
The joy of the Lord fills me.
The hope is welled up inside of me.
The peace of mind no matter if things are not going as good
as I would like them to go.
I know the Lord is with me and I trust Hm to protect me in all things.
With all the lessons my faith continues to grow.
I try not to worry but that is one thing my flesh gets going.
God has warned me not to worry.
So that is one thing I need to pray a lot about.
I am telling some of these things that go on with me to show you
that no matter how much we learn the process will continue until
the Lord calls us home.
My prayer is that who ever reads these words, the Lord has given me
to write, that you will be encouraged to seek the Lord and want
to continue to grow in the Lord and look forward to the lessons
He is waiting to teach you.
That you will want to go to the next level with the Lord and spend
more time with the Lord.
No matter which level you are on enjoy the time with the Lord and
learn your lessons well.
God bless you and yours.
PRAISE GOD THE FATHER, JESUS OUR SAVIOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
THAT LIVES WITHIN ALL CHRISTIANS.
