Christ: All that I need

We often say things like this, "Jesus is all I need" do we mean it? If we lost everything and I mean everything, would He be enough? When we can come to a place where our King is all we need, then we are exactly in the place we were created to be. Jesus is all, our breath, our life, our source. If we gain everything, all our dreams, all our hopes, and we don't have Jesus, we have NOTHING!

If I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing... 1 Cor 13:1-2

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Mark 8:36

"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
Mark 8:34

Worship the Christ

What does it mean to worship Christ? Is it just singing a song? Being overcome with emotion and falling upon your face before your King? That is part of it, but we are to worship even when we don't "feel" like it. He is our God, Mighty and Holy. We worship him because he deserves it, because he is GOD. We bow down to the King because of Who he is, not because he does nice things for us. He does, because he is good, but we praise and worship him in times of sorrow and in times of rejoicing. In famine and abundance.
The amazing thing is when we choose to worship, yes it is a choice, the Creator of the Universe comes down and is with us, communes with us, and surrounds us and we enter into a place that can only be reached with Him.
Often our lives are busy and we don't have "time" to spend in worship, but it should be a priority, not a left over act, if we have time.
So get up a little earlier to spend time with your Wonderful Saviour, He deserves it, and you get blessed for it.
What is better than spending time with Jesus, can anything else compare?

The Love of Christ

Have we thought on how deep our Father's love is for us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcley die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one would even dare to die, but God showed His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since therefore, we have now been justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.
Romans 5: 6-9

Enough said, that is how great Our Saviors love is for us.

The Peace of Christ

Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Php. 4:4-7

Rejoice in the Lord always, doesn't mean everything that whatever happens, we are happy about, in the mist of whatever it is, we rejoice. The Lord deserves all honor and praise no matter what. He is a good God and we fear him. He is HOLY, we bow down to him. He is Love, he picks us up. He will surround us and guide us. Not always taking us out of the situation, but walking WITH us in any situation. When we understand this, when our minds can grab hold of this, we can live being "not anxious" about anything, the Creator of the universe is walking with us through it, we hold His hand and let him walk us out, all the time caring for us and guiding our steps. He cares, he cares about all your worries, the things that matter to you, he says, "Give them to me" he is the only One that can take those worries and cares and ease the burden from off us, and can take care of them in whatever way he sees fit. We can trust in that because He is a good God, and whatever he decides is Good! He will replace all those wories and cares with his PEACE. The Peace of God is amazing and you can not get it anywhere else, only He has it.

So cast your cares upon Him, for he cares for you

That's MY KING

Watching the video "That's my King" stirs something inside me, My King is the most amazing thing. My Lord, My King loved me so deeply that he endured all of that, for ME. One of the most amazing things that happens to anyone who is a Christian, there comes a point in their walk when Jesus Himself will tell you that even if you were the only one, He still would have done it. When the Creator of the universe tells you that he did it for you, when he makes it personal like that, how can you not fall down upon your face awe of Him.
When we realize it, when it reaches your heart and grabs your soul, our natural response is to say, "where ever Lord, I will follow you wherever you lead." Living for self is so empty, living for Him is the fullfillment of all we were created for. He deserves all glory, worship, love, honor, and praise. He is above all, not because we put him there, because he is already there and all we have to do is look up.

...but God shows His love for us that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

How do we take up our cross?

Jesus said "whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me". Mat 10:38
He also said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brother's and sisters, yes even his own life, he cannot be my disciple" Luke 14:26

This is a hard thing to grasp, we love our family, and ourselves. They consume our thoughts and motives, we LOVE them.
But Jesus wants our love for him to be so far above any love we have for our family to look like hate in comparison. We deny self, follow Him, He is to be number one.
How do we get there? Spend TIME with him. Be in prayer, read His word, spend time with his children.
We choose Him over everything.
He is KING, bow to his feet and serve Him.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up James 4:10