One On One #3

     Have you noticed that there are so many different things being taught to God's people? There are so many opinions and doctrines about Jesus and the Father being given. Most teach the Truth that there is salvation in no other Name or Person than Jesus. We've been taught what Jesus said, "I Am the Only way to the Father," but then we're taught so many different doctrines.

     Many teach that the things we read about in the Gospels and New Testament "have passed away" or were "only for the Apostles and the early Church." Sadly, some teach that healing has passed away and that God puts diseases and calamities on us, "in order to teach us something."

     Many lies have been taught good and well-meaning people, so how do you know for sure where you are in your own one on One walk with the Lord? If you've received Jesus into your heart by faith, like it says in the Word, then you're born-again and have become a child of God. Now what?

     Does it matter what a child is fed as he/she grows into an adult? Of course it does. Peter writes in 1Peter 2:2(Amp), "Like new born babies, you should crave (thirst for and earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into (completed) salvation."

     It falls on the individual to search the scriptures to know the Truth.  Jesus said in John 10:10(Amp), "The thief comes only to steal and the kill and destroy, but I come that you should have Life and have it more abundantly." Anything that is killing, stealing or destroying in your life, is not Jesus. If it's stealing your health, wealthy or peace and leaving confusion, disease and confusion, then it's not Jesus. In Mark 4, Jesus gave the "Parable of the Sower" saying, "Satan comes immediately to steal and take away the Word that was sown into their hearts." Proverbs 4:23(Amp) instructs us to, "Guard your heart (spirit), for out of it flows the forces of life."  

     How do you know what to allow into your heart and what to guard against, if you don't spend personal time in God's Word and before the Lord for yourself? Praising and worshipping the Lord as a congregation is a blessing and is powerful, but when we go home after the Sunday service, we must spend personal time with God. We must balance what we've heard with what the Word says and only allow the Wisdom and Truth of God's Word into our hearts.

     We must stand for the Truth. Paul was misunderstood by almost everyone he spoke to, but he knew he was right because he was directed one on One by the Lord. Jesus was mocked and criticized by many He spoke to, but He was steadfast because He spent One on One time with the Father.