Where is the modern Enoch?

I don't know if you have ever felt this way, but there are times I read the Bible and I become envious of the Faith of our fathers, or the patriarchs and the prophets. They had so much faith in God. They walked in the directions that God led them and made great nations, sure they made mistakes and were human like the rest of us, but they left such a huge impact in this world and they are one of the reasons that the gospel is still alive today.

Somewhere through the passing of these torches we have had a slowing down of faithfulness to God, its like we all have lost grasp of the gospel and are trying to understand what got lost along the way. We've lost the fervor. 

Where is the gospel? I know TV shows and movies and MTV are not really helping, Facebook and Tumblr have cool pages about Jesus that I can follow. Yet, there is something that is still missing. Where is the grand revelation of God? Where can I find that? 

Why are there no kings, like Nebuchadnezzar, that look at our faith and say "wow, your God is the true God."

Lets take a look at Jesus, He had the most amazing relationship with God. He spend most of His life (about 30 years) working a regular job, but there was something about Him that kept Him fully connected to God. When He started His ministry He would pray often and draw away spend time with God and in between He would serve others, perform miracles, preach, and travel. I remember this one verse that really struck me. 

"Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

Jesus didn't make a home here, He was just a passerby, His thoughts were eternal not carnal. If Jesus would have gotten caught up in His earthly life then we would have no hope. He was the hands and feet of God on Earth. Although He was clothed in humanity He was so connected with God that He was obedient even when it came to suffering. He was so connected to the Father that in Gethsemene he suffered to the point of sweating blood because of serious separation anxiety. It was painful to not be in the full presence of the Father. Jesus experienced a piercing pain as the guilt of the world laid upon Him, the sins of the world were separating Him from God. 

Jesus is our prime example, He spend more time with God than with anyone else (especially when He was ministering), His vision, His life, His walk are steps that we are able to follow. We might say that He was God and that it is impossible for us to ever be like Him, but God is not the God of the finite, the possible, but the impossible. Jesus said that every miracle and every word was not His own but His Fathers. Jesus was extremely dependent on God.

You tell yourself, sure I accepted Jesus as my Savior but why haven't I experienced that full presence and communication with God like Moses did when he spoke face to face with God? I want to be able to hear God's voice wherever I go, so I can obey His every call, and join hands with God. In fact, there are times you just want to jump into the Bible and experience what it was like to be one of the disciples, the stresses, the pressure, the tense atmosphere. What was it like? 

Why have you not attained a better relationship with God? Why are you not walking with God like Enoch, or preaching the gospel to many nations like Paul? 

This is why, you've settled. For some reason you have told yourself that you cannot do what the prophets did, or be like the patriarchs. Because "things don't work that way anymore" and "I'm in school." Excuses. Excuses.

God is alive right now, Jesus is enthroned with the Father. The Holy Spirit is working in you and me right now. God promised us so much, if Peter and John who were apostles after the resurrection of Jesus could do it, then we could do it. The Bible is not fantasy, it is the breath of God that is to give us life so that we too can partake in the story of redemption. 

No, I'm not here to offer you a solution, I'm here just to tell you to wake up. It's time you stop settling in your faith, thinking its sufficient and that it will slowly grow over the next ten years...

You don't need time. You just need to experience Jesus, submersed yourself in Jesus. Listen to Jesus, tune your ear to hear, warm up your voice to speak, and open your eyes to see the work that Jesus is doing and will continue to do in you. 

Jesus said that He would send us the Holy Spirit, the only thing is are we accepting the Holy Spirit? Do we even want the Holy Spirit? Do we trust the Holy Spirit? 

Don't settle. It's time we stop thinking that we can never be like the patriarchs because then we are limiting our God. God is doing greater things today but you just haven't experienced it yet. Just prepare yourself to receive the spirit. Because its time that we allow ourselves to be the hands and feet of Jesus. To shake the world up and hasten His coming. 

Texts used: (2 Corinthians 5:21) (Luke 22) (John 14:16,26) (Galatians 5:16) (James 5:7)

This message is strongly for myself. Pray that I too accept this call to get out of my stagnant state. #prayerappreciated

Wonderful God

The heart that beats for God
is the heart that will beat the longest

LOVE, the thing we've always longed for.
1 John 4:8 says we've just been longing for God
because God is love
I've never gotten to know love so well,
until I finally found the true deep and hurtful love
love told me I have to let go of myself
and take on Christ,
it hurts to strip away self
I struggle with it today, but God...
that real love is so worth it..
I have never experienced such love that gives,
gives until it cannot give anymore.
It gives without reason to give, its a love that is self-motivated
not dependent on your actions, not dependent on you,
its just an everlasting, eternal, love that cannot be changed,
no matter how hard you try, you cannot stop His heart from beating for you.

God is love.....

The Explanation For Our Difficulties

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2013

. . . that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us . . . —John 17:21

If you are going through a time of isolation, seemingly all alone, read John 17 . It will explain exactly why you are where you are— because Jesus has prayed that you “may be one” with the Father as He is. Are you helping God to answer that prayer, or do you have some other goal for your life? Since you became a disciple, you cannot be as independent as you used to be.

God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind. Yet there is one prayer which God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus— “. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . .” (John 17:22). Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?

God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy. If we will pray, regarding our own lives, “Your will be done” (Matthew 26:42), then we will be encouraged and comforted by John 17, knowing that our Father is working according to His own wisdom, accomplishing what is best. When we understand God’s purpose, we will not become small-minded and cynical. Jesus prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself, just as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far from this oneness; yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him— because Jesus prayed, “. . . that they all may be one . . . .”

-Oswald Chambers