Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

Perhaps there comes a time in your walk with God where you realize that maybe you have learned so much falsehoods or teachings that have been twisted in one way or another from church and even the most respected pastors and teachers, that you think that perhaps you haven’t really lived a real Christian life.

It’s not a real Christian life because you have not learned to be truly obedient, nor truly submit yourself to God’s will. It’s not a real Christian life because you think that being subject to God’s will is just trying to do what is taught in the Bible and have the faith that God shall answer your prayers, and thinking to yourself that you’ve asked them in accordance to God’s will.

And to think that you’ve been dissing the prosperity gospel when you yourself are living it! Because the prosperity gospel in its essence is about you, you, and you!

Because, when you pray, don’t you say “Oh, Lord, bless me” with this or that, a job, a wife, a girlfriend/boyfriend, and whatever that your heart desires, you preach within yourself the prosperity gospel!

There’s no denial of self, so that the glory of God might be manifest! There’s no desire to be a true vessel that God’s glory can come into, because you aren’t able to empty yourself of this thing called “self”!

Today, I have realized that I have not been much of a disciple of Christ Jesus as I’d like to think!

My dear reader, let me share with you this sermon by Paul Washer that hit me right to the heart that I realize there’s so much of my “self” I need to learn to surrender in order that even my life is all about the LORD our God; that everything is about the LORD our God as a Christian and no more about ourselves! I pray that the sermon shall awaken you as much as it did me.

Oh, Lord, that I learn to be a man after your heart, for thy Glory alone, not mine!

Amen!

Shalom Aleichem.

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