Daily writing prompt

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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When I was five, I had a strange love in my heart. I loved an invisible friend. I frequently talked to my unseen friend. All these years later, my invisible friend is still with me and continues to be the most important person in my life.

When I would ask my parents questions about my unseen friend it would make them uncomfortable. They wanted to avoid the subject of God because they were non-religious and didn’t attend church. But I couldn’t stop thinking about Him and talking to Him.

Although I continued to believe in God, as a teenager I rejected Jesus Christ and Christianity. Then one day in college I heard people share how Jesus had radically changed their life. Suddenly, in an instant, something happened within me, and I have never been the same. The living, resurrected Jesus Christ showed me that He is real, alive, present, and working in the here and now. Ever since that moment Jesus has been my all and all. He keeps me overflowing with love, joy, peace, and all the rest of the fruit of the Spirit.

True spirituality, true discipleship, true Christianity abandons self-focus and fully surrenders to the Headship, Lordship, and Kingship of the risen Jesus Christ who said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23)

God has given Jesus the name above all names. (Philippians 2:9) “There is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) To truly encounter and surrender to the presence and reality of the risen Jesus is to exalt no other name than His. If any name is in your thoughts or in your words or in your promotional or social media material more frequently than the name of Jesus, something is way out of line.

Let the name of Jesus be always on your lips and ever burning in your heart. Passionately pursue Jesus. Radiate His Reality.

Kenneth Collins said: “Even religion and the sacred can be made to do the bidding of self-absorption.” True spirituality, true discipleship, true Christianity abandons self-focus and fully surrenders to the Headship, Lordship, and Kingship of the risen Jesus Christ who said, “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23)

The “church texting service” you’ll love is the Bible. Read the Bible’s texts with a humble, open heart and quickly obey them. Let them burn in your heart and make you aware of the power in the name of Jesus.