How to be glad inside: Instead of trying to forgive yourself truly forgive, pray for, and bless everybody who has hurt or offended you and soon you’ll begin to experience God’s forgiveness of your sins in a fresh, healing, and amazing way. “Forgive and you will be forgiven.”
To truly believe in Jesus is to continually rearrange your thoughts, words, and behaviors to align with His will so that He is your constant, literal, and absolute Master, King, and Lord. The Bible calls that ongoing process, repentance. The good news of the Gospel of Christ is that because King Jesus has come and continues to be present in the person of God the Holy Spirit, the kingdom of God (His inner government of your life) is now close at hand. Will you fully and continually submit to, rely on, and obey His authority as “Christ in you, the hope of glory”?
History has shown that religion can be legislated and imposed on people but heart-felt Spirit-led Christianity can’t be legislated. It must be demonstrated by passionate Christ-followers who faithfully listen to and obey the risen Jesus.
To be truly led by the Spirit and not by the flesh you must ignore and deny your own thoughts, feelings, desires and opinions so that you can hear, focus on, and obey what God is saying to you. Listen to God’s promptings. Ponder what He says. Let it burn in your heart as holy fire. Check what you hear with Scripture. When it aligns with the bible you have truly heard from God. Then get up and do or say what He told you to regardless of the consequences.
To be truly led by the Spirit:
* Believe that God is speaking to you.
* Believe that you are hearing Him correctly.
* Ignore any fear you have about obeying what He is telling you to do.
* Actively obey God no matter how you feel.
* Be willing to make mistakes and quickly repent when you do.
* Don’t let mistakes in hearing God stop you from continually listening to and obeying Him. Learn from mistakes and keep listening to God.
* Saturate yourself with Scripture. Consistently read it and soak it up with your heart.
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