I’d Tell Teenage Me How to Effectively Learn a Language

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Steve Simms
Daily writing prompt
What advice would you give to your teenage self?
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The most effective way to learn a language is by immersion into the language, not by forcing yourself to study it, memorize vocabulary, and obey grammar rules. That’s how we learned our mother tongue. We first caught it by hearing it over and over. Then a few years later we were taught in school what we had already caught.

There’s a grammar that my teenage self needed to know. It’s God’s grammar. That grammar is better absorbed when it’s heart-caught by lots of exposure than when it’s head-taught by tedious, analytical lecture. Immerse your heart in Scripture in an open, humble, and tender way. Read the Bible every single day as a love letter written personally to you. Absorb it with your heart, don’t analyze it with your mind.

When Jesus is allowed to indwell and to take full control of a human heart He inspires, and He empowers. He implants and grows an abundance of the fruit and character of His Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) Surrender your all to Him and begin to listen to and obey Him in all you think, say, and do.

Hang around people who are filled with exuberance for Jesus–who talk about and celebrate Him day and night — who radiate His love, humility, holiness, and presence. Ask God to lead you to those kinds of people (because they can be difficult to find). Immerse yourself in their presence, no matter where or whether they go to church. Make them your very best friends. Gradually you will catch their exuberant love for Christ.

The language of Spirit-produced exuberance is beyond words. God often produces such exuberance in me that I “ooh” and “aah” with glee and amazement in His presence. (Romans 8:26)

The exuberant “joy unspeakable and fully of glory” (1 Peter 1:8) that the Bible talks about is supernaturally produced by Christ in you. (Colossians 1:27) It’s not memorized by your mind. It’s soaked up by your heart. When you begin to sense God’s exuberant presence, go with Him — don’t hold back. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)

Spirit-produced exuberance made visible through people’s unrestrained surrender and obedience to Christ’s inner promptings powerfully demonstrates His reality. (Acts 1:8) Exuberance for Jesus will fill your life with joy and delight. Let the Holy Spirit make you aware of His amazing wonders and release Christ’s exuberance in and through you. (Psalm 47:1)

Most Christians have experienced an exuberant moment, but Jesus wants to empower His followers to live a joyfully exuberant lifestyle even in difficult times. (Matthew 5:12) He wants to make your life a holy, pure, enduring, and exuberant expression of His Spirit living in and through you.

Jesus keeps me exuberant. My heart overflows with His unrestrained joy. (John 7:38). I spontaneously wave my arms, (1 Timothy 2:8) dance around, (2 Samuel 6:21) and make joyful sounds. (Psalm 100:1) His grammar freely flows from within me.

(Back to language learning: I took 2 years of French in high school and learned nothing (although I tried) but a very few random words. Two years ago, at 71, I began to listen to Spanish videos for an hour or two every day and to read the New Testament in Spanish each day. After two years I can have nice spontaneous conversations with Spanish speakers.)

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Things That Don’t Have Heart-Healing Impact Bore Me

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What bores you?
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I want to feel good and to overflow with inner peace, love, and joy. However, daily life often hurts. It tries to break my heart and to make it as hard as stone. My self-focused life seeks to steal and destroy my peace and happiness by filling me with such things as anxiety, worry, guilt, and fear.

I want much more than to merely be temporarily distracted from the pain in my life only to have it come roaring back again and again. I want to be completely healed and delivered from it. Therefore, I don’t have time for things that don’t impact my heart with hope and healing. Those empty and temporary distractions bore me. However, the things that heal my hurting heart excite and restore me. I love to go beyond boredom to heart healing.

To experience heart-healing impact:
* Listen to and obey your conscience. It’s there to heal and protect you, not to condemn you.
* Embrace humility. Let it set you free from the heart-chains of pride, comparison, and self-focus.
* Whenever you mistreat anyone, apologize to them. Then ask for their forgiveness. If they say they forgive you, receive it. If they won’t, at least you did your part.
* Forgive everyone who has ever done you wrong. Pray for God to bless them. Refuse to accuse them anymore in your mind. Forgive and you will be forgiven with amazing heart-healing impact.
* Talk to Jesus and let Him talk to you. Let Him lead you by His Spirit and direct you day and night.
* Read the Book that Jesus inspired. Read it like a love letter, not like a textbook. Let it burn in your heart until you begin to consistently do what it says instead of obeying your own thoughts, feelings, and desires.
* Gather with other Christ-followers in a Spirit-led support group to open your heart to each other and obey the 50+ Bible one another commands.

Everybody is wanting something that or someone who can make a heart-healing impact on their life. That impact is available to all. Sell out to the risen Jesus. He can direct, manage, and lead your life better than you or anybody else or any government or organization can. Let Him!

Refuse to be distracted by things that only offer temporary relief. As ambassadors for Christ, Christians are called to focus on, obey, proclaim, and demonstrate God’s inner invisible government. True relief is spelled: J-E-S-U-S.

Be Cross-eyed. To be Cross-eyed is to be continually looking unto Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) It is to behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. (John 1:29) It is to overcome your inner enemy by the blood of the Lamb, by boldly and consistently testifying about the reality of the risen Jesus, and by abandoning self-love even unto death. (Revelation 12:11) “The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10) but Jesus wants to live inside of you (Colossians 1:27) and continually give you His heart-impacting and radically transforming presence and glory. (Luke 24:32)

Begin to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus (Luke 9:23) in His life, death, and resurrection power. (Philippians 3:20) Then you will be able to lay aside pride (1 Peter 5;6) and let God’s Spirit be your constant guide (Romans 8:14) — your King, Lord, and absolute Master. (1 Timothy 6:15)

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Let the “New Wine” Flow Freely

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is your favorite drink?
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Religious traditions can easily become old wineskins that refuse to bend and be moved by the Holy Spirit who wants flexible new wineskins that will allow people to be led by His “new wine.” (Matthew 9:17) People gathered to be religious spectators aren’t a community. They’re just isolated individuals sitting in the same location.

Be a branch connected to Christ the vine. (John 15:5) Stay ever close and always surrendered to His presence (John 15:5-7-8) and His will. Let Him prune you (John 15:1-2) and remove everything that hinders His will. Then you will begin to overflow with His new wine and bear the fruit of His Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23)

“Father, glorify Your name.” –Jesus

Lay down your life. Die to your own desires, feelings, thoughts, and opinions so that you can follow and obey the risen King Jesus instead of what you want Let Christ’s Spirit (His presence in you which is the hope of glory) lead and direct you day and night so the Father can glorify His name and demonstrate His eternal kingdom in and through all you say and do. Then He can use you for “even greater things”

If you won’t allow God’s Spirit to work inside of you to confront, challenge, and change you, you’ll stay stuck the way you are. Sincerely and humbly pray this prayer throughout each day.

Father “”Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.” No other kingdom, power, or glory is sufficient. Forgive me, Lord, for wanting my kingdom, my power, and my glory.

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Agape Lovers Are My Favorite People

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Who are your favorite people to be around?
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Agape lovers: “Come forth!” and love with Christ’s great supernatural love. “The great secret behind the great power of prayer is the power of great love.” –Jd Walt

Agape love comes from God. Everyone who agapes — loves with God’s supernatural love that flows from within them as rivers of living water (John 7:38) — has been born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7)

Let God overflow you with His agape love. If you have ears, hear what the Spirit is saying (Revelation 3:22) to Christ’s sheep. (John 10:27) Open your heart (Revelation 3:20) to recognize and obey His inner voice. Let the Spirit lead you (Romans 8:14) closer and closer to the risen Jesus and bring you into an ever growing, fully heart-surrendered relationship with Him. (Matthew 11:28-30)

Perhaps we are asleep to the greater works of God because we aren’t receiving the direct revelation from Him that deeply moves us, troubles our spirit, (John 11:33) floods our heart with His supernatural love, and gives us the keys of the kingdom. (Matthew 16:13-19) Seeing the glory of God begins within you. (John 11:40 & Colossians 1:27) Have and show agape love for one another deeply and fervently from the heart. (1 Peter 1 22) Begin to passionately obey the 50+ one another commands in the New Testament.

The government that Christians are supposed to make and keep as their first priority is the inner government of God and His supernatural agape love in their heart. (Matthew 6:33) The way to the kingdom of God isn’t a map, a blueprint, or a religious program. Jesus, Himself, is the way! (John 14:6) If Jesus isn’t your King, you’re missing out on the kingdom of God.

I believe that the first Christians gathered to worship God and to minister to one another as prompted by King Jesus, not to sit through a programmed church service. (1 Corinthians 14:26.) The important question for a Christian isn’t “Where do you go to church?” It’s “In what ways are you being discipled (trained to daily hear, follow, and obey the risen Jesus with agape love)?” (Mt. 28:19)

God’s greater things come from agape. got AGAPE?

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The Shoes I Am Unworthy Of

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
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Shoes that I am unworthy of lead me to true prosperity. Those are the shoes of the world’s greatest foot washer who humbled himself and removed his disciples’ sandals to do the servant’s job of washing their feet. My favorite pair of shoes is to walk in this man’s sandals–the God-man, Jesus Christ.

True prosperity is a life fully surrendered moment-by-moment to the risen Jesus. It is an, ever growing, heart-to-heart relationship with Him as your King, Master, and Lord.

Would you like to truly prosper? Prosper in the Spirit who gives life. (Romans 8:2) Prosper in the fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) Prosper in the gifts of the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:1-11) Prosper in the presence of the Spirit. (Romans 8:9) Prosper in being fully surrendered and obedient to the kingdom of God within you. (Colossians 1:27)

Prosperity is Christ’s way of living and thinking. It is His presence ever leading and directing you from within. (Galatians 2:20) Prosperity isn’t about having money and things. It’s about Christ having all your love and obedience. The way to spiritually prosper is to always stay focused on hearing and obeying the living Jesus who is “the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6)

True prosperity is to abound in the wonderful things that no amount of money can buy: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Exterior prosperity, no matter how far the money reaches, is fragile, shallow, and thin, but interior, Spirit-produced prosperity is deep, unshakable bedrock.

The only prosperity that will last forever is prospering in ever-growing love for, surrender to, and obedience to Jesus. (2 Corinthians 3:18) That is spiritual prosperity and it grows in a humble heart that is lovingly and continually surrendered and obedient to the risen Jesus. (James 4:6)

Genuine wealth is a deep ongoing burning desire to daily follow and obey the living Jesus. (Matthew 5:6) That’s the “pearl of great price.” (Matthew 13:45-46) The more you allow your heart to be attracted and drawn closer to Jesus, the more you’ll experience the great wealth of His presence. (Matthew 11:28-29)

The first step in spiritual prosperity is to seek first the kingdom of God. (Matthew 6:33) The prosperity of the kingdom of God isn’t theological, analytical, financial, or political. It’s practical. It’s the actual direct government of God’s Spirit inside of human hearts that are fully surrendered to consistently obey Him instead of their own thoughts, feelings, desires, or opinions.

Your best life is to be continually led by the Holy Spirit. Live it now. (Joel 2:28-29)

To be truly wealthy
Is to have a healthy
And rich relationship
With the risen Jesus
And heart-to-heart friendship
With His faithful followers.

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Humility Can Be a Wonderful Gift

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
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Sometimes the best gifts are the humble ones — the simple gifts that come from so deeply in another person’s heart that they profoundly touch your heart. Humility, even though it doesn’t appear appealing at first sight, is a gift like that. Jesus put it this way:

“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.” (Matthew 11:25-26)

Jesus’ prayer shows that Jesus want’s His followers to receive the gift of humble child-like faith and to be continually open, receptive, and obedient to God’s direct, personal, and ongoing revelation. “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (James 4:6)

Jesus wants us:
To get out
Of our comfort zone.
To come out
Of all darkness
And into God’s light.
To sell out
To His risen presence.
To live out
His commandments.
And to speak out
With the power
Of His Spirit
All about
What He has done
And is doing
In, among,
And through us.

Jesus doesn’t
Want to build
More buildings
Made of wood,
Metal, bricks, or
Prety stones.
He wants to build
His Spirit-led
Community
Made out of
Living stones–
People who are
Connected
Heart-to-heart
With Him and
With one another.

Settle down deep
Into God’s grace.
Let Him erase
Every trace
Of your pride
And replace
It with His glory
Shinning from your face.
(2 Corinthians 3:18)

The kingdom of God is not of this world. (John 18:36) It doesn’t function by human wisdom, knowledge, power, methods, or abilities.

Pride often causes Christians to replace the direct, personal Headship of the risen Jesus with a human head. Instead of saying “King Jesus, have Your way,” they say “Pastor esus,” (ease us).

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Budgeting 100% to 1 Purpose

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Write about your approach to budgeting.
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I call my approach to budgeting “100% budgeting.” 100 % budgeting is giving all that you are and all that you have to one purpose. Only one purpose in my life has ever inspired me to try to give everything for its cause. That purpose is revealed in the prayer that Jesus Christ prayed: “Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”

God’s viewpoint is truth. Mine is merely subjectivity. I need to continually set aside my point of view for His. The kingdom of God is not of this world. (John 18:36) It doesn’t function by human wisdom, power, methods, or abilities.

When people do “what is right in their own eyes,” (Judges 21:25) they disagree with each other. When they listen to and obey what the objective God reveals to them by His Spirit (and confirm what He says by what He said to the writers of the Bible) they find themselves moving closer and closer toward agreement.

“The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) Use “the keys of the kingdom,” (Matthew 16:19) to unlock your heart and let the King of glory come in (Psalm 24:7-9) to take full control of your life. Continually surrender your will to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. (Revelation 19:16)

If you want someone to take control and fix things, let that Someone be the risen Jesus. Let Him be your King and Lord. Welcome Him into your life and let Him take charge of what you think, say, and do.

Created objects reveal that a Creator is real. (Nothing makes itself.) Subjective human feelings didn’t create the complexities on earth. God did. Since God is real and He created all that exists, then He has the ability to put a thought in your mind. And if God puts a thought in your mind, then that thought isn’t from you. It’s objective, not subjective. It’s important to discern if a thought is from you or if it is from God.

Christians who are unaware of and/or unsubmitted to the invisible inner government of God, are missing the point of Jesus words: “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.” (Mark 1:15) For the most part, contemporary Christians have neglected to inform people about the invisible inner kingdom of God and to train them to let King Jesus personally direct their life by His Spirit. So sad.

Every human hierarchy is flawed because it is made up of imperfect people. The only government that can be fully trusted is the kingdom of the living God directly ruling in your heart and overriding your desires, feelings, and opinions with His will.

People who are under a religious hierarchy are rarely trained (and even more rarely released) to be led by the Spirit. (Rom 8:14) Christ-followers need to budget 100% of all that we are and all that we have to letting God lead and empower us by His Spirit day and night so that we can live by the values of the kingdom of God rather than by the opinions of our culture. Give all your allegiance to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

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This Kingdom Has My Heart and Patriotism

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?
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Jesus came to announce and establish His invisible inner government inside of human hearts, not to support or endorse a visible human government. I’m a kingdom of God patriot. I’m committed to love, follow, and obey “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” day and night.

When the eyes of your heart
See the one who is unseen
You will never be the same.
He will make you clean 
And will wash away 
All your guilt and shame.
Look and see Jesus.

Everything that alarms you
Is crying out for you to
Wake up to
Christ’s real presence.
He's the essence
Of the Gospel.

Be Christ’s Garden. Let Him plow and cultivate your heart so He can grow His produce in you.

Be His orchard. Let Jesus prune you and produce an abundance of the fruit of the Spirit within you.

Be His vineyard. Allow Christ to turn the stale water in your life into His new wine.

God’s truth is more complex than any individual can fully explain. We need to hear from various gifts, callings, and perspectives in the body of Christ (not just from the same preacher every week). We also need to check everything we hear to make sure that it is aligned with the Bible. (Acts 17:11)

AI? Why settle for artificial? First and primarily use the real intelligence and creativity that the genuine God has given to you! Be led by the Spirit. (Romans 8:14)

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Why does my human heart want to break the law (not just unintentionally) but often intentionally?

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?
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We humans find it easy to abandon godly character and to do ungodly things. Righteous laws are important, but a society needs more than laws. We need to have multitudes of people with a pure conscience who will obey those laws when no one is looking.

Heart contaminants crush mental health. Humanity’s greatest problem is mental and heart pollution. Every lie you tell contaminates your heart. Mental and emotional contamination is highly contagious. If you don’t protect yourself from it, you’ll catch it and absorb it.

Contaminated thoughts will make you sicker than contaminated food. Polluted food can kill your body, but polluted thoughts can kill your soul.

Contaminated thoughts will pollute your life. Quickly resist and reject them. Purity is important for your water, but even more important for your mind, your heart, and your soul. If your heart has been polluted, there is a purifier. (Malachi 3:3.)

Jesus is the antidote for the moral poison that is killing your conscience. “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8)

Jesus “gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good.” (Titus 2:14) How wonderful it is to be purified by Him and to daily allow Him to keep me from returning to uncleanliness. Thank You, Jesus!

Jesus wants to purify your heart from the contaminants that pollute it so that it can sparkle with His light and life. (Mt. 5:8) He wants to strengthen your heart “so that you will be blameless and holy” in His presence. (1 Thessalonians 3:13) Christ will create a clean heart in you. If you will allow Him to, He will continually purify you. (Ps 51:10)

Power can easily deceive human hearts and lead to spiritual compromise and casual Christianity. It’s extremely difficult to maintain a pure heart if you hold a position of great political or religious power. (Just look at all the corruption that has been exposed in religious organizations and human governments. Imagine what corruption is still hidden. Only the Holy Spirit can root it out.)

God’s prophets in the Bible didn’t hold government offices. Instead, from the outside looking in, they boldly spoke God’s truth to the people in power. They didn’t have political power. They had spiritual power that was mighty through God! (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Toxic religion doesn’t want the living Jesus. Like the religious Pharisees who wanted Him executed, religion tends to prefer a distant or a dead Jesus. It feels threatened by the risen Jesus.

The risen Jesus isn’t about religion or politics. He’s about the inner government of God that purifies human hearts and minds and produces love, joy, peace, hope, healing, and freedom. True Christianity isn’t about religion or politics. It’s about releasing and demonstrating love that “comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” (1 Timothy 1:5)

Jesus wants to set people free from both the Pharoah of religion and the Pharoah of politics so they can be gloriously led by His Spirit. Let Jesus detox your mind and your emotions so He can make you clean and pure. (Titus 2:14)

It’s interesting that people who break immigration laws are called “illegals.” If we start calling people who break traffic laws “illegals,” every driver will be one. Can you name a driver who has never even once gone a bit (or a good bit) above the speed limit or gently (or rapidly) rolled through a stop sign? Although I drive slower and come to a complete stop as stop signs more often that the drivers around me, I still could get many speeding and stop sign running tickets every time I get behind the wheel, but I haven’t had one in decades because the laws are rarely enforced. If the government cracks down on traffic laws the way they are on immigration laws, all of us illegal drivers will be in trouble!

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The Way to Heal a Nation Isn’t Through Politics

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Steve Simms
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If there were a biography about you, what would the title be?
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My life has shown me that the way to heal a nation isn’t through politics. It’s for the people who say they love God to demonstrate God’s government (the kingdom of God) in and through their daily lives by obeying 2 Chronicles 7:14.

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14) For God to heal their land people who love Him need to do 4 things:

  1. Humble themselves:
  • Deny yourself, (Luke 9:23)
  • Take up your cross, (Luke 9:23)
  • Follow and obey Jesus, (Luke 9:23)
  • Consider others better than yourself, (Philippians 2:3)
  • Forgive everybody, (Matthew 18:22)
  • Always keep Jesus first, (Matthew 6:33)
  • Bless those who curse you, (Luke 6:28)
  • Love your enemies, (Matthew 5:44)
  • Stop exalting yourself, (Matthew 23:12)
  • Confess your sins to one another, (James 5:16)

2. Pray:

  • For God’s will to be done, (Matthew 6:10)
  • For His kingdom to come, (Matthew 6:10)
  • For daily provision, Matthew 6:11)
  • For forgiveness as you forgive others, (Matthew 6:12)
  • For victory over temptation, (Matthew 6:13)
  • For deliverance from evil, (Matthew 6:13)
  • For God to send workers into His harvest, (Matthew 9:38)
  • For one another, (James 5:16)
  • For those who curse you and abuse you, (Luke 6:28)
  • For people in government positions, (1 Timothy 2:2)
  • In the Spirit at all times, (Ephesians 6:18)
  • In tongues, (1 Corinthians 14;5)

3. Seek God’s presence:

  • Draw near to God, (James 4:8)
  • Taste and see that the Lord is good, (Psalm 34:8)
  • Hunger and thirst for righteousness, (Matthew 5:6)
  • Come unto Jesus, (Matthew 11:28)
  • Quench not the Holy Spirit, (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
  • Be led by the Spirit moment-by-moment, (Romans 8:14)
  • Approach God through Jesus, (Ephesians 3:12)
  • Seek God with all your heart, (Jeremiah 29:13)
  • Return to the Lord, (Hosea 6:1)
  • Always stay close to Jesus, (John 15:4)
  • Continually quote and ponder the Bible (Joshua 1:8)

4. Turn from their wicked ways. Admit that you have “wicked ways.” Then stop:

  • Letting any person or thing come between you and God, (Exodus 20:3)
  • Misusing God’s name, (Exodus 20:7)
  • Dishonoring your father or mother, (Exodus 20:12)
  • Committing adultery and all other sexual sins, (Matthew 5:27)
  • Divorcing, (Matthew 5:31)
  • Stealing and cheating, (Exodus 20:15)
  • Being dishonest and lying, (Exodus 20:16)
  • Getting drunk, (Ephesians 5:18)
  • Wanting other people’s possessions, (Exodus 20:17)
  • Comparing yourself to others, (2 Corinthians 10: 12)
  • Being unkind to people. (John 13:4)
  • Angrily insulting people. (Matthew 5:22)

I don’t believe that the kingdom of God comes by politically changing a human government. I believe it comes by God supernaturally changing human hearts. The calling for a Christian is to proclaim and demonstrate the love of Jesus to everyone, not to proclaim a particular political position.

A human government and the government of God won’t mix, no matter how hard people try to put them together. (1 Corinthians 15:50) The invisible government of God is the only government that all human beings will have to answer to. Seeking it should be a much higher priority than seeking a visible human government.

Christians aren’t called to make a particular country great. They’re called to proclaim and to demonstrate the greatness of the invisible kingdom of God. My trust is in the risen Jesus, not in a particular politician or a particular country. Regardless of what happens in America, I’m seeking first the kingdom of God. I want to be governed by King Jesus.

Obeying 2 Chronicles 7:14 will heal a nation. Unfortunately, that has rarely been done because it’s much easier to refuse to change and simply trust a political leader to fix things.

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