God draws you to follow Jesus on your own personal journey

Give it to God. Surrender it. Follow him with all your heart and allow him to work in your life and give you spiritual growth because that's what you're fixated on. Don't overcomplicate it. You wanna lose weight? Trade out a soda every day for water. You you wanna learn something? Open a book and read a page a day. You you you you wanna you wanna achieve something you never considered achieving before? Step out on the road, put one foot in front of the other until you find yourself walking down the path. Stop over complicating the call of God. [00:43:10] (45 seconds)  #GiveItToGod

See, we over complicate things. Here, let let me make it simple to you. If you're doubting, you're not sure, have you asked God? Have you asked him? And by the way, when I say the the idea of god show me your that's not what I'm that that's not what you're doing. You're not saying god show me a miracle so I'll believe in you. What you're saying is god revealed to me who you are because remember, god's the one that draws you. Mhmm. [00:30:21] (26 seconds)  #AskGodFirst

Church, we need to be driven by truth, by evidence, not by what is written on our hearts. You know, in today's world, the the world tells us to trust our hearts. The Bible says our heart is deceptively wicked. A world of iniquity, who can't know it? Bible actually says, don't trust yourself. Don't lean on your own understanding, but in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct that path. See, here's my point. If God has called you to salvation, if you will put your faith in Christ, you need to do the simple thing and follow him. [00:31:19] (42 seconds)  #TruthNotFeelings

That means every day you get up, you do the simple task. Spend time in his presence. Read his word. Pray. People will say, oh, well, what should I read? You know, I'm gonna tell you, start with the book of John. I I like to use the book of John. You it'll be a little hard to get through chapter one. It's a little tongue twister. Once you get through the chapter one, it gets a lot easier. [00:32:01] (24 seconds)  #ReadJohnDaily

Remember that guy? He came to Jesus, said, what must I do to inherit eternity? Why did he say you have to sell everything that you have, give it to the poor, and follow me? By the way, that's not what everybody's called to do, but that's what he was called to do because that's what happened. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me. You see how Jesus keeps saying this over and over and over again, over and over and over again? The idea is just follow him. [00:34:33] (27 seconds)  #TrustGodThroughSuffering

died proclaiming Jesus' name. They died building the church. They died obeying God. They died standing in truth. He called them to death. In fact, even more so with Paul, Paul was actually shown all the things he must suffer. Question is, what if god calls you to suffer on this earth? Are you willing to trust him? [00:09:59] (30 seconds)  #TrustGodEvenWhenScary

The Bible teaches us that all of us are called to our journey. We're called to walk in faith, not by sight. We're called to trust God, not ourselves. We're called to obey God even when it doesn't make sense, to push away our own wants and desires and take up the desires of Christ, to not live for treasure on this earth that rust and dust and dust and moth corrupt, but to live for treasures in heaven. [00:13:09] (37 seconds)  #BuildFaithConnections

I know the first thing you do is you start by praying that god will reveal to you who you're supposed to be connecting with. You may already know. So what are you doing to build that bridge, that connection? Are you sharing what God's doing in your life with them? Are you offering to pray for them? Are you offering to encourage them? Are you offering to to to share the gospel with them? If they are a believer and you know that they're a believer, but they're young in their faith, how are you challenging them to grow in their faith? [00:44:19] (31 seconds)  #LearnFromSpiritualMentors