Never Walk Away- Always Live for Jesus
Hello Everyone! I do have a good word for you today.
Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” JESUS IS THE SAVIOR!
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
God is not a liar. This is pivotal for believers, for you and I to know, to trust and believe. God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil, and we should never mix those two things up.
God’s Words point to a Savior and that Savior is His Son Jesus.
This goodness straight from God for you. He is meant to be your Savior. He is meant to be your Lord.
God is with you. God is for you. You are not alone, and you are not meant to do this life alone. Each day is meant to be lived for God, with God.
When God speaks we can trust what He says because He is trustworthy. He is faithful to HIs Words. When He speaks, it is good.
2 Timothy 1:9 “He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”
Scriptures Compiled by Dick Mills and Debbie (Mills) Booth
Living for Jesus is an honor and a privilege and a choice. I learned at an early age from my parents it is the wisest choice.
Joshua 24:15 “Choose you this day whom you will serve.”
As a teenager I travelled with my parents all over the world. We met people who loved Jesus. They were completely irrevocably devoted to living for Jesus Christ. It was an amazing thing to be in a foreign country and watch people with hands raised, eyes closed, often weeping and worshiping the same God I served. They had made a choice and that was to “Always live for Jesus.”
They were thrilled when my father got up to speak often cheering as he gave good words to various people in the audience.
It was exhilarating to see Gods anointing on my father, and it was very moving to see people’s lives touched by that anointing. In fact it is unforgettable.
Not soon after we returned from a trip I remember coming home from High School one day. I was in my last year of school and would soon be leaving for Oral Roberts University.
PIVOTAL MOMENT
In the living room my mother was weeping, really sobbing. My father stood by her with a very sober look on his face.
They proceeded to tell me an unfortunate situation where a dear minister and friend of ours had left. Left the family, his wife, the ministry, all of it. He was done.
The pressure on the outside exceeded what was on the inside of him. As he imploded those around him where crushed by the heartache of his choices and decisions.
But what happened next was life changing for me as a believer and a young woman getting ready to leave for college and begin my adult life.
My mother got out of her chair and began to walk towards me. She began telling me how my dad and her were devoted to one another. They were devoted to living for Jesus. They would always live for Jesus and for them they would never walk away. That decision had been made years earlier and they would not ever change it.
She walked towards me and she had a look in her eyes that made me question whether I was in trouble or not. It took me back to being a little girl and she would have a fierce look in her eyes as she told me what we are doing and what we are not doing, how we are going to act and how we are not going to act, and then proceed to discipline me. The look in her eyes was one of determination.
But I was 18.
She looked at me and said “We will never quit, We will never give up, We will never walk away, We will always live for Jesus.”
As my mother got even closer, inches from my face, that fierceness in her eyes softened, but with resilience she said to me “Say it.”
I responded and said “We will never quit, We will never give up, We will never walk away, We will live for Jesus.” My words had an intense effect on me as I said them.
She said ’say it again, but say “I will never…”’
I responded and said “I will never quit, I will never give up, I will never walk away, and I will always live for Jesus.” I had asked Jesus into my heart when I was 4 but this moment was a decision written in cement. And that fierce determination in my mother made its way into my heart and spirit.
The moment is etched in my memory just like getting married and giving birth to all 3 of my children.
My parents set in motion a choice, and then they walked me through wanting to make that choice myself. When my children were of age (13 or so) I too walked them through what it means to choose Jesus. Not just to live for Jesus but to love Jesus.
Today is a wonderful day, if you haven’t verbally spoken your belief in Jesus as your Lord, to pray this prayer. Say this with me as a vow. Much like you would in a ceremony, or church service. Saying something that will have an effect on what you do because of who you are.
“Father in Jesus Name, we choose you. We make a choice this day to not only be believers in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, but we choose to live whole heartedly for Jesus because we make Him our Lord and Savior.
“I will never quit, I will never give up, I will never walk away, and I will always live for Jesus.”
Today I____________________ choose to live for you for the rest of my life.
All of my heart belongs to you.
We pray all these things in the matchless, powerful name of Jesus Christ, the Name above every name.“
Amen.
Blessings to you,
Deborah (Mills) Booth
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