Called Out

"For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." Ezekiel 36:24-26

Am I a Friend of God?

I am a friend of God. Really. Are you sure that you and God are friends?
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another." John 15:13-17. Yashua said, "You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you."

Yashua said that "If we abide in Him we are to bear much fruit. Anyone that doesn't abide in Him, will be cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned."

Yashua commands us to love one another. Yashua didn't ask us for our opinion, or say, "Hey guy, would you maybe consider loving one another?" No. He commands us to be obedient to ALL His commandments and to walk in ALL His ways. If you're a friend of God, if you abide in Him, there's not an option. It's His way only!! Paul said, "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:14 "I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Yashua." To be a friend of God is to be in total agreement in ALL of His ways. There is NO option.

Posers and Pretenders

What does God say about posers and pretenders? Those that come to church and give all the outward appearance of walking in His ways inside the church, while outside the church they walk of the world. Seriously people, I feel what God is saying is, "Walk in My ways or don't." God doesn't want in-between people.

Revelation 3:15-16 says," I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."

Listen to me- open your ears and hear what God is saying to us. If we are not hot for His ways then we make Him sick and we are vomit that He will spit out of His mouth. I think we need to daily check where we are with our walk.

Today I need to be honest with you LORD. If I am not hot for You, then fill me with your Spirit so I will be of You and not of the world. Am I a poser or pretender? Am I a lover of truth, obedient to ALL of Your commandments? Do I walk in all of Your ways.? Do people mistake me for Your Son Yashua? Am I vomit? These are questions that need to be answered.