“As One That Serves”

I was talking to Jesus in prayer in my mind going through the shopping mall. “Live in me Lord, walk in my walking, be free to walk the earth again in me. I am nothing, I don’t know how to live my life, you live my Life, if there is a plan for my life and you love me. I praise you, I bless you, I love and adore you Lord”

A woman from the crowd pushed me by the shoulders to the glass at the side of a shop and said. “ I have got to tell you something! Jesus wants me to tell you something! Jesus wants me to tell you that He loves you and that he definitely has a plan for your life, does this make sense”
And I told her that I was just talking to Jesus about it in my head. She just smiled touched my face and walked off into the crowd.

The thing about Jesus is, if you are completely real with Jesus, He gets completely real with you.

Just be genuine and generous, and tell Jesus you give Him complete power of attorney talking to Him knowing He is right there with you. Like a real person in front of you type of thing.
Jesus handles all the other things you can’t begin to understand.

The same mall where I worked as a cleaner. A security guard woman began to work there, we used the same crib room for meals. She eventually told me that she had left her husband and just wanted to find a young man to have “ good hard sex with and I want him totally shaven down there“. I said to Jesus in my head “ I can’t deal with this, you take over “

Jesus took over. “ Your husband, would he die for you? “ she stopped and said “ Yeah I think he would “ . “ Would He suffer really terribly and die in your place, even now you broke up ?” And she paused a second and she “ Yes he would “.

“ Then that man loves you more than any man on earth “.

She had a shock and mess of emotions in her face that looked very deep. Jesus knew the exact words to speak to her heart, He is like that every time.

The following week I saw her walking through the mall in civilian clothes with a man holding his hand and she ran up to me and kissed me on the cheek. “ I am back with my husband and thank you” .

How simple is that, do the hand over and Jesus fixes the situation. He can use any idiot like me, just do the hand over.

 

It’s not really fellowship as such, it’s oneness with Jesus, we no longer live but Jesus in us, we get dissolved in Him in some way.
With the power of attorney handover, it means that there is no delay because you have given over your volition, Jesus acts, Jesus does.

We serve by getting out of His way, we make things far worse when we try to fix things. We haven’t got the intelligence, Goodness, Love or understanding to do the work, only Jesus can speak to and change people’s hearts.

Just be happy to be the dumb donkey that carries Jesus into Jerusalem and you see the difference between what you can do, and what He can do.
We are not like the activists of this world who do by their own human will, we are evangelists of Christ who carry Jesus to the world in whatever way He wills by His power and in His timing.

Tell Jesus to Live in you and Reign in you as Sovereign King on the Throne, do the full hand over, not just believing in Him, but then acting in your human will. But even handing over your human will, your very volition. The heart of you.

Let go and trust Jesus, giving over your volition feels like falling into an endless void but that is why you must Love and Trust Jesus like little child, not the wilful grown up with his own ideas.

Not by force of our dangerous fallen wills, His Will be done, His Kingdom come on Earth in you.

 

I don’t know the technical side of it, but I know we keep our personality but it’s Jesus that expresses Himself in our personality. You know if it’s you or Jesus saying and doing things because with Jesus it’s like poetry for the heart.

Sometimes you can’t remember what Jesus says to people, that’s because it’s between them and Jesus, you just carry Jesus to people. Only He knows people’s hearts and can do something about it.
We really can’t do anything, Jesus has done so many miracles in street ministry, He is far more effective than all social workers and He doesn’t burn out.

Sometimes you think you should speak and do but Jesus calls you to rest, and other times you think you should rest and Jesus goes out to speak and do.
Sometimes you are in Him and He in you. You rest in Him but He rests in you.

“Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

In us Jesus finally has a place to rest His head, and doesn’t He deserve it. Give Jesus the garden of your heart so He can pass out in the shade and sleep surrounded in Love.
Rest here Lord.

 

I remember when I was a carer doing aged care as a contractor. One morning when I started, all the staff seemed like they were driven mad by one resident lady constantly wailing, so I asked Jesus to bring down His Mercy and Love to her.
She instantly stopped. And a senior nurse having her end of shift cuppa said “it’s stopped!, we have tried everything to make her comfortable, but she has been screaming all night and half of yesterday”
Yeah well if they had thought of asking Jesus about it things would have gone much smoother, it’s not just physical ailments people have.

I remember Rodney, his colostomy bag had come off in the night, and people had waited for the contract staff to come in and sort it out. The smell was terrible, there was no mistaking what had happened, anyone passing by the room would have known. I was born and raised in a third world and am pretty seasoned to bad smells, but this one was special. So I asked Jesus take over, and in no time Rodney was cleaned up with new bag and changed bed.
Rodney stopped asking for help, so he had to say in that state for who knows how many hours. The best we can do is not the best Jesus can do.Anything short of Jesus won’t work.

 

The problem is that we are hard as nails, cynical and don’t understand or even know what real love is.
You see yourself sometimes compared to Him and you wonder why He even bothers with us. Real cold ugliness compared to His purity and warmth.

Don’t go into a tail spin when you see yourself, nothing compares to Jesus ok, it’s just a reminder now and then where you are and He is.
And don’t think it is unmanly to love like I first did, Jesus is the ultimate man and look at how much He Loves.
I had to learn a new definition of Love when dealing with Jesus, we can’t contain that fire it would totally kill us.
That is why the love is given to us each day as daily bread to be shared out to the world.
“ I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.“

The branch is distinct of itself but receives the one life of the Vine, and because of the Vine it will bear fruit.

 

His Holy Will being established in us who take on the mind of Christ by dwelling in His Presence, The Father already knowing our needs for that work in His vineyard, we find along the way those provisions and tools The Father has Lovingly anticipated for His Son.
With every daily row in the vineyard is the Fathers daily bread waiting.

“ My food is to do the Will of the Father “

“When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

Unless you have the mind of Christ by Living in His Presence, you will not see the daily bread laid out by The Father.

Start each row every morning desiring only to do the Will of The Father, this is having the mind of Jesus. The mind of Mercy from The Father of Mercy.

This will make you fit for work in The Father's vineyard. There you will happily greet Jesus ready for the day’s work as dawn breaks.
With Jesus you will pass the day working at His pace and effectiveness taking time for joyful breaks as He decides and The Father provided for.
And as the days row is done and the joyful thanksgiving comes out from you to The Father, The Father will have prepared for you a quiet night and a perfect rest.

That Peace only comes to those who have done The Will of The Father in vineyard. They pass the night in Peace because at night The Father keeps watch and prepares everything The Son needs the next day.

So we think the better of it, because The Father’s vineyard is better than the madness of wilful pursuits in this passing world, the vineyard is the preparation for the world to come, where the Will of The Father is always done.

When our last row is finished and the harvest gathered, we will look over the vineyard as so many joyful days spent with Jesus and The Father Will call us home to the eternal feast.

 

Forget the technical things brother, I love all dudes that try to hold to the Word with all their hearts.
But I saw the Suffering Face of Jesus on a heroine addict, it was our Lord as clear as day. It was Jesus dude. The same face I know and love.
Those “works “ are Jesus serving Jesus in others, it’s way beyond my understanding.
Those “works” aren’t ours man, it’s Jesus that acts in Love and mercy. It is Jesus being served as well.
It’s Jesus that reaches up in misery and Jesus that reaches down in Mercy.

Jesus owns everything, us, our sin and our misery, purchased with His Precious Blood.

One night in street ministry a bloke came up to me and thanked me for praying over him some time before. I didn’t remember.

He had changed his life around after the night I prayed over him. Slowly I remembered, it was the skinny near death dude I prayed over that miraculously looked like Jesus on the Cross nearly two years before.
I didn’t recognise him healthy. In the spirit I saw Jesus.

He said on that night I looked like Jesus, but I said he looked like Jesus to me that night.
I remembered that night when I hugged this bloke, because he said he felt like he was hugged by Jesus and Jesus life healed him of addiction right then. I tell Jesus to walk the earth again me all the time.

These are the miracles Jesus does when we allow Him to use us unreservedly.in the hand over.

Jesus is the one that’s serves, not just in the baddest part of town but even in the wealthiest, “civilised “part of town, Jesus is working everywhere.

I’m just a very poor Garden contractor trusting in Jesus and The Father for my daily bread and trying to care for my aged parents at the same time. I couldn’t read through the links you gave me mate, I can’t give the technical details of things, only the things I’ve seen.

 

May I butt in here for a minute... I was raised in church, in fact I have been on this board for almost 20 years... It seems to me that we are always trying to drag people to church... If you don't believe like I do you not saved?... Church is beneficial, don't get me wrong but how many show Jesus, by what they do for other in their daily lives?... Kindness to others not in church go a long way... In all my studies in all the time I've been in the church and this is a hard pill to swallow, Jesus does not run people out of church, his people do... I joined the church when I was 22 and I'm now 76, so I think I know somewhat after observing for these many years what I'm talking about... And if a man or woman has love in them, they didn't change themselves, because love for others is an attribute of God alone... You keep doing what your doing... You both are a blessing from God... Brother Glen

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

 

To many on here forget one point, you need guidance not criticism... There is enough on here even for believers... Its not about denominations, its about determination, to serve God as you serve others... We ALL walk with feet of clay!... Brother Glen

This is saying that I would to pass on that heard a preacher say... How do you spell JOY?

Jesus first... Yourself last... And nothing in between, or
Jesus first... Others second... And Yourself last!