With our without Jesus?

 

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Years ago when Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show he interviewed

an eight year old boy. The young man was asked to appear because he had

rescued two friends in a coal mine outside his hometown in West Virginia. As

Johnny questioned the boy, it became apparent to him and the audience that

the young man was a Christian. So Johnny asked him if he attended Sunday

school. When the boy said he did Johnny inquired, "What are you learning in

Sunday school?" "Last week," came his reply, "our lesson was about when

Jesus went to a wedding and turned water into wine." The audience roared,

but Johnny tried to keep a straight face. Then he said, "And what did you

learn from that story?" The boy squirmed in his chair. It was apparent he

hadn't thought about this. But then he lifted up his face and said, "If

you're going to have a wedding, make sure you invite Jesus!" The little boy

was on to something. Weddings are time of Joy.

 

If you are going to be a Christian make sure you invite Jesus.

 

Satan don’t care if you read, pray, meditate and play worship music as long as you don’t invite Jesus to the party. You might ask if I am splitting hairs, but I have been around for a long time and I know a lot of people who diligently have a disciplined quiet time…almost every day, time in gods word, time praying, time worshiping… but they never invite Jesus. You might say what’s the big deal…

Let me ask you a question… the last time you had a quiet time (which hopefully was today) if Jesus was actually in the room with you… would it have gone differently?

Oh… yes and amen.

It would probably have started off with you face down on the ground and humbled by his holiness….

Would he have shared some things with you? OH most definitely 

Do you think he would have asked you to do some stuff? YEP!

Give some stuff away?

Share with a person that day?

Tell you to pray for a person at work?

Repent?

Ask for forgiveness from someone?

Tell your spouse you loved them?

 

So we can assume you had a quite time without Jesus if none of those things happened…

Am I being a little to hard on you… I don’t think so.

Why time with Jesus… 

First did you know you can be a Christian and never spend time actually in the presence of Jesus… or his Holy Spirit?

Let me put it this way…. 

Water has absolutely no, nada, none, zero, Zilch, zippo nutritional value - but

life is dependent on it! 

You can live completely free from time with Jesus… and I mean even if you read and pray… you can do it without Jesus… but your spiritual life depends on it. There are too many Christians walking around flatlined… no heartbeat whatsoever for Christ and they don’t even know it…

Lets start inviting Jesus to our quiet times, lets start inviting him to our work, our dinner times, our family, our hobbies, our bedrooms, our computer time, our phones, our time with kids….