This is why you need a heart for God (very powerful )
Mark 10:29
Truly I tell you , Jesus replied., no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age – houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields , along with persecutions and in the age to come , eternal life.
Many who are first will be last and the last first Jesus shows us that through an extent we can determine what happens in our lives , or what is added to us. He opens our eyes to see that if we take up a life of sacrifices for the sake of his kingdom. We will get doable of what we let go .
Basically, if we live a life of faith and sacrifice for Jesus people may think we are losing or missing out, but eventually we are gaining much more than we gave up , both here on earth and in heaven.
Jesus made this promise but there is no surprise that they don’t see any changes in they life even through they call on the name of the lord.
Yes the problem has been made but there is an important responsibility leaving everything for the sake of Jesus , making him stay focus of our lives .
In reality what matters to god is becoming a Christ – centered person, rather than just having things.
Yes , he wants us to have these things , but more importantly he wants us to first have a heart that prioritizes him.
So what does it mean to give up everything for his sake
Lets examine the answers with these very important verses
Matthew 6:25-33
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body , what you will wear. Is not life more than food , and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns- and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you, o you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying what shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them, But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you .
Examples of how to enter God’s Kingdom
1* living based on Jesus’s ways of doing things
His principles that guides us through life and his heartbeat of preaching the gospel to see men saved.
Luke 4: 18-19
The spirit of the lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor . he has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed , to proclaim this year of the Lord’s favor.
The Spirit of God works through us to speak to show others the way of truth in Christ.
pressing on the righteous
Philippians 3:13-21
Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do :forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well . Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained. Join one another in following my example, brothers , and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction , their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
But our citizenship is in heaven , and we eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who , by the power that enables him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
Constantly growing we are still working on the image of Christ So we are not yet perfect . However we must press daily to ensure that we live to glorify Jesus in our lives.
We do this by creating the wrong environment for the spirit of God to thrive, studying the word, regular prayers , creating an atmosphere of worship obeying the instructions of god and living in the reverence of the father.
John 14:23-27
Jesus Replied , if anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and make our home with him. Whosoever does not love me does not keep my words. The word that you hear is not my own , but it is from the father who sent me. All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate , the Holy spirit , whom the father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you . I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid
Romans 5:3-7
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us , because God has poured out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly . Very Rarely will anyone die for the righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
Matthew 9:28-30
And Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to him “ Do you believe that I am able to do this ?” He asked.
Yes Lord ,” they answered
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.” And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, See that no one finds out about this !”
Habakkak 2:4
Look at the proud one ; his soul is not upright but the righteous will live by faith .
Hebrews 11 :1-3
Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see. This is why the ancients were commanded .
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible .
