Can we talk about Jesus?

I know anytime is a good time to talk about Jesus, but I thought this is a great season to just talk about Jesus.

You know, I really am not sure what is going on in my walk with Jesus, but I seem to just cry a lot lately. It's really a cry, because I just think more about all the things he has Blessed me with in my life,that I never deserved. Maybe it's because I am older "60" I am not sure, or maybe it's because he just see's something in me I don't, and it effects my Spirit. I really did not know were I was going with this thread, but I guess that's a good thing, I feel most of the time we don't know the what or why's it's truly something that's spirit lead. Lets just talk about Jesus.
God Bless
Mr. Bill

Hello MrBillPro,

Good subject to discuss. :)

How wonderful it is that we have such a unbeatable God who is willing to fight our battles. Certainly we know if God is doing the fighting - He will attain the goal He wants.

This last month we called AT&T and asked about upgrading our DSL speed. They changed our whole service package and 'said' the monthly rate would only increase by a few dollars. Of course that was not true. This months bill was frightful and totally out of the realm of our budget. Before calling to 'discuss' the issue I prayed and asked God to fight the battle for us, since I am aware I could not handle it. Let me report that he resolved it all in our favor and we still have the new faster service. In the past when dealing with them things did not go anywhere as well. That was because we forgot Him and tried to manage things on our own. Thank God for teaching us to allow Him to fight the battles.

Praise Jesus,
white stone

Thank you for the post brother.

Jesus is good. In all that He does, He is good.

When I falter and begin to move away, He allows for me to go through trials in order to bring me back to Him. When I become prideful, He allows me to be humbled, in order to move back to Him. When I begin to worry about life, He steps in to remind me that He is in control and that I am not. When I am broken hearted, He comes to comfort me through His love. When I walk through trials, the Lord allows me to be tested and tried, in order to grow in strength in Him. When I cry, the Lord hears my cry and prayer, and accepts my prayer.

He is good. The Lord is good. All that the Lord does is good. I am humbled and amazed that He would call me His own. Psalm 6:8-9, "...For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping. The LORD has heard my supplication; The LORD will receive my prayer."

James Smith says it better then I....

I would have destroyed God if I could — and have blotted His name out of creation! The language of my heart and life was, "No God for me!" My heart was filled and fired with enmity against Him, and at times I could have cursed Him to His face!
I hated His law.
I despised His gospel.
I abhorred His people.
If I could — I would have crushed His cause!

How astonishing that such a wretch was allowed to live!

How astonishing that God had not crushed me by His power, and sentenced me to Hell!

But, O the longsuffering, the patience, and the sovereign grace of God! He bore with me. He loaded me with his benefits. He determined to win me with His love. Nevertheless I sinned yet the more, and provoked Him with my ungodly conduct. O how surprising that I am not in Hell! Surely there are many already in Hell — who were never such great sinners as I have been!

But, the Lord is good, ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all those who call upon Him. He put a cry into my heart, He listened to that cry, and made me a new creature in Christ Jesus. He unveiled my enormous wickedness before the eyes of my mind, which filled me with confusion, despondency, and shame. He laid me in the dust, and seemed to doom me to despair. He . . .
crushed my proud spirit,
destroyed my infernal enmity against Him,
and melted me into contrition with His love.

hi, three great posts on the greatest topic in the world. as an old man ,i am resting in His lovefor me.jimp

Yes Bro., In season out of season shall we,

This Jesus, He is my very best friend,
The lover of my soul,
My hiding place and refuge and ever present help in trouble.
He is the hope of my future He keeps His promises.
He is my rock and never failing anchor than holds me in place. My place is in Him.
He is all I desire and desire Him more.
He is my blessed Redeemer and joy of my soul.
He sticketh closer than a brother my First love.
I am His daughter, sister and bride.
I am everything to Him and He is everything to me.
He loves me I know.
I love him.
He is big enough to share the love I now know.
He is the love I share.
I am never rejected. Always forgiven.
He is my couselor,comforter and guide
He is the most precious and favored topic of all conversations.
He will one day be All of me, I will be all in Him for eternity.
The song I sing the air I breathe.
My every hope and expectation, He never dissapoints
He is like the sky to me, always there.

He is more than these very frail very frail words.

Yes, yes, let us just talk about JESUS.

Thank-you, Mr Bill
In Christ Love

sis -k-

simply beautiful, beautiful

Yes, Jesus You Are

We love you Lord.

Thank-you Mr. Bill
best post yet, do let us just talk about Jesus

Beautiful appolus, thank-you

Thank you all for you responses, just the few responses here have just Blessed my soul so much. He is my only hope by choice, I will never take my eyes off the Creator again. He is the reason I want to get out of bed in the mornings, just to see with excitement what he has for me today. Lord Jesus, yes I have been Blessed, not with material things, but with your Love, and hope when I had no reason to have any. Lord, I stand steadfast, waiting on the biggest Blessing I will ever personally receive, the day you come back to get me. O yes! lets do talk about Jesus. I Love you Lord!

Amen! O' Amen!

Turn your eyes upon Jesus and look full to His wonderful Face and the things of the world will grow strangely dim in the light and glory of His grace.

Turn our eyes upon Jesus.

In my life I can praise Him because I found out it is so very true that the more I spend time with Him, the more I long and seek to know Him the more the desires and things of the world grow strangely dim. And He has become my magnificent obsession.

The sin I once found myself in - I am there no longer.
The wants I once had - are no longer there.
The more I am in the Word and alone with Him the more I want of Him and our time together.

I worship God for He is all together lovely. We were created to have fellowship with Him. If we will seek Him with our whole heart He says we will find Him. Seek Him while He may be found. Sit at His feet and learn of Him. Mary has chosen the better.

In His Presence is where I long to be.

If Jesus be lifted up He will bring all men unto Himself.

Praise God Brothers and Sisters, lets lift up the King of Kings and Lord of Lord's all throughout this forum the Lord has blessed us with.

Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. It is finished. Now it is time to seek His face.

All glory to God!

Christ for sickness, Christ for health,
Christ for poverty, Christ for wealth,
Christ for joy, Christ for sorrow,
Christ today and Christ tomorrow;
Christ my Life, and Christ my Light,
Christ for morning, noon and night,
Christ when all around gives way
Christ my everlasting Stay;
Christ my Rest, and Christ my Food
Christ above my highest good,
Christ my Well-beloved Friend
Christ my Pleasure without end;
Christ my Savior, Christ my Lord
Christ my Portion, Christ my God,
Christ my Shepherd, I His sheep
Christ Himself my soul to keep;
Christ my Leader, Christ my Peace
Christ hath wrought my soul's release,
Christ my Righteousness divine
Christ for me, for He is mine;
Christ my Wisdom, Christ my Meat,
Christ restores my wandering feet,
Christ my Advocate and Priest
Christ who ne'er forgets the least;
Christ my Teacher, Christ my Guide,
Christ my Rock, in Christ I hide,
Christ the Ever-living Bread,
Christ His precious Blood hath shed;
Christ hath brought me nigh to God,
Christ the everlasting Word
Christ my Master, Christ my Head,
Christ who for my sins hath bled;
Christ my Glory, Christ my Crown,
Christ the Plant of great renown,
Christ my Comforter on high,
Christ my Hope, draws ever nigh.

savedtoserve, now were talking! :)

Wonderful post, MrBillPro.

Of late, I have not enjoyed as much closeness to Jesus as I once did, and it scares me to death, to say the least. I know that by His grace, I will overcome this insurmountable wall of spiritual dryness, but I still shudder when I ponder the possibility of a life not lived close to Him.

I recently learned that the hymn "My Jesus I love thee" was written by a 16-year old. :0 Anyway, the third verse says a lot of what I am feeling at the moment:

I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

My love for Jesus is not because I, in my natural being, have love for Him; I love Him because by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the Father enables me to love His son. I love Jesus because He paid my unpayable debt, because He laid down His life, because He continues to love and guide me regardless of my weaknesses. I love Him because He is God, because He has blessed me with the ability to fellowship with Him; I love Him because He is Holy.

PS.
I saw this link in the "My grief over this forum" thread.

What blows me away about Jesus, is that no one loved men and women like He did. Everytime I read the Gospels I am amazed or interact with men and women daily, I sense the love of God in my spirit for them. If people only knew how much He loves them.

The world was turned upside down in the 1st century not because of dogmas, creeds or a new awesome religion, but because of the presence of Jesus Christ in the lives of His disciples.

He is Love.

Pilgrim

Yes, Pilgrim, and one other thing about Him....there is NO one else like Him! If you take a look at all the other gods...there is NO comparison. The book of Isaiah especially seems to bring this out.

savedtoserve

I too, so much love to talk with God' people,..the Body ,about Jesus.
I believe , that is the way He made our desire to be.It helps us,..it builds us up in Him ,..it encourages us to be more like Him,...our walk to be strengthened in Him.
But , don't we think , that it would be an insult to Him,..and a grief to Him and a false belief toward Him, if we did not see Him always as A / The Living Word,and the responsibility that ,that Word brings.

Blessings,
Elizabeth

What I find so special about Him is His Prescence.
It is the most satisfying place.
Sadly I don't go there very often,
but when I taste and see,
I wish that I could drown here,
in this deep Love.

Just now as I was reading the post, I became slowly aware of His Prescence and I felt like the woman that stood at His feet weeping,
so aware of her failure,
yet so powerfully drawm.

For with Him there is fullness joy,
eternal pleasures at His Right hand.
There is living water,
abundance of bread.
Sweet perfume,
and oil for my head.

My daughters say I am so tough,
they never see me cry.
But as my heart slowly melts
His sweet peace wells up in my eyes.
Because from me is drawn such gratitude,
thanksgiving, hope and praise.
when I look up to Him on His throne,
here in this holy Place.

Bless You Lord!

Dlight

Wonderful post, MrBillPro.

Of late, I have not enjoyed as much closeness to Jesus as I once did, and it scares me to death, to say the least. I know that by His grace, I will overcome this insurmountable wall of spiritual dryness, but I still shudder when I ponder the possibility of a life not lived close to Him.

PS.
I saw this link in the "My grief over this forum" thread.

You know, don't beat yourself to much, I get like this at times. One thing you have going for you is your confession,you said "you will overcome this insurmountable wall of spiritual dryness". Just your confession proves you may feel as though you have fallen out of fellowship with God, but you really haven't, hope this makes sense. Remember no matter how dry as you put it, it seems, he has not gone anywhere, and he will always be there, trust me on that one, been there done that.
I Love your PS. God works in mysterious ways now don't he?

EverestoSama said "thanks" from the bottom of my heart, that never seems enough.

When the woman broke the alabaster for Jesus in worship, all gathered through a fuss at this waste. What they did not realize is that it wasn't enough! But it was pleasing to Jesus because it was all she had. We always touch His pleasure when we give all we have and all we are.

Russ

True rufnrust,

We cannot lavish enough on Him for Who He is to us and what He has done for us and continues to do for us each day.

When you love the Lord with all your heart in seemingly "unconventional" or "novel" ways, you can be sure it will bring derision from the religious folks even as Judas' got quite religious about it.

"What a waste! She should have sold it and given it to the poor!"

Did you miss this,(I did). "And they murmured against her."
Mark 14:5

Can you imagine all the people that were watching her, murmuring against her?

She must have grown up around religious people and realized at this time in her life that she was done trusting them or fearing them.

She is an example of what kind of courage extravagant love for the Lord will give a person. One of the first things I noticed after getting saved is 1) I was in love with Jesus 2)I did not fear man anymore.

Mar 14:6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

This is a wonderful thread, Bill.
Pilgrim

About a year ago I saw a family that was being destroyed. I sat there crying while saying that "I just wanted to talk about Jesus", and "that I just love Jesus", as they were fighting with each other, biting and devouring each other. Somehow this is crucial, this desire for Jesus, this love. I know that Jesus has never stopped loving me from the beginning, at the cross, into eternity. He will never quit on us. Enduring love.

in love,

Travis

Good words to ponder, Approved.

These two scriptures, each with the word simplicity in them give further "food" for thought.

2Co 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Pilgrim

I SEE our lord jesus as grace incarnet
the reason for every season
the sangtifier of his people

the gosple incarnet
he is the revalation of the manifest presence of the mercy and love of the invisable god with whom there is no variation or shadow when he turns

who him self ,becasue of who he is ,brings supanatural revalation of gods presencce and purpose

faith
repentance
hope and the greastest of all
love which for me incapulates all the above in a triunity ,which reflects who god is ,

and this he impresess upon the sons of adam ,,the men of dust ,so they might reflect the true image of god ,as creatures like us were intended

he upholds all things by the word of his power
and in him do all things consists ,and are sustained

he is utterely souvern ,over all,,that is IN HIM

and is the determining factor,of all life
nothing can escape in incapulating grip of the mighty god ,who grips all things ,yet gives a measuer of free will to all according to his god pleasure

the one in three,and three in one
the begining and the end,from the end to the beggining

he knows all things
and all things he knows

in describable
and incomrehensable

the giver of all life and every good gift

the maker of mercy
the efecter of faith

he is utterly worthy of my praise ,,god help me

he is utterly worthy of prayer ,,god help me

he is utterly worthy of my love ,,,oh god help

the giver of all true wisdom

the one who gives ,and the one who takes away

i thank god that i dont get what i deserve namly hell

that is what every child of adam deserves , for childern of adam live accoring to the flesh ,

grace is what we dont deserve , and that is what every child of god receives ,underseved kindness ,and the power to over come sin in our lives ,

the great delemer of the gosple of god ,wile we were enemys of god christ died for us ,justafing us freely by his grace , wich is in the holy redemtion of christ ,,,,,the great propitation scacrafice god was in christ reconciling the world unto him self

jehova jira god will provide a scarfice
god was manfest in the flesh
justafied in the spirit
great is the mystery of godliness
that he was seen by angles
preached amoung the gentiles
believed on in the world
and he was recieved up in glory
a place he knew before the foundation of the world

he left is hevenly realms did the glory of god
and humbled him self ,being born of a wowman ,
born under the law he laid down
to redeem that who were under the law
and those who were with out law ,so they might not perish with out the law

bringing both under the law of christ
which he said
this is the covernent i will make them in those days
i will write my laws ,in there minds and there hearts
and i will be there god
and the shall be my childreen
none shall teach his neibour ,saying no ye the lord
for all of them shall no me from the least of them to the great
and i will be mercyfull towards them ,and there lawless deeds ,i will remember no more
i will pour out of my spirit in those days
and they shall prophasice
and i will show them wonders in the heavens above
and sighn in the earth beneith
blood
fire
vapour of smoke
the sun shall be turned in to darkness
and the moon into blood
before the great and the notable day of the lord comes
and it shall come to pass that all who call on the name of the lord shall be saved
but how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed
and how shall the believe in him whom they have not herd
and how shall they hear with out a preacher

how beutafull are the feet of those who preach the gosple of peace

faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of god

thank you all for you kind words about ,JESUS

for creation i see
are miricals for free
no what you see
for it becomes he
when we know that he is we
we only no HES all we will see

the one who knows the truth in tears
can wash away all his fears
blessed is the one whos way is to cry
for hiden with in the way is too fly

wet the face of love from god
for tears bars witness due faith and love

what we acualy thought was true
turns out to be a load of poo
lern the power of receiving the spirit
for taming the ego all the powers with in it

here i sit in the glory of earth to learn about our heavenly birth
feeling i sit in earthly bliss
knowing a feel the heavenly kiss
thanks be to jesus
continues through time , forever and ever
be it in a ryme

amen

The responses to the initial question "Can we talk about Jesus?" have been from the heart and all true fellowship is in Jesus Christ. Thank you all for sharing and making this post fruitful, because God's desire for all of us is that we would know Him and be conformed to the image and likeness of His Son.

Mike

wendio
Jesus, there is power in the name of Jesus. I'm enjoying reading all of your encouraging and edifying posts here.

Jesus is the only One who can make a grown man cry. He can make the blackest sheep as white as snow. I used to cringe at the sound of His name or the sign of His cross until I came to know Him. Now, I only long and hunger to know Him more, to sit at His feet, to rest in Him, to reveal the areas in my heart that grieve Him, to be lost in His love. The all consuming fire. To be the apple of His eye. Precious and chosen. Holy and sanctified. Set apart.

I tried losing my faith last year after months in the wilderness, but He's a part of me now. I can't shake Him even if I tried. He's reshaped my whole way of thinking, He's the only one I can turn to, pray to, talk with and rely upon. As Psalm 73:25 says, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."

I can relate to this post so much, I though you might be talking about me, or reading my mind. Thank you for posting this. Sometimes, just when we think were in this alone, and everyone else has moved on and living the Perfect, Purified, Holy, Sinless life, God through man reminds us we not alone. I am so Grateful someone brought this thread back to life, God placed it on my heart to start it, and every post here has Blessed me so much, as I am sure it has others. Thank you so much for keeping you eyes and minds and hearts focused on what brought us into this thread. And yes! there is power in the name of Jesus, To God be the Glory!