Mark 4:35-41 Jesus and His disciples were going on Boat. Jesus was on the hinder part of the boat and sleeping upon pillow and great storm of wind arose there. Disciples started controlling boat. When they fail to control it, when everything became out of control, when they assume they will die, then they awake Him. Rising up immediately Jesus rebuke the wind and made a great calm. Then Jesus rebuke disciples because Christian life is to control the storm, not boat.

You don't have to worry about boat, because you already have Jesus in your boat. You just have to control the storm against the boat. Common step out from your boat and control the the storm by rebuking it.

Jesus said "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain..." (John 15:16). He chose and ordained us to be the prime instruments of His glory and honour in the world. We are ordained, not to sit still or not to beat the air, but to be instrumental in God's hand for the bringing of nations into obedience to Christ. Those whom Christ ordains shall be fruitful because their labour shall not go in vain. Your calling is worth productive.

     Disciples and others were surprised after seeing the miracles that Jesus performed. Seeing them surprising Jesus said "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12). 

     Then after Christ’s death, Resurrection, and Ascension to Heaven disciples did exactly as He said. But what now! Now it's your turn to be a continuation of the Bible. God will use you to do greater work. Now it's your turn to turn the world with GREATER WORK.  Are You Ready?

      Yes Pressing on is a Power by which You can push down the Enemy to achieve Your Goal in the Lord (Philippines 4:13). Sin can be Your Enemy, Financial Crisis can be Your Enemy, Disease can be Your Enemy. But when You keep Pressing on to Your Goal (God), the Power of Enemy will suddenly break down.

     Psalm 81:9 says "there shall no other God be in thee ....."

     One can say I am not worshiping any other God. But I say you have many. People of this age has made money, things, status, fame etc. as their God. They follow these things equal to God. But listen if you follow these things as you follow God these will be your God.

     So above all Love God.

Prayer - Father God I confess that I was follow things, money, status, fame as I follow you. Father God forgive me and cleanse me with blood of Lord Jesus. And from this time I will follow you alone with all my heart, mind, soul and strength in Jesus Victorious name! Amen.

     Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. When two people came together in emotions and conducts, they called friends.   

     John 15:15 Jesus said "I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you".

     We the followers of Christ are the friends of Christ and we have to keep that Friendship. How Pastor?

1. Be honest with Him

2. Daily Communication with Prayer

3. Know His Heart through His words

4. Spent some time daily with Him   

     The chief commandment for Christians is to Love God. Jesus said "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind" (Matthew 22:37). 

     World is full with many good and religious peoples but no one know  or teach how to Love God. But Jesus reveals: -

1. All Heart - To understand all heart first you should understand half heart. When we give some work to children and they have no full heart to do that. What happens they do it with half heart. Half heart means incomplete / unsatisfied work. 

2. All Soul - Soul means alive or might. Two people do the same work. First one do it with half might  and fails in it. And other one do the same work on his full might and succeed. 

3. All Mind - You must have heard "make up your mind first and then tell me". In Christianity there are many believers who did not make up their mind till today to follow God. Let me do this first, let me complete that first. What if Jesus come first.

      I hope now you must have understand the mind of Jesus when He said love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Don't waste more time jump quickly into His presence and confess I Love You God, Yes Above All I Love You God. I love You with all my Heart, All Soul and All Mind.

     I saw people following Jesus with a great zeal in the beginning of their faith. But after some time their passion start reducing and their joy in Lord also looks lacking. I asked God, why like this and God put in my heart "find a New Reason Everyday to Follow Me". 

     And I came to know that from beginning to now they following Jesus with one reason (may be Health, Finance, Joy, Job, Peace etc). As a result after a short time they become fade away.

     My dear reader I want to push you to develop a new reason everyday to follow Jesus so that your zeal stay forever.        

  

     Satan is the chief target of believer and from morning to evening we blame Satan for everything. 

     Once I heard that a Pastor was on 21 days fasting. When other Pastor visit and inquire the aim of his fasting. He replied my target is to put Satan in the Hell with this 21 days of Prayer and Fasting.

     Bible says Satan is the Lord of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). You and I can not finish Him because God has already fixed His end (Revelation 20:7-10). That means you had set a wrong target.

     Rather our target must be God. Bible teaches us to grow up unto the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13-15). 

1. So our target must be His Holiness (1 Peter 1:16) - Peter said it is written. The written word is the surest rule of a Christian life. If morning till evening we think and damn Satan, can we be holy; of course not. So our target must be His Holiness to be like Him. 

2. His Nature (Philippians 2:5) - Christian Must have Christ's mind. God create us in His image and likeness, but we short of His Nature (corrupted by Adam's Sin). So our target must be His Nature to be like Him. 

3. His Likeness (Ephesians 4:13-15) - If you really want to grow in Christ you must rooted well in Him. Jesus is the Head of the Church and we must grow up till His head. That is why our target is God alone.   

     For Christian both Life and Death is a blessing. Because our life is Christ and death is Gain (Philippians 1:21). Grace of Christ is the principal of Christian Life. That is why the Glory of Christ must be the end of our life.

     How do I live and Die for Christ:-

A. Trust and surrender to God's Plan

B. To depend on body of Christ 

C. Exalt Jesus in every work

D. Hope for eternity

     In the body of Christ you can see the Unfruitful or Unproductive people. It's wonder how could someone be unfruitful on a fertile soil. The chief cause of their unfruitfulness is that they are unfaithful with house of the Lord i.e. Church.   

     In the parable of talents (Luke 19:11-27; Matthew 25) Jesus taught us that in the house of the Lord Faithful becomes Fruitful.

     If you will remain faithful towards the needs of the House of God, then you will surely see the fruits in your house, family, job, finances, health or everything belongs to you.

     The day when one believe Jesus as his/her way, Satan left him/her. But question arise did he/she had left Satan or his ways.
     People come to God like they want to know His ways, but they want to fulfil their own desires. That is fruit of Satan (a liar).
     If you choose Jesus as your ways, follow His Words too.

     God talk to us in different ways. He talks to us through His Word, through Holy Spirit, through His Appointed People, But how often you talk to Him. Open yourself completely before God. He will surely talk to you.

Prayer - Thank you Lord to share yourself on us. Talk to me as I talk to you from the deep of my heart.
   

     Before going on Cross Jesus took last supper with His disciples and after that they went to mount Olivet with singing hymns (Matthew 26:30). Wow Jesus is about to suffer on cross but still He was praising God. Being our big brother Jesus set an example before us to glorify God in the midst of trials (Hebrew 2:10).
     So today decide that I will rejoice in my sufferings as I know sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Romans 8:18).

 .... Repent ..... Repent ..... Repent.....

     There is authority in Jesus name and by God grace we can take His name, every time when we face difficulties. people take His name when they starve, feared, Homeless, Jobless, against demons or any other bad condition in their lives and they got saved. After save them self they start lived their routine life.

     But do you ever think what will you do or how will you save yourself when you encounter with Jesus. There is no other name under heaven to people to save (Acts 4:12). Remember Jesus coming Soon and the day of Our Lord is coming. If You love Him keep His commandments (John 14:15).   

 

Jesus called people (like Simon, Matthew etc) to follow Him. By this Jesus means to follow Him on Water like Simon Peter. Follow Him in Fire like Danil’s friends. Follow Him on Cross like Stiffen and Paul. Follow His Nature (Phil 2:5) and Follow His Resurrection.

Prayer – I prayed God that the reader of this post may completely follow your son Jesus Christ with their Heart, Mind and Soul.