I don't believe my relationship with my Jesus Christ has to be like others have, but I am writing this because it seems nobody has the kind of relationship I have with Him, except perhaps those who wrote the Bible. Of course that can't be the case, can it?
Anyway my Jesus talks to me everyday. It wasn't always that way, He came into my life about 20 years ago when He told me, "Read Your Bible" He was not the Bible!! The Bible has never said a single word to me, but He has and does everyday. It is something like where in the Bible you read, "Today if you hear His voice".
Today is the day I hear from Him. Some days more than others. I mostly depends on how often I seek a word from Him. When I do He is always there to talk to me. It is like where in the Bible it has Him saying, 'Behold I stand at the door and knock and if anyone hears My voice and opens the door I will come into him and eat with him and he with Me'. Indeed I usually Him when I take time to eat.
When we do eat together and talk He often like to give me teachings. They can be a bit long but more often they are short with a lot of meaning, like when He told me "The best listeners by the best teachers". Still, I don't find too many teachers who really do listen to Him like that.
And another interesting thing I found out from talking to Him is that He is the King. He claims to be the King of kings and Lord or lords, just like a claim read about in the Bible. He backs that up by sending me angels to minister to me, just like you read about in the Bible where it is written, 'are they not all ministering spirits sent by the Lord to those who will inherit salvation. So I have "My Jesus" who is my Lord, I also have a King who has a kingdom that serve Him also and that by helping people like me. It turns out that He loves people - oh not ever person because some just will not listen to Him, like where in the Bible it reads “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”
He tells me He loves me, and often. "Karl, I love you" is the most common thing I hear from Him - and honestly, I can really figure out why. Even at my best it is kind of like when Jesus ask Peter if he loved Him and apparently used the word 'agape' which means some great love, and Peter says he love Him but uses a different word for love that is more like a friendly love. That is to say: He seems to have some great love to me when at best I kind of like Him like a good friend.
Still we talk, and as a friend I find Him interesting but very strange. Besides those teachings and saying like "As instructions are given to a servant, and wisdom and parables to a son, and as jokes are given to a friend, so 'I love you is said to a bride'", He also gives me instructions and jokes sometimes also.
Like this morning I was talking to Him about how it seems that I have this one Jesus but every other Christian seem to have a totally different Jesus. He then told me to go and post that - so here I am posting that.
And when I came to the testimony section to testify about my Jesus I saw a thread where someone though it was all about the Bible doing things for them. That is probably the biggest thing I don't get. So many Christians seem to think knowing Jesus means knowing the Lord. They say things like "The Bible is the Word of God", which is not what my Jesus says at all. Yeah - the first words He told me were "Read Your Bible", but even by saying that to me it showed that He was not the Bible that we read but the One who talks to us.
I was in the bathroom one morning and getting ready to take a shower when He suddenly told me "Karl, I want you to preach the Word but not as it is often preached today. I want you to preach I AM the Word of God.' And when He said "I AM" some power hit me and I started falling to the floor and had to catch myself before hitting the floor. He tells me that He is the Word of God, just like it is written in the Bible "He is clothed in a rode dipped in blood and His name is called "The Word of God".
So anyway, my Jesus is The Word of God because He talks to me everyday. He does that by sending His Holy Spirit to speak to my spirit, so it is that I tend to find His words near me seemingly in my heart or like a little voice behind me, and if I am not paying close attention I find that His Holy Spirit even got His words coming out of my mouth. It is like where it is written “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching," or perhaps where it is written "Your ears will hear a word behind you, “[fn]This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left."
Anyway, that is my Jesus Christ. He is someone who talks to me and who I can talk to. His Holy Spirit is not the only spirit around. Some discernment is needed. There are some tests I use (1 Jn 4:1-3 & 1 Cor 12:3), and I find that the more I practice just seeking Him and listening the better I get at discerning spirits (Heb 5:14). Of course He also gives me good advice about discernment, like explaining that He is the truth. He is about what is really happening, or not. He is really there to speak to us, but He is not a book, even the Bible that we should search through it thinking that it gives us eternal life. Again this is written about too "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;"
My Jesus is the One who talks to me, and the One I know as my Lord, even when I get a bit upset with Him. It is a personal relations that Him and I have - and that means Him and I talk everyday called "Today". I can tell you things He tells me - just like I did in the testimony above. I personally recommend that people seek Him for there personal lives. He most certainly will tell you to 'Read Your Bible' but if you talk to Him everyday, you will never again start confessing Him with the any book. It once told me:
I MADE THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MOUNTAIN IS GOOD, BUT WOE TO THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE MOUNTAIN. WOE TO THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE CREATED AND NOT THE CREATOR.
I AM THE WORD OF GOD! THAT IS WHAT THEY CALL ME. FOR WHAT PROPHET EVER SAID ‘THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING’ AND DIDN’T MEAN THAT I CAME CLOSE? SHOULD I SHARE MY NAME WITH MY CREATION?
It is just like in the Bible where you read"
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great.”
My Jesus is the 'word of the Lord' who comes and talks to you personally!!!
Anyway my Jesus talks to me everyday. It wasn't always that way, He came into my life about 20 years ago when He told me, "Read Your Bible" He was not the Bible!! The Bible has never said a single word to me, but He has and does everyday. It is something like where in the Bible you read, "Today if you hear His voice".
Today is the day I hear from Him. Some days more than others. I mostly depends on how often I seek a word from Him. When I do He is always there to talk to me. It is like where in the Bible it has Him saying, 'Behold I stand at the door and knock and if anyone hears My voice and opens the door I will come into him and eat with him and he with Me'. Indeed I usually Him when I take time to eat.
When we do eat together and talk He often like to give me teachings. They can be a bit long but more often they are short with a lot of meaning, like when He told me "The best listeners by the best teachers". Still, I don't find too many teachers who really do listen to Him like that.
And another interesting thing I found out from talking to Him is that He is the King. He claims to be the King of kings and Lord or lords, just like a claim read about in the Bible. He backs that up by sending me angels to minister to me, just like you read about in the Bible where it is written, 'are they not all ministering spirits sent by the Lord to those who will inherit salvation. So I have "My Jesus" who is my Lord, I also have a King who has a kingdom that serve Him also and that by helping people like me. It turns out that He loves people - oh not ever person because some just will not listen to Him, like where in the Bible it reads “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”
He tells me He loves me, and often. "Karl, I love you" is the most common thing I hear from Him - and honestly, I can really figure out why. Even at my best it is kind of like when Jesus ask Peter if he loved Him and apparently used the word 'agape' which means some great love, and Peter says he love Him but uses a different word for love that is more like a friendly love. That is to say: He seems to have some great love to me when at best I kind of like Him like a good friend.
Still we talk, and as a friend I find Him interesting but very strange. Besides those teachings and saying like "As instructions are given to a servant, and wisdom and parables to a son, and as jokes are given to a friend, so 'I love you is said to a bride'", He also gives me instructions and jokes sometimes also.
Like this morning I was talking to Him about how it seems that I have this one Jesus but every other Christian seem to have a totally different Jesus. He then told me to go and post that - so here I am posting that.
And when I came to the testimony section to testify about my Jesus I saw a thread where someone though it was all about the Bible doing things for them. That is probably the biggest thing I don't get. So many Christians seem to think knowing Jesus means knowing the Lord. They say things like "The Bible is the Word of God", which is not what my Jesus says at all. Yeah - the first words He told me were "Read Your Bible", but even by saying that to me it showed that He was not the Bible that we read but the One who talks to us.
I was in the bathroom one morning and getting ready to take a shower when He suddenly told me "Karl, I want you to preach the Word but not as it is often preached today. I want you to preach I AM the Word of God.' And when He said "I AM" some power hit me and I started falling to the floor and had to catch myself before hitting the floor. He tells me that He is the Word of God, just like it is written in the Bible "He is clothed in a rode dipped in blood and His name is called "The Word of God".
So anyway, my Jesus is The Word of God because He talks to me everyday. He does that by sending His Holy Spirit to speak to my spirit, so it is that I tend to find His words near me seemingly in my heart or like a little voice behind me, and if I am not paying close attention I find that His Holy Spirit even got His words coming out of my mouth. It is like where it is written “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching," or perhaps where it is written "Your ears will hear a word behind you, “[fn]This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left."
Anyway, that is my Jesus Christ. He is someone who talks to me and who I can talk to. His Holy Spirit is not the only spirit around. Some discernment is needed. There are some tests I use (1 Jn 4:1-3 & 1 Cor 12:3), and I find that the more I practice just seeking Him and listening the better I get at discerning spirits (Heb 5:14). Of course He also gives me good advice about discernment, like explaining that He is the truth. He is about what is really happening, or not. He is really there to speak to us, but He is not a book, even the Bible that we should search through it thinking that it gives us eternal life. Again this is written about too "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;"
My Jesus is the One who talks to me, and the One I know as my Lord, even when I get a bit upset with Him. It is a personal relations that Him and I have - and that means Him and I talk everyday called "Today". I can tell you things He tells me - just like I did in the testimony above. I personally recommend that people seek Him for there personal lives. He most certainly will tell you to 'Read Your Bible' but if you talk to Him everyday, you will never again start confessing Him with the any book. It once told me:
I MADE THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MOUNTAIN IS GOOD, BUT WOE TO THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE MOUNTAIN. WOE TO THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE CREATED AND NOT THE CREATOR.
I AM THE WORD OF GOD! THAT IS WHAT THEY CALL ME. FOR WHAT PROPHET EVER SAID ‘THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING’ AND DIDN’T MEAN THAT I CAME CLOSE? SHOULD I SHARE MY NAME WITH MY CREATION?
It is just like in the Bible where you read"
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great.”
My Jesus is the 'word of the Lord' who comes and talks to you personally!!!