Religion or Relationship ????

Today morning, I was listening to Joyce meyer on God TV. She was preaching on "Religion or Relationship". This made me to ponder upon many things. Many people follow the law and follow it as a religion. They know God as a distant authority rather than a friend and a companion with a intimate relationship. Even for me, Christianity was just a religion... was about, going to Church... doing this and that... not doing wrong... Yea..!! This is all included in it... BUT the most important thing is the LOVE of GOD... My relationship with God has changed a lot... I always used to cried out to him desperatly to meet Him... wanted Him to talk to me... watend Him to bless me... Wanted Him to answer my prayers... Wanted Him to Heal me... and YEA..!! He really does all that... BUT I never anticipated any reply from God... Everything was just a monotonous... Now I believe that Christianity is not a Religion...!! Its all about LOVE & GRACE :) Once we have a relationship with God, we start experiencing all miracles... experiencing His Presence... experiencing His LOVE... His Guidence... The Spirit always keeps Convicting you... :) and a thing to mention here, which I read in calender, it says... conviction is not condemning you... its about convincing you... and whenever God convicts you in any situation, His Grace is then available to restore you from that situation. Its so very true. The most important thing here that we need to understand is that we need to First draw close to God and then resist the Devil, it will flee from us (James 4:7) without being close to God we cannot resist the Devil & even if we try doing it, it doesnt flee from us. It says... I know Paul and I know Jesus but who are you???!!! So... DRAW CLOSE TO GOD... and be in a INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP With Him...!!!

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the death by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. -Romans 6:4

I have been readign this book "Finding God's Will in Spiritually deceptive times" which says...Simulatenously we must learn to take everythought captive to the obedience of Christ...that means what ever we thing, the spirit convicts us sayin that it is not true, then at that very moment make that thought captive to the obedience of Christ. We dont win this battle of thoughts by rebuking the thoughts or the evil one, we win it by choosing the truth. We are not called to dispel the darkness, we are called to turn on the light.... and the light will do its work!! :)

So whenever the spirit convicts you... saying this is wrong dont do it... respect it!! Listen to it..!! and if you are not able to obey it... Just PRAY THERE...!!! ask GOD for HIS GRACE...!! so that you can stand in FAITH :). Jesus is the author and the perfector of our FAITH(Hebrews 12:2)

KEEP DRAWING CLOSE TO GOD and Experience his LOVE :)