Live 4 The LORD

When you call God will answer 

God tests our hearts

He admonishes us to listen and obey

You should not have any idols - GOD FIRST

God is the deliverer 

He is your provider

His people are not listening and obeying 

His people are being given over to their own stubborn hearts 

They are walking by their own plans

They will not be successful 

If His people would turn back (start to listen and obey)

God would subdue their enemies (killing their own souls)

Psalm 81:7-14

You called in trouble and I rescued you;

I answered you in the hiding place of thunder;

I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Hear, My people, and I will admonish you;

Israel, if you would listen to Me!

There shall be no strange god among you;

Nor shall you worship a foreign god.

I, the LORD, am your God,

Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;

Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

“But My people did not listen to My voice,

And Israel did not obey Me.

So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,

To walk by their own plans.

Oh that My people would listen to Me,

That Israel would walk in My ways!

I would quickly subdue their enemies

And turn My hand against their adversaries.

Whatever you ask in the Name if Jesus 

It will be done (if it conforms to His will)

When done in Jesus’ name it glorifies the Father

If you love Jesus you will keep the commandments. 

Jesus, in your name, to glorify you and God the Father, help me all my days to listen and obey all you command me. Amen 

John 14:13-15

And whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus is in the Father, 

I am in Jesus

Jesus is in Me

I hold on to His word and obey it because I love Jesus

Because I love Jesus the Father loves me. 

And because I love Jesus and obey him He will reveal himself to me. 

If anyone loves Jesus He will listen and obey Him, the Father will love Him also, and both Jesus and the Father will live with that person. 

It is a choice: do you love Jesus? You must choose to obey His commandments, they are to be done in the Holy Spirit (we aren’t powerful enough on our own-PRAY) If you are constantly praying to obey because you love Him, he will make himself known and both the Father and the Son will live with you. 

John 14:20-21, 23

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you. The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.” Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.

Jesus gives us Peace

His own Peace is given to us

The command: DO NOT LET your heart be troubled or fearful. 

He is taking care of you-let Him handle it. 

You obey him in the power of the Holy Spirit in Peace!

John 14:27

Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful.

The proof of love:OBEDIENCE 

The world knows Jesus loves the Father because of His Exact Obedience. 

John 14:31a

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me.