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All We Need is Jesus



There is a hymn which has a chorus that goes “All I Need is Jesus🎵.” How true these four words are. So often as saints we become preoccupied with good things rather than God. We focus on regeneration rather than our relationship with Jesus, we fixate on prayer instead of the Prince of Peace, we fix our eyes on charity rather than Christ. All of these are good things, but they must come second and as fruits from Christ. He said “apart from me you can do nothing, I am the vine, you are the branches, you can bear no fruit apart from me,” (John 15:5). Regeneration or fruit bearing; building virtue and doing good works tends to become a focus, especially in cultic churches. Jesus made it clear there is no transformation, regeneration, and change except through and in Him! 

When we pray is should serve as communication with Christ; to connect with Him. Should it fall short of this aim and become merely (only) petitions and intercessions, then we have missed the mark and point of prayer: communicating with our Bridegroom and God. The same can be said of any good thing, if the focus becomes the good deed, discipleship, deliverance, or anything short of the Divine Son of God then danger lurks ahead. Jesus must be our focus! It is written, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” (Hebrews 12:2) and “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ” (Philippians 3;8). The Holy Trinity did not set up another temple of human doings, He has reconciled us so that He can be with us forever, “I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” (Revelation 21:22). That forever starts the day you confess and have faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and God Incarnate who died for your sins on the cross, and rose from the dead. We are called to intimacy with the Lord Trinity now, for we may come boldly, “So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most,” (Hebrews 4:16), and “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19).  


Jesus is all you need. Only He can ransom you and save you. The law of Moses is powerless to save (Romans 8:3-4) and is the power of sin (1 Corinthians 5:57-58). Do not become distracted from fixing your eyes on Jesus! Do not even let good things like regeneration, gifts, prayer, ministry, and etc become first in your heart and focus. Instead, make Jesus your all and in Him (1 John 4:15) and Him In you (Colossians 1:27) you will become regenerated, transformed, prayer warriors, ministers of reconciliation and beyond. Amen. 









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