Episode 223: Luke 18

Today's meditation is on Luke Chapter 18

I will always pray and never give up. I know that God will give justice to my prayers if I only believe and do not stop believing. My continued prayers do not change God, because he never changes, but my persistent prayers change me and they change my circumstances. When Jesus returns, he will find that I am standing in faith on God's promises. 

I do not have confidence in my own righteousness. When I pray, I thank God for having mercy on me and for adopting me into his family through the blood of Jesus. I humble myself before God, and let God do the exalting.

I humble myself like a child. For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like little children. I can only enter into the Kingdom Realm when I receive it with childlike faith.

God alone is good. There is nothing I can do to earn entrance to the Kingdom or to earn eternal life. Still I obey his commands as I was taught from a child. 

I do not trust in earthly riches, but store up treasure in heaven. I am willing to give up everything I have if it is required to follow Jesus. 

There is a tendency to put faith in the temporary riches of this world, and that makes it difficult to enter into the Kingdom Realm. But God's Kingdom operates in a different economy. Things that are humanly impossible are possible with God. 

So, I will not allow myself to become attached to anything or anyone. If God requires it, I will give up house, brothers, sisters, parents or children for the Kingdom, and I know that I will be repaid many times over in this life and will have eternal life in the world to come.

Jesus is asking, "what would you have me do for you?" He is ready and willing to give me the desires of my heart. I only have to ask in faith. 

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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