When is the last time you were desperate for Jesus ?

Should we be desperate for Jesus ?

Is it good to be desperate more than once, the one time when we understood our need for salvation ?

Is it an admission of weakness, to say we are desperate ?

Are we better off when we are desperate for Jesus ?

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You’ll never know Jesus is all you need until you know Jesus is all you have.
You’ll never know Jesus is all you have until you are desperate to have Him close.

We all have as much of Jesus as we want.
How much of Jesus we want is determined by how desperate we are for Him.

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What does Jesus say in His Word about us, desperate for Him ?

“When I am weak, then I am strong.”

“You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity.”

“Call upon Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.”

“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”

“Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.'”

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Not so desperate for Jesus ? Not so good !
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

PURPOSE
If you have a sense of purpose for your life, it gives you energy and momentum to pursue and fulfill your goals.

CALLED
If you have a calling that only you can answer and accomplish something that will make a difference, it will keep you going with clear focus.

LOVE
If you love what you do, you will stick with it and get it done with passion.

GOOD
If you know you are doing something good, especially if it does others good, you will do it well, and you will feel good about yourself.

ALL WORKS OUT
If you believe and say that everything always works out and it always will, you will always maintain optimism and momentum in your work and in yourself.

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Hmmm ?
Can this power of positive thinking indeed carry us through ALL of life ?
Can this power of positive thinking indeed carry us through the END of life—with guarantees in that unknown ?

All these wonderful things that people say, that anybody can say—all this is wishful thinking without eternal, divine, personal, promised, words from the Almighty, All-Loving God.

What a difference He makes with
PURPOSE
His purpose is far better, far greater than what I can dream up.

CALLED
If He called me to His mission for my life, I will respond to that call, and know that I am in the center of His will NO MATTER WHAT.

LOVE
God loves me, and I love Him—He gave His Son Jesus to die for me, and I accept His offer—He has everything else covered too.

GOOD
God is good—He’s so good to me—He promised, even when I have no feeling, no sight, no indicators to show it happening right now—I know He is with me !

ALL WORKS OUT
All—the good, and the bad, and the ugly—work TOGETHER because God does it, for my good.
How do I know that ?
I Know—Because He Promised ! ! !

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to HIS purpose.

P. S. – God and His promises are not an addendum to my life and my plans.
He is Lord and center of everything—without Him I can do nothing.
“I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.”