What happens if you turn down our Savior’s call to discipleship and acceptance
of His intimate invitation?
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When He calls and if you allow complacency or ANY excuse deter you, you
will regret it
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Song of
Solomon 5:2-8: I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice
of my beloved that knocked, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the
night. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet;
how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my
hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the
handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn
himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could
not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen that went
about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the
walls took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if
ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
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You will go after Him because your heart was uniquely and intentionally
designed to be filled with Him, sooner rather than later, that desire will
overwhelm you and you will seek Him out.
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Song of Solomon 3:1-4: By night on my bed
I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. I will
rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will
seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen
that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul
loves? It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my
soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into
my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
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You will quench the flow of His blessings, power and presence in your
life
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You will rob the people around you of receiving Him through your hands
and feet, they will miss out on hearing His voice and feeling His touch through
you
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But the saddest thing is you will lose your opportunity to earn eternal
rewards.
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What are the eternal rewards you may ask?
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I wish I knew….but I don’t…I do know this:
§ They are strong enough to withstand tests of fire
§ They will be the “lingua franca” of heaven
§ Because this is what you will be able to give back to Jesus in worship
as you cast your crowns at His feet
§ Read Revelation 20-22….
I am convinced that bowing before Him there after seeing His righteous
and True judgment, clutching the precious little that made it past the bema
seat, face to face with My Beloved Jesus, will evoke emotions so powerful if
left in this body of flesh I would actually explode….I will want to give Him
everything….so will you….
What is precious to your heart right now my beloved sister? Where is your
treasure being stored? Meditate on the scripture below and wait for Him to
reveal to you the truth…
Matthew 6:19-21: Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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