Steve Simms's Blog, page 18

Listening to be Led

Daily writing promptWhat are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?View all responses

I wake up in the morning and listen. I listen to the thoughts that are coming across my mind and my heart. They encourage me. I write them down to encourage others. This morning, I was hearing thoughts about the Holy Spirit. Here they are:

“The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.” (John 6:63)

If you’re not allowing the Holy Spirit to tell you where you are off track and redirect you, you’re not being led by the Spirit.

You can’t be led by the Spirit unless you let go of your desires and surrender to His.

Our desires are idols that attempt to distract us from the leading of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit wants to put His thoughts in your heart and mind and to lead you from within. Let Him!

Continually make room in your heart for the Holy Spirit. “Prepare the way of the Lord.”

When your heart is focused on your own desires it’s distracted from the Holy Spirit. That’s why Jesus said to deny yourself.

Mental assimilation and evaluation of the Bible can never take the place of the direct revelation and leading of the Holy Spirit.

To listen to, follow, and obey the Holy Spirit is to experience the tree of life. To try to figure God out with your mind is to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

You can’t be self-led and Spirit-led at the same time. Choose who you will follow and obey.

To be led by the Spirit requires focused, active, and intentional listening, as well as faithful obedience, to what the Spirit is saying to you.

If you are the one who is deciding where you go and what you do, you are being led by yourself, not by the Spirit. (Romans 8:14)

The first step to be “led by the Spirit” (Romans 8:14) is to “hear what the Spirit says.” (Revelation 3:22)

To “quench the Holy Spirit” is to refuse to be led by Him.

You can’t be led by the Spirit if you’re not conscious of His presence and if you are unwilling to hear what He is saying to you.

Religion is what happens when we approach God in ways that make us feel comfortable instead of being directly led by the Holy Spirit.

When the Holy Spirit isn’t continually focused on and kept constantly in our conscious awareness, we quickly move into being led by our own thoughts, opinions, desires, and feelings instead of by the Spirit.

“Walk by the Spirit,” not by your own desires. (Galatians 5:16)

Here are also a few thoughts from yesterday:

Are you a flesh-led Christian or a Spirit-led Christian? Paul asks a question for all Christians “After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?” (Colossians 3:3). Jesus said that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws them by the Spirit. (John 6:44)

All true Christ-followers begin by means of the Spirit. We are born again by the Spirit. (John 3:8) However, it is very common to shift away from the Spirit and into the mind — to drift away from personally experiencing and interacting with Christ heart-to-heart throughout each day and into merely hearing sermons and analytical teachings about Him. If you are not being continually “led by the Spirit,” (Romans 8:14) “you are now trying to finish by means of the flesh” (and the mind). Begin to daily surrender to and obey the risen Jesus; don’t just listen to talks about Him.

When sermons and Sunday morning programs were used to replace the presence and leadership of the Holy Spirit, church exchanged the power of God for human ability.

The Bible is much more effectively taught by demonstrating it than by lecturing about it.

Jesus overturned tables in the Temple. (Matthew 21:12) If Jesus was here today in His physical body would He be overturning any tables? I wonder if Jesus would turn over the:

* Table for book sales?
* Coffee and donuts table?
* God approves of you just the way you are tables?
* Table that holds the strobe lights?
* Tables holding up the giant TV?
* Prosperty gospel tables?
* Christian TV show tables?
* Tables of trivia conversation on Christian radio?
* Christian nationalism tables?
* Superficial preaching tables?
* Don’t worry be happy tables?

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A Unique and Beautiful Relationship

Daily writing promptWhich aspects do you think makes a person unique?View all responses

There is a unique relationship that is unlike any other relationship. However, that relationship is seldom discovered and rarely recognized because it is hidden by or replaced by religion. That most unique relationship is a heart-to-heart relationship with the risen Jesus Christ.

Religion puts Christ in a box. Relationship is about “Christ in you.” Relationship isn’t built by a religious organization and its meetings, rules, and rituals. It is built by opening your heart to God and to people. If you want a real relationship with Jesus, you have to pursue it yourself. No church or preacher can do it for you.

Religion is dutiful. A relationship with Jesus is joyful. Religion is a tiny part of life. A relationship with Christ consumes all of life. Religion is often manipulative. A relationship with Christ is always transformative.

Religion is routine. A relationship with Jesus is riveting. Religion is repetitive. Relationship is revitalizing. Religion lasts an hour (or a few hours) per week. A relationship with Jesus is 24/7/365.

Religion focuses on an institution and its traditions. Relationship stays continually focused on the presence of the risen Jesus Christ. Religion is about rules, but relationship happens when Jesus rules.

Religion is led by programs. Relationship is led by the Holy Spirit. Religion analyzes the Bible. Relationship allows the Bible to ignite the heart with adoration for and obedience to Jesus.

Religion tries to force and coerce non-religious people into following its rules. Relationship seeks to demonstrate the love and beauty of the risen Jesus so that non-believers will want to get to know Him for themselves. Religion likes to set up a hierarchy of special people to rule over the ordinary people, but in relationship Christ is the only Lord and King.

Religion needs a physical building, but relationship makes me Christ’s building and He lives in and through me. Religion can be shoved aside, but my relationship with Jesus is my never-ending inner guide.

Religion likes to make ritual habitual but a relationship with Jesus will spontaneously make you full of and overflow with the fruit of the Spirit — love, joy, peace and more! A religious spirit can easily produce pride and self-righteousness, but the Holy Spirit always produces humble surrender to the fruit of the Spirit.

Religion looks for God to make life easier and more comfortable. Relationship with Jesus wants God’s will to be done on earth as it is Heaven even when it requires that we deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow and obey Jesus instead of our own thoughts, opinions, feelings, and desires.

Christ’s true disciples, of all nations, are one in the Spirit. They have been rescued from the kingdoms and nations of this world and made citizens of the kingdom of God. (Colossians 1:13) Discipleship is developed by a direct, personal, ongoing, heart-to-heart relationship with the risen Jesus, not by religion.

Religion wants to connect God and country, but a relationship with Christ infinitely surpasses anything any country can offer. The kingdom of God isn’t about national or religious offices or hierarchies. It’s about the inner government of God. It’s sad that the words, attitudes, and actions of so many evangelicals are pushing people away from the living, resurrected Jesus Christ.

Great nations want both the good and the bad parts of their history to be known. For a fuller view of American history, search: Off the RACE Track–From Color-Blind to Color-Kind.

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The Name That Truly Matters

Daily writing promptIf you could have something named after you, what would it be?View all responses

For me, one name stands above them all. That’s the name I want to see honored and glorified — not my name, not someone else’s name, not the name of any organization, and not even a country’s name. “God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)

Your mind is a busy intersection where multitudes of thoughts cross by in the rush of day-to-day life shouting out various names and distractions. Some of those thoughts are sent directly from God to you to tell you about the name, the love, the power, and the presence of the risen Jesus. Notice those Jesus thoughts. Welcome them. Follow and obey them. Don’t lose them in the crush of the crowd.

“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” (Psalm 42:2) Nothing and no one else can truly satisfy me (not money, not pride, not entertainment, not sports, not wine, not religion, not politics). I can’t get enough of God’s presence. I long to be more fully surrendered and obedient to Him. I want to be better aligned with God’s inner kingdom so that King Jesus can continually rule and govern me from within as my absolute Lord and Master. I seek to lay down my own thoughts, opinions, feelings, and desires so I can fully embrace and follow “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” I want to be a light so brightly radiating Christ’s presence and love that my presence makes other people thirsty for the living God.

Christians are called to preach Jesus and to demonstrate the invisible, internal government of God, not to glorify any other name. “For there is no other name (than Jesus) under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

The kingdom of God isn’t about a particular nation. It’s about people from “every kindred and every tribe” who have fully surrendered their life to continually listen to and faithfully obey the risen Jesus.

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If You’re After Laughter . . .

Daily writing promptWhat makes you laugh?View all responses

Laughter comes in many forms from various sources. It can come as pride, mockery, manipulation, anxiety, insecurity, drunkenness, or even vulgarity. Laughter can also come as innocence, happiness, sincerity, kindness, wholesome pleasure, delight, and spontaneity. Pure, blameless laughter that overflows from a heart full of love, joy, and peace releases and spreads inner healing. The innocent laughter that comes from small children radiates wellbeing and gratitude. That’s the kind of laughter I’m after — pure laughter from a pure heart.

Tiny children laugh a lot. They often laugh spontaneously without needing to be prompted by a funny thing or by a comical person. Their laughter isn’t just produced by outward humorous situations. It freely and joyously flows from within them. However, something happens as tiny children grow a little older. They begin to monitor themselves and tone down their laughter to blend in with the older kids and adults that surround them. Little by little they forget how to let inner joy flow from within their heart with jubilant laughter. They eventually turn into adults who feel like they can’t laugh unless a joke, a party, a bottle, or a comedy club loosens them up. It’s never too late to recover hilariously healing heart-felt laughter that rings out from deep within your soul.

I once saw an incredible example of the life-transforming power of laughter. I was in a conversation with three other men who I had just met in a secular setting. For some reason I said something about Jesus to one of the guys and in an instant, he was overcome with intense cleansing laughter. He couldn’t stop the healing hilarity from washing through him. With tears running down his cheeks he rushed into the hallway and closed the door. For several minutes we could hear him outside heaving with hearty laughter. All three of us were stunned by what we were witnessing. When he finally came back into the room, he radiated an amazing sense of peace and calm. His whole attitude and demeanor had changed. When I saw that man again a year and a half later, he came up and hugged me. At first, I had trouble recognizing him. Healing laughter had done something amazing and long-lasting in him.

When I encountered Jesus and surrender my life completely to Him spontaneous joy and laughter was restored to me. I began to see the bright and joyous aspects of life. My mental and emotional heaviness fell away. I started to spontaneously smile and laugh and enjoy being alive. However, the more I experienced and embraced the spontaneity and joy of the Lord, the less I seemed to be compatible with the religious system that kept trying to make me fit into rigid patterns and traditions.

I learned several things:

Religion can ease your conscience, but Jesus can forgive you, set you free from sin, and empower you to live a pure life.Religion can teach you to say prayers, but Jesus can teach you to pray from your heart.Religion can train you to be satisfied with a comfortable church service once a week, but Jesus can train you to overflow with the fruit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit both day and night.Religion can train you to passively let someone explain the Bible to you, but Jesus can train you to devour, absorb, and savor the Bible so that it burns in your heart.Reading the Bible every day with an open humble heart (and doing what it says) will impact your life in a far more powerful way than merely attending church every week.Religion can make you dependent on a pastor and an institution. Jesus can train you to continually trust in, rely on, and depend on His presence, power, and love.If you listen to routine, unenthusiastic speakers give analytical lectures about the most exciting book in the world (and never let you or anyone else make a single comment about it), they will bore you with it. No wonder so many people falsely believe that the Bible is a boring book, and so few Christians excitedly read it every day.Religion can try to convince you that you are right with God, but Christ living in and directing you will guarantee that you are.Religion can train you to hear sermons, but Jesus can train you hear Him directly speaking within you.Religion can train you to go to church, but Jesus can train you to follow and obey Him throughout each day.[image error]Pexels.com" data-medium-file="https://hopethoughts.com/wp-content/u..." data-large-file="https://hopethoughts.com/wp-content/u..." src="https://hopethoughts.com/wp-content/u..." alt="" class="wp-image-43020" />Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

When I Was Five, I Had a Strange Love in My Heart

Daily writing promptWhen you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? View all responses

When I was five, I had a strange love in my heart. I loved an invisible friend. I frequently talked to my unseen friend. All these years later, my invisible friend is still with me and continues to be the most important person in my life.

When I would ask my parents questions about my unseen friend it would make them uncomfortable. They wanted to avoid the subject of God because they were non-religious and didn’t attend church. But I couldn’t stop thinking about Him and talking to Him.

Although I continued to believe in God, as a teenager I rejected Jesus Christ and Christianity. Then one day in college I heard people share how Jesus had radically changed their life. Suddenly, in an instant, something happened within me, and I have never been the same. The living, resurrected Jesus Christ showed me that He is real, alive, present, and working in the here and now. Ever since that moment Jesus has been my all and all. He keeps me overflowing with love, joy, peace, and all the rest of the fruit of the Spirit.

True spirituality, true discipleship, true Christianity abandons self-focus and fully surrenders to the Headship, Lordship, and Kingship of the risen Jesus Christ who said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23)

God has given Jesus the name above all names. (Philippians 2:9) “There is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) To truly encounter and surrender to the presence and reality of the risen Jesus is to exalt no other name than His. If any name is in your thoughts or in your words or in your promotional or social media material more frequently than the name of Jesus, something is way out of line.

Let the name of Jesus be always on your lips and ever burning in your heart. Passionately pursue Jesus. Radiate His Reality.

Kenneth Collins said: “Even religion and the sacred can be made to do the bidding of self-absorption.” True spirituality, true discipleship, true Christianity abandons self-focus and fully surrenders to the Headship, Lordship, and Kingship of the risen Jesus Christ who said, “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23)

The “church texting service” you’ll love is the Bible. Read the Bible’s texts with a humble, open heart and quickly obey them. Let them burn in your heart and make you aware of the power in the name of Jesus.

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Invisible Things Can Be Seen

Daily writing promptWhat’s something most people don’t understand?View all responses

Invisible things can be seen with the eyes of the heart. Love’s invisible, but I can see it. Hope’s invisible, but I can see it. Faith’s invisible, but I can see it.

God’s kingdom is invisible and supernatural, but it can be “seen” and experienced with the eyes of faith, both day and night! “Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, ‘The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.’” (Luke 17:20-21)

Jesus said: “Stop judging by appearances but instead judge correctly.” (John 7:24) Things often aren’t the way they appear to us. As humans we can easily be deceived. We need to learn to be like Moses who didn’t fear the king’s anger because he “saw Him (God) who is invisible.” (Hebrews 11:27.)

We need to “fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18) We need to spend our life “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,” (Hebrews 12:2) not unto a mere human leader.

We need to allow the risen Jesus Christ, Himself to be our King and our Lord (Revelation 19:16) and to govern our thoughts and actions from within. Like Abraham, we need to be looking not at what human power and ability can do. We need to be looking to God’s inner, invisible, and supernatural kingdom — “the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God,” (Hebrews 11:10) — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

Are you ready and willing to see the invisible presence and reality of the risen Jesus? Look and see!

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Seeing Lots of Hope!

Seeing Hope from Armenias, Costa Rica

Watching eagles soaring
As my heart’s adoring
The risen Jesus Christ–
Volcano behind me
Fresh water lake ahead.
The Lake Nicaragua islands
Seem to rejoice with me
Along the horizon.
May all people and lands
Join both hearts and hands
And soar with God’s Spirit
With Jesus as their Head.

Jesus Is Everywhere!

Open your
Inner eyes.
Recognize
The presence
Of Jesus!

You can train
Both your heart
And your brain
How to gain
And maintain
Ongoing
Awareness
Of Jesus.

Do more than
Say a prayer.
Learn to be
Christ aware.

No matter
Where you go
Stay aware
Christ is there.

There Is So Much More to See

If you look at things
As they appear
You won’t be near
God’s point of view.

God sees the heart
Of everyone.
You only see
A tiny part
Of what they say
And what they do.

The things unseen
Make humans lean
The way they do.
Let God give you
Insight that is
True, pure, and clean.
Then you won’t be mean.

You’ll have God’s love
For everyone,
A precious gift
From Father, Son,
And Holy Spirit.

God Has Cleared Your Way

The fallen tree
That blocked your way
Is cleared away
And all that’s left
Is some debris.
Advance with glee.
Like a small child
Celebrate Christ
And go forward
In His victory.

Holy Spirit Hearers

When Holy Spirit hearers
Meet to listen and obey
The things that God has to say
There is amazing order.
Jesus Christ, the living Head,
Directs and leads His body
And demonstrates His kingdom.

Go Deeper!

Tattoos on the skin
Are superficial.
What matters most is
Christ living within!

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My Job and My Purpose Never Change

Daily writing promptHow has technology changed your job?View all responses

There is a job I do for free. Day after day it never changes. It’s more than just a job. It’s a purpose. It’s a mission. It’s a calling that continually burns deep withing my heart. My most important job is to continually surrender to Jesus and to always proclaim and demonstrate the glorious reality and joy of His presence.

No matter where they live Christians are called to be counter-cultural — to be ambassadors of Christ who continually represent and demonstrate by a Spirit-led lifestyle a culture that’s not of this world — the kingdom (inner government) of God. When Christ-followers gather to be led by the Spirit they are an embassy of the kingdom of God where people can experience His government in action in this wayward world.

Here is how the kingdom of God works. King Jesus tells His followers what to do. Then they deny themselves and obey Him instead of obeying their own thoughts, feelings, and desires. Unless you dress for Spirit-led success, pride will make your life a mess! “Clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” (Colossians 3:12) When the risen King Jesus is allowed to rule and reign in a person’s heart as their absolute Lord and Monarch, the kingdom of God has come to that person.

In the early days of Christianity when the body of Christ functioned organically, before there were institutionalized churches, the risen Jesus was allowed to directly and personally lead His body. To refuse to let the Holy Spirit have full control of a worship meeting because of the fear of “lack of order” or “a free for all,” is to misunderstand how the Holy Spirit leads.

It’s time to let the living Jesus be the literal Head and Director of His body once again! Christians can’t truly, effectively, and powerfully work together as long as the body of Christ is divided into many tens of thousands of independent religious institutions controlled by traditions and human leaders. Unfortunately, Christ-followers who don’t like attending institutional church services are often scolded, shamed, and treated like rebels.

Christians are called to demonstrate the supernatural power of God’s love. History shows that when Christians have had access to political power, they have used it in authoritarian and violent ways — from Constantine to the Crusades, from the Inquisition to Protestants using the government to persecute and kill Anabaptists, from Cromwell’s authoritarian government in England to the present day.

Like a huge fallen tree that is blocking the way, our own thoughts, feelings, and desires impede and mislead us. God is ready to move them aside if we will step to the side and let Him. Unleash “Christ in you,” “for such a time as this,” now and forever more!

Political Ability Isn’t Your Answer

Daily writing promptWhat’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?View all responses

The most important ability isn’t political ability. It’s the ability and willingness to surrender to and obey “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” not just in words but in day-to-day reality. The living Jesus is the answer to what your heart is longing for.

Biblical Christianity is about the fruit of the Spirit and the Sermon on the Mount. It’s not about national or political pride.

The kingdom (invisible inner government) of God and the kingdoms (nations) of this world are in conflict with each other. It’s best not to confuse the two different kinds of government.

Routine religion can produce spiritual blindness that makes people think that they see clearly when all they see is custom and tradition and their own desires. The ability to see things as they really are is essential if we want to avoid deception. That ability is called discernment, and it is a gift from God. Open your heart to the risen Jesus and let Him show you the things that you aren’t seeing.

If you want people to know that you are prolife treat them like their life is important to you. Ask God to give you the ability to be kind and loving to your enemies so that you can be a true disciple of Jesus and obedient to His enemy-loving command. Radiate Jesus in all you say and do!

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My Favorite Weather is Sunshine in my Heart

Daily writing promptWhat is your favorite type of weather?View all responses

My favorite weather is sunshine in my heart. I enjoy that kind of beautiful inner weather day and night by letting the Son of God continually shine in and be the literal King to rule over my thoughts, feelings, and desires and by gathering with other Christ-followers in a King Jesus group.

Does much of Christianity betray King Jesus? To betray people is to be disloyal to them. To put our desires, feelings, or program ahead of the risen King Jesus and His will seems to me to be a form of disloyalty to Him. When we gather for worship are we loyal to the living King Jesus and His presence in our midst or have we shifted our loyalty to a religious format that we feel comfortable with?

A King Jesus group goes beyond an outward “form of godliness” (2 Timothy 3:5) by allowing everyone present to listen to, follow, and obey King Jesus during the meeting. (Romans 8:14 & 1 Corinthians 14:26) It opens the door for the kingdom of God where the risen Jesus can literally be the reigning and ruling King, not just a mere figurehead King whose leadership and authority has been replaced by human leadership and human authority.

A King Jesus group is hard to find. It is a group of Christ-followers who gather to focus on, listen to and obey the risen King Jesus. If you find one and participate in it, it will help you grow closer and closer to Christ. A King Jesus group isn’t led by a program, by an agenda, or by a pastor, but by the Spirit of Christ.

If you can’t find a King Jesus group, you can open your home to one. Invite a few people who love Jesus to gather with you. Ask Jesus to take charge and be the Head (the King) of the gathering. Then have everybody be still and listen to Jesus. He said: “My sheep heart My voice,” so take Him at His word and have everybody present listen to what He is saying to them and then say and/or do what He is telling them to.

The results will be powerful. Instead of confusion there will be amazing order. Instead of dry religion there will be vibrant spiritual life. Instead of isolation there will be beautiful heart-to-heart connection with Jesus and with one another.

In a King Jesus group, instead of listening to someone mentally analyze the Bible, we absorb it with our heart as King Jesus prompts us to quote, read, and share insights about passages of Scripture. It’s always amazing how it all comes together in a beautiful mosaic of understanding the Bible.

King Jesus groups can change a nation. If all the Christians in the USA (or any other nation) would continually listen to and radically obey the risen Jesus it would truly make the nation great. If you make your country more religious but you don’t personally get closer and more obedient to the risen Jesus, you’ve missed the whole point of the kingdom of God. However, when your inner self-kingdom surrenders fully to the kingdom of God, the outer kingdom (country) where you live will be greatly impacted by the radical changes in you!

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