Jesus As The Center

"... seeking the experience, not the Savior."

I TOOK the Savior’s hands and asked a question. He answered in a manner I did not expect. There was not one drop of anointing between us. I felt nothing and knew, in an instant, what He had said.

Don’t settle for less.

We’re the disciples, happy to follow and do an occasional assignment now and then, unprepared for His death, though He spoke of it, and unseeing of His Resurrection, though He told us it would happen.

We’re the Pharisee Saul, sure of what we know of who God is and what He wants, destructive, violent even, when people disagree with us. When the God of heaven shines on us, we don’t recognize His Voice. We don’t know Him.

We’re the men earning a buck at a damsel’s expense. She tells the future, and we don’t bother to know what’s wrong with this image. Angry when that Pharisee, now apostle, commands the evil spirit to leave.

You think I’m too harsh, but the Spirit writes this. What Jesus wants is for the altar call to be the center of what we do. What Jesus asks is for us to know Him, to know His Spirit, who came to make us new creatures, inside and out. He is IN US and UPON US forever to teach us, to guide us into Truth, to remind us of all that Jesus said and did. Problem is, few are listening. We’ve grown complacent. We speak of moves of God from the past, seeking the experience, not the Savior.

He is everything. Would we give up all we are to serve Him? I’ve had to answer this, and being honest, it was hard. It was worth it. His Presence is all that matters. Minister Benny Hinn said, in his darkest hour, when he just knew God had turned His back, His Presence flooded the room, and he sat there and wept. Because nothing else that he’d achieved, that he’d messed up, the state of his life at that moment, mattered. They were all so much sand washed away in the stream. His friend, Marilyn Hickey, told him to read the Word and reread it and reread it again. Being with God made the difference from dark to light, but it required letting go of all the external stuff. He got rid of his TV. He worshipped instead of watching the news. He sought God.

He has an understanding of the anointing, who is the Holy Spirit, who many don’t even notice. We sit in services, prayer meetings, and other church groups, more interested in our emotions than what the Spirit speaks. Why isn’t He in the center? Why isn’t Jesus all we say? Why when someone talks about Him, who has heard from Him, do we interrupt and correct them instead? God is speaking. Who is hearing and not judging? When God becomes the center, like it says in songs, nothing else distracts you from Him, and you see things that others walk past or participate in that God is not doing. He loves all His children. He loves the world. Jesus died for the entire world as individuals by name. But He speaks specifically and not convoluted where interpretation is difficult, and it causes confusion.

Confusion enters because, again, we don’t know Him. He designed us, how we live, how we think. It isn’t that we design Him. Words are vessels used to draw pictures that give us revelation of ideas, of the past, of situations. But His Word comes from Him. Jesus spoke in parables which sounded cute on the surface but filled with the Spirit drew people to Christ. Here is what God desires from us. Not simply to tell the story, to write something which flows well, but to know that we know that we know, it is Him speaking. To know when we are walking around empty and when we are full.

To forever go deeper in revelation, to continually stretch higher than where we sit, and enter that place it speaks of in Proverbs where we trust Him and not our understanding. We have continuous conversation with God, filled with thanksgiving, and are surrounded by peace far beyond what we can mentally or spiritually grasp.

We trust Him just because He said it, and He is everything. And He is enough.

Matthew 12:18-21 (Remedy)
18 “Here is my ambassador whom I have chosen to represent me: He is the One I love, and he pleases me completely. I will fill him with my Spirit, and he will reveal to the world what justice in my kingdom is like.
19 “He will not argue to promote himself, nor cry out about life not being fair. No one will hear him complaining or accusing others of wrong.
20 “He will not discard anyone who is bruised like a reed, nor condemn anyone who is smoldering, like a wick, in sin. No! He will be victorious in doing what is right.
21 “In him the world will put their hope.”


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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