Love is such an easy word to say today, and people tend to repeat the words "I love you", far too easily without taking the full effect of the words into consideration. Love is something that you choose to do for someone and is not an emotion, but rather something that you choose to do. When you say to someone that you love them, what you are really saying is that you choose to do anything for them, to benefit them, at your own cost.

When you say to Jesus that you love Him, you are in fact telling Him that you are willing to do anything that He asks you to do, and anything else that you feel would benefit Him, at your own cost. Do you love Jesus?

James 5:7-8 " Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts ,for the coming of the Lord is at hand."

When I looked at this scripture, even though I have read it a million times, it suddenly dawned upon me as to why some of our requests and prayers have not yet been met. First the scripture says that we have to be patient. Many have been patient a long time, and yet their prayers still go unanswered. Then it says "Establish your hearts". What exactly does the word establish mean? I decided to look it up and this is the explanation or definition of the word establish:-

1) a) To set up or found.

     b) To bring about or generate.

2) a) To place or settle in a secure position, to install.

     b) To make firm or secure.

3) To cause to be recognised and accepted.

4) To introduce and put into force.

5) To prove the validity or truth of.

6) To make a state institution of a church.

Have you established the love of Jesus in your heart. Be patient therefore, and establish your love for Jesus before the world by following these steps carefully.

1) Accept Jesus into your life and confess Him as Lord and Saviour before others.

2) Repent and be baptised in water for the remission of your sins.

3) Be baptised with fire in the Holy Spirit.

4) Read your bible to obtain strength and character in your life.

5) Obey his commandments (Deuteronomy 28)

Be patient and establish Jesus as Lord of your life and as the first love of your life.

The best definition of Jesus comes from His own words to us in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except though Me." 

Jesus says that He is the way. This means that Jesus is the example and the path that we are to follow. We are to follow in His teachings and to follow the narrow path that he has laid out for us towards a life of eternity. If you are in a strange city, and need to find a way to get to your destination, the best thing to do is to get a map, study it,  and calculate the path that you need to follow in order to reach your destination. We are in the strange and complicated city of life. In order to reach our destination of eternal life in heaven, we have to get the map of the word of God, read the bible and study it, and in so doing we plan out our path to our end destination of eternal life in heaven.

If there is no map available, or if the map can not be understood easily, then you are to ask for directions. Jesus is standing knocking at the door, waiting to give you directions. Revelations 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to Him and dine with Him, and he with me." Jesus also says to us that there are two paths, the one is wide and easy to find, whilst the other is narrow and hidden. We are to follow that narrow path, for that is the way to eternal life (Matthew 7:14)

Who is Jesus to you - is he the way that you follow.

I am the truth. Jesus is truth. There is nothing that is hidden about Him and there are no hidden agenda's. The sole purpose that Jesus has for you, is that for you to enter into the kingdom of God. When Jesus started His ministry, he chose the twelve apostles to accompany Him everywhere. The twelve apostles were with Him day and night, and were witness to the fact that Jesus had nothing hidden. There was truth in all that He did and said. You are to be the same. I do not mean that you need to go and get twelve apostles to be with you day and night, but that you are to live in truth. The devils biggest weapon against you is those things that you keep secret. The devil uses those secrets to blackmail you and control you, but once the secret is brought out and the truth is revealed, the devil can no longer control you.  And the truth shall set you free.

Confess your sins to one another (James 5:16) that the devil may have no hold over you and that you may walk in the truth that Jesus has laid out for you.

Who is Jesus to you. He said that he is the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Him. If your ultimate goal is to spend eternal life with God in Heaven, then you have to go through Jesus. Jesus becomes the life for you, and you are to live your life in Him. When we get baptised in water, we die to our former selves, and rise a new creation in Christ Jesus. Our life from that point on becomes a new life lived in Him. He is Life to us.

Who is Jesus to you? Is He a living reality to you, and is He the way the truth and the life for you, or is he just a common word that you use for the sake of cursing? If Jesus is not the way that you have chosen to follow your life, then it is never too late to change. He is knocking on the door, waiting for you to answer. Open the door and allow Him into your life, saying "God Help Me into eternal Life", so that you will have the map to life within you.

John15:9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in my love."

John15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments  and abide in His love."

John 15:12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."

The word "abide", used in the context above, means "To live in" and "Continue to be sure or firm." When we come before Jesus, we are to abide in him. This means that we have to start to live in Him, and continue to to be sure and firm in Him. You have to start placing Jesus as the root and foundation in your life. You have to place your feet firmly within Him, and then you know that He is the foundation in your life, the one that you can continue in and be sure of.

When you have an old house that is busy falling down, and you wish to rebuild it. First, you demolish the old house, then remove the old foundations. Once this is done, you cast new solid foundations and start to build your new house. If the foundations of the old house are weak, and you try to place new brickwork on the old foundations, the brickwork will continually crack and fall.

When we come to Jesus, we declare that our old house was starting to fall to pieces, we then demolish the old house through getting baptised in water, and in the submersion in water, we cast a new foundation and rise up out of the water with a new foundation cast solidly in Jesus. We then start to build our new house on that solid foundation of Jesus. When you try to build a new life, but fail to go through baptism in water, you often fail because you have not renewed your foundation.

"And my words abide in you". You have to get the word to live inside of you, and that is through reading the bible and depositing the written word of God into your spirit. That is the only way for the word to abide in you.

Once you have become firmly founded in Jesus, and His word has become firmly entrenched with in you, then whatever you ask, will be done for you, for automatically whatever you ask for will be in line with the word of God and will be to the glory of God, for its is in Jesus that you abide and love, and your will has become His will.

Jesus said that as the Father has loved Him, so He also loves us, and we are then to be founded and sure in His love. You are to be secure, knowing that He does love you.

When you abide in Jesus, you will become a person full of love, for just as Jesus had that perfect love for others, Jesus has become your root and foundation. The root feeds the tree and branches, and therefore Jesus feeds you with love, which in turn shines through you to all around you. You also will want to keep His commandments, and His greatest commandment is that we love one another, as He has loved us.

In summary, you have to build your house on the foundation of Christ. Destroy your old house, be baptised in water, and become sure in the knowledge that you abide in Him, and His words abide in you, and that He loves you.