Our words are pretty powerless; we are fortunate when people actually get our full meaning when we talk. BUT, when Jesus talks, His words are supernaturally powerful. They go inside us and produce pictures, feelings, and power. Jesus said in John 6:63 (NIV) The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and they are life. As you read the Bible, and as Jesus produces ideas and feelings in your mind and heart, they are more than information. If you believe in them, they will instantly change your opinions of what you should allow in your life. Through them you will be able to recognize wrong, bad, and evil things that you have been allowing to come into your life.

Heb 12:2 (NIV) Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. When you learn how to fix your eyes on Jesus, you will know, be convinced, and be sure of the words Jesus speaks to you through the Bible. You will be so sure of His truth, you will resist anything that tries to get into you that Jesus and the Bible say are wrong. Jesus’ faith will be so powerful that you won’t doubt Him for even a second. So, when something is different from what He says, you will resist it coming into you.

You have trusted a lot of people and allowed them to teach you things that were wrong. You have trusted yourself and allowed yourself to take you in directions that hurt you. There are things you believe that are errors and misconceptions. There are things you thought would make you happy that are actually doing great damage to your life and relationships. It is time to take your trust away from yourself and other people and put in the One Who is totally trustworthy. Once you start REALLY trusting Jesus, He will prove to you that He is your true answer to life and relationships. This will help you resist any outside information that is trying to get you to trust it. Even if you have been allowing it in for a long time, you will trust what Jesus and the Bible say.

You have made up your mind, made a final decision, committed yourself, and determined to do a lot of things. But, like the rest of us, you found that your commitment was inadequate for staying on course. Plus, you often found out that those things you committed to were no good for you in the first place. It is now time to allow Jesus’ power-commitment to lock you on the right path for what you should allow to come into you. But, you will have to resist any detours that try to distract you and take you back to the wrong path; Jesus will help you commit to the right path.

There were times when you were sure you were right and then found out you were wrong. There are things in your life that you are sure are right but are actually hurting you. Jesus is the truth: John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, “I AM the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. He will so reveal and make clear the truths of life that you will be amazed at how many things you believed were okay but were actually wrong. It will come clear to you that you didn’t stand a chance of winning. No one can succeed at life if they don’t know the truth. You and Jesus will be resisting a lot of erroneous things that you thought were truth but were drastically misleading you.

Only being able to see things from your perspective will hurt all your relationships. The people around you are using all kinds of methods, systems, and procedures to get you to do what THEY want you to do. They have learned that they aren’t going to get their needs and wants met if they can’t convince you that they care about you. They act like they are trying to do you a favor. But, you learned a long time ago that they only have their best interests in mind. If you go their way rather than Jesus’ way, then you are being used. You need to yield to Jesus’ love rather than their selfish desires.

Love will turn you into a person who is real, sincere, trustworthy, and caring. You will be able to see things from other people’s perspectives. As you resist wrong things you were regularly allowing to enter into your life, people will GRADUALLY learn to come to you for truth, honesty, care, and friendship. They will come to you at first while not trusting ANYBODY. BUT, they will slowly learn that you are totally different from anyone they have ever met. However, you will have to keep resisting a lot of things that will keep trying to hinder you from BEING that person. Jesus will continue to empower you to keep all of them out of your life.

The people around you have learned that they can’t trust anyone. They have developed all kinds of ways of protecting themselves. When you purchase something, there has to be a moment of exchange. When you are at the drive-up window of a fast food place, they won’t give you the food you ordered UNTIL you give them the money for it. Why? Because, you might drive off without paying. They aren’t used to being around people that Jesus has transformed.

Most of our human relationships and transactions are designed in such a way that we are able to protect ourselves. The people around you protect themselves by ACTING nice, ACTING trustworthy, ACTING caring, and ACTING sincere; but, they can turn on you in a moment. Jesus doesn’t want you ACTING nice, trustworthy, caring, and sincere. There is a huge difference between ACTING like a Christian and BEING one. Renewal, transformation, creation, and being born again MAKE you into a person who lives the way you do because that is who you are now. Renewal will empower you to keep the old you out so you can BE the new you.