For too long many have casually come and gone taking for granted the very presence of God.

Opportunities to grow, learn, and sit with Christ have been cast aside and thought best to be left for another day.

Yet this morning, the heart of the Lord rests on those sitting at His feet. Waiting on His Word. Longing to go deeper into His heart. These disciples know well the need for daily communion rather than weekly visitations.

An encounter with the living Christ is still available today. Sadly, many confine Him to a “closed canon” and miss the living and breathing Spirit of God sent to dwell within us.

If you have decided He shall only speak through His Word then you have relegated Him the same as did the Pharisees. For if He lives in me and I have the mind of Christ, then I shall hear Him daily in beautiful and wonderful ways…including through His Word.

His Word (Jesus in written form-The Word) is living and active and is always in pursuit of hearts. Yet, for some who have yet to come to know Christ, He entered a bar scene and spoke tenderly to their heart need.

For others, they were in a country where the Bible has not yet been placed in their hands but the audible voice of God enters their hut declaring, “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

The Lord is hovering over those who understand His ways are not our ways. He cannot and will not be contained by a world taught only by head knowledge.

For those who have been satisfied with your church going yet there has been no transformation of your life and giving it fully over to Him….you are in grave danger and need of making quite sure you know, personally, The Christ……some merely know, The Church.

Oddly, we find He does not dwell in houses made by man…and many indeed are void of the Spirit of God. Some have been warned of their idolatry and like Eli chose to look the other way as sin ensued in the house of God. The enemy devoured them from the inside out. Now sin calls for its pay day.

The revolving door of complacency is shutting. He is pouring Himself into those shut in with Him. The old evangelists we glean from knew the difference between life and death. They preached of a God who speaks.

A Christ who rose again! Yet, often we leave people with only the Christ who died.

We teach of men ordained in human meetings and have forgotten men and women were chosen and ordained by the Holy Spirit of God. Many chosen have been rejected by men as partiality runs rampant due to race and gender. The Lord is dealing with this in many houses of God.

The inner turmoil may not be of the enemy. Perhaps the hand of the Lord has moved to get the attention of the shepherds leading the sheep astray. Let us be willing to examine ourselves and see if there has been a wicked way slithering in our own midst.

Time is short. Call on the Lord and He will show you great and mighty things you do not know. You cannot know…if your life is merely a revolving door with Christ.

He is The Door….by which we enter eternal life, abundant life, supernatural life….

Have you really gone through The Door? Has it closed securely behind you leading you to new and pure pastures? Or do you simply come for an occasional visit? Make sure you are being taught the difference.