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Today we continue the extended series of episodes titled As He Leads. Mike turns on the microphone and shares what he senses the Lord saying.

May these words edify, encourage and comfort you or someone near you today.

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Today, we look at the words of Jesus to the church in Laodicea:

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

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“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” — John 15

There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God– having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. — 2 Timothy 3

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In this episode, i share quotes that have been meaningful and helpful as I have walked as a follower of Jesus.

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Let me say I am here by God’s appointment, in His keeping, under His training, for His time. — Andrew Murray

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Irish Prayer: 

Teach us good Lord, 
   to serve thee more faithfully,  
   to give and not to count the cost, 
   to fight and not to heed the wounds, 
   to toil and not to seek for rest, 
   to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will, 
Oh Lord our God.  

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“What do you think, Simon?”

“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? “

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”

“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? “

“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?”

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We want to receive the life that God gives us, not choose our life for ourselves.

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“Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

On the cross, they offered Jesus wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.

— Mark 15

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

— Song of Songs 5

“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. . . .  love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

— Jesus, in Luke chapter 6