Be One With Christ

Good morning and praise the Lord. I would like to give you some more on being in partner ship with God. In the 17th chapter of John Jesus is praying and He prays these words starting at verse 20. "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. Jesus prayed this prayer that we would become one with the Father and Him. How do you and I become one with someone? First we must have a desire to commit to some one and when we commit then we must have desire to to do what it takes to become one with them. Jesus has always wanted us as christians to reach for that oneness with the Father and Him. When two people work at building a relationship they work at becoming one with each other, they learn each others likes and dislikes and they focus on making each other happy. We learn to forgive each other of all our short comings and realize that they are not perfect and subject to making mistakes. Jesus loves us so much that He prayed Father make them one with us even though He knew we were not perfect and that their would be times we would fall short and need to be picked up and dusted off.I believe that we can become one with God the Father and Jesus the Son but we are going to have to seek after with the same passion we get when we really want something and go after it. When you and I want something in the natural we see it then we set our minds to go after it and nothing stops us until we gotten it. We need to have that same passion for a relationship with Jesus. That means we are going to have to work at it and give the word of God some quality time in study and reading of it. In the 30 plus years of ministry I have studied the great generals of God who made a commitment to Him and did great works for Him. The one thing I noticed with all of them they were not affraid to go to God and ask his forgiveness when they messed up and fell short of the mark.I believe this is what we Christians today need to do to develope that true oneness with god is when we mess up be willing to admit it to the Father and ask his forgiveness. I was at a pastors conference many years back but the sperker at that conference that day made this statement and it has always stuck with me."He said a failure is one who falls down and never gets back up. he said you will never be a failure as long as when you fall down you are willing to get up and try again. I believe Jesus is always there and when we fall along the way if we call on Him and confess are wrong He in his mercy reaches down and picks us up and dusts us off and sends us on our way to try again. He is always there with us. We are to be one with Him and the Father but its going to take hard work dedication on our part to committ to his ways. Giving him our total respect and love.Have a Blessed and Healthy Day in Jesus name. From Pastor Ken