When Jesus gives us new hearts, we will learn to be loving and cheerful and to have a restful heart and be patient. We will learn to be good and to believe in Jesus and not to be selfish. We will even learn to eat and play and work in just the right way - not too much and not too little. We will learn to be like Jesus.
We will love the things we used to hate and hate the things we used to love. We will learn to let other people be first, and if we were Loud and naughty before, now we will be calm and polite. A true Christian will learn to not worry about fancy clothes and toys, He or she will learn hat the most beautiful person is the one who is sweet and kind.
People don't have changed hearts unless they act differently from the way they did before. If you have a new heart, it's time to make things right, to say you're sorry, to love everybody.
Then you can know that God has changed your heart.
There is air all around the world and Jesus' saving love is kind of like that - it's everywhere. Everyone who wants to can breathe in this love and power, and it will make them grow up to be God's men and women.
When flowers are growing, they turn their faces toward the sun. This helps them grow and be more beautiful and perfect. The Bible calls Jesus the Sunshine of goodness; and if we look to Him, His light will shine on us' Then we'll grow and grow and become like Him.
Jesus teaches us the same thing. He said Stay close to Me and let Me stay close to you' A branch on a tree can't make any Fruit unless it's connected to the tree And you can't make any Fruit unless you stick with Me'
You can't do anything without Me. John 15.4-5 If a branch is broke off the vine that grew it, it will die.
And if you go away from Jesus you can't have live a holy good life either. You can't grow, and you can’t say no to Satan if you don’t let Jesus stay in your heart don’t let
Jesus stay in your heart As long as you keep getting life from Jesus, you will be fresh and lovely and your life will be full of good things.
You'll be strong and lovely kind of like the beautiful green trees that grow by the water
Many people think if they trust Jesus, He will forgive them. But they also think that if they want to be a Christian, they have to work really hard to be good. You can try and try by yourself-
But it just won't work! Jesus said you can't do anything without him. If you want to grow in Jesus, if you want to be happy and a Good helper, you have to count on Jesus.
If you stick close to Him, if you spend time with Him and talk to Him always, every day, your trust will grow
The Bible calls this "abiding in Him” Jesus is the One who helped us believe on him and He is the One who will make us perfect and lovely. Jesus is the most important thing - first, last, and always. He promises to be with you every moment every day King David said that he paid attention to the Lord all the time. He knew that because
Jesus was with Him all the time, no one could ever make Him do wrong Psalm 16.8.
Do you wonder how you're supposed to stay with Jesus?
The Bible says, "Walk in Jesus the same way that you let Him come into to your heart in the first place"
Colossians 2.6 If you want to be good and holy, you must truly believe in Jesus Hebrews 10:38
You gave your heart and your life to Jesus so that you could be air His You want to obey Him and make Him happy because you know He is the One who saves you.
You could never make your sins go away or get a new heart by yourself, but you know that God did this for you to make us perfect and lovely.
Jesus is the most important thing-first, last, and always. He promises to be with you every moment of every day. King David said that he paid attention to the Lord all the time. He knew that because Jesus was with Him all the time.
No one could ever make Him do wrong Psalm 16:8. Do you wonder how you're supposed to stay with Jesus? The Bible says, "Walk in Jesus the same way that you let Him come into to your heart in the first place" Colossians 2:6.
If you want to be good and holy, you must truly believe in Jesus Hebrews 10:38.
You gave your heart and your life to Jesus so that you could be all His. You want to obey Him and make Him happy because you know He is the One who saves you.
You could never make your sins go away or get a new heart by yourself, but you know that God did this for you.
You chose to believe and give your heart to Jesus.
You will grow in the same way. Choose to keep giving your heart to Jesus and taking the wonderful gifts He has for you. Keep giving everything to Jesus. Choose to love Him and obey Him in everything He asks.
When you first wake up in the morning, promise your heart to God Pray to Jesus, "Make me all Yours, dear Lord. want You to be the Boss of my day. Let me be a helper for You today. Stay with me and help me do what
You want me to do." You need to do this every day. Every morning you must give your whole day to God Let Him teach you what to do that day. Let Him help you choose what to do all day long Every day you can give your life to God again, and then you will become more and more Like Jesus.
If you want to have rest in your heart and not have to worry, you can just keep giving your life to Jesus You may not feel excited, but you can trust Jesus You don't have to believe in yourself and just hope that you can do what you need to do. You can just believe in Jesus Christ.
You are really weak by yourself, but you and Jesus can be a team. He's strong and you are weak. He is smart and you don’t know very much. You don't have to worry about being a Christian all by yourself Don't even think about yourself-think about Jesus. Think about His love and beauty and goodness. Jesus put other people first and was humble.
He was pure and holy Think about the best love that ever was, Jesus' love.
Do you want to be like Jesus? Here's how. You must love Him and copy Him. You trust depend on Him to help you, and you will
Jesus tells us, "Abide in Me." This teaches us rest and trust. We don't have to always change our minds or become confused. Jesus helps us to know what we have to do.
He says, "If you come to Me, will give you rest" Matthew 11:28. King David says the same thing. Rest in God, and wait for Him patiently. Psalm 37.7 The prophet Isaiah tells us that we can be strong when we're quiet and sure in God Isaiah 30:15.
Now, we're not talking about being lazy. Jesus said that we can have peaceful hearts of rest only when we work with Him. He says that if we work with Him, that He will give us quiet, peaceful hearts Matthew 11:29
We can rest the best when we've worked the hardest for Jesus.
The person who ignores the advice of people who don't love God will be really happy. He'll be happy if he doesn't do the things that sinners do or mock people. This kind of person loves God's law & instructions - it makes him happy because he thinks about it all the time.
This kind of person is like a tree planted near a river-a tree that has plenty of water and produces a lot of fruit and has a beautiful green leaf all year long. Everything this person does will turn out well.
When you think about yourself, you can't really spend time thinking about Jesus. But He's the only way to be strong and have a real life. This is why Satan tries and tries to take your thoughts away from Jesus. He doesn't want you to be friends with Jesus.
Satan likes for you to think about how much fun you can have doing just what you want to do. He wants you to think about all the worries and sadness going on everywhere.
He loves for you to think about how bad someone else is or maybe even how bad you are. Don't be tricked by his lies If you want to follow Jesus, Satan will try to get you to worry about how bad and weak you are.
This is how he wants to take your heart away from Jesus.
Stop thinking so much about yourself! You don't have to be scared and wonder if Jesus will save you. This just makes you forget Jesus and how strong He is. Trust God with your heart.
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alk about Jesus and think about Him. Start thinking about Jesus instead of yourself. Don't be scared. Don't do your own thing anymore, but let Jesus make your choices for you. Trust in Him because He loves you so much that He died for you Galatians 2.20.
If you let Jesus help you, He will make you a real winner because He loves you so much! When Jesus became a person like us, He tied Himself to us by love" Nothing can ever take us away from Jesus unless we choose to push Him away. Satan always brings exciting things to tempt us to push Jesus away.
This is why we need to pay attention and pray and do our best so tlat nothing will make us choose Satan tested of Jesus. We can choose to follow Satan or Jesus. Either one. But keep looking at Jesus and He will keep you strong.
As long as you keep looking at Jesus, you are safe Nothing can take you away from Him. As you watch Him and learn about Him, 'you will be made more and more like Him, because His Holy Spirit will help you 2 Corinthians 3 verse 18. This is how Jesus' special fefinds, the disciples, became so much like their dear Jesus When they heard
Jesus talking, they knew that they needed Him. They looked for Him and found Him and then they followed Him
They stayed with Him all the time while they slept and ate and prayed and walked outside. Every day, they learned from Jesus, their Teacher. Every day, He taught them new lessons about God's truth. They paid attention to Jesus? because they wanted to be His servants and to learn how to obey Him
The disciples had the same feelings we have; they had hard times, just as we do James 5:17 they were tempted to sin, and they needed Jesus so that they could live good lives.
John called himself the disciple that Jesus loved. He was the most like Jesus of all the disciples, but he wasn't this way on his own. on his own. He was selfish and wanted people to think he was important. He was rude and became hateful when people were mean to him. But as he watched Jesus and saw how good He was. He saw how weak he, himself, was.
He watched how strong and patient Jesus was. Jesus was strong, but kind and gentle He was like a king, but He was also humble and not selfish every day, John watched these things in Jesus, and he learned to love Jesus and to want to be just like Him.
Every day, he learned to love Jesus more until he didn't even think about Himself anymore. All he could think about was his love for Jesus.
Jesus' power changed John's bad temper. The Holy Spirit gave him a brand-new heart. Jesus' love was so strong that it changed John's whole life. And this is what always happens when we
Even after Jesus went back up to heaven, the people who Ioved Him still felt that He was near them in their hearts. They felt that He was really still there with them, and they could still feel His love. Jesus was the One who'd saved them. He had walked with them and talked and prayed with them. He had given them hope and had made their hearts happy As He was going back to Heaven, His words had come back to them: ' Listen, He said, 'l will be with you always. I will be with you even to the very end of the world' Matthew 28.20
Jesus had gone back up to heaven. His friends knew that now He was beside His Father's throne, but that He was still their Friend. They knew He still loved. Jesus showed His Father the good work that He had done on earth. He showed Him the scars in His hands and feet that He got from dying for people on earth.
His friends were happy because they knew He'd gone to heaven to get things ready for them and that He'd come back and get them.
After Jesus went back to heaven, His friends were excited to get together for prayer meetings. Now they prayed to God in Jesus' name. They remembered that Jesus had said, "if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. You haven't asked anything in My name yet, but when you do, you'll get what you ask for. And you can be completely happy" John 16.23
They trusted Jesus more and more because they knew that He had died for them and that He had come to life again and was with God the Father. He knew He was their Friend Romans 8:34. Jesus had promised them that after He left, someone else would come to live inside their hearts.
He said that for Him to go back to heaven was actually the best thing for them, because then they could have this new Friend John 16.23, 24. This new Friend, the Holy Spirit, came just fifty days after Jesus rose up from the dead. This is how Jesus was able to stay in the hearts of His friends all the time. Now they could be even closer and better friends with Him than they ever had been before.
Jesus' friends were f full of His love and power and truth. other people saw them and were surprised and paid attention to them, because the people could tell that they'd been with Jesus Acts 4:13.
Jesus wants to be your Friend and Helper just as He was to His special friends, the disciples. The last time that Jesus prayed With His friends, He said, I’m not praying just for these people here, but I'm praying for everyone who will ever believe on Me John 17:20.
Jesus was praying for us! He asked His Father to draw us so close to Him that we would be like one person with Him. This is just the way that Jesus and His Father are, and He wants to be that close to us too. What a wonderful friendship! Jesus said that He couldn't do anything by Himself. He said that His Father lived in His heart and that His Father was the one who did things for Him John 5:19; 14:10.
So, if we let Jesus live in our hearts, He will help us do good things Philippians 2.13. We will work like He worked, and we will have the same attitude He had.
When we love Jesus and stay with Him, we will grow up to be just like Him Ephesians 4:15
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