HOW TO LET JESUS INCREASE IN YOU
John who baptized Jesus Christ, said, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). How does Christ increase in you?
ASK JESUS CHRIST TO COME IN
Jesus said, I stand at one’s heart’s door and knock, and if anyone open the door I will come in and fellowship with them (Revelation 3:20). When anyone repents of their sins and believes in the atoning death of Jesus Christ, they are spiritually born again by being given the Lord’s Holy Spirit (John 3:5-7,16; Acts 2:38). If anyone has not already let Jesus in, they need to let him in to be save from their sins, which have separated them from God (Romans 3:23; 6:26; John 3:16-18).
OBEY THE LORD’S WORD AND BE GUIDED BY HIS SPIRIT
The Lord said, my words are “full of the Spirit and life” (John6:63). The Holy Spirit lives in those who obey the Lord (Romans 8:9). And the Spirit guides and empowers the Lord’s people to live by his words; and to be his living witnesses (John 16:13-15; Acts 2:38).
BE WILLING TO BE CONFORMED TO HIS LIKENESS
It is God’s plan for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, to be conform to the image of his only begotten Son (Romans 8:29):
- Jesus always did what pleased his Father (John 8:29).
- He said we should live by every word of God, as he did (Matthew 4:4).
- Even when he was face with death on a cross to please the Father in dying for the sins of mankind, Jesus said to the Father, “Not my will, but your will be done” (Luke 22:42).
- Our Lord and Savior said, “If any of you wants to be like him, you must give up your own way, take up your cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24NLT).
Those of us who have accepted the Lord and have the Holy Spirit of the Lord living in us are daily being conformed to his likeness; and will we become like him in resurrection; for we shall see him as he is (Romans 8:11; 1 John 3:2).
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