One says: “I am a Christian.” Does it mean One deeply believes in God?

Mat 22:37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Rev 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

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The Lord's recommendations on how to combat lukewarm...

Revelations 3:18
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

The first is a) gold tried in the fire

- This speaks of using our precious faith to overcome the world

- 1PET 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

- The process of overcoming is what the scripture calls 'trial'. To overcome means to live by faith and not to shrink backward...

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.


The second is b) white raiment

- which also speaks of overcoming the world through faith..

-REV 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.


The third c) is the anointing of the eyes with eyesalve

- this speaks of the eyes of our understanding, or the eyes of our heart
- the eyesalve is the spirit of Revelation and Wisdom from the Lord..

-Eph 1:17-18
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

- we need to have more knowledge of Jesus, and asks The Father to grant unto us the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation to enable us to see..

If we do not learn how to overcome by faith, then we will become lukewarm, tossed about by everything that we see and hear in this world.. life can become a miserable experience.

The good news is Jesus doesn't wants us to live in such a way, but that we overcome by faith with our eyes fixed on Him.

His rebuke and recommendations are really for our benefit, and not to condemn at all. We are not called to lose but rather to win and stand up in faith.

Brothers and sisters, with the storm coming very soon, here's something more to add to our understanding..

"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire"

Use HIS gold. It is time to use HIS faith.

Don't try to produce our own gold. Don't try to produce our own faith to overcome.

Use His faith. Use His's... It is not our gold that makes us rich, rather it is His gold that makes us rich.

To simplify further, don't place faith on our own works, but rather let us place our faith to HIS works.

Placing faith on our own works is like trying to produce our own gold. And we thought we are rich because we are confidence of our good works. No, that will produce lukewarmness in us.

Instead, have confidence in His works.

Have confidence in His intercession towards you.
Have confidence in His healing towards you.
Have confidence in His blessings and protection towards you.

Because Jesus IS the Fullness of the Love of God.

Romans 8:39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And also, Jesus said BUY.

Buy means to exchange what we have with what He has.
It also means TO BARTER, to surrender to Him what is ours AND RECEIVE from Him what is His.

This means that we are to start using His mind and NOT our mind.
Use His reasoning and NOT our reasoning.
Use His Wisdom and NOT our wisdom.
Use His Understanding and NOT our understanding.

Trade our fears with HIS boldness.
Receive HIS boldness.

This is such a critical time to start to learn to use His judgment and discernment. This is such a critical time to shift our mind and heart away from the world's thinking (which are infested in fear) and INTO the Word, Jesus Himself.

It is time to keep His Word IN our heart and then our heart will teach us what to say and what to think.

PROVERBS 16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

God bless..