Who is your God?

Everybody has a different "idea" about what's important in living the Christian way.
We all agree that our journey starts with "faith in Jesus Christ". The "Confessing with our lips that Jesus is Lord and believing in our hearts that He rose from the dead."
But from here on out the field of "application" broadens depending on where you fellowship and "who's feet you sit by."
"From the beginning" Scripture shows that man had an attraction for sin, and having a free will he decided to exercise that function.
Let me make clear how profound that "sin side" was in this "free will process."
Adam "was in the presence of God" when he first was created. Soon followed Eve to be his help meet and to "complete" Adam so that "they" could fill up "all the earth." They both walked with God in the garden daily and enjoyed His presence, Love, wisdom and instruction. Adam and Eve were face to face with God. They experienced His power and glory.
But still deep within the hearts of mankind represented by them even that kind of intimacy with God wasn't enough to keep their decisions on obedience to His Word. They eventually "ate of the fruit" and sinned/fell from "fellowship with God." We all bear the results of that first sinful decision of disobedience to God's Word. Remember that the "Word was with God from the beginning", then later "became flesh" and "dwelt among us" in God's perfect timing. It would seem like this disobedient streak would be replayed again when the "Word became flesh" and He went to His own and His own knew Him not. Adam and Eve were literally God's own and it didn't take them long to "know Him not" seemed like time clouded their hearts enough to allow for the temptation of sin to be stronger than the "glory of God." And so it was with "He came to His own, and His own knew Him not."
To make this thought crystal clear: The Jews had the Law, the prophets, and the writing of Moses, all of which pointed to the coming of their King. They should of recognized Him due to the Scriptures of their time and "obeyed Him" once again. Strike 2 for mankind. By the way, God wasn't ignorant to the fact that this would happen "from the beginning" before he created "man and woman", but followed through with His plan. The plan of Unconditional Love and redemption.
Sin had held the reins of mans heart exhibiting his "free will" choice of rebellion against God, (mankind's Father), up to the time of Christs appearance on earth, even until this very day, and until the judgement of it through the book of Revelations. Lets face it sin is still mankind's master until man "believes" in Jesus Christ for salvation then it becomes man's constant temptress until the grave. At this point I am sure that there are those who would argue different saying that after we believe in Jesus Christ we don't sin anymore but that is very wrong.
1 John 1: 8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
Believers are "sinners saved by grace." The difference is that the believer has Divine Intervention by our Father to resist sin by grace and the sacrifice of Jesus to cover our sin if we fail.
So this is a good point to jump off of to get to the Main Topic of this post:
Your Christian walk will only be as successful as "your Revelation of Jesus Christ."
So what does the Scriptural Word "Revelation" mean?
It simply means "Revealed".
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ" means that God divinely "opens our understanding in our spirit" so that we can "see" Jesus for who He is. He gives us a Revelation. Not a study, not a doctrine, not an idea, but an actual "experience", "fellowship", "understanding" of who He actually is in all His glory, Majesty, and Love. Something that we cannot get in any other way. A start to our "Revelation" of Jesus Christ. Many Christians know, (head knowledge), "about" Jesus but not many "experience" Jesus the way God our Father designed it to happen. Don't think that I am "busting chops" here for the sake of knit picking, not at all. I am sharing what a "growing Revelation of Jesus Christ" should consist of based on the "faith experience" that I have (and still continue to) walk through. This Revelation can only take place by faith, "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God", correct? The Word is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ comes to us by faith as a Revelation. The Holy Spirit revealing the "Deity" of God the Son to us. Again: He is revealing the Heart of God to us through Jesus Christ by showing us what He did, how He listened to His Father, and how He did the very same things that He seen His Father doing. In other word He (Jesus) was obedient in thought, Word, and deed preforming His Fathers will. As should we during our "walk with Emmanuel, God with us" here in our only short lifetime. We will be conformed to "His image and likeness, us decreasing Him increasing, thereby working the very miracles He worked and greater because He has gone to the Father in heaven." This is a promise from God that we can only receive "through" Jesus Christ and that only by faith. So if our "revelation of Jesus Christ" is growing daily by faith, the eyes of our understanding being opened by the Holy Spirit, then we will not be unproductive in our walk. Jesus said: "if you don't believe what I say then believe the miracles." The miracles were always God's way to prove that what is being preached, the Gospel of Good news, was His pure Word and Truth and that He is "bearing witness" to that Truth through incredible "signs and wonders."
If you read the Bible out of the Spirit, out of faith, your unbelief will stifle your faith, and your "experience" of Scripture will be at best lacking. Scripture was meant to be both exciting and a warning for mankind. On one hand warning to that we will rely on the Holy Spirit to "keep us from sin", but on the other hand exciting to read all the precious promises in God through Jesus Christ to motivate us to "good works." When we see God working through the name of Jesus in our lives it humbles us to think that His Love has deemed us worthy of use, and our experience in the faith propels us to seek out more of His promises for us. He is willing to "equip" us to glorify His name in a way that no other religious following can. Giving us power over evil, sickness, infirmity of all kinds, and in some cases over death itself.
Christianity is ALIVE, LIVING, EXCITING and POWERFUL "because" our God is an awesome God, He reigns over heaven above, with wisdom, power and Love our God is an awesome God! He is confident that we, with the Holy Spirits help, can "turn this world upside down," in the name of Jesus. I am sure there are those out there that just shuts this kind of Truth off because "they haven't had it happen to them, but let me clear something up; if God made these promises and God cannot change, nor can His Word, then who's fault is it? Lets make this next statement clear: YOURS and yours only.
God cannot lie, He cannot change, He cannot mislead nor does He change His mind, there is no wavering in Him, that only leaves you! The sinner saved by grace. Rather you cried out to Jesus like the man with the demon possessed son that was thrown into fire and water to kill him, "Lord help my unbelief!"
Many will say that there is no such thing as a Revelation of Jesus Christ, the Word has been written and nothing else can be known. I agree with the written Word, but I also know that the amount of Truth that we as Christians over all time past have experienced of Scripture has hardly been a "scratch and sniff" revealing of what the Holy Spirit could actually reveal if "we" weren't such a "stiff necked and rebellious flock. Can you imagine the patience of God with us His children? Having given us all these promises, commands and blessings to call our own? And we stand before Him and ask for the frivolous when we could be taking authority over this lost and dying generation, with powerful signs and wonders, glorifying our Father in Heaven with the Truth that sets free?
As the "Lord lives" I can tell you that you will only be as close to God through Jesus Christ as "YOU" want to be. If you want to be a "second person believer" that has to hang on to only man for your relationship with God then you will be a babe all your Christian walk and have only your salvation to show for your faith. But if you on the other hand let the Word (both written and living, Jesus Christ) by Gods Holy Spirit, lead you and guide you into "all Truth" humbly seeking His promises, and being obedient to His commands, then you will have the doorways of heaven opened up to you, and you will receive "power" when that the Holy Spirit continually fills you for service with power and anointing to do Gods will.
Believe it or not "that's the way it is and it works!"
Arguments and opinions mean nothing to God when it comes to His design for man and his use. His Word is what matters and what you do with it. Dispensate all you want, craft "doctrines of man" till your heart dies from "lack of Truth", but your life will be without power, joy, and confidence, being swayed by every rumor and being filled with confusion. This is not God's plan for His people.
Your choice. How do you view God now?
That's why the most important factor in how we will walk out our Christian faith depends on what/who you believe God to be. Will you believe by faith that all that Scripture says about God and the Word is true or will you believe only what others say about a Christianity that has been stripped of power because "they have never seen such things."
Faith giving Power?
Or doubt giving defeat?
Who is your God?
My God is the King of Kings and the Lord of Glory. He is the Holy one of Israel. The Alpha and Omega, the God of creation, and the King of Glory. He never changes and He keeps all His promises. He Loved us with an Unconditional Love the depth of which was show when He gave His only begotten Son to save our sinful souls. He gave us light and life so that we could "have life more abundantly."
That's my God!
Because He is who He is I have gone from faith to faith, and grown in grace to the point that I can hear His voice, have the mind of Christ, and by His promise I can humbly agree to Him "conforming me unto the life of Jesus Christ." With His help I can die to myself and He can increase in me. At the present time He is working His Unconditional Love in me and through me for others at an ever increasing rate. By His grace my fellowship with the Holy Spirit is growing stronger and I am becoming more sensitive to His heart. I believe that God is True, His promises are sure, and His blessings are real. This "seed of faith" that He started with in me will continue to grow until it has become a tree able to support others by His hand. My wife, family and I have seen and received many miracles and manifestations by the hand of God in the name of Jesus, some so powerful that they have actually restored both life and the quality of life back to others.
That's my God.
Again "who is your God?"
"Choose ye this day who you shall fallow, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord."
"Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you."
Love
J&E inTn