It’s easy for Jesus to become just a thing in our lives, but Jesus has to be everything and above everything! 
Jesus over everything isn’t just a well meaning statement.
It’s a life choice that whatever comes my way, I’m standing on the unshakable rock.
When you’re walking through new situations and change, instead of being afraid, you can be confident because you are connected to the one who doesn’t change.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8
#1. BE FIRMLY FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
We must have a firm foundation, and that foundation is Jesus.
“The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.”
Proverbs 18:10
We must always call on the name of Jesus!
If our faith is not FOUNDED and built upon the rock, Jesus… then we cannot be firm in anything else.
We’ll shift with the sand blown by the storm.
We’ll go along with what “feels right”.
But the Bible says, our hearts are deceitful above all else!
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know (or understand) it?”
Jeremiah 17:9
We can’t follow our hearts. We have to connect our hearts to the heart of the Father.
We can’t live exactly like the world and expect to be able to change the world.
We can’t do what the world does and expect to walk in the fullness of what God intended.
Jesus must be our foundation in which our faith comes from. If we know he is our rock, we’ll remember to cling to the rock when everything is raging around us.
#2. GET CONNECTED.
We need to connect to the source.
A device without a power cord is useless.
I can place my phone near the cord, but that won’t charge it at all.
It’ll simply be close by.
Some people will say that you need to be close to God, but that isn’t close enough.
We need to be more than close to God, we have to be connected to him!
Once we have chosen to be ONE with God, daily seeking his face, then it is much harder for us to be moved away from him when the storms of life come.
#2 STAY CONNECTED-
Prayer and immersing yourself into the word connects us to God. It reveals his heart to us.
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LOVE THE WORD: The more you read the Bible, the more you will want to read your bible.
What we are putting into ourselves is what is going to come out.
Read your bible every single day! Set aside a special time and place.
If you don’t know what to read, psalms and proverbs is a great place to start.
Also, start reading through a book of the bible and finish it before going onto the next one. (I’m pretty fond of Hebrews right now!)
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PRAY MORNING AND NIGHT: Prayer takes our eyes off of our situations, and places them on God.
When we are looking to God and surrendering our worries to him, our fears shift into faith.
We are saying , “Lord I trust in you in this situation or in this area of my life”.
1 Peter 5:7- PUT all of your worries and anxieties on God, because he cares for you.
PRAY IN THE SPIRIT: Acts 1:8- You WILL receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you!
We need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in our everyday lives.
When we don’t know WHAT to pray, The spirit does and he will pray exactly what we need.
He also prompts us to do the right thing, to convict us, and to direct us.
When Jesus went up to heaven, he sent the Holy Spirit as our helper.
So, let us not forget we have a helper!
JOURNAL: When we write down what we are learning and hearing from God, it helps our growth
In the future, we can also go back and remember what he has done for us!
It’s important to remember our victories and the Lord’s faithfulness when the accuser is trying to remind us of our failures.
It’s time to get back to the basics.
The more time you spend with Him, the more you’ll know His heart. The more you know His heart, the more you’ll desire to be like him.
In what ways can you cultivate a deeper intimacy and intentionality in your daily living with Christ?
He’s not just a thing to put on our t-shirts and coffee mugs, He’s everything.