Home Is Where the Heart Resides

John 14:1-4
DO NOT let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me. 2 In My Father's house there are many dwelling places (homes). If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you. 3 And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself; that where I am you may be also. 4 And [to the place] where I am going, you know the way. Amplified

In John 14:6 Jesus said, " I am the Way and the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me."
verse 7 "If you had known Me [had learned to recognize Me], you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Him." Amplified
Jesus said when He would go was to make a place for you. Did we make that choice to be with Him?

HOME!

Would it not be a value to us to know the way home? But how you get there is by what you hold in your heart. What if we hold that which is not the lasting, not the benefit to us for life?

Jesus told us to NOT let our hearts be troubled. We are NOT to be the distressed, the agitated. Jesus was speaking to a generation who were to believe in God and obey His commands. Yet, they desired to serve themselves. But verse 1 of John 14 points us to add to our trusting God..........to believe in, adhere to and trust ........that leads to relying on Jesus as well. He speaks on about the dwelling places that are in His Father's house, a place I see as this grand area.

It is interesting that Philip responds with this:

John 14:8-11
8 Philip said, "Sir, show us the Father and we will be satisfied."

9 Jesus replied, "Don't you even yet know who I am, Philip, even after all this time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him? 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work through me. 11 Just believe it-that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do.   TLB


Show us the Father? And we will be satisfied.
Jesus spoke: "Don't you even yet know who I am Philip, even after all this time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!"
"Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say (speak) are not my own but are from the Father and the Father who lives in me. AND HE DOES HIS WORK THROUGH ME." "JUST BELIEVE IT.....THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND FATHER IN ME. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do."

We receive when we trust by faith that God speaks and Jesus speaks. Adhering is that to which we listen to the Voice that leads us in the Way, that which is True and Life to us!
He was directing them to the way He spoke was like the Father and had authority that was given to Him by the Father.

John 14:12-18
12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
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Jesus goes on with : "he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

Then that "if" appears!

"If you ask anything in My name, I will do it."

That asking is in prayer, yes that relationship.

If you love Jesus, keep His commandments.

John 15:9-11
9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. NKJV

There is that "if" again. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. That is being humble as Jesus was humble, He was the meek but carried authority when He spoke.

1 John 5:3-5

3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. NIV

Overcoming: By faith in believing Jesus is the SON OF GOD!

And Jesus intercedes for us! "I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with You forever--------will not be taken away from us!

John 14:21......21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
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Our heart is to that which is always looking into that which Jesus did and spoke. It was praying in authority and praying in union with the Father. And it will bring God's glory.
AND we are headed into Glory!


John 15:9-11............9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
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Father has a home for us. We are not be the distressed! For "if" we love Jesus, and keep His Word, the Father loves us. And when we do love and keep that Word of God, THEY come to us to make a home. Jesus said, "he who does not love HIM (Jesus) does not keep His words, and the word which we hear is not HIS but the Father's who sent HIM.  Oh no!

See scripture verses below:

John 14:23-24

23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. 

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In the present day world, we see many homeless people. Some got there by losing their jobs, in sickness, and some by just being in debt to someone. It is like becoming the "orphan" with no place but only to wander.
Amos 8:11-12
11 "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD,
"when I will send a famine through the land-
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 Men will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east, 
searching for the word of the LORD, 
but they will not find it.  NIV
There are "men" wandering today. They have this hollow place in their heart and no not how to fill that place of "void". They stagger. They are the weak, and the sickly.

When there is no Word given, that is to the Way, the Truth and Life...then....men lean toward that which yells out in cruelty, anger, and hate. They seek to fill that hollow, void place with drugs, alcohol, pornography and the such. They try to make up generic drugs from really bad drugs.  The streets are the muddy, they are noisy, and filled with threats and lies.  For a lack of the Word, they lose their "home" God had planned for them. They begin to wander! The Word of God was moved out of the schools and out of government, even though this nation was built on it. It has moved out.......! And it is the very thing we need to live, to fully flourish as God intended!

 Those equipped today with the Word must pray urgently for those who wander. We must pray! We must believe and trust in Jesus the Great Intercessor and pray like never before. We are to keep our hearts in that which God has spoken and Jesus has spoken. We are to pray with a fervency! Consequently, we are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household. We are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. It is in Him, that the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. ( Ephesians 2:19-22 NIV)

Father, we pray in Jesus' name, that we would be the prepared in our minds for action; be the self-controlled; setting our hope fully on the grace to given us when Jesus Christ is revealed. (1 Peter 13) Father, our hope is in Jesus in the salvation .............As obedient children, we desire to not conform to the evil desires we had when we lived in ignorance. But just as he who called us is holy, so we are the holy. (verses 14-15)
 Father, we also understand that we are to live here as strangers in reverent fear. For we have been taught through the Written Word of God that: "it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that we were the redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to us from our forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. And it is through Him we believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, and so our faith and our hope are in YOU our Father God.

Our home is with You. It is that which we ask to show us in prayer time. Reveal to our hearts so that we might give it more clearly by YOUR Word so that it is given in that which is a sincere love for our brothers, not only those who are of the faith, but those who wander.

We are the born again, the Redeemed, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For "all men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the filed; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the WORD OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER." (verse 23-24)
Father, we confess this Word  for we hold it in our hearts, "that word that was preached to us".
We believe we recognize the Father. We are the loved. YOU are the father to the fatherless and a defender of widows.... is God in His holy dwelling. It is You Who has set the lonely into families and You have lead forth the prisoners with singing. (Psalm 68:5-6)

Father, we pray for the wandering, that they hear You speak. May the Word of Lord go forth and be spoken like never before. Help them hear the word that prevails and shows the Way in truth to life everlasting.
Whatever may blind people, the wandering, may their eyes be opened to truth, may they be guided into Your glorious Presence so that they hear YOUR voice. Turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. You will not forsake. (Isaiah 42:16) Father YOU are the determined to do it.
As we the Redeemed have received You as Father, may the wandering know You. Thank You today for the Holy Spirit Who will teach us all things and bring to our remembrance all things that has been said to us in truth, in discipline, and guidance in Your holy Word. We thank You for peace in the streets today of the place we live. We thank You for streets to be quiet, may justice be on the pathways we walk, for we desire truth to rule and reign in our land.
We cry out today for if we do not, then the very stones will cry out. Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.  May Your glory fill the earth. Now Lord consider their threats and enable us ....to speak Your Word with boldness. Stretch out Your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs (Acts 2:29-30) and wonders through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. Amen.



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