Esperanza asked about
how do we please the heart of Jesus?
Is it a special attitude that we can have?
Is it maybe a work of faith,
or something that we can put into action by ourself
to please the heart of Jesus?
That question is straightforward.
Only faith pleases God.
It honours Jesus Christ to believe in Him,
even when everything around your life contradicts Him.
In Matthew 8:8,
Jesus was walking with His disciples.
A Roman centurion came to Him and said,
"Master, one of my servants is sick at the point of death."
He was crying for Jesus to heal his servant.
Jesus said, "Okay, let's go."
The man said, "No, You don't need to come into my house.
I'm not worthy for You to come physically to my house.
Me, I'm a commander.
I have soldiers under my orders.
If I say to him, 'Go this way,' he will go.
'Do this,' he will do."
The man was saying to Jesus,
"You don't need to come physically.
I so much believe in You that if You speak a Word,
invisible forces will come
and from far, my servant will be healed."
Jesus said, "I've never seen such a great faith.
Go, your faith has healed you."
Another woman in Matthew 15,
who was a Canaanite woman.
And that woman was not from the commonwealth of Israel.
She had a daughter - demon possessed.
She came all the way, far from Sidon
and she ran to Jesus.
When she came, Jesus neglected her.
No answer.
Have mercy, have mercy, have mercy.
Jesus refused.
And the disciples said, 'Master, let's send this woman.
She makes noise!'
The woman continued.
One day Jesus stood, and looked at her and said,
"It's not good to take the bread of My children
and give them to the dogs."
That's what Jesus said.
When Jesus equated the lady to a dog,
it was not to belittle her
but to test her faith, to check her humility.
The lady was not offended
because she knew who Jesus was.
She said, "Master, You are right.
I'm like the dogs,
but even the little dogs
eat the crumbs that fell
from their master's table."
Jesus said, "Wow. Go.
Because of this declaration, your daughter is delivered."
What pleases Jesus is the path of faith and humility.
Any person who approached Jesus by faith in such way;
his demand was done.
There's a woman who had the issue of blood
for 12 years in her life.
She suffered so many years.
But in her heart she said, 'This man called Jesus -
if I go to Him, I know I will be healed.'
That woman believed.
The woman came by faith.
When she came, Jesus was surrounded by
such crowd of people around Him.
But the woman found her way through,
and she didn't touch the body of Jesus,
she touched the hem of His garment,
because she believed.
And the Bible say power came from Jesus and healed her.
She never touched the body of Jesus.
Power came instantly.
That faith.
Jesus turned to say, “Who touched Me?”
They said, “Master, what are You saying?
Hundreds of people are here touching you,
and you say, who touched me?
Jesus was referring to a touch born of faith.
The woman came by faith supernaturally to Jesus.
And Jesus knew that
and the power of God
located her immediately.
If you want to please Jesus - faith.
Only faith pleases Jesus,
as faith honours Jesus the most,
Jesus honours faith the most.
And Hebrew 11:5 says,
"He who comes to God
must believe that He exists, and He's a Rewarder."
So now, if you believe in Christ,
anytime Jesus met somebody,
Jesus never healed the person directly,
He would ask them a probing question,
"What do you want Me to do for you?"
Or, “Do you believe I can do it for you?”
That's faith.
If you believe Jesus, you have it.
Faith in Christ Jesus is not a risk,
but a sure and practical act.
So, what pleases Jesus is your faith.
How do you have faith?
You have faith
when your faith, your belief is tested.
In the face of real situation,
when you're in difficulty,
you say, "Thank You, Jesus. You're my Lord."
You have no money -
you continue to worship Jesus -
act of faith.
Faith is not based on what you see;
It’s based on Christ's ability to save you, to protect you,
even when you're going through the wilderness.
So, my question is clear.
My answer is faith - Heavenly currency.
So that's the only thing that honours Jesus today,
and pleases Jesus today.
If you must come to Jesus, come by faith.
If you believe in Him, that pleases Him.
And faith is a lifestyle of trusting in Jesus,
even when everything around you seems difficult,
but you trust in Him.
That is faith.
It's a lot simpler than we think.
Because even the faith that we finally exercised
to receive Jesus
was the faith that he himself put in our heart.
Meaning that it's not for us to say,
"Oh, I don't have faith."
You know, "I don't have enough faith.
How do I please Jesus?
How do I reach Jesus?"
It's not up to us;
it's for us to reach out
and ask Jesus to give us the faith we need from Him.
And that is what Racine was talking about,
that attitude of humility,
'I can't do it by myself!' - every step.
If there's one thing I look at in life of Prophet TB Joshua,
I'm just baffled by 'til now.
It's the fact that he lived a life
as if he needed God more than anyone else.
He lived a life of
'I need God to sit down,'
'I need God to stand up,'
'I need God to say this,'
'I need God to say that,'
'I need God for everything!'
If you know you need Jesus for everything,
you'll have that childlike faith,
that childlike simplicity.
And that is what pleases Jesus.
So, thank you so much.
It is the Word of God that teaches you
how to please Jesus -
abiding in His Word,
meditate on His Word,
and faith will come spontaneously, naturally.
And when you please Jesus, you will see the reward.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for that wonderful, beautiful question.
And that's what it's all about, pleasing Jesus
and the fact that you have a heart to please Jesus.
Wow, that's wonderful.
It's a blessing.
That is a blessing.
Out of all the questions you could have asked,
that question is itself, is a blessing to your life.
So, thank you so much.
Yes. My question is, as I have heard about Jesus Christ,
and I read my Bible,
I pray, I fast,
but I'm still longing for that relationship with Jesus.
I feel I don't have it.
So, how do I get to where I'll say, 'I know Jesus'?
And when I pray, I believe that Jesus answers my question.
Thank you very much.
To answer the question, I will go to John 16:10
That will help us to answer that question.
John 16:6
He said to His disciples that
John 16:8: "When the Holy Spirit comes,
He will convict the world of sin…”
John 16:10: “Of righteousness,
because I go to the Father,
and you will see me no more,”
John 16:11: “And of judgment,
because the ruler of this world is judged."
You know, we have two Christs.
We have the Christ of history,
the Christ of the Bible.
We know the Bible is given information about Jesus,
His birth, His ministry, how He was crucified
how He resurrected, and ascended to Heaven.
We have facts.
Knowing facts about Jesus is not going to change our lives, right?
We can have passion for Jesus,
know Jesus intellectually by reading the Bible, etc.
But we should not forget,
there's Jesus - resurrected -
Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus, when resurrected, remember,
after walking with His disciples for three years,
they knew Him in bodily form.
Peter saw Him, they touched Him, they saw Him.
And the Lord said to them, "Well, I'm going to Jerusalem.
They will crucify Me.
They will kill Me.
On the third day, I will resurrect."
When Jesus said that,
they couldn't understand what He was saying.
But when Jesus was crucified
and laid down to the tomb,
many of them,
despite all what Jesus said to them before,
did not believe in the resurrection,
because they have never experienced that.
So, what happens on the way to Emmaus,
when Jesus met the two disciples who were so downcast
because they think the end has come?
Jesus came, appeared in a different form,
and began to tell them,
"What happened to you?
Why are you sad?"
They said, "Ah! Have you not heard
what happened in Jerusalem -
how Jesus was crucified?
We thought He was Him that was our hope!"
And for them the end has finished.
They only saw Jesus in the natural
but Jesus is not an earthly man -
Jesus is the Lord, the Man from Heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:47
When Jesus came on earth, God came.
He is the Word.
He is the Lord.
But many people followed Him
when they saw the miracles He did, He performed.
In the Book of John 2,
that Jesus said, He did not put His trust in man,
He knows what is in the heart of man.
So when He met
Nathaniel,
he said, "Ah this is the man in whom there is no fraud."
How do You know me?
He said, "When you were in the fig tree, I saw you."
And he said, "Ah, You are the Son of God!"
Jesus said, "You will see greater things than that."
So the question is, what Jesus said about Him -
in John 8:23 He said, "You are from this world,
I am not of this world.
You are from under,
I am from above."
So, Jesus is a mystery in itself.
It requires the revelation of the Holy Ghost
to know who Jesus was,
who Jesus is, because He's still alive.
So, to know Jesus – the resurrected Jesus,
in the power of the Holy Ghost,
it requires the Holy Ghost,
because Jesus is Spirit; He has resurrected,
He's in Heaven, and fills the heavens and the earth.
So, when they call the name Jesus today,
you don't see Jesus -
The Holy Spirit comes,
because He said, "I will give you another Comforter,
the Spirit of truth,
who is with you, He will be in you."
So now, how do you know Jesus?
We can only know Jesus through the Word, by His Spirit.
That's why all the Apostles said,
"The ministry of the Word" -
they were bearing witness of the Word
of His resurrection.
That's why they preached the Gospel.
So the question is,
you have the heart desire to know the Lord,
and that's very pure,
and Jesus knows that.
But to know Jesus,
you have to go through the right way,
through the Word by His Spirit.
When you read the Bible,
when you read your New Testament,
and you pray in your heart to understand,
the Spirit of God will give you revelation,
because the only relationship between Jesus and us
is through His Word by His Spirit.
We can never know Him by feelings.
The only way to know Him is by the Word of God.
And Jesus is real.
Jesus speaks to us.
How?
Jesus speaks to us through the Holy Spirit.
And how does the Holy Ghost speak to us?
In our heart.
And now that's the key.
To know Jesus, you must know the Holy Spirit.
And you can only know Jesus
as the Spirit of God reveals Him to you.
Saul rejected the Gospel,
and condemned the Gospel,
and persecuted the Christians
because he only had sense knowledge of Christ.
People look at Him - "Ah, is it not the son of Mary, the Son of Joseph?
How can You say You are from God,
You are from above?"
But on his way to Damascus,
Jesus met him at the point of revelation,
and the eyes were open, eyes of faith open.
"Who are You, Lord?"
"I'm Jesus, whom you persecuted."
And then revelation came.
So, this is the key -
to develop your relationship with Jesus,
because you can't see Him anymore with naked eyes,
but you can see Jesus in the spirit.
You can hear Him in the spirit.
So when you meditate in the Word of God about Jesus,
revelation comes.
What is revelation?
The Word of Christ will come.
He will speak to you through the Holy Spirit.
Your conscience will ring.
God will speak to us through His Word, by His Spirit.
And that is it.
And when the disciples were walking in Acts 2,
you can see that they knew Jesus
because they knew Jesus,
they knew the Holy Spirit.
And that's the Spirit of Father
that speaks through them.
So, whenever you call Jesus, it's the Holy Spirit that speaks -
Jesus speaks to us through the Spirit of Father,
and the Holy Ghost speaks through our heart,
through our conscience.
So, knowing Jesus is knowing the Holy Ghost.
And that knowledge is divine revelation through your heart.
Your heart, your spirit, is a communication point,
contact point with Jesus.
When you think right, when you speak right,
you can perceive His voice,
you can perceive the thoughts of the Spirit in your heart.
It's how we know Jesus.
Not by feelings - by faith.
And then you can have practical experience that you hear,
you pray, and God answers your prayer.
It is true.
We can only know Jesus through His Holy Words.
Jesus speaks through the Word of the Holy Ghost,
revealing His mind on a certain matter,
and giving us a promise.
And His promise isn't failing.
Amen.
So, when you pray to the Father in the name of Jesus,
you'll fellowship with Him through His Word, by His Spirit.
That's the only way we can know Jesus
in Spirit and in truth,
not in our emotions.
So, with the heart desire you have,
that's what God wants.
If your heart desire is to know Him for salvation's sake,
then He will meet you at the point of His Spirit.
And then you develop your relationship with Him daily,
by reading your Bible, meditating, giving thanks to Jesus.
Remember, He's our life.
In Him we live, in Him we move, and have our being.
You know?
When your heart is so soaked with Jesus
say, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus -
He's the object of our faith.
He's the vine, and we are the branches.
So, our life comes from Him.
So, make sure your thought -
think about Jesus.
Thank You, Jesus.
Give thanks to Him.
Ask Him to give you strength.
You pray in His name!
"Whatever you ask in My name,
I will see to it, it is done."
We have access to God through Him by His Spirit.
That's why He said, "I am the Way.
I am the Truth.
I am the Life."
What's the way?
His Word.
What's the truth?
The revelation of the Holy Spirit,
to tell you who Jesus is,
what is His mind.
What is the life?
The life is eternal life
through His Word, by His Spirit.
So please, Jesus is very close to you,
to your heart, to your spirit.
That's where you perceive,
that's where you have that relationship with Him.
Remember that's where He came
through His blood to remove the barrier
between our spirit and Him.
Because Jesus is Spirit, you too -
you have a spirit.
And that's your spirit that can connect to Jesus.
Not your mind, not your flesh - your spirit.
Once the Holy Ghost come in you, you have contact with Him.
When you pray to the Father, the Word comes.
When you pray to Jesus, it's the Holy Spirit.
So today, the only means of growth
in our Christian life and knowledge of Jesus
is the Holy Spirit.
God, Christ, and the Word, are one.
Wow. Thank you.
What an amazing answer!
And we really want to appreciate you for your question,
because that's what it's all about, knowing Jesus.
That is what it's all about.
The Bible says in Matthew,
you know, we don't wanna be in the situation
on that last day
when we say, 'I did this in Your name!'
'I did this in Your name!'
And Jesus says, "I never knew you."
So, that is a key question that you've asked,
a question of the heart,
about knowing Jesus.
And it's such a comfort to me
what Prophet TB Joshua said and is about "To seek the Kingdom of God,
is to have the Kingdom of God."
If we continue to seek God's Kingdom,
seek the presence of Jesus in our heart,
we have the presence of Jesus in our heart.
And that is the greatest miracle.
So never stop seeking,
never stop wanting to know Jesus more.
And because the closer we get to Jesus,
the more we realize how undeserving of His presence we are.
So, it's a wonderful journey.
We're on the journey of seeking to know Jesus more.
And like Racine said, it's being conscious of His presence,
His voice, His desire, His will
in everything that we do.
So, God bless you.
Thank you for that question.