Jesus Wants ALL of You

7.27.2025

Introduction

We are living in a time that Jesus wants ALL of you, not just a part of you.

Today, God is coming for our compromises, and for all of our heart affection!

2 Corinthians 5:10 (AMP)

For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].

Romans 14:8-12 (NLT)

If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 Christ died and rose again for this very purpose—to be Lord both of the living and of the dead. 10 So why do you condemn another believer? Why do you look down on another believer? Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For the Scriptures say, “‘As surely as I live, says the LORD,

every knee will bend to Me, and every tongue will declare allegiance to God. 12 Yes, each of us will give a personal account to God.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 (NLT)

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. 12 Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. 13 But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. 14 If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. 15 But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.

He is asking us to give ourselves fully and completely to Him before Jesus returns.

Malachi 3:2-3 (NKJV)

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;vHe will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.

For us to be used by Him in the days ahead – He wants our full consecration!

Hosea 10:12 (NKJV)

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

Hard places are God’s way of getting our attention and taking us to deeper places in Him.

Matthew 4:1 (NLT)

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.

Luke 4:1-2 (NLT)

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.

Jesus set a pattern for us. Before He allowed the HS to use Him, the Holy Spirit led him to deny His flesh!

You will probably not be led to fast 40 days, but the Holy Spirit will speak to us to deny ourselves and to seek Him with our entire being.

To help us along, the Lord may arrange a training time for us – called the Hard Place!

Job 23:10-12 (NKJV)

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. 12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalms 34:19 (NKJV)

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Philippians 2:12-13 (NKJV)

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Mark 8:34 (PHILLIPS)

Then he called his disciples and the people around him, and said to them, “If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps, he must give up all right to himself, take up his cross and follow me. The man who tries to save his life will lose it; it is the man who loses his life for my sake and the Gospel’s who will save it.”

A cross is a place where: 1) flesh dies and 2) we yield our will to God’s will.

You may be in a very uncomfortable place right now with the circumstances of your life. Your job may be so distasteful and dissatisfying, your circumstances may aggravate you, but at the same time God may be asking you to yield to Him.

And God may be nudging you to make some changes so He can work through you to help others in a more full way!

In early 1983, I was 24 years old, and had given up a good paying job to be a janitor in a church in Oklahoma.

One Monday morning, I was cleaning the toilets after several thousand people had come through the building the day before.

I came to the end of me that morning, and, though I did not know it at the time, the job was a God set-up to bring me to the end of me, so that I could relate to Him in a different way.

I said, “God, I don’t like where I am and what I am doing! This is not what I ‘signed up’ for, but if this is your will for me the rest of my life, so be it. I will be the best janitor a local church has anywhere in the world!”

It was not long after that experience that a staff ministry position opened up for me. God was looking for my heart’s commitment to Him, regardless of my situation!

Another time, 8 years or so later, I had left Oklahoma, moved my family to the Carolinas and started a church. I turned it over to a another pastor and was in a traveling ministry on the weekends. God led me to start a painting business that I never wanted!

I was up on a ladder grinding paint off of the boards of an old house. Temperatures were in the upper 90’s and I was just miserable. I thought, “Here I am doing grueling work, and I am called to preach. Why am I here?”

Just at that time a song by Steve Green came on the radio I was listening to on my earphones.

And God began to ask me for a commitment again to Him, that regardless of what I was doing, I would live to love and please Him.

I stopped what I was doing and through my tears committed to painting houses for the rest of my life if that was the will of God for me.

Not long after that, God opened ministry to me again.

God is looking and needing our full commitment to Him today.

Luke 21:34-36 (AMP)

But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the giddiness and headache and nausea of self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose; 35 For it will come upon all who live upon the face of the entire earth.

36 Keep awake then and watch at all times [be discreet, attentive, and ready], praying that you may have the full strength and ability and be accounted worthy to escape all these things [taken together] that will take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.

Are you really giving Jesus your best?

What are you holding back from Him?

In what areas in your life is there known disobedience to Him?

What are in your life have you “walled off” from the Lord and basically said and acted towards Him with “Don’t go there?”

Sirens in Greek mythology were sea creatures that played and sang beautiful music to lure seafarers off course and towards islands where they could become shipwrecked.

What is seeking to get you off course with Jesus?

What is occupying your time and attention so much that God gets second place instead of first place?

James 4:8-10 (NKJV)

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

James 4:17 (ESV)

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Take some time to get before God and make firm commitments to change in areas where you are slack.

In eternity, we will be glad for every consecration we made!

Action Points:

What do I need to change in my commitment to God in the following areas:

Personal time with God reading/praying

Church attendance

Church volunteering

Giving

Marriage

Children

Time

Relationships

Online viewing/time