Listen to Him

Listen to the Savior calling,

Calling you to follow Him.

Let His Spirit dwell within you

Counseling you to flee from sin.

Follow Him where’er He leads you.

Go with Him throughout your day.

Know His purpose, His compassion.

Do His will without delay.

Don’t be caught in degradation.

Don’t give in to sin’s deceit.

Don’t let Satan’s lies deceive you,

Lead you to live in defeat.

Know the gospel message wholly.

Turn from sin, obey your Lord.

Living wicked in addiction,

In rebellion, not afford.

God will judge you for your actions,

When you live in sin, for self,

When you choose to disobey Him,

And put faith up on a shelf.

You will not have His salvation,

Not to heaven you will go

If you choose to disobey Him,

Live for sin is what you show.

So commit to follow Jesus,

Do His will, obey your Lord,

Die to sin and self in service

To your Lord whom you adore.

An Original Work / April 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Taking Up Our Cross Daily

“And He was saying to them all, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.’” (Luke 9:23-26 NASB1995)

The modern “gospel” says, “Come as you are.” “Bring all your filth with you.” “You don’t have to change.” “You don’t have to obey God.” “Just profess faith in Jesus Christ and now all your sins are forgiven and heaven is now your eternal destiny.” “God’s grace covers it all.” “And if you start to feel guilty for your addictive and sinful life patterns, just ‘claim who you are in Christ.’” But who we are in Christ is who we are in practice in surrender to the will of God in obedience to his commands, or we are not genuinely “in Christ.”

For Jesus Christ taught that if we want to come after him, we must deny self. We must deny and put to death with Christ the sinful passions of the flesh. We must deny all fleshly lusts and desires in order to follow Jesus with our lives. We must say “NO!” to the lusts and desires of the flesh, and we must now follow our Lord in obedience to his commands in holy living. We must be willing to let go of all worldly desires in order to surrender our lives over to the will of God for our lives. For this is the will of God for our lives.

And to take up our cross daily is to daily die to sin and to self, in the power of God, and to let God have his way in our lives. For when Jesus Christ died on that cross it was to put our sins to death with him so that by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands – all in His power at work within us. And what Jesus went through in order to save us from our sins was very painful. So we should not expect this to be easy, but it can be done in God’s power.

And to follow Jesus is to obey him, to go where he sends us, and to do all that he commands us to do. And this isn’t just about denying self and dying to sin daily, but this is about doing the will of God for our lives. This is about answering his call to his service and to be willing to be used of him in the ways he has for us. So this is about saying what he gives us to say, and about writing and posting what he gives us to write. And it is being willing to be stretched and strengthened in areas not thought possible ever.

For example, when the Lord called me to this ministry, I had never done anything quite like this ever before. I had never written devotions and posted them on the internet before 2004, that I recall. I had never before written hundreds of songs and poems and posted them on the internet. I had never written Christian memes or done video talks and posted them on the internet. And I had never before shared publicly my testimony in such depth. All of this was of God and was/is done in the power of God, too.

So, following Jesus isn’t just about obeying his New Covenant commands and no longer living in sin. Following him involves every aspect of our lives in becoming and in doing who he has for us to be in doing what he has for us to do with our lives on a day to day basis, moment by moment. It involves us being in close communion with him, listening to his voice, and being willing to go where he sends us, to do what he has called us to do, and to say the things that he gives us to say to the people, for their good.

But please know what his word teaches as the gospel of our salvation. For if we hold on to living in sin, and if obedience to our Lord’s commands is not what we practice, we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. For if we are ashamed of Jesus on this earth, and so we don’t obey him in practice, but we live for the flesh, instead, then when he returns, he will be ashamed of us and he will say, “Depart from me you workers of iniquity.” Believe him!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22] 

He Gives Purpose  

An Original Work / June 9, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Listen to Me when I’m calling to you.

Obey freely My word.

Follow Me in all of My ways.

Do all that I say.

Hear Me gently whisper to you

My will for your life and future.

Give all of your life and heart to

Follow Me always.”

Repent of your sins and worship Jesus.

He’s your Lord and Master.

He died for your sins so you could

Live with Him today.

He has a plan for your life and

He gives purpose and direction.

He gives meaning to your life,

So follow Him today.

“I love you so much I gave My life for

You to walk in My ways,

Living for Me each day as you

Bow to Me and pray.

Witness for Me of your love for Me and

Of My grace and mercy,

How I died to save you of your

Sins now and always.”

https://vimeo.com/119038798

Taking Up Our Cross Daily

An Original Work / April 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

So We Might Die To Sin

Speaking here of Jesus Christ: “And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 NASB1995)

“Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation… (2 Peter 3:14-15 NASB1995)

“You, therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:17-18 NASB1995)

The message spoken in 1 Peter 2:24 is the message of the gospel of our salvation in a nutshell, i.e. all in one sentence. For Jesus Christ did not die on that cross just to save us from our sins so that when we die we get to go to heaven and not to hell. He didn’t die just to forgive us our sins, by his grace. The reason he died and rose from the dead was so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in surrender to the will of God for our lives, all in his power.

And righteousness is what is deemed right in the eyes of God, what meets with his judicial approval, so it is what is holy, just, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to the Lord and to his commands, etc. And to be blameless is to be virtuous, righteous, and morally pure, no longer living in sin and in deliberate disobedience against God. And all of this is made possible for us via Jesus’ death and resurrection, and via his gift of grace to us in providing a way for us to die to sin and to obey our Lord, in practice.

And to be healed by his wounds is to be healed spiritually. It is to be reconciled to God, which means to properly and decisively change, to exchange our old lives of living in sin and for self for our new lives in Jesus Christ, surrendered to the will of God in walks of obedience to his commands. For Jesus said if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him in doing what he says we must do as his followers (disciples).

And our salvation, which is a gift from God, and not anything that any of us can earn in our own merit, is deliverance out of bondage (addiction) to sin so that we can serve our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. And it is not a one time thing we do guaranteeing us heaven for eternity. Biblical salvation is progressive – we have been saved (past), we are being saved (present active) and we will be saved (future) when Christ returns, but provided that we are not living in sin and in disobedience to God in practice.

So, please understand here that not everyone professing faith in Jesus Christ is a follower of Jesus Christ. And not everyone professing to be teaching the truth of the gospel of Christ is teaching the truth. There are many of these “unprincipled men” (and some women) among us who are teaching lies which tickle itching ears. They are not teaching that by faith in Jesus we must die to sin and live to righteousness in obedience to our Lord’s commands, but they are giving people permission to keep on in their sins. So know what the Scriptures teach in context, and obey the Lord always.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 9:23-26; John 8:31-32; John 15:1-12; Romans 6:16; Romans 8:24; Romans 11:17-24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; 2 Timothy 2:10-13; Hebrews 3:6,14-15; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5,9; 2 Peter 1:5-11; 2 Peter 2:20-22; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6,24-25] 

My Heart’s Desire  

Based off Romans 10:1-21; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-24

An Original Work / June 29, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Loved Ones, Oh, my heart’s desire

Is that you might come to Jesus.

Many appear zealous for God,

But they do not trust in Him.

They have not submitted to the One

Who saved them from their sins;

Not forsaken their sins,

Nor have they obeyed their King.

The word of the Lord is near you:

The word of faith we’re proclaiming:

That you must confess your faith

In Jesus as your Lord and King:

Believe in Him as your Lord, 

And follow Him where’er He leads.

Share the gospel; be a witness,

And meet others’ needs.

Beautiful are the feet of those

Who bring the good news of Jesus:

Anyone who would come to Him

Must deny himself today;

Die to sin and self, and

Let the Spirit transform you in heart;

Put on your new self in Jesus,

Yielding to the cross. 

https://vimeo.com/115643303

Video Talk Based off the Same Message

https://youtu.be/ki314yRVIlM

So We Might Die to Sin

An Original Work / April 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Spiritual Sacrifices Acceptable to God

“And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:4-5 NASB1995)

I am amazed continually at how many people these days are believing that faith in Jesus Christ is just forgiveness of all sins and the promise of eternity with God in heaven when they die, based solely on a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ, with no death to sin and no walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands required of them. And they believe that their profession of faith in Jesus Christ now gives them a new identity in Christ which overcomes all of their deliberate and habitual acts of sin against God.

Yet, all throughout the New Testament Scriptures we are taught by Jesus Christ and by his New Testament apostles that faith in Jesus Christ, if it is genuine biblical faith, must result in self-denial, death to sin, and walks of obedience to God and to his commands in surrender of our lives to him. And we are taught that if we profess that Jesus is our Lord but we don’t do what he says, but sin and disobedience to God are what we practice, that we don’t have forgiveness of sins, and we don’t have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

But what does this passage of Scripture teach us? If we are those of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, which is gifted to us by God, and which is persuaded of God, and which is not of our own doing, so we don’t get to make it up to please the flesh, then we are living stones being built up as a spiritual house for a HOLY priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. We are the body of Christ, his church, for the purpose of honoring God with our lives and for spreading the truth of the gospel.

For to be holy means to be different from (unlike the) world of sin because, by faith in Jesus Christ, we are now being transformed by God into the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, as we cooperate fully with his work of grace in our lives and we do what he says we must do, as his followers. And to be a “holy priesthood” has to do with us being ministers to one another within the body of Christ in encouraging one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and it includes us praying for one another, too.

And the spiritual sacrifices that we are to offer up to God are those of humble and contrite hearts, in denying self, dying to sin, and following Jesus Christ in obedience to his commands. It is in giving our lives to God to be his to be used for his purposes and for his glory in being his servants and his messengers, in ministering to one another within the body of Christ, and in taking the message of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world. But we should make sure that “the gospel” we are spreading is the true gospel.

And collectively we are the church, the only true church, the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ who have died with Christ to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living. And all of us are necessary to the proper working of this body of Christ. And so God has assigned us all our body parts (our ministries), and he has gifted us with Spiritual gifts to be used within the body of Christ to minister to one another in encouraging one another to live holy lives, pleasing to Jesus Christ.

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

Fit for Service 

 

An Original Work / October 5, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy Spirit, come within us.

Cleanse our hearts, 

and from sin free us.

Make us holy vessels fit 

for service to the King.

Fill us with Your love and power.

Anoint us within this hour

To be living witnesses 

For Jesus Christ, our King.

Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,

Come and speak to us in power.

Revive our hearts to obey You;

Live for You always.

May we love and serve You only,

Walking with You; 

Not a phony.

May we always tell the truth,

And show integrity.

Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.

Purify our hearts within us;

Be transformed into Your likeness,

Holy unto You.

May we always listen to You

Speaking Your words 

Now within us.

May we heed Your counsel to us;

Follow You today.

Do all that You say. 

https://vimeo.com/113979906 

Spiritual Sacrifices Acceptable to God

An Original Work / April 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In Action and Truth

Practicing Sin

1 John 3:4-10 ESV

"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother."

If sinning against God is our habit, our custom, our way of living, our routine or ritual, i.e. our normal practice, then we are not truly born again of the Spirit of God, for the Word of God teaches us that if we walk in sin we will die in our sins, not have eternal life with God in heaven. This is not saying we will never sin again (See: 1 John 2:1-2), but that if we make sinning against God our practice, and if we don’t make righteousness our practice, then we don’t truly know God, we are not abiding in Him, and we don’t have the hope of eternal life with God in heaven when we leave this earth.

Yet, many people today are preaching and teaching that we can believe in Jesus, and have the hope of heaven when we die, by a mere profession of faith in Christ which requires no repentance, no obedience, no submission to Christ or his cross, no death to sin and no living to righteousness. Please know that this is a BOLD FACED LIE! Scripture contradicts that notion all throughout the New Testament. 

These who teach this false grace gospel, which requires no death to sin or living to righteousness, but allows for a continual practice of sin in one’s life, are charmers, deceivers, manipulators and liars whose goal it is to deceive and to pull people away from genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And, what they teach are lies which they concocted, but which have no scriptural backing to them whatsoever. So, they pull scriptures out of context to support their lies, and they say what people’s itching ears want to hear, and so many people listen to them and follow them in their deceitful scheming. 

These teachers of this false gospel and their messages are full of pride, moral and spiritual indifference, lies, deceptions, fakery, and hypocrisy, while they give credence in their own lives, and in the lives of their followers, to sinful habits (the practice of sin) and to lying excuses for why they continue in those sinful practices, or why they feel at liberty to do so. Oftentimes they blame others for their continued sin or even blame Jesus Christ, as though it is His responsibility to make sure they don’t sin. 

But, Jesus did his part. He made the way for us to be free from our slavery to sin, and he has given us everything we need to live godly and holy lives, pure lives in him, pleasing to him. We are not puppets on a string which he makes do whatever it is he wants us to do. We have a choice whether to obey him or not; whether to submit to him and to yield to his Lordship, or whether to go our own way and keep on living in sin. So, we have no one to blame but ourselves if we choose to keep making sin our practice, and to not love our brothers and sisters, as a result of those practices, and thus to not have fellowship with God, and to not have heaven as our eternal home.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

When in The Stillness  

An Original Work / September 26, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When in the stillness of this moment,

Speak to me, Lord, I humbly pray.

Be my desire, set me on fire,

Teach me to love always.

Help me to walk in fellowship with You,

Listening to You; sit at Your feet.

Whisper Your words to me, 

Oh, how gently, guiding me in Your truth. 

While we are waiting for Your blessing,

Lord, in our hearts be King today.

Help us to live for you ev’ry moment,

List’ning to what You say.

May we not stray from your word within us,

Help us obey You, Lord, in all things,

Walking each moment, Lord, in Your presence,

Our offerings to You bring.

Help us to love You, Lord, our master;

Be an example of Your love,

Helping the hurting, lift up the fallen,

Showing them Your great love.

Teach them to love You, follow You always,

Bearing their cross and turning from sin;

Walking in daily fellowship with You,

Making You Lord and King.

https://vimeo.com/126984144

In Action and Truth, Practicing Sin

An Original Work / April 7, 2018

Reposted on April 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Tribulations For Our Good

“And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Romans 5:3-5 NASB1995)

We, as followers of Jesus Christ, are not promised that life will go easy for us. We are not promised that we will not have trials and tribulations. In fact, we are promised the opposite of that. Jesus and his New Testament apostles promised us that we would be hated and persecuted like Jesus was, and that we will suffer, and that some of us will be put to death for our walks of faith, and that we will be falsely accused of wrongdoing, falsely imprisoned on erroneous charges, and beaten and left for dead, like the apostle Paul was.

And we will be treated as Jesus was treated by the religious authorities of his day, and by the same types of people of our day. For if we take seriously the truth of the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, to teach them to others, and to follow them in practice, by example, and so we call sin what it is, and so we teach the necessity of death to sin and of obeying our Lord and his commands, as part of faith which saves, we will be rejected. We will be cast aside as unwanted, ignored, and/or falsely accused of wrong.

And with regards to the warnings in the Scriptures in reference to the last days, and the kinds of things which will take place, if we are at all observant, we have to realize that we are living in those last days, and there is a very real possibility that things could come crashing down upon us all very soon, and our lives as we now know them could quickly go in a completely different direction. The signs of the times are everywhere we look now. And we should never presume that tomorrow is guaranteed to any of us.

And just because things get much harder, and more difficult, and more complicated, is no reason for us to “jump ship,” i.e. to run away from it all. Now we should run away from the things that God tells us to run away from, such as sin, and temptation to sin. And we should depart from partnerships with what is evil and wicked and against God so that we do not partake with others in their sin. But when the Lord says to stay and to tough it out and to learn from our trials, we need to obey God. For he knows what we need.

For trials and tribulations, although painful, are for our ultimate good, to mature us in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, to train us in perseverance, and to transform us in character to be more like Jesus. For do you remember what God told Paul when he prayed for deliverance from his “thorn in the flesh” (which was not a sinful habit)? He told him that God’s grace was sufficient for him, for power is perfected in weakness. So Paul decided to be content with weakness, for in his weakness he was strong.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; Hebrews 12:3-12; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; 2 Timothy 3:12; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

To Be Like Him  

Based off Scripture

An Original Work / March 16, 2014  

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Crucified you are with Jesus.

To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,

Because He died at Calv’ry,

So from sin you’d be free.

Oh, what joy He brings into your life,

Giving life with Him endlessly. 

Oh, what plans He has for your life.

Share the gospel faithfully.

Show the people He loves them.

Now His witness you’ll be.

Tell the world of sin about Jesus,

How He died for them on a tree.

Purifying hearts, He saves them,

Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.

Turning now from their idols,

New lives they have begun.

Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.

Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

When He comes again to take us

To be with Him evermore,

There will be no more crying.

Gladness will be in store.

Heavens joys will now overtake us:

We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

https://vimeo.com/89237609

Tribulations For Our Good

An Original Work / April 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Are We "Sinners Saved By Grace"?