Giving our life to Jesus is not a prayer we pray and then go back to doing our own thing, it is a surrendering of our whole life, so we can now live for someone else. I had a vision many years ago, of an altar filled with gold rings sitting on it. The person who gave the altar call didn’t invite people to say a prayer but to enter into a covenant relationship with the living God. It was an altar for a wedding, where people agreed to forsake all others in order to follow this man Jesus. I will never forget that vision and one day I believe it will be not a vision but an actual altar call that is done. As the few people who agreed to the terms of the covenant came forward they were given a rain to signify the covenant between them and the Lord. They went from living as a single person who made their own decisions to being a married person in the spirit who now submitted their whole life to take on His name, to live by His covenant standard and to live with Him as He lived in them.

I was reminded of this vision this morning as I read in Amos 2:4 where it speaks to the people of God saying, “Thus says the LORD, For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked.” When we agree to walk with Jesus, we agree to do what He says. The issue with Christianity is we want to live our own life but say we are believers. I hear the voice of God crying out asking, do you agree with My word? Do you do what I say? Do you really want to be in a relationship with Me? I want to do life with you, but do you want to do life with Me?

Amos 3:3 says, “Do two walk together unless they agree to do so?” I hear the Lord asking us to agree with Him on earth for what He has spoken to us from heaven. He is looking for people to walk with, but to walk with Him you must agree with Him, not only on what you think is right, but on all He says, for He is God and we are not. Today is a great day to renew your yes, establish your agreement and come back to that altar not to say a prayer but to accept a ring, that says I want to do life with you, I want to agree with you. There is no greater honor than being invited to walk with God while we live on earth. Happy wedding day friends!