Works, work
I generally do agree to personally pray for others rightfully
on condition that I can also share with them God's truth so they can also stop
sinning, not repeat their faults that have led up to the cause of their
personal problems. That is why I also do often warn people of real
negative consequences if they truly do not get right with God.. no matter how
old they are or how long they have been a Christian too. A general first
rule of counselling effectively others is that one cannot help a person if
they sincerely do not want to be helped, or admit they do need help still. For
many people they still do not know the common solution of God's to their
common problems, sins, the sins even of laziness, fantasizing, even having
unrealistic expectations, or following after lusts, and they do
not know God's solutions to their hurts, needs and really
why? Most people still really do not pay attention to what the Word of God
says about loving Him God, following after God but also what the Word of
God says about work.
(1 Cor 10:13 KJV) There hath no temptation
taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
(Gal 6:7
KJV) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in
due season we shall reap, if we faint not.10 As we have therefore
opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the
household of faith.
(Rev 2:4 KJV) Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his
place, except thou repent.
NOTE THIS EARTHLY REALITY, that
applies to all of us, IF WE LEAVE OUR FIRST LOVE ( CHRIST) THE CANDLESTICK
WILL BE REMOVED.. IT WILL NO LONGER BE USED TO SHINE GOD'S GLORY TO ALL,
ONE'S LIFE WILL, WILL BECOME DARKNESS INSTEAD TOO.
I have also
said that prayer is not enough, even for healing, forgiveness, the
real personal confession, repentance of sins is needed as well. We
all have done many wrong things.
(Jer 3:20 KJV) Surely as a wife
treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously
with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
(Prov 19:15 KJV)
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer
hunger.
(Prov 19:24 KJV) A slothful man hideth his hand in his
bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
(Eph 2:10
KJV) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
(1
Tim 5:24 KJV) Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to
judgment; and some men they follow after. 25 Likewise also the good works of
some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be
hid.
(Prov 12:24 KJV) The hand of the diligent shall bear rule:
but the slothful shall be under tribute.
(Prov 12:27 KJV) The
slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of
a diligent man is precious.
(Prov 15:19 KJV) The way of the
slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made
plain.
(Prov 18:9 KJV) He also that is slothful in his work is
brother to him that is a great waster.
(Prov 21:25 KJV) The
desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to
labour.
(Prov 22:13 KJV) The slothful man saith, There is a lion
without, I shall be slain in the streets.
(Prov 24:30 KJV) I went
by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of
understanding;
(Prov 26:13 KJV) The slothful man saith, There is
a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 31 And, lo, it was all
grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the
stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it
well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep,
a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall
thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed
man.
(Prov 26:14 KJV) As the door turneth upon his hinges, so
doth the slothful upon his bed.
(Mat 7:23 KJV) And then will I
profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.
IT SHOULD BE VERY CLEAR TO US ALL THAT GOD WANTS US TO DO
REAL PHYSICAL WORK. TO WORK WITH OUR HANDS AND NOT BE LAZY, OR
USELESS.
(Mat 21:28 KJV) But what think ye? A certain man had two
sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my
vineyard.
(Mark 13:34 KJV) For the Son of man is as a man taking
a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to
every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
(John 4:34
KJV) Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent
me, and to finish his work.
(John 5:17 KJV) But Jesus answered
them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
(John 9:4 KJV) I
must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh,
when no man can work.
(Acts 13:2 KJV) As they ministered to the
Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the
work whereunto I have called them.
(Acts 14:26 KJV) And thence
sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God
for the work which they fulfilled.
(Acts 15:38 KJV) But Paul
thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia,
and went not with them to the work.
(1 Cor 3:13 KJV) Every man's
work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it
is.
(1 Cor 3:14 KJV) If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
(1 Cor 3:15 KJV) If any
man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire.
(1 Cor 9:1 KJV) Am I not an apostle? am
I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the
Lord?
(1 Cor 15:58 KJV) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
(1 Cor 16:10
KJV) Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear:
for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
(2 Cor 9:8
KJV) And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye,
always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
work:
(Gal 6:4 KJV) But let every man prove his own work, and
then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
(Eph
4:12 KJV) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
(Eph 4:19 KJV)
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work
all uncleanness with greediness.
(Phil 2:12 KJV) Wherefore, my
beloved, as ye 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.
(Phil 2:30 KJV) Because for the work of Christ he was
nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward
me.
(Col 1:10 KJV) That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge
of God;
(1 Th 1:3 KJV) Remembering without ceasing your work of
faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in
the sight of God and our Father;
(1 Th 4:11 KJV) And that ye
study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own
hands, as we commanded you;
(2 Th 2:17 KJV) Comfort your hearts,
and stablish you in every good word and work.
(2 Th 3:10 KJV) For
even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work,
neither should he eat.
(2 Th 3:12 KJV) Now them that are such we
command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work,
and eat their own bread.
(1 Tim 3:1 KJV) This is a true saying,
If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(1 Tim
5:10 KJV) Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up
children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet,
if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good
work.
(2 Tim 2:21 KJV) If a man therefore purge himself from
these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's
use, and prepared unto every good work.
(2 Tim 4:5 KJV) But watch
thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make
full proof of thy ministry.
(Titus 1:16 KJV) They profess that
they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient,
and unto every good work reprobate.
(Titus 3:1 KJV) Put them in
mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be
ready to every good work,
(Heb 6:10 KJV) For God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed
toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do
minister.
(Heb 13:21 KJV) Make you perfect in every good work to
do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
(James 1:4
KJV) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
(James 1:25 KJV) But whoso looketh into
the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
deed.
(1 Pet 1:17 KJV) And if ye call on the Father, who without
respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of
your sojourning here in fear:
(Rev 22:12 KJV) And, behold, I come
quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work
shall be.
All parents also do need to personally
help, insure that their own children are prepared for life, that includes
their being prepared to work, prepared to do housework, really prepared
for a paying job.
(Prov 22:6 KJV) Train up a child
in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from
it.
Laziness and personally unrealistic expecations in life are
also two important issues that cause a lot of of even once Christian persons
to next have real major PERSONAL problems in life, even to be rightfully
rejected by others as well.. husbands, wives, single persons too.
(1
Tim 5:8 KJV) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those
of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,
having been the wife of one man,10 Well reported of for good
works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she
have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have
diligently followed every good work.11 But the younger widows refuse:
for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things
which they ought not. 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry,
bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully. 15 For some are already turned aside after
Satan.
The Persons who do not continually work have turned after
Satan, and the issue is not earning our salvation by doing Good works, but
rather even losing our salvation by following after Satan, being idle, lazy,
and doing bad works..
Seriously look at how many verses in the New
Testament alone dealing with the need to work, to personally do good
works.
One of today's big tragedy is that many young ladies and
young men are wrongfully spoiled, I.e. unable to work, they too aren't
prepared to do house work, to do real physical work at home or elsewhere. They
are really not prepared for working in real life.
(1 Ki 14:22
KJV) And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him
to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
fathers had done.
(2 Ki 15:9 KJV) And he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
(Neh 9:2
KJV) And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and
stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their
fathers.
(Dan 9:16 KJV) O Lord, according to all thy
righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the
iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to
all that are about us.
It is also an extreme, wrong value that a
teenage girl or boy year old should have a boy friend or a girl friend
before completing their educations, for they do rather FIRST need to have a
priority of getting a real education so that they can be employable next
with.
Instead of listening to the the mostly bad
advice of others we do need valid help to be real godly persons and also
following after God's will which includes working, working for God too, that
help can be found in God's Word.
(James 3:14 KJV) But if ye have
bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the
truth.15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual,
devilish.16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil
work.
We all do need to firstly be now what God had made us to
be, and not what we and others expect us to be, and not be
negatively influenced by the media, the world, the flesh the devil here too.
(Heb 10:24 KJV) And let us consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works:
(Titus 2:7 KJV) In all things showing
thyself a pattern of good works:
(Titus 2:14 KJV) Who gave
himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
(John 6:29 KJV)
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on
him whom he hath sent.
and
(Eph 2:10 KJV) For we
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them.
(James 3:13 KJV) Who
is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good
conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
(Titus 3:8 KJV)
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm
constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain
good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
(Titus 3:14
KJV) And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses,
that they be not unfruitful.
(2 Tim 3:17 KJV) That the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
(1 Tim 2:10
KJV) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good
works.
(1 Tim 6:18 KJV) That they do good, that they be rich in
good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Going to a
local church in itself is not a sufficient good work for God now as
well.
(Prov 31:9 KJV) Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and
plead the cause of the poor and needy.
(Prov 31:10 KJV) Who can
find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The
heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need
of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her
household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and
buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 17 She
girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. 18 She
perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her
hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household:
for all her household are clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh herself
coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her husband
is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 24
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the
merchant. 25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice
in time to come. 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue
is the law of kindness. 27 She looketh well to the ways of her
household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise
up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. 29 Many
daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. 30 Favour
is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall
be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works
praise her in the gates.
I once had a vision during my sleep
about a young teenager that I had once known and she troubled me in my
spirit for many years as I would think about her, and I could not understand
why? untill nextGod spoke to me and said her that her unacceptable sin was the
sin of laziness. He God called it an unacceptable sin. What do you call
it?
We need to will and to also desire that God will change us so
God now will not lets us personally experience the real, more
negative consequence of our sins, of our own turning away from Him. One cannot
personally pray for personally healing OR MOST ANYTHING ELSE and have
unrepented sins still in one's life.
Now if you also are looking in a
garbage can for love still it is cause you have likely become an extreme, an
"aholic", and you are clearly following after the
wrong personal values in life.
Looking for worldly pleasure,
false loves, fulfillment of their lusts too many persons now still have
wandered away from God..
Even most Christians tend to go to extremes
and do STILL have many wrong values. I thus rightfully too have been
encouraging all believers first to daily read the Bible and pray daily
for themselves and others, praise God in all things too, for that is how
God starts to change us for the better, but still only if we let him,
when we DO try to follow after him. Thus I tend to first look into
this as well if in fact each and every believers are firstly daily
in the Bible, daily praying for themselves and others but I also
then next do look at their their actual, practising value system to see even
if it is really now appropriate, a GODLY ONE.
Our life, our love is in
God, we love Him because he first love us. We need to continue to love
and to follow after him and first always.
I often have to counsel
women and men, pastors too, of remembering daily the importance that Christ is
our first love, our first spouse, our good husband, and no one, NOTHING
can take his place, certainly no man or women as well . Even "Romance" is a
false spirit of sexual lusts that even RATHER NEXT brings unhappiness
and not REAL OR LASTING joy. CHRIST IS OUR LOVE, OUR JOY.
(Psa 16:7
KJV) I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
instruct me in the night seasons.
(Psa 16:8 KJV) I have set the
LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest
in hope.10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt show me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for
evermore.
Now when we do wrong and leave God out, we cannot even
love God or ourselves or others too. And the depression keeps just getting
worse, it seems, because even a nice car, a nice house, nice furniture, the
handsome husband, the good looking wife, they cannot , and will not make
anyone happy due to to the fact that even all of these things still being
a wrong personal desire, a wrong expecations of ours, and we all
will be, will be next disappointed, depressed when we pursue after
them primarily and not God.
(Mat 6:33 KJV) But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you.34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.
Too many persons read the newspaper and the TV too
much and are wrongfully influenced by it. the firstly really do need to get
back into the Bible.. Today the mostly ungodly News,
entertainment, advertising, media often lie to you and say that you can almost
do anything, that all things are right to do, you can do what you
want, what you desire... but it is not in God's eyes. I rarely
regularly watch the news anymore since I have become a
Christian. Instead of listening to what the mostly ungodly others say we
can do we rather need help to be real, to be now what God
had made us to be, we need to read and follow after the Bible, which is God's
words for us, and not follow rather what we and others wrongfully expect
us to be.
(Psa 119:105 KJV) Thy word is a lamp unto my
feet, and a light unto my path.
The media is mostly under the devil's
control and it wants to turn you eyes off of God, Christ and to serve the
flesh, the rotten flesh that really makes you so unhappy too.
(Rom 1:22
KJV) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,23 And
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The resulting
personal depression is made worse by all of this unrealistic
lustful expectations for oneself and wrongfully comparing oneself
with others instead of loving God only and following fully only after
him. The secular EMPHASIS ON outward beauty and one being handsome
is still not God's love, for all that is now is mostly carnal, idol
worship, a secular materialistic and a wrong values system. All these
wprdly valies are not the rightful goals for any believers rather
Jesus alone is.
Jesus also looks at the heart and sees only our
God ward beauty not the false beauty in outward appearances. Next if one
can't love oneself then how can they fulfill the second greatest
commandment that tells us to love God and to love our neighbours as we love
ourselves
(John 4:16 KJV) Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy
husband, and come hither.17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:18 For thou hast
had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that
saidst thou truly.
Here was a clear example of a woman who had five
husbands and SHE ALSO did not find true happiness till she found Jesus
only.
We all also need to understand that sex is not love, and
it is not what can make us at all truly happy, but the world today tries
to teaches sex to minors and wrongfully encourages it. It is not
just our lusts that we have, had to renounce it is ALSO our carnal,
physical body the flesh, that contains the lusts..
I too still do have
to often step out of the flesh into the Spirit of God. Many people do not
understand how to do this, or the difference between walking in the flesh and
walking in the spirit of God. Walk in the spirit and you will not fill the
lusts of the flesh.
In further reality and I studied this in more
detail most high school dating patterns next are reflective of their
subsequent marriages and related divorce. If one is depressed now as a
teen one will be next even more depressed in marriage because even their
spouse selection method is not under God's control nor the false expectation
of what they do want next the spouse to be, even to be a false
replacement for God and God will never accept this false substitute nor will
he bless it.
Let me be clear AGAIN sex is not the answer to our needs
in life! JESUS IS!
(Col 1:12 KJV) Giving thanks unto the
Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we
have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who
is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in
earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In
the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and
settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have
heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof
I Paul am made a minister; 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you,
and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
his body's sake, which is the church:
(Eph 2:10 KJV) For we are
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in
them.
Our personal self worth,
self esteem, self image can be compared to a tire ( a symbol of man)
with air ( the air a symbol of the Holy Spirit ) in it that is on a bus (here
used as a symbol of God's kingdom on earth). The persons who have the
normal tire pressures,are clearly those persons who are
doing a good work. The persons who have low tire pressures
are clearly those persons who are rather doing bad works, and not rather
the good works that God wants us to do. And the persons who do bad
the bad works, they also feel bad about themselves, like when the air in
a tire is lowered, they thus have a low self esteem, a low self worth, a low
self image. To feel good, better about themselves they instead
must do good works as the Holy Spirit leads them. The God inspired good
works inflates their self esteem, their tire to the proper
pressure.. In their arrogance some persons they even do not want
to admit that if they continue running on low air pressure, lack of good
works, that God will, will replace them, and he often next does if they
do not repent. One can abuse the tire by driving on it with
very low air pressure, and the same tire will tear, be destroyed eventually,
is no longer of any use and is replaced. The same thing applies
to the persons who unrepentantly continue to do mostly bad
works they are no longer useful to God, are disposable.
I thus do
rightfully warn them of this often that they too do have a continual
free will, their own personal choice as to how they will turn out, and how
even thus God will use them.
(Gal 6:7 KJV) Be not deceived; God
is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.
(Mal 2:1 KJV) And now, O ye priests, this commandment is
for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to
give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse
upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already,
because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed,
and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one
shall take you away with it. 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of
hosts.
(Mal 2:6 KJV) The law of truth was in his mouth, and
iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and
did turn many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep
knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger
of the LORD of hosts. 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have
caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi,
saith the LORD of hosts. 8 Therefore have I also made you contemptible
and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but
have been partial in the law.
(Isa 65:12 KJV) Therefore will I
number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because
when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil
before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not.
This applies not only to pastors, but to all of the
Christian even persons who do not continue to follow after God with all of
their heart..
(Isa 65:13 KJV) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants
shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
ye shall be ashamed:
(Isa 65:14 KJV) Behold, my servants shall
sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl
for vexation of spirit.
(Isa 65:15 KJV) And ye shall leave your
name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call
his servants by another name:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth
shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth
shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from mine eyes.
(1 John 2:15 KJV) Love
not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world.17 And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
(Heb
13:4 KJV) Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
(Heb 13:5 KJV) Let
your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as
ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee.
In spite of what the world says sex and love are not the same,
and sex is not the answer to the world's inadequacies, Jesus alone is. Sadly I
do know of many persons who have rejected the the truth of the word of
God because they wanted rather and the false spirit of romanticism, the
very false world of false dreams and dreaming. I thus would appreciate
that you would pray for these persons and others like them that they would
come back to God alone who is the answer to all of our needs, and not even our
spouses.
(1 Tim 5:11 KJV) But the younger widows refuse: for when
they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;12 Having
damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
(1 Cor 7:29
KJV) But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that
both they that have wives be as though they had none;30 And they that weep, as
though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and
they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world,
as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 32 But I
would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things
that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he
that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please
his wife.
(Luke 17:32 KJV) Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever
shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life
shall preserve it.
(Heb 12:15 KJV) Looking diligently lest any
man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble
you, and thereby many be defiled;16 Lest there be any fornicator, or
profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his
birthright.17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears.
(1 Th 5:18 KJV) In
every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you.
(Phil 4:12 KJV) I know both how to be abased, and
I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be
full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
(Phil 4:13
KJV) I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
me.
(Gal 5:15 KJV) But if ye bite and devour one another, take
heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in
the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these
are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye
would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they
that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one
another.
(Hosea 6:1 KJV) Come, and let us return unto the LORD:
for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us
up.
(Hosea 2:7 KJV) And she shall follow after her lovers, but
she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them:
then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it
better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn,
and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for
Baal.
Praise God that Jesus know how to free us from all bondages, all
bondages, those even imposed on us by the world, the fleshy the devil,
ourselves, others. It is a great Joy to be free in Christ.. when you have been
serving the devil you know what true freedom is in Christ, and
appreciate it more as well.
(1 John 3:1 KJV) Behold, what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of
God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. (2 Pet 1:3
KJV) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called
us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.
HOW TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT?
(Eccl 12:1 KJV) Remember
now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor
the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in
them;
(1 John 1:9 KJV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.10 If
we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in
us.
(Rom 12:1 KJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not
conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.
(Eph 5:9 KJV) (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Choose daily to walk after God,
and ask to be filled with his Holy Spirit
(Gal 5:19 KJV) Now the
works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I
have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,23 Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.25 If we live in
the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.26 Let us not be desirous of
vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
(Psa 51:17
KJV) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (1 Pet 3:4 KJV) But let it be the
hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament
of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great
price.
(Psa 51:10 KJV) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and
renew a right spirit within me.
(Psa 51:11 KJV) Cast me not away
from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
(Psa 51:12
KJV) Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy
free spirit.
We all also do need to confess personally more what
Jesus has already done for us, and not what we think bad can or will happen to
us. The only valid Positive confession in life is what Jesus has done for us
and those words that God has personally told us we can claim by
faith.
(Phil 3:13 KJV) Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,14 I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto
you.
Aim higher in God and you will reach higher
plateaus..
God Bless you.
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