Encouraging Christians

We all face temptations. We all have a flesh-centered carnal heart. Who we yield to makes us different: the Flesh or The Holy Spirit.

Do you have an idolatrous heart? How do you identify the idol and win as a believer before it is manifesting in your life to others?

Modern idols such as:

Money

Career

Success

A Relationship

Children

Your Reputation

Comfort

Politics

Technology

Gaming

Entertainment

Ministry

Any of these may become an idol in each of our lives that diminishes our intimacy with God. If you haven’t heard from Him in a while, ask Him what idol has diminished your intimacy with God. You may already know what it is. How do you make it right with God?

What do you manifest to yourself? Works or Flesh?

Angry, upset, letting others know you are unhappy since life didn’t go your way. Where does this come from?

The Lord does not abandon those who have been bruised. He restores them with patient strength.

Just for 1 day be Spirit-filled and directed, how would you be different?

Lasciviousness is a manifestation of a work of the flesh. Many people are in bondage to this behavior because they are in bondage to lasciviousness in their heart and mind. Lasciviousness is unrestrained sensuality. It’s when a person throws off moral restraints. They then lose shame over their sinful behavior. Lasciviousness is destructive to one’s life because they begin to celebrate in their heart what they once resisted when they were pure and embracing a pure conscience and lifestyle. Their conscience becomes hardened. Their unrestrained sin becomes public. Others are influenced towards compromise.

Please, fellow Christian: Check yourself, before you Wreck yourself!

What is manifesting uncleanness? How do believers and lost people get to the lower degree and manifest uncleanness or moral impurity (that which pollutes the mind, imagination, speech, or behavior)? Looking at pornography and enjoying/sharing crude humor and inappropriate media/stories, focusing on romantic fantasies that create unrealistic expectations that draw you away from Biblical truth and reality. Being a busybody, who gossips, is bitter, and shares negative speech about others habitually. God has a redemptive pattern for uncleanness: temptation, Guard your mind, bring the tempting thought captive to Jesus, replace the lies with truth, meditate on Scripture, think on what is pure, renew your mind, clean your conscience, enjoy purity in Life. Uncleanness is replaced by the Spirit’s fruit: purity, goodness, joy, and peace. What is in your heart becomes manifest to others through your lips and your life. Are you manifesting uncleanness or purity to people?

The law of gravity applies to everyone, even babies who don’t know about it. Even those who deny its existence. The law of sowing and reaping applies to everyone too. Even those who believe themselves to be above the law or who act as if the law doesn’t apply to them. Don’t deceive yourself. If you sow bad things such as lies about others, don’t get in an uproar when the same lies are said about you.

Tell the truth about others and the truth will be told about you. Let God determine the abundance of the crop. You sow the right crop and you will receive the blessings of the right crop.

This is how a person recognizes and recovers themselves out of the snare of Satan. Grace to humble themselves, stop believing a lie, repent, receive the truth and believe it. Then reap good and not evil. This affects a person, their marriage, their family, their children, even grandchildren. This is generational and ancestral-just like every generation of you and me going all the way back to Adam has been governed by the law of gravity so too are we governed by the law of sowing and reaping. God’s grace and mercy when we repent heals, changes, and fixes us. Without it, We receive abundantly in harvest, what we have sown! What do you want to receive? What are you sowing?