Maureen Y. Smith - Conquering the Seeds of Destruction

Today, you will hear how the adversary can plant the second root into you from the Seed of Jealousy if you are still open into listening to his voice instead of the voice of God. The Root of Jealousy can affect you in different ways. As you listen to today's podcast, I will be sharing with you the effects that "inward judgments" can have upon you and how God wants you to trust in what He has placed inside of you. 

As you listen to today's podcast, you will hear that there are situations that can cause you to stay stuck in them and as a result, the first root from the Seed of Jealousy can form which is the Root of Grudging. Within this root, the adversary will try to keep replaying in your mind all of the things that have caused hurt, or frustrations, or even insecurities. If you allow yourself to go down that path, you will find yourself reliving things that God has tried to heal and deliver you from. Find a way to listen to God's voice so that you can keep the past in the past. 

When the adversary plants the Seed of Jealousy into you, he tries to make sure that you are looking at other people's progression in life. The goal for him is for you to compare yourself to them and conclude that your life is not going well while also creating resentment of them inside of you. You must find a way to turn off that negative voice and listen to what God is saying to you. God knows where you are in life and He is still preparing you to be the child of God that He needs you to be. Please try your best to look inwardly to God and allow Him to be the focus that you keep.

As I share with you some insight from Chapter 8 of the book, you will hear how important it is to connect and be guided by God. As you focus on your goals, it becomes necessary to be in tune to God's voice because the enemy will try to find different ways of distracting you to take you off of your path.  As you listen to today's podcast, you will see how helping others can also be challenging and why God needs you to maintain balance in your life.

As you journey on this earth, there will be opportunities for you to grow. There may also be times where you will need to make some choices in your life that will cause change to occur.  If you keep an open mind, you will be able to see how God guides you on the path that you are on. However, if your focus becomes centered on you and you alone, you can have some challenges that probably could have been avoided. Allow your heart and mind to be open to receive the guidance and direction that He wants you to have.

As you try to apply all that you have heard and learned with the seed and roots of idols, stay encouraged. Some situations may be hard to handle with yourself and some may be hard to deal with in others. If you continue to keep God front and center, He will help you and lead you into the direction you need to be going in. Believe in Him and also, believe in yourself.

As you continue to listen to Part 2 from the Seed of Deliverance, please allow yourself to be open in hearing the voice of God. Regardless of what has happened in your life, God can still turn things around for the better for you, but you must be willing to let Him guide you. Prayerfully, you will start a new journey with Him as you give yourself the permission to be free.

Although the Seed of Idols and its roots may have had a detrimental hold on you, God always has a plan to help you conquer the attacks from the enemy. The more you keep listening to God's voice and staying obedient to what He has told you to do, the more you will be delivered from these acts of destruction that the enemy tries to tempt you with. As you listen to today's podcast, stay encouraged and know that God wants the best for you.

As I continue to share about this last root from the Seed of Idols, you will see that it is one thing to have this root inside of you. It becomes even more challenging to deal with someone else that has this root inside of them. How do you handle it when they have wronged you? What steps do you take in trying to resolve the situation? Prayerfully, you will include God in every step that you take with others as well as with your own self.

When the adversary has you participating in this root, it can have a major stronghold on you. You will want to continue in it and it will be up to you to make the conscious choice to follow in the will of God or to continue to operate in how you want to do things, regardless of the hurt that it may cause others, and yes, even "you." You will have to be committed to God completely in order to break from this root. Are you willing to do so?