Maureen Y. Smith - Conquering the Seeds of Destruction

The adversary continues to keep the focus on you as he tries to have a deeper hold on you by creating a new root from the Seed of Idols. Within this root, things become even more challenging for you because you don't want to see things any other way except for how you can benefit and people will start to disassociate themselves from you. It will take a conscious effort from you to break this inner mentality. Are you willing to do so? If not, what keeps you here?

Today, you will see how the enemy can start to form a new root from the Seed of Idols if you continue to follow his narrative. Within this new root, you will be consumed with self and you don't have a problem letting people know of your success. Allow God to minister to you. It is not a problem to share those things but there should be a balance in celebrating self and celebrating others also.

When this new seed is planted into you, it can come in various forms depending on how much time, emphasis, and power that you give it. Regardless of what idols have formed, it will require you to make God the priority in your life as He helps you prevent these idols from developing and growing stronger. It will take effort, but you can do it with God's guidance.

There will always be times where you will need to make a choice of doing things to please self or doing things to please God. As you seek God and listen to His guidance, it will help you to become more obedient to Him. Although things will continue to affect you and/or influence you, it will be your actions that determines your stand on things and who you choose to serve.

Hopefully and prayerfully, your relationship with God continues to grow and you are starting to hear His voice with more clarity. The adversary will continue to try to get you off of your path by influencing you to indulge into certain wants and desires that you may have. You will need to seek God even more so that He can guide you into receiving the things that are from Him and not the things that can cause you to spiral downward.

There will always be a choice to make on how to deal with situations, whether positive or negative ones that come upon you. As you try to determine which direction to go in, allow God to be your guide. Some things are harder than others but He will equip you with everything that you need to make it through.

As you listen to today's podcast, you will discover the new seed that can uproot and conquer the Seed of Worry and the roots that come from it. This new seed can require some time and you may go through a process in order to master it, but with God things will work out for your good and God's glory. This becomes evident when you listen and see how Job continued to handle things in his life.

There are times where worry and anxiety are used in similar ways, but there are distinctions between the two. Although things may be uncertain to you, God knows exactly what is going on and He wants to help you through it. Prayerfully, you will open up to Him and allow Him to guide you every step of the way.

The adversary will continue to take hold of you if you allow his voice to reign inside of you, causing the next root to take effect and cause even more detriment to you. This root will solicit a reactive response but there are times you can suffer in silence. Listen and see how to handle this root and gain more insight from Job's life as he experienced the root of suffering.

As you listen to today's podcast, things can continue to spiral downward if you keep allowing the adversary to get the best of you. If he does, a new root is planted and it can affect all areas of your life: body, soul, and spirit. See how Job dealt with this root when he was attacked by the enemy. Could you handle it the same way as he did?