Hi! I am excited to write so I am going to jump in, but one thing is that I am going to do this in parts. I will explain to you what God has taught me though some of my trials.
So, Part one is about dealing with sin and God; one on one. Sometime we think," I need to to hear a good sermon to realise my sin". Maybe even we might think God will have something bad happen and then I will know what sins to get ride of. Whatever the case may be we need to understand that the Bible COMMANDS us to search out and put to death our sins. My favorite verses to use and think about is James 4:8 and Matthew 6:13.
James 4:8- Draw night to God and he will draw nigh to you, CLEANSE your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts ye double minded
Matthew 6:13- Watch and pray, that ye enter not in to temptation:the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak
I think this applys well. James tells us that we need to cleanse our and purify. Verse 7 before that talks about how we must submit to God resist the devil and he will flee from us. We are not a perfect people yet, we as christian need to daily cleanse and purify AND draw near to God. Everyday we need to be in full pursuit of dying to sin and self. We defiantly have times where God is blessing us and such. Still we need to draw night to God, so He can show us the things HE hates and hate them. So He can show us the things He loves and loves them. Don't be slack with your soul anytime. God says in Matthew we need to watch and pray to NOT to enter into temptation... and temptation is the act before we sin. Jesus was tempted but He didn't fall of course because He is God, but Christ is a GREAT example of watching and PRAYING. So many time it mentions Jesus going to a place to pray and be there for hours. He was able to face the Satan because He watched: knew all scriptures to us against Satan and He Prayed: He was lead by the Spirit meaning He was in communion with the Spirit. That is the example He set and is showing us we need to be in continually prayer agains sin. Some people say " Oh how long should I pray and when?" God says watch and pray, I can't give you an answer to you but I can leave you with a thought. The most important thing in this world, the one thing that really matters in this world is your soul. God commands us to live lives separate from the world, meaning that our main focus is GOD and loving our neighbor and our souls and renewing our minds like Christ as He has commanded; dying to self because we as christian are being formed like Christ. Do what is necessary to keep close to our Dear and Precious Saviour ( that might be giving up a few things to spend more time in prayer) Of course we do not want to go into extremes but let watch and pray against temptation.
It says at the later end of Matthew the spirit is INDEED ( meaning " of course" or " it defiantly is" willing but the flesh is weak. We may have good intentions for doing this and that for God but let us watch and PRAY. Let us kneel before our Maker that He may show us our sin and that we can PLUCK it out! We need to continue in prayer. I believe our flesh is weak part applys alot to prayer. We may start out well praying for a week but then we die away and just LET it fail . A Preacher named Paul Washer put it so well ( paraphrasing here) He said, ""that it is easy to start in prayer but to continue in prayer is another thing. We need not to stop praying when we feel defeated at prayers, we need to wrestle and fight to continue in prayer. We are to easy to give up, but God commands us to pray with out ceasing even when it feel we are cold against God.""" Pray with out ceasing is not just continually praying for someone but when we don't feel like praying to wrestle with ourselves and tell God we want to pray but can't. God wants to see his Children call out to Him in their weak state, we don't need to come to God with everything going right with us or even when we are struggling some things. Come to God with the deepest darkest things in your heart.. ROOT out that evil sin and confess it to God. Well, I will leave you with this verse to part one.... ( Part two will be up next week )!
Ecclesiastes 12:13-Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WH0LE DUTY OF MAN.
May God Bless you,
Monique
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