DOING RIGHT IS NEVER AS EASY AS OUTSIDERS WILL MAKE IT SEEM.
EVERYONE, INCLUDING SINNERS CAN USUALLY OFFER YOU GOOD, SOUND ADVICE TO REMEDY MOST ANY MORAL ISSUES, RIGHT DOWN TO INTERJECTING SCRIPTURE TO VALIDATE THEIR RIGHTEOUS INSTRUCTIONS.
IN PRINCIPLE IT SOUNDS GREAT AND SHOULD BE EASILY ACCOMPLISHED, EXCEPT THAT IN PRACTICE WE STILL HAVE THE FLESH, AND OUR OWN LUST AND ENTICEMENT TO DEAL WITH.
MOST TIMES WE WILL LISTEN, PERHAPS EVEN AGREE, BUT IN THE END WE WILL PROCEED TO DO WHAT IT IS WE WANT, ALTHOUGH MANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM THEY DIDN'T WANT TO, BUT HAD TOO.
HOW OFTEN I HAVE DESIRED TO DO, AND BE GOOD, ONLY TO BE BETRAYED BY FLESH. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SET OFF IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, WITH RIGHTEOUS INTENTIONS AND ENDED UP DISSAPPOINTING AND EMBARRASSING MYSELF AND GOD.
OH I KNOW WE CAN TELL OTHERS TO DO RIGHT BASED ON WHAT OUR EYES SEE, BUT IT IS THE UNSEEN INNER-BATTLES WE ARE NOT SEEING THAT CAUSE OUR PIOUSLY SOUND ADVICE TO FALL TO THE GROUND FAILING TO ACCOMPLISH IT'S OBJECTIVE.
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
IF DOING RIGHT WAS SO EASY PAUL WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO PRESS.
PRESSING INDICATES THAT THERE WAS SOME OPPOSITION IMPEDING HIS PROGRESS TO THE ASSIGNED MARK.
BUT WHAT WAS THE OPPOSITION ?
OF COURSE MOST WILL SAY THE OBVIOUS, AND BLAME SATAN, BUT SATAN IS AN EXTERNAL FORCE, AND OUR GREATEST OPPOSITION IS WITHIN US, AND APART OF US.
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
THE INNER OPPOSITION IS LISTED HERE IN JAMES, IT IS OUR LUST NOT SATANS. WE NEED TO STOP BLAMING HIM, HE ONLY CAPITOLIZES ON OUR LUST.
THIS IS NOT A SIMPLE REFERENCE TO SEXUAL LUST EITHER, IT IS A STRONG DESIRE TO DO ANYTHING.
BRINGING US TO TODAYS PROPHETIC REVELATION. ARE YOU AWARE THAT OUR STRONGEST LUST IS NOT THE THING WE CONFESS, AND ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THE MOST ?
EVERYONE HAS THE EXACT SAME STRONGEST LUST IN THE WORLD, BAR NONE.
THAT IS TO DO OUR OWN WILL!
AMAZING HUH? WELL GOD IS A GREAT BIG GOD, BUT HE OPERATES THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE ON ONLY A FEW PRECEPTS, MANDATES, AND PRINCIPLES, AND ALL HE ASK OF US TO GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THEM, AND APPLY THEM.
I SAY THAT BECAUSE A FEW DEVOTIONS AGO I GAVE ANOTHER PROPHETIC REVELATORY WORD THAT ALL OF US ARE VICTIMS OF ONE SIN IN PARTICULAR, BAR NONE.
THAT IS THE SIN THAT SO EASILY BESETS US," PRIDE" ! (HEB. 12:1)
BOTH OF THESE REVELATIONS TIE INTO THE ONE SAME PRINCIPLE, THAT WE ARE OUR WORST ENEMY AND GREATEST OPPOSITIONAL FORCE IN OUR GOD WALK!
THERE'S A RHEMA WORD TO ACCOMMPANY THESE REVELATIONS.
AS FAR AS THE OPPOSITION THAT IS APART OF US I MENTIONED A FEW PARAGRAPHS BACK, THAT IS OUR FLESH, WHICH WE DON'T OWE A THING.
SO THEN BETWEEN OUR LUST/DESIRES AND FLESH, WE MOST DEFINITELY NEED TO PRESS FROM WITHIN TO ATTAIN THE MARK PREDESTINED FOR US SO LONG AGO.
I WILL SPEAK FOR MYSELF, DOING RIGHT IS NOT AS EASY AS OTHERS WILL LEAD US TO BELIEVE, PAUL PRESSED, AND JESUS SWEATED BLOOD, HOW DO WE THINK WE COULD MAKE IT WITHOUT GREAT EFFORT, OR PRESS?
YET PAUL CONTINUED BEING A MISSIONARY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY JESUS MADE IT TO THE CROSS, AND GRAVE, ONLY TO RISE VICTORIOUS GIVING US A REASON TO PRESS AND DO RIGHT FOR SALVATIONS SAKE, AND NOT EACH OTHERS SAKE.
HERE IS ANOTHER ADJOINING PRINCIPLE OF GOD'S.
DOING RIGHT IS LIKE FORGIVING THOSE THAT WRONG US. WE DO THESE ACT'S FOR OUR SOUL'S SALVATION. THOUGH THEY BENEFIT IN THE NATURAL, IT DOES NOTHING FOR THEIR SOULS, UNLESS IT CAUSES THEM TO DESIRE THE SALVATION WE POSSESS.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: EXAMINE EVERY SIN YOU COMMIT, AND EVERY DEED U DO FOR OTHERS, AS WELL AS WHAT YOU ALLOW TO BE DONE FOR YOU, AND SEE IF THE PREMISE, THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THE ACTIONS IS ROOTED IN SELF-SERVING PRIDE.
IT IS THEN THAT OUR PRAYERS WILL BECOME POWERFUL, AS WE UNVEIL THE TRUTHS BEHIND THE IMPETUS OF OUR PRESSING.
THEN, REGARDLESS OF THE DIFFICULTY THAT ACCOMPANIES DOING RIGHT, WE MUST OVER RIDE OUR LUST AND FLESH THAT ARE GEARED TOWARDS SERVING AND FEEDING OUR PRIDE, FOR SALVATIONS SAKE, OUR SALVATION!
WHEN THE CHURCH AS INDIVIDUALS LEARNS THIS PRINCIPLE, THE ENTIRE BODY WILL BENEFIT, BUT THE PRACTIONERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL GAIN ETERNAL LIFE.
THE SOONER WE REALIZE THIS, THE SOONER WE'LL UNDERSTAND THAT THE ONLY THING LEFT, IS TO DO RIGHT.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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