4th Day : What is something difficult for you?
- 23
- Sep
- 2015
Hello to all cybernauts!
It is a pleasure to be here with you, in these 21 days of Fast. We are going to be speaking about the heart, which is the center of all emotions!
Today we approach the topic: “What is something difficult for you?”
Accompany me in the reading in the book of Proverbs 13:19.
“A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil. He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.” (Proverbs 13: 19-20)
My cybernaut friend, you can tell that people are happy when their desires are met… Like it states here:
“A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.” (Proverbs: 13:19)
You have to make a sacrifice, denying that which does not please God. For the fools, in other words, reckless, with no judgement, those who do not want to “pay a high price”, they do not want to sacrifice… And what happens is they make wrong choice and continue to feed their desires, their own will, and in turn these have distanced them from God and have made them weak.
And it is for such reason that you remain weak, full of doubts, your prayer has no sustenance, it is not sincere, because in reality, deep down under, you don’t want to let go of evil! You please yourself! And that is why you cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit or be used by Him!
In this Fast of 21 days, many people desire to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, but do not always “pay the price” of distancing themselves from everything that makes them weak! Be it the doubts, their reproachable actions, their bad thoughts…
You want to continue with your bad thoughts, and your errors, why? Because you think that if you take that one step to change, of pouring yourself out, you will be shamed and humiliated. So, that means that you are looking at your own “nose”, at your own vanity, to your own pride, and not to what you are actually saying… that you want to be baptized with the Holy Spirit or be renewed! There are many people that say what they want: That they want to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, that they want to be used by God, but they don’t want to stop doing things that are abominable, what is evil, and what is distancing you from God. So there is absolutely no way!
“He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.” (Proverbs 13:20)
There are people that don’t even want to leave their friendships, they want to continue being friends with “friends” that “pat them” on the head. The Bible says: “He who walks with wise men…” These wise men aren’t the one that are going to support emotion, on the contrary, they are against it!
If you are a fool that like to do your will, what you want, to be bad… In other words, your companions are going to be evil, you’re going to have the same history as they do… they do whatever they want, they don accept anything, they have bad eyes, they have attitudes that displease God. Just like you! Of course, a person only is together with someone they appreciate… If you appreciate what is bad, then your evil path and you want to continue in it, then you’re friendships are going to show that in some respect.
Who are your friends? Who do you ally yourself with?
Who are you close to? Who do you want to be close to? Are you wise? Or a fool?
These friendships are definitely going to speak about your heart!
What do you like to do? Serve God… or serve yourself?
Cybernaut, today is the 4th day of the Fast, and I believe that you have now realized that your heart isn’t as “nice or kind” as you thought…
If today, during the service, you take advantage of what is going on to your heart. Because it is full of “silly” things, how is the Holy Spirit going to reside in it? You have to empty yourself, give yourself completely, be sincere, assume who you are! For you to really receive the Holy Spirit, be just! But if you like injustice, there is no way you can receive justice…
Take advantage of today, a Wednesday, and in the service give yourself to God completely. God makes everything anew!
If you have “old things” in you, that is exactly what you need to give and you trying to keep it…
And you say: “But I don’t know what I need to give…” Look at yourself, at your attitudes, and you will see what is being difficult for you and what you don’t want to give away!
A big hug for you all! Tomorrow we will be back.
Leave your comment below!
Write about yourself and with pleasure I will read your comments.
Meredith
29th September 2015 at 18:55
What stood out for me is that the wise men are against emotions, which makes a lot of sense because wisdom is not found in the heart – its found in the head. Thanks to God for His word of Life that gives us wisdom for everything in life. Another thing that I got from the post is that if we do not associate ourselves with “wise men” we are automatically walking in the way of fools. The devil always targets one that is always alone. As the saying goes “An empty mind is the devils playground”. We must remember that the church is the body of Christ, together we are stronger. Thank you for this post. Meredith x
Venetia Palmer
28th September 2015 at 10:45
This is strong everything we do for God, there has to a sacrifice.If we are not ready to make the sacrifice,we will never have the fulfillment of God in are life , sometime we allow are heart to lead us in the wrong direction, but we need to stop and allow God to take control thank you.
Tejumola Adeyemi
27th September 2015 at 23:48
Thank you for sharing Mrs Viviane, it’s really true, sacrificing friends is hard for some people and it was for me, but it’s completely worth it as He knows that you did that for Him and He’ll give you friends who are wise, those who also believe and obey Him and those who ad to your faith.
Yvonne Nwaiga
27th September 2015 at 18:19
Very true, the things that the Holy Spirit requires from me are too difficult for my flesh to bare without my sacrifice. I will continue to pour out my weaknesses before God, I believe he will empower me because I will humble myself to Him.
Sarah
26th September 2015 at 22:25
I learnt it does make sense that I want to be used by God, but yet I dont let go of the small things.
Delores
26th September 2015 at 4:46
Although it’s gone past day 4,I Thought I’d still read this post. What related to me here was about the sacrificing my own desires. I understood that when I don’t deny myself or deny whatever, in order to please God I naturally make the wrong choices. Without realising, I give into my own desires and my own will which distances me and God from each other and then I wonder why all a sudden I’m starting to have doubts or get tired spiritually? I now understand that I need to be obedient to God from the start till the end,and examine myself daily if im serving myself or God.