Submit, Resist & Be Delivered

The road to victory concerning every negative issue we may come across in life can only be found in this 2 pronged approach as commanded in Gods Word, which is to: 
1. Submit to God's will concerning our lives and 
2. Resist the devil & as a result of our faithfulness to His provision via His word, the ancient enemy of the souls of men shall indeed flee from every situation that he had hitherto tried to steal, destroy or even kill what concerns us.  

We must understand that God's commands as found in the holy writ were lovingly written and passed down from generation to generation for all ages, for our benefit and not because God almighty rejoices in giving us strange and seemingly difficult commands, conditions and restrictions to make our lives miserable like  some erroneously think.

When God reveals Himself and His Christ to us individually, and we humbly accept and choose to submit ourselves to Him by believing in the only provision He has made available to deliver mankind from temptations allure and the unfairness of this fallen world's systems caused by the evil manipulations of Satan over them,  we are automatically strengthened to resist the devil by the empowerment we are afforded as a result by the Holy Spirit.

We can therefore be rest assured that the ancient enemy of the souls of men shall indeed flee from us concerning every situation we apply God's principle of deliverance upon.

In James 4:7-10, we are commanded by God to:
1. Submit ourselves to Him, 
2. Resist the devil, and as a result, he will flee from us.
We are admonished to draw near to God that He may in return, come near to us.
We are advised to wash our hands from our sinful ways, and to purify our hearts from our double-mindedness.
We are also encouraged to grieve, mourn and wail. To change our laughter to mourning and our joy to gloom concerning sin and all that is wrong with this fallen world we live in, and humble ourselves before the Lord, that He may lift us up.

As light will always have victory over darkness so also will the submissive relationship God has call us into with Him always strengthen and empower us to follow Him faithfully, to resist the evil one and also cause him to flee from the light of God that emanates from us because of our obedience to His mandate for our lives. 

Finally, God almighty has called us individually into a relationship with Him that He may bless us and cause us to ve blessings to others as in Genesis 12: 2-3 so let us be consistent in following Him.
Not just in our acceptance of Jesus as Saviour, that he may deliver us and merely help us resist and rebuff the devil whenever we are in trouble but more importantly as our Lord, that we may not continue to live life on the defensive but victoriously by being on the offensive, to twart Satans plans against us and our fellow men, like God has empowered us all to do in Christ Jesus.

Shalom.

LIES (3)

Lies are oh so significant an issue in the lives of men, than we could ever imagine, especially in the lives of God's people, which should not be, because anyone who chooses to use such, actually does so at his own detriment, for when a person lies, he not only consciously or inadvertently ushers the father of lies into the situation he told a lie about but also gives him inroads into other aspects of his life as well. 

There's nothing more deleterious to the child of God than fooling around with things that are exclusively in the devils domain, as such would serve as cogent grounds for one to be legally  robbed by the ancient enemy of our souls. 

Lies nowadays form a major part of the discourse of myriads of people all over the world because most believe there's just no way they can avoid them.

People of God can I'll-afford to be faithless about living lives free from lies and therefore be so casual with telling fibs as a means of deflecting another's attention from the truth or any of the other reasons anyone would feel warrants it's use, as what is ungodly is exactly what it is, and as such should not be used by God's people, period. 

The truth of God's word, spoken by faith serves to deflect the flaming arrows of temptations, doubt and deceit the devil may assault us with from time to time but playing with lies creates gaps in the armour of God we are clothed in, for the devils arrows to easily penetrate and harm us. 

Unfortunately, lies to most people are not just here to stay but are a valid part of human interaction.

Christians must however individually take a stance against the mindset that they are unavoidable, as a first step in redeeming themselves from the devils hold over situations in their lives through such intangible slip-ups, because there is no seemingly insignificant lie that does not have the potential to give the devil a foothold into situations in our lives and serve as an inroad for the ancient enemy of our souls to steal from us, destroy things in our lives and even terminate our very existence, if afforded the opportunity.

The seriousness of the issue of controlling our tongues can be understood from James 3, verses 6 - 8, to the extent that it was stated that," no human being can tame the tongue..." a glimpse of hope was however given in verse 3 that,
"When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal."  

It is indeed an important analogy we must consider in that it gives us an idea of the type of solution we need to adopt in order to reign in our tongues and therefore force ourselves to desist from telling lies or better still, to stop talking too much, in that we cannot by our own intuition or physical strength bridle our tongues.

Finally, praying to God for grace and imbibing the word of God that the resident Holy Spirit can work with, to serve as the bits needed to rein in our tongues, is the only solution that exists for loose lips and lies. So let's take full advantage of the provisions God has made and stop telling lies.

Shalom.

Lies (2)

Choose to be Responsible.

God commands us to be perfect as He is perfect but unfortunately a lot of us don't believe it's possible and as a result make ourselves useless to Him because of our lack of faith in the impossible that we ought to have in Christ.
We however due to our lack of faith, inadvertently limit God's work in our lives and make ourselves useful pawns for the evil one as a result.

Indeed, while we can't attain perfection in anything by our own willpower or flesh, God has made it possible for us to do so through the Holy Spirit's empowerment.

When we choose to put to death our flesh and feed our spirit and by so doing, follow the promptings of His Holy Spirit that is resident within us, then perfection pertaining to various aspects of life and godliness, that seems impossible becomes possible.

It is said that when the root of a problem is identified then to proffer a solution is made easier.

We must understand that our propensity to tell lies emanates from our inability to want to accept responsibility for our actions.

If you want to stem the tide of lies you tell then you need to be desperate and deliberate about it.

We've all heard the adage, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" but most of us want to eat our cake and have it.

When a man chooses to be responsible for what he does, such a person is ready to start to kick out lies from his life.

If you are expected to go on an errand for your boss and return at a specific time but then decide to deviate from the task to do one or two personal things that makes it impossible to return when you ought, the next truthfully logical thing to do is to choose to own up to what you have done, however, failure to do the right thing will surely give rise to shame and the opportunity to lie in order to try to cover up one's wrong actions.

So, the first steps for kicking out lies from your life are:
1. Be a Christian, and as such, dare to believe in the impossible, that you can kick out lies from your life,
2. the next time you foolishly choose to be disobedient or do things your own way rather than the way you ought pertaining to any situation, make up your mind to be Christ's Ambassador rather than the devil's side-kick by choosing to be responsible for what you have done rather than lie about it.

Shalom.