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TOPIC: REMOVE THE OBSTACLE TO YOUR HEAVENLY RACE (3) – THE FLESH
AUGUST TUESDAY 7th
TEXT: Galatians 5:16-21
KEY VERSE: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2: 11
The flesh is a big obstacle to your heavenly race. The flesh has its own desires called fleshly lusts and these desires war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” These lusts are fighting to ensure that you don't make it to heaven. Immorality, idolatry, witchcraft, pride, anger, intolerance, impatience, beauty, ego, class distinction, discrimination, alcohol and the like. Even eating food can cause a problem. Esau lost his birthright to food. Jesus lived forty days without food yet He refused to allow the flesh make Him sin. Esau missed heaven for a morsel of meat. You became a harlot for food? You compromised your chastity as a woman because you want to feed your family? It is not an excuse. Lazarus died a poor hungry man full of sores but he made heaven.
Women took Solomon off the track. The man of great wisdom was not wise in the matters of the opposite sex. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Many ministers of God with great anointing have fallen on the laps of women. Nehemiah 13:2, “Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.” Samson would do great feat uprooting iron gate and carrying it uphill but thereafter he would go and lie at the feet of a woman. He could not keep his body under check. 1 Corinthians 9:27, “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
Watch your desire that you may not fall into temptation. When a thought or feeling is coming, can't you do something about it before it comes to the boiling point? Before the water gets to the boiling point, does it not make some noise? Watch your feeling. Proverbs 22:3, “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” Flee fornication. Why are you close to immoral people that will lure you into sin? Consider the wisdom of Joseph. He refused to develop desire for what did not belong to him.
Thought for the day: Take flesh to the cross and crucify it there that the old man might die and you can live.
Song for the day: I want to be like Daniel … to follow Jesus Christ
Bible reading for the day: Psalm 79-81; Romans 8:1-18
#Horemow.
TOPIC: REMOVE THE OBSTACLE TO YOUR HEAVENLY RACE (3) – THE FLESH
AUGUST TUESDAY 7th
TEXT: Galatians 5:16-21
KEY VERSE: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2: 11
The flesh is a big obstacle to your heavenly race. The flesh has its own desires called fleshly lusts and these desires war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” These lusts are fighting to ensure that you don't make it to heaven. Immorality, idolatry, witchcraft, pride, anger, intolerance, impatience, beauty, ego, class distinction, discrimination, alcohol and the like. Even eating food can cause a problem. Esau lost his birthright to food. Jesus lived forty days without food yet He refused to allow the flesh make Him sin. Esau missed heaven for a morsel of meat. You became a harlot for food? You compromised your chastity as a woman because you want to feed your family? It is not an excuse. Lazarus died a poor hungry man full of sores but he made heaven.
Women took Solomon off the track. The man of great wisdom was not wise in the matters of the opposite sex. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Many ministers of God with great anointing have fallen on the laps of women. Nehemiah 13:2, “Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.” Samson would do great feat uprooting iron gate and carrying it uphill but thereafter he would go and lie at the feet of a woman. He could not keep his body under check. 1 Corinthians 9:27, “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
Watch your desire that you may not fall into temptation. When a thought or feeling is coming, can't you do something about it before it comes to the boiling point? Before the water gets to the boiling point, does it not make some noise? Watch your feeling. Proverbs 22:3, “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” Flee fornication. Why are you close to immoral people that will lure you into sin? Consider the wisdom of Joseph. He refused to develop desire for what did not belong to him.
Thought for the day: Take flesh to the cross and crucify it there that the old man might die and you can live.
Song for the day: I want to be like Daniel … to follow Jesus Christ
Bible reading for the day: Psalm 79-81; Romans 8:1-18
#Horemow.
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