Why is Satan
finding himself so comfortable landing in the Christian Community? Satan is
also a fisherman of men. Lately he has gotten comfortable where he cast his
nets, because many of us have become spiritually dead and has gone to sleep on
God. He doesn’t desire the sinner, he has them, and his desire is to make
Christians useless. He come to Kill, steal and destroy and he is doing well
here, he doesn’t want to kill off everyone, just know that we bring one or two
to Christ to receive salvation and deliverance, Satan plan is to take 3 or 4
out by whatever means necessary. So he is frequenting Christian marriages and
the homes, children, the church is accepting any and everything to conform to
the world, going against God’s word in trying to justify a sin and Satan is now
comfortable in the church because as long as he can keep us useless, he has
done his job, because as long as we are sleeping on God we become useless and
we have no idea of our purpose any longer, he is playing in our minds because
an idle man is a devils workshop. He disrupts the homes, keep confusing going
in marriages and confusion in the church, so he kills a few, steals a few and
destroy a few, completing his mission because we have become sluggish and lax.
We won't take time to give God more than 4 hours a week and that is not for everyone but for many. Let's see, 1 hour for church on Sunday's for those who attend, 1 hour for Bible study and 1 hour for prayer meeting and maybe those who do a daily Bible reading another hour. So just for the benefit of the doubt, let's throw in another 2 hours, so if we give God 6 hours a week, are we growing spiritually close to Him, will this help us to fight off the enemy, you see Satan never rest, sin never sleeps. Satan knows the Bible too, but he distorts the trust, he is a deceiver, but he is also well aware that many Christians do not know the Word of God, so we can't fight him off. We have disharmony in the family unity because we don't stay in the Word of God, our spiritual life is struggling and suffering. We are angry at every other religious group because they are on their JOB. They are out recruiting, knocking on doors, sharing their beliefs with people they meet and what are we doing, afraid of who we will offend if we talk about God, just will speak to our neighbor after leaving church. We don't want to go outside the walls, we don't want to work in our own mission field which is our backyard, we meet people daily but we are afraid to share the Word of God, yet we are angry at these other groups because they are targeting their followers and getting outside the walls of their meeting places.
We won't take time to give God more than 4 hours a week and that is not for everyone but for many. Let's see, 1 hour for church on Sunday's for those who attend, 1 hour for Bible study and 1 hour for prayer meeting and maybe those who do a daily Bible reading another hour. So just for the benefit of the doubt, let's throw in another 2 hours, so if we give God 6 hours a week, are we growing spiritually close to Him, will this help us to fight off the enemy, you see Satan never rest, sin never sleeps. Satan knows the Bible too, but he distorts the trust, he is a deceiver, but he is also well aware that many Christians do not know the Word of God, so we can't fight him off. We have disharmony in the family unity because we don't stay in the Word of God, our spiritual life is struggling and suffering. We are angry at every other religious group because they are on their JOB. They are out recruiting, knocking on doors, sharing their beliefs with people they meet and what are we doing, afraid of who we will offend if we talk about God, just will speak to our neighbor after leaving church. We don't want to go outside the walls, we don't want to work in our own mission field which is our backyard, we meet people daily but we are afraid to share the Word of God, yet we are angry at these other groups because they are targeting their followers and getting outside the walls of their meeting places.
If you want
to be spiritually fed, go to church with a hunger for the Word. Sometimes
even church attendance can become a matter of merely going through the motions
on just another Sunday: What can we do to make each Sunday special?
Go with the anticipation of meeting God. Go to learn about God.
Expect to hear from Him. Go to fellowship with others. We need each
other in this Christian journey. Lord, give us a renewed enthusiasm of heart
for attending church, so that it won't be just another Sunday.
Take the time to recharge yourself! Sleeping on God is letting your blessings pass you by! Today we live in critical times. There are too many ways in which you can be distracted or fall asleep spiritually. Bible prophecies are being fulfilled. We, too, must not fall asleep spiritually, become lulled into complacency or let down our guard. Remember the hour in which we live. Satan is always on the prowl, if Satan has the chance he will creep into any crevice to distract you, don't go to sleep on God.
Take the time to recharge yourself! Sleeping on God is letting your blessings pass you by! Today we live in critical times. There are too many ways in which you can be distracted or fall asleep spiritually. Bible prophecies are being fulfilled. We, too, must not fall asleep spiritually, become lulled into complacency or let down our guard. Remember the hour in which we live. Satan is always on the prowl, if Satan has the chance he will creep into any crevice to distract you, don't go to sleep on God.
The
Spiritually Dead Church
The Bible does
speak about a spiritually dead church and we must presume that this dead church
is full
of dry bones or spiritually dead members. They might confess their sins,
they might profess their faith but the question is do they possess
this faith? Anyone can confess, anyone can profess, but it is an
altogether different thing to possess something. In the message to the
Seven Churches in the Book of Revelation, it is Jesus Himself that speaks to
them. In Revelation 3:14-20 it says:
“To the
angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your
deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the
other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to
spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and
do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful,
poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined
in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can
cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here
I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”
Is the 20th
and 21st Century church that Jesus is speaking about? This church is
neither hot nor cold. If they were hot, we must assume that this means
that they are seeking to please
God and their deeds would prove it. We could understand that a Christian
that is on-fire for Christ would be reading their Bible, prayer often, give
generously, and be striving to seek a holy life. On the other hand, a
cold Christian would be one that is callous to those in need around them,
rarely pick up a Bible, pray only when they are in a crisis, and from the
viewpoint of the world, look no different from the unbelievers around them.
Christ would rather have a Christian like this or one that is on fire instead
of one that is a mixture of both. Being a mixture of both is living
a Christian life of duplicity, of hypocrisy, and is anything but
authentic. They are playing church so to speak. The original
language for “spit you out” could be better rendered as “vomit you out.”
As gross as this sound, this lukewarm church appears to make Jesus sick to His
stomach. It’s like taking a drink of cool coffee or warm pop. It
does not leave a good taste in the mouth and is instead, rather disgusting.
Examine
Yourself
To see if
you are truly spiritually alive or spiritually dead, take Paul’s advice in 1
Corinthians 11:27-32: “So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the
cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the
body and blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before
they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. For those who eat and drink
without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on
themselves. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of
you have fallen asleep. But if we were more discerning with regard to
ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. Nevertheless, when we
are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will
not be finally condemned with the world.” If we don’t examine ourselves
before we partake in the Body of Christ (the Lord‘s Supper or Communion), we
can “eat and drink judgment” to ourselves. That is why Paul was warning
the church at Corinth that “many among you are weak and sick, and a number
of you have fallen asleep [meaning they have died!]. What can a
spiritually dead person do? “If we were more discerning with regard to
ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.” Paul’s imperative
command, not a hope-you-will-do-this saying, is that we examine ourselves,
abide in the Vine (Jesus Christ and His Word, the Bible), bear much
fruit, and then and only then, can we “ask whatever [we] wish, and it
will be done for [us]. That is to say our prayers will be
answered. And what better evidence is there that we are spiritually alive
than God answering our prayers.
Our needs will never exhaust God's supply! We are all the same; there are no unimportant people in the body of Christ. Our greatest hope here below is to get help from God above. When God gives an assignment; He equips us and it comes with His enablement. The storm that threatens to destroy us God will use to strengthen us. Every season needs faith to get us through it, therefore, apply yourself to the scriptures and the scriptures to yourself.
Has this ever happened to you, every so often, your computer becomes sluggish? Like our computer our life gets fragmented. One situation tugs on our emotions while trying to concentrate on something else. We want to accomplish everything that needs to be done, but our mind won't stop and our body won't start. Sometimes we are scattered, restless and half here. King David also went through such times. (Ps. 55-2). I often defragment my computer; it needs it every now and then. Then I had a thought: Prayer can help to defragment our lives. When we cast our cares on the Lord, He will show us what we need to do and what only He can do. Many of us need some defragmentation going on right now. Do like David, present your needs and concerns to Him in prayer and have confident that you will be heard (v.17) We need prayer the most when we have the least time to pray. Take time to defragment your life today. Shut everything down and go to God in prayer. We live in a world filled with people who, like sheep, are lost, confused, hungry, lonely, and in desperate need of a Savior.
Only Jesus, the Living Water, can
satisfy the thirsty soul. When a Christian stops growing, help is
needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be
careful. You might be wise to get a checkup. Not on your body, but
on your heart. Not a physical, but a spiritual. Make these four habits regular activities and see what happens:
First, the habit of prayer. Second, the habit of study; Third, the
habit of giving and Last of all, the habit of fellowship. We exist
to glorify God, all day every day!
If God is calling
you, submit your life completely to Him and He will give you all you need to
accomplish His mission and will. God will place the anointing upon you when He
calls you to accomplish a certain task or mission. When God said He would use
everything for the good of those He called, He already knew about your past, present,
future and what you'd be facing today. You're not defeated until DOUBTS
replaces Your MISSION.
People are desperately searching
for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. With
Jesus...we don't have all the answers...we have the Truth.
A person or thing
apart from its creator cannot know its purpose. You want to know the purpose of
a product? - You must ask the manufacturer.
If you don't know where God is in your
life, find Him by searching for God’s answer in reading the Word of God. THE Christian warriors do not select
which hill they will defend. That decision belongs to God. The battle is real.
It's time to stand on the promises of God, and stop sitting on the premises of
God. God is love. God will not look you
over for medals, degrees, or diploma, but for scars. God calls us to join an
army that will bring the Gospel into enemy territory. We battle Satan by
staying strong in God. We are defenseless otherwise. We need a faith -
which offers an encounter with the world - and not an escape from the world.
Notice what we do while waiting on
God. It can be an important observation to learn about ourselves. When God says, "Arise; He means to get
up and get going. We, the followers of Christ, are the only people who can
bring about a World Wide movement for peace. It’s Time to be about our Father's
business. If anybody is going to change this world; it will be us, Followers of
Jesus Christ.
If You Never
Understood the Meaning of God's Grace, It's Very Simple: I Deserve
Nothing, But God Gives Me Everything! There is no comparison to
having a good relationship with God. Everyday do something that will lead
you closer to God. Where ever we are in life, we need to have a goal, a
dream and a vision. If we don't, the Word says we'll perish (Prov 29:18).
If you find that you are at the same level you were last year
spiritually then you haven't grown any closer to God, sometime as Christians we
get in a comfort zone. Some people do the same thing day after day, year after
year without growing in God's Grace or Word. God never created us to
reach one level and then stop. When you stop learning you stop
growing; allow God to take you to another dimension in His Word. Keep
growing. Expect God to make a change in your spiritual life. Don't
settle for where you are, get more of Jesus. Never let an earthly
circumstance disable you spiritually. Welcome the Holy Spirit. It's
something about this year 2014. God is doing a great thing.
Releasing, Changing, Positioning and Transitioning. It's going to be a
tremendous shake up because God's Word will forever stand. Know where you
are standing, make sure that it is firm and stable; drop anything that's
weighing you down. Don't hinder your blessing. God Is Moving.
Everyone I see matters to Jesus.
Your workplace is the mission field; we all have a mission field in our own
back yard. Everywhere the gospel is
preached there is life and growth. You’re never more like Jesus than when you
are serving. We have to be the church, reach the unreached and touch the
un-touched. Let's shake off the distractions and refocus our attention on the
main game. Let's get our attention on
Jesus commission and on declaring His goodness to all.
Even though many are not called to fill an
office within the five- fold ministry to the church, we all have a mission
field in our own backyards. You’re never more like Jesus than when you are
serving. We’re all called to serve. We don’t just go to church, we have to be
the church, reach the unreached, touch the un-touched. Do you traverse beyond
your doorstep? Then you are a missionary. Your workplace is the mission field.
Never has a generation been able to record so much and forget so much all at
the same time. Let's shake off the distractions and refocus our attention on
the main game. Let's get our attention on Jesus commission and on declaring His
goodness to all. Since the first disciples were commissioned, the task hasn't
changed. What we're trying to achieve is the same.
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