Grace- God gives MORE grace than the lust inside us that would destroy us if we let it. Seriously, we CAN and WILL be destroyed if we do not choose GRACE.
Grace is NOT forced upon us, it is offered to us and we must accept that grace. Read the following a couple of times...please...
Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you?
come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
The lusts inside of us cause us to fight, to argue to even war within ourselves.
Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
We lust and our lusts are not satisfied. We even kill because we lust. We desire but we cannot get what we desire. We fight and war all trying to take care of the lusts within us. We ask, wanting those lusts fulfilled. We aren't fulfilled though because the things we are lusting after are wrong things. We are asking for things that are not of God. We are asking for things that will satisfy our perverted lusts, our selfish lusts.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
We are ADULTERERS and ADULTERESSES when we leave the love of our Betrothed, our Groom, and go with ANY other no matter who they are. Even when we believe ourselves to be more worthy than our Savior, we are betraying the LORD. God's people time and time again committed adultery against God, leaving Him and going after strange gods. Time and again they were called to repent for their actions. When WE choose to have a friendship with the world, to LOVE the world, we are choosing to be at war against GOD. This world is an enemy of God's, and if WE are friends with the world then WE are enemies of God too!
So many people want to twist our selfish lusts into something acceptable and good. So many want us to believe that being of the world is a good thing, but it is NOT.
Jas 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
TRUTH!
GOD gives us MORE grace.
Yet, GOD resists the PROUD.
GOD gives grace unto the HUMBLE.
The proud, what does this mean to us? Do we consider only the proud as those who are stuck up and arrogant?
Dictionary Definition-
Proud-
1.
feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.
2.
having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance.
The focus of being proud is all consideration is placed upon SELF. Even if we are proud of someone else, it revolves around SELF.
We can receive GOD'S GRACE, God gives us MORE GRACE, but we have to SUBMIT to GOD, put our FOCUS on GOD. Can we? It is what we must do!
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
HUMBLE OURSELVES, in the SIGHT of the LORD.
God will give us more GRACE, we must not ask amiss for our needs, and our need is GOD, not selfish lusts that fight inside of us for dominance wanting us to leave the LORD we love!
By God's GRACE!
Grace is NOT forced upon us, it is offered to us and we must accept that grace. Read the following a couple of times...please...
Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you?
come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
The lusts inside of us cause us to fight, to argue to even war within ourselves.
Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
We lust and our lusts are not satisfied. We even kill because we lust. We desire but we cannot get what we desire. We fight and war all trying to take care of the lusts within us. We ask, wanting those lusts fulfilled. We aren't fulfilled though because the things we are lusting after are wrong things. We are asking for things that are not of God. We are asking for things that will satisfy our perverted lusts, our selfish lusts.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
We are ADULTERERS and ADULTERESSES when we leave the love of our Betrothed, our Groom, and go with ANY other no matter who they are. Even when we believe ourselves to be more worthy than our Savior, we are betraying the LORD. God's people time and time again committed adultery against God, leaving Him and going after strange gods. Time and again they were called to repent for their actions. When WE choose to have a friendship with the world, to LOVE the world, we are choosing to be at war against GOD. This world is an enemy of God's, and if WE are friends with the world then WE are enemies of God too!
So many people want to twist our selfish lusts into something acceptable and good. So many want us to believe that being of the world is a good thing, but it is NOT.
Jas 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
TRUTH!
GOD gives us MORE grace.
Yet, GOD resists the PROUD.
GOD gives grace unto the HUMBLE.
The proud, what does this mean to us? Do we consider only the proud as those who are stuck up and arrogant?
Dictionary Definition-
Proud-
1.
feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.
2.
having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance.
The focus of being proud is all consideration is placed upon SELF. Even if we are proud of someone else, it revolves around SELF.
We can receive GOD'S GRACE, God gives us MORE GRACE, but we have to SUBMIT to GOD, put our FOCUS on GOD. Can we? It is what we must do!
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
HUMBLE OURSELVES, in the SIGHT of the LORD.
God will give us more GRACE, we must not ask amiss for our needs, and our need is GOD, not selfish lusts that fight inside of us for dominance wanting us to leave the LORD we love!
By God's GRACE!
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