Do not speak evil of anyone!

Jas 4:11  Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Jas 4:12  There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

This is TRUTH!

Yet we don't seem to hesitate to speak evil of one another. And by evil I mean speaking unkindly, speaking untoward, speaking to degrade anyone in anyway, speaking to lift yourself up while putting them down, speaking what is even true if it is speaking to degrade someone is wrong! We try to justify our speaking evil of one another. We convince ourselves that we are doing good, that we are doing right, we are doing fine when we put another down rightfully so because WE are right and THEY are wrong. They are dirt, we are less dirt. They are evil, we are not so evil.  They are hurtful and hateful, vicious, and cruel, nasty, vile and we are not.  They deserve to be out-ed as evil, while we need to be the one out-ing them to reveal to them and all others around us that we know they are evil. 

The trouble with ALL this is we are EVIL when we speak evil of another, so we are in essence just as evil if not more evil than the one we are claiming is evil.

I'm NOT saying people aren't evil and that people don't hurt us with their evil ways, they are and they do, but we are NOT to meet evil with evil, not ever.

Satan would have us think otherwise. Satan wants us to use evil to fight evil and try to call our own evil good. Satan wants us to justify our actions, our words, our judging but we CANNOT afford to do that! We cannot afford to use evil in anyway.

Please FATHER we would not do evil! We don't want to judge one another! We are NOT judges! We are not lawgivers! You are the Lawgiver! You are able to save and destroy!

Help us, please, keep us from evil in all its forms!

All by the love and grace of the LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR, now and forever!

AMEN

He will lift us up.

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.

People want to be happy, we go to great lengths to be happy, to NOT be afflicted, to not mourn, to not weep.  People will say God wants us to be happy, not sad and they're right, but God also wants us to recognize that being RIGHT with HIM is more important than any happiness.

All the happiness we find without God is worth NOTHING.

We are better off being afflicted, mourning, weeping than being without God!

Our happiness is NOT the key to life. Our happiness is NOT what we have to seek.  We seek GOD first.  We humble ourselves before God.

We cannot afford to be double minded. Being double minded is fence sitting, choosing no side, choosing neither good nor evil.  In being double minded you choose evil over good, by not choosing God. 

We truly have to purify our hearts and cleanse our hands!

We have to choose God first, self second.  And it's only through our Savior this is possible.  By His grace and mercy we have HOPE, by HIS righteousness we have HOPE.  Please, Father, bless us, teach us to humble ourselves so that You will lift us up!

All in YOUR name!   Amen.

You gave us life

Psa 71:1  In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Psa 71:2  Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Psa 71:3  Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psa 71:4  Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

Psa 71:5  For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

Psa 71:6  By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

All praise, glory and honor unto You my God.

Please, help me to put my trust in YOU. All too often I try to trust in my own ways, my own self and yes, all too often I'm put to great confusion.  When we trust in you and not ourselves we have to realize that no matter what we are called to go through that You are in control even if we don't understand. We need to trust in YOU to get us through all the confusing things life has to throw at us, and it has a lot. 

We need Your deliverance, Your righteousness, because we can never be righteous in and of our own selves. We need Your righteousness.  We can only escape the evil this life has to offer through You.  Please Lord, hear us, save us!

You are our strong habitation and we have to CONTINUALLY resort to YOU, something we don't do as often as we need. We NEED You. Please, give the commandment to SAVE US, You are our ROCK our FORTRESS.

Please, LORD, help us, You are our all in in!

All in Your LOVE we HOPE in YOU, You took us out of our mothers wombs, You gave us life, help us live it to YOU, for YOU.

Keep us, Lord, keep us in You!

All by the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, and His love.

The Devil Will Flee

Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

When you submit yourself to someone, what are you doing?

Submit- accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another person.

synonyms:        give in/way, yield, back down, cave in, capitulate (Dictionary Def Google)

You are accepting, you are yielding to a SUPERIOR FORCE, a SUPERIOR AUTHORITY, the WILL of ANOTHER.

Do you yield yourself to God?

Do you recognize God as a Superior Force?

Do you recognize God as a Superior Authority?

Do you yield to the WILL of God?

We have to ACCEPT God's will.

We have to truly understand that GOD is our AUTHORITY. God is the one we answer to and NO other. We don't even answer to ourselves first, but GOD first!

When we truly accept God's will, when we truly recognize God's authority in our lives we must listen to Him, we must RESIST the DEVIL!  The devil will FLEE from us when we RESIST him!  Safe in our submission to God we resist the devil. Without that submission to God all our resisting in the world would do nothing.  Only in that connection we have with God do we have hope! The devil FEARS GOD, the devil FLEES by God's command. The devil does not fear us at all when we are separated from God!

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

TRUTH!

We resist the devil in our FAITH to GOD.

Please, Father please help us to be fully submitted to YOU, fully submitted so that we may resist the devil and he will flee!

All by YOUR LOVE, through our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord!

Amen.

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Seeking God's Will, Not Self Will

The Proud.

Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Pride- self adoration.

Self-centeredness in whatever form it takes in our lives is completely wrong.

Why? Why is self-centeredness wrong?

We are supposed to be ONE in agreement, all of us, every single one of us is supposed to be in agreement.  Does that sound wrong to you? So many will say it does. They say we can't all be in agreement, that it would somehow destroy our individuality. Being in agreement does not mean being identical to each other. You know this is true, that this is factual, because we deal with each other all the time and a lot of that time is spent in agreement with each other. We couldn't live in the same house with each other if we couldn't live in agreement.  We couldn't have the societies we do have if we couldn't make agreements.  When agreements get broken that is when the trouble begins.

God has to resist the proud, the self-centered.  It is the humble person who is in agreement with God's will, seeking God's will and not their own. A proud person will resist God in favor or self.

Seeking God is seeking God's will. Seeking self is self-will.

We have to ask ourselves constantly whose will we are seeking. And how we answer that will tell us who we are following.

Please LORD keep us from doing our own will, and help us to do Yours in ALL things, not just things of convenience, not just in things that please us, but in all things trusting in YOU always!

All by YOUR grace, YOUR love!

Amen.

The Spirit Within

The natural spirit within us, the spirit un-renewed, the spirit untouched by the Holy Spirit is evil.

The unregenerate man within us is naturally evil and filled with evil tendencies. We cannot renew ourselves, not ever! We cannot regenerate ourselves! We cannot act the part of the Holy Spirit and change our hearts. We cannot be born again of ourselves.  Of ourselves we are filled with lusts-

Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

The spirit that dwells within us, lusts to envy. The Holy Spirit without saves us from the spirit inside of us that would have us live to the flesh.

Gen 8:21  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

The imaginations of our hearts is evil from our youth.  We ONLY have hope in our SAVIOR.

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Rom 1:17  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

TRUTH! We live by what we can know without seeing!

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Rom 1:19  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE:

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22  PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE THEY BECAME FOOLS,

Rom 1:23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25  WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. Amen.

Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

God or Self?   Whom do you serve?

We war against ourselves and the natural spirit within us, the flesh that would do evil. We must choose GOD over self and the natural spirit, the flesh ways. We make that choice daily, hourly, always as constant lusts will rise up in us.

Tit 3:1  Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Tit 3:2  To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Tit 3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Tit 3:4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Tit 3:5  Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Tit 3:6  Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

Tit 3:7  That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Tit 3:8  This is a faithful saying, and these things I WILL THAT THOU AFFIRM CONSTANTLY,  THAT THEY WHICH HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD MIGHT BE CAREFUL TO MAINTAIN GOOD WORKS. THESE THINGS ARE GOOD AND PROFITABLE UNTO MEN.

Tit 3:9  But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

TRUTH!

Please Savior, please bless us in YOU as every day we face challenges against the lust warring inside of us. Please, bless us! Keep us from all evil even the evil within us! Please, let us live for YOU and YOU alone! All through the power of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

Amen!

Adultery

Are you an adulterer or an adulteress?  Before you say no, let me clarify. Are you a SPIRITUAL adulterer or adulteress?  And by SPIRITUAL I mean, are you unfaithful to God? Is God truly your God, or do you serve another god? Do you serve the god of self over God? Do you serve the god of riches? Do you serve the god of the prideful? Do you serve the god of your belly? Do you serve the god of a loved one? Is another human being the god you serve? Whatever rules your life, whatever you use to lead your life even yourself, because yes, you can choose to serve yourself as your own god, whatever it is the you look to for guidance in life, in your day to day living, this is the god you are serving and if it's not GOD it's another god whether you want to call it another god or not, and you are an adulterer or an adulteress.

So you see the question isn't whether or not you are cheating on your husband or wife, but whether or not you are cheating on God.

'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.'  James 4:4

The friendship of this world is an enmity with God.

If you are a friend of this world, you are an enemy of God's.

This is truth.

Think about it for a moment.  Do you truly believe that this sin infected world is the world we were intended to inhabit?  For every seemingly wondrous thing in this world there seems to be a counter evil to it in some way. This is NOT what the Lord intended for us human beings.  There are many people who will tell you differently. They'll rattle off the millions of amazing things about this world and tell us we have to love this world, but God tells us we do NOT have to love THIS world. We are to Love one another as children of God, and we are to love God, but we are not to love the thing of this world.  Too many get caught up in loving the things of this world over loving one another and loving God. Too many allow the enticements of this world to capture them.  And there are enticements around every single corner we turn.

Today if you tell someone you despise this world they might go off on a rant about having to protect this world from pollution of all sorts, that we have to stop global warming and love this world we live on because it's our home.

Am I advocating purposefully destroying the world? No, I would never say it's fine and dandy to pollute the waters and land, to destroy the air we breathe. However I will never say we have to love this world either, especially not loving it over loving each other even the person that lives to bring destruction upon the earth.

We are told this--

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

EVERYTHING in this world passes away, it corrodes, it degrades, it withers, it changes, it become completely invaluable to us upon our final rest.  Everything in this world can be destroyed and will be destroyed eventually.  The only thing that remains forever is God and His Kingdom and those of His Kingdom.

How can we have the love of the Father in us when we love the world and the thing of the world more than we love Him?

The lust of flesh.

The lust of the eyes.

The pride of life.

All thing of the world, not of the Father.

We are told--

Col 2:8  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Spoiled through philosophies and vain deceits. Spoiled through traditions of men. Spoiled through the rudiments of this world.

Save through CHRIST.

We are told-

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The RENEWING of our MINDS in our Savior alone can save us and keep us from conforming to the world.

The renewing of our minds will help us PROVE what is the good, acceptable, perfect will of God.

Please, Father, we would NOT be conformed to this world. Please, we would not be adulterers or adulteresses, we would not be friends with this world! Help to be solely Yours! Please, Father, we would be YOURS and not the worlds! Renew our minds! Help us to know and to do Your will always!

In Your love, by Your Grace, all through Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ!

Amen.