Walk In The Spirit

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Walking In The Spirit ( Gal.5:22-25) Much has been made of warring, and that is very important! But walking in the Spirit enables us to overcome the enemy before he gets a foot hold in our thought life. Fight with the fruit of the Spirit is our greatest Key ! Don't go into warfare for someone else if your operating in fear, doubt, or unbelief, if You are anxious, angry at someone, depressed, currently suffering from the same stronghold You are then dealing with someone else strife, or feel hatred for the person, ect. Look at the scripture verses once again and pay close attention to [Vs.16] because it told us truths in what we are not to do when other things has attention and not on God.I say then: 16. Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,^[a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,^[b] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit( Gal.5:16-25 N.K.J.V). Love: To fight using God's Fruit of the Spirit means: That if someone attacks You with anger or hatred, then You do the opposite; show them love and opperate in the fruit of the Spirit, love. Agape love in the strongs : Means : affection, affection, benevolence, a love feast, a feat of charity. It is the God kind of Love. The Bible promises by thier fruits we will know them (Matt.7:20 N.K.J.V). Let's make sure that we are walking in love walk in All of our dealings with others. We are Commanded to abide in love and love our neighbor in (Jhn. 15:10), even as we love ourselves. You cannot truly move in faith unless You operate in love:... For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love( Gal.5:6).

God will not forget your work and labor of love. For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of^[a] love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister( Heb.6:10 N.K.J.V). There is a great reward coming for those who walk in love. Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him (James 1:12 N.K.J.V). Being perfect in love means we can cast out fear:.. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. ( 1 John 4:18 N.K.J.V). Finally , we pass from death to eternal life by loving the brethern:.. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother^[a] abides in death( 1John 3:14 N.K.J.V) . Joy: Joy in the [Strongs means:... chara] Meaning's cheerfulness, calm, delight, gladness, exceedingly, joyful, overflow with joy. If someone is operating against You with depression, or heaviness, sad stories, bad news, or pouting, respond with the fruit of the Spirit,joy. The joy of the Lord is our strength:.. Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.� (Neh.8:10 N.K.J.V). When that happens and we know it because the Lord pricked one's own heart in knowing that we are under attack that trying to bring us down under the agrressions of our enemy, and joy simply just can't be part of us which absolutly cannot be manufactured. Some of the most joyful people I know have been through great adversity, endured by walking through the fiery trials, and came out on the other side with joy wrought in the furnace of affliction, You cannot take joy away from them. When they enter into a room they carry it with them and effect all others around them with that wonderful glorious fruit.
Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.� ( Neh.8:10 N.K.J.V)
We see that in some church where some or few people may be joy in him and dancing away because they carry that wonderful abiding fruit in those lives and often times enough it changes the atmospher of a church. It's an awesome gift from the Lord ! Peace : If someone comes against You with anxiety, fear, frustration, upset emotions, stress, or strife: Fight it by using the fruit of the spirit, peace. (Peace) means : [eirene]... quietness, rest, set at one again, harmonious relationships between God, men, nations. God wants to live in harmony with others. A soft answers turneth away wrath ( Prov.15:1) , Walking in Peace can test our faith to the limit if we live in a home filled with strife and confusion. Peace, when someone is screaming accusation in your face, is the toughest fruit of all to walk in. It requires humility in abundance, and must not insist on always winning or having its own way. To walk in God's shoes of peace necessitates setting aside our own agenda and walking in God's plan. Otherwise, there will be No peace in your soul. You will always operate in constant turmoil and undoubtedly have trouble sleeping. Speak peace into Your spirit. Here is a verse that I'm leaving You with:... You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You( Isa26:3).
Goodness: ( agathosune) means: virtue, moral quality, desire after goodness, a kindly activity on someone else behalf. It includes the sterner qualities by which doing good to others is not necessarily by gentle means. An example is Jesus Christ driving out the money changers and cleansing the Temple. 12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God^[a] and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’^[a] but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’�^{[b]( Matt.21:12,13 N.K.J.V)}
In otherwords, sometimes doing good may seem harsh, but it must always be done in love. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ( Ps. 51:7 N.K.J.V). Hyssop is Free from thorns, and ends in clusters of heads having pleasent aromatic odor. It was used in ritual purificatory sprinkling. In its dried state, it may have been used to scrub and cleanse, and its leaves eaten with bread. A sponge was put on a branch of hyssop and offered to the Lord on the cross. The Bottom Line is this: What Jesus Christ had done for everyone on the cross of calvery, he had taken everything that was so uncalled for in badly scourged in otherwords horribly beaten with instruments that literally cut to the bones and marrow of His body, flogged til his blood ran out of Him,with people beating Him then if that wasn't good enough for Him after that made Our precious Jesus carry His own cross which represented to break His will to live down to nothing in those folk"s in that day. Nail driven through His wrist instad of his palm of his hand ( for a much quicker death for Jesus )onlybecause the small bone wouldn't support Him on that cross,The beam and the body was lifted -up and tied to the already affixed pole. Pin or a sm. wooden block were placed halfway up to provide a seat for the body lest those nails tore open the wound or the ropes force the arms from thier sockets. Death was caused by loss of blood circulation and coronary failure. Especially if the victims were tied, it took days of the most hideous pain in the extremites turn slowly gangrenous;so often soliders would break thier legs with a club, causing massive shock and a very quick death.It was in public places and then those bodies were left there to rot away for day and carrion birs degraded the corpes futher. That kind of abuse is far greater to take in ones own life was Nothing , absolutely nothing in what ever had gone on in my life that can't even compare to anything in my own life knowing what had happen to Jesus Christ and all that He went through for this world. Thank You Jesus ! I know it had to awful to bear that day ! catcmo2006

Two Ways To Live

TWO WAYS TO LIVE: There are two kinds of people: 1. Faithful, just, loyal, wise, productive, righteous, trusting the Lord, successful in God's eye's. 2. Unfaithful, unjust, disloyal, foolish, unproductive, wicked, fearful, failure in God's eye's. The Kingdom of Heaven is like the parable of the faithful and the unfaithful servants. “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. 16 Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 17 And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. 18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
20 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ 21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 22 He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ 23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
26 “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
29 ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

The Kingdom Of Heaven is like a parable of the faithful and the unfaithful servants.(Mt.25:14-30 NJKV ) The Lord gives us gifts and talents and waits to see how we use them. Every man receives a gift, no matter how small or great. What he does with it is up to him. If he takes it and uses it for God's glory, God will give him more. If he hides, believing God is out to ruin him, or that God is hard, cruel and stingy with the gift, then God punishes him (Mt.25:30). The Defeated Life: The defeated life wakes up one morning and realizes that he has never lived. He has been afraid to set out and take chances, knowing that dissappointments may lurk around the cornor. The old expression, " nothing ventured, nothing gained" never fazes him because he will never dream big dreams. He sticks to well worn patterns that don't change him and in truth, he is angry deep down with God. He feels like he got the short end of the stick when God is passing out gifts, because he doesn't believe he really has anything important to offer, and even if he did, he'd burry under a bushel. He is a man who took the Lord's talent's and hid it instead of investing it, becuase he was fearful of losing it. After all, he might lost it on the way to the bank, and then where would he be? This man doesn't comphrehend the love of God. Victory Or Defeat? Will You live in victory or defeat? You are in a battle for Your life. Wake Up ! You are a WINNER ! Greater is He that's in You than he that is in the world. (1Jhn.4:4). Get Your Life Back on track by confessing Your sins to God. Don't be ashamed to get help. When geese flying in formation, they let the sick and the old, and the very young fly in the rear where the air resistance is much less. They constantely switch the ones flying in front where it is the hardest to fly. If we would recognize our great pressure on our leaders and relieve them from time to time, we would not have sick and dying churches on oue leaders. Christians are overcomers who take the land for Jesus Christ. The trumpet is sounding. Stand and fight the good fight ! Model of a True Servents of God: 1. Humility 2. Serving God 3.Serving others 4. Profitable Servents 5. Using gifts and talents wisely. Taking Possession Of The Land : If You are born again Christian believer, You belong to God. He tells You to take the land just as he told the Isrealites they were the owners of Canaan, but they had to fight to take it, and fight to keep it in ones own possession. and You must drive out the demons out of Your soulish realm and body. Vigilance is a very neccessary part of the Christian walk. In areas where You had trouble in the past, the enemy will attempt to regain access. He sometimes works this through discouragement and rejection. Temptations will come, but we don't have to take them. The Kingdom is heaven is forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force( Mt.11:12N.K.J.V). Our members are at war with us. The war, ultimately, is over our eternal salvation, For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.(Gal.5:17 N.K.J.V) We walk in the Spirit and are led by the spirit, so we will Not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

catcmo2006