So, stop fooling yourselves! Evil companions will corrupt good morals and character. Come back to your right senses and awaken to what is right. Repent from your sinful ways. For some have no knowledge of God’s wonderful love. You should be ashamed that you make me write this way to you! 1 Corinthians 15:33-34
Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and tossed down the next. When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition? When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition? James 1:6-8
Consider Yourself Loved – Us, You, Me, Warned By God
I have the gift of exhortation. It is one of the gifts God gives His people. Sometimes it is a sweet gift, other times, I obey reluctantly and speak what it is He has put on my heart. It is not always a fun gift, but I know exhortation comes from a Father God Who sent His Son to die for us, so we might live. He has good intentions for us. I know without a doubt it is not condemnation, it is conviction spoken by God for us, purposefully, at times for our good, to transform us from darkness into His light. THIS IS FOR US. If you hear His Voice in this exhortational warning from God, do not harden your heart. THIS IS FOR YOU. You will know if it is for you, I have no doubt about that. THIS IS FOR ME. God loves us. He sees us making the little bad choices, one by one and He sees us casually drifting away from Him, craftily and deceptively led by the enemy of our soul. It is the little choices that lead to the bad life wrecks, the ones that dead-end us in forever consequences. God forgives us from our sin and He has the power to change us from the inside out, but some consequences stay with us and with those we love. We don’t sin alone. Our consequence is thier consequence too. So, God on this day makes a Godly appeal to save us/you/me from serving a power no higher than self and asks us to change, because He loves us with His life, wholly-holy so and He knows. Listen Up:
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Are you he who troubles Israel? Elijah replied, I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, by forsaking the commandments of the Lord and by following the Baals. Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you halt and limp between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him! But if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word. 1 Kings 18:17-18,21
Listen Up: Warning From God’s Holy Spirit
I warn you that at a double minded person is unstable, anxious in all of their ways. I See You. Bad company is corrupting your good morals and you are drifting slowly away from Me, and from the holy-wholly-alignment with the precepts of My Kingdom. You are not becoming like My character, but are becoming rooted to this world’s cultural say-so. You are in this world, but you should not be of it. You know who you are… I AM speaking to you right now, as you read this and you know what you must do. Walk away from the unholy alliance, the close friend, who is bad company, the friend who entices you to do things that are not right, not legal, not godly. These bad moral choices, one by one will drift you away from Me, little by little, taking you off the path of the mission I placed you on.
This is why it is so crucial that we be all the more engaged and attentive to the truths that we have heard so that we do not drift off course. For if the message of the law spoken and confirmed by angels brought a just penalty to every disobedient violation; then how would we expect to escape punishment if we despise the very truths that give us life? The Lord himself was the first to announce these things, and those who heard him firsthand confirmed their accuracy. Heb. 2:1-3
Make A Choice
This is My warning. Do not harden your heart. Listen up, take your foot out of the world, and place it back in My Kingdom, you cannot straddle the fence and make good choices. Choose you this day, who you will serve. If it is the world, serve the world, if it is Me, serve Me! I am asking you to dig your life roots deeply in Me, your identity, wholly-holy so in Me, or I will withdraw the mantel of ministry from you until you can serve Me with an undivided heart. Remove the clutter that stops the Word from going from your head to your heart.
Teach me your way, Lord , that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead. Psalm 86:11
You Are Deceived
Your heart is unguarded. Your mind is not where your life issues should flow, they should activate out of your heart. Your mind is exhausted by overthinking bad advice from bad company, which is corrupted your thinking, motives, choices and actions. Instead of trusting Me in all of your ways, you are doing your own thing, hiding in your comfort zone, making convenient choices from no power higher than self. Your head is so cluttered with opinion, speculation, assumption, rationalization, that what you think you know, is a fake reality. You have so much clutter from your mind to your heart that nothing reaches your heart. You are living out of your head, not your heart. Deception rules you. I speak Shalom to your mind, let every bit of chaos be disrupted and may My strong and powerful Word navigate you, run unencumbered from your head to your heart, guarding your heart, as your life issues flow out free indeed, charting a course of godliness on rhythms of my grace and truth. Return to Me, choose Me, fully face Me. Come let us reason together… Your Redeemer Jesus.
Look here! Today I’ve set before you life and what’s good versus death and what’s wrong. If you obey the LORD your God’s commandments that I’m commanding you right now by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments, his regulations, and his case laws, then you will live and thrive, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and so are misled, worshipping other gods and serving them, I’m telling you right now that you will definitely die. You will not prolong your life on the fertile land that you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you right now: I have set life and death, blessing and curse before you. Now choose life—so that you and your descendants will live— by loving the LORD your God, by obeying his voice, and by clinging to him. That’s how you will survive and live long on the fertile land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors: to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:15-20
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I just wrote a comment about how easy it can be to drift and I came across the scripture reference here. God is at work all the time.