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ROMANS 8; 12 - So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live accoring to the flesh.
When I read this, i instantly felt its freedom. When opportunities to sin, or when strong temptations come, i felt the strong urging of the Holy Spirit coming from this scripture, but the wording was slightly different. He said to me - you are under no obligation of the flesh. It hit me, hard! That I don't owe the flesh a darn thing. The mind of the flehs seeks that whitch satisfies the flesh, but the mind after the Spirit will seek that which pleases the Holy Spirit.
Its like the flesh needs to be satisfied, but you are not obligated to give it any such thing. The word tells us that we have the power to escape temptation, because God does not give us what we can't handle.
In this lesson i learn't to stand up against the flesh and cast my burdens onto Jesus alone. I am responsible for my temple to be pure before the LORD, and my goodness, it is liberating to know and to stand against sin, in victory, and say i am not obligated to the flesh, but to the pleasing of the Holy Spirit!!

Moses

I was thinking about Moses today, especially about his anger issue, which he never fully delt with. Its not a matter of being king and ruler over these charcter flaws, but its about God's ability to help you resist the temptation of "going there".

1 Corinthians 10;13 - No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

Moses had an issue with shooting off, wich has it happens was the very thing that kept him from experiencing the fullness of God's promise to his people.
So don't allow yourself to let reacurring sins go under the rug, just as Moses did when he killed the Egyptian -

Exodus 3; 12 - So he (Moses) looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no-one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hit him in the sand.

Those flaws will find a way of coming back and back again and again. And if not delt with, it may come to you at the most inopportune time.

Book recomendations

Here are two books, allthough one is a translation of the new testement.



1 - Through new eyes - by James B. Jordan

2 - The New Testement in Modern English - by J.B Phillips

Holy Ghost

Annointing.

Write to your governor!! Part 2

So right now, where is the Largest church? Seoul, Korea. 1,000,000 members.
In Inida there is a turn over rate of people get born again, at 100%.
There is more people getting born again in China than any nation in the world.

What do these three countries have in common?
They are all under either communism or some kind of christian persecution.
Why do I mention this?

Because it seems that the church of Christ seems to grow in abundance when it is under persecutuion. Remember Israel in egypt. it says that they were slaves yet they multiplied and bore fruit under their opressive conditions.
the parable of the Kindgom in connection with the leaven in the dough of Bread. it starts off slow but it grows and grows, slowly yet steadily, untill it has completly taken over.
hypotheticly speaking; if it meant another 1,000,000 souls coming to Jesus in the US this year on top of the normal number; i would be the first to get the LORD's prayer out of school, i would be the first to give the Gays their marriage certificits. Because it has nothing to do with the externals. homosexuality is just another fruit of Sin; the godless school leaders are just fruits of sin, as are abortion clinics. but if we can touch their hearts and not take away their freedoms (like the dictators that we fled from to get to America) thn will have no need of all this political agenda's.
My last word to such people:
Grow up, and start loving these people as they are and see them as candidates for Salvation!!

Write To your Governor!! Part1

Well it seems that Christianity in America has resorted to going the political route in order to 'get ur done'. I remember catching one of my favorite preachers (nay) Mr. John Hagge on tv once talking about how in California and other 'liberal' states are trying to get the Lord's prayer out of Schools for good. JH stirred his congregation to political activism by 'writing to your commissioners, write to your governor, write to your local pta!' but not once did i hear this man of God ask or encourage his congregation to pray for a resolve.
I find a lot of these evangelical churches fight for many things that i have never seen asked of us in the bible. I don't remember Jesus tellinsg us to make sure proposition 8 doesnt go through (gay marriage). I never heard a single parable about keeping God in schools. The fact is that this type of Christianity is far more concerned about keeping the constitution alive and not bothering to deal with actual issues concerning waging peace in international lands, or fighting against civil wars. There is also a blind ignorance concerning the salvation and welfare of the Muslims and Arabs; which kind of sounds like racism.
Leave the political batton at home and fight for the will of God, however than pans out.

The Bachelor

After the drama and excitment of The Bachelor had come to a conclusion, a patterned truth revealed itself once again in the 'After The Rose' show. The bachelor Jason had asked Melissa to marry him, yet within the six weeks following the engagement he wants to break it off citing that the Chemistry had gone, or at least 'changed'.
Out of the 13 plus seasons of this show only one couple has managed to saty together long enough to actually go through with a wedding. Good for them.
I don't know if it the fact that Jason is a weak man or just another victim of a reality show that manipulates anything that we would consider true to life, or in fact Real.
Why am I talking about this? What kind of Spiritual application can we learn from this show?
It's simple, and anyone who has been married for more than a year will understand the term 'the honeymoon period'. When you get married you go on a vacation and you learn to be one together in a romantic, carefree environment for at least a week or two. And then life hits you hard! Reality set's in.
The contestants of the Bachelor have yet to posess the longevity of sight to see and expect that the utter elation of a fantasy world for a few weeks, and the sheer harshness of every day reality, are two very different worlds.
Christians some times have this kind of problem. I refer this as the mountain experience with the valley life.
We enjoy God and his presence as it manifests so powerfully, sometimes on a Sunday morning or in a praise meeting, and then find it hard the next day to live out our Christian walks in the 'valley' of life.
We all need to live in a natural slash supernatural life with moderation and balance; and also the maturity to know that we have to face our days sometimes without feeling his close touch in our lives.