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Jesus did not come to violate our freewill He came to validate it!

11/8/2018

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How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Psalm 84 NKJV
 
I have heard it said that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to what happens to us. I believe that to be an undeniable truth. Circumstances do not set the course of our lives our thoughts do.
 
The psalmist is overcome by his longing to behold the beauty of God’s dwelling place. His soul will not be satisfied until he stands within the walls of the Lord’s courts. His heart and flesh cry out for the presence of God, why?
 
The psalmist has experienced the presence of God. Nothing less than intimacy with God will satisfy his soul.
 
I experienced the presence of Jesus in miraculous ways. To bask in the love of my Heavenly Father was the desire of my heart. Nothing could satisfy my soul the way intimacy with Jesus did. And yet I sinned while the people of God gathered to worship.
 
Did God change? Did Jesus turn His back on me? Did I lose my faith? No, I took my eyes of the Lord. I set my gaze on the pride of life. I rubbed up against the lust of the flesh. I put my toes into the cesspool of sin. I let my mind wander. My feet followed.
 
Our eyes and ears are entry ways into our thought life. Our thoughts drive our actions. Our actions become our habits. Our habits become the pattern of our lives!
 
The bible tells us that Eve listened to the lies of the serpent. She looked at the forbidden fruit. It looked good. She believed the devil. She began to recount the reasons why the fruit was good. It was then that Adam and Eve sinned.
 
The battle for good and evil is fought and either won or lost in our minds!
 
In the first two verses of Romans chapter twelve we read; I beseech your therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
 
The first step in presenting ourselves as a living sacrifice to Jesus is to offer up our minds. Our thoughts must be surrendered to Jesus if we are to be the proof of the good and acceptable and perfect will of God!
 
Jesus did not come to violate our freewill. He came to validate it. He broke the curse of sin and death. We have the freedom to think for ourselves. How will we use that freedom? We can choose to live forever through faith in Jesus Christ. Will you?
 
You can choose to be a doorkeeper in the kingdom of God rather than a king in a world spiraling farther and farther away from the will of God. Choose wisely!
 
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    ​Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!
     
    Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour. Acts 16:16-18 NKJV
     
    The slave girl was speaking the truth. She was possessed by an evil spirit. The evil spirit was drawing people away from Christ! 
     
    This attack came as God’s servants went to prayer. The enemy of our souls attacks when we step out in faith. Satan seeks to distract us. He wants us to focus our attention on things other than Jesus.
     
    The devil perverts the truth. He uses it against us. No one can serve two masters. This girl was speaking the truth about Paul and his companions while practicing witchcraft. When people claim to speak for God we must consider how they live.
     
    The girl followed the disciples for several days before they cast the demon out of her. It is important for us to wait on the Lord before stepping out in faith. The bible tells us Paul was greatly annoyed by this girl. Paul was not fearful. The Lord was with Him! 
     
    Paul and Silas were put in jail. The owners of the slave girl were angry at the loss of income when the demon was cast out of her. While Paul and Silas were in jail they shared the gospel with the jailer. His entire household was saved. 
     
    God uses Satan’s attacks for His glory and our salvation!
                       
    Satan is a real being. He takes people captive to do his will. There really are demons who seek to destroy God’s people and bring destruction to our world.
     
    We have nothing to fear from the devil or his demons when we live according to God’s will. We have nothing to fear from anyone or anything when we step out in faith to serve Jesus! 
     
    Jesus wants us to fear Him and Him alone. He wants us to know His power and authority are unequaled in all of creation.
     
    God wants you share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in your life. Jesus wants you to walk in great boldness because He is with you everywhere you go!
     
    Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

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