LETTING GO OF THE OLD AND ACCEPTING THE NEW
“THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE NEW IF THE FORMER IS NOT OLD”
SO WHAT AREAS ARE OLD IN YOUR LIFE
THAT NEEDS THE NEW?
IS YOUR CHARACTER OLD
IS YOUR THINKING OLD
IS YOUR SERVICE TO GOD OLD
IS YOUR COMMITMENT TO GOD OLD.
JESUS DOES NOT WASTE RESOURCES BY POURING NEW WINE INTO OLD WINE SKIN.
please weigh your achievements on a scale of 1 to 10 since you became independent of Christ, how many of your personal pursuit has given you true fulfillment? if the ones you did for christ gives you more fulfilment and inner joy, cant you see that other commitments that we chase after is simply a waste of time or in other words EFFORTS IN FUTILITY!
2 cor 4:16 says;
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
can the spirit of the living God lift up a standard against the flood of the enemy when they come in?
who will defend you when the enemy/challenges come?
PSALM 18:26-27
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But wilt bring down high looks
if i be your master where is my honor
if you can not love the one you see, how can you love God who you do not see?
1 John 4:20-21
:If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother
QUES: WHY SHOULD WE SERVE GOD?
ANS: TO KEEP OUR SEEDS(FAMILY) IN GOD’S LINEAGE AND TO MAKE IT TO ETERNITY IN HIS KINGDOM.
Psalm 22:30
A seed shall serve him; It shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation.
QUES: HOW DO YOU RETURN GLORY TO GOD WHEN HE ANSWERS YOUR PRAYERS.
ANSWER: COME TO CHURCH THAT IS WHERE YOU FIND THE GREAT CONGREGATION
Psalm 22:25
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Father in heaven, please help me to continually stop the things that intends to stop me from dwelling with you always in Jesus Christ mighty name,amen.
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