Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
James 4:5, “Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”
Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?
This verse reveals that the Spirit is territorial.
The Spirit knows its territory.
We are redeemed property, and the Spirit is yearning jealously over every part of our being.
The way we know God is in us is because He is jealous over even the most infinitesimal speck of rebellion in us, or anything spotted by the world.
That is why you can never get away with it.
The nature of the Spirit is jealousy.
We all have had personal experiences of being jealous.
We know how jealousy works.
It is possessive.
It watches over everything that would alienate someone we love from us.
But one day the kingdom life gets into us!
And now that life is jealous over every part of us.
That is why you cannot even think a thought and get away with it.
You lose your peace.
You do not even speak out your thought.
You used to say it.
But now you do not say it, and you think you should be okay.
Yet you are not okay.
Just a little reasoning in your mind, and you cannot get away with it.
He is jealously yearning over your thought life.
So you say, “But what can I do? My thoughts are thinking.”
A father asked his son why he did not stop running when he had told him to, he replied, “I tried to stop but my feet just kept going.”
That is like us with our flesh–“I tried to stop my reactions, but my emotions just kept reacting.”
So what do you do with this unchangeable source?
You learn to bypass it and call “Jesus! Here it is again. Jesus, it’s here!”
Do not handle it yourself.
Do not dare to touch your worst reaction.
You are only qualified to do one thing.
Go straight to Christ.
He is your Savior.
You are not the savior.
He is the Savior.
Go directly to Jesus and call and receive the supply from this Person.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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