NO MORE SPIRITUAL PAMPERS
NO MORE SPIRITUAL PAMPERS
I have struggled with many negative emotions throughout my life and I also get many requests from others for prayer concerning negative emotions. Negative emotions such as feelings of depression, defeat, low self-worth, hopelessness, etc.
Not only are there negative emotions that seem to just be present in the very air we breathe, but, of course, there’s the frustration that comes when it seems that everything is going wrong and the cards of life are against us.
I have, for a long time, taken a stand against the demonic strongholds of such negative emotions. But sometimes the negative feelings persisted. Why? Why don’t the negative emotions just go away when I tell them to in Jesus name? Because there is more going on than just identification and elimination of the enemy.
A change in tactics is necessary. Yes, there is the onslaught of the enemy that tries to bring us down but there is also that which is allowed into our lives by God so that we can learn what to do when troubles befall us, when the enemy showers us with lies, and when it seems that we are wandering without purpose.
God wants warriors and not wimps. If He removes, as quick as the snap of a finger, the thing that is causing us to fret or grump then how does that really help us?
We need to learn to praise God, to read His Word and find His promises and stand on them, we need to learn how to pray from His heart and in His will, and we need to see things with the eyes of His understanding.
If we remain spiritual babies we will never advance in confidence, skills, strength, wisdom, technique, etc. And we will never get out of our playpen and live in a world of broadened horizons.
He wants us to be elite soldiers, not men and women who fuss when we are uncomfortable and expect God to do it all without us doing our FULL part. He provides the power but we use it under His direction to accomplish His will to His glory. TIME TO GET OUT OF THE SPIRITUAL PAMPERS!!!
As for myself, I will use this example…
I have a ring that changes color in the sunlight. I noticed the other day that it didn’t take long out of the sunlight for it to fade from purple back to clear. But within moments of being back in the sun it would turn different shades of pinks and then purples until it was a brilliant purple again.
There are days that I struggle to keep smiling and problems or negative feelings are troubling my heart. Then I realize that I have become distracted by the matters of the day or the details of a situation and have not taken the time to saturate myself in the joyful, peaceful, victorious brilliance of the Sonlight. That’s when it’s time for me to go to my piano keyboard and worship or go to my Bible and read the Word and be saturated in His presence so I can show the glory of Him to the world through the effect His presence has on me, in me, and through me! I want to be a world changer! Are you with me?!
