It is possible

[kittylover0991]

Guaranteed!!!!!!

There are many.. many... times in our life where we are "down" for whatever reason. There are many times in our life when we wake up and know we are supposed to read our bible and start our day in prayer.. but we just don't want to do it and come up with every excuse possible not to do it... simply that something is more important... Many times, we see something that we want.. that we *know* in our heart is wrong and the Holy Spirit is tugging on our hearts to stay from that thing.. yet.. we go after that thing.. many times.. not just go after it.. but embrace it...

There are times we when we get so deep into sin we hate the God that has saved us frmo our sins... maybe not God himself, but what he done. For the past four months, I have gone deeper and deeper into sin.. trying to avoid those things that are right(went to church because I knew someone would ask otherwise), and endulging in those things that I should have hated... I hated those things that I should have loved... You know? From November, until approxiametely 10am yesterday morning, I hated the things God has done for me. I have hated the salvation that I was given and cursed God's precious name. I have hated the day that Christ died on the cross for me because of the burdened that came with it.

I would say in my mind that I am just not willing today to do those things. I openly admitted to myself and God that I was not willing... not willing.. to do those thigns that I knew what right and prentended not to care when I gave into those sins. Wanna know something more? I was absolutely miserable.... I didn't care anymore. My pastor had always said that the most miserable person you will ever see is a Christian outside of God's will.. I was experiencing that first hand but would rather take hold of the things of this world.. get fustrated abotu the circumstances.. and run from the things of God...

Call me rude and harsh, or bold I do'nt care. Call me as you wish, but yesterday, my youth pastor got up and gave the devotion before visitation where we go out and knock on doors, and said that many times we don't feel what is right, but we have to do it. It doesn't matter how old you are, what you've done, or what you haven't done. It doesn't matter how you are feeling right now, we all have to get up, do what is right and go past the call of duty.

ok, phew. Sorry about that, I will come off my soapbox for just a minute. I wanted that sin so bad... so bad to the point that when the Holy Spirit reminded me that "the pleasure of sin is but for a season"... I would say, "Yes, but for that season". I would rather have taken that sin that I knew what but for a moment, because I wanted those few moments of that sin. That wasn't right. We shoud all love God with our hearts. I hated him for everything that He did... that was just yesterday morning for me... I still don't want to do a lot of things that I should.. but the Lord has shown me after much fustration, that doing those thigns that I hate, yet love because of my salvation, I need to do no matter what... it will make life easier... Just a thought...

Are you willing to forget those things of the world and do what is right?... even just for a few moments? Look up to glory and see the Father's face.. He's waiting for his children to come home...

"Have you longed for sweet peace and for faith to increase... but you cannot be blest or have peace and sweet rest until all on the alter is laid.... Is your all on the alter of sacrifice laid? Your heart, does the spirit control? You can only be blest, and have peace and sweet, until all on the alter is laid"... I may have those words wrong, but it tells the truth. We can't have that peace that passes all understanding.. that peace we long for.. until we give it all over to Jesus...

[branchesofHim]

Guaranteed!!!!!!

There are many.. many... times in our life where we are "down" for whatever reason. There are many times in our life when we wake up and know we are supposed to read our bible and start our day in prayer.. but we just don't want to do it and come up with every excuse possible not to do it... simply that something is more important... Many times, we see something that we want.. that we *know* in our heart is wrong and the Holy Spirit is tugging on our hearts to stay from that thing.. yet.. we go after that thing.. many times.. not just go after it.. but embrace it...

There are times we when we get so deep into sin we hate the God that has saved us frmo our sins... maybe not God himself, but what he done. For the past four months, I have gone deeper and deeper into sin.. trying to avoid those things that are right(went to church because I knew someone would ask otherwise), and endulging in those things that I should have hated... I hated those things that I should have loved... You know? From November, until approxiametely 10am yesterday morning, I hated the things God has done for me. I have hated the salvation that I was given and cursed God's precious name. I have hated the day that Christ died on the cross for me because of the burdened that came with it.

I would say in my mind that I am just not willing today to do those things. I openly admitted to myself and God that I was not willing... not willing.. to do those thigns that I knew what right and prentended not to care when I gave into those sins. Wanna know something more? I was absolutely miserable.... I didn't care anymore. My pastor had always said that the most miserable person you will ever see is a Christian outside of God's will.. I was experiencing that first hand but would rather take hold of the things of this world.. get fustrated abotu the circumstances.. and run from the things of God...

kittylover0991,

Bless you with grace and mercy multiplied.

Your post reflects much maturity in Christ. It takes a clean heart before God to admit the things you have in this post. You acknowledge the "truth" about your feelings, your wants, your choices, and your relationship with God. Do you know what I see in this? I see a person after God's heart. David was a man after God's heart. David complained, got upset with God, and was disappointed with God almost as much as he praised Him. God honored that in David. David was honest with God. That, my precious sister in Christ, is an honorable servant before God. An honest heart is one that God can fill with His Spirit.

The first thing you mention is how you know the Holy Spirit is telling you something that you simply do not want to do and then you acknowledge that you can not only go after what He says is wrong, but you embrace it. Truth indeed for all to consider. Paul recognized that very nature that is in everyone from birth.

Romans 7

15: For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16: If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17: Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20: Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21: I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

And you are admitting to doing what Israel did after they were delivered from bondage in Egypt. I've been reading the book of Exodus this past week and I just finished reading about God's people doing the very thing you've admitted. In the book of Exodus, chapter 14, it is recording how God led Israel across the Red Sea as dry land. (God caused the sea to split to the left and to the right and held the water at bay while Israel crossed on dry ground to the other side. Then God allowed Egypt to pursue them the same way, but God let the water overcome the Egyptians so that they drowned every one. And Israel sang praises unto God for their deliverance in chapter 15! But in chapter 16 they got angry with God and said they'd might as well stayed in the bondage of Egypt!

Exodus 16

1: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

2: And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

3: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Can you believe it? These people were being hard ruled by taskmasters who had literally worked them exceedingly hard. And the people had been crying out to God to deliver them and He did! Then they no more than get out of that bondage and they started getting upset with God for delivering them!

(By the way can you see the possibilty that those great pyramids were built by the people of God while they were slaves in Egypt?)

Since you've acknowledged the "truth" of your situation kittylover0991, you are now ready to embrace the "reality" of what Paul spoke of in Romans 8. You are not condemned any longer. You have been delivered from that sin that did so beset you. You are a child of God and the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8

1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

16: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Be blessed with great grace as you grow even more in the knowledge of Him my friend.

May God fill your spirit and mind with an abundance of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and His will for the life He has given you.

Peace.

[kittylover0991]

Guaranteed!!!!!!

There are many.. many... times in our life where we are "down" for whatever reason. There are many times in our life when we wake up and know we are supposed to read our bible and start our day in prayer.. but we just don't want to do it and come up with every excuse possible not to do it... simply that something is more important... Many times, we see something that we want.. that we *know* in our heart is wrong and the Holy Spirit is tugging on our hearts to stay from that thing.. yet.. we go after that thing.. many times.. not just go after it.. but embrace it...

There are times we when we get so deep into sin we hate the God that has saved us frmo our sins... maybe not God himself, but what he done. For the past four months, I have gone deeper and deeper into sin.. trying to avoid those things that are right(went to church because I knew someone would ask otherwise), and endulging in those things that I should have hated... I hated those things that I should have loved... You know? From November, until approxiametely 10am yesterday morning, I hated the things God has done for me. I have hated the salvation that I was given and cursed God's precious name. I have hated the day that Christ died on the cross for me because of the burdened that came with it.

I would say in my mind that I am just not willing today to do those things. I openly admitted to myself and God that I was not willing... not willing.. to do those thigns that I knew what right and prentended not to care when I gave into those sins. Wanna know something more? I was absolutely miserable.... I didn't care anymore. My pastor had always said that the most miserable person you will ever see is a Christian outside of God's will.. I was experiencing that first hand but would rather take hold of the things of this world.. get fustrated abotu the circumstances.. and run from the things of God...

kittylover0991,

Bless you with grace and mercy multiplied.

Your post reflects much maturity in Christ. It takes a clean heart before God to admit the things you have in this post. You acknowledge the "truth" about your feelings, your wants, your choices, and your relationship with God. Do you know what I see in this? I see a person after God's heart. David was a man after God's heart. David complained, got upset with God, and was disappointed with God almost as much as he praised Him. God honored that in David. David was honest with God. That, my precious sister in Christ, is an honorable servant before God. An honest heart is one that God can fill with His Spirit.

The first thing you mention is how you know the Holy Spirit is telling you something that you simply do not want to do and then you acknowledge that you can not only go after what He says is wrong, but you embrace it. Truth indeed for all to consider. Paul recognized that very nature that is in everyone from birth.

Romans 7

15: For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16: If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17: Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20: Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21: I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

And you are admitting to doing what Israel did after they were delivered from bondage in Egypt. I've been reading the book of Exodus this past week and I just finished reading about God's people doing the very thing you've admitted. In the book of Exodus, chapter 14, it is recording how God led Israel across the Red Sea as dry land. (God caused the sea to split to the left and to the right and held the water at bay while Israel crossed on dry ground to the other side. Then God allowed Egypt to pursue them the same way, but God let the water overcome the Egyptians so that they drowned every one. And Israel sang praises unto God for their deliverance in chapter 15! But in chapter 16 they got angry with God and said they'd might as well stayed in the bondage of Egypt!

Exodus 16

1: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

2: And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

3: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Can you believe it? These people were being hard ruled by taskmasters who had literally worked them exceedingly hard. And the people had been crying out to God to deliver them and He did! Then they no more than get out of that bondage and they started getting upset with God for delivering them!

(By the way can you see the possibilty that those great pyramids were built by the people of God while they were slaves in Egypt?)

Since you've acknowledged the "truth" of your situation kittylover0991, you are now ready to embrace the "reality" of what Paul spoke of in Romans 8. You are not condemned any longer. You have been delivered from that sin that did so beset you. You are a child of God and the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8

1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

16: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Be blessed with great grace as you grow even more in the knowledge of Him my friend.

May God fill your spirit and mind with an abundance of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and His will for the life He has given you.

Peace.

Thankyou for your kind words. I had meant for this post to be an encouragment, but I kind of got out of hand in my excitement. God has just been doing many great things and I just can't help but express them! Mind you, my english teacher is gonig to hate that I am not going to be giving her the work from me that she loves so much because I cannot write dead and depressing things about how evil the nature of man is when God has saved me from such... Jesus Paid it all!!! All to him I owe! Sin hath left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow!!!!

[branchesofHim]

And your post was very encouraging! Keep it up!

Peace.

[felix]

Thanks for these words crystal and rod,

They really edify and encourage me. I have been in the same situation as you crystal but, right now as I am typing this, I choose to abide in Christ again. I have been doing and loving the things I know I should not. I am willing to forget the things of this world and do what's right.

I thank God that that there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

[nebula]

Mind you, my english teacher is gonig to hate that I am not going to be giving her the work from me that she loves so much because I cannot write dead and depressing things about how evil the nature of man is when God has saved me from such...

[kittylover0991]

Mind you, my english teacher is gonig to hate that I am not going to be giving her the work from me that she loves so much because I cannot write dead and depressing things about how evil the nature of man is when God has saved me from such...

*snicker* I'm serious.. Her favorite work from me is an "I am" poem we had to in which at the end it said, "I am the existence of nothing, I am the emptiness of vanity. I am from sorrow and hate, I am the essense of death".. she is really weird... The paper I am currently writing for her has to be about(it is the only quote I can actually write about) something that I keep hidden.. a trait.. and maybe about something that I see as pure.. .and how I feel when I am around them.. let's see what she thinks of this *snicker*

The message at church yesterday was so amazing.. it feels good to finally go into a service right with God, instead of that not occuring until after the message when we pray... Yesterday was an amazing day and I keep watching the Lord work throughout school this morning and not to mention to help me to get up to do those devotions this morning... and it was truly a blessing... The devil keeps throwing things my way, but I finally know, once again, that there is a way out...