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Running On Emotions…

August 18, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Imagine yourself walking on a 2×4 wall that is stood up 12 feet in the air. The wind is blowing and the skies are clear and you know that in every step God is near. Now as you are walking this wall that is part of a home that is being built can you imagine what would happen if you got caught up in your emotions and took your eyes off of the 2×4 wall that you are walking?

Can you see the importance of maintaining your focus in order to maintain your balance? What would happen if you froze up on the wall? Learning to trust God and not act in our emotions is vital to maintain the integrity within our homes and to help others learn how to trust within God. This lesson is taught in the book of Joshua from the fall of Jericho to the defeat in Ai as the Israelites acted on their emotions before insuring their steps with God. Within this lesson God is teaching us in the spirit how to walk the narrow road with Him in order for our homes to stand and to maintain our balance within this foreign land..

James A. Harrison

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Allow God To Direct Your Steps…

December 11, 2010 by admin 2 Comments

 Learning to walk in faith requires trusting God and allowing Him to direct the path that we take. As a child of God it is imperative to recognize that we will be attacked spiritually by Satan through individuals that try to guide our actions because they neglect how to examine our motives to insure that they line up with the Word of God. It is in our human nature to try and shape someone for what we think we see but it is wise to recall the Creator and what He teaches us in how to trust and believe. 

 We learn this lesson with Jesus and Peter in (Mat 16:23 KJV) “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”

  See Peter did not want to hear what Jesus had to say nor did he want Jesus to face what He knew would come but Jesus followed God and addressed the evil spirit of selfish desires that was guiding Peter. Throughout history God has raised men and women to serve the good of mankind instead of only caring about themselves and these individuals were given a drive that many could never understand. For instance no one believed Noah nor understood the drive he had until it was too late. What about the resistance that Nehemiah encountered when he had a deep burden from God for his homeland? What about our founding Fathers who left Great Britain in seeking freedom for our children today? How about Martin Luther King Jr. when he wanted everyone to be treated equal in spite of the color of their skin? Or, how about the drive and strength of Rosa Parks who decided to make a stand?  

 As we are spiritually driven in this world it is wise for us to know the Word of God to help us insure the steps that are taken along with the objectives in properly serving the people. It is wise to examine every spiritual push that we encounter to the Word of God to help us insure the the right motives that are behind our actions. For Satan is very clever and deceptive to deceive us in our decisions for he never wants to see Gods children being set free.

 This is why it is so important for us to know the Word of God and to teach this to our children to develop their own discernment between good and evil. Spiritually Satan works diligently in our emotions because he knows how we often allow our emotions to misguide our actions. Our emotions are very dangerous and can even be misleading due to the way we feel especially when we are pushed for time. This is why it is so vital before we act  to take days or even years in prayer with God to examine the drive the decisions we make are being led by the Lord. 

  On the other side of the coin of waiting is another area in which Satan spiritually works as well. He places fear and doubts before us that often cause us to never make that step of faith in trusting God. For instance Satan spiritually works very close inbetween a child and his father because he knows the longer the father holds out the more discouraged the son can become and this often leads to rebellion when the child does not understand the obedience and self discipline that is taught in the Word of God. This lesson is taught in 2 Corinthians 2:11 in the warning Paul gave us to not allow Satan to spiritually outsmart us in his evil schemes.

 The Lord gives each one of us a different drive and heartfelt dream in order to serve His purpose and not our own. Unfortunately, many people that never develop a relationship with the Lord allow this dream to be suppressed spiritually by Satan due to the weight of the world and the discouragement of others that don’t understand who is guiding their actions. Then there are many that use their drive and the wisdom that God has given to uplift themselves instead of learning the importance of how to maintain success in God’s glory for their childrens’ future.

 Success is another area that Satan works diligently in to intervene within us today as he did with Job in the Holy Bible. For Satan knows how easy it is for us to lose our perspective and raise ourselves up when we begin to focus on the blessings that come in our obedience to our Father in Heaven. Staying dependant upon God is crucial to understand because it is so easy as it was for Job to become self reliant on the blessings of prosperity instead of staying humble in the family of God. 

 Staying humble is vital to maintaining the positions that the Lord gives us without allowing the spirit of pride and arrogance to take us down. Many people miss this lesson in life because they simply don’t seek the will of God and they forget who is really in control.  Spiritual resistance is something that we all encounter everyday whether in nature, in our homes, in our schools, in our work environments, in our country and unfortunately even in the church. The object is to know how to react in allowing the Lord to guide us through His Holy Spirit instead of allowing Satan to misguide us spiritually in our actions.

 So the next time you encounter someone with a drive or hear one of your children speaking of their dreams ask them these questions and learn to trust God for the end results. For we should never under estimate the Power of God in serving the people;

 Why do you feel led to pursue this ambition?

 Is it coming from your heart or is it coming from a personal desire?

 Have you prayed about this drive with the Lord and compared it to the Word of God?

What do you see being accomplished if you were to achieve your goal?

Do you know how to insure that something is of God by allowing Him to put together while you just do the work that is required each day that He gives?

 There are many other questions that can be asked without trying to squash someones drive or dreams and once we hear their answers it is our place to help instead of tearing them down. Spiritually Satan wants to tear down what God tries to raise up in us for the good of others and the next time you encounter a spiritual push recognize where it comes from to maintain the motives of God instead of man…Amen  

 

James A. Harrison

Balanced Life Ministry

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Are There Barriers In Your Life

July 31, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

 It is very easy to see the physical differences in people and allow these differences to cause a division within the overall body that create a barrier for us to overcome. These divisions that can come between us not only rob us of the blessings of God but they also open the door to Satan to spiritually misguide us into forgetting how we are to work together as One in the body while respecting each part for the roll that we all carry.

 To help us break these barriers between one another it is vital that we recognize that there are only two types of people in this world. We are either a child of God that serves the Kingdom or we are a child of Satan that seeks the world. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ taught us how to live in the world but not of the world while instructing us to love the enemy in hopes that the enemy would recognize how God’s love is for all people. 

 As a child of God in this world it is very critical that we teach our children how to avoid these divisions in the body of Christ by teaching them how Satan wants us to be robbed of who we are. The day that we are given life as a child of God it is important to recognize how Satan has been already at work in the family to destroy the foundation of the home that is needed to raise our children. As God’s children mature they are in constant attack spiritually to be robbed of who they are to limit the amount of work that they can do in helping others along the Way.

 A good example of this is how men prey on women to satisfy a selfish desire that is being triggered in an emotion. The spiritual deception that works in our sexual desires is a very dangerous emotion to recognize because Satan works strongly in these desires because he knows how they can rob someone of who they are and how they can cause us to feel like something that we are not. Our emotions are critical to recognize in how they can misguide us and cause us to do something that we would later regret. This happens in all aspects of life from buying something that we do not need, from saying something that we should not say, doing something that we should not do, and even quitting on something because we feel that we can do no more.

 When we allow our emotions to guide our lives it is very easy to become suppressed and lose the direction which God provides. This world is full of pressures that come from every corner and when we do not teach our children how to handle their pressures in the Word of God through the self discipline that is required to maintain what we have been given then we are only setting our children up for a hard road in the future. 

 Teaching does not only come in books but in the example of how we live our lives in this world. When God gives us the gift of our children it is our responsibility to not only provide for them but to teach them in our words and actions how to rise above the hardships that we encounter from time to time to eliminate any divisions that can cause a separation within the body. When we begin to look at every human being as a creation of God then this helps us to look past what we physically see and this displays to others in whom we believe.  

 I challenge every reader that reads this message to take a step forward in faith to break down the barriers which may be holding you back. Often all it takes is for one to make that first step in love to overcome where we have been and then to help others along the Way. Sometimes that first step that we take in humbling our self is all that is needed to set others free…amen 

 “But even more blessed are all who hear the Word of God and put it into practice.” Luke 11

James Harrison

Balanced Life Ministry

http://balancedlifeministry.org 

 

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