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Healing of the soul!
We wonder how we can die to self and all its ways. It is hard when you feel rejected, and hurt because you are not part of what your church is doing It hurts. Many are hurt, because there are clicks in a church setting, even the church has not found the wisdom of God. But as long as we feel the pain of rejection and won't let go, it will end up in the realm of the flesh where the god of this world satan will have a field day with you. It is sad to see the many hurts of people, the precious saints of God, because they prefer the honor from man instead of God.
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John 5:44 How is it possible for you to believe [how can you learn to believe], you who [are content to seek and] receive praise and honor and glory from one another and yet do not seek the praise and honor and glory which comes from him. Who alone is God?
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Jesus told the Pharisees that they could not receive the truth because they seek man's honor instead of God's honor. We will never be able to rise up out of our meager religion as long as we desire the honor from man. You know one time I ask Jesus my Lord why all the rejection from his people, and as I knelt there waiting for his answer, I stayed quiet, and then he came back with I didn't call you to be accepted. You know that healed me, and then I didn't care what people thought.
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But then you go down the road a bit and then here come this awful rejection sticking its ugly head up, and you begin to feel it. And then the battle rages within you trying to get you to go by your feelings. And you want to scream out, someone please pay attention to me. You know that is the self nature not wanting to die. You see God Almighty allows things to happen to us, and we just don't have the wisdom to realize that this is from the hand of God. Because beloved if you and I are in the hand of God it has to go to him first before it us. But since we have not the wisdom and we don't ask God for the wisdom like he said in James 1:5 we go on carrying the hurts of the rejection we become offended, then we fell into the devil's trap.
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James 1:5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given to him.
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But I have Good News for you. Christ Jesus has been made wisdom from God for us and we can run into his light and allow that light of his love and acceptance chase away those little foxes that try to destroy your very life in Christ Jesus.
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How can we know if we are dead in Christ Jesus and it is no longer I that live? Only through the knowledge that we have overcome the rejection, and we don't seek man's honor but God's approval.
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God's Word is a healing experience for us, and as we take a portion of God's Word each day, we find out that we are in him and really believe it we will see the glory of the Lord upon our lives. The devil hates God and anyone who belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ God's Son, and the devil will do anything to hurt Jesus Christ by going after one of God's Children.
So don't give the time of day to the devil. Some of God's Children like to rail and mouth off to the devil, but when they do that they find themselves fighting the devil on their own. If you will look into the Word of God and see how Jesus Christ did it, and how the Apostles did it, they are our examples, and how Michael the Archangel did it you will find that not one of them argue with the devil, Jesus Christ fought the devil with the Word of God, Michael the Archangel says the Lord Rebuke you, and the Apostles bound the evil spirit, and cast them out. We too must humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and in due time he will lift us up.
Hallelujah! The Lord our God the Almighty Reigns, let us rejoice and be glad in him.
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