" Words of CHRIST"
"If any man claims to love the LORD, but hates his brother,
he is a liar, and the truth in not in him". How true, How
true! We have all been wronged by one person or another
but we must remember what GOD, says about this. " If ye
forgive not your brother, his trespasses, then neither
will your trespasses be forgiven you". The words in this
quote may not be verbatim what was said, but the MEANING
of what is said, is exactly the same. For the word says
You can change my words, BUT, change not a tittle or jot
of their meanings. FORGIVENESS is that important, for
without it, who can stand before the throne of our LORD,
and not be guilty? Sometimes people go through things
that seem unforgivable, but this is only because the
DEVIL is working constantly, to remove the WORD, that
has been sown into your heart. If you keep the WORDS
and take them to heart, then you become liken to the
seed which the sower sown, that fell into fertile ground
which reaps 100% harvest. This will automatically mean
that you abound in grace, and can find forgiveness in
your heart. For you have the "spirit of GOD" living in
you. You have put on the whole armour of GOD, and can
stand against the firey darts of the devil. I speak from
experience, for anyone who has read " Forgive To Be
Forgiven", (my testimony) will know that it was ONLY
through the grace of GOD, that I could do so. Are you
living in the joy of the LORD? Or do you sometimes feel
like you are being persecuted, unfairly? Then first, I
ask you to remember any, and all things that were done
to you in the past, that were hurtful. GIVE them to the
LORD, and HE, will give you the grace to forgive, and
then you will be free, for the devil HAS, to FLEE, any
person who has asked forgiveness, of sin. Also HE can't
stand in front of someone, who puts the LORD first, in
all things, and who also loves his brother as he loves
himself. These two things, according to the New Testament
are repeated more than once, because of their importance.
The most likely way, that the devil can find a way in,
is through unforgiveness, for he will use the word to
distort the truth, by taking it out of context, for
example he would tell you the lie "remember what the
bible says about "an eye for an eye"? When we are hurt
and upset, he knows that we are the most vurnerable, to
these kind of untruths. He will use them, in any and every
way, to distort the word of GOD, He even tried it on
JESUS, when he told him "it is written", of course
JESUS knew that he was omitting some of the scripture
to twist it into a lie, and corrected him, and told
him to "get behind me satan". It is just short of
amazing how even JESUS, had to be faced with temptation.
We were "born under sin" just from being the offspring
of Adam, so it would seem to me that satan will always
try to take away, the word of GOD, that has been sown
into our hearts. So therefore it is important to know
how to overcome him, and that is by putting on the whole
armour of GOD. If you would like to know more about the
whole armour of GOD, there is a post, in this site which
is named " The Armour Of GOD", in which a complete
discription of each element of it, is all about.
Your brother in CHRIST. Bless you ALL. Stephen Monday
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