Still Pressin!

Has there ever been a time where you just felt disconnected from God? Like old feelings and thoughts are creeping back in to your life? That's how I have been feeling lately, so I've been keeping to myself. I know now that keeping to yourself juts allows for satan to move in and manipulate your every thought. (He will every chance he gets y'all...Mark 4:15 "Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it [immediately], Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.") when you're in church, think about it, sometimes you can focus on everything else...but the word...Satan is strategic y'all...Some of us, including me, need to fatten up our spirit, get saturated so that the enemy cant just come and take our seeds away...

I have been fighting this temptation that has seemed to rear its ugly head like never before. All of a sudden I'm feeling lonely again, all of a sudden i have the urge to listen to Rhianna and all that other music i used to listen to, and have one or two drinks...all of a sudden i have the urge to call that person...Ive asked God many times lately...why is this happening?! what am i doing wrong!? why are things falling apart? how can I just lose my fire?!

I went to a bible study at St. Matthews in Williamstown last night and the title was "got faith?"...it made me realize that my faith had either lost some weight or was never that big to begin with. And that hurts to examine yourself and see what you really lack, or see a glimpse of the you that God sees...

He started out by saying (and this is not verbatim, my notes are a little crazy) -once you are defeated in your faith, you are no good to God
-we are kept by the power of God
-its is about staying connected
-sometimes we allow our baggage to stop us from being excited about the vision or Gods plan
-our fear has the tendency to shape our perception

This was all in the first 10 minutes i was there....wow God!

I also learned, and some of you know this I'm sure, but I'm being transparent..i didn't know this: that your body represents your world conscious, your soul represents your self conscious, and your spirit represents your God conscious. SPIRIT and SOUL are not the same! That's why when David shouts "Bless the Lord O my SOUL! He is commanding his soul to align with the praises of his spirit. Our soul doesn't automatically want to praise God...our spirit might, if you have relationship with Christ and believe He died on for your sins...I learned that your soul is made up of all your feelings and emotions...SOUL-->"i love you with all my heart..." yeah? well our hearts are wickedly deceitful!

Our SPIRIT is what allows us to be connected to God...and if you don't feed your spirit through:

--- READING Gods Word: Hebrews 5:13-14 "Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."

---PRACTICING Gods Word: Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. " that means daily examining yourself and how you can show forth His word living in you...

---and SHARING God's Word: Heb 10:24-25 "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

We allow ourselves to grow weak y'all...and i know this was a long post but..sometimes we have to encourage ourselves because people can and will fail you....but God wont...and if you enter in to His rest Heb 4:1-2, 4:6 "Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith...."6 it still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience."

wow...and verse 10 says "for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his." As i read that i took from it that we rest from all of our work...good and bad..by bad i mean the way we work against our blessings by doing our own thing instead of being obedient, we will have rest from our own thoughts and ways which are not like His, Thank You Jesus, we will have rest from being distracted, we will have rest from trying to fight our own battles...we get to enter in to His rest...

so family "Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience." and that's His word. Be encouraged y'all...♥

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