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Hisheart
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Posted: Tue Aug 12th, 2008 04:14 am |
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When a person loses their motivation to fight the lust battle, what does it mean? I understand weariness, but isn't this really a lack desire to be faithful to one's spouse?
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Wilderness Voice
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Posted: Tue Aug 12th, 2008 09:45 am |
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I love that you used the word "motivation" which of course stems from motive.
Motive is that which causes us to act and I wish that people caught in the horrible cycle of lust and sin could be brave enough to start to look at their motives for sinning. For they do actually have a motive for sinning.
Motives are inpired also. You have to have an inspiration to have a motive. You actually have to be inspired to do something, to set out to do it. Good deeds require inspiration. Sin requires inspiration. Oh to be brave enough to look and examine why we are inspired to sin!
And then to realize that to have a motive to sin is the very definition of wickedness itself. And to be inspired to sin is to allow an evil spirit to whisper attractions to a wicked desire. Oh my! What fodder for real repentance we have when we start to examine our motives and our inspirations, for then we are really examining our hearts! And oh my, how dishonest we are with ourselves and God, and how deceitful we become when we refuse to examine our motives or our inspirations. This is the hardened deceitfulness of sin that sets in. When we begin to protect and justify ourselves in our sins. They are everything but having bad motives and impure inspirations. This is being truly "self" righteous. Our being bad isn't really bad.
Our really not so bad didn't kill Jesus on the Cross. Wicked hearts and wicked desires sent Jesus to the Cross. We should all seek to not crucify Him afresh.
Are we brave enough to humbly submit ourselves to the examination of the Holy Spirit in order to spare Christ a single lash of the whip on his back and legs? Are we willing to mortify (put to death) the evil deeds of our bodies in order to spare His brow even one of the points on the crown of thorns? Will we pick up our cross so that His is a little less heavy and doesn't cut into His shoulders?
The bible says by His stripes we are healed. How long will we delay our healing? How many stripes must he suffer before it is so painful to watch Him bear it that we stop being the reason for it?
God, help us to be brave, to see ourselves the way you do! Help us to fall in utter agony of soul, pleading unto Heaven for a new heart and a right spirt! Pleading until we actually have the answer because we finally really, really mean it. We mean it so much that we cannot live any more without the healing of our soul coming to us.
God, may your sacrifice, the pain you suffered in having to let your Son suffer so much become real to us in such a way that our sins sicken us and cause a revolt of the system within - to the point where thy words: GO AND SIN NO MORE actually can penetrate our minds and our hearts and our souls and our spirits to the point that the power in which they came out of your Holy mouth is the same power that we allow into us.
God in Heaven, may we realize that Thou are the most sensitive one of all, that if we have the ability to be offended by sin - how much more so art Thou offended by sin. If we have sorrows and pain over the wrongs we've done - how much more dost Thou suffer! Jesus wept at the unbelief of His friends - does Heaven weep at our unbelief?
God, help us to find true Faith - the Faith of the Faithful and let us come to the point where the enemies accusations no longer hold their sting because they are untrue. Let us be faithful unto Thee dear God and not faithful at all to our sins.
In Jesus Name,
WV
Last edited on Tue Aug 12th, 2008 09:47 am by Wilderness Voice
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 06:26 am |
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Ok, maybe I should start a new topic, but I guess I am asking for prayer. My husband called me at 7:30 in the morning yesterday to tell me that the Lord reminded him of something that He was relentlessly convicting him about. About a year ago, my son saw what was on the computer screen when my husband had a page full of naked women on the screen. My son looked away. They never talked about it, but a few days ago my son told us about a dream he had where my husband was drinking beer in the bedroom and hiding it from me.(He doesn't drink beer) In the dream, my husband told my son not to tell me. This is what the Lord used to prompt the conviction in my husband's heart. He remembered that incident and thought that my son was feeling like he had to hide the incident from me. Ok, so he calls me at 7:30 to tell me all of this. He tells me that he's going to talk to Austin in the evening. Well I had to get ready for work and get my son up, and take him to school. Yesterday was also the day that both the secretary and the Principal of the school I work at were going to be gone, so he knew it was going to be a particularly taxing day at work for me. So most of the day, I am processing all of this while I don't have the time to, and I was able to forgive him, but I spent about 2 minutes crying for my son.(because that's all the time I had.)I struggled the most though with being angry at him for calling me when he did. I also was and am cramping, and I had to cancel my rehearsal at church last night because of all of this. Last night we took my son to see Fireproof, thinking this would be a good way to open up the communication with him. Everything went pretty well. After work today, I had to go to my church to lead worship, and when I got home I wanted to listen to a taped recording of an interview with Heidi and Mike Obrien. There was something I had heard in the radio broadcast that I wanted to hear the rest of. This was not just for pleasure. I was attempting to process some things. Well my husband made the announcement that if we don't get a movie, then he's watching Transformers again. (We live in a small trailer, so this would obligate me to watch it with him, or at least not be able to do anything else. I was a bit upset, mainly because I really needed some process time with God, and with myself. I would have been ok with doing something productive with my husband, or some connecting, though, but sitting in front of a 2 hour movie was not something I wanted to do. He sais he needed to watch a movie because it was the only thing that would clear his mind. I said, that movies disgust me right now. I didn't say it meanly, nor did I yell, but it wasn't a nice thing to say, and he was angry all night because of it. Well, I am processing it all right now, and realizing that I was mad because I felt robbed of my time. He wanted to drop a bomb on me without considering the fact that I would need to process it, and that I would need time to do it. Ok, sorry for all of that. I know that my own selfishness is rearing its ugly head right now, and that is why I am asking for prayer. I know I am not not handling this the way God wants me to, but frankly, I am not seeing clearly enough to know what that is right now. I just feel hurt and offended. I think we need a good counselor to help us get to the root of these things. I know that the wrong counselor can do more harm than good though,so please pray for that also. I want to see all of this through the mind of Christ. Thank you for listening to my rant, and thank you for praying.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11th, 2009 03:43 am |
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we need to pray if you can
This was sent to me by a friend in CO. Sounds like a good thing, when we're down we all need to know that someone out there in this old cruel world cares. My GOD is an awesome GOD !!! Love to all,
Special Prayer Request from Peggy Lesley at Brookwood Church . I am starting
a signing for my son's best friend who has cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). He is 11 years old and is not doing well at all. He was diagnosed with this
cancer 2 weeks ago and the tumor is next to his jugular vein and entwined in it...has moved his wind pipe over a inch making it hard for him to breathe.
The tumor is the size of a large eggplant and is sitting right above his heart. This little boy needs
all the prayers
Thank you, Peggy Lesley - Brookwood Church]Last edited on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 03:48 am by
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