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Devotional
Monday 06th of September 2010
Psalm 51:17 (NIV)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will
not despise.
You know it is like my Dad use to say to me when he use to break in horses. He would
jump on his back and say, "We are going to become friends for a little while, then he is
going to be sorry, but through love, I will break him, however if you break him the wrong
way, no child will ever be able to ride him".
It is wonderful to have a broken heart to God. That means where your will is broken
to His will but it is a terrible thing to have a broken spirit to negativity, to have your
spirit crushed in the negative. Correction can never be rejection. It is not being hard on
somebody by pushing them to bring out the best in them. God will ride us hard and put us
away wet. But He will let us know He loves us while He is doing it. It is not for abuse
sake. It is to see the person come to the fulfilment, to reach down and to cut away the dead
branches.
I do not care too much about outward problems I care a lot about inward ones. Not
just toward each other but towards God. People that know how to apply the weapon of
repentance are cleaning their springs, so that good people, it does not matter where they
are situated in the natural, can come drinking and their spiritual position changes to be
seated with Christ in heavenly places and their natural circumstances change.
Monday 06th of September 2010
James 4:1-4 (NIV)
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that
battle within you? 2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you
cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask
God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may
spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don't you know that
friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the
world becomes an enemy of God.
When we read in John He said that, "Whatever you ask in My name I will give it
to you when you do whatever I command you". Have you ever asked for something and never
got it, thought it must not be real? Have you ever pursued something and never ever found it
so you thought it must not be real?
But why do you want it? Because your friendship is identifying with your success or
your pre-eminence. Why do you want to be rich? Why do you want to drive a new car? Why do
you want a five carat diamond ring? Why do you want a new dress? Why do you want a new suit?
Why do you want to be the boss? Why do you want all of these things, because that is the
success of the world's? Because you can walk into a room and say, "Look at me"?
Why do you want them when the true riches are evading you, that marriage that is secure,
children, friendships, integrity, and your word? These are the things that will cause you to
make the right decisions. These are things that will exalt you and give you the very things
that you are looking for in life and you start building them with Jesus.