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What are you hiding behind?

Are you one of those guys who marches into church every Sunday hiding a reckless lifestyle behind a well groomed appearance? Singing along with the choir or teaching the kids at Sunday school after having filled your lust on pornography from the week before and out-worked the appetite of the flesh at your wife’s expense. Well, if you think that you are going to get a wink and a nod of approval from the Lord, THINK AGAIN!

Gal 5 13-15 It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom!

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Make Love not Porn

 

For centuries novels, poems, fairy-tales and more recently movies have captured women’s hearts and minds with thrilling romance and love stories. Innocent enough by today’s standards, but lately romance seems to be replaced by something a bit more sinister. Clever marketing people have disguised Baal-Peor worship as “mommy porn” and a whole new market has been created to feed this demand.  Satan must be happy with the visual hard-core pornography that he has fed men with over the years. It must have taken root sufficiently enough for him to turn his attention to pollute our wive’s minds through his mommy porn experience. You know the one’s that I’m talking about – they have been endorsed by all the main broadcasting companies (Satan’s global media empire) providing the ultimate exposure on prime time TV.  Thankfully we are taught not to glorify such evil. The reality is these novels are nothing more than mere training manuals, helping to turn an army of house-wives and mothers into an army of temple prostitutes, giving practical advice on how to defile themselves, the marriage bed and their husbands in front of God. How many Christian marriages are ready to crack under the strain of one spouse’s involvement in pornography. Imagine the damage that would be caused if both parties were involved in pornography.

Gen3x – learn to make love not pornography

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. ”Deuteronomy 20v3

 

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Love: The First Fruit of the Spirit.

 

True love
This is true love!

What is love?  The first thought that comes into my head is “God is Love”. God loved you so much that He sent Jesus to suffer and die on the cross just so you can say “this is what Love does”.  He was an innocent, sinless man who willingly suffered, even for the JOY that was set before Him (such love!), in enduring the cross in order to pay a debt that we could not pay and when we choose to believe in Him, we become His son or His daughter and because of this relationship, we can call out “Abba Father” and He will help us in every situation.

We will live with “Love” for eternity.

 

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. GOD IS LOVE. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him” (1 John 4:16)

When I look at all the fruits of the Spirit, and compare these to love, I would say ‘love’ is more like the branches of the tree, because it is the channel through which all of the fruits are given.

Love is not a feeling or an emotion and is not just about the way your spouse ‘makes’ you feel. Love is a conscious choice. Love is a commitment to giving, even though you may think he or she does not deserve it, without expecting anything in return. Remember when you made your vows to God on your wedding day, you promised to “love” until death. This is what I would call a supernatural kind of love coming only from God!  He will give you this kind of love for your spouse by the power of His Spirit (Romans 5:5). “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us”.

It is up to you to ‘give’ the fruits of the Spirit to your spouse, these sweet fruits should flow from you by the power of the Holy Spirit for your husband/wife to enjoy.  King Solomon says in the Bible: “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life” (Proverbs 11:30). So could this mean that as you pour out love on your spouse, you are giving life to him/her?

Who needs a dictionary to define what love is? 1 Corinthians 13 4-8 says it all: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails”

 

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Are you and Pornography

The thing about pornography is that you discover and forge relationships before you meet your future wife, friends and even the Lord. The adrenalin rush that pornography hands out can feel like it’s Christmas day and all your birthdays rolled into one.

So it’s not surprising that you at some point may have made a covenant or a promise to do whatever it takes to keep this treasure hidden so that your special friend won’t be exposed or taken away from you.

The words you speak carry life and death Pro 18 21 and at some point in your ” special friendship” you may have granted him the control he was longing for.

Your enemy is a legalist lying in wait to latch on to any careless words you may speak, so ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you your foolishness.

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The Fruits of the Spirit

In the Bible, God makes many references as to how we should be like trees, standing strong and firm, with our roots going deep, being nourished and well fed with His word.  He wants us to flourish and produce good fruit. He wants others to be able to look at us and see us stand tall through the storms of life and to be drawn to us when they see the evidence of the Spirit within us through the fruit we produce.  These qualities should be evident first and foremost in our marriages.

fruit of the spirit

I believe every married couple needs to apply the fruits of the Spirit to their marriage. We all love to bite into a big, juicy, sweet piece of fruit!!  So, when you taste your marriage, is it sweet or bitter? I’m sure all of us want our marriages to be sweeter and God has told us in Galatians 5:22,23 all the qualities we need to do so.

But before we look at the first fruit of the Spirit, we need to unlock and open the door to these wonderful fruits and the way to do this is through repentance. Repentance means we have to do a complete turn around and go the other way.  In order to do this, you need to have a totally conquered and yielded mind. Selfish desires must go completely, because one of the biggest destroyers of happiness in a marriage is selfishness.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, you will be able to turn your marriage around from right now and make it taste sweet instead of bitter. Galatians 5 verse 16 says: “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh”.

Remember to satisfy your husband/wife with good fruit by giving instead of always taking. Sweeten your marriage with the fruits of God’s Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law

With God’s help, I aim to cover each of these lovely fruits over the next few weeks and I would be honoured if you come with me and taste what God has in store for us!