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We are in the holidays and while we are trying to follow and focus on Jesus, it’s hard sometimes because the enemy of our souls hates us and hates Jesus.
These holidays are difficult because all sorts of stuff gets in the way of our walk with the Lord...
Saints
Christmas Activities
Addiction
Family aggrivation
How do we stay on the right Path this Christmas Season?
We know that God is working in us
Here is what we need to know tonight from this…
God gives us the desire and the power to follow him
As you press into your relationship with Jesus, he will change your want too’s.
Then on top of that he will give you the ability to do what he gives you the desire to do.
This applies to staying the course.
This is a time of year that some will give up and give in to strongholds in their lives…
You have to pray that God will give you the desire and the power to do that which he desires in your life.
When it comes to staying on course, God will help but you have a part too.
Work outs make you stronger.
We don’t work for our salvation, but we can work and strengthen our faith walk.
God is working in you, but you have to work out how that looks and work to strengthen it.
Here are some ways God keeps us straight in busy times...
How God Helps us stay on the right path
1. God gives us His Word.
The Bible is the inspired WOG.
It teaches us what is true… what’s wrong in our lives… corrects us… teaches us what’s right… prepares us for his work.
The WOG will change us like no other book… no other movie… etc.
It cuts down into the parts no one else knows about and it brings life into our lives… it changes us… our thoughts, words and actions…
Read it
You need to be reading the OYB or the reading plan in the back of the devotionals...
Study it
Look at it a little deeper.
get a study Bible.
LA,
Memorize it
When you memorize it, it is stored there and the HS can use it when you need it.
Meditate on it
This is where you contemplate how to apply it.
Example...
You need to be worded up… Say I am going to get worded up...
2. God gives you the Holy Spirit to keep you on the right path.
WOG is awesome, but we need more.
God actually puts his spirit in us and that is where our power comes from.
That’s pretty awesome… The same power that raised Jesus… spoke the world into existence... lives in us.
God’s purpose for you and me is to become more like Jesus
The good news is that he gives us the power to do that.
We get this power when he gives us the HS and when he fills us with the HS.
We are not to let anything control us but the HS of God.
not relationships, alcohol, drugs, lusts, envy, anger, gossip, nothing.
ONLY the HS.
3. God will use circumstances to keep us on the right path.
Some circumstances are a natural result of our bad decisions.
Some circumstances occur ebcause we live in a fallen world.
But God can use all of them to keep us on the right path or to get us back on the right path.
Everything that happens has the potential to cause good in our lives.
Church Colsen
Aaron Broussard
Pastor Kathy… went to Rivarde with youth at 14 and now has over 100 volunteers sharing the love of Jesus to kids there every month… over 40 LE chaplains… 30 prison chaplains..
God will use circumstances to steer you where he wants you to go.
Now here is your part
Your part in staying on the right path
1. Choose your thoughts
What you think about … you will eventually do.
If you are heading the wrong way, change your thoughts!
The Bible word for that is
Repentance
It means to change the direction of your thoughts… about God… your sin…
Think - Feel - Act
If you want to stay on the right path, you have to change the way you think
You have to change the way you think
You change the way you think by filling your mind with the Word of God
If you are not having a DAILY QT with God, you are on the wrong path.
2.
You choose to depend on the Holy Spirit
We can’t even come close to being on the right path unless we are plugged into the Lord.
We are dependent on His power.
God wants to produce in you fruit…
Fruit of the Spirit
Fruit of New Believers
Fruit of miracles in your life
To grow fruit, you have to depend on the HS
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You choose HOW you respond to circumstances
Remember
Life is 10% what happens to you & 90% how you respond
So to choose the right path, God will help us, but we have some choices to make.
God gives us the Bible, the HS, and Circumstances… We get to choose how we think, whether or not we will depend on God, and how we respond to circumstances.
You want to stay on the right path this Christmas season and after…
Choose to think the right thoughts… read, study, memorize and meditate on the WOG
Choose to depend on HS… in Jan we will do 21 days of prayer...
Choose the responses God is putting in your mind to the circumstances you encounter.
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