So many times when it comes to the passions we have in our lives we associate negativity with it...especially as Christians.
I have taught all my life that the Devil has no creative ability in him, in other words he can only take what God has created and pervert it. Therefore, all the passions that we experience in our emotions and flesh were created by God, so they are good things.
How about a couple of examples? How about lust– most generally considered to be evil, but how about lust for God or for the spouse that God has given you? how about lusting for the things of God? OK, enough of that.
Hate, how about because you love God– you hate the sin in your life? How about hating the things that the Devil does in and through people? How about hating the evil in this world? How about hating your addictions and the places that the enemy has caused you to go, or the family curses that have plagued your family?
Did you know that it is your emotions? Yes, even lust or hate can motivate you to make some necessary changes in your life. They can motivate you to obey God. Emotions will never sustain you– our faith does that. Sometimes you have to just get sick and tired of being sick and then you might do something about it!
I like it when Christians get fighting mad! Mad enough to do something about the junk in their lives...oh yeah!
Just something to think about: Let God use your emotions, Lord only knows the Devil has used them...
Love ya...
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Thank you for your sermon and blog post. God was trying to warn me in a multitude of ways, but just like Pastor Anne states, "when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change, then we will do something..." I knew that I needed to get passionate about studying, meditating on, and praying on the word of God, but I was getting lazy. In my mind, I was saying that I am growing, so I'm doing all that needs to be done. Well, I changed that attitude when I got sick with a virus that attacked my throat. I HATE getting sick. That made me fighting mad at how the devil was able to attack my health. I searched for every scripture in the bible on healing using the aid of the internet. I meditated on those scriptures, prayed on them, thanked and worshipped God on them. In a few short hours I sweated out a fever and my throat feels better. I'm back into the scriptures and I'm going to make sure that I make a plan on how I'm going to meditate on these scriptures that address critical areas of my life every day, because as I child of the Most High God, I don't have to be sick and I can be healed. Since the bible says that the just shall live by faith, that's exactly how I intend to live.
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