Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me. Scripture is always a good place to start.
We are beginning a new women’s Bible study on Tuesday with a group of ladies as church. It’s focus is not just maintaining and growing our own faith, although that is always my purpose, but in opposing Satan’s attacks because we doing that very thing. I am becoming aware through looking at this material, that Godly people can and do, and do ungodly things, and that we are vulnerable.
The very things which God uses, our temperaments, our talents, our treasure, and our time are the very places where Satan can attack us and weaken our witness. My devotional today says, “When we give our lives wholheartedly to Jesus, He can use us in witness to the world.” The problem is, without our constant renewal, our constant repentance, those very assets we’ve committed to the Lord can in turn make us vulnerable to Satan’s attacks of us.
When my personal worship time get’s diluted, rushed, or ignored, I am opening my life to destruction. When I forget the five tenets of our last study, my shield of faith is not ever before me. {God is who He says He is; God can do all things; I am who God says I am; I can do all things through Christ; God’s word is alive and active in me} I am vulnerable. When I think I can live my life with my own assets instead of with God’s provision and guidance, I am just kidding myself.
So, the new focus is recognition of the possibility of attack, instant repentance, recounting of Scripture to counteract Satan’s attempts to influence my mind and spirit, recognition of sin and revocation of its power in the Name of Jesus, and reconciliation and restoration to a “right spirit”. Then I will be totally useful to God. 2 Corinthians 2:14 says: “But thanks be to God, who made us His captives and leads us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now wherever we go He uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Good News like a sweet perfume.”
I am praying that my books will be used of the Lord for pure purposes, to bring others to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to renew in all who read them a desire to create a clean heart and restore a right spirit, through Jesus.
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