25/01/2026
*THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST REVIVAL AND EVANGELICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL.*
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Topic: Submit Yourselves to God Totally.
Text: (James 4:2-12).
4.What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2.You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so 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 means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5.Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6.But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud� but shows favor to the humble. 7.Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8.Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts,you double-minded.
9.Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10.Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11.Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12.There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
Quarrels and fights among believers are always harmful.
James explains that these conflicts result from evil desires battling within us: We want more possessions, more money, higher status, More recognition.
When we don’t get what we want, we conspire to have it. This shows why coveting is forbidden in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:17). It can lead people to kill in pursuit of their desires or in frustration over unfulfilled ones.
While coveting can lead to murder. The killing James is referring to can also manifest as bitter hatred and backbiting (Matthew 5:21-25). Instead of aggressively pursuing what we want. we should submit ourselves to God, asking Him to help us get rid of our selfish desires. Trust Him to give you what you really need.
(James 4:2-3) mentions the most common problems in prayer, not asking for the wrong things, and asking for the wrong reasons. Do you talk to God at all? When you do, what do you talk about? Do you only ask to satisfy your desires? Do you seek God’s approval for what you already plan to do ? Your prayers will become powerful when you allow God to change your desires so that they perfectly correspond to His will (1John 3:21-22).
Why does James say it is impossible to be a friend of the world and a friend of Jesus the same time? These two paths lead in opposite directions and to very different destinations. Friendship with the world and a friend of God at the same time? These two paths lead in opposite directions and to very different destination. Friendship with the world leads to quarrels and fights (4:1-3). Materialism. (1John 2:15-17), Self-centered living (James 4:3), And death (Proverbs 14:12). The other path leads to faith. hope, and love ( Corinthians 12:23), The fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), And eternal life (John 3:16).
Prayers: Oh God please, lead me to the path of righteousness, so that I can please you in my daily walk with you in Jesus name, Amen.
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