11/19/2024
Good words from P.B. at FIR tonight!
Had to share! Give it a quick read, and remember, you're never too far gone! đź’ś
Prayer is vital.
1. What does your prayer life look like?
2. Are you truly looking for change in your life? If so, where will you find help to change?
• In order to receive a different result, there has to be change.
• If you're not willing to face the truth and hold yourself accountable, you'll never see the change in your life.
1 John 1:5-10
[5] This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. [6] If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. [7] But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. [8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [9] If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [10] If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
• If you say you're in a relationship with God but you're still having fellowship with the world and the things of the world, you're a liar.
1 John 2:3-4
[3] And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. [4] If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.
1 John 2:15-17
[15] Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. [16] For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father but are from this world. [17] And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
James 4:2-4
[2] You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and can not obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have, because you do not ask. [3] You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. [4] Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:7
[7] Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Submit
• Resist
• Your prayer life will determine how you battle.
James 5:16
[16] Confess your trespasses (sin) to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
• To be fervent is to be intense.
• Everyone has the desire to change, but not everybody is willing.
