I know in the last post I put up a post by Mandisa, But i would like to put up another video... by Toby Mac tho.
Last night at CRASH healing was present. Life was and still is present, all by God's grace. The lady who spoke is such a sweet passionate woman from whom the light does illuminate.We talked about coveting, honestly last week know I did do it, I felt it but pushed it aside in D-Nile (sorry... joke or.. "Joe") of having a weakness of such. But turning our eyes inward in shame and dismantlement is not from the Lord, instead our eyes should remain out ward in order to see God's grace, face, and plan. Which we can not yet understand; BUT, nevertheless, we are to look at our life but not through our eyes but the eyes of our maker, the "I am" the Lord of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, the father who sent his son as a ransom for many, the son who conquered death to bring life and restoration all in the name of Jesus Christ.
The really cool thing is this morning my devotional had Romans 7:11 in it, but I looked at verse 8 which was talking about coveting...
Romans v.7-12 "7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
------courtesying of Bible Gateway.com-------------------------------
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%207&version=NIV
Coveting: to crave something, want and long for something, desire something that is not yours, but someone else's.
signs of coveting:
*we are unsatisfied with how things are
*we look to other thing to make us satisfied/ "happy"
here is a check...... if only i had ___ . or ... all i need is _____ to be happy.
OR THE COMMON.... Jesus +_____, (fill in the blank....)
As the lady spoke last night about two main people,
#1: Cain
-------Genesis 4
In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
<> How God favored Jacob's gift over Cain's which made Cain's face 'angry' and 'downcast' . But the Lord warned Cain not to sin because it was at the door after he began to covet his brothers favor with the Lord.
<> instead, Cain plotted against his brother and killed him which was seen by the Lord and he punished Cain,
"11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”"
-- but even with punishment, the Lord still protected him,
13 Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the LORD said to him, “Not so[e]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[f] east of Eden.
THEN.. there was:
#2: Hannah
<> Who struggled because she was barren.
" 1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite[a] from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah..."
2 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
3 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. 4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb. 6 Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. 7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. 8 Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”
<> her sister, Penninnah would provoke her to anger because of jelousy, as Hannah must have sometime coveted her siters ability to have children, and her children also. But inspite of her desire, hurt, struggle, weakness, or even shame Hannah went and poured her hear out to the LORD. She did not kill her sister, she did not give up seeking the LORD, she did not excuse her actions by her sense of loss or unfairness instead she HUMBLED herself, and even offered her dreams and hopes(her son) faithfully. She did not have a son, but if the Lord blessed her, she was willing to give him up in servitude for the LORD.
" 12 As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. 13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk 14 and said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.”
15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD. 16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”
17 Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”
18 She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the LORD and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her. 20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[b]saying, “Because I asked the LORD for him. 21 When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow, 22 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.”[c]
---1 Samuel 1 (not the whole chapter.. but some of it... again.. courtousy of Biblegateway.com :)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel+1&version=NIV
---Proverbs 13:9
HOW TO AVOID....
" we avoid coveting by believing and making God is enough"
OTHER bible verses:
1 Timothy 6:6-8
Romans 12:2a
Philippians 4:12-13
SO.... this is something that has been on my heart. I know that this has become a struggle but by Gods grace and patience nothing is impossible, He has over come. My prayer. To be humbled. TO have a servants heart. TO always look up at my savior. May the Lord continue to open my eyes, so that i may see his glory. May i not turn away when things get hard, may i not look away when it is messy, but be a firefigher, a lighthouse, and a friend.
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