Excuses

If we were to be honest, sometimes we just make excuses.  We make excuse on why we were late.  We make excuses on why we don’t exercise.  We make excuse on why we just had to have the latest thing in style.  Excuses are all over our world, even in the church.

We use excuses on why we didn’t pray.  We use excuses why we didn’t spend any personal time in His word.  Yes, we even make excuses with the way we dress.

Excuses, it sounds like an innocent word, but it can be causing so much damage in our spiritual life!

Just like we can die within a period of time without food or water, our spiritual man can die as well.  When was the last time you fed Him God’s word?  When was the last time you dedicated time of devotion with Him?  Oh, and I’m talking pass our Sunday morning services….selah

Saints, let’s stop allowing the devil to use what appears to be such an innocent word to devastate our spiritual lives. Remember our spirit man is depending on us!

Deception

You standing on a grocery store line and decide to browse through a magazine.  For some of us women, by the time we finish looking at these women who look so perfect in the picture, you pick up the woe is me spirit through the why can’t I look like that syndrome.

You’re on a fast because you realize there’s some crucifying of the flesh need and yet you can smell those McDonald fries a mile away.  You start thinking about them golden arches and how good those fries are, and the thought even comes to your head how you can just fast tomorrow because you gotta have those fries.

Let’s even take it back to Adam and Eve and how Satan made that piece of fruit look so appealing to Eve.

Deception…it’s everywhere!  It shows up on our TV’s, it shows up in our magazines, it can show up in our food, and it can even show up in our churches.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Saints, we have to guard ourselves from the spirit of deception, as it makes things appear to be more pleasurable than they really are. That spirit assists Adam and Eve’s fall from the Garden of Eden.  That same spirit can cause a spouse to commit adultery. That same spirit can make you think it don’t take all that with your spiritual walk. Deception…it can assist you straight to hell.  Selah.