Skip to main content

ENVY 2

Text: Act 7:9.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,* 

It's either you are envying someone or someone is envying you. As a child of God see to it that you kill every seed of envy in you. Never be caught envying.

The first step to overcoming this terrible vice is to agree with yourself that you are not immuned to it. To assume that you cannot envy anyone is to combine envy with pride in one dosage.

We saw yesterday how the Patriarchs fell flat for this vice and how the high priests (who are operating in the office of Pastors or Bishops today) and the elders of Isreal who represent the present day elders in the church were overcome by envy. Envy is no respecter of your status. It's important to note that envy will not stop until it wrecks havoc on its target.

Once you know that being a believer doesn't stop you from envying, then, you should corporate with the Holy in uprooting its seed from your heart through love and obedience to the Spirit's instructions.

If you are being envied however, you should do what our fathers of faith did- never fight for yourself, but hold on to God.

Because God was with Joseph, even when his brothers sold him into slavery because of envy, God rescued him and gave him victory over them.

The same was true for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when He was reviled, he never reviled back, 1 Peter 2:23. He was crucified, yet the Father raised Him back to life in Glory.

Romans 12:17 says, *Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.* 

 *BIBLE READING* 

Romans 12:16-21.

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1. Father God, I receive the grace to walk in love towards my brethren in Jesus name.


+233558355977
+233552057500

 *YouTube channel* https://youtu.be/JiFntgTq_EY?si=Qpf9rl_GIjSOadHb

 *Listen on Spotify* https://open.spotify.com/show/72q4KLmKs0KBPdVs8bUDSE?si=BeadDR2

https://hisvoicedevotional.blogspot.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE GOOD FIGHT-2

Text:  1 Timothy  6:12   Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. Another thing to pursue in fighting the good fight of faith is Godliness. We understand through the Holy scriptures that godliness is profitable unto all things.   *For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.* 1 Timothy  4:8.  You will reap the reward of your godliness not only when you get to heaven, but from here on earth. And this is why we are admonished to exercise ourselves unto godliness. (1 Timothy  4:7), because godliness with contentment is great gain.1 Timothy  6:6. Godliness is the practice of conforming to the image of God by reflecting the nature of the kingdom of God in the course of everyday life. In other words, godliness is living and portray...
Post a Comment
Read more

WAY MAKER-2

Text: Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it?  I will even make a way in the wilderness,  and rivers in the desert. God promised that He will do a new thing for you, and that He will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. He has done this before, and He will do it again even in your own life.  When the children of Israel left Egypt, the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them, encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.(Exodus 14:9). Just like anyone would react, the Isrealites became so fearful because there is neither way forward nor back for them to escape. Before them was the red sea, behind them were the Egyptian armies. They became perplexed and began to murmur against Moses. It is possible you are also in a situation like the Israelites- No way forward, and no way behind. Things may appear like you are ...
Post a Comment
Read more

HIS VOICE- 2

Text : John 10:3. To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. We established yesterday that one thing you can't joke with as a true follower of Christ is *His Voice.* You must recognise and hearken to (obey) His voice. It is in doing this that your safety is assured.  Today, we want to see another responsibility of the Shepherd over His sheep.  To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, *and leads them out.* John 10:3.  He called you, that He might lead you. It is not enough for you to hear or recognise His Voice, you must allow Him to lead you as well.  Romans 8:14 says *For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.*   The Spirit leading you determines the family you belong to. Basically,  there are only two families in this world - the family of God, and the family of satan. In other words, we can say the Kingdom...
Post a Comment
Read more