Letting Go of Self

Published on 15 July 2024 at 21:19

Good afternoon,

James 4:5-10
[5]Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
[6]But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
[7]Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
[8]Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
[9]Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
[10]Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Recognition of the self life :

Signs of God resisting the proud: He goes to war against the self life

1)When God refuses to speak to you

2)He ridicules our schemes

3) He will ruin our successes

4) He removes our status

(The above are notes from Br Joe Youngblood's message Sunday)

To explain, I was very moved by this message, as were my family members that were there. I often use my pastor's (Br Rick West) messages as inspiration when the spirit moves me to. When we get stuck in self mode and are ignoring God's will, He will stop speaking to us. He will also put a stop to our scheming and plotting. God will take our ill-gotten successes away. He may even remove our status.

God isn't going to allow His children to succeed when they're not in His will. He won't allow us to remain in an influential position either. He cares about the effect we have on His other children and those who aren't yet His.

Staying in "self mode" can ruin our witness and our production of fruit. Do you spend time in self pity, blaming others for how unsatisfied you are? Do you take for granted what God has blessed you with? Do you know what God wants for you and still do what you want? Are you allowing worldy things or addictions to come first? Have you spent most of your time lately pouting about how bad your life is? This is "self mode". As long as you're focused on you with an "I complex', you can't be focused on God. He wants to bless you, give you joy and happiness. However, He won't as long as you are stuck. Turn your eyes to Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of life will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace!

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14 Mar 2024 12:43

John 17:1-26[1]These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:[2]As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[3]And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.[4]I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.[5]And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.[6]I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.[7]Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.[8]For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.[9]I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[10]And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.[11]And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.[12]While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.[13]And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.[14]I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[15]I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.[16]They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[17]Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.[18]As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.[19]And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.[20]Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;[21]That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.[22]And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:[23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.[24]Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.[25]O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.[26]And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.