NAME YOUR POISON

NAME YOUR POISON

Since the fall of man, poison has filled the atmosphere, and has filled the heart of man. Many times it is recorded of the anger and judgment of God that comes upon not only Israel but nations, kingdoms and people. But God had a plan that in the fullness of time He sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law. Deity taking on humanity, that by one man, Adam, sin and death entered the world and by one man, Jesus the Christ, the gift of grace and life came.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all like an unclean thing, and our righteousness are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf , and our iniquities , like the wind have taken us away

Psalm 36:1 An orcale within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked; There is no fear of God before his eyes.

So here we are more than 2,000 years later and the same poison that entered the earth at the Garden of Eden, is still spreading faster and faster throughout the world, and has infiltrated the churches and Christians of today. 

What is your favorite poison?

1. Jealousy

2. Pornography both soft porn and hard porn

3. Envy

4. Anger

5. Bitterness

6. Unforgiveness

7. Itchy ears

8. Fornication/Sexual perversion

9. Adultery

10. Rebellion

11. Stubborn

12. Gossip

13. Slander

14. Talebearer

15. Addiction

16. Liar

17. Hypocrite

18. Religious Pharisee

These and many more are poisons not only found in the unbeliever but in the very heart and actions of God's people! These are spots and wrinkles in our garments, these spots are like a canker sore on our mouths that hurts, and burns, and seems to spread, a poison that continues to spread all through us, these wrinkles in our holy garments is where we have allowed ourselves to integrate the world into our beliefs and little by little this worldly thinking become our habits and our mannerisms. In Ephesians chapter 5 it is written God is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle. Yet, look at us, see how we look. But I love when I read in:

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

God will send His Refiner's Fire, our part is to stay in His fire as God refines us. Our part is to both allow God to reveal to us and for us to put off the old man daily and put on the new man daily. Picking up our cross in complete surrender, wholly following Jesus, press on in faith to the upward call of Christ. Stay in prayer, stay in His word, stay faithful to your local church.

Psalm 66:10 & Malachi 3:3

Often times we talk about Christians wearing a mask to hide their true selves from others, to keep their pain, their hurts, their secret sins from others eyes. And it these masks God will take down in His refining fire.

 Today this world is demanding we all wear a mask to keep away a virus. But in the spirit I saw a mask a little differently. We are all called to be warriors in our Lord's army, warriors who fight against the principalities and powers of the air. This spiritual mask I see upon us, is to keep us from breathing in the poison of the prince of this world as he is attacking more and more and to keep the poison of the world out of our lives.

Over and over my heart burns within me, so much that I cannot be silent. We must as we see the day approaching, we must examine our hearts, we must call upon God and seek His presence, build an altar (a spiritual altar) and say "Here I am God consume all that is in me that is not of You and purify all that is in me that is of You."  I have prayed this over and over for years and go to bed at night smelling smoke. God's fire will detox us from our poison and purify our hearts, as He prepares us for revival, that in these last days we will take His presence into a lost and dying world. Do you want to see revival, the wayward come home, the lost saved? It will cost us something, it will cost us surrender and refining.

You might call this Part B of my Blog Post LET THE RAIN FALL. If you haven't read that as yet feel free to do so now!

May God help us in the days ahead.