Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:00
THE FLESH-CONTROLLED LIFE – AN ANTI-PURPOSEFUL LIFE
SCRIPTURE: Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Hebrews 12:16.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: To follow the flesh is to forfeit a purposeful destiny.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is seeing great potentials
end as great disasters. There are people on earth who are highly gifted
and connected to opportunities. Sadly, some of these people end as
colossal failures.
What could be responsible for a man like Esau, who was positioned
to be the inheritor of the Abrahamic blessing, ending without a trace of
identity on earth? It was a life controlled by the flesh.
It was the flesh that told Esau, ‘You are hungry; sell your birth-right’ and Esau said, ‘yes sir.’ What a tragedy!
Beloved, the leadership of the flesh is destined for failure and
disaster. You cannot follow the flesh and attain a purposeful destiny.
This is why the life of the drunk, prostitute, seducer, thief,
backbiter, etc., is always upside down. The flesh was designed to take
instructions from the spirit and not the other way round.
My counsel is, the same way a person’s cloth cannot wear him or a
car cannot drive its owner, let your flesh not control you. Tell it what
to do and what not to do.
Remember This: To follow the flesh is to forfeit a purposeful destiny.
ASSIGNMENT(S):
1.Consciously cut off every flesh-centred lifestyle.
2.Carry out spiritual exercises like the study of the Word of God,
praying in the Holy Ghost, fasting, etc. to increase the dominance of
your spirit over your flesh.
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: HINDRANCES TO A PURPOSEFUL LIFE-3
PRAYER: LORD, kill every lifestyle of flesh in me. I connect with the power for a purposeful existence, O LORD in Jesus’ Name.
DAILY READING: Ezekiel 31:1 to 32:32, Hebrews 12:14 to 29, Psalm 113:1 to 114:8, Proverbs 27:18 to 20.
QUOTE: Character shall be your license to leaving a mark that cannot be erased in time and eternity. Culled from WHO ARE YOU? by Dr Paul Enenche.
TODAY IN HISTORY: 15/11/ 1920 – The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.
AMAZING FACT: Rats succumb to peer-pressure, just
like humans. Brown species of rats are prone to disregard personal
experiences in order to copy the behaviour of their peers. The urge to
conform is so strong that they will even choose to eat unpalatable food
if they are in the company of other rats who are eating it.
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