What we are SOWING is WHAT WE REAP - 24 May 2019 (The Fountain of Living Waters) by Celia-Joy Martins.
Romans 8:13 "For IF you LIVE ACCORDING to [the DICTATES of] the FLESH you WILL SURELY DIE (a spiritual death); but IF through the POWER of the Holy Spirit you are [HABITUALLY] PUTTING to DEATH (making EXTINCT, DEADENING) the [EVIL] DEEDS PROMPTED by the BODY, YOU SHALL [REALLY AND GENUINELY] LIVE FOREVER."
The enemy of our souls will RECEIVE PERMISSION and be ALLOWED by our heavenly Father to COME AGAINST us VIA ANY UNSURRENDERED AREAS in our LIVES - any WEAKNESSES or ADICTIONS not REPENTED of - any UNREPENTED SIN - and it will only STOP WHEN we REALIZE we HAVE to DEAL with our SINS and BECOME and be TRANSFORMED into the "IMAGE" of our SAVIOR.
Rom. 8:9 "But you are NOT in the FLESH but in the Spirit, if INDEED the Spirit of Yah DWELLS in you. Now if anyone does NOT have the Spirit of Messiah, he is NOT His."
Rom. 12:1-2 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the MERCIES of YAH, that you PRESENT your BODIES a LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE to YAH ... AND DO NOT be CONFORMED to the WORLD, but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your MINDS ..."
The enemy will ONLY WITHDRAW when we MET the TERMS of our CREATOR ... being TRANSFORMED daily into the IMAGE of YAHSHUA - having HIM INSIDE of us - His NATURE IN us - His NATURE in our HEARTS. Then, the EVIL CIRCUMSTANCES the devil PLANS to DESTROY us with, will actually WORK FOR OUR GOOD ... transforming us and PERFECTING us to become more and more like our Messiah.
The THINGS (the SECRETS) we WITHOLD from our Father:
In our selfish human nature, we tend to keep things HIDDEN in the INNERMOST places of our HEARTS ... REFUSING to GO THERE ... REFUSING to BRING IT OUT INTO the OPEN ... REFUSING to DEAL with it ... thinking that it will SORT ITSELF OUT with time ... and these things become the PLAYGROUND of the ENEMY ... and he WILL FEASTS on the UNREPENTED SIN in our LIVES ... the THINGS we WITHOLD from our Father ... to bring DESTRUCTION ... to KILL ... STEAL and DESTROY.
Our PROBLEMS and OPPRESSIONS' ORIGIN are usually our OWN FLESHLY NATURE ... and through our FLESHLY NATURE the enemy comes in to TARGET and UNDERMINE our PRAYERS to STOP us in our TRACKS.
Our OWN SELF:
Our OWN SELF - our OWN SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS and SELF-JUSTIFICATION are KEEPING us from SELF-EXAMINATION ... KEEPING us from REPENTANCE ... KEEPING us from a LIFE WELL-PLEASING to our heavenly Father and leaves an OPEN DOOR of INVITATION to the ENEMY to come in and do his destructive works.
The DEVIL DOES NOT FORCE US INTO ANYTHING:
It is our OWN SELFISH and FLESHLY NATURE that bring us down ... bring DISASTER upon us ... bring TRAGEDY into our lives ...UNTIL we DEAL with all of OUR WRONGS and TURN AWAY from it being TRANSFOREMED into the IMAGE of PROTECTOR our MESSIAH. We NEED to UNDERSTAND that ABBA WILL ONLY PROTECT us IF we ARE CLEANSED VESSELS.
WHAT WE SOW is what we shall REAP:
Gal. 6:7-8 "DO NOT be DECEIVED and DELUDED and MISLED; YAH will NOT ALLOW Himself to be SNEERED at (scorned, disdained or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His PRECEPTS - His laws, instructions, guidelines, teachings, principle - BEING SET ASIDE). For WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT and THAT ONLY is WHAT HE WILL REAP."
SOWING FLESHLY THINGS - REAPING DECAY - RUIN and DESTRUCTION:
Living a CARNAL life here on earth ... you will reap here on earth CARNAL THINGS ... living under CURSES - DECAY - RUIN and DESTRUCTION ... DISSAPOINTMENT .... DESPAIR ... DEATH that will lead straight to an eternity in HELL.
Gal. 6:8 "For he who SOWS to his OWN FLESH (lower nature, SENSUALITY) will from the FLESH REAP DECAY and RUIN and DESTRUCTION ..."
SOWING to the SPIRIT of YAH - REAPING ETERNAL LIFE:
Living a Godly LIFE here on earth SOWING GODLY THINGS ... you will reap ABBA'S FAVOR and BLESSINGS ... JOY and PEACE ... LONGSUFFERING ... GLADNESS ... and ETERNAL LIFE.
Gal. 6:8b "... but he who SOWS to the Spirit will from the Spirit REAP ETERNAL LIFE."
SOWING for NOW or SOWING for ETERNITY?
Living in the FLESHLY DESIRES ... Satan using it against us ... bring DEVASTATION in the END ... it is SOWING for the NOW ... but what about ETERNITY?
LIFE IS GOOD ... what should I CARE!
Many people would not listen, they would just IGNORE the WARNINGS ... just LIVING FORTH in their SENSUAL PLEASURES ... FORGETTING that YAHWEH God is a MERCIFUL God ... bringing JUDGMENT on HIS OWN JUST TIME ... sometimes SUDDENLY but many times - DEFERRED.
BEFORE ABBA DEALS IN JUDGEMENT:
Scripture discloses to us that YAHWEH DEALS with us in GRACE and MERCY and LOVING KINDNESS BEFORE He DEALS in JUDGMENT. He ALWAYS DISCLOSES what HE IS GOING to DO ... giving us all the CHANGE and the CHOICE to REPENT and TURN from our WICKED WAYS and TURN to Him.
1 Sam. 2:12 "The sons of Eli were BASE and WORTHLESS; they DID not KNOW or REGARD YAHWEH."
Yahweh's priest Eli's two sons Hophni and Phineas did not care for Yah or His sacrifices. They became very wealthy by taking and selling what was offered to Yah by force if it was refused. (1 Sam. 2:13-17).
SENTENSED in the HEAVENLY COURT YEARS PRIOR to JUDGEMENT:
JUDGMENT on ELI'S TWO SONS:
Then judgment came on them and they were slain in battle against the Philistines as Yahweh had FORETOLD through His messenger YEARS BEFORE (1 Sam. 2:34; 4:11).
JUDGEMENT ON ELI:
GREAT TRAGEDY:
When the 98 year old Eli - JUDGE of ISRAEL for 40 YEARS - heard the news of the death of his sons, AND that the ARK of YAH was CAPTURED ...he fell back and broke his neck and DIED for he was a very HEAVY MAN. (1 Sam. 4:13 - 18).
ICHABOD - YAH'S GLORY HAS DEPARTED:
His daughter in law - wife of Phinehas, was with child and about to deliver when she heard the news. She died when giving birth, naming their little boy "ICHABOD" - "The GLORY [of YAH] has DEPARTED" from Israel. In essence she was saying that Eli's "HOUSE" (bloodline) was now DESOLATED - ABANDONED to RUIN. Eli's bloodline was now CURSED ...
Eli received WARNING about this, and it COULD HAVE BEEN TURNED AROUND ... IF his sons would just have LISTENED and OBEYED ...
YAHWEH WILL NEVER CHANGE:
YAHWEH, YAHSHUA and SPIRIT is the SAME, YESTERDAY, TODAY and TOMORROW ... HE WILL NEVER CHANGE ... HE WILL DEFINITELY NOT RE-WRITE His WORD to SUIT us ... to SUIT YOU ... to SUIT ANYONE ... HE CANNOT RE-WRITE HIS WORD - for HIS SON is the WORD. (John 1).
And where does this LEAVE US TODAY? Will we LISTEN and will we OBEY and WILL we REPENT and TURN WHOLEHEARTEDLY AWAY from our WRONGS and WHOLEHEARTEDLY to YAHWEH God, or will we just IGNORANTLY TOSS His WARNINGS ASIDE ... ignorantly walking into an ICHABOD SITUATION ... when His JUDGMENT would FINALLY COME.