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Aloha, I just wanted to thank you all, so much for the new way you are doing the Daily Devotionals, I love it and it has been such a blessing to me.. Have a blessed week !
Posted by Muriel Louise Williams on Jan 09, 2012, in response to the devotional on
Thursday, January 5, 2012
I' ve read all your messages from my arriving to Hawaii last November and I have been much blessed.Please, keep up the good job. I m sure there very many like me who appreciate it. Thank you pastor Wayne, thank you pastor Andy.
Posted by Carmen Teresa Coronado on Dec 27, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
As you point out, Pastor Mike, today's passage is much deeper than most people think. It is a wonderful verse to take the time to ponder. Let us go to a quiet place with this verse, and invite our hearts and minds to reflect upon the deep meaning that the Holy Spirit wants us to learn. Thank you for giving us a nudge to do just that.
Posted by Ann Verblaauw on Dec 09, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Friday, December 9, 2011
We try to also use the "presence gauge" of Jesus Himself: "Would I do this thing if Jesus was visibly sitting right next to me?" His Spirit is, after all, right here inside of us believers. Another challenging gauge that helps us is: "Would I want to be doing this, if Jesus came back at this very moment to take us to Heaven?" We miss Hawaii and send everyone our aloha from Virginia
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thank you, Pastor Wayne.
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Ephesians 4:30-32 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.We use the word grieve primarily in the relationship of losing something; “She grieved the loss of her father.” “He grieved the loss of his youth.” We grieve the Holy Spirit when He loses control in our life. Bitterness causes our emotions to take control, and it always leads to worse things. You cannot be controlled by or “filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18) and be filled with bitterness at the same time. “Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” (James 3:10-12)
The problem with bitterness is that it grows and expands into “wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking… and malice”. The more it expands, the less room there is for the Holy Spirit in your life. Bitterness is like a poison spreading through your body (Acts 8:23), and it becomes a root system spreading further and further through your life. “A little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump.” (Galatians 5:9) You have to get rid of it all, every last speck, or it will take over in your life and leave no room for the Holy Spirit.
1. What are four things the Bible says not to do to the Holy Spirit? Acts 5:3, 7:51, Ephesians 4:30, I Thessalonians 5:19
Notice the progression of bitterness as it grows in your life:
2. Define wrath. Luke 4:28, I Corinthians 13:4 (root of longsuffering)
3. Define anger. Ephesians 4:26
4. Define clamour. Hebrews 8:12
5. Define evil speaking. Titus 3:2, I Peter 3:16
6. Define malice. I Peter 3:1
Notice the progression of the cure to bitterness:
7. Define kind. Luke 6:23
8. Define tenderhearted. I Peter 3:8
9. Define forgiving. Colossians 3:13
Answers to fill in the blank – #2 to boil or burn, #3 resentment, holding it in, #4 quarrelling, keep bringing it up, #5 talking about it to others, #6 badness in quality, make everything bad, #7 to be useful, #8 compassionate, loving-hearted, #9 to let go without conditions
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