The Lord wants to give us the grace to obey Him.
And it comes by walking in the Spirit. Galatians
5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in the Spirit,
and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Those desires of the flesh are overcome as we
walk in the Spirit. God promises in Joel 2 .28
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I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome
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to us. We know that you're out there. So as I
was in my devotions this morning, I was being
moved by the Holy Spirit to... to look at this
idea of the multiple consequences of disobedience.
And that goes both ways, really. There's kind
of a ripple effect that happens when we fall
for temptation. When temptation comes to us,
like, what does James 1, 14 and 15 say? But each
person is tempted when he is lured and enticed
by his own desire. Then desire... When it has
been conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin,
when it is fully grown, brings forth death. That's
from the ESV version. So temptation is something
that comes to us because of desires that are
still hanging out there in our flesh. You know,
that soulish part of us that... really hasn't
gotten completely, fully submitted to the Lord.
And, you know, it affects us personally when
we fall, right? But what we don't always realize
is the ripple effect, the domino effect, the
snowball effect, the chain reaction that happens
when we fall into something. It not only affects
us and our future, it also affects people around
us. Yeah, especially if you're high up in a position
in a ministry. Oh, yeah. Because if you're in
ministry, you've got a bullseye on your back.
That's true. He encourages you to turn your back
to sin, but if you sense something that is satanic
coming at you from the front, you need to deal
with it. Absolutely. Because you can't turn your
back on it. It'll get you. Right. And the thing
is that turning your back on it in terms of just
ignoring it and thinking maybe it'll go away,
you've got to deal with it. You've got to deal
with it. You've got to deal with the flesh. You've
got to say no. No. No. You know, we've walked
with the Lord for a long time. And as temptations
have been in my life, as the Lord has given me
the grace to say no, it gets to a point where
it's kind of like a bear trap. You know, that
if that thing comes through the door at me, it's
like there's an automatic trap door that makes
the thing disappear because I have an automatic
no. Because I've developed it, okay? Everything
is a process. Everything, everything, everything
we do. Everything we do in the Christian walk
is a process. And, you know, when you're first
getting there, it's not 100 % success rate, you
know? I'm reminded of that story of, I guess
I saw it on somebody's bulletin board in their
house, this story of this person who goes like
this. I walked down the street. And I fell in
a hole and it was so deep I couldn't get out
of it. And I cried and I cried and I cried for
help and someone came and helped me out. And
then the next paragraph is, I walked down the
street and I fell in the same hole and I cried
and I cried and somebody came and helped me out.
And the next paragraph is, I walked down the
street and I saw the hole and I fell in it anyway
and I cried and cried and somebody came and helped
me out. And the next paragraph is, I walked down
the street, I saw the hole, and I walked around
it. And the next paragraph is, I walked down
a different street. Okay? Okay, how many pitfalls
did it take to get to that point? That's my whole
point. It's a process. We go through. It's a
learning process. It's learning to walk in the
Spirit so that we don't fulfill the lusts of
the flesh, whatever those desires of our flesh
are. But what I'm trying to say is that there's
this vulnerability area that, you know, we might
be really strong when we're feeling good, when
we're all prayed up. Oh, yeah. So you get out
of a meeting. Right, right. You're getting prophesied
over. You know, you're on the top of the world.
Yeah, and you're real strong, right? But there
are times when we're more vulnerable because
of our flesh. Our flesh is weak. You know, it's
just flesh. And so there are times when you're
vulnerable, and there's an old adage where the
initials of the word spell halt. Yeah, if you're
hungry, well, that'll do it. Oh, yeah. If you're
angry, yeah. What gets a lot of Christians angry
quick? Yeah. In your car. Oh, well, that can
be one of those. I remember somebody, they had
a revenge button on their dashboard, and they
would push the, and somebody would take their
emotion out. Instead of saying something, they
hit the revenge button, you know. Well, that's
part of the progress, you know, your process,
and you're making progress in your process where
you hit a button instead of saying something.
I hope he gets well. Well, you know what we tend
to do, you know, okay, so you're driving down
the highway. Somebody flies by you at 90 miles
an hour, and then you say, I wish there was a
policeman there. And that's legit. Yeah. That's
legit. But then, yeah, I hope he gets caught.
And then you rejoice when you see the lights
pull him over. Teach him a lesson. But maybe
there should be a prayer for that person. Yeah.
Maybe we should be saying, Lord, we ask you to
go after that person that is practicing lawlessness,
that you get that person and bring them into
your kingdom and bring them into this process
where they will learn not to do this. I'll have
to keep working on that one. So we got hungry
and angry. Okay, then you're lonely. Yeah. Yeah,
lonely is a big one, especially if you've lost
a spouse. Oh, my. Yeah, lost a spouse or a girlfriend
or grieving over a loss, any kind of a loss,
like especially a child, you know, a parent losing
a child. It's not supposed to be that way. You
know, you're supposed to let your children grow
up and they take care of you when you get old
and you lose that child in death. And it's horrible.
It's horrible. A lot of marriages break up over
that. But there's a loneliness. That's a reality.
And it can cause issues, right? So we've got
hungry, angry, lonely. If you're tired, yeah.
You say things when you're tired that you wouldn't
do, especially if you're angry. Because if you're
tired, that can lean you into anger. Yeah. And
hunger can do the same thing. They have a word
now for it, hangry. Oh, especially if you're
low blood pressure or something. Low blood sugar.
Your blood sugar gets down and your emotions
can get out of whack. And you can lash out and
do something, say something. So H -A -L -T, halt.
That's when you need to halt. When you recognize,
uh -oh, wait a minute, I'm vulnerable here. I
need to be careful. But there's a couple of other
ones that I've added to the list. So if you're
in pain or if you're sick, you know, People who
are sick, if you don't feel well, it's hard to
keep self -control. And that's one of those areas
that the Holy Spirit wants to work his fruit
in us. And self -control is one of those things.
And patience is one of those things. And patience
and self -control, you know, in the King James,
it calls it long suffering. Where you have the
grace to put up with stuff. Yeah. When other
people are out of sorts. So you have your personal
opportunities to get out of sorts, your personal
flesh flashes. And then you also have to deal
with other people's flesh flashes. Especially
those you love. I know. And when you're hungry
or angry or lonely or tired, I don't usually
get angry unless I'm hungry or tired. That's
just me. And you've tasted that. It takes a lot
to rattle your cage. It's just pretty good. But,
you know, if it's suppertime and, you know, I'm
hungry or if I'm too tired to even think about
another thing. I can't open another window. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's so easy to hurt people. when we
have a flesh -flesh. And if you flip it over,
think about the times that you've been hurt by
other people's flesh -fleshes or things that
might have happened to you as a child. If a parent
or a sibling or a cousin or a grandparent or
an aunt or uncle or a neighbor or a teacher,
a pastor, somebody you should be able to trust
has harmed you. In some way. Maybe they were
just having a flesh -flesh because they were
hungry or angry or lonely or tired. Or it could
be they just gave in to a temptation to do something
that they really should never, ever do. Yeah.
When you're talking about temptation, remember
we listened to, there was an audio. There was
a little, there was a girl, 14 -year -old girl
that was spending a lot of time on her phone.
Yeah. And she was kind of snapped, her little
brother, and her mom asked her to do something.
Yeah, it was because they were driving in the
car and it was raining so torrentially the mom
could hardly see where she was going. And she
asked the daughter to look on her GPS to be able
to see where's the exit we're supposed to be
turning off at. Yeah. And the girl was upset.
I don't want to. Yeah. And? And then they got
hit by a truck and then the car went spinning
and screamed and then all of a sudden she's with
Jesus. And why don't you tell the rest of that?
Well, she had this experience where Jesus was
comforting her and she said, am I dead? He said,
for a little while or something like that. She
actually died for 12 minutes. She died for 12
minutes. She was clinically dead for 12 minutes.
This generation, and when I say generation, I'm
talking about everybody that's alive now. Across
the board. Yeah, everybody that's alive now has
become so overwhelmed with the screen in their
hand, whether it's their phone or their tablet
or their PC or whatever, that everyone has become
so... enamored with their screens and they think
that they have achieved better connections with
people when all that's really happening is that
they're becoming more isolated and not able to
really communicate. And, you know, the Lord sent
her back with this message to share with other
people about, hey, put down your screens. Yeah.
And it was the dark figures. Oh, yes, that's
right. That would show up. Yeah. And when they're
looking at something they shouldn't, they just
dance around like we got them. Yeah. And the
dark figures were, because they're kind of mesmerized
by their screens, the dark figures were able
to put ideas into their heads that they didn't
have filters for because they were so mesmerized
by the screens. Wow. What a lesson. Yeah. So
this is a temptation that pretty much everybody,
unless you are not into screens, and that's very
few people these days. I was convicted when I
saw it. I've already cut way, way back on my
screen time. Yeah, I think her parents did that.
They cut back on their social media. And then
the dad left his laptop at work when he came
home. And at dinner time, they put their phones
in a basket, turned them off. And so they had
supper as a family, which is the way it used
to be before TV. Right. It's true. It's true.
So, you know, God is trying to help us. Get some
ideas about the ripple effect, the multiple consequences.
One of the things that Jesus showed this girl
was he showed her her family together playing
a game. And he said, this could have been you
tonight if you had not had the screen in front
of you. Wow. If she had done what her mother
said, they wouldn't have had the accident. Yeah.
But Jesus says, I'm giving you another chance.
Go back and share this message. And she said
that some of her friends thought she was nuts.
She lost friends over it. She lost friends over
it, but others got the conviction in their hearts
that they could get into line with this. So really,
God is wanting to restore our relationships with
each other and with him. Because, you know, the
more time we spend on our screens, the less time
we're spending with him, typically. You know,
whatever it is that you're watching, it may be
perfectly legitimate and okay. But if it's distracting
you, it's keeping you from building relationship
with the Lord. So, you know, this idea of people
that are hurt, you know, if you were hurt as
a child by somebody that you should have been
able to trust. whether they were having a flesh
flash or whether they were absolutely just down
the tubes into sin, whatever that is, you know,
the Lord wants to heal you of that hurt. Because
what happens is when a child is hurt, traumatized,
whatever age they are, there's a stunting of
the growth. There's a stunting of your emotional
development. You get stuck. So when you get under
pressure, see these that halt thing when you're
hungry, angry, lonely, tired, in pain, sick.
Those are times of pressure. Those are times
of excess stress that cause you to lose it. You
know, you're more likely to lose it under those
circumstances. So if you were hurt as a child
and you get into those circumstances where you
get under that kind of pressure, what is your
behavior? Are you behaving like a seven -year
-old? Are you behaving like a 12 -year -old or
three -year -old? Are you behaving like, do you
lose your ability to say anything? Did something
happen to you before you even learned how to
talk that got you stuck there? So that when you're
under pressure, you wind up being unable to communicate.
You know, it happens. It happens sometimes. So
the point in this episode is that we look at
not only what happened to us, but we also look
inward at what happens when I lose it and hurt
other people. It's about getting the grace of
God to overcome temptation and to overcome the
flesh flashes, you know, those areas where we
just lost it, you know. So remember in a recent
episode with Richard from New Zealand, he used
this expression, and we've said it before ourselves,
hurt people hurt people. So when you're hurt,
when you have been violated in some way, when
you're hurt, when you've been wounded, it causes
this disquiet inside of you that causes you to
be more likely to hurt others. Yeah. So God wants
to heal you and he wants to heal the hurts, but
he also wants to give you the grace to forgive.
I had a conversation recently with someone who
was saying, you know, I was so hurt by, and she
mentioned family members. I was so hurt by them
and I'm just still so hurt. I've forgiven them,
but I'm still so hurt. And that reminded me of
my own experience. And I was able to share this
with her where I experienced hurt in my life
from a family member. And I was ministered to
in just a tremendously high anointed place that
the Holy Spirit was moving in a tremendous way.
And it was ministered to me that this hurt was
so deep in me that it wasn't just going to be
healed in a moment, but it was going to take
six weeks. for that hurt to be healed. And it
was like after that ministry to me, it was like
I had amnesia. I completely forgot about the
hurt. And it's not like it's something I dwelled
on, but it was something that was deep inside
of me that was still affecting me at certain
points. So for those next six weeks, I was just
busy with other things, didn't think about it.
And at the end of the six weeks, it was kind
of like I woke up. And I thought, oh, I haven't
thought about that in a long time. I wonder if
it's been six weeks yet. And I counted it back,
and sure enough, it had been six weeks. And then
I thought about the incident that had hurt me
so much, or the incidents and the person, and
it was like I could remember the incidents, but
it didn't hurt anymore. It didn't make me cry
anymore. And that is the goal that the Lord wants
us to get healed in those things. But he also
wants us to understand as we are going through
our life and our processes, when we are tempted
to do something, we need to really think about
that cause and effect thing. What happens when
we lose it? Because you reap what you sow. 7
through 10 say, Make no mistake, God can't be
mocked. What you give is what you get. When you
sow, you harvest. Those who sow seeds into their
flesh will only harvest destruction from their
sinful nature. Yeah, that's it. But those who
sow seeds into the Spirit shall harvest everlasting
life from the Spirit. May we never tire of doing
what is good and right before our Lord, because
in His season we shall bring in a great harvest.
If we can just persist. That's it. So seize any
opportunity the Lord gives you to do good things
and be a blessing to everyone, especially those
within our faithful family. Yeah. If we can just
persist. And what translation is that? That is
the voice translation. The voice. Yeah. It's
a good translation. It's one of the messianic
translations. Oh, okay. So if you can just persist.
I love that saying. If you don't quit, you win.
You're going to win if you just don't quit. You
got to keep persisting. Don't quit. Don't quit.
So these ideas, there's a few stories in the
Bible that give us an understanding of the ripple
effect of when we give into temptation. So you've
got, obviously, the first one you come to is
Eve in the Garden of Eden. And you got this,
you got this. And he's busy talking and planting
seeds. Seeds of doubt. Seeds of disobedience.
You know? You're a great radio person. I wish
the listeners could see. You can see what I'm
looking at. It's really good. On one of these
days, we'll do video. But anyway, you know, he
was continuously tempting her and coming at her
day after day after day, making these suggestions
of, you know, God didn't really mean what he
said. What he said. And eventually... You believe
it. She got thinking about it. It wasn't in a
moment. It wasn't in just that one suggestion.
Yeah, this was going on for a while. It probably
went on for quite a while. You read in the Bible,
you know, and you think that just happened this
time. Yeah. No, this was going on for a while.
It was a continuous suggestion. Yeah, and you
listen long enough. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah,
and what that does is it plants seeds of doubt
that make you think outside the box of what you've
been taught, makes you think outside of what
the Word says God said. You know, God said, God
said, God said, don't eat of it. But she went
on, she'd probably been taught by Adam, because
it was Adam that heard from God, don't eat it.
He said to her, don't even touch it, because
if you don't touch it, you won't eat it. Right.
It's kind of adding to what God said. He just
said, don't eat it. But if you don't touch it,
you'll never eat it. So she was considering and
thinking about it and thinking about it and looking
at it. And it does look appealing. It does look
like something I should try. I would like to
be wise like God. Yeah, I think I should do this.
And she did it and she gave it to Adam. And Adam
was the one who had heard it from God. Don't
do it. But he loved her. And sometimes we do
stupid things because of love. Things we know
better. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't compromise.
But the whole point is she gave in and look at
the ripple effect. It's still affecting us today.
We are having flash flashes now because Eve gave
in to that. That thing that was constantly after
her, constantly making suggestions. And that's
where you have to get so enamored with the word
and in love with our Father. Jesus said, if you
love me, keep my commandments. So obedience out
of love is a joy. When you come to a place where
you're tempted to do something and you make that
decision, no, the Bible says I shouldn't do this.
I'm not going to do it. End of story. And you
say that enough times and it stops. That reminds
me of a situation that I had where the accuser
of the Brethren was speaking to me about our
founder, Sister Gwen, and it happened when I
was tired. The end of the day, I'd put our daughter
to bed. Phillip had gone to bed already. And
I was, you know, it just it takes a woman longer
to wind down. There's just things you think you
got to do and da da da da da. And I'm tired.
And the accuser is whispering to me about Sister
Gwen's talking about you behind your back. Sister
Gwen's talking about you behind your back. She's
saying things that she shouldn't be saying about
you. She's telling things. And I'd get angry,
and I'd get upset, and I'd go to bed. And you'd
go to bed that way. I went to bed angry. And
then the next morning, she would greet me lovingly
and smiling, and I'm thinking, hmm, is that really
true? And this went on for some time. I don't
remember how long. But all of a sudden, one night,
it was like, oh, I know who this is. This is
the accuser of the brethren. And I responded
to him and I said, I am too tired to listen to
this. And I stopped listening and I stopped taking
it into my head. And it wasn't more than two
or three nights that he tried it again. And it
stopped. Wow. You just have to say no. No. This
is not true. And even if it was true, even if
it was true. My offense hurts me. Taking offense
hurts me. When you take offense and you get angry
with a person and you just hold on to that and
you hold on to that grudge, it's like drinking
poison, hoping the other person will die. Yeah.
It's a good expression. Does not work. It's not
true. So, you know, there was a tremendous ripple
effect from Eve doing what she did. Okay. And
Adam too. And then we have Joshua 7. where you
have the story of the Battle of Jericho. And
God told, I think it was in chapter 6, God told
them that you're not to touch anything. This
whole thing is cursed. And it was like, I really
believe what God was, the big picture of this
was that this is the first city you're going
to deal with. This is a first fruits thing. And
everything belongs to God. It's all supposed
to be devoted to God, and he spells it out. Silver
and gold is to come into the treasuries, and
everything that's the booty, everything that's
the spoils, belongs to God. Don't touch it. Don't
take it. And then... You know, in the next chapter,
they're having this battle against another town,
and it's smaller. Whether you pronounce it I
or whether you pronounce it AI. AI is another
thing. So they thought, ah, this is simple. Let's
just take a small company. Well, they didn't
win. And something like, was it 36? 36, yeah,
they got killed. Yeah. And then they're running
for their lives. Like, what happened to our protection?
Exactly. What weapons did they have? I don't
know what weapons they had. They came out of
Egypt. Yeah. And they've been traveling for some
years. Well, they had had some battles before,
so they probably had gathered some from their
enemies previously. But anyway, the point is
that Joshua was on his face before God, weeping,
you know, word about this is going to get out,
and we're toast. And God said, quit your crying.
There's sin in the camp. And so they looked into
what the problem was, and it turns out that this
guy named Achan, whose name means troubler. Yeah,
he's a troublemaker. He finally confesses that
he was tempted by this beautiful garment. It
could have been a robe or a mantle. It could
have been a tapestry from Shinar, Babylonian
area. And he was tempted by gold and silver.
And God said, that all belongs to me. And he
took it to himself. He buried the treasure in
his tent. So that makes me think that his family
must have known. And that's why they also had
to be destroyed with him, because they were just
as guilty. You know, guilt by association, but
they were part of it. So there's long -lasting
effects. from this troubler. Yeah, it says Israel
has sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant. Exactly. So that's what God said. There's
sin in the camp, and it says in verse 1 of Joshua
7, but the children of Israel committed a trespass
regarding the cursed things. So God is holding
the entire nation for one person's guilt. Yeah.
Wow. So when we're being tempted, And we all
get tempted. Come on. We all get tempted to do
things we shouldn't do. When you get tempted,
you need to start thinking about the ripple effect.
It's one thing if I do this one thing myself,
but it's not only going to be me that's affected.
It's going to affect my family. It's going to
affect my future. Aiken, his whole family went
down. His whole family were killed. There's nobody
in the scripture that's the son of Achan that
lives on. All the generations were wiped out.
They're all wiped out, the whole family. So there's
no continuing family. So when we choose to do
something we shouldn't do, there's an effect
on our family, there's an effect on our future,
and there can be an effect on the whole nation.
Yeah. He was just one person doing one thing
that he shouldn't do, but it affected the whole
nation. 36 people died, okay? Those 36 people
might have been fathers of children in the future
if they had lived. Yeah, sure. So it's making
an effect on more than just you. Think about
that when you're being tempted. So let's look
at David. with Bathsheba. So David's sin with
Bathsheba led into murder. He had Bathsheba's
husband killed so that he could make it look
like she got pregnant from him instead of from
David, right? He was trying to get Bathsheba's
husband to go spend time with his wife. And he
wouldn't do it. He was too loyal. He said, the
armies of Israel don't get to be with their wives.
It's not fair for me to get time with mine. And
in the beginning of the scripture, it says it
was at the time when kings go to war. Yeah, he
should have been there. He should have been there.
His eyes went someplace they shouldn't have been.
He already had a wife. He had several wives.
Right. Yeah, really. But here's what was unleashed.
What was unleashed by his sin is one of his sons,
Amnon, begins lusting after his half -sister,
Tamar. And he ends up raping her. Right. So here
is illicit sex going on from dad, and it's affecting
his son. The spirit was unleashed into his household.
Okay? Yeah. And the spirit of murder was unleashed
into his household when he had Uriah the Hittite,
Bathsheba's husband, killed. Had him at the front
line where the battle was hot. Yeah. So I'm surmising
that because David already had this guilt over
taking Bathsheba as his wife, that he didn't
deal with Amnon. because, you know, he's feeling
kind of guilty. You know, how can I deal with
him when I did the same thing? Okay. So then
Absalom takes matters into his own hands to murder
his brother for what he did to his sister. And
then Absalom eventually winds up raising an insurrection
against his father and then losing his life.
So David's sin with Bathsheba. It just legally
opened, spiritually opened up an open door. Exactly.
Exactly. So the Lord wants to give us the grace
to obey him. And it comes by walking in the spirit.
Galatians 5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in
the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts
of the flesh. Those desires of the flesh are
overcome as we walk in the spirit. Yeah, we keep
our focus. Yeah. So the Passion Translation gives
us some help on this subject. In James 1, verses
12 to 27, Philip, would you read that, please?
If your faith remains strong while surrounded
by life's difficulties, you'll continue to experience
the untold blessings of God. True happiness comes
as you pass the test with faith. and receive
the victorious crown of life promised to every
lover of God. When you are tempted, don't ever
say, God is tempting me. For God is incapable
of being tempted by evil and he is never the
source of temptation. Instead, it is each person's
own desires and thoughts that drag them into
evil and lure them away into darkness. Evil desires
give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully
mature, it can murder you. So, my friends, don't
be fooled by your own desires. Every gift God
freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming
down from the Father of lights, who shines from
the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness
and is never subject to change. God was delighted
to give us birth by the truth of his infallible
word, so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny
for us and become the favored ones out of all
his creation. So we're designed by our Father
to walk with Him, to walk with His Spirit, to
let His engrafted Word work on our flesh so that
we surrender. We surrender our flesh to Him.
We give it to Him. We take of the grace that
comes from His Word. We take of the grace that
comes from His presence. that comes when we're
worshiping him, when we're in fellowship with
him. That grace will help us to say no to temptation,
to say no to sin, and to say no to the hurts
that we've received from others. You know, when
Jesus was on the cross, Isaiah 53 talks about
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was
bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement
of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes
we're healed. Those wounds are every kind of
wound. And the grief that he bore, surely he
bore our grief and carried our sorrow. So anything
that we take from him, as we understand it, we
take salvation. Because we know that he has done
it on the cross. He has paid for it on the cross.
All of these things he's paid for. So maybe you've
just experienced his salvation, his knowing that
you can be saved because of what he paid for.
But all of these things were paid for. Maybe
you haven't even experienced that. Maybe you're
saying, I need to get saved. Kind of like when
you started a 21 -day fast and you're three days
into it and realize, I got to get saved. Okay,
maybe you haven't even been born again yet. All
of these things were paid for, including being
healed of wounds that we've received, including
having him come into our lives so that The one
who said from the cross, Father, forgive them,
they know not what they do. His grace to be able
to say, Father, forgive them, comes into us to
enable us to say, Father, forgive them, and I
forgive them. I give this to you. I release them.
I release them from the hurt and the pain that
they caused me, and I receive of your healing
virtue. And all of the stuff that was lost in
the time from the time that you got hurt, and
maybe it was as a child, from the time you got
hurt until now, all of that lost time, he can
restore. He can restore you like he did for me
in those six weeks of not even thinking about
it. And he healed me of the pain. The pain was
gone. I did not. have any reason to cry anymore.
It was healed. I had already forgiven, but I
was healed. And the Lord wants to do that for
you today to give you the grace to forgive and
to heal from hurts and to give you the grace
to overcome temptation. Because our Father is
not the one that's tempting us, but the temptation
is coming to us to really check us out if we're
going to follow the Lord or not. And so it's
time to walk down a different street and not
give in to that place where we've fallen and
fallen and fallen. And the Lord helps us out
every time. It's time for us to walk where we
don't even go down that street anymore. So, Father,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank
you for the grace that comes from your Spirit.
to enable us to receive this healing virtue and
this healing that comes deep into our souls where
we've been wounded, where we've been wounded
even by what Adam and Eve did back in the Garden
of Eden. Lord, that wounding that has come down
all through our DNA, all these many generations,
you Jesus paid the price for us to be able to
walk away from temptation and say, nope. not
for me. I'm not going there. That is not the
real me. The real me is my spirit. The real me
is wedded to the Holy Spirit. I'm one with the
Holy Spirit, and I'm going to walk in the spirit
and not in the flesh. Lord, we thank you for
that great grace being released to our listeners
right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Receive that healing now. Just receive. Just
receive. It's kind of like somebody offering
you a plate of cookies. You just reach out and
you take one. Thank you, Father. We thank you
for this great grace. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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