Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Beloved, glory to God for bringing you into this new month. This new month shall bring you new things in every areas of your life in Jesus name.
Isaiah 43:19. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
As you look forward to new things from the Lord, this new month, you too must renew your focus to serve the Lord with newness of life.
Romans 6:4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Beloved, this becomes important because your loving Father detest divided heart in your walk with Him.
Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
You must always remember that your Father is very jealous and attach importance to your thoughts and walk with Him.
Exodus 20:2-6. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Your Father desires wholehearted love for Him and Him alone.
Deuteronomy 6:5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 10:12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 11:13-15. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Deuteronomy 13:1-3. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Beloved, your Father undertakes to to circumcise your heart for you to love Him with all your heart, ask Him to do it for you.
Deuteronomy 30:6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
IT TAKES CIRCUMCISION OF YOUR HEART TO LOVE GOD ALONE, ABOVE ALL THINGS AND NEVER EVER TO ADD ANY OTHER THING TO HIM. Severally He warned His people of all ages and you, never to add any other thing to their love for Him. See them.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Joshua 24:15: And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:19 -20. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
1 Samuel 7:3: ¶And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORDwith all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Kings 18:21: And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
2 Kings 17:33 -34. They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORDcommanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2 Kings 17:41: So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:39: As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Zephaniah 1:5: And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Beloved, begin this new month to serve and love God alone all things. He also shall do new things, beyond your comprehension for you in all areas of your life in Jesus name.
Dearly beloved, this new month you must be very careful and watch against the wiles of the devil to make you provoke God. He knew God is jealous about His love being shared with other beings and things.
Isaiah 42:8. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Satan subtly came to our Lord during His earthly ministry and subtly demanded Him to worship him.
Matthew 4:8-10. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
What satan did to Jesus our Lord to provoke God to anger, is still being done by him and his cohorts today. Although he woefully fail when he tempted our Lord, but very very unfortunately, many churchgoers that professed religion are fallen victim to his wiles. You shall not fall in Jesus name. This informed while our Lord gave these admonitions to believers of all ages and you in particular , to help you avert this subtle temptation to sin against God your loving Father and provoke Him to jealousy. See them.
Matthew 22:37-38. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
Luke 10:27. And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:13. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Dearly beloved,,because of the carnality of majority of these so called churchgoers that profess religion, they are fallen victim of this wiles of the devil. They are compromising their faith and loosing God’s presence and favour in their lives. This shall not be your portion in Jesus name.
Romans 8:6-8. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Timothy 3:1-5. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
May the Lord find you faithful in Jesus name. These churchgoers shall not be part of the dawning rapture, because they have compromised and are seen by God as idol worshippers.
Remember this, whatever you love more than God and makes you to place God secondary in your live, turns you to become idolatry and no idol worshipper shall inherit the kingdom of God. You shall enter God’s Kingdom, so avoid idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JESUS ADMONISHED BELIEVERS OF ALL AGES AND YOU TO LOVE GOD ABOVE EVERY OTHER BEINGS OR THINGS.
Friend, today as you rejoice for entering into the new month. Your joy shall know no bound in Jesus name your joy shall multiply and increase in Jesus name. But then, let it be dawn on you, that, you are a day closer to the dawning of the rapture. So renew your preparations and always be ready, whenever our Lord shall appear in the sky to take us home. You shall be there in Jesus name.
However, you must beware of subtle wiles satan and his cohorts are unleashing at this end time to sway believers from their consecration and commitment to the Lord.
1. Is the pursuit of wealth.
1 Timothy 6:9.-10. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17: Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
2. Worldliness and worldly ambition.
James 4:4: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15: -17. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
This informed why the admonition of our Lord to believers of all ages, especially you, must be taken seriously. See it.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
It is painful today to see majority of churchgoers claiming to be expecting the coming of our Lord, living in worldliness, committed to worldly practices as a lifestyle and pursing fame and finance why they are compromising and bowing to the god of mammon. Pause here a little without prejudice and presumption.
Are you free of these subtle wiles of the devil? Your answer should be affirmative yes. But if you are in doubt or the answer is no. Repent because you have already lost your first love for Christ. The good Lord shall help you in Jesus name.
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