Often it is the extreme things that happen to us in life that knock us off course and cause us to get all out of balance inside. Please hear what I am about to say:
TOO OFTEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET THEIR MATERIAL AND OUTWARD LIFE TOGETHER WHILE THEIR INNER LIFE IS STILL A TOTAL WRECK!
You see, as long as you are a wreck on the inside you are going to find it impossible to get your life together in the material and physical realm.
Most of the time when people are contacting me for a word, or for spiritual help the question they have is about their material well being, their relationships, their home, their material and physical things.
The truth is that we will never find the answer for these physical and material things until after we find balance, and peace in our inner man, such as our emotions, our mind and our nerves. Jesus didn't talk a whole lot about how to get rich, or to be important, land a good job or meet the right person to marry, but he spent a lot of time trying to teach us how to find peace on the inside.
We deceive ourselves when we think that things OUTSIDE of us can bring us joy and peace when our insides are completely out of whack.
What must we do?
We have to BY FAITH let go of the material things and the physical outward things and focus on the inward things. Americans are wealthy by the world standards. We tend to think of ourselves in the terms of the outward things. Material wealth, physical beauty, relationships and educational pursuits are some of the things we value the most as a society. But when it all boils down these things make little difference in our lives when we have no emotional stability, or mental health or inward peace and joy. In America we tend to value the outward things so much that we neglect the inner things. Wisdom, peace, joy, soundness of mind, inner satisfaction are all things that are under valued in our society if they do not lead to outward successes. This causes us to be a nation full of things, yet devoid of true joy and peace.
So how do we obtain balance in our inner man? This can only be achieved by the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 4:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Let go of everything that you desire and go after the Holy Spirit. This will restore balance to your inner man and replace the inner turmoil with peace, and then you will be able to get the material and physical areas of your life in order as well.
Matthew 6: 25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take you thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30Therefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
33But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Seeking first the Kingdom of God is about righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Seek the infilling of the Holy Ghost in your life first and foremost on a daily basis, when you have this, you have everything.
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