Is there anything more important than the flow of the Holy Spirit in your life? There shouldn't be anything more important than this. We have been studying the seven things that I have found that will block the flow of the Holy Spirit in your life. When the Holy Spirit moves like a river through your life it brings life, health and peace, all the abundance of God. When that flow is blocked you will feel alienated from God, dry, empty as if God is a million miles away.
So far we have studied five things that will stop the flow of God inside us
1. Guilt and shame. We must learn to forgive ourselves
2. Condemnation. We must let go of our past mistakes and realize that God loves us and has forgiven us too.
3. A Lack of Love. Hurts and painful experiences can make us withhold our selves from reaching out to others in love. Love can hurt, but if we do not love, than God cannot flow through our lives.
4. Illusions and lies. The worse kind of lie is the lies that we tell ourselves
5. Aggravations and frustrations that steal our joy and peace.
Today we are going to look at the attitude or our minds. Whatever attitude we have impacts our whole life and the wrong kind of attitude will block the flow of God in our lives.
What are some of the wrong attitudes that are prevalent in society today?
an unthankful attitude, a bitter attitude, resentful, unforgiving, full of revenge, offended attitude, take offence easily, looking for reasons to find fault, selfish attitudes
What attitude should we have? We should have the same mind as Christ Jesus, though he was entitled to everything, he laid down everything to love others and save them from destruction.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The number one attitude in people today is a prideful attitude. Look at the attitude Jesus had, it was an attitude of humility. If the KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS had to humble himself why should we think that we do not have to do the same?
Our stresses, anxieties, fears, depressions, fights and quarrels often is rooted in pride. We must choose to trust, forgive, love and give. Whatever we have done in the past, or others have done to us that keep us from doing these things will block the flow of God in our lives. I must choose to trust God, I cannot take on a self sufficient attitude. Why would I think that my plans, my worries, my fears and my efforts could make things work well in my life? Yet, so many people want to 'handle' and 'manage' their own lives instead of turning them over to God.
A wrong attitude will stop the flow of God in your life every time. But how do we get a right attitude. There is only one way to have a correct attitude and that is to trust God and let go of your worries and fears. Forgive yourself and others and let go of the past and all of it's mistakes. Love deeply from the heart and give freely to your fellow mankind. If you look at what I am taking about ATTITUDE, what makes up our attitude? Your attitude is made up of how you handled the first 5 things we talked about. You attitude is made up of how you handle guilt, shame and condemnation. How you handle Love and forgiveness and how heartily you give to your fellow man. Your attitude is determined by how well you handle challenging things in your life that tend to aggravate and frustrate. If we overcome these things we will have a correct attitude and then the flow of God will flow through our lives more freely.
A bad attitude is like a dam. It blocks the flow of God in your life. Surrender your life to God and allow him to work on your attitude so that the flow of God can move through your life.
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