We have been talking about the things that will block the flow of the Holy Spirit to your life. Jesus said that if we believed in Him that out of our inner most being would flow rivers of living water. But this flow can get blocked off and when it does we feel like God is a million miles away. I have identified at least seven things in my life that can hinder that flow. So far we have talked about four of those things:
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 deception that we tell ourselves will keep us in darkness and only the truth will set us free. We must be truthful to ourselves about ourselves. How can we be honest with others if we are not honest with ourselves?
Today we are going to be looking at another thing that can block the flow of the Spirit in your life. Frustrations and Aggravation! We must have the determination and faith to rise above them. I capitalized those two words for a reason! Most of the time these two things come at us from our contact with someone else. How many times have you got frustrated or aggravated with the people and everyone around you and just plain give up. Oh this happen a lot, and the moment we give up is the ONLY way the devil wins in our lives. We lose by forfeit because we were too aggravated and frustrated to keep RUNNING THE RACE!
It reminds me of the little widow in the Bible that kept going to the wicked judge for justice. He refused to give her any justice at all. Did she give up? Did she quit going back? Did she go into a rant and lay down and quit. Absolutely not! She kept running the race for justice! She kept going back to the wicked judge each day asking for justice. And what happened? In the end even though the judge did not fear God or care about mankind, he gave her justice. The judge said I will give her what she wants least she wear me out through her continual coming. She flat out wore the judge out asking for justice until he gave it to her.
This is how life is most of the time. Aggravations and frustrations will ALWAYS block the flow of the Spirit of God in your life and STOP UP the blessings of God. So what do you have to do? You have to learn to let go of your own understanding and trust that where there is something that isn't right that God is going to make it right IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP AND LOSE FAITH. Often our wrongs are never righted because we give up, we get a bad attitude, we rant and rave instead of speaking words of faith and hope! And sometimes it isn't other people that frustrate us but our own circumstances. If you lack provision, don't let the frustration of that rule your heart and life. If you lack health don't let the aggravation of that give you a defeated attitude. If you lack good relationships in your life don't allow that to dominate your thinking! You cannot allow anything to replace faith and hope inside of you. Hang on to faith and hope with all you got, because even if you should lose everything else you have everything you need to rebuild when you have faith and hope and Love (which is God) On the other hand, if you lose faith and hope, this will block the flow of the Spirit in your life and cut off your access to God. When that happens, it doesn't matter what you have, it will not satisfy or prosper in anyway.
Words of faith and hope in GOD will change any circumstance you are facing. If you want the Holy Spirit to flow in your life you just LET GO of aggravation and frustrations and press forward toward the mark, run the race, keep a good attitude, and trust that God is making a WAY!
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