Romans 14:17
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of food or drink,
it is justice, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
--- Mine,
Justice, peace, and joy note the order and see for yourself the results of the first action Are you restless, are you disturbed, when you examine your life now what is your honest opinion of your life in the here an now. If peace is lacking it is because peace is the fruit of justice if you are honest with yourself and can admit before God that peace is absent examine with the help of My Holy Spirit whether or not your have been just in your words and your deeds with the people who touch your life daily Your colleagues at work, the stranger who for a brief moment comes into your life, the stranger is the one to whom we ought to be kind and gentle for as the Scripture tells you that some have entertained angels unknowingly.
If you are harsh, critical, unkind, rude, in your words if this is habitual to your nature and has been something you have done for as long as you can remember and you also know that you are without peace, it also follows that you are without joy. Resolve this day to check your tongue, check the rude words, check the harsh language that check the prejudice of your actions because people belong to a different country, a different stage speak a different language and resolve in this Season of Lent to fast from such injustice.
It will difficult hard and painful for this has been a way of life for us until now. This will be hard if not impossible without the help of grace and the Holy Spirit Ask for help and you will receive it. This is where giving up the things you like to eat and drink; deny yourself things that you truly like like fasting from watching TV, movies, chocolates, eating between meals; these small ways in which you deny your flesh provide the grace your need to tackle the mountains that you are unable to shift. When you deny the craving of the flesh you are able to exercise discipline over your spirit. You will grow aware of your negative thoughts and your negative speech and negative actions that are so deeply embedded in you that until now you did not even though they existed. With awareness comes the desire to see yourself as you are and to realise that you need to change. Once you are honestly striving to be kinder and gentler, to check the desire to be confrontational, then you will find the stress seeping out of your spirit, the tensions and the anxiety will give way to peace and the greater the peace the greater the joy that will flood your soul and keep you healthy in mind body and spirit.
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of food or drink,
it is justice, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
--- Mine,
Justice, peace, and joy note the order and see for yourself the results of the first action Are you restless, are you disturbed, when you examine your life now what is your honest opinion of your life in the here an now. If peace is lacking it is because peace is the fruit of justice if you are honest with yourself and can admit before God that peace is absent examine with the help of My Holy Spirit whether or not your have been just in your words and your deeds with the people who touch your life daily Your colleagues at work, the stranger who for a brief moment comes into your life, the stranger is the one to whom we ought to be kind and gentle for as the Scripture tells you that some have entertained angels unknowingly.
If you are harsh, critical, unkind, rude, in your words if this is habitual to your nature and has been something you have done for as long as you can remember and you also know that you are without peace, it also follows that you are without joy. Resolve this day to check your tongue, check the rude words, check the harsh language that check the prejudice of your actions because people belong to a different country, a different stage speak a different language and resolve in this Season of Lent to fast from such injustice.
It will difficult hard and painful for this has been a way of life for us until now. This will be hard if not impossible without the help of grace and the Holy Spirit Ask for help and you will receive it. This is where giving up the things you like to eat and drink; deny yourself things that you truly like like fasting from watching TV, movies, chocolates, eating between meals; these small ways in which you deny your flesh provide the grace your need to tackle the mountains that you are unable to shift. When you deny the craving of the flesh you are able to exercise discipline over your spirit. You will grow aware of your negative thoughts and your negative speech and negative actions that are so deeply embedded in you that until now you did not even though they existed. With awareness comes the desire to see yourself as you are and to realise that you need to change. Once you are honestly striving to be kinder and gentler, to check the desire to be confrontational, then you will find the stress seeping out of your spirit, the tensions and the anxiety will give way to peace and the greater the peace the greater the joy that will flood your soul and keep you healthy in mind body and spirit.
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