Scheming

Genesis 26-30: Cultivating an attitude of thankfulness produces faith in God's everyday blessings and provisions; shortcut scheming fights against faith.

Reputation

Jonah 4- Is witnessing sometimes more difficult because we value our reputation more in certain circumstances; work, friends, or family. Pride and reputation hinder Kingdom work.

Sin Tendencies

Gen 20: Abraham lied about his wife a second time!
Every saint must guard against old sin tendencies.
Accountability partners help, pride enables sin.
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Time For God's Prayer

“We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26).

“He,” the Holy Spirit in you, “makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God” (8:27). And God searches your heart, not to know what your conscious prayers are, but to find out what the prayer of the Holy Spirit is.

The Spirit of God uses the nature of the believer as a temple in which to offer His prayers of intercession. “… your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit …” (1 Corinthians 6:19).

• In all types of media, satan has changed our framework of thinking about spiritual work to evil.

• The Holy Spirit desires a clean place to do His business inside you. We are saved by grace to be a temple of God. Unclean temple = bad relationship.

• We know from biblical examples that extended time alone is the time frame needed for the Holy Spirit to do His business within; convicting, teaching, and praying for you and me.

The challenge of this blogvotion is; do you allow time for the Holy Spirit to do His thing. It’s probably not a 5 minute process or on your way to work.

Would you ever NOT want the Holy Spirit of the world to be crowded out of praying time for your best interests or God’s will in your life? Perhaps the Spirit’s first prayer is for God to slow you down; and we wonder why some things happen.