Are Men Required to Meet the Emotional Needs of their Wives?
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” Colossians 2:8-10
The true disciple of Jesus daily denies self, is crucified with Christ, never looks to the world. Only the accursed do so (Jeremiah 17:5-6). Never does the true follower of Christ look anywhere except to Christ. He seeks not man’s “professional help” which is laughable. He looks to the Word of God! – “But his delight is in the law (Word) of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” (Psalms 1:2)
“According as his divine power hath given unto us ALL things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:3-4
“All things that pertain unto life and godliness” are found in the “exceeding great and precious promises” God’s Word.
Any person pushing anyone to “get professional help” is a messenger of Satan.
The godly encourage people to seek God directly, in His Word. God fearing saints seek to help others see their need to get into God’s Word for themselves. The wicked among us parrot, regurgitate psychobabble. Beware!
No one needs “professional help.” That’s ridiculous. Repent and cease pushing Satan’s lies! We are all sinners and we need the healing of our Maker which exclusively comes through Jesus Christ revealed in the Word of God. Everything else presenting itself as the “answer” is a lie to exploit people. Repent and follow Jesus is the only remedy. Jesus came to forgive our sins and heal our broken hearts (Luke 4:18; 1 Timothy 1:15).
“The Bible tells us that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the Church. The Bible doesn’t say that husbands must meet their wives’ emotional needs and love their wives with their love language. This is extra-biblical nonsense that is destroying marriages.” Lori Alexander, The Transformed Wife
Wives and Husbands
Husbands are called of God to “nourisheth and cherisheth” their wives and yet what does such entail?
Ephesians 5
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
To say that the husband is responsible for the wife’s “emotional needs” would be to say that Christ is responsible for the “emotional needs” of His body. Well, He provides the blessed “fruit of the Spirit” in us as we abide, remain in Him (Galatians 5:22-23). The LORD expressly requires that we seek His face and as we do He floods our being with His blessed soundness, wholeness, His love, joy, peace, etc.
Dear beloved individual: You’ve either got a life with Christ or you don’t. No one can do this for you! You must seek His holy face for yourself. And, He holds you 100% personally accountable to do such! No one on the planet can seek God for me! He requires it of me, personally. Of this truth, the old folks used to say “There are no grandchildren in Christ’s kingdom.”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.” Ezekiel 18:20
When a man lays down his life for his wife, cherishing, protecting, and providing for her, she will be a blessed woman, whether she realizes that or not. Yet no other human being can fulfill, satiate another human being. That takes the LORD working in the hearts of men/women as they individually seek His holy face, right?
The demons who run holly weird have intentionally dished out unlimited delusions over the decades and those lies have come home to roost. This is touched on by a sister in Christ when she writes:
“Being in the world, but not of it, I often have to remind myself of that . . . that my husband is not there to meet my emotional needs like they do for their wives on TV – one reason I quit watching that carnal trash a long time ago. The struggle is real but I am not ignorant of the devil’s devices and I know how to use the weapons God gave me and as I am personally seeking His face, I always win the battle, glory to God! I was always an obedient wife (mostly, sort-of 
) and tried hard to be as Godly as possible but since I’ve been reading the transformed wife’s posts on Facebook, things are waaaay better! I see that I haven’t been nearly as obedient, kind and honoring to my darling gift of a husband, hand picked for me by God himself, over 33 years ago. The Holy Spirit has fine-tuned our relationship!”
As I read your words…. it occurs that it seems that the way Satan has worked was to make it look like the husband is beholden to his wife, having a sap type posture where he’s falsely obligated to somehow make sure his wife is happy, all the time. Nonsense. No one is. There’s a time and season to everything! Read Ecclesiastes 3.
The cross Christ prescribed for all who will truly follow Him is always His only answer to us – in the divine economy which is a cross economy (Luke 9:23-24; John 3:30; Romans 6; 2 Corinthians 4:10-12; Galatians 2:20; 6:14; Colossians 3:3, etc.).
“Apart from Christ there is no life. He must increase, but I must decrease 
to know Christ and be known by Him, to abide, to walk each day with Jesus. This is the life we all need, this – not the things of this world! O God, break me until I am completely and fully yours.” Jon Crane
Read this and perhaps reflect upon all the mountains of teachings out there about men meeting the “emotional needs” of their wives. Totally false. Isn’t that something GOD alone can do? This lie alone has destroyed countless homes. We better repent afresh and be conformed to the Word. The Word, the LORD never holds a mere man, a sinner, accountable to meet the “emotional needs” of any other person. To cherish one’s wife is one thing, and to do for her what she alone can do by seeking God, is yet another. EACH individual must repent and seek the LORD’s face for himself/herself. It’s only then that God’s perfect love will cast out all fear (1 John 4:18).
Each and every single individual is personally accountable to God to repent, believe on Christ, and thereafter abide in Christ, upholding Heaven’s KING as the very “first love,” the first priority of his life (John 14-15; 17:3; Revelation 2:4-5).
“The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.” Deuteronomy 24:16
“If we depended on human vessels to fulfill our emotional needs, we’d be in a heap of trouble. Our needs can only be met through Jesus our Husband, our Maker. ISAIAH 54.” Anita Villarreal
“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” Revelation 2:4-5
Like a good man, an unmarried man – If you don’t prove, if you don’t truly desire him, if you can live without him – he’s not going to marry you. Jesus is the Great Bridegroom and His bride are those who truly want Him, who commune with Him, who can’t live without Him (Matthew 25:1-13; Ephesians 5:25-30; Revelation 19:7-10).
Your personal relationship with the LORD is paramount above all else – above all other relationships. It’s only when He is pouring into us – as we personally seek His face – that His love will dwell in and emanate through us to others, in the relationships He’s given us! Think about the shape of the cross – it is first upward (vertical) and only then is it outward (horizontal). Now watch these words of our LORD and the order of priority of placement of the two commands upon which the whole law rests:
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus must be the “first love” of each of His saints (Revelation 2:4-5). No person can take that place. Your wife or your husband cannot replace the Almighty and your place, your fellowship with Him. We must cease immediately looking to any man/women and it’s time to seek the face of your God. What do the first two of the ten commandments say? When we are full of Christ, full of the Holy Ghost due to seeking His holy face, His presence will flow through us into the lives of those around us. Memorize 1 Chronicles 16:11 today.
“One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.” Psalms 27:4
“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.” Psalms 27:8
Beware of the Psychobabble
There’s no guarantee at all that just because one person obeys God that the other will also. There’s no guarantee that if I treat you well, that you will absolutely return goodness my way. Else why would verses appear like this following verse in God’s Word?
“He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.” Proverbs 17:15
Those who repay good for evil and those who repay evil for good bring a curse upon themselves.
“Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.” Proverbs 17:13
The LORD has given every individual free will, the choice, the ability to exercise themself in good or evil (Deuteronomy 30:19; Joshua 24:15).
This is a general Bible truth, principle. A number of years ago there was a heretical book circulating that was teaching men that if there were ANY problems in their marriage, it was ALL (100%) the man’s fault. Not. This cannot be determined either for the husband or the wife in any marriage. 100% nonsense. That book taught that if the man cherished and loved and laid down his life for his wife, that 100% of the times the woman would be perfectly content, have her emotional needs met, etc. Not. That would mean that because Jesus perfectly served every man and woman, every sinner, by coming to die for them, buying them back, that it’s guaranteed that every sinner will absolutely respond perfectly with an affirmative worship and obedience to God. Delusional. Jesus told us that most are going to hell by their own choice (Matthew 7:13-14).
God requires each individual to know and worship Him and be blessed with His love, a sound heart, a sound mind, etc., as a result. The man, husband, does not take the place of the Almighty. In fact, Jesus teaches us that if we love ANYONE, and that would include our wife or husband, more than we love Him, we are not worthy of Him.
“He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:37
We should always remember that God is the perfect Father, has never done anyone wrong without reason, and yet many, His own people have throughout history forsaken and done Him wrong. The perfect wife, the perfect performance of a wife doesn’t guarantee one ounce of obedience or right doing from her husband and vice versa.
MESSAGE RECEIVED:
“I have long believed that God gave men power–strength. But He gave women something more powerful–that I think many don’t realize–influence. (We can use it on these husbands too–to our benefit as well. Oh I am so bad!) So the demonic, knowing that, went after the women. And now the women are suffering the consequences. But among those at fault I would call out our church pastors. I tell you when I was a young Christian, those pastors would preach until you’d feel the flames of Hell. I will admit, we didn’t have big seeker friendly mega churches then. I mean, who wants to hear about the flames of Hell!?” Arlean
REPLY:
Yes God has such a beautiful “everybody wins” plan….that “influence” if you will, comes not with manipulation and self-serving agenda like Jezebel and Delilah, but rather that described in 1 Peter 3 of a “chaste conversation coupled with fear… the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price…”
Wives and Husbands
1 Peter 3
1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Sister Arlean writes:
“I became aware of the order of the home as a relatively young Christian. My husband was not saved at the time. Raised Southern Baptist but not born again. I told him the scripture and said “from now on whatever you say we will do.” He was wiser than I. He said, “Don’t be silly, we’re partners, we’ll decide things together.” And we did. In our years of marriage I never moved ahead if he disagreed, but he likewise never moved ahead if I disagreed. This is, to me, a prime example of submitting to one another. I saw one man whose marriage failed, I believe because he rode roughshod over his wife with that doctrine. This is why I say none of us can demand it. I can’t demand that my husband love me as Christ loved the church, nor can he demand submission. It has to be given. And people need to understand the reasons for it. It’s also why a person needs to be careful of who they marry. Marry someone without good sense, especially about money, and you’ve just about destroyed yourself!
I have to add, I’m amazed at women these days–in the CHURCH!!! Are pastors preaching ANYTHING? I was so happy for a friend’s wonderful son, married a “Christian” that I believed was genuine. I talked with her many times, really liked her. After a few years she came home and told him she’d “outgrown him” and wanted a divorce. And this was a man who cared for her and his family and she a “Christian” woman (?) destroyed him. What about “Let not a wife depart from her husband, but if she depart let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her own husband.” Oh yeah, I forgot there for a minute. You can do that because as long as you “believe” your works don’t matter. You never need to worry. Let’s preach on THAT one a little more!!
Oh Brother Todd, you’ve opened up a subject I can hardly keep silent on! I think I better move along!”
The Divinely Ordained Order
The husband’s priorities are 1. God, 2. his wife, 3, children, 4. others.
The woman’s priorities are 1. God, 2. her husband, 3, children, 4. others.
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Jesus and His holy apostles often rebuked and exposed false leaders and false doctrine (Matthew 23; Acts 13:10; 20:29-31; Galatians 5:11-12; 2 Timothy 4:2-4; 2 Peter 2; 2 John 7-11; Revelation 2:6, 15, etc.). Therefore we know that part of following Jesus includes doing the same. In fact, the body of Christ is mandated to do just that (Romans 16:17-18; Philippians 1:17; Jude 3-4).
PWT = Preach, WARN, Teach
“Whom we PREACH, WARNING every man, and TEACHING every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:” Colossians 1:28
Did you catch what the apostle Paul did to prepare the church to meet Christ?
- Preach
- WARN
- Teach
Any man not guarding, not protecting Christ’s flock, by warning of false teachers and false doctrine, is himself a wolf!
Simply put, it doesn’t matter what you think: The LORD has commanded that Satan’s ministers, his human emissaries, be exposed. Time to shut up and obey! (2 Corinthians 11:12-15)
Lest someone think that warning is a cover for slander, let’s address that.
There is a difference between warning and slander. Warning is to be distinguished from slander. William Penn said it correctly when he recorded these words of wisdom:
“Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.” ~William Penn
The love of God in us will compel us to warn. Firstly this is done in obedience to the LORD and for the protection and care of those being warned. Warning is divinely mandated in order to protect His beloved sheep.
2 Corinthians 5:9-11, 14-21
“Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. … 14 For the love of Christ constraineth (compels) us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
“The Apostle had arrived at the deliberate conclusion and judgment that the ‘all’ who realized what Christ had done for them (and he among them) must live with as much devotion toward Him as others toward themselves. A new world had been opened by Christ’s resurrection. All things had become new. Let us live in daily touch with that world of faith and glory, refusing to be judged by the old standards. It is clear that the reconciliation of the world is as complete as God can make it, but it is for us to urge men to fall in with and accept God’s proposals.” FB Meyer
“Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we the more earnestly persuade men to seek his favour; and as God knoweth this, so, I trust, ye know it in your own consciences.” John Wesley
It’s a blessing to be humbled, to be brought low. Sometimes we need to be embarrassed (Proverbs 6:23). There’s a place for it. Paul openly rebuked Peter publicly (Galatians 2). That wound worked to the glory of God and the eternal good of Peter.
“For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:” Romans 6:23
Keep in mind that each one of us are at times in need of being admonished, corrected, or even rebuked…. it’s “the way of life” as long as we are in this world and it’s out of the love of our God and for our own eternal good.
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” Revelation 3:19
Did God command us to warn the wicked?
Ezekiel 3:7 “Warn them from me.”
“So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and WARN THEM FROM ME.” Ezekiel 33:7
What would you think of the father who lived on a busy street and refused to warn his children to stay away from that street?
“Whom we PREACH, WARNing every man, and TEACHing every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:” Colossians 1:28
Were Jesus, His prophets, and apostles trying to harm the body of Christ when they often warned of and exposed wolves and their false teachings by name? No, he sought to get the cancer out of the body of Christ so it couldn’t spread (Romans 16:17-18, etc.). Beware of the wolf defenders who refuse to believe the wolves they follow are antichrist enemies of the LORD (2 John 10-11).
“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Isaiah 58:1
Most warnings in God’s Word are to the backslidden – those who after being Christ’s, have departed from the faith – and also the counterfeits who have a mere form of godliness.
Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).
Isaiah 59
“Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”
“Thy prophets (leaders) have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered (uncovered) thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity (bondage); but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.” Lamentation 2:14
God instructed us to “mark” false leaders. Jesus is the Great Shepherd of the sheep and intends for them to be protected from being lured away (Hebrews 13:20; Romans 16:17-18).
“Christians do not judge the world. Christians must judge those who SAY they live for Christ. Wolves will not spare the flock where pretenders go unchallenged/unjudged.” Robert Lorne
Paul had the heart of the Savior as we should. He cried “with tears” for three years day and night over the protection of Jesus’ sheep and said He gave them all the counsel of God, not just some of it, to protect them (Acts 20:20-32).
Ignoring and deciding we are going to selectively pick out what we want to preach and reject the rest that WE don’t like is anything but the cross. This reveals the heart of a self-serving tare. A person truly in the cross says LORD, “NOT my will but thine be done,” and not “I’ll decide for myself what I’m going to preach” (Luke 22:42).
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove (expose) them.” Ephesians 5:11
After promising that we are His and we shall be persecuted as He was, then our LORD informs us that He is going to expose darkness and that we are to be a part of this process as we stand and speak His His light of truth into the darkness of our day. And to fear not anyone except Him (v 26-28).
“Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. 27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:26-28
Jesus instructed us to know that He will bring all darkness, every dark deed and evil doer into the light (v26), and told us to shout it, to expose it to all from the housetops (v27), and to do so fearlessly as concerns mere sinful men – the guilty ones who will persecute you for exposing them (v28).
How are we to warn them? what is to be our disposition in warning others as the LORD commanded? One thing we should keep in mind is that God wants us dealing biblically – with the desire to restore – and without personal wrath (Galatians 6:1-2).
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” James 1:20
It’s a scary thing to NOT warn the wicked….
“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to WARN the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezekiel 3:18
“And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” Jude 22-23
Read these 2 verses closely. Notice how if you die in sin – no matter what your past relationship with God was – you are going to hell irrevocably. Enduring to the end of your life on earth with Christ, in an abiding relationship, is essential to eternal glory. Summation: The LORD judges people on their spiritual state at the moment of death. Share. Repent now heretic.
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“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” Revelation 12:9
“That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world” never left the garden of God’s creation and he won’t till Jesus slam dunks him into the bottomless pit (Genesis 3; Revelation 12; 20). He must be overcome “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Revelation 12:11). God is able. Satan
“He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.” Ecclesiastes 10:8
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:1-7
In the scope of past, present, and future history – HIS-story – nothing is over till Jesus wins!
“For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. … 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:25-26, 57
The Cross
Personally I was not blessed to begin seeing our LORD’s victory in my personal life until Jesus’ cross message began to seep into my heart, thoughts and mind.
The record of Holy Scripture assures us that our LORD Jesus conquered sin, death, hell, and Satan (1 John 3:8). But how? He overcome by the cross.
Jesus conquered sin and death by dying.
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” Hebrews 2:14
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Camping out on the message of the cross will assure you are quickened to “seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.” (1 Chronicles 16:11) Keeping thine eyes and heart upon His cross message will hasten you to Him, to His cross, to the death of self that Christ might raise you upward in His holy power and glory.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn (grain, seed) of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.” John 12:24-26
The cross truly is a “Let go and let God” economy, experience – crying, declaring “Jesus You MUST increase but I MUST decrease!”
As the apostle Paul discovered, you are NOT sufficient and yet His grace is sufficient for your life in Him.
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
PRAYER: Father, please grant me eye salve to see Your holy truth and the many wolves that now are disguised in sheep’s clothing and leading many to hell. Help me, Jesus! Knowing my utter poverty of spirit, I this moment turn afresh to You fully, asking You to have mercy on me and wash away all my sins. Grant the eyes of my heart discernment as only You can, as I walk closely with You. I choose this day to deny my own self-will and desires and ask You to consume me with Your wisdom, power, and grace. LORD Jesus, please bless me to know You intimately. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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Widespread Corruption – Evidence of God’s Judgment on a Nation
IMPORTANT: Read Matthew 24 and Luke 21 this week. Jesus foretold this would all be happening right before He returns! Jesus is coming. Get ready.
A cursory introduction to Jeremiah 5-7. God’s people were in rebellion to Him and reaping what they’d been sowing (Galatians 6:7-8). Read, pour prayerfully over these chapters this week beloved. This message is designed to launch the God fearing saint to pour over this passage as they examine their hearts, their lives before Him honestly.
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Jeremiah 5:25-31
Judgment on America for the Rebellion of those who Falsely Claim to be Saved
“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” Revelation 6:9-10
The LORD blesses those who are with Him. Anyone who forsakes Him will be forsaken by Him.
“The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and IF ye seek him, he will be found of you; but IF ye forsake him, he will forsake you.” 2 Chronicles 15:2
The word “if” in God’s Word denotes a choice that will be made.
The LORD is not with you if you are not with Him – doing life on HIS stated terms. That’s exactly why He gave you His recorded Word in tangible form. Read John 14-16.
Notice “IF ye seek him” and not if you go to church or just claim to be His. Are you seeking His holy face “continually”?
“Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.” 1 Chronicles 16:11
“Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.” Joel 2:12-13
“O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.” Hosea 14:1-2
Notice here in the verse below how setting, allowing wicked things into our eye gates leads to turning aside, departing from Christ, backsliding. Notice how the psalmist views backsliding as a plague. And it sure is. Millions irrevocably occupy the bowels of eternal damnation right this moment and forever who made one bad decision which led to their backsliding. It’s time to read God as if our eternal souls depended on it – because they do. safeguardyoursoul.com
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.” Psalms 101:3
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please break me, make me to be poor in spirit and pure in heart. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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