Sister Dorothy Sunday School 2/1/15

Sister Dorothy Sunday School 2/1/15

Things that drain us: The enemy is there to take from us every possession that we have.  We need to watch our worldly companions, they too can drain from us everything that we have.  Even our family can drain us when we are around them too long.

Mat 13:22  He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

The cares of life can drain us.  They must be done, but they need to be in their place.  So many times I sit down to have my devotions and they rush in on me: “I forgot to do this.  I need to call so in so.”  He uses any excuse to keep us from getting in the closet of prayer and getting the door shut.  If we are not careful the cares of life rob us completely. 

We must have that time with God.  The enemy is there to steal, kill, and destroy.  In the light of eternity does it really matter?  “I forgot to put wood in the fire.”  Will it go out in the next 20 minutes? 

I think of those that are retired as having more time in their hands but the scripture says, “It will come on all those that dwell on the face of the earth.”  It will come on all of us whether you working and active or retired. 

It is a wile of the enemy, “I don’t have to get up and get right to my devotions; I have all day.”  Then he will come in and say, “You have to do this and this…”  It is a peril and a wile of the enemy.  He will put that on us.  If we don’t get right to it, then other things will start cropping up, the phone will ring or something else will crowd in.

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

It doesn’t say that we can’t have pleasures or enjoy something.  But do we enjoy it more than we love God?  The enemy will try to get us carried away with things. 

Gal 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

We can overcome him by having these treasures of the fruit of the Spirit buried in our heart.  Then we can pull them out of the treasure house and use them in the spirit of meekness.  If we can help a soul, do it in the spirit of meekness.

Eph 6:9  And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

Neither is there respect of persons with him.  We need to be careful lest we respect one over the other.  God cares for each one of us equally.

The temptation to withdraw from praying for conviction for those we love:  Sometimes we pray for our children and think, “I don’t want something bad to happen to them.”  How far are we willing to let God work?  The enemy would like us to tell God, “Help them not to get sick or in a wreck.”  We want to let God work and deal with them.  We want them to be saved, but the enemy says, “At what cost?” 

He works on me to just withdraw when I am in there praying.  God help us to not draw back but to let Him work as He knows best.  My heart-cry then is, “Lord please don’t take them out into eternity before they are saved.  As long as there is life there is hope.”  Spare them until they get saved, the rest us up to God. 

God is not willing that any perish.  That is such a comfort.  We pray ‘at any cost’.  We must have confidence in God.  The enemy would like to destroy that confidence.  If we pray, God will do.

Accusations:  it is a horrible, horrible thing that the enemy would use upon us.  He likes to get his paw of oppression on us and not let us go.  We can get out from under the paw with the help of God.  Sister Kelly told us of this, she said the enemy brought her past up to her and she saw a box with her past buried and the enemy trying to get it back up.  She said, “It is covered by the blood.” 

Shame on us if we ever think of someone’s past life.  It is under the blood.  I am so glad that my sin is under the blood.

Luk 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Luk 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

It will come on us unawares if we are not careful.  Surfeiting means nausea from overindulgence.  We can be overindulgent in pleasures or even in the things that we must get done.  “I am just sick of doing that.”  Well, there may be a little surfeiting there.  It is a snare.  Let’s be careful that we don’t get sick from some of the things that we think we need to do. 

Christianity is not a thing of times and seasons but of God’s love.  If we are not full of God’s love, we demand it of someone.  We must be careful or the enemy will use it as a snare.  “If you don’t meet what I think I need, there is something wrong with you.”  No there is something wrong with me; I haven’t gotten my cup full of God’s love.

If we are full of God, those loves will grow holier, healthier, grander and fuller of beauty.  If we are full of God’s love it will bless everyone around us. 

Get free from these things of temptations.  My dream this morning before the alarm went off was someone telling me, “Be absorbed.”  I thought of the word, absorbed, when I awoke and looked it up.  It means to drink in and give complete attention.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving. 

Be absorbed.  Do we ever come and open those doors and stand there absorbed by the thought of worshipping God.  When we go to someone’s home are we absorbed with our surroundings there?  Are we rejoicing and praising God that we have fellowship with one another?  We want others to feel our joy. 

To get free from temptations allow not one bit of the old life or self to be there.  And always think on the things mentioned:

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

These things will destroy every temptation that the enemy brings against us.  When things come to worry us, God is able to help us to get our act together.  We can rest in, “Even if these things do happen, Lord you understand it all.”

Replace bad thoughts with good.  Attitudes: have everything right with our fellowman and with God.  Take the high road.  Keep thy heart with all diligence.  That is how we can destroy the works of the enemy. 

The perilous possibility of stumbling is always there. 

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

2Pe 3:18  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Paul said, “Lest I become a castaway.” 

Live life hid away with Christ and God.