10/23/18 DON'T BE ROBBED BY THE DEVIL

10/23/18 DON'T BE ROBBED BY THE DEVIL
 
Don't allow failure, ineptness, embarrassment or pride to keep you from pursuing spiritual attainments.

DON'T BE ROBBED BY THE DEVIL
By Failure
If you ever failed in your walk or service to God, it is no reason to give up or turn away. If you slip as you are climbing the mountain, you don't just jump to your death below.

By Ineptness
We all excel in various areas of life, even in the Christian life, whether it is study, ministry, body life, witnessing or serving others. Even if you have to work harder in order to be and do what God is calling you to, do not allow your inability to rob you of His ability to work in you.

By Embarrassment
Embarrassment has been the death knell for myriads of believers. Folks sometimes let a minor bump in the road become their Everest of defeat, because they did not succeed or they did not excel in a particular activity or event. They would rather drop out and never face embarrassment again, rather than allow God to enable them to become what He wants them to become.

By PRIDE
Maybe the root cause of these excuses for defeat is PRIDE. You cannot allow your INORDINATE SELF ESTEEM (pride) to stand between you and your walk with God, your service to God, your fellowship with God, BETWEEN YOU AND GOD.

Humble yourself, repent of your disobedience and doubt, trust in the Lord and follow.
He is your Strength, He is your Courage, He is your Enabler.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Philippians 3:8-15
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.