Does God seem silent in your life? Does your quiet time feel rote?
Could sin be seperating you from the sweetness of His voice and fellowship?
Psalm 66:18
"If I had cherished sin in my heart; the Lord would not have listened..."
Could you be cherishing sin in your heart? Perhaps in denial. This is why keeping short accounts are important.
What are short accounts?
We keep short accounts when we confess the sin that the Holy Spirit brings to our mind the very moment He convicts.
I may be driving down the road, cooking dinner, folding laundry, or even having a conversation with a friend, and sense a quickening in my heart from the Holy Spirit.
For example:
- While in a conversation with a friend - flirting with gossip, I'll often hear in my heart, "Don't say it...You are thinking it... Don't say it... You said it. I told you not to say it."
- Or worrying about an issue - I'll suddenly have the thought, "Have you prayed about this and turned it over to Me?"
- Or let's go deeper - when you see that handsome man and you are married - and you want to start a conversation or bump into him at gym. "Besides, what's wrong with a little bit of flirting?" you say. Oh, that's not God, dear friend.
- Or when you're tempted to look "him" up on facebook. You tell yourself, "There's not harm in just a little bit of research!" That too, is not God.
When we do, God will hear our prayers and we will hear His voice whispering into the depths of our heart saying, "This is the way, walk in it."
March's
Iron Sharpens Iron - is next week!
Friday, March 9, 2012
11:30am-1:00pm
MacGregor Downs Country Club, Cary NC
Theme: Intimacy in Marriage
Speaker: Gwen Brodd
Prepay: $20
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or
$22 at the door
https://www.easyreg.org/cgi-bin/easyreg/registrationdbase/EVYDCJTNIM/signup.pl
Re "cherishing sin in your heart," see also Proverbs 6:18 and its warning against feet that are "runnning to do evil".
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