Root of All Addictions

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Hell's Log

In hell right now there is a log; a list of records with your name on it. A book that holds a record of your life and the plans to destroy it. Within this book holds a record of what you love to do and a record of what you hate to do. A record of your past and a record of your current pressures.

Everyday we are being followed. Followed by demons that write down everything we do. They follow us observing everything, jotting down information that will help them in their endeavors to completely obliterate our lives.

Have you ever noticed that at a certain time of the day or during a certain time of the week you face a certain test?

Have you ever noticed that during a certain season of your life you encounter something that seems to try and provoke you?

isn’t it odd or weird that during these certain times of your life it seems that something is initiating a plot or operating a plan…

The greatest strategy an army, a team or a person can do is watch and observe their opposition. For it is out of a season of watching an army, team or person can gather information on their opposition’s weaknesses and strengths giving them information that will help in their future attacks. Everyday demons watch our lives observing our levels. Observing how often we pray and how often we develop spiritually. They observe everything plotting their next attack on our lives…

My Question for you is What are they observing about you?

Satan and his demons have been on this earth longer than you and I have X’s100. They know how we react to certain things. They know how to provoke or encourage our hearts to do evil. They know the main lusts that are tailored to us that would be effective in destroying our lives… They know how to increase the pressure in our lives to break that relationship cord that draws us to God. They know these things and many of these things are evident in our lives, even now.

God is omniscience He is the only one that can know the human heart. He is the only one that knows already our motives our intentions and our desires before we do. For he knew us before we were even conceived.

Satan doesn’t have this luxury.

He doesn’t have the ability to know everything of something he didn’t create. His goal is to gain access to what God knows so that he can keep you and I far from the things of God that will nurture and develop our lives…

So what does he do?

He sends his demonic imps to jot down everything we do. They analyze how often we pray. They observe how often we read our Bibles. They focus on how close we are getting to God and once we begin to get close to God they strategically bring things in to our lives to distract us. They aim to grasp the attention of our flesh and our fleshly appetites. They bring things across our eyes to make our eyes dark and only fixed on the things of this world. They attach to us luxuries, gifts, false hopes and ambitions to make us prideful of this life. They do this all to KEEP you and me away from God.

Look at your life and look at the things that are in it…

ask your self who brought these things into YOUR life?

Everything that is present in our lives are sent from one of two places; either they were sent by God or they were strategically sent by satan.

Its simple

Any and everything that comes from God encourages spiritual growth and development.

Any and everything that comes from satan aims to steal your time and energy away from the things of God, keeping you occupied and busy on everything but spiritual growth

Think real hard about where you are in your life right now? Is it growing closer to God or is it drifting away?


Think hard

because even now they are writing…

"the process"

One of the greatest quotes ever known to man is this one, “An eagle has to fly through the storm in order to fly above it”

Pain is a difficult word, a word that is very complex in meaning and in revelation. Pain is not something that any one of us want to face but the pain is necessary for life. Everything from diamonds to an oak tree in order to be what it is today it had to go through a season of pain. It had to go through a season of anguish, agony, stretching, pulling, scrapping, suffering and misery just to stand tall and shine bright.

God in His omniscience understands the human heart and the human mind. He understands the process of life for He is the giver of life. Before he created man he created “the process“. The process of growth and the process of development. The process of stages and the process of progression. When sin entered the heart of man “the process” was already in place to purge the defiled, contaminated, and destructive human heart. In order for us to walk in the newness of life we have to experience “the process”

So What’s the process?

The Children of Israel is a great example;

The Children of Israel was bound in slavery for 400 years under the Pharaoh that knew not their fore father Joseph. Thy were enslaved and force into slavery for 400 years, until God rose up in the midst of them a deliver name Moses. Moses was Hebrew Child but was raised Egyptian. He studied the ways of the Egyptians and was destined to rule over Egypt. One day Moses sees an Egyptian offending a Hebrew man and Moses steps in and smites the Egyptian man killing him. Moses then has to flee Egypt after word goes out about him killing the Egyptian man. Moses flees into the wilderness. While in the Wilderness Moses goes up a mountain and hears a word from God to deliver his enslaved people. Moses goes back to Egypt and demands that pharaoh let God’s people go. After a few plagues Pharaoh lets them go. Moses and the Children of Israel left Egypt to embark on a journey of freedom and promise. They walked a journey that was suppose to take 11 days took them 40 years. During this 40 year process God took great care of them but also dealt firmly with them. On the edge of the promise land only some of the beginning 2 million people made it in the promise land due to their unwillingness to be grateful and their plea of commitment to Egypt.

Ok lets see how this applies to us…

Egypt:
Egypt represents our enslavement to sin. It represents those things that reside deep with in our hearts. It represents our lust, our pride, and our un forgiveness, it represents all those hidden sins that lie with in our hearts. All these things cause us deep pain because we know deep down how much our enslavements to our sins hurts the heart of God. Since the garden we have had a barrier between us and God. At one time we were eternally separated from Him, Until Jesus Christ died on the Cross and HE closed that barrier giving us a path to God. This path is a narrow one and only few shall find it. On this path is full of testing and full of obstacles, full of raging armies that follow, red seas, and Jordan rivers. A path that requires the turning away from our old Egyptian ways. In order to walk out of Egypt we have to be willing to walk the path…

This Path represents the Wilderness…

I know many of you heard the saying that you can take a person out the hood but it’s hard to take the hood out of them the same is for us. It is easy for God to take us out of our sinful environments but it takes a lot for Him to purge the sin out of us…

The wilderness represents “the process”.

Whenever you see the number 40 in the Bible it represents a season of testing. In many cases the season of testing wasn’t necessary 40 days or 40 years but the number itself represents a “season of testing” just like the number 7 represents completion… We all (who are saved) will go through a season of testing, a season of pain and a season of struggle. Many people feel as if you are a “Christians” you shouldn’t go through anything they feel as if “Christianity” is a some type of country club. If many of us would read our Bibles we would Cleary see that the Christian life is full of Testing and Trials. Do you think Jesus, that went through so much Pain to PROVE His love for us wouldn’t allow you and me to go through testing to PROVE our love for Him? Love is Painful and LOVE has to be PROVEN. Pain produces; it never reduces. When we go through pain we grow. I know each and everyone of you have a “TESTimony” of how you went THROUGH something difficult but came out stronger… you cant have a testimony with out a TEST!

Pain hurts but it produces results. In order to get to the promised land we have to go through “the process“. Before Gold is gold it has to be put through fire. Before diamonds are diamonds, coal has to be crushed. Before we can have olive oil the olive has to be squeezed. And before we can be holy we have to be purged…


We have been taught by so many false prophets that this life is all about prosperity and promise and has nothing to do with pain. We have been brainwashed in believing that those that go through things have sinned before God and are being judged when all in all these are probably the true Christians. Never look at your situation as PAIN (only) look at it as PAIN that leads to a promise. We all go though things and God knows them but before you and I can fly over the storms of life we have to fly through them.

During your “process” don’t complain or give up; walk boldly through them. For at the end of this “life” journey is something far greater than what this present life has to offer. don’t give up because its tough but fight through because its worth it! These light afflictions are only for a moment and they can not compare to what God has for you over there…

Today, Endure

The Gospel of Luke

Indicators

Everyday We make countless decisions off our emotions. Decisions based upon an “indicator” of a present mood. When we make decisions off our emotions we have no foundation, nothing to stand on but on how we feel at the present moment. Satan loves for us to make decisions off our emotions. For when we do; the chances of us making a good decision becomes very slim. He knows that if we make decisions solely off our emotions we will become vulnerable and susceptible to being deceived, injured, embarrassed or even loose our life.

WE are to make decisions off of reason not off impulse or heighten emotions. When we THINK and use the organ that is between our ears and really reason everything the chances of us failing and being deceived will be quite slim. In our society we have been trained and brainwashed to make decisions off how we feel. We abort babies because of how we feel. We murder people based on how we feel. We cheat on each other based on how we feel. We lie, manipulate, deceive all based on how we feel. We do all these things BASED upon an indicator. Imagine if every person before they made a decision THOUGHT before they made it, do you really THINK our world would be like it is today?

This is the plan of satan. He desires to place each and every one of us in a situation that leads us in to making a decision. Once we are in a place of decision he will place things, within that environment, that will heighten our emotions. Once the emotions are heighten it will leave us in a position where the brain is not currently being used. When the brain is not currently being used to THINK and to REASON then a decision will be made off of impulse and emotion leaving you and I in a compromising and vulnerable position.

It happens everyday!

Think about it? When two people are alone of the opposite sex, some, the same sex, what emotions are heighten? The sexual ones. Once those are heighten the chances of those two people using reason or wisdom becomes quite slim. Then what happens? Usually a sexual sin occurs… once the sin has taken place it produces a consequence for the two. Now once the consequence occurs what happens? Another set of heighten emotions occur which lead the two to produce an answer for the consequence which leads to a facilitator such as for an example an abortion clinic. Satan only provides for the consequences of sin and most sins occur through heighten emotions. If we think and use reason before we make a decisions the chances of us being deceived will be slim.


The Bible is our foundation within it lies everything for you and me to remain balanced. Without a foundation how can we stand? Without a foundation how can our emotions be balanced? When we meditate on Gods word and it becomes apart of us we have something to reason (justify) the deceitfulness of satan and of our rampant sinful nature. Everyday we choose not to lean and meditate on Gods word we will continue to be deceived by satan and enslaved by our emotions.

Today and for the rest of your life THINK and use that brain God gave you’ its up there for a reason…

THINK today

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We all know what a top 10 list is, its a list of the top 10 things that we enjoy the most, usually compiled with hobbies, people, sports, etc. We all have a top ten list whether we have written a list or not. Our true top list is filled with those things we love and invest a lot of our energy, time and attention in. They are filled with our relationships, our pursuits of happiness, they are filled with our favorite celebrities and sports heroes they are usually filled with everything…


but God

I have a question for you, Is God in your top 10?

Now I know many people are right now saying oh yes Jesus is #1, He is numero uno on my list, really? we love to loosely say things without first examining the heart. we can say He is but do our lifestyles match? Think about this past week, how much time did you spend in prayer, in reading the Bible or in spiritual development compared to the time spent with your boyfriend/girlfriends, your facebook accounts, your hobbies, or spent being entertained by your American Idol's? Calculate the times and compare the two. From your calculations you will see who and what is really on your top 10 list.

God clearly states that there should not be any other god's before Him. NONE... not one. What’s sad is we have many. Many of us have so many god's before God that it is not even funny. We may say we don’t but really we do. Our god may not be Allah, Buddha, or any of the other religions god's but our god's are everywhere and evident. For many of us our god’s are celebrities, athletes, pastors and bishops. For many of us our god’s are our jobs, our careers and our dreams. What ever you spend the most time doing can become your god. What ever you invest the most attention and energy in can become your god. When we get overly consumed with these things they become our god's. when our hearts are so consumed with these things they become our god's.

Right now take a deep breath....

Take another one...

Isn’t God faithful...

Ok now feel your heart beat…

Feel it again…

Isn’t God faithful...

Now tell me what other god can do that? which one of YOUR god's can do that? Can Jay-Z do it, can Kobe or Lebron do it, can your career, your dreams, your boyfriend/girlfriends do it, can Beyonce, Taylor swift or Oprah do it?

NOOOOOOOOO they cant! Then why do we put these people and things above the ONLY One that can............???

Once your natural heart stops beating your spiritual heart will immediately be judged. Whatever lies with in your heart will be immediately questioned by God. If you were to die right now what will be on the top 10 list of your heart? If you were to die and God was to look at your heart; would He be anywhere on it? ETERNITY IS NOTHING TO PLAY WITH! At Any moment you can be snatched from TIME and thrown into Eternity without an opportunity to get things right or to readjust your top 10 list…


Think about it hard toady and ask yourself Is Jesus on your top 10 or is He somewhere in top 25?

The Temple (An Insert from my book "Unplugged")

The quickest way to abort a person’s destiny is by bad habits. Bad habits are any and everything that interferes with the progression of something normal. We all have had bad habits. They affect our lives everyday. They affect the way we think, act and interact with people. They affect our relationship with God. Your body is the temple. Within its corridors hold your soul and your spirit. The soul and the spirit are dependent upon the status of the body. If the body dies, everything that it holds ceases to exist on this earth. Without the body, the purpose that lies within it will be cut short. The more we damage our bodies, the more we shorten our purpose. Purpose is the name of the game. Each and everyone of us has a purpose but only few fulfill them. Why do you think only a few people fulfill their purpose? This is because of bad habits. Satan knows that each and every one of us holds within us a purpose from God. This purpose is geared towards impacting the world’s system in order to release its affects from those that are bound and to raise the banner of Christ so that He gets the glory. Satan’s goal is to abort your purpose. If he can abort your purpose, then what God intended for you to do will be aborted as well. We have to understand the importance of our freewill. God can do everything but interfere with man’s free will. Whatsoever a man chooses to do, he will be affected by those choices. Wherever a man chooses to go, he will be affected by the way he chose. No matter what it is that we choose, we will be affected by what we choose. So if you choose to eat poorly, then you will have poor heath. If you choose the wrong friends, then you will be influenced to do bad things. If you choose to have sex outside of marriage, then you suffer the consequences of them. In our world today, we choose not to take responsibility of our actions. We choose based on impulse and feeling rather than reason and wisdom. We make choices off of deception rather than truth. We will never understand how to be responsible of our actions if we first do not choose to understand the validity of our choices. The choices you make will last for a life time, and they will affect where you will spend eternity. If ninety percent of your choices are negative, then ninety percent of your life will be negative. If ninety percent of your choices are poor, then ninety percent of your life will be poor spiritually, physically or both. We love to blame others for our poor choices. We love to blame the devil for our poor choices. We even blame God for our poor choices, but we fail to blame ourselves. The moment you point the finger at yourself, the quicker change will occur. The more you continue to point the finger at others, the more you deceive yourself. Look at your life, and look at all your poor choices. Think, who is it you should really blame? I know many of us were brought up in bad situations and bad homes and into bad environments, but no matter how bad the situation, you still have a choice. Excuses will always eliminate you. Excuses will always keep you stagnant. No one ever moves forward while making excuses. Every time you make an excuse, know that you just missed out on a chance to step forward. Every step not taken is one less step forward. If you never step forward, how will you ever fulfill your purpose? See how deep this is? If Satan can have your mind so focused on what you do not have or how you were brought up or how much you love certain foods or how you love certain people, then he will use those things to keep you stagnant. Your body was created to hold purpose and was meant to be a tool used to complete its task. Everything on this planet is a tool. Everything on this planet was made to be a tool to help someone or something else. Food is a tool used to give us energy and nutrients to keep us alive. Trees are a tools used to bring forth fruit, shade and wood to help those that need them. Look at our bodies. Everything in us is aimed to help something else survive. Everything is a tool, from clothes to cars to houses. The quickest way for something not to be fixed is to eliminate the tools. If there are no tools, then how could anything be fixed. If everything is left broken, the greater cause is left unfulfilled. Each and every one of us holds within us a tool that is needed to fix a problem from a global scale to a personal scale. But if we do not operate in whom we are to be, how will the global problems or the personal problems be fixed. If we do not have you, it will cost us. It has been said that the wealthiest places in the world are the grave yards. Everyday people die without leaving their God inspired treasures on earth. When we are plugged into the world, we are slowly being sucked away from our purpose. Were you created to watch television, to club, drink, play video games, hang out and party? No. You were created to fulfill a purpose. Some of these things are not bad, but they are when they distract you from sharpening your creative skills, reading books, helping advance your abilities, praying, fasting, and seeking the face of God. If you do more entertaining yourself then you do educating yourself, you are not focused and remain stagnant. Purpose is not a career; it is a call from God. Your career may not be what God has called you to do. Your opportunity may not be what you are called to do. The school you are at now may not be where God has called you. The city you stay in may not be where God has called you? The person you married may not be who you were called to marry? We make choices off of impulse, without first consulting the creator. If you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, how can you ever do the right thing at the right time? God has intended for us to do the right things at the right time, but we will never get there if we are at the wrong place in our lives. Purpose can only be fulfilled when there is humility and a yearning to do what God has called us to do. If we do not humble ourselves, and if we yearn more for the world’s system, our choices will lead us to an unfulfilled destiny. Are you at the wrong place? Whenever you are driving and are at the wrong place, is it not wise to get directions? Just because you are at the wrong place does not mean you cant get directions and end up at the right place. You may get there late in your mind, but you could be right on time with God. You first have to make the choice to change.

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