WHERE ARE YOUR AFFECTIONS

WHERE ARE YOUR AFFECTIONS

You affections determine your directions. There are only two places you  can place your affections, above and below. Understanding what is above and what is beneath is the key to making sure which direction you are headed. Are you headed toward light or darkness. If you are comfortable in places of darkness and with people of darkness, then you surely have, misplaced affections. 

There is a big difference between loving sinners and being comfortable with them. In order to be comfortable with them, you must, enjoy what they enjoy what they enjoy, and talk about the things they talk about, and like the things they like. This involves your emotions or affections. You will always follow your affections. 

If you remain comfortable with those living in sin, the time will come when you no longer love the the things I love and hate the things I hate. You will choose to follow your affections into darkness. I am very emphatic when I say,"set your affections on things above", not on things below. I am not just referring to material goods, but the relationships that lead, to the love of material goods. 

The wisest man that ever lived, was led into darkness because of his relationship with women in darkness. His affections were turned from above to beneath. Are you wiser than he? The strongest man that ever lived was led into literal darkness when his eyes were poked out, because of his affections for a woman of darkness. Are you stronger than he?

 Some men and women of darkness are very nice and kind and alluring to be with, but their affection is not after Me. If you are not openly sharing your love for Me and the things above, then your being affected negatively and slowly being drawn away. The enemy may convince you that you are there to win them, but they are winning you, if you are hiding your love for Me under a bushel. 

Your love for Me is the dividing factor, when you keep bringing My name up, they will be forced to choose between darkness and light. If they choose darkness they will leave you. If they choose light, you have won them. If you do not bring My name up each time, then they have no choice but to remain in darkness because your light is hidden to them. 

If you are truly Mine you will be causing people to choose between light and darkness where ever you go. Your very presence will show light and their hearts will have to decide. There is great joy and great sorrow as I bring the sword and separate even close family members. The sword cut between light and darkness. Those who refuse the light, are cut off from those that choose the light. As I separate the old relationships, I will replace them with new ones and the light will get brighter and brighter.

Then the world will see the difference because of the love you have for each one living in the light. Out of these relationships My glory will eventually fill the whole earth.

Judges 16:19-21 (AMP)
And she made Samson sleep upon her knees, and she called a man and caused him to shave off the seven braids of his head. Then she began to torment Samson, and his strength went from him. [20] She said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as I have time after time and shake myself free. For Samson did not know that the Lord had departed from him. [21] But the Philistines laid hold of him, bored out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with two bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

1 Kings 11:2-11 (AMP)
They were of the very nations of whom the Lord said to the Israelites, You shall not mingle with them, neither shall they mingle with you, for surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Yet Solomon clung to these in love. [3] He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God. [4] For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect (complete and whole) with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. [5] For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abominable idol of the Ammonites! [6] Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as David his father did. [7] Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abominable idol of Moab, on the hill opposite Jerusalem, and for Molech the abominable idol of the Ammonites. [8] And he did so for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. [9] And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord, the God of Israel, Who had appeared to him twice, [10] And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods, but he did not do what the Lord commanded. [11] Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, Because you are doing this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant!

Matthew 10:32-40 (AMP)
Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me out of a state of oneness with Me, I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and confess that I am abiding in him. [33] But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven. [34] Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. [35] For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law-- [36] And a man''s foes will be they of his own household. [37] He who loves and takes more pleasure in father or mother more than in Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves and takes more pleasure in son or daughter more than in Me is not worthy of Me; [38] And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also is not worthy of Me. [39] Whoever finds his lower life will lose it the higher life, and whoever loses his lower life on My account will find it the higher life. [40] He who receives and welcomes and accepts you receives and welcomes and accepts Me, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts Me receives and welcomes and accepts Him Who sent Me.

James 4:4 (AMP)
You are like unfaithful wives having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God! Do you not know that being the world''s friend is being God''s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.

Luke 11:33-36 (AMP)
No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or crypt or under a bushel measure, but on a lampstand, that those who are coming in may see the light. [34] Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye (your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness. [35] Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. [36] If then your entire body is illuminated, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright with light, as when a lamp with its bright rays gives you light.

Colossians 3:1-4 (AMP)
IF THEN you have been raised with Christ to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead, aim at and seek the rich, eternal treasures that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. [2] And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth. [3] For as far as this world is concerned you have died, and your new, real life is hidden with Christ in God. [4] When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in the splendor of His glory.

John 3:19-21 (AMP)
The basis of the judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. [20] For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved. [21] But he who practices truth who does what is right comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are--wrought with God divinely prompted, done with God''s help, in dependence upon Him.

2 Corinthians 6:14 (AMP)
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?

1 John 1:7 (AMP)
But if we really are living and walking in the Light, as He Himself is in the Light, we have true, unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations.