WATCH OUT FOR THOSE OLD FAMILIAR PLACES

WATCH OUT FOR THOSE OLD FAMILIAR PLACES

Everything in creation works in cycles. From galaxies to atoms, everything revolves. So it is with your habits, moods and pleasures. The principle of pain seeks pleasure, is very tightly wound in these cycles. Every person handles emotional pain a little differently, but usually they end up in the same old familiar place. Emotional pain moves in cycles, your memories rotate, sometimes triggered by time of day, season of the year, or places you travel.  

Now here is the problem: Thought patterns travel in circles too! Let's use the pain of depression for example: Whatever you did to relieve this emotional pain before salvation, your thought pattern will stimulate you to seek relief in the same familiar way. This is how after you have escaped the pollutions of the world through believing on Me, you can again get entangled , and are overcome, and the latter end is worse with you, than the beginning. [21] Really it had been better for you not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it , to turn from My holy commandments. [22] But it is happens according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." 2 Peter 2:20-22 KJV

 Before salvation some of you, if you felt neglected by your your spouse, you would seek attention some where else by flirting, while never intending on going to far, you would! Maybe whenever you suffered the pain of depression or rejection, you sought some form of sexual activity, to ease the pain, or maybe you went for just that ONE DRINK, that seem to always multiply, but this time you are convince you will stop after just one, but you don't!  These pain relieving methods are so familiar to you that no thought is taken as to the consequences, even with My Holy Spirit, saying, NO, NO, NO! 

Now I am going to show you the meaning of "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12 KJV It's the work of breaking of thought patterns, the changing of old ways of handling negative situations. The breaking of the language barrier, where the old pattern of expressing anger was # % # £ € ¥ € NO GOOD ROTTEN # ]^ % £ < | & @ $ you begin the work of starting a new thought pattern, and out of your mouth comes, THANK YOU JESUS, I GIVE YOU GLORY IN ALL THINGS!!! Instead of seek out a drug dealer, you work to seek a Spirit filled believer, to pray and share with. The pastor replaces the bartender. The hooker is replaced with praise and godly fellowship. 

All spare time in now My time, poker games are exchanged for prayer and bible study, getting high, now means meeting with the Most High. The enemy will always attempt to remind you of the old familiar places months and even years after new patterns have been well established. Never forget "the thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. But I came to help you change your thought patterns, that you may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." John 10:10 AMP Always be on guard, and never forget as long as you are in a flesh and blood body, you can choose to return to the vomit of your old life, so the work of discipline is absolutely necessary to endure to the end! 

Many pastors and well established Christian leaders, have been destroyed because they forgot to keep working out their salvation and they let down their guard! I save you inside, by changing your heart, but it's your job to make your body follow suit by "killing (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desires lurking in your members those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God)." Colossians 3:5 AMP Each and every day keep working your salvation from the inside to the outside, where it's displayed for your family, friends and the world to see! The work never stops, "keep working on your body, to bring it into subjection to My Spirit: lest that by any means, when you have preached to others, you yourself should be a castaway." 1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV

 

No matter how good your heart may be, your family, friends,  the boss and co-workers, only see your actions that you work out from that new heart, because of your new thought patterns!