How to win the war within (James 4)!

Pride will shut the door to god. Humility opens it. God's grace is empowering help, not just forgiveness And so when we look at this, you have to let go of your pride and just say, god, I need help with this. Whether smoking, anger, lying, stealing, whatever the case may be because god will love you and says, he gives us grace to the humble. We just humble ourselves and acknowledge that I I I'm failing in this and I wanna grow in Christ. I wanna go closer. Lord, help me. [00:28:42] (38 seconds)  #HumbleForGrace

That's why I say to people, pray. Have a Bible reading. Make sure you're where god wants you to be because if you're trying to submit, I mean, you're trying to resist the devil without submitting to god first, you're trying to do it all by yourself but you can't do it all by yourself. That's why Jesus died on the cross so that he would be there for us. You don't defeat the devil by your own strength. You defeat the devil by the strength of god and by aligning your will with the will of god. Now, victory starts with submission, not resistance. [00:32:55] (30 seconds)  #VictoryThroughSubmission

Just because you make a mistake, just because you say something you're supposed to say or do something you're supposed to do, doesn't mean you stay down there in the mud and continue to sin. God wants you to let go and let him help you back up. So Psalm 66 and verse 18 tell us, iniquity hinders prayer. So we need to really all falls down to check out your why before you ask god for something. [00:19:17] (25 seconds)  #PureHeartPurePrayer

We talk about daily time of prayer, daily time of spending time with god. In fact, we really encourage people. When you get up in the morning, start off your first few minutes and just talk to god and and let that be the first thing before you pick up your phone, before you start checking your Email and all the social media stuff. Let's spend some time with god because the more we get to god, the more we're able to do what god wants us to do and in fact, those taking notes, make sure you take a note of this. Sin begins internally before it's manifested externally. [00:06:50] (30 seconds)  #StartYourDayWithPrayer

God would rather us pray and ask of him than us trying to put things together. We can either bless ourselves or we can let god bless us And there's many times people are trying to bless themselves through their own efforts, through their own stomping, snorting, all the stuff trying to make things happen. But god just says, just ask me. [00:11:29] (25 seconds)  #AskDontForce

And so many times people are surprised when they go back to drinking, surprised when they curse when somebody makes them mad, surprised if something came out of their mouth when they got upset. There's no reason to be surprised. If you're in the law, you're gonna get it out of there because what does the word of god say? From the abundance of the heart, what? The mouth does speak. If it's in there, it's gonna come out at some point and so this is where he's beginning to really help us out here because I've been to this many times. You know what? It, I know me. [00:58:43] (30 seconds)  #GuardYourHeartSpeakLife

Do you know that god's only gonna give you the things he wants you to have? If you're asking for a million dollars tomorrow, you may not get it. Now, you might if that's his will but he said, you ask and receive not because you ask evilly. You you're asking for things that is not god's desire for you to have. It it's not god's will and so when you're doing things, you're you're you're you're praying for things, but you don't get them because you're asking for all the wrong reason. [00:12:24] (31 seconds)  #PrayWithRightMotive

James is talking about the war that we have within us. And so he's gonna go straight to the roots. Hello there. And begin to really help us out here as far as dealing with people and and and warring against our our spirituality and cause us to have problems. From verse one, what you see here, that conflict doesn't start from outside. Conflict starts on the inside. The reality that people, have desires on the inside that are conflicting with what god wants and having a spiritual nature. And so these internal cravings, internal problems, these internal emotions, they cause more problems, and so it causes external chaos when you've got a lot of stuff going on the inside. [00:06:02] (41 seconds)  #BattleBeginsWithin