Enemies of the Heart | Week 4 | How to Win Within Series

It's all about a debt to debtor relationship! Single dynamic in 4 areas that can impede the flow of God’s grace in our hearts.

  • Guilt (I owe you)

  • Anger (You owe me)

  • Greed (I owe me)

  • Jealousy (God owes me)

Proverbs 22:7...the borrower is slave to the lender...Debt to Debtor
relationship

Greed

Websters: A selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money)
than is needed .

Need: How much do you need?

Is Jeff Bezos happier than the manager of an In-N-Out Burger joint?

If you have need ask for wisdom!

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without
finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not
doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the
wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person
is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

James 1:5-8

If you have more than you need ask for wisdom!

Excess: What should be done with what exceeds my need?

What should be done with the extra God has given me?

Guilt is conquered with confession
Anger is conquered with forgiveness
Greed is conquered with generosity

When you give, it changes you and it changes the world!

Selfish Desire: The tendency to resist sharing!


Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows
generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided
in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful
giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having
all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness
endures forever.” Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also
supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your
righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every
occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

Sharing is His Standard

Giving brings grace to the Giver

If you have a Need

If you want to Serve

If you would like to Give

Jealousy

You may resent them, but your problem is with Him!

The root of the problem is a false belief that is attached to an emotion

Have it out with God

The Heart of the Matter


What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your
desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You
covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do
not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on
your pleasures.

James 4:1-3

Own it!

Answer it!


“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.

Isaiah 55:1-3

Trust it!


Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may
receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Hebrews 4:16

Words of Knowledge

  • We believe there is someone with a diagnosis of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) that has led to infertility and God wants to heal you and open up your womb. 

  • We believe the Lord is setting people free from a spirit of offense.  
    We believe He is asking us to look at what offends us and ask Him how He is working through this. Ask Him how He sees that person or ministry that has offended you. 

  • We believe the Lord is reminding us to focus on the GREATER. (If the harassment of the enemy intensifies, we must be much more intentional with the Word, dispatching angels and putting on the Armor of God. Isaiah 55:11, Psalm 91:11, Ephesians 6:10-17) 

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