SPIRITUAL HEALTH- continuation
Sunday 28th August 2022
The following are some of the signs that show someone is spiritually healthy.
1.HUNGER/THIRST
Psalms 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
A healthy believer must be having an appetite for the things of God. The moment you lose it, know that there is a sickness eating you up and you are under attack.
2.UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SIN
Read 2 Samuel 24:5, 10
A true believer can not have peace if they have sinned. It's not only about sin but there are some places God will stop you from going to, certain things He will tell you to stop doing, and people He will make you uncomfortable with depending on the kind of calling you have upon your life (Romans 14:17, 2 Corinthians 2:12-13)
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
If your heart condemns you, it means that God is using it to tell you that what you are doing is wrong. Many have missed it because they failed to be sensitive to the discomfort that the Holy Spirit put in their hearts.
When you take a frog and put it in hot water, it jumps out but when you get it and put it in water under normal conditions and then adjust the heat gradually, it will stay. That's what the devil does, he makes you sin a little until your spirit is desensitized.
3.SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES IN YOUR HEART
Ephesians 5:18-19 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
When you are spiritually healthy, you will have a spiritual song or a verse in your heart or continuously speak in tongues even under your breath. That's what it means to pray without ceasing (Colossians 3:16, Zephaniah 3:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:17).
Pay attention to what takes place in your heart because every conversation between you and God issues from there (Proverbs 4:23)
4. DISCERNING THE VOICE OF GOD
Sensitivity to the voice of God means that your relationship with God is working.
Matthew 11:16-17 “But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying: ‘We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.’
They did not dance or lament because they hadn't learned to discern the voice of God.
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Revelation 3:17-18 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
The Bible warns us about results. They were blinded by their riches but they thought they were seeing. That's the bad place to be when you can no longer see or hear anything from God (Luke 24:13, Proverbs 20:12).
5.GRATITUDE
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
When you begin complaining about everything that goes on around you, then there is something wrong with your spiritual life. Watch out for the spirit of ingratitude because it will deny you high places in the spirit (Exodus 16:2).
6.LOVING PEOPLE
1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
When you are spiritually healthy, you will love people irrespective of their tribes, religion, and status.
7.GIVING
When you are spiritually healthy, you give because giving is the heart of God.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shoul
