One of the biggest challenges in the Christian journey is the continual call to die to yourself , for me it is a daily or even hourly requirement .
The flesh will NEVER cheer you on to live sacrificially for Jesus , the world most certainly will not and the enemy of our soul will obstruct all attempts by yourself to live wholeheartedly for Jesus at every possible level.
The only way to keep putting yourself in the posture of Christ is to stitch His finished work on the Cross to your heart and in your mind.
Claim the CROSS , kneel at the CROSS, repent at the CROSS, kneel even more humbly at the CROSS, look to Jesus at the CROSS, crucify your flesh at the CROSS of JESUS every day , every way with all that is within you .
Any other path is strewn with people who have shipwrecked their faith , their ministry , their God given vision, their marriages , their relationships and their own inheritance simply because they never adhered to this Biblical principle.
Read for your own spirit's sake Colossians 3 :1-17.... verse 5 says it quite clearly :''PUT TO DEATH, THEREFORE, WHATEVER BELONGS TO YOUR EARTHLY NATURE: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, LUST EVIL DESIRES& GREED, WHICH IS IDOLATRY."
Today remember the power of the CROSS OF JESUS , don't ever underestimate what His power can achieve in and through you.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 says "FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING , BUT TO US WHO ARE BEING SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD ."
Another Biblical reference that is worth praying at least every day is PSALM 51 ......read it pray it and know that God will hear the cry of your heart.
Praying for readers today .
MARNEY TURNER
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