Divisive People Destroy Relationships

Yes! Titus 3:10-11 "10 Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11 knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.…"

Romans 16:17 "17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them."

A divisive man is anyone who fights against truth, bringing false doctrine or using manipulative tricks to distort the truth, even lying outright to cause trouble between friends or spouses.

Definition of Divisive: ": causing a lot of disagreement between people and causing them to separate into different groups" Websters Dictionary

Let Go and Let God!

Got it.....and agree completely. So often we hang in there because of human pressure. When we listen to people more than we hear God, then we will stay in the sewer wishing all the while we had walked out. We are not called to fix everything and every body, but we are to remove ourselves when God tells us to do so.

Anyone who hinders our walk with Christ, refuses to listen or engage with us, that is the clue that we cannot reach them. We may be a hindrance to the Lord speaking to them, that is when it is best to walk away and pray for the Lord to do His work His way.

I am so thankful that the Lord knows much better than me what is to be done in every situation. All I have to do is hear Him and obey!!!!! Hallelujah!!!

Right to Win or Righteous to Learn

Far too many people follow men rather than God. In fact they will be angry if a man is corrected according to God's Word, but not angry when God's Word is maligned. 

When someone becomes enraged at a correction from the Word, it is a huge clue they are dedicated more to their own elevated status to be right than they are to discussing the truth honestly for purposes of learning and sharing.

Preach Anyway!

Amen! The response is not relevant, it is the preaching in obedience that matters.

Brothers and Sisters by Other Mothers

Over the past few years I have been pleasantly surprised at the response to my facebook page. When I first started I saw so much foolishness in the posts of others I shut mine down four times, believing that this was all that was happening on facebook.

Each time I felt led to return, but couldn't understand it so I asked God why am I having this pull to keep coming back. Then the Lord answered me in a still small voice that seemed to be shouting at me, if that's possible.

He said to me in my heart as I prayed, "use it for me." When I began writing I was convinced that no one would want to be my friend and what I write would be of interest to no one, what a surprise I received.

When you have lived with devaluation all your life, lack of encouragement from family as a child and gossip that ruined any relationships with extended family, we begin to believe no one is interested in us on any level. I accepted that but could not disobey that voice from the Lord that said, "it doesn't matter if anyone likes it or listens, I told you to do it."

It reminds me of God Who went first to His own people the Jews, but they would not listen, so He extended His reach to the Gentiles.

What I didn't know was that there were others out there who were interested, I just didn't know they existed, but God knew. I planned to obey God, continue writing no matter the response and He brought people to my page, I don't know how they found me, except that God brought them.

I now have more fellowship in the Lord with lovely people I have never met than I ever had in person. The Lord showed me that there are many others who have experienced what I have and didn't know there were others who wanted to follow hard after the Lord, beyond the superficial display of "religion" they had witnessed in their local church gatherings.

I notice that it was not family, extended or otherwise who were interested in the things I love so much, it was those whom God sent that I had never met before, who would share in the joy of the Word and God's principles.

I cannot express in words the joy these lovely people have brought to me, the fervor for God is an encouragement and blessing!

So often we see with our eyes rather than hearing from God. All looks hopeless or futile, when God knows so much more than what we can see.

I now look forward to meeting my brothers and sisters in the Lord at the marriage supper of the Lamb when this is all over. Perhaps the Lord will allow me to see some of them before that, I have already met a few, but I know that they will always be my family, even if I have to wait to see them in that great reunion with the Lord.

In the mean time we keep doing what God tells us to do, encouraging one another, blessing and learning from each other.

1 Thessalonians 5:4-11 "4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing."