DO DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD

DO DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD: LIVE & WALK IN THE SPIRIT!

I know to what extent most of us in the Christian Faith DO lots and loads in the name of PLEASING (and wanting to PLEASE) God.

Some of us we let go our precious TIME, FINANCE and EFFORT EXERTION (Physical & Mental) to ensure that the CAUSE and CAUSES of God and humanity are doing great.

Honestly all these seems good; but do our ACTS of DOING them really PLEASE God? What then is the ACTS to PLEASE God?

Foremost, one GREAT ACT about PLEASING God is that you spent little or no energy at all on your enemy and or enemies if you think you have one because God causes them to be at PEACE with you. In my own terms, He makes them to WORK for your good instead of been at WAR with you – Proverbs 16:7. Don’t you like that? Because I Do.

Is it not gracious that instead of having mental, physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual TORTURE of the known and unknown enemy (enemies) with endless meetings of prayer and fasting, and night vigils, that you spent it PLEASING God who takes care of that department for you as the Scripture of Proverbs 16:7 enjoined.

That’s what I enjoy doing and wants you to know and enjoy likewise in Christ Jesus. Hence no more enemy (enemies) WORRIES, ANXIOUSNESS and CONSCIOUSNESS. That is the PATH OF LIFE I follow: COMMUNION, which is the FELLOWSHIP that enhances RELATIONSHIP with God – Psalms 16:11; 1 Corinthians 1:9; Romans 8:28.

Another ACT you MUST know and stop DOING right now and henceforth if you MUST PLEASE God in order to enjoy the scriptural privileged of Proverbs 16:7, is as enjoined in the Scriptures of Romans 8:1-4, 8.

It thus states that those who are – that is, LIVE and WALK in the FLESH CANNOT PLEASE God. What then does it mean to LIVE and WALK in the FLESH? It means to live and walk in your FIVE SENSES directives, which are of these:
** Hearing (Hear)
** Seeing (See)
** Smelling (Smell)
** Tasting (Taste)
** Feeling/Touching (Feel/Touch)

People who live and walks by the guidance of their five senses satisfies the lusts and affections of the flesh. And such CANNOT PLEASE God no matter what your intents are. For by the DEEDS of the FLESH shall no man LIVE, PREVAIL and be JUSTIFIED before God as says the Scripture – Romans 3:20; Romans 8:13.

They are always consequences and effects of living and walking in the FLESH – five senses. DON’T BE A SENSE RULE BELIEVER – if you must PLEASE God. Let your SENSES be sensitized by God’s WORD as Hebrews 5:14 enjoined. If you feel Otherwise you can:

*** Ask EVE of Genesis about the effect of the sight (good to behold of the eyes) of the fruit in the garden of Eden;

*** Ask ESAU about the smell and taste of porridge on his lost to birthright because of his brother JACOB porridge;

*** Ask King SAUL of losing his throne towards the harkening his ear in hearing and listening to the voice of the people in making sacrifice ahead of Prophet SAMUEL arrival instructions;

*** Ask Prophet SAMUEL about tying to anoint ELIAB as a King instead of DAVID by sight in JESSE’S house and God’s rebuke in his trying to do so;

*** Ask King DAVID about the death of a non LEVITE’S who touch the ARK to help carry it against divine process;

*** And many such likes SENSE ACTS in the Holy Writ.

HOW THEN DO WE PLEASE GOD?

The Scripture of Hebrews 11:6 says that WITHOUT an ACT of FAITH we CANNOT PLEASE GOD. Really? Yes! Faith is ACTING on what you BELIEVE on GOD’S WORD. It thus means FAITH is of God’s WORD. Meaning No WORD – No FAITH, for FAITH comes by the WORD – Romans 10:17.

The WORD of God is spiritual and triumphant. Meaning FAITH is spiritual and triumphant – 1 John 5:3-5. Then to exercise FAITH life in order to PLEASE GOD, one needs to LIVE and WALK in the Spirit. Only by the Holy Spirit CAN one ONLY live FAR ABOVE the lusts and affections of the flesh – SENSES.

Living by the SPIRIT is living by the WORD of God. When you develop a living in the Spirit by your spirit consciousness, then can you WALK in the SPIRIT by your spirit consciousness.

Do you know and understands what it means to live in the Spirit by your consciousness to enhance your Spirit Walk by your spirit consciousness? If you don’t, the FLESH – SENSE living will keep you at war in your being as the Scripture enjoins in Galatians 5:16, 24 and James 4:1-3.

Therefore, if you must PLEASE God – then LIVE and WALK in the Spirit by the WORD OF GOD through FAITH. For we walk by Faith and not by five senses – 2 Corinthians 5:7. And anything done outside FAITH ACTS is Sin, so enjoined the scripture of Romans 14:23. Sin then means UNBELIEVE towards God. That is, for any not to BELIEVE on God’s WORD as it is and ACT accordingly.

If you wants and must PLEASE GOD, LIVE and WALK in the Spirit and not in your SENSES that you might access God’s PEACE even in the midst of your acclaimed enemy (enemies).

(More on this is in my later in the year coming Book – “Being Divinely Led Of God”).

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!

SCRIPTURES WORTH PONDERING:

“When a man’s ways PLEASE the Lord, he maketh even his ENEMIES to be at PEACE with him” Proverbs 16:7.

“This I say then, WALK in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh . . . 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the AFFECTIONS and LUSTS. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also WALK in the Spirit” Galatians 5:16, 24-25.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who WALK not after the FLESH, but after the Spirit . . . 8 So then they that are in the FLESH CANNOT PLEASE God” Romans 8:1-8.

“. . . 3 Through FAITH we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . . . 6 But WITHOUT FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” Hebrews 11:1-3, 6.

“From whence come WARS AND FIGHTINGS among you? come they not hence, even of your LUSTS that WAR in your members? 2 Ye LUST, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and CANNOT OBTAIN: ye FIGHT AND WAR, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your LUST” James 4:1-3.

Further Scriptural Reading: 1 John 5:3-5; Habakkuk 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 14:23; Hebrews 5:11-14; Romans 10:4-10, 17; John 4:19-24; Philippians 3:3; Romans 2:28-29. 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12-23; Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Genesis 2:7; Proverbs 20:27; Proverbs 18:14; Proverbs 17:22; Psalms 16:11; 1 Corinthians 1:9; Romans 3:20; Romans 8:13.

Rev Chukie MORSI