Purity+Obedience+intimacy = Power

 

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I have trained people in the past who will not be able to understand why they just can’t seem to lose fat. They even tell me stories about how every Friday their family gets together for Mom’s pasta and pie night. And they don’t eat any of it. None of the homemade bread, or pasta, none of the rich creamy Alfredo sauce, not a bite of the desserts nor do they drink the sugary alcoholic beverages… and they have great pride in telling me that they are willing to make such dramatic sacrifices even though their family makes fun of them… but they still don’t lose weight… why?

 

There are those who read and pray and go to church and they just don’t ever seem to have a life full of Gods power… they never miss a Sunday service…they go to the extra weekday services, they attend a bible study, they even serve in the ministries in the church…

They have missed the point of what truly brings power in a Disciples life…

The same way the dieter can’t seem to lose weight. You don’t lose weight by skipping the buffet, or by not eating Mama’s homemade spaghetti night extravaganza… you lose weight by eating healthy, you might say obeying simple dietary rules, every day.

 

in the same way you increase in power and anointing not through sacrifice but simply through 

 

Purity, intimacy and obedience = power.

 

1 Sam. 15:22 

Obedience is better than sacrifice, 

Obedience HB Shaw - Mah Hearing God, giving heed to his voice. Not just hearing his voice but it’s demonstrated by your actions. 

 

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. 

See GK = Hor-ah-O

They shall experience, discern, perceive God. 

 

Purity + Obedience = Power

 

For a long time I held to a very self disciplined life… you might even call it self sacrificial - but lacking in purity. I have learned over the years - and of course still learning that simple steps of obedience and purity bring power. The pure in heart, purity is choosing to please God in the little things… thats what purity is about. When you look at ingredients and it says 99% pure… you don’t see a big rock in that cold pressed olive oil from Italy… purity is based on the little things. It would be ridiculous if the jar said “99% pure with only a few rocks in it”. 

Purity comes down to little things in life, little choices in life, choosing to hear Gods voice in the minute details…

What is are the little things in your life that are causing impurity… probably not murder, hate, cheating… maybe its who you follow on social media, or to much secular music or even what you listen to…

So you got the big things, reading, praying, obeying the big 10, and you even are a Sunday go to meeting regular attender… but how are the little things coming???