God’s Temple

1 Corinthians 13:16-17
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.”

I personally don’t think we know what we are doing to the temple of God. Let me tell you that you are busy destroying it… Do you know how you do that?

Being selfish is how we damage our bodies. The moment you that you have fallen into sin, you damaged the temple of God. Many people just think that the scripture relates to drinking and smoking… No… Let us talk about your sexual behavior. Many of our youth today is too sexual active. Do you want to know why… Because of the goodness and enjoying it. All that they care about is to satisfy themselves and that makes them selfish… Wake Up people, don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple… Do you really think that you please God by doing what you are doing? Not only are you destroying the temple of God, but also God’s Spirit within you. Because it is the Spirit that dwells within you. That why you can’t get healed, because how can God heal you, if YOU keep on DESTROYING YOURSELF.

Many people out there give themselves over to the things that the world offers them. They sleep together just the way they want and never think about the consequences that there might be. We never think about the diseases we can get. Listen, just one minute of goodness can cause you a life time of misery and pain. Many men thinks that how can they just have one girlfriend. They want at least two or more. They say that woman comes in different flavors. Face the facts boys. How can men see women as another flavor, wow. If we fall for that, then we have to be cheap. The word of God declares that dissipation is sin. Don’t you know that it is not just about yourself and how to satisfy yourself. You are busy destroying so much more than just yourself. Yes maybe you trust your partner, but who says that they are just in a relationship with you. That is so wrong guys! The thing that you start can affect anybody else, and no one is thinking about the consequences. It just takes one to get infected with AIDS and then that one infects another and another and another. Can we trust? Good question… Let me tell you that no one is innocent. The moment you do things that you are not supposed to do you are guilty in doing so.

Where is the respect for one another? Why don’t we respect our bodies anymore? Men don’t see women as someone special anymore, they just want to use and abuse them for their needs. Come on ladies! Where is your pride, your moral values? Why can’t you wait until you get married? Let me tell you today: That man doesn’t want you, all he wants is your body and them he is out of your life.

Your body is the temple of a living God. 2 Corinthians 6:17 says : “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” God will only receive us if we don’t touch things which are unclean. Remember that God’s temple is Sacred (HOLY) and that means that we are suppose to be holy. Think about your dreams… Respect the temple of God. I know that you are young and you want to enjoy your life, but enjoy it in a responsible manner.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 says: “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"”

Take good care of yourself and do things to please God and not yourself.

It begins with you!

Matthew 7:3
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

You are the centre of everything in your life. You are the prophet of your own life. It is all up to how you live your life and how you want your future to be. What you do today, will determine who you will be tomorrow. It’s all in your hands, and it begins with you. Step into YOUR destiny!

Sometimes we want to see others as the mistakes and we even blame them for our failures and mistakes. We blame others for things we did wrong. But why do we always look at others and not inside our hearts. Because maybe, just maybe the whole problem begins with you. Jesus asked why do we look at the speck of sawdust in our brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in our own eyes? Why are we looking for problems somewhere else, while we are the problem. We should put our hand inside our cloak. Look inside your own life before we look into the lives of others.

You should think about how other people see you. Are they seeing you as someone who always do wrong? Or as someone who is always trying to impress others. How many times do you want to satisfy your friends or someone else? Why do you allow yourself to be in situations that you don’t want to be in. Sometimes people make you someone that you don’t want to be. You need to get out of it and be who you want to be. Take the plank out of your eyes and see what the enemy is trying to do. He wants to kill the YOU inside of you… My question is can the real YOU stand up?

Let me tell you that you need to wake up and start realizing that you are important to yourself. Stop doing things that will impress others. Stop trying to fit in. Stand up and fight for what you believe in. Fight for who you are.

It’s time to take off the mask! Let people see who you really are. Let them see who you are behind the smile, let them see the real you. You should start to love, respect and appreciate the person that God created you to be. God doesn’t want you to be someone that you are not. Be yourself.

It all starts with you. First look at yourself before you try to correct or judge others.

Get your identity back and remember: REAL CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU!!!

Fight Back!

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.”

The battle that we all fight today is in the mind. Although we live on this world, our war is not on this world. If we read the scripture today it says that our weapons are mighty in God. You see the moment we start fighting back, we must realize that our power or our weapons are in God. We shouldn’t fight this battle, because it’s not ours. The Battle belongs to the Lord, VICTORY is ours.

For how long are we still going to allow the enemy to stand in our way of achieving things in life? For how long are we going to allow him to steal our joy? The bible says that we should pull down strongholds. Spiritual seeking, Paul defines strongholds as an “arguments or high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God”. The stronghold is a point of operation from where Satan can keep the unbeliever captive or the believer incapacitated. He will build his strongholds so high so that you should believe that there are no more hope, your dreams are dying, feel that you are breaking down, become impatient, weak, disobedient and feel like you are loosing in the process. But…

Today I want you to stand up and fight back. Fight back the devils plan in destroying you. Like conquerors, we need to target that spiritual strongholds of our enemy. Start speaking life unto yourself. Tell the devil that you are rich, you’re strong, you’re an over comer. You are the head and not the tail, You are above and not beneath, You are somebody, You’re a child of a King, You are washed by the blood of the lamb. Stay positive in your life.

Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the power of the dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”.
This is a spiritual battle! Many times we want to fight one another, but we should actually battle against the evil spirits that attack our mindsets. Things that make us angry and make us feel like giving up. Fight against the spirit that tell you that you can’t reach your goals. Remember God made you to win!
But always be sure that you are covered with the full amour of God so that you can stand in the day of attack. So that you can defeat the enemies schemes and what he tries to do.

Remember today that if you are disobedient you will not win this battle. We should become complete in obedience in God in order to fight back. Our minds and thoughts must come to obedience to listen to Christ, because He will direct you and show you how to fight back!

In 2 Samuel 22:29-30 David says that “the Lord is his lamp and He turns his darkness to light. With the Lord he can advance against a troop, with the Lord he can scale a wall”. It doesn’t matter how much things  are against you, it doesn’t matter how large the stronghold (wall) are, YOU CAN OVERCOME.

Today I want you to remember that God is always with you. In every single situation or whatever problem you are facing, He is there. He just want you to allow Him into your life and to let Him face anything with you.

Trust the Lord to fight the battle for you. Fight BACK! And if you have the victory, never forget to praise and worship God in everything!

Amen! So it is and so it shall be!