God Is Not Your Problem by Billy Joe Daugherty

Author:Billy Joe Daugherty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religious Aspects, Devotional, Religion, Christian Life, Thought and Thinking, General, Spirituality, Christianity
ISBN: 9780768423471
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2006-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

ruling your OWN SPIRIT

Often bad things that happen to people are simply the end result of their attitudes and actions. The bad things are not God’s work. Recognize that you can change your own life personally and you can stop a lot of bad things from happening.

In the natural we tend to evaluate the “greatness” of people by their performance in music, sports, business, politics, or in any other area. But Proverbs 16:32 gives us a guideline for measuring or evaluating a person’s “greatness”: “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”

According to this standard, a prime minister, a congressman, a president, or a CEO may not be considered great spiritually, nor army generals who have, in the natural, taken cities in feats of war such as: Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Pershing from World War I, Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm, and others.

The Word of God is saying, “It is more difficult for a person to control their own spirit than it is for a general to conquer a city.”

How many people do you know right now who are out of control in their spirit? What is the evidence that someone doesn’t have control of their spirit? Strife or a foul mouth are two primary evidences.

The root cause of divorce is selfishness. Either one or both parties have no control of their spirit and they strike out with words and/or actions.

Why is there so much abuse in the world in this hour? People don’t know how to rule their own spirit. It is unimaginable that someone would abuse an innocent baby, yet again and again the Department of Human Services is forced to take action to rescue babies. Sometimes they are too late and death is the result.

Many people look for a Band-Aid when they are unwilling to go to the root of the problem. The root cause of many bad things that happen is a person’s refusal to control their own spirit—to rule their inner man.

You can shut the door on problems in your life if you will begin to rule on the inside. Many people want to rule the outside. They want to rule other people. They want to go to the top of the corporate ladder. They want to be number one in sports. But the biggest victory you will ever win is the victory over your own spirit. If you rule your own spirit and you are slow to anger, you are better than the mighty, stronger than someone who can take a city.

Proverbs 19:11 says, “The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression.” Discretion is the ability to avoid thoughts, words, actions, and attitudes that can lead to undesirable consequences. A person with discretion has enough sense to know that if he or she gets involved in an ungodly relationship or partnership, trouble is ahead! Traps and snares are set to catch people who exercise no discretion.

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