Monday Morning Manna
Monday, September 21
Monday Morning Manna
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7
Two weeks ago our Pastor, Rev. Dr. Orville Harris made the call to come. He invited everyone to come, see God and join back into a relationship with Him. “The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let anyone who hears this say, “Come.” Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life.” Revelation 22:17, emphasis added. Yesterday Minister Nigel Thomas focused on this one word – desire and asked the question, “What is the desire of your heart?” Asking this question we were led us to understand that his sermon title ‘We Are What We Desire.’ The moment we ate from the tree of good and evil, man sinned because He desired to be like God knowing good and evil. Man sinned because he desired evil things. Our body was made for godly desires. However, at the time when man fell we had a change in appetite. No longer are we desiring just the things of God, we would now desire things of the flesh. The sermon aimed for us to understand desires drives us to do everything emotionally, psychologically, physically etc.
Now what might the desire of our heart be? Because this is what the Lord wants to give us. ‘Our heart,’ in this sense, is our innermost being. We’re not talking just about the things we want, or covet, or need to satisfy our ego. It’s deeper than that. A desire of the heart is a deep longing on the inside to ‘feed the hungry soul’ (Psalm 107:9 ESV), that is to fill the void in the center of our lives which longs for true satisfaction.
We only begin to feed the desires after they are formed in the mind. Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” However, Minister Thomas taught us that God has a solution to this problem – The Holy Spirit. The infilling of the Holy Spirit changes your desire. Following the death and resurrection of Jesus the Holy Spirit came to dwell within man. It is this oneness that changes everything. The Holy Spirit indwelling changes our desire and by extension our behaviors hence we become followers of Christ, desiring and thinking with a heavenly mindset.
The Holy Spirit working within produces a godly desire. Focusing on God and things that are eternal allows us to live without worry or pain. Philippians 4:8 puts it this way “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.”
The only true way is to take captive the ungodly desires and invite the Holy Spirit into our hearts.