Have you been playing with sin, continuing bad habits, and walking in rebellion against God? If your sin has not yet been exposed, this is only because of the mercy of God. If you continue on your present path, there will come a time when you will reach out for the anointing of God and you won’t be able to find it. You will cry out for the presence of His Spirit, but find that the feeling has departed. You will be taken captive by the enemy and your defeat will be publicly disclosed for all to see.
Proverbs 1:26-31 describes such a dreadful condition:
"I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
The devil will try to tell you that this will not happen to you, that you are safe in your sin and that you will never be found out. Do not be deceived! God says, “Be sure your sin will find you out” in Numbers 32:23. The Bible also warns, “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall be also reap” in Galatians 6:7.
The devil’s plan is to make you think that God does not mean what He says. That is sifting and how he convinced Eve to commit the first sin in the garden. "You shall not die," the enemy claimed, when tempting her to partake of that which God had forbidden.
Belshazzar also thought God did not mean what He said until during a lavish feast a hand appeared seemingly from nowhere and began writing on the wall. The message was:
Daniel 5:27 “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”
That night Belshazzar lost the kingdom and died.
Church members Ananias and Sapphira did not think God meant what He said either. They tried to deceive the disciples, lied to the Holy Ghost, and were struck dead in Acts 5.
God means what He says! Do not wait another day. Ask God to forgive your secret sins. Repent of your rebellion and ask Him to place within you the spirit of obedience. Stop the sifting power of the enemy by your faith in the power of God!
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