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Dozing every time the
bible is in front of you, sleeping in church, yawning tirelessly when you
intend to pray or flatly falling asleep could be signs of spiritual weakness.
I've had many people ask,
"Princess how have you managed to stay on fire through these years?"
In as much as I would
love to say I knew a formula, the truth is I can't tell a sure-fire formula I’ve
applied to be where I am with the Lord. However, I know one thing, Grace
(JESUS) finds a man who seeks Him. Mathew 7:7 Click to Tweet this!
Many people say they want
God to use them, they want to grow in Him and come to a place where they live a
successful/stable Christian life but this same people, spend 18 hours in front
of the television, social media, mundane conversations and the other 6 hours sleeping
while expecting to become spiritual giants!
How can that be when life
is about 'garbage in-garbage out’?
If you feed your flesh,
it will gain strength and control your body; same thing happens when you feed
your spirit.
If developing a stable prayer
life or/and word life is important to you? Then you have to create a conducive
environment for your spirit to become stable in the Lord.
How do you mean Princess Anne?
Well you remember that there
is no smoke without a fire, right?
Spiritual weakness
doesn't just happen. Certain things are responsible. Some of which are
1. Feeding the mind with
carnal things instead of godly things
2. Procrastinating quiet
time
3. Deliberately skipping
church activities
4. Enjoying/Encouraging
ungodly conversations around you
5. Procrastinating personal
bible study time
6. Spiritual/Satanic
attacks
7. Soul Wounds/Hurts/Offenses
In exception of number 6, everyone is responsible for creating a conducive environment for
their spirits to blossom and grow stably in the Lord. In moments when a
satanic/demonic interference is responsible, you are to take authority over
them in the name of Jesus!
Perhaps you've found
yourself feeling/being spiritually weak lately and you want a change. Here are
7 things to do
1.
Diagnose: Take a moment to look over your life,
activities, and events. How did you get here?
Could it be you’re being too busy, encouraging laziness through
procrastination on spiritual things, or you feel offended/wounded in your
heart?
2. Exclaim: This simple sentence, “I need help Lord!” is more powerful
than a six paged prayer when said from a sincere heart. Click to Tweet this!
Stop bottling up when you know that you
aren’t where you used to be with the Lord anymore. Cry out for help. Then go
talk to a spiritual authority or a Christian friend who is stronger at the
moment.
3. Decide: Everything begins with a decision. Make up your mind to get
back to a stable prayer, study or Christian life generally. If a part of you
still enjoys the laziness, the sleep, the missing church, the procrastination,
sorry baby, nothing is going to change.
How badly do you want to get back your
fire?
4. Commit: So now you’ve decided to resume your morning/mid-day or
night devotion, never deliberately miss church? Commit to it!
If you’ve decided to read a chapter of the
bible a day, then do it no matter how busy the day gets at work or at home.
See, this thing works like pregnancy prevention
pills-If you skip one, take it as soon as you remember. Same thing goes with
your prayer schedule or word study schedule- if you missed it, then do it as
soon as you remember. If you can’t when you remember, then set an alarm on your
phone until you get it done.
We have to be intentional about our
growth in the Lord. Nothing just happens you know? Click to Tweet this!
5. Tongue: Oh darling, I couldn’t have skipped this one. Praying in
tongues is as powerful as the word powerful itself. Click to Tweet this!
When you pray in tongues, you edify your spirit man (1 Corinthians
14:4).
The Greek word for edify in that scripture is Oikodomeo
pronounced oy-kod-om-eh'-o
it means to build up from the foundation or to restore by building or
repairing (source: Bible study tools). How powerful that is!
Think about your spirit as a house that got burnt or ruined
by a thunder with its roof off and blocks ruined here and there. Now when you
pray in the spirit (tongues), the house begins to repair itself automatically
from its foundation to the roof! That’s what happens when you pray in tongues.
Do so often!!
If you can’t pray in tongues yet, Go here for a few quick lessons to help you
6.
Create: Create a consistent atmosphere of worship
around you. You might say, “Anne you don’t know where I work. It isn’t possible”.
Well darling, you are a spirit and your environment shouldn’t decide what
happens to you. You should!
The human spirit has a tremendous ability to create by thoughts
and words; how much more does the spirit of a believer. Speak sanity into your
environment- home or work. Listen to gospel music often, take little pauses in
moments to focus on God and acknowledge His presence even if it’s just for five
seconds.
Personally, I take out time often to just say, “Hello Christ, I love you” or Hey Handsome, I’m
thinking about you”. Oh yes I do this every day of my life, many times in a day
and I listen for His voice.
Jesus is sooo sweet, I tell you. You won’t want to lose
consciousness of His presence when you start acknowledging Him often.
7.
Keep-At-It: As drugs don’t work if you take them
once and abandon them, so does the things I’ve said. You have to be consistent.
Do numbers 1-6 like a ritual until you start doing them naturally and soon you
will never recall the last time you felt spiritually weak!
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Committed to your wholeness,
Anne Atulaegwu
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| Anne Atulaegwu at Eagle's Soar Conference 2016 |
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