NO! AN ANOINTED WORD
MATT 5:37 (GNT) JUST SAY ‘YES’ OR ‘NO’—ANYTHING ELSE YOU SAY COMES FROM THE EVIL ONEN HOW TO SAY NO!
Because of TOXIC THOUGHTS, often with their roots in childhood, we have this DISEASE TO PLEASE. We have PEOPLE PLEASING HABITS that often end up in APPROVAL ADDICTION. If you go down that road you soon realise there is A PRICE TO BEING NICE!
If we have this disease to please we want to avoid conflict at all costs. It is time the
Let as look at three places where we need to learn to say a strong NO!:
- Denying satan (SAY NO TO A WANDERING MIND)
- Denying others (SAY NO TO YOUR CHILDREN)
- Denying self (SAY NO TO THE FLESH)
1. SAY NO! TO A WANDERING MIND
KING DAVID IS A PRIME EXAMPLE of someone that did not say no to a wandering mind and was later deeply grieved because he had not. The woman in this case cannot be blamed.
First of all David should have been out leading his men in the battle, instead of staying at home.
2 SAMUEL 11:1 (NKJV) IT HAPPENED IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO OUT TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND ALL ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE PEOPLE OF AMMON AND BESIEGED RABBAH. BUT DAVID REMAINED AT
Secondly he should not have had so much idle time on his hands. Idle time almost always lead to devil time.
When he saw Batsheba bathing on the roof he should have yelled: NO mind! NO! but instead he let his mind wander and sent for her to come and visit him. As king he misused his authority to gratify his own flesh. To cover up the first sin he committed another – murder. He had her husband killed.
2. SAY NO! TO YOUR CHILDREN
Another area where people do not say NO often enough is to their children. Many great men throughout history have lost their anointing and sometimes their ministries because they did not raise their children according to biblical principles. One of those is found in the books of Samuel,
1 SAMUEL 2:12 (NKJV) NOW THE SONS OF ELI WERE CORRUPT; THEY DID NOT KNOW THE LORD.
Eli’s sons did not know God. Why not? Why did Eli not teach and train them up in the ways of the Lord? Why did he let them do whatever he wanted? He never learned to say NO to them.
3. SAY NO! TO THE FLESH
Our biblical example when it comes to saying no to the flesh is Samson in Judges chapter 16.
Samson was mightily used of God. When the anointing came on him, he had strength no one else had. He could easily beat the Philistines. He was so strong he could do anything he wanted to do. He was respected by everyone and feared by the Philistines.
He had a big problem, however. He could not say NO to the flesh. He liked beautiful women and he preferred pagan women. He could have had any girl he wanted among the Israelites but he wanted a foreign girl.
Samson could not say NO to the flesh and woke up one morning with his eyes poked out. He spent the rest of his life like a donkey grinding meal. Even though his death was a final triumph, his life was shortened and his work for the Lord defeated.
DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE DELILAHS ALL AROUND US. They want explanations for your NO so that the can trick you by your own words. They search for a crack in your words in order for your NO to become a yes.
Success is not built on how many times you say yes. Usually success is built on how many times you say A STRONG NO – AND STICK TO IT. A weak NO can so easily be turned into a YES.
Imagine we ALL … LEARNED TO SAY NO WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY. Your world and mine would look so much different. So let’s do it today, this week and in the weeks to come and we will all have so much more PEACE AND JOY!
LET US CLOSE WITH JAMES 5:12B (NKJV) BUT LET YOUR “YES” BE “YES,” AND YOUR “NO,” “NO,” LEST YOU FALL INTO JUDGMENT.
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