Proverbs 4:23
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Jealousy = wanting something that someone else
“I defy you to show me an envious man who is happy!” - Billy Graham
Proverbs 14:30
30 A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.
Envy is a cancer that rots everything you do.
BONE METASTASES
Cancer cells that spread to the bone often stays in these places:
- Limbs (upper arm and upper leg bones) - jealousy can stop you from serving, helping, and doing what God has asked you to do…
- Pelvis (reproductive systems) - jealousy stops people from making disciples. They stop sowing into other’s lives because their focus is all about themselves.
- Rib cage (the breath of God) - jealous stops people from receiving from the Holy Spirit. A dangerous place to be.
- Skull (what protects your mind) - Jealousy stops us from being renewed by the Word of God and instead we become OFFENDED by it.
- Spine - Jealousy kills our boldness because we believe that since we don’t have what they have we are never good enough to do what God asked us to do.
Proverbs 27:4 NLT
4 ANGER is cruel, and WRATH is like a flood, but JEALOUSY is even more dangerous”
JEALOUSY has a twin brother… named
James 3:16
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
EVERY MOMENT YOU SPEND BEING JEALOUS/ENVIOUS OF SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE IS A MOMENT YOU WASTE NOT LIVING YOUR LIFE.
The ROOT OF JEALOUSY is “GOD
THE ROOT OF ENVY IS “SINCE THEY TOOK WHAT I SHOULD HAVE, THEY SHOULD BE
Romans 12:6
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
THREE C’S TO THE CONVICT ENVY…
1.
1 Timothy 6:6
KJV - “But godliness with contentment is great gain.“
MSG - “A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough.”
Discontentment will
1 Timothy 6:7 - 9
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
Discontentment
Discontentment is an attitude, not a
Contentment is being fully satisfied with
Philippians 4:11 - 12
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
“Contentment is an attitude, ambition is a
Ambition is NOT the attitude by which you live life… ambition should be fueled by
2.
Proverbs 16:24
24 “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
3. changed
God is calling you to do what you cannot do with the ability you do not have.
Philippians 4:13
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Jesus already worked out what you are worried about!
Mark 9:23
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
BELIEF = anticipation minus anxiety.
Faith places no limitations on God and God places no limitations on Faith!
God wants you to walk in a changed capacity when you
1. LIVE CONTENT IN HIM ALONE
2. CELEBRATE YOUR BROTHER
LIFE, CONTENT WITH GOD AND CELEBRATING EACH OTHER IS CALLED TO BE A PARTY!!!
What is your capacity to party?!