CONSEQUENCES OF YIELDING TO INTENSE CRAVING - PASTOR CLEMENTINA

THERE IS SUCH A CLEAR PARALLEL WITH ADDICTION HERE, WHETHER IT IS FOOD, ALCOHOL, OPIATES, NICOTINE, DRUGS, SEX, PORNOGRAPHY ETC. WHEN WE CANNOT FEEL SATISFIED WITHOUT THEM WE TRIGGER AN ADDICTIVE PROGRESS.

IF WE ARE ALERTED IN THE EARLY STAGES AND QUICKLY REPENT WE MAY BE ABLE TO STOP PROGRESSION AND SAVE OURSELVES FROM SEVERE CONSEQUENCES TO OUR BODY, PLAGUED WITH ALL MANNER OF PHYSICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DISEASES AND PROBLEMS.

NUMBERS 11:33, 34– BUT WHILE THE MEAT WAS STILL BETWEEN THEIR TEETH, BEFORE IT WAS CHEWED, THE WRATH OF THE LORD WAS AROUSED AGAINST THE PEOPLE WITH A VERY GREAT PLAGUE. SO HE CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE KIBROTH HATTAAVAH, BECAUSE THERE THEY BURIED THE PEOPLE WHO HAD YIELDED TO CRAVING.

KIBROTH HATTAAVAH MEANS “THE GRAVES OF GREEDINESS.” THEIR SIN WAS NOT JUST IN GIVING TO THEIR CRAVING. THEIR SIN WAS THEY DOUBTED GOD’S ABILITY TO SUPPLY AND THEY DOUBTED HIS CONCERN FOR THEIR WELFARE. UNDERSTAND THAT GOD’S CONCERN FOR US IS JUST AS GREAT AFTER HIS CALLING AS IT IS BEFORE.

TODAY PEOPLE LIVE A CAREFREE LIFE, THEY DO NOT THINK BEFORE THEY LEAP. EVERYTHING IS OK FOR THEM TAKING A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE IS OK, NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT IF THEY LOSE THEIR JOB OR WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENED AND THEY ARE UNABLE TO PAY. GOING INTO A LIVING RELATIONSHIP IS OK THEY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW EACH OTHER BEFORE  MARRIAGE, IF THIS DOESN’T WORK THERE'S ANOTHER AND SO ON, NOT REALISING THAT ONCE A MAN AND WOMAN BECOME ONE IT’S A MARRIAGE THAT'S TAKEN PLACE, THE COVENANT IS MADE IN HEAVEN. WHAT GOD CREATED TO BE HOLY MAN HAS TURNED IT  INTO A LUST, NOT UNDERSTANDING DEMONS ARE AROUND TAKING NOTE OF WHAT'S GOING TO DESTROY THEM. GLUTTONY ANOTHER CRAVING OF THE FLESH, THEIR MOTTO “I LIVE TO EAT” ONLY TO DIE AS THE ISRAELITES, THEY DIED WHEN THE MEAT WAS STILL BETWEEN THEIR TEETH BEFORE IT WAS CHEWED, THE WRATH OF GOD STRUCK THEM.

IF PEOPLE FEEL DOING AND INDULGING IN THINGS GIVEN ABOVE CAN MAKE THEM HAPPY WHICH IS TEMPORARY JUST FOR A FEW MINUTES BUT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE DESTRUCTIVE, THEN WHAT ABOUT THE PERSON WHO HAS SURRENDERED HIMSELF OR HERSELF TO THE LORD, THE CONSEQUENCES ARE BASKING IN THE GLORY OF THE LORD, LIVING A HEALTHY CAREFREE LIFE, WHY? BECAUSE HERE THE LORD IS IN CONTROL, BE IT IN THE STORM OR A FAMINE THEY ARE SAFE AND PROVIDED FOR, THEY ARE NOW UNDER THE SHELTER OF THE MOST HIGH AS PSALM 91 SAYS.CAUSE THEY TRUSTED AND BELIEVED IN HIM FOR EVERYTHING NOT JUST ONE THING BUT EVERYTHING.

PRAYER: FATHER GOD MAY LIVE OUR LIVES IN YOU NOT ON THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, MAY WE BASK IN YOUR GLORY AND DERIVE OUR STRENGTH FROM YOU, MAY WE NOT TURN TO THE PERISHABLE THINGS OF THIS WORLD THINKING THAT WE GET LOVE, PEACE, JOY AND HAPPINESS BUT MAY WE SEEK ALL OF THIS FROM YOU AND YOU ALONE, IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN AMEN & AMEN.