The Secret to Spiritual Strength

The thing God kept speaking to me today was how many? And how often? might we have robbed ourselves of a blessing? How many times and how often do you think it takes place that you tie down hands or rob yourself of a blessing. Because sometimes well react rashly or so negatively about a situation instead of responding in the way God wants us to respond. And I believe we have blown our blessings. I believe some of this we started talking about last week but Gods saying he wanted me to talk about this part this week where we need to understand that sometimes its not the devil. Sometimes its not its not somebody else. But its we have robbed ourselves of a blessing. You say oh God doesnt work that way. You got anybody here ever have a father everybody has a father a dad anybody here has a mother. Everybody has a mother even no matter what. And Im telling you when we look at this lets say for an example we have two girls both the same mother and lets say this one cleans a room. This one gets all the things are taken care of shes supposed to do. And this one does not. There are certain benefits this ones gonna get. Because this one has done and has been obedient to do what theyre supposed to do.The one that was disobedient and said I dont want to do it right now. I dont care I dont want to clean my room; it is too messy. They dont receive the blessings because of obedience they believe they receive a blessing for their disobedience. And what that means is theyre going to get something because of their obedience. And theyre not because of their disobedience. So the way God looks at us is the same way whenever he tells us to do something and we dont respond the way were supposed to. But it actually can rob us. And just so you know not every time does God necessarily say Joshua youre supposed to write those things down and study them through because Im just trying to speak to you doesnt necessarily mean that you have to be obedient by something that God said to you. Sometimes its about God put laying something on your heart. I went through a season of being robbed by the Spirit because God told me to give somebody $20 So when I finally caught up and I realized I shouldnt give them $20 I gave them $40. Because I figured I had some interest to make up. Sometimes we get to the place.