“When you play big it makes other ppl feel small”- Pastor Dharius
Pastor Dharius Daniels shares 5 WAYS TO HANDLE JEALOUSY in his teaching on Cain & Abel
God accepted Abel’s sacrifice/blessing and rejected Cain’s [Gen. 4:2-5]
1. Don’t confuse hiding for humility #falsehumilty
2. Don’t go too far in the field #discernwhentokeepdistances
3. Don’t over react to the attack #donttakeitpersonally
4. Don’t let loyalty blind you to reality #discerningdeception
5. Don’t answer every accusation. Let your life speak!
While I was listening to the message & reflecting on when I gradually started shrinking, ppl pleasing & allowing the enemy an open door (legal access) to muzzle my mouth and attack my confidence. Holyspirit had to build me back up and one of the scriptures He used was Hebrews 10:35-36.
We WILL NOT be accepted, on most occasions, by those who grew up with us and are close to us, relationally. Early on when I first came to Christ and started studying His Word, I was encouraged by Joseph’s story & testimony because I’ve always been a dreamer of prophetic happenings as well (and didn’t quite understand my dreams at the time).
✅Joseph was thrown into a pit b/c, he didn’t understand that by telling his family what the Lord gave him that it was going to cause him to, literally, be casted away & mishandled by his brothers. (Gen. 37)
✅David was overlooked by his brothers & father (1 Sam.16:1-13) and sought after by King Saul, who kept trying to kill him (from 1 Sam. chptr 18 through chapt 22 or 23)
✅Jeremiah was literally thrown in prison, just for obeying God and saying exactly what the Lord told him to say to kings, high priests, scholars & the rebellious (Jeremiah 37 & 38)
✅Jesus was mocked my his brothers and not seen by those who walked with him, regularly—and often misjudged, misinterpreted, and misunderstood by scholars & priests (4 the Gospels)
🎯Commonality: NONE OF THESE PPL CHOSE THEIR CALLING! GOD INTENTIONALLY CHOSE, ANOINTED & APPOINTED THEM!
Like Jeremiah, I never felt worthy enough & I felt like I’ve been too young for what I’ve been called to do–
🎯If jealousy can come from relatives, we should be wise enough to know that it will come from ANYBODY! Remember how Saul flipped on David? Wisdom tells us that who someone WAS shouldn’t blind us to what someone has BECOME #discernment.
🎯And sometimes once we’ve recognized the shift, we start trying to dim our light & shrink back to “keep the peace” or “fit” in—bc honestly, “I don’t really wanna do this anyway”, right? But, when we become as Jonah and not wholly fulfill an assignment for personal, fleshly reasons, WE HAVE A MIGHTY GOD TO ANSWER TO‼️ So initially, it’s more detrimental to the called & chosen to NOT do what God says for the sake of ppl. [I also just thought about Elijah who ran away from Jezebel, hid, and wanted to die, AFTER God used him to call fire from heaven to burn up the demonic altar; 1Kings18 and 19]
✨️God keeps exposing me to myself and perhaps I can be of some sort of encouragement to others 🙏🏾 At the end of the day, the real “enemy” is the “inner-me”👀
Here’s 1 way to silence that noise & keep conquering giants…
REMAIN CONFIDENT IN CHRIST—THE ONE WHO’S MIGHTIER IN YOU [1 John 4:4]—WHO HAS EQUIPPED YOU FOR THE JOURNEY & ASSIGNMENT; regardless of how uncomfortable it feels! We’re held accountable for it. (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1; 2 Corinthians 3:5; Colossians 1:12)
#DavidvsGoliath #MosesvsPharoe #TheKingdomofHeavenvsDarkness #Conquerors #ItsAFixedFight
📍The adversary desires to plant bitter emotions within us, as a legal access, by getting us to get into our feelings about things God reveals to us, hoping we disobey God and abort the mission. (SN: Delayed obedience is still disobedience). However, I’m learning that God has to be able to trust us, first and foremost, additionally He has to be able to trust us with visions and messages while teaching us how to PROPERLY handle Cains—love them still, pray for them still, be generous to them still, give them what He says still (until He says, ‘Shake the dust off of your feet…’)—knowing when & how to keep healthy distances.
📍Our responses to what Holyspirit says is an exposure of our heart more than anything ppl are saying to us –& sometimes, God is giving us a command to “endure hardness and tread uncharted territory” to see our effort(s) towards executing that command—as well as our verbal response towards what He said.
Me: “Lord, here is my Isaac! You can have it all!”😭🙌🏾❤️✨
I believe these are the times where EACH church (vessel/based on the book of Revelation) is being tried in the fire 🔥& exposed—and more than anything, we should continue to endure this journey fervently & with #radicalobedience and intentionality, in hopes of becoming more like the persecuted [Rev.2:8-11] and faithful [Rev. 3:7-13] churches😇✝️
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