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11/10/21 Watch Your Eyes

It has been said that more than 80% of men dabble in some form of pornography. Every one of us has been tempted by the world around us and most of us have fallen at one time or another. I know that I have had to repent to my wife for the things that I entertained and embraced with my eyes on more than one occasion as I was growing in the Lord.

Looking lustfully at other women is more than doing something wrong. It’s adultery against your wife and your marriage. It’s not just a private sin that harms no one. It’s loving something more than you love God and your wife. It’s a sin that is painful, harmful, and destructive to any kind of loving intimacy.

Maybe it’s time to examine your life. Take note of what you do with your eyes. If you need to repent, do so. Ask the Lord to heal you and your desires, bringing them into line with His will. Embrace the beauty in the bride He has given you, even if you haven’t done so in a long time. Find Christ’s idea of beauty in her. Ask Him to let you see your wife as He sees her. It’s never too late to change!

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

11/09/21 Enamored with Jesus

“Have you noticed? The world would love you to take on a war mentality. In the heavenlies, a spirit has been released to bring an awareness of the seasons in a manner that is distorted. Its companion spirit is fear, which causes you to react emotionally. The intent is to distract unknowing, immature believers into focusing on those who act like the enemy, rather than focusing on those who are open to receive Jesus. Sometimes they are one and the same. The false spirit would tell you to hate, to protect your rights, to fight for your comforts. It would show you all the wrongs there are in the world and would have you become so busy attempting to correct them that you have little time for Me and My ways. That spirit loves to get you into fights, especially righteous sounding ones. Don’t fall for the lies.

"I tell you to lay down your life for those who hate you. I tell you to return to your first love. I want you to become so enamored with Jesus that you will look past all the wrongs and spiritual illnesses that are before you and focus on the need in each person to receive His love. If you derail the carnal spirit of fear, which leads to hate and war, and do all that you can to turn back to your first love qualities, you will overcome instead of being swallowed up and heading for only dead ends and fruitless battles. Listen to Me, not the lies of the enemy of your soul.”

Revelation 2:2-5 AMP

2) I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.

3) I know you are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and you have not fainted or become exhausted or grown weary.

4) But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].

5) Remember then from what heights you have fallen. Repent (change the inner man to meet God’s will) and do the works you did previously [when first you knew the Lord], or else I will visit you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind and repent.

Do you remember your first focused love for something in your life? It could have been a person, a new car, or anything else that held all your attention. There was nothing more important to you during that time. Everything else was in the way of showering your love upon that person or object.

Remember when you first fell in love with Jesus and were basking in the freedom of absolute forgiveness and total awareness of the reality of God? In focused first love, there is nothing more important than the object of your love. Everything is on the periphery of your thinking. You are consumed with whatever has your affection.

The Father wants us to be that way about Jesus all the time. Not only is Jesus worthy of that kind of unshared devotion, but having Him as our true focus is the safest, most reliable road map for our lives. When we see only Him, we see only the Father and the Holy Spirit, too. That’s wonderfully safe, reliable company to keep. In them lies the Spirit of truth.

The world would have us fall for perceived truth. It would have us look at and react to visible circumstances, rather than to what is real. Reality is what surrounds the Lord. Reality is what is happening in the heavenlies, either allowed or initiated by the Lord. That is what is played out in front of us each day. Our necessary and proper response must be initiated only by having a focused first devotion to the Lord and His ways. That is freedom. That is true victory. It is why we have been born, and then reborn spiritually—so that we could function in that realm with our triune God. It is also pleasing to Him.

Wanting to return to loving only Jesus,

Jim Corbett

11/09/21 Reclaiming What’s Been Taken

If your marriage is out of order and your children have little use for you or Jesus, you have an obligation to do something about it. Counseling won’t suffice. Plans and schemes will produce little result. Anger, frustration, and legal action will adversely affect any hope of pleasing God. You are in a spiritual battle and need to engage in the war to reclaim what’s been stolen from you.

God has given you all the tools you need to help undo anything you, your wife, or your children have done to destroy what God desires to use for His glory. He’s provided guidelines for you to follow to enter into the realm that He has already won. Reclaiming what’s been taken from you is a victory awaiting you if you engage in the problem His way.

Once you admit that you’ve lost a spiritual battle that’s been allowed to rage because you’ve been neglect in working with your marriage and children God’s way, you can begin on the road to victory. Repent of your ways. Turn everything over to God and His Holy Spirit. Readjust your priorities, making the war very important and personal as He does. Examine His Word and become familiar with His weapons. Use them from your knees until things are back in order. It will be worth the effort in ways too numerous to count.

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

11/08/21 How Would You Fare?

“If I gave you the same mercy that you give others, how would you fare? For that matter, if I, as your Father, devoted Myself to you with the same kind of devotion you have for Me and those around you, what would your life be like? If I were as committed to you as you are to Me, would you be able to trust Me? Would you have any reason to give Me your heart’s treasures so that I could represent them to others properly? Would you trust Me with your son’s reputation?

"You know where I’m going with this. You ask Me to be faithful and I always am, I always will be; but you rarely hold your own life to the same standards. You expect forgiveness, all the while holding others to their offenses. You judge those around you but expect only mercy for yourself. Isn’t it time to drop all hypocrisy and turn your heart toward Me? Let’s work toward truth. Let’s clean out all those dirty little corners. I want you to be holy as I am holy. Let’s go for it!”

Jeremiah 2:13 NIV

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

Matthew 5:7 NIV

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”

Oh, boy, in your face truth! Most of us don’t really like to have our own lives placed as a standard for how others should deal with us. How much more difficult would it be to face the perspective of God dealing with us in the same way we deal with Him or those He expects us to love?

In many cases, the old saying, “We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions,” is quite accurate. The problem we face is that that kind of thinking is light years away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ—a Gospel that we say we believe, enforce, and adapt for our lives on a daily basis. What then, does that really make us?

Create in me a clean heart, Lord,

Jim Corbett

11/08/21 Advancing God’s Kingdom

God’s kingdom advances in part by how your family grows spiritually. You and your family have an important part in the way the world comprehends the Gospel. They see the work of Jesus by the way you present Him to them.

Think of the impact you can have in the world around you. Think of the impact a spiritually mature wife and spiritually alive children can have on those they come in contact with. In no other way can their influence be more important.

Look around. Look at all the out-of-order marriages. Think of all the children who have only the world and its ways to guide them. You and your family can help make a difference in their lives as you present Jesus. As you point to Him in spoken and unspoken ways, those around you can find what they need to live a vibrant life in Christ and then point others in His direction. What a wonderful ripple effect! What an incredible opportunity!

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

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