Are you unequally yoked with an unbeliever? Because God will not bless you
if you are. I was speaking to a Pastor a few days ago and he pointed out that
if someone you are either in a friendship with or in business with and they
do not want you praying or speaking about Jesus then you need to move on
and repent. You cannot serve two masters. You will love the one and hate
the other. God will actually use a falling out with the person or business
to get you to go so He can bless you. So if this witnesses to you start Praising
the Lord that He cares so much about you to get you out of a bad place.
For me it was a friendship with someone that was trying to speak into my life
of wrong things that they did not agree with and so it was causing me a great
deal of upset. This Pastor showed me that friendships can be ungodly and even
churches where you are being mistreated. So I repented and he prayed for me
and I got so Free! I am telling you this so you too can be free. Take a good look
at your relationships and business associates and see if someone is trying to tell
you to leave God and go to their dead church do not go. God wants you close to
Him. I always think of Psalms 1 see below:
Psalm 1 (AMP)
Book One
Psalm 1[a]1 Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.
2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night.
3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].
4 Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor [b]sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God].
6 For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God’s will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought).
and
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty" (II Cor. 6:14-18).
Unfortunately, some Christians hope that they can convert the person he/she is dating or marrying. They often think that their spirituality is strong enough so that they can witness, or motivate the other person to convert through their patience and love. Why do they think this? Three reasons: They love the person and are emotionally blinded, they are naive, or they do not know God's Word.
ReplyDeleteThis may sound harsh, but something as serious as marrying an unbeliever needs to be dealt with properly and to-the-point. We are not to compromise the will of God and endanger our spiritual well-being. All we need to do is look in the Old Testament to see why God says not to marry unbelievers. This is what God said to the Israelites.
"When the Lord your God shall bring you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and shall clear away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, 2 and when the Lord your God shall deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. 3 Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods," (Deut. 7:1-4).
The reason not to marry an unbeliever is that he/she can influence you away from the Lord. Don't be so naive to think that "you" will never fall. It happens all the time.
http://carm.org/should-christian-date-or-marry-unbeliever
Thank you good point. I hope others will understand that in relationship with another Christian can be wrong if they do not believe the same as you,may not be a problem now but later on they will be so do not get into relationships with unbelievers or in a business with a unbeliever it is all the same thing.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you