Follow God’s Pursuit! Don’t Take Of The Forbidden Fruit!
Adam and Eve were the first people God created. Adam was able to name animals, walk in the spirit, fellowship with God, and take dominion. God made a mate suitable for him, Eve. God told Adam in Chapter 2: “Every tree in the Garden of Eden you may eat, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do not eat of that tree.” The day you eat of it, you will surely die. Both died spiritually and eventually in the natural. The serpent put thoughts in Eve’s mind to question what God said. Eve talked Adam into eating the forbidden fruit, and they were driven out of the garden, away from the presence of God. Many people blame Eve for eating the forbidden fruit. However, when we question what the word of God says, we live our lives the way we want, and walk in our own truth, we are eating of the forbidden fruit. We are made in the image and likeness of God. If it is not in line with the word of God or His nature, we should not partake of it, or we will die spiritually, which manifests in the natural.
Let God’s word be the final in your life.
Romans 3:4 NIV: Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:“So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.
Renew your mind daily so you will not be deceived.
Romans 12:2 NIV: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
John 8:31-32 KJV: 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Do not lean on your own intellect.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 14:12 NLT: There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Reject any thoughts that are not in line with God’s word or His nature. Protect what comes in.
2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV: 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Proverbs 4:23 NLT: Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
Commit everything to God.
Psalm 37:5 NLT: 5 Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it, and he will.
James 4:7:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Proverbs 3:6: In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
Prayer: God, thank you for creating me in your image and likeness. God, I repent for doing things my own way. I submit to God. I resist the devil, and he flees. I cast down every thought, imagination, and everything that is not like you. I bring every thought in line with the word of God. I keep my heart with all diligence because it determines my life. I commit my ways to God becuase His ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts are higher than my thoughts. You know the plans you have for me, plans to prosper me, not to harm me, to give me a hope and a future. Thank you, God, the author and finisher of my life story. In Jesus’ name! Amen.
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