Participants: Jill Morikone
Series Code: HLFT
Program Code: HLFT000018B
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00:01 Welcome back. We're talking today about the jealous heart,
00:04 or the jealous spirit, and how God wants to work in us 00:05 And how God wants to work in us His spirit 00:08 of contentment as we surrender. 00:11 And how God wants us to learn to give thanks, 00:14 to practice thanks, to speak thanks. 00:17 And how that will change our emotions; 00:20 that changes our hearts. 00:23 Now I don't know if you can see here. 00:24 I have some plants right in front of me on the table; 00:27 different types of weeds. 00:30 If you were to grow a garden, what do you want to 00:33 grow in your garden? 00:35 In our garden we want tomatoes, broccoli. 00:39 Corn would be good, although we don't usually grow corn. 00:41 You would want maybe asparagus, maybe squash, maybe watermelon. 00:48 I don't know, maybe peppers, or onions. 00:50 In your garden though you don't want a lot of weeds. 00:53 Greg is a very good gardener, and in our garden he hoes. 00:58 He gets rid of those weeds. 00:59 Our garden looks very nice. 01:01 He does a great job. 01:03 If these weeds grow you say, I've got to get rid of them. 01:07 I don't want the weeds anymore. 01:09 I don't like them in there. 01:11 I want to get rid of them. 01:13 What if you went out and you just yanked? 01:17 Now I've done that many times in trying to weed 01:19 in my flower beds. 01:21 Maybe, you see we've got some weeds right over here, 01:23 I go out and I yank. 01:25 It kind of looks like a dandelion maybe. 01:27 If I yank on that, look at the roots. 01:29 Did you see? There's no roots here. 01:32 Do you see that? none. 01:33 I ripped it off at the top. 01:35 Now what about this one over here? 01:38 It has a little bit of a root system. 01:41 For this one I might have reached my fingers in 01:43 and dug up a little bit. 01:45 Maybe I used one of those cloths and tried to 01:48 get in and dig some up. 01:50 You can see this one over here. 01:52 It has a little bit of a root system, but not as much 01:56 as the one at the far end. 01:59 Now this is the Grand Daddy of root systems. 02:02 That's a pretty good sized root system. 02:04 You can see there's the root here at the end, 02:07 and then it comes all the way up here. 02:09 There's a lot of roots going on here. 02:11 To dig that out of the ground probably you would have 02:16 to dig a long ways. 02:19 What if I used this? 02:21 You see what it says on the front? weed killer. 02:25 Now this could be any type of weed killer. 02:27 If I were to spray weed killer what's going to happen? 02:30 Is it just going to kill the top of the plant right here? 02:35 Is it going to leave the root system? uh uh. 02:38 If you actually use a weed killer, it's going to get all 02:41 of the way down to the root system as well. 02:44 I like to think about the experience of practicing thanks. 02:48 Of speaking thanks as being like that weed killer. 02:52 It's the God given antidote. 02:54 It works immediately, going deep into my jealousy, 02:59 deep into what's in my heart. 03:01 And it starts to break up those roots. 03:03 God doesn't want to pull out the jealousy and leave 03:06 all of the roots inside. 03:08 That happens when I try to do it myself. 03:10 When I try to get rid of jealousy myself 03:13 I leave the roots inside, and pretty soon they spring up 03:16 and they trouble me again. 03:18 Or even we might dig a little deeper and leave some roots. 03:22 God says, I want to eradicate that jealousy from your life. 03:26 I've got to go all the way down to the root tip 03:30 in order to get that. 03:32 So this week identify who you're jealous of. 03:36 It could be a neighbor, it could be a coworker, 03:40 it could be someone who sings great, and you wish 03:44 you could sing like them. 03:45 For me it might be someone who plays the piano fabulously, 03:49 and I think, Boy I wish I could play the piano 03:51 a little bit better than I do. 03:52 Whatever it is, identify who the person is 03:56 that you're jealous of. 03:58 Next write down what you're jealous of them for. 04:01 It might be, like I mentioned with the piano, 04:05 or it might be singing. 04:07 It might be something totally different. 04:08 You might be jealous of their house, or their car, 04:11 or their money, or their position. 04:12 Whatever it is, identify what it is, and then find something 04:17 that you can be thankful for in the midst of your jealousy. 04:22 The group, Greater Vision, the trio, Greater Vision, 04:26 they wrote a song. 04:27 Rodney Griffin is part of Greater Vision. 04:31 He's the one who wrote the song. 04:32 And I love this song. 04:34 It's about Paul and Silas being in jail. 04:36 Their chains were fastened tight 04:38 down at the jail that night. 04:41 Still Paul and Silas would not be dismayed. 04:45 They said, It's time to lift our voice, sing praises to the Lord. 04:50 Let's prove that we will trust Him come what may. 04:54 God wants to hear you sing when the waves are crashing 04:59 round you, when the fiery darts surround you, 05:02 when despair is all you see. 05:04 God wants to hear your voice. 05:09 When the wisest man has spoken, and your circumstances are as 05:13 hopeless as can be. 05:14 That's when God wants to hear you sing. 05:18 God says, I want to hear you sing. 05:22 As you give thanks, as you praise, He's going to work 05:27 to eradicate, not the tops, not the semi roots, 05:33 He's going to eradicate that jealousy from your life 05:36 all the way down to the tip. 05:38 Only God can do a job like that. 05:41 Our next program we're going to discuss the fearful heart. 05:46 And you want to stay with us for that program. 05:48 In conclusion is our Scripture as always, Romans 15:13. 05:53 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace 05:58 in believing, that you may abound in hope, 06:00 by the power of the Holy Spirit. |
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