Sista Gurl Podcast

15/03/2023

Jesus told me to tell you all that He is coming sooner than you think.

"Repent for I am coming sooner than you think."

13/03/2023

God told me to tell this to the Body of Christ and I'm just going to be obedient...
"Make yourselves Ready".

11/03/2023

Day 4 of our 7-day Devotional on the roles of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit Is Our Regenerator

For born again believers, and those who do not yet know more on the Sweet Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, can do it all. He is the Spirit of God. He has limitless power and wisdom, yet He willingly comes to live inside any person who believes in Jesus Christ. And that means we have access to His amazing power. As I pondered the work of the Holy Spirit in Scripture and in my own life, I identified distinct roles He plays.

Jesus told Nicodemus that we are born again by the Holy Spirit. “Truly, truly, I say to you,” Jesus said in John 3:5, “unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” True conversion is the most supernatural thing we will ever experience. When a person puts his faith in Christ for salvation, it is the Spirit who opens the heart and imparts divine life.

He then indwells us, giving us the confidence that we are now children of God. None of us would be Christians today if it were not for the regenerating power of the Spirit.

And if you have ever led someone to faith in Christ, you know it is truly the most amazing miracle God can perform. If you are praying for someone to repent and give his heart to Jesus, do not minimize the role the Holy Spirit plays in this process.

How does this miracle happen? We typically tell new Christians that Jesus came into their hearts at the moment they repented of their sins. But again our language limits the grandeur of a true conversion.

When the Holy Spirit enters the life of a repentant believer, He literally breathes new life into the dead! Just as the prophet Ezekiel watched dry skeletons stand up, grow new flesh, and breathe again (Ezek. 37), people who are dead in sin are resurrected to a new life when they believe in Jesus Christ for the first time.

Never forget the raw power of conversion. Of all the manifestations of the Holy Spirit available to us, conversion is the most precious—and the most powerful. Never minimize the Holy Spirit’s power to transform a sinner.

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:5 ESV
(Go read Ezekiel 37)

09/03/2023

Day 2 of our seven day devotional on the roles of Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit Is Our Comforter

Before Jesus went to the cross, He spent a lot of time with His disciples and opened His heart to share many things with them. During His last crucial hours with His closest followers—whom He called “friends”—He talked a lot about the Holy Spirit. He wanted His disciples to know they would not be alone even though He was leaving them.

Jesus told them in John 14:16–18: I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

After Jesus was raised from the dead, when His dejected disciples were huddled inside a house with the doors shut, Jesus appeared to them. After He showed them His pierced hands and the wound in His side, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22).

We often think the Spirit was first given on the Day of Pentecost, but that experience was the disciples’ second encounter with the Spirit. Their first introduction occurred Sunday evening of the Resurrection. The Helper had come, just as Jesus had promised!

We have been given an amazing gift. When the Spirit came to dwell in you, He brought the eternal life of God. He gives you the very breath of heaven. He infuses you with God’s presence. And more than that, He sets up eternal residence in you so you will never feel alone. Christians can literally sense the presence of the Holy Spirit in themselves, and as we grow in our faith we learn to hear His comforting voice.

I have learned to especially appreciate the presence of the Helper when I go through difficult times of trial, discouragement, or struggle. The Spirit sustains me with supernatural strength and hope. When I experience grief, the Spirit cheers me; when I am mistreated or persecuted, He gives me miraculous grace to endure; when I am accused or misunderstood, He fights my battle for me; when I make a mistake and want to kick myself, He lifts my head and mixes gentle correction with encouragement; when I am in despair, He reminds me of God’s promises. He wants to do the same for you.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:16‭-‬18 ESV

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:22 ESV

08/03/2023

Devotional on the Roles of Holy Spirit.
Day 1

The Holy Spirit Is Our Intercessor

This is one of the greatest miracles of grace. The apostle Paul told us that the Holy Spirit who lives inside us “intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words” (Rom. 8:26). Even when we don’t know how to pray, the Spirit prays the perfect will of God. No matter what kind of dark difficulty we face, the Spirit travails for us until we emerge safely through the test.

Have you ever “groaned” in prayer? Most of us know the feeling. We may not feel full of faith when we utter our deepest cries to God. We could be going through a difficult struggle and not feeling very spiritual.

We may not even be able to muster the strength to pray for half an hour. Our prayers may be a pitiful series of short phrases such as, “Help me, God!” or “Lord, I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”

But, according to the Bible, these kinds of prayers are powerful. All you have to do is read the psalms of King David to know that God hears prayers such as: “O Lord my God, I cried to you for help” (Ps. 30:2).

And what is so comforting is that when we feel frustrated in prayer or don’t know what to say, the Spirit is praying at a deeper level inside us—and He knows what to pray! That is the promise of Romans 8:26.

Many of us are at the most intense stage of the birth process, the transition phase. Childbirth is the time when a pregnant woman feels confused, irritable, and restless. We endure similar feelings of desperation in our walk of faith. We ask ourselves, “Did God really promise me that?” Everything inside us wants to quit believing.

This is how the travailing process works—and we have the Holy Spirit to help us through the pain. He prays with groanings too deep for words until faith gives birth to the answer we are waiting for.

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
Psalm 30:2 ESV

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:26 ESV

06/03/2023

"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment."

"He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken. And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

1 Corinthians 15:55‭-‬57, John 5:24‭-‬29, Isaiah 25:8‭-‬9, NASB

06/03/2023

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06/03/2023

"The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You."

"Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb? I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God. Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth."

Job 33:4, Psalms 139:13‭-‬18, Job 31:15, Psalms 22:10, Psalms 127:3‭-‬4, NKJV

06/03/2023

“To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my just claim is passed over by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength."

"Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’"

"To Him who made great lights, for His mercy endures forever— the sun to rule by day, for His mercy endures forever; the moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endures forever. He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."

Isaiah 40:25-29, Jeremiah 33:2-3, Psalms 136:7‭-‬9, 147:4-5, NKJV

04/03/2023

Great Word.
I must admit that I needed to repent and reflect.

Laziness and Slothfulness — Don’t Allow Either in Your Life

03/03/2023

02/03/2023

Mathew Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”
Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 NLT

02/03/2023

There are so many false teachings going around.
Don't just settle for your emotions, or just what sounds like a good word to be touched, but go after the Authentic Presence of God.
Don't be moved by emotional rhetoric.
And just music. A true worshiper must worship in Spirit and Truth.
God will take away His presence and you will only be left with a gift and you won't know the difference if you don't have a real relationship with Jesus.
Remember, what happened to saul?
God removed His Spirit but allowed him to stay in that office.
Likewise, many Pastors, Prophets, and teachers have lost their anointing, and the Holy Spirit has departed and they are left with Gifts and not God.
People will still get healed and delivered etc but only because God loves people and the gifts are still in operation.
Same with Worship leaders etc.

My God, I'm not trying to speak ill of anyone but many are causing God's people to go astray.
Many don't see where they are wrong so there is no genuine Repentance.
The Prophets of God were killed because they called out these things and spoke the Truth when it was controversial.
Look at Elijah, John the Baptist, Jeremiah, etc. I believe if these men were alive today people would not recognize their voices because of itching ears, vanity, and a lack of real truth.
Jesus even called out those religious people who think they saw but were blind.
Domonique, what are you saying?
I'm saying Don't just settle for what man says and dig into the Real presence of God for yourself. People will always want to go where the True Presence of God is. Search out the scriptures and weigh everything on Prayer.
But do it in Love.
Many have itching ears and we live in a society where instead of receiving real correction when in error, we don't want to offend anyone.
God Corrects those He loves.
He corrected me, I was living a double life for years, living in homosexuality and doing what I
wanted to do. I'm so glad He corrected me, didn't take His Holy Spirit from me, and gave over to those Spirits.
Beloved don't get upset when you're corrected it may hurt or be uncomfortable but stay with the. The word He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Weigh everything by the Word and Test every Spirit so you're not led astray.

27/02/2023

Devotional

The Fullness of God

Our faith has to reach out to a place where we believe God has great things for us, and we are willing to ask for it. To get to this place we have to repent for any small thinking. We’ve all been guilty of it. We’ve all been guilty of trying to predict God’s pattern. We’ve all tried to strategize the way He can accomplish the thing we are asking for. Oftentimes, He does not follow the pattern we thought of at all. It’s because our thinking was too small.

Ephesians 3:20, puts it perfectly. “To him who can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” God is enough. No matter the situation, no matter the void, no matter the lack, He is enough. And He is more than enough.

We have to know that five loaves and two fish is more than enough to feed thousands. We have to know that throwing our nets on the other side of the boat will bring the massive catch we have been working so hard for. We have to think big enough to ask God to show up big in our situation and not limit Him to our capabilities. We must get out of the mindset that things have to be a certain way. His ways are higher than our ways; His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. To walk in overflow, we must position ourselves to receive the fullness of God. I promise you, it will be more than you ever thought it could be.

Colossians 2:8-10 warns us to not get trapped in hollow and deceptive philosophy. We can’t let ourselves forget that we serve THE omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Lord of the Universe. We must refuse small thinking and be open to the big, amazing, supernatural things God wants to do in and through us!

This is overflow. We don’t need to know how, when, where, or with whom it’s going to happen. We just need to trust God to bring it about for our good and His glory. It’s time to throw our plans away. When we do this, we will see miracles.

It’s time to recognize and embrace the overflowing, Spirit-empowered life that God meant for you to live. It’s time to overflow for the glory of God!

(scriptures)
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:16‭-‬21 NIV

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
Colossians 2:8‭-‬10 NIV

24/02/2023

Devotional

Seeing What God Sees

Often, we assume nothing is happening if we cannot see it, but this is not the case at all. Think about it like this. If there was work occurring outside of the place you are in, and you could not see it, would it mean that the work would not actually be happening, because of your inability to see it? Or if you cannot see inside the grocery store across town, would that mean that no one is shopping? Absolutely not. However, this is how many of us choose to live our lives. We are saved, filled with the Spirit, and faithful to God and His church, but we are oblivious to the fact that Satan is constantly working in this realm, and so is the heavenly host.

The eyes of our understanding must be enlightened, so we may know the hope of His calling. This way we don’t have a mere surface understanding or knowledge of what His call is. Instead, we can know the depth of His calling. We can know what He wants to do with our calling.

In Ephesians 1:17-21, it speaks on this enlightenment. Paul says he is praying that the “Eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you.”

Later in Ephesians 6:12-17, Paul talks about the armor of God. This armor – while each piece is different – stems from a better understanding of God, His truth, His Word, salvation, and adopting the righteousness of Jesus – our breastplate. This armor allows us to defend against the enemy’s attacks and “extinguish all” of his arrows.

But we don’t only have to be on the defensive! Our sword, which Paul calls the “sword of the Spirit,” allows us to gain ground back from the enemy.

This overflow you have been experiencing has merely scratched the surface. When the eyes of your understanding are enlightened, you will walk in unprecedented outpouring from God. God is capable of and desires to open up a realm that is not bound by time, geography, or human capability.

(I Encourage you to go and read these Scriptures for yourself to see the entire picture of what I'm speaking about.)

21/02/2023

Devotional

Fresh Fire

Regardless of denomination, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is available to all believers.

And, furthermore, baptism in the Holy Spirit is for you right now. He wants you filled with His fire. He wants you empowered by His presence working in you and through you.

Do you believe He wants to fill you with His Spirit? Do you believe He wants to fill you with fresh fire?

In Acts 2:1-4, we see the Holy Spirit manifest Himself through the church body as they began to speak in tongues.

Before this in Acts 1:4-8, we see Peter, accompanied by John, was jailed overnight and then questioned before Annas, the high priest, and his family. When faced with this stressful situation, it says Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit!

What if God wanted to fill us with the Holy Spirit for His glory in the midst of our hard times, but we aren’t open to it? What needs to change in your life and heart to open the door for the Holy Spirit’s fresh fire?

In Matthew 3:11-17, right before it tells the story of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist, John speaks of a more powerful baptism. Not of water, but of fire. Not by his hand, but of the Holy Spirit.

The same faith it took for you to be born again is the same faith it will take to be filled with the Holy Spirit. The Lord wants to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire!

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 3:11 NIV

On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:4‭-‬8 NIV

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:1‭-‬4

20/02/2023

Devotion
The Anointing of the Holy Spirit

We began by emptying ourselves of the things that were polluting our lives and our walk with God. Then, we filled those emptying places with the Person and Presence of the Holy Spirit. Now, we are learning to walk in a lifestyle that is always abounding, overflowing, in the Holy Spirit. This started with discovering, or rediscovering, that the Holy Spirit really wants to fellowship with us on a constant basis. Today, we are going to go deeper.

Very often in the Old Testament, water represents the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. As we apply the symbolism of this prophecy to our own lives, we can see that there are varying degrees of the anointing of the Holy Spirit we can choose to operate in. For some of us, we operate in an anointing that is only ankle-deep. Some of us are waist-deep, others neck-deep. However, there are mighty currents in the river of God that put us in a position where we no longer have to stand on our own; instead, we can move in the flow of God.

In 1 John 2:27, we see reference to the anointing of the Spirit.

We see reference to the anointing again in Isaiah 10:27, amidst the prophecy of the remnants of Israel. From this passage, we can see that the anointing of the Spirit has great power and, as the verse states, can “destroy the yoke” and burden.

We must confess before God our desire to get out of the ankle-depth and waist-depth we have been operating in. We need to ask God for such an increase that we would only be able to swim in it – for a full anointing of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

Isaiah 10:27
that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

17/02/2023

Communion with the Holy Spirit

We have spent a week emptying us of us. We spent a week becoming full of the Holy Spirit. Now, we transition from dealing with what is going on in us to walking in the depth of overflow. I am trusting by faith that you are already beginning to experience the incredible overflow from God.

In order for us to walk in overflow, we have to pass the point where the Holy Spirit moving in our lives is an event, and instead becomes a lifestyle. When we come to a place where the Spirit is inspiring everything we do, say, think, and feel, we are walking in communion, or fellowship, with the Holy Spirit.

This is what Paul is speaking of when he closes out his second letter to the Corinthian church (2 Corinthians). In 2 Corinthians 13:14, we see Paul wish that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with them. And he wasn’t talking about a moment of fellowship with the Spirit – he was speaking of a lifestyle.

We see the Holy Spirit as a lifestyle as opposed to an event again in John 14:16. Jesus says here that He will ask the Father for the Holy Spirit for them so that He will be with them “forever.”

What if we woke every morning and our number one objective was to commune with the Holy Spirit? What would be different about our lives if we began our days asking Him what He would have us to do with the day He has given us? The direction of the Holy Spirit would take us to places we never dreamed we could go and would allow us to accomplish things we never thought we could accomplish. The Holy Spirit desires to be in fellowship, in communion, in conversation, in revelation with us every single day. He desires to show us things in the Word, in visions, and in dreams.

16/02/2023

Experiencing the Manifested Presence of God

When we want the presence of God more than anything, more than a new house, promotion, honor, or a new car, He will show up in all the places we seek Him.

We have been called to the practice of the presence of God. This has become a lost discipline in the church today. Many do not even know how to practice the manifested presence of God, because they have no idea what it even is. In our corporate worship settings, we have become so controlled by getting in and out in a certain amount of time that we leave no space for God to manifest His presence among us. God does not come on our terms.

Let’s go back to John 14:21. In this verse, Jesus states the one who loves Him will be loved by the Father and He too (Jesus) will show Himself to them!

In Exodus 33:1-3 and 12-16, God gives Moses instructions for leading the Israelites. When Moses doesn’t feel up to the challenge and asks God, God says He will send His presence to lead them. While God’s presence in the Old Testament was a pillar of cloud in the day and of fire during the night, He now manifests Himself differently. Through Christ’s sacrifice and the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, He now can manifest Himself through us.

We desperately need the manifested presence of God. If all we have are promises, we have missed the most important thing. We should not be satisfied to live a day without the manifested presence of God. We should not be satisfied with a church service, a prayer meeting, or any other ministry without the manifested presence of God. It is His presence that will make the difference. Jesus said if we love Him and keep His commandments, He will manifest Himself to us. We were created for this.

16/02/2023

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15/02/2023

Prayer
Heavenly Father, I just want to thank you for the precious gift you have given me, in the form of salvation. Thank you for loving me so much you found it worth it to give up your Son so that me, and many others, could come back to you. Father, it is because of your Son, Jesus Christ, and what He did for mankind, I can stand boldly and say that I have been justified by His blood. Thank you, Lord, for granting me the gift of eternal life. Nothing in this world will shake me because I know I am righteous, in Christ Jesus, and I have a heavenly inheritance. All glory, honor, and adoration belong to you, O God. You deserve it all, for your endless love and everlasting goodness.
Take my life, and do something with it.
Fill me with your Spirit.
In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

If you prayed this please let me know.

15/02/2023

Devotional

Drawing Near to God

Drawing near to God means that we seek after God with our whole hearts. This is what prayer and fasting is all about. We are not on a hunger strike to force God to do something. We are foolish to presume we can make God do anything. Instead, we are humbling ourselves through prayer and fasting for God to transform us and position us to walk in His perfect will. We remove the impediments that block our prayers from reaching the ears of God. It is about seeking God with everything in us.

James 4:1-10 Let’s take a look.
It talks all about pride and submission. It calls for us to submit to God in order to draw nearer to Him and all the good things that come with this decision to submit.

In 2 Chronicles 15:1-2, we see the Spirit of God communicate with Azariah, the son of Obed. It tells Azariah that if he seeks Him and the things of God, God will be with him. But if Azariah forsakes Him and doesn’t draw near to God, God will forsake him.

When our hearts are polluted, we develop a hardness for the things of God. When our hearts become hardened to the things of God, we cannot draw near to God. To draw near to God, I must purify myself (empty me of me), obey truth through the power of the Holy Spirit, and fervently and sincerely love with a pure heart.

James 4:1-10
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

2 Chronicle 15:1-2
The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded. He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.