Fw: SELF EXAMINATION TO BRAKE FALLOW GROUND

[Kenny Akintunde]

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> Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 1:14 AM
> Text Sermons : Hosea 10:12 (KJV)
> Sow  to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy;
> break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the
> Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
> Another translation says,
> "Break up your follow ground for it is time to seek the Lord
> till He come and rain righteousness upon you."
>
> Good Morning!
> Today is the 52nd day of the fasting. Also, today is the
> last saturday in February, 2014, My design however in this
> Message this morning  is to show how a revival is to be
> promoted in our daily lives which will lead to breaking of
> fallow grounds in every difficult areas even before now.
> This can only be achieved via self examination.
> A Fallow ground is ground which has once been tilled, but
> which now lies waste, and needs to be broken up and
> mellowed, before it is it is ready to receive grain. But for
> my message,
> To break up the fallow ground, is to break up your hearts,
> to prepare your minds to bring forth fruit unto God. The
> mind of man is often compared to the ground in the bible.
> The word of God is the seed sown there, the fruit
> representing the actions and emotions of those who receive
> it. To break up the fallow ground therefore, is to bring the
> mind into such a state that it is fitted to receive the Word
> of God. Sometimes your hearts get matted down, hard and dry,
> until there is no such thing as getting fruit from them
> until they are broken up, and mellowed down, and fitted to
> the Word. It is this softening of the heart, so as to make
> it feel the truth, which the prophet calls break up your
> fallow ground.
> I DECREE GOD WILL BREAK OUR HEARTS FOR HIS GLORY IN THE NAME
> OF JESUS.
>
> How is the fallow ground to be broken?
> To do all this, you must set yourself to work to consider
> your sins. You must examine yourselves.
>
> EXAMINE YOURSELF:
> Self-examination consists in looking at your lives, in
> considering your actions, in calling up the past, and
> learning its true character. Look back over your past
> history. Take up your individual sins one by one, and look
> at them. I do not mean that you should just cast a glance at
> your past life, and see that it has been full of sins, and
> then go to God and make a sort of general confession, and
> ask for pardon. That is not the way. You must take them up
> one by one. Get a pen and paper and write them down as you
> remember them. Go over them as carefully as a merchant goes
> over his books and as often as a sin comes before your
> memory, add it the list. General confessions of sin will
> never do. Your sins were committed one by one; and as they
> come to you, review and repent of them one by one. Ask the
> Holy Spirit to show you your past sins. Now begin, and take
> up first what are commonly, but improperly, called Sins of
> Omission. We are all guilty one way or the other. Please
> follow me.
>
> 1. Ingratitude.
> Take this sin and write down under that heading all the
> times you can remember where you have received favors from
> God and others for which you have never expressed gratitude
> or thankfulness. How many cases can you remember? Some
> remarkable change of events, that saved you from ruin. Write
> down the instances of God's goodness to you when you were in
> sin, before your conversion, for which you have never been
> half thankful enough; and the numerous mercies you have
> received since. How long the list of instances, where your
> ingratitude has been so black that you are forced to hide
> your face in confusion! Go on your knees and confess them
> one by one to God, and ask forgiveness. The very act of
> confession, by the laws of suggestion, will bring up others
> to your memory. Put these down. Go over them three or four
> times in this way, and see what an astonishing number of
> mercies there are for which you have never thanked God.
>
> 2. Lack of love to God.
> Think how grieved and alarmed you would be if you discovered
> any lack of affection for you in your wife, husband, or
> children; if you saw another absorbing their hearts, and
> thoughts, and time. Perhaps in such a case you would nearly
> die with a just and virtuous jealousy. Now, God calls
> Himself a jealous God; and have you not given your heart to
> other loves and infinitely offended Him? Am I making sense?
>
> 3. Neglect of the Bible.
> Put down the cases when for perhaps weeks, or longer, God's
> Word was not a pleasure. Some people, indeed, read over
> whole chapters in such a way that they could not tell what
> they had been reading. If so, no wonder that your life is
> spent at random, and that your religion is such a miserable
> failure. The Lord will have mercy.
>
> 4. Unbelief.
>  Recall the instances in which you have virtually charged
> the God of truth with lying, by your unbelief of His express
> promises and declarations. God has promised to give the Holy
> Spirit to them that ask Him. Now, have you believed this?
> Have you expected Him to answer? Have you not virtually said
> in your hearts, when you prayed for the Holy Spirit: "I do
> not believe that I shall receive"? If you have not believed
> nor expected to receive the blessing which God has expressly
> promised, you have charged Him with lying.
>
> 5. Neglect of prayer.
>  Think of the times when you have neglected secret prayer,
> family prayer, and prayer meetings; or have prayed in such a
> way as more grievously to offend God than to have omitted it
> altogether.
>
> 6. Neglect of the means of grace.
> When you have made stupid and meaningless excuses to prevent
> your attending meetings, have neglected and poured contempt
> upon the methods of salvation, simply because you dislike
> spiritual duties?
>
> 7. The manner in which you have performed those duties.
>  That is, with lack of feeling and lack of faith in a
> worldly frame of mind, so that your words were nothing but
> the mere chattering of a wretch who did not deserve that God
> should feel the least care for him. When you have fallen
> down upon your knees and "said your prayers" in such an
> unfeeling and careless manner that if you had been put under
> oath five minutes after, you could not have said for what
> you had been praying.
>
> 8. Lack of love for the souls of your fellow-men.
> Look around upon your friends and relatives, and remember
> how little compassion you have felt for them. You have stood
> by and seen them going right to hell, and it seems as though
> you did not care if they did go. How many days have there
> been, in which you did not make their condition the subject
> of a single fervent prayer, or display a glowing and devoted
> desire for their salvation?
>
> 9. Lack of care for the lost.
> Perhaps you have not cared enough for them to attempt to
> learn their condition; perhaps not even to take a missionary
> magazine. Look at this, and see how much you really care for
> the lost, and write down honestly the real amount of your
> feelings for them, and your desire for their salvation.
> Measure your desire for their salvation by the self-denial
> you practice, in giving of your substance to send them the
> Gospel.  If you are not doing these things, and if your
> soul is not agonized for the poor benighted heathen, why are
> you such a hypocrite to pretend to be a Christian? Why
> saying you are a Christian is an insult to Jesus Christ!
>
> 10. Neglect of family duties.
> Think how you have prayed before your family, how you have
> prayed, what an example you have set before them. What
> direct efforts do you habitually make for their spiritual
> good? What duty have you not neglected?
>
> From these we now turn to Sins of Commission.
>
> 1. Wordily mindedness.
> What has been the state of your heart in regard to your
> worldly possessions Have you looked at them as really
> yours-as if you had a right to dispose of them as your own,
> according to your own will? If you have, write that down. If
> you have loved property, and sought after it for its own
> sake, or to gratify lust or ambition, or a worldly spirit or
> to lay it up for your families, you have sinned, and must
> repent.
>
> 2. Pride.
> Recall all the times you can, in which you have detected
> yourself in the exercise of pride. Vanity is a particular
> form of pride. How many times have you detected yourself in
> consulting vanity about your dress and appearance? How many
> times have you thought more, and taken more pains, and spent
> more time about decorating your body to go to Church, than
> you have about preparing your mind for the worship of God?
>
> You have gone caring more as to how you appeared outwardly
> in the sight of mortal man, than how your soul appeared in
> the sight of the heart-searching God. You have, in fact, set
> up yourself to be worshiped by them, rather than prepared to
> worship God yourself. You sought to divide the worship of
> God house, to draw off the attention of God's people to look
> at your pretty appearance. It is in vain to pretend flow,
> that you do not care anything about having people look at
> you. Be honest about it would you take all this pains about
> your looks if every person were blind?
>
> 3. Envy.
> Look at the cases in which you were envious of those whom
> you thought were above you in any respect. Or perhaps you
> have envied those who have been more talented or more useful
> than yourself. Have you not so envied some, that you have
> been pained to bear them praised? It has been more pleasant
> for to you to dwell upon their faults than upon their
> virtues, upon their failures than upon their success. Be
> honest with yourself; and if you have harbored this spirit
> of hell, repent deeply before God, or He will never forgive
> you.
>
> 4. Censoriousness and bitterness.
> Instances in which you have had a bitter spirit or harbored
> a grudge toward someone? How many times have you spoken of
> Christians in a manner completely lacking charity and love?
> Love always hopes for the best but count the time in which
> you suspected the worst.
>
> 5. Slander and gossip.
> The times you have spoken behind people's backs of the
> faults, real or supposed, of members of the Church or
> others, unnecessarily, or without good reason. This is
> slander. You need not lie to be guilty of slander: to tell
> the truth with the design to injure is to slander.
>
> 6. Levity.
> How often have you joked before God as you would not have
> dared to joke in the presence of an important official? You
> have either been an atheist, and forgotten that there was a
> God, or have had less respect for Him, and His presence,
> than you would have had for an earthly judge.
>
> 7. Lying.
> Understand now what lying is. Any form of designed
> deception. If the deception be not designed, it is not
> lying. But if you design to make an oppression contrary to
> the naked truth, you lie. Put down all those cases you can
> recollect. Do not call them by any soft name. God call them
> LIES, and charges you with LYING, and you had better charge
> yourself correctly How innumerable are the falsehoods
> perpetrated every day in business, and in social
> intercourse, by words and looks, and actions, designed to
> make an impression on others, for selfish reasons that is
> contrary to the truth.
>
> 8. Cheating.
>  Set down all the cases in which yon have dealt with an
> individual, and done to him that which you would not like to
> have done to you. That is cheating. God has laid down a rule
> in the case : "All things whatsoever you would that men
> should do to you, do even so to them." That is the rule. And
> if you have not done so you are a cheat. Mind, the rule is
> not that you should do "what you might reasonably expect
> them to do to you: for that is a rule which would admit of
> every degree of wickedness. But it is : "As you WOULD they
> should do to you.
>
> 9. Hypocrisy.
> For instance, in your prayers and confessions to God. Set
> down the instances in which you have prayed for things you
> did not really want. And the evidence is, that when you have
> done praying, you could not tell for what you had prayed.
> How many times have you confessed sins that you did not mean
> to break off and when you had no solemn purpose not to
> repeat them? Yes, have confessed sins when you knew you as
> much expected to go and repeat them, as you expected to
> live.
>
> 10. Robbing God.
>  Think of the instances in which you have misspent your
> time, squandering the hours which God gave you to serve Him
> and save souls, in vain amusements or foolish conversation,
> in reading novels or doing nothing; cases where you have
> misapplied your talents and powers of mind; where you have
> squandered money on your lusts, or spent it for things which
> you did not need, and which did not contribute to your
> health comfort, or usefulness. Perhaps some of you have laid
> out God's money for gambling.
>
> 11. Bad temper.
>  Perhaps you have abused your wife, or your children, or
> your family, or employees, or neighbors. Write it all down.
>
> 12. Hindering others from being useful.
> Perhaps you have, weakened their influence by insinuations
> against them. You have not only robbed God of your own
> talents, but tied the hands of somebody else. What a wicked
> servant is he who not only loiters himself but hinders the
> rest! This is done sometimes by taking their time
> needlessly; sometimes by destroying Christian confidence in
> them. Thus you have played into the hands of Satan, and not
> only showed yourself an idle vagabond, but prevented others
> from working.
>
> As you go over the history of your sins, be sure to decide
> upon present and entire reformation. Wherever you find
> anything wrong, take care of it at once, in the strength of
> God, to sin no more in that way. It will be of no benefit to
> examine yourself, unless you determine to change in every
> particular that which you find wrong in heart, temper, or
> conduct.
>
> I DECREE TO YOU NOW,
> There’s a mighty Jesus anointing of deliverance in
> manifestation this morning!
>
> Every spirit that has degraded, disgraced, and robbed you of
> your dignity is under Holy Ghost arrest this morning!
>
> Every situation that has harassed you is under divine arrest
> this morning!
>
> Every force that has tormented your life is under arrest
> this morning!
>
> Every stubborn spirit of disease that has sickened your body
> is under arrest this morning!
>
> Every covenant with every spiritual husbands and wives is
> forever broken this morning!
>
> Every satanic mountains and demonic blockades on your way is
> destroyed this morning!
> THANK YOU JESUS!
>
>
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