NUGGETS FOR LIFE BY BARBRA BURTON

We need to get anger, rage and hostility out of our lives.  When coupled with Bitterness it can cause you to explode!  Hostility is dangerous to your health!
So what is hostility?  Hostility is intense aggression, anger or a strong opposition to someone or  something.  Long-suffering is a fruit of the Spirit of God.  Long-suffering is the part of the nature of God.  When you are hostile you are not reflecting the nature of the Father.  Hostility and aggression are signs of bondage to the enemy’s influence, often linked with Occultism.
When you are hostile, you don’t have patience, you’re not long-suffering.  A hostile person exhibits anger and rage.  They  tend to have a porcupine mentality where they bristle up at everything, or worse, be like a skunk and spray everyone their mouth.  That’s a hostile person manifesting.
Hostility is not good for your health.  Hostility might make your lungs sick, according to research which found that young adults with short fuses have impaired lung function. (pulmonary insufficiency or breathing difficulties).  In a study of 18 – 30 year olds, hostility was more dangerous to their lungs than smoking.
Where do you think they learned that hostility?  Hostile adults.  You may be carriers of that generational iniquity.  Perhaps every generation has been angry and hostile all through your generations and now your children and grandchildren are starting to act out just like you did…and your daddy did…and your granddaddy…and your grandmother did.
Hostility, in their findings seemed to accelerate natural aging of the lungs.  If you want your lungs to age faster, just be hostile.
Hostility comes from and invisible spirit world that influences the mind and personality of humans.  The Bible says that God’s ways are higher than our ways.  I want the Holy Spirit to illuminate me–not other spirits.  I don’t want my spirit man to be clouded with the information from another kingdom.  If our minds weren’t occluded, we might have more healing today.
Remember, you can be a Christian and still be a servant of sin.  You can be born again and still think, speak and act as a demonstration of the mind of another kingdom–opposing God.  Did you know that?   It doesn’t take long, if we listen to some people in Christianity, to see how they think, speak and act and you’ll quickly see that other kingdom still working.    (to be continued)

We need to get anger, rage and hostility out of our lives.  When coupled with Bitterness it can cause you to explode!  Hostility is dangerous to your health!     So what is hostility?  Hostility is intense aggression, anger or a strong opposition to someone or  something.  Long-suffering is a fruit of the Spirit of God.  Long-suffering is the part of the nature of God.  When you are hostile you are not reflecting the nature of the Father.  Hostility and aggression are signs of bondage to the enemy’s influence, often linked with Occultism.     When you are hostile, you don’t have patience, you’re not long-suffering.  A hostile person exhibits anger and rage.  They  tend to have a porcupine mentality where they bristle up at everything, or worse, be like a skunk and spray everyone their mouth.  That’s a hostile person manifesting.     Hostility is not good for your health.  Hostility might make your lungs sick, according to research which found that young adults with short fuses have impaired lung function. (pulmonary insufficiency or breathing difficulties).  In a study of 18 – 30 year olds, hostility was more dangerous to their lungs than smoking.     Where do you think they learned that hostility?  Hostile adults.  You may be carriers of that generational iniquity.  Perhaps every generation has been angry and hostile all through your generations and now your children and grandchildren are starting to act out just like you did…and your daddy did…and your granddaddy…and your grandmother did.     Hostility, in their findings seemed to accelerate natural aging of the lungs.  If you want your lungs to age faster, just be hostile.     Hostility comes from and invisible spirit world that influences the mind and personality of humans.  The Bible says that God’s ways are higher than our ways.  I want the Holy Spirit to illuminate me–not other spirits.  I don’t want my spirit man to be clouded with the information from another kingdom.  If our minds weren’t occluded, we might have more healing today.    Remember, you can be a Christian and still be a servant of sin.  You can be born again and still think, speak and act as a demonstration of the mind of another kingdom–opposing God.  Did you know that?   It doesn’t take long, if we listen to some people in Christianity, to see how they think, speak and act and you’ll quickly see that other kingdom still working.    (to be continued)

Message for August 8, 2010

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Heb. 11:1
One of the most important aspects of life is faith.  We are creatures that form our entire life around faith.  Everything we do involves some element of faith.  Faith is not just believing in God, it is believing in anything.
In Mark 11 Jesus said to His disciples, “Have faith in God.”  The emphasis is not on having faith, but rather where you place your faith.  As opposed to where else you have faith, switch it to God.  Faith in oneself is still faith.  “I can handle it.”  Faith in where you work is still faith.  Children have faith in their parents.  We have faith in the weatherman or news broadcaster.  We have faith in government.  We have faith in “mother nature”.  How do I know all this is true?  Because we prepare for life based on what they say and do.
If you say, “Well, I don’t have faith in them.”  You are still exercising faith.  How?  What is “lack of faith”?  That night on the boat in the storm Jesus asked the disciples, “Where is your faith?” What caused Him to ask the question?  Was it because they were emotionally in “neutral”? No, it was because He saw something in them.  What was it?  It was fear.  There are only two great motivators in life, faith and fear.  We live by one or the other.  We are always motivated by either faith or fear.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Heb. 11:1 One of the most important aspects of life is faith.  We are creatures that form our entire life around faith.  Everything we do involves some element of faith.  Faith is not just believing in God, it is believing in anything.    In Mark 11 Jesus said to His disciples, “Have faith in God.”  The emphasis is not on having faith, but rather where you place your faith.  As opposed to where else you have faith, switch it to God.  Faith in oneself is still faith.  “I can handle it.”  Faith in where you work is still faith.  Children have faith in their parents.  We have faith in the weatherman or news broadcaster.  We have faith in government.  We have faith in “mother nature”.  How do I know all this is true?  Because we prepare for life based on what they say and do.    If you say, “Well, I don’t have faith in them.”  You are still exercising faith.  How?  What is “lack of faith”?  That night on the boat in the storm Jesus asked the disciples, “Where is your faith?” What caused Him to ask the question?  Was it because they were emotionally in “neutral”? No, it was because He saw something in them.  What was it?  It was fear.  There are only two great motivators in life, faith and fear.  We live by one or the other.  We are always motivated by either faith or fear.