Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We're rounding out with

day five of our the enemies of the heart devotion on the Bible app. There's a link to that

in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along with us and as always

I'm going to do the scripture and Tori is going to pick up with the divo. Let's do it.

The scripture is James chapter four verses one through three and it says this

what is causing the corals and fights among you don't they come from the evil desires at war

within you you want what you don't have so you scheme and kill to get it you are jealous of

what others have but you can't get it so you fight and wage war to take it away from them yet

you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it and even when you ask you don't

get it because your motives are all wrong you want only what will give you pleasure.

The devotional is titled taking your desires to God and it says this each of the enemies of the

heart is energized by the idea that somebody owes something guilt says I owe you anger is fueled

by the notion that you owe me and guilt is kept alive by the assumption that I owe me this

fourth heart issue is no differently jealousy jealousy says God owes me when we think about jealousy

or envy we immediately think of the things others have that we lack looks skills opportunities

health height inheritance etc we assume our problem is with the person who possesses what we lack

but let's face it God could have fixed all of that for us whatever he gave your neighbor

he could have given you to that's why you may feel inside that he owes you

jealousy can terrorize your life and wreak havoc in your relationships the good news is

this behemoth like the other three has a vulnerability and it's something you might not expect

stop coveting what others have and start asking God for what he knows is best for you

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