OVERCOMING OFFENSE

Your spiritual standards are fought by offenses, how fast are you to be offended?

This is a weapon that the devil is using to fight your levels in the spirit.

Offenses always look at what can you say concerning it?. What can you say concerning that brother or sister there.

The problem is not what they are doing, but are you offended by it?

Offenses come when you begin to look at things at your own perspective,

The way you judge things, they have done that to you, he has spoken to you as if you are just a small boy, are you offended by that?

If you have not managed to kill what we call SELF,. You will get yourself offended Everytime, and that still will make you a sinner.

When you are full of I, me, and myself you will be offended at any action done around you. And that makes you a sinner before God

So number one thing is keeping your heart away from offenses

Don’t let yourself be offended easily

FORGIVENESS

Many times, we have been hearing this matter of forgiveness, and ourselves have been preaching it to our friends or in the fellowship meetings.

And it is not a new thing to begin with, it is not a new agenda.

Jesus taught concerning forgiveness several times, and that is our Principle that we must forgive one another and love one another.

Our God is a forgiving Father and since we have His nature, we are made to be forgiveness and mercies
That when someone meets you let the person see forgiveness and mercies in you so that by that they may glorify God in you.

There is something unique about our God that you don’t find in any place. God forgives to be feared
When others including the devil will directly attack and punish you ruthlessly, so that you can fear them; God earns fear of men by forgiving

Psalms 130:4
[4] But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Lakini kwako kuna msamaha, Ili Wewe uogopwe.

Forgiving others is not for their own benefit but for your own good

Imagine what you think you are building at the end you realize that you have ruined everything by unfogiveness including yourself

So once you forgive, forget, but don’t trust the person again. ( I’m talking about the one who has caused you pain and broken your heart).

God is a God of second chances but not a God of second opportunities

The best way to keep your heart safe forgive, forget but don’t trust the person again, the way you did before

The reason you ended up in pain and you are where you are now, is because of the Trust that you gave to wrong people

You gave them opportunities to access your informations and datas about you, they even had privilege to advise your decisions, only coming to realize that they were also capable of making you feel miserable.

The trust that you gave them, was a mistake, that if only you could have known, you could have stayed away from them. You could have avoided them.

Today we are healing hearts so that you may know how to keep it from some wrong environment, so that you don’t repeat the mistake again

Listen to me child of God; I am not giving you a tool to undermine and judge others, and see yourself higher than them no be careful of thath. The Lord is telling you the way of keeping your heart safe. And set it pure for Holiness and favour.

Jesus is making a statement when talking to the elect concerning trust and keeping of secrets ( we will look into this also) And He says👇👇

Matthew 7:6
[6]Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Jesus talking to us, He is saying that there are things that we have, which are Holy, but also there are dogs ( when talking about dogs He didn’t mean spirit of adultery, but He meant people who are not in the same kingdom with us)
They may be in the same denomination (dhehebu) as you are but the reality is that they are not in the kingdom.

So Jesus is telling you to be very careful especially when it comes to delivering messages and speaking, there are people who are not qualified for the kind of information you carry, the information that you have got from God so far can still be trampled (kuraruliwa na kukanyagwa) upon by some people. They might demand some information from you

And He mentions pigs ( these are people within, who don’t understand your value or the value of what you have) they are people who are used to their inferior lives, and whenever you will try to present a valuable concept to them they will just put it down and step on it. And Jesus is saying don’t give your treasure to them

And He is saying that they can trample on them and after they are done with your information, they will turn to you and tear you apart.

You can agree with me that the heartbreak you got, that disappointment, that despise you are facing now is because of an information, (trust) that you gave to wrong people, after they were done with the information because they never acknowledged it’s value, they despised it and then turned to you, they disappointed you.

Imagine a boy that comes to you and wanting to propose you, and you accepted and told him your entire truth, how born again you are, you even told him that that is the first relationship you are in and that you have never been in any relationship, you told him secrets that even your close friends never got access to, thinking that you are depositing your information to someone who will value it and respect you more for that, someone whom you thought would be there to put a mark of glory on you, only coming to realize that this gentleman….

The treatment you got from him is like he never knew you before, treating you with every form of betrayal, it seems like the moment you opened your heart for him, was the day you exposed your weaknesses

Healing of hearts

Sometimes the way you function now, the way you live now, is so discouraging, even sometimes when you sit down and start to evaluate yourself, it comes to a point where you ask yourself “what is wrong with me?, Where is my strength? Am I the same person who was so quick and strong few months ago? What is happening to me? The Visions I had and my plans, none of them has been accomplished on time,… where have I gone wrong?

There is a mistake that you did without knowing, you gave which is holy to dogs and threw treasure to pigs the people that you thought were helpful, saw your character that was so valuable before God and they used it to attack you, they have spoken discouraging words, and though your ears couldn’t pay attention to them, your heart received them, because they were almost being spoken everyday. Some guys who were not present when God was speaking to you, now thought that they can dictate the operations of the word that God put in you ( may God punish the devil) these guys who never knew sacrifice for the value, now standing and fighting you every morning, they have never blessed you early when you met them, the first words that came from their lips were negative words ( wewe huwezi bhana, wewe upo hivi, wewe upo vile… and a lot of rubbish that contradict the view of God on you)

All the criticism they are throwing to you, would have helped them to check themselves first.

Criticism is a gift, given to a critic to see his own faults,. But he is misusing it, instead of correcting themselves they now want to stand in the front line to tell you your mistakes

If they can easily see your weaknesses and preach it on their meetings and in the public, why don’t they use the same ability to check their lives?. Because that ability was given to them to help them, not you.

Imagine child of God as holy as you are, you have spent your entire night in prayer and reading the word of God, resting in the presence of God. Waking up the next day, someone who was busy committing fornication, slept with women, someone who was busy drinking beer, visiting witch doctors, insulting people and participating in foolish conversations, now coming to you wanting to tell you your weaknesses,, he/she has failed to discover how filthy he is; coming to you wanting you to follow his mindset, the same mindset that failed to rescue him now wants to rescue you.

And some of them are very proud to an extent that they want to measure the levels of your salvation, I personally have met a lot of those people, a lot of them, utasikia wewe hujaokoka bwana. You know there are some people that God punishes because of their level of foolishness.

If someone is that smart in his sinful life and he thinks he can tell the level of spiritualities of the children of God who has made him judge over the church? If he/she is not looking for trouble. The same eye that can’t see his own girlfriend that he is fornicating with, now wants to stand to judge you child of God. How far has the devil planted foolishness in the children of men? And you see a child of God trembling in front of such people, coming out thinking that something is wrong with him/her, struggling to correct what is not even there, the heart gets hurts and it becomes heavy to an extent that even your performance when it comes to duties is decreased. Not because you are too slow no, but because some guys out there have been preaching weaknesses into your ears.

Criticism is a gift, given to the critic to see himself, not you. Critics are misusing their gifts

Understand this child of God.

Dogs only bark at the moving vehicle, the moment the vehicle is parked, they even come and sleep there, but when the vehicle is on and on movement you will see dogs shouting and barking at the moving vehicle.

The reason you are facing a lot of criticism is not because you have some faults no, but because of your levels which are higher than theirs, they are trying to find a simple language that they can call it, the moment they lack a name for it they will begin to shout saying “huyu jamaa simuelewi, hivi yupoje, hivi yupoje?” Don’t struggle to reveal yourself to them ( remember what Jesus said to us concerning values that should not be given to dogs and pigs) keep the motion, as long as you are on a movement they will still utter words, they will bark at you as much as they can, don’t be shaken they are barking because there’s no way they can bring you down.

There is something in them that even they can’t see that is pushing them to do that, and that is a spirit of stagnation,

Do you know that the person who has delayed to walk on feet talks too much? And the person who can’t Walk from his birth also talk too much, because there are places that they can’t go, that requires feet to visit and because they cannot get there, they end up visiting with their mouths😊

One of the sign that you are stagnant and you are not making any progress is when you find yourself talking too much about almost everything. Complaining here and there. Is an indication of the spirit of stagnation

Your critic is criticizing you because you are ahead of him. “You only talk about what is in front of you, you only attack what is in front of you, you can’t attack what is behind you.” You only talk about what is ahead of you.

Understand this child of God,

People attack you and undermine you, according to their own levels

Where they are standing from, will determine what they say about you. They undermine you not because you are low, but because they are at a low position, they will talk about according to their position. It means that they are relevant to lower positions

If you understand this you will not struggle with people.

You only talk about what is higher above you, or what is ahead of you. So don’t struggle with how someone sees you, stop struggling with people. If you attack back, it means that you are now at the same level with them.