The Complexities of Conviction _ Pt 3

<p>Wednesday 16th September, 2020.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Hello and a lovely Wednesday morning to you in the name of Jesus.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We thank God for today and we thank God for His grace and help. You know one of the things God gave us at creation is freewill. He gave us a will. He gave us the ability to think freely. He gave us the ability to choose. He put man in a garden and He put everything there and He puts a tree there. He said " Man! don't eat of this tree, you can choose to eat it or not but listen; my advice to you is this; Don't eat out of it! so of all the things that God gave man, the Human will &nbsp;is one if the most powerful things and it's swings anywhere we want it to swing. You can either swing it in the direction of the will of God and the mind of God or you can swing it in the direction of the will of man or the mind of man. Since the fall, that's what we have being dealing with. Swinging our mind to the will of God &nbsp;or swinging it to the will of man, swinging to following the mind of God or following the mind of man.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In Matt 16, Jesus was rebuking Peter. He had said " Listen; I am going to the cross, I am going to die, I am going to come back to life &nbsp;three days later. Peter was rebuking Him and He said to Peter &nbsp;"Get behind me Satan! Because your mind is not on the things of God but the things of man". The human mind &nbsp;like a pendulum begins to swing through two minds and it's either the mind of God or the mind of man and this is what causes confusion, doubts &nbsp;and what we call the " complexities with our conviction"&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>&nbsp;James 1: 6-8 (NKJV)&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;"But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways".</p> <p><br></p> <p>A double minded person is unstable in everyway and such a person will receive nothing fr