1 Kings 11:1-2
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lordhad told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
> What are we loving that's turning our hearts?
> You may not be responsible for what you attract, but you are responsible for what you entertain.
> One of the tactics of the enemy is to send us pain giftwrapped in our preference.
> It's not the foreign women chasing Solomon. It appears that Solomon was chasing them.
> Isn't it amazing on how we look back on what we had in Egypt and some of us have been lurking, and monitoring things that were fatal.
> Why do you reminisce the good times but forget Pharaoh's whip? - Forget when your hair was falling out and begging God to get you out of it.
> THANK GOD IT DIDN'T WORK
> Has anybody grateful for the times you didn't get the position? For the times God did close doors, that relationship didn't work out. You wouldn't be pursuing God with the intensity you've been pursuing Him now, if that would have worked.
> One of the signs you're growing is when your X is no longer your type. I'm no longer attracted to things I had in Egypt.
X is an example when God doesn't endorse a thing.
> For certain people our radical stance and our peace seem unnatural because people who live in chaos looked confused at people who live in peace. They can't understand it cause all they've known is chaos and dysfunction.
> A fatal attraction is not when someone can't get over you. It is when God told us not to do a thing but we hold on to it. Is when we are attracted to that which is fatal.
> Can you identify when something is fatal? There's a desperate need for unlearning in the area of attraction. There's a desperate need for us to unlearn some things because I cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that created it. So I need God to deal with what I am attracted to - what I like / what's my type / preferences because if I keep my preferences but keep on claiming the king and God hasn't touched the area of my preferences I'll keep on feeling as though God is leading me into wilderness and famine places and many times, it's the very thing that we liked that keeps causing us to behave into a season. The beginning of unlearning is forgiveness. When we have to unlearn some things we come to God and say 'Forgive me for what I've done.' This is repentance, "Forgive me and change my heart. I need you to change me." And for me to change, I need to ask forgiveness because I don't want to go back to that. And some of us we need to learn to forgive ourselves, forgive ourselves for entertaining fatal things, forgive ourselves so we can really forgive others. FORGIVENESS FREES THE PRISONER. And once you forgive, you'll discover that the prisoner was you. DON'T GET EVEN. HEAL. Healing looks good on you. Becoming looks good on you. Because one of the ways the devil is trafficking in killing us softly, is by the things that we're attracted to. Because we can't identify that which is toxic.
When we can't identify what's toxic we'll look like a cute dog licking a rattlesnake. How many of us kissed snakes but we couldn't recognize until we've been bit. But what is it in me that liked the snake in the first place? What is it in me that caused me to not see that this is fatal? I wonder how life would have looked if before we pick up things, we treat it as if it is venomous, until we got confirmation.
I'm not picking this up, not marrying this, not taking this, not dating them, not doing this until I get some confirmation because I don't know if you bear fruit or you bear poison, and until then, I'll treat you as accordingly. We'll have some distance. I gotta get discernment. Some of us are so caught up with what we see. Look for things by seeking. It's not being attracted to things based on what we see. Add a K to it. SEEK out if this is God's will for my life.
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Lamentations 3:25
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
Amos 5:4
For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Jesus is saying, don't seek the things, seek the Kingdom because if you seek the King and the Kingdom, the things that you need for your assignment will be added unto you.
DISCERNMENT CORRECTS ATTRACTION - There's a difference between attraction and being attracted
Trauma response - When we romanticize and when we reflect on a toxic relationship that was an emotional assassin- that's a trauma response, not you missing them. It's possible that many people due to the intensity of the bond, we think this has to be love. Because it's so hard for me to let them go, because I don't want to do life without them. Unfortunately a lot of us have never known what LOVE is - not from a Kingdom perspective. Maybe you're mislabeling it, you don't miss them, you're having withdrawals. Because this is how the body response when we're no longer giving it the toxicity that it's used to. Your body is responding, you no longer has the poison. When you're having withdrawals, that doesn't mean go back.
DISCERNMENT - Clear direction, cloudy direction, confirmed direction
1. CLEAR - It's clearly sin. No need to pray / fast.
ex. Should I rob them?, Do I need to sleep with so's wife or husband?
2. CLOUDY - When you encounter an obstacle / crossroad. When you don't know what to do. God's will / my will / enemy?
This is when God is calling us into intercession. Fast. Depending on the direction that you're about to go, is married to how intense the fasting and how intense we have to go to turn down the volume of things.
ex. Fast 3 days if you don't know if you should do business with this person.
21-40 days and counseling for marriage.
The thing about God is He always addresses the elephant in the room.
3. CONFIRMED - It's when God confirmed you to do a thing.
Authorization. The beauty about having confirmation is that you've been heavenly authorized for a thing.
>> 1) it will always compliment His word
>> 2) unexplainable flow - things just lining up.
Obedience - you'll live on flow you don't have to knock on doors, it'll open for you
>> 3) Reoccurring confirmation - God won't give you new instruction until you've got NOW obedience
>> 4) Resistance - Somethings trying to stop you / hinder you. If you never experienced resistance, maybe you're going the same way with the devil, but he's a defeated foe.
THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE NOT GONNA WIN IS IF YOU DON'T FIGHT. BECAUSE THE FIGHT HAS BEEN FIXED. BECAUSE IN CHRIST WE HAVE THE VICTORY.
Confirmation is the anchor that keeps me from drifting with the waves from second guessing. No matter how hard it gets, I know that I've been given authority in this area. There's nothing more anxiety spawning, uncertainty triggering than for you to make moves without confirmation.
COMMON DISCERNMENT - When you can see through a thing (You know they're lying)
SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT - When you can see beyond a thing (You know if it's sent by the enemy or distraction)
Lack of spiritual discernment shows I'm still a baby, because toddlers will always choose candy over callings.
Attraction is married to appetite - Our appetite is the GPS of our pursuits. Whatever we crave is what we'll pursue. You don't end up at the place you desire. You end up at the place you crave.
1 Kings 11:4-8
For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Follow the Lord, as did his father David had done: the power of forgiveness. We know about David's sin but God doesn't hold that against David, even though there's a consequence.
How many of us are sacrificing because we're with foreign things to our destiny?
How many of us have our hearts turned down towards the gospel because of estranged people in our life who have turned our hearts for other Gods?
Can you identify when something is fatal?
FATAL - it keeps taking your way from what God has talked you into.
Whoever has the remote to our life controls the volume.
How do we identify what's fatal?
1. Unlearn attraction - Unlearn what they told you
2. Attraction should be formulated by a fruit - Never get in a place where you live in fear so much to where you embrace familiar misery rather than seek out foreign joy.
3. Flesh based bonds are venomous.
FATAL - When it has turned your heart against God.
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