Many don’t understand that if there is sin in the camp or sin in your congregation, God won’t move. This concept may has alluded people, but God has proven this over and over again. Sin is not something to be toyed with or accepted. “You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.” Sin is our enemy. He tries to convince you in your mind to accept him. “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight––if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.” Even the apostles couldn’t have God move through them when sin was there. “Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” Unbelief is sin. When Adam and Eve sinned, it was because they didn’t believe God. “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.” “And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”
I want you to ponder for a moment and look into your heart and see if there is any doubt or unbelief. What I am asking is not condemnation. By doing this, you want to remove anything that will hinder your relationship with Jesus. He has removed sin so you can be one with Him. Are you fully convinced of what God has told you will come to pass? “For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH THAT IT MIGHT BE ACCORDING TO GRACE, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, who is the father of us all (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed––God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” AND NOT BEING WEAK IN FAITH, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. HE DID NOT WAVER AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF, but was STRENGTHENED IN FAITH, GIVING GLORY TO GOD, and BEING FULLY CONVINCED that WHAT HE HAD PROMISED HE WAS ABLE TO PERFORM. And therefore “IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, BUT ALSO FOR US. IT SHALL BE IMPUTED TO US WHO BELIEVE IN HIM WHO RAISED JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.” How convinced are you, or are you still in doubt and unbelief? “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 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.”
I hope that you all understand how doubt and unbelief that comes against you will stop God working through you. “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Be blessed , my friends.