Hollywood Prayer Network On Jealousy And EnvySample

GOD LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE 

"Healthy jealousy is a means to guard your territory and comes from a sincere care and commitment to a relationship." Dr. Gary Rosberg 

“God is jealous for your heart, not because he is petty or insecure, but because he loves you. . . He loves you too much to share you.” Kyle Idleman

PRAY:   Dear Lord, I want to spend my last day of this week praising You for understanding jealousy, envy, and covetouSness. Thank You that I can celebrate selfless, heavenly, jealous, unconditional love, and not confuse it with worldly, sinful, selfish jealousy. I want to embrace the Song of songs verse that expresses the power of a jealous love that places a seal over our hearts and is as strong as death. Lord, thank You for loving me that much! Your love for me burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame, and the opportunity for me to express that selfless love to others is right in front of me. Help me to want others to love You with that same jealous love that I have. I don't want to share Your love with any limited worldly love. I want Your mighty flame of love to motivate everything I am, do, and say. And I want to share that love with others so that they can experience its jealousy unyielding as the grave. So be it!

REFLECT:  Did you ever think that you could end a study on jealousy with a verse from the Song of Songs?! God's ways should never surprise us. They are the opposite of man's ways and that makes life so exciting. As we struggle to identify, understand and control our feelings of jealousy toward others and catch ourselves when we become covetous of things or people that we want in our lives, let us simultaneously celebrate the power of God's jealous love for us and seek to offer that to others. Our love for God should always be first, but then we should be free to offer His jealous love to the people closest to us so that they can experience that love, purely and unconditionally. Have you experienced God's love burning like a blazing fire for you? Have you placed a seal on your heart to hold in His unconditional love? And have you ever experienced that deep, selfless, unconditional jealous love from someone else? Do we even comprehend the depth, length, width, and height of God's love for us? Let's get jealous for His love and not for the things of the world. It will lead us to an adventure ahead that we never before imagined possible...

ACT: Why don't you end your week on jealousy with two goals: 1) Identify, define, and then turn over any feelings of envy, covetousness, and jealousy to God the moment it creeps up, so that you can end it before it leads to sin. 2) Embrace God's jealous love for you with such understanding and passion that it overflows to the people around you and they will be jealous for what you have and seek God for how to get it. Then, simultaneously we will be keeping evil away, experiencing God's love to such a degree that it will be like a burning fire, and drawing people to Him because of its power and light.  Could life get any better than that?  Right now, ask the Lord to give you those priorities and then to walk you through the steps to break old habits and embrace His love in ways you have never experienced before.  Your life is about to change forever!

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