Saturday // 24th February 2024
Steps towards Purity:
1. Discipline of Accountability
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
James 5:16-17 [MSG]
Dear people of God, it is necessary that we live pure, godly lives in the midst of this perverted culture. We must live above the horrifying immorality that the world calls normal, otherwise the Church will become increasingly irrelevant and powerless. The Church can have no power apart from purity.
An important place to begin our training is with the discipline of accountability. This to be done with someone who will regularly hold you accountable for your moral life, asking you hard questions. If you are married, ideally you should use your spouse, but I also recommend another man, one who will give you no scope in sensual matters. You need someone of the same gender who will understand your sensuality from the inside out — someone you can be completely honest with, to whom you can confess temptations and attractions. You need someone who will help you toe the mark and keep your soul faithful to God. Mutual accountability is a great weapon.
Pray daily and specifically for your own purity. Enlist the prayers of your spouse and friends, and pray for others in this respect. Do not wait to be asked. Pray for the purity of your Man of God too. They need it, and so do you!
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin
Steps towards Purity:
1. Discipline of Accountability
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
James 5:16-17 [MSG]
Dear people of God, it is necessary that we live pure, godly lives in the midst of this perverted culture. We must live above the horrifying immorality that the world calls normal, otherwise the Church will become increasingly irrelevant and powerless. The Church can have no power apart from purity.
An important place to begin our training is with the discipline of accountability. This to be done with someone who will regularly hold you accountable for your moral life, asking you hard questions. If you are married, ideally you should use your spouse, but I also recommend another man, one who will give you no scope in sensual matters. You need someone of the same gender who will understand your sensuality from the inside out — someone you can be completely honest with, to whom you can confess temptations and attractions. You need someone who will help you toe the mark and keep your soul faithful to God. Mutual accountability is a great weapon.
Pray daily and specifically for your own purity. Enlist the prayers of your spouse and friends, and pray for others in this respect. Do not wait to be asked. Pray for the purity of your Man of God too. They need it, and so do you!
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin