![]() ![]() I will no longer be involved in foolish arguments, contentions and strife of any kind as these are unprofitable and vain before the eyes of God and to all men (Titus 3:9). I declare I am filled with godly wisdom through the spirit of Christ that dwells in my heart. With your help and grace I know I can have peaceful relationships with everybody in my life (Romans 1:28-29). I acknowledge you as the God of peace who dwells among peaceful relationships. I know it is your will that no man should be alone (Genesis 2:18) and you set the lonely in families and among people (Psalm 68:6). I thank you for my family, friends, companions, colleagues and acquaintances alike. I thank you, God, for all the people you surround me with. He will renew your mind until your life is completely transformed and you have a new world in Christ Jesus. When you speak out loud the following Bible Declarations every day in humility with prayers, God will come and bring to pass his word in your life. It is very possible that you desire to overcome strife and that is why you are reading this devotional, God can deliver you completely from strife and give you perfect peace that comes from him. This should not be the case for believers for God has not made us judges over others (Matthew 7:1), instead, he commands individuals to carry their cross and follow Jesus (Matthew 16:24). This individual then turned on the police officers with more argument and he was eventually taken into custody. The argument got so big that the policemen got involved. There was a story of an individual who went to evangelise and he got into an argument with other religious believers. You must find a way to attract peace to your life. Your fast must not end in violence or strife. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high” (Isaiah 58:4). He says when “ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. It does not matter who is at fault, God wants you to be at peace. God is a God of peace and his children must follow in his stead – follow peace with all men (Romans 12:18). If you have ever found yourself constantly defending yourself, trying to make amends to what should not have taken place in the first place, you really need God’s intervention for the spirit of strife may have been at work. All these are the works of the spirit of strife. Your intentions may have been misunderstood and one way or the other, conflicts ensued. Perhaps you are just trying to assert yourself but somehow your conversations turn into arguments. You may not have started the fight but somehow you find yourself in the midst of it. Somebody may have mistreated or criticised you. ![]() ![]() It always attracts fights, arguments, misunderstandings and one conflict or the other. 59), to which de Wette assents, that the here presupposed controversies between Jewish and Gentile Christians are alluded to, is properly rejected by Brückner.Strife is a spirit. Of a wisdom which effects this, it must naturally hold good what is said of it in Jam 3:15. To this special idea, which is particularly brought forward on account of the condition of those to whom James writes, the general idea: every evil deed, is added, in order to lay stress on the fact that zeal and partisanship bring along with them the corruption of the whole moral life. With the introductory words: ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, James points back to Jam 3:14 with the following words: ἐκεῖ κ. Reason of the judgment expressed in Jam 3:15. Where this spirit prevails in a church, it is of course impossible to expect any progress in divine things and in such a church any effort to do good is vain.įlies from the realms of noise and strife." In place of the peaceful virtues which ought to prevail, there springs up every evil passion that tends to mar the peace of a community. All love and harmony of course are banished all happiness disappears all prosperity is at an end. There is no mutual confidence there is no union of plan and effort there is no co-operation in promoting a common object there is no stability in any plan for a purpose, though for good, formed by one portion, is defeated by another.Īnd every evil work - Of the truth of this no one can have any doubt who has observed the effects in a family or neighborhood where a spirit of strife prevails. Barnes' Notes on the BibleFor where envying and strife is, there is confusion - Margin, tumult or unquietness. ![]()
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