{"id":291,"date":"2015-12-28T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/28\/2015-12-right-spirits\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:16:29","slug":"2015-12-right-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2015-12-right-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sin is rarely a one-shot deal. On Wall Street they have a saying about bad news being revealed by a corporation. It is call the Cockroach Theory<\/em>\u2026because “there is always more than one.\u201d That means that when a company announces bad news\u2026there is almost assuredly more bad news to follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are probably involved with repeated sin. Maybe our drug addiction led us down the slippery slope. Maybe our rage ate away at us and led us into sin. Maybe it was our lust or our greed. We\u2019ve tried to change, but we can\u2019t make it work. We become discouraged and hopeless. We begin to think that maybe we <\/em>are hopeless too. Worthless. And that attitude is not what we need to get beyond the guilt and stain of our sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read King David\u2019s prayer written down in Psalm 51. It points us in the right direction. We need not only forgiveness but also cleansing. We need new hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only God can give us new hearts\u2014clean hearts\u2014with new attitudes and new values. Through the power of His Holy Spirit, He wants to give us spiritual heart transplants so that His desires will flow through us, directing our emotions and actions. He wants His thoughts to fill our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David also knew he needed a “right spirit.” He needed to have God touch his attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need that touch too. Often our spirits are full of negativity, hate, selfishness, greed, and lust. We need God to give us spirits that are full of hope, joy, peace, patience, goodness, and self-control. We need attitudes that help us reach out to each other, help us think the best about each other, and help us trust that God will use our lives to accomplish His good purposes. We need “right spirits.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sin is rarely a one-shot deal. On Wall Street they have a saying about bad news being revealed by a corporation. It is call the Cockroach Theory\u2026because “there is always more than one.\u201d That means that when a company announces bad news\u2026there is almost assuredly more bad news to follow! We are probably involved with repeated sin. Maybe our drug … <\/p>\n

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