What have you been building in this world a life full of goods and a life full of the Holy Spirit?

Your answer to this question should have been YES, that is, you must conquer the goods of this world and reach the promises of the Holy Spirit, which is the MOST PRECIOUS THING THAT A MAN CAN HAVE.

Joel 2:28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

We hear many testimonies of blessings in the church, but few of those testimonies are of people's experiences with the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts received, or spiritual rejoicing during worship.

Materialism has increasingly invaded churches.

People are caring more about having a good financial condition, instead of caring about being prosperous in contact and intimacy with God.

The values ​​of the churches are changing, less and less people are interested in being used by God, in prophecies, in healings and in deliverance and I think that the big reason for this spiritual contempt is that people don't want to seek God, they don't want to strive, or pray, or fast, or even stop sinning.

These people DO NOT WANT COMMITMENTS WITH GOD or with the work of God, because they think that their "lives are too busy" to have time to do something for God, and when they do, they do it with insufficient effort, as if they were doing a favor for God, therefore, they are not honored by God.

And the more contempt for God, the colder these people become and they are easy targets for satan and are very easily influenced by the circumstances of life.

These people ceaselessly seek the riches of this world and forget that: 1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

Jesus said:

Luke 12:
15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.
19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Whoever does not gather for God will be without the riches of this world and will also be WITHOUT GOD.

This man is called a FOOL by Jesus, because one day everything he built in this world will be left to someone he doesn't know who he is.

And on that very day, he will suffer God's eternal death sentence, because he valued the things of the world more than the things that are God's.

Remember:

James 4:
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

Pastor Val Martins