3 Signs That Shows You're Eating The Forbidden Fruit in Your Relationship?
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If only I had known how bitter the effect would be down my throat, I wouldn't have been tempted to taste how sweet it was - Anonymous
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For every action, there's a cause and effect. Many don't think through the consequences of their action before they carry out the act; it is after they have committed the act before they regret it afterwards.
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Do you remember those times you wished you hadn't done what you did, only to blame yourself or regret it?
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The ability to do what you want in life is limited if there was no Creator. Because you were created, there are certain acts that are forbidden in life and your relationship. There are lots of 'forbidden fruit' many had eaten and are still eating in their relationship.
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For every forbidden fruit you eat, be prepared to feel the pain down your throat. Most people are still nursing the consequence of the forbidden fruit they ate years ago.
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Ask Adam and Eve, if they had known that been separated from God, becoming a vagabond, living outside His presence with more hustling and toiling would become their fate in life, they wouldn't have ate the fruit He forbade them.
Do you know that there is a 'forbidden fruit' in that relationship you must not eat? Let me remind you.
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1. Tolerating sexual immorality
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As a teenager or singles, it's forbidden for you to kiss your friend of the opposite sex who you are not married to. Kissing your family member is not the same as kissing someone you're erotically in love with.
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You can call me names but it doesn't remove God's verdict on the matter. What happens when you kiss someone you had a feeling for? You may predict the journey of a kiss but you never can tell its final destination.
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You can even 'secretly' engage in a kiss but it doesn't stop there, in fact, it's a journey of curiosity that leads to immorality. What happens to your hands and mind when you start kissing? You surely don't need a 3D glass to see the outcome.
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Anything that has to do with immorality in that relationship is forbidden. Your boyfriend or girlfriend is not your husband or wife. You only have the moral right to do that which is godly to whoever you're married to. And it doesn't matter what the society calls it, it's wrong.
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God won't judge you by what the media told you, you'll be judged by His word. There are many kisses which ended in sexual intimacy. Do not start the fire you won't be able to quench.
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2. Sexual intimacy
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Marital sex is the only permissive sex that God allows, the likes of premarital or extramarital sex is forbidden. The society throws several options to choose as singles or married and sin has been re-branded with catchy names. Some call it a fling, a one night stand, flirting or what have you.
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Advertorials told you to stay faithful to a partner that you're not married to or have 'protected' sex with your partner. What makes sexual intimacy safe and protected is when it's done in marriage, not before or outside.
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Some married men are of the opinion that having sexual relationship with their wife alone will be boring but it's good to test many waters. You'll be told that having side chicks is good in case your wife or husband refuses you sex. As 'good' as it may sound, it's a journey into destruction.
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One thing about the forbidden fruit is that the devil makes it look as something you should desire, a fruit that would make you 'wise' and is good for food.
Satan has a way of making sin look palatable but he hides its consequence. The devil hides the consequences of sin but God reveals it to you through His word so that you can choose between life and death. Sadly, the devil will package death in a fancy covering while you think it's life.
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Another hard fact about the forbidden fruit is that you won't only suffer the consequences, your unborn children partakes in it. Ask Judah about his encounter with Dinah and see the effect on David and his children. You can choose your sin but you can never determine its consequence.
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3. Violating what is right
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To determine what is right is beyond the opinions of men or your personal opinion, it has to do with the word of God. Obeying anyone to disobey God is a violation of the right thing. Are you violating what is right according to God's word in your life and relationships? Doing that is eating the forbidden fruit.
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However, the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit is death - physical, spiritual and eternal separation from God. There's room for repentance (confess your sins, ask for His forgiveness and forsake them) if you have eaten it in the past because He doesn't want you to perish.
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© Oluwamayowa Adeniyi 2018

          THE BLESSING OF INTIMACY

HOTSPOT
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I was using my brother's hotspot to install an app on my tablet, after sometime while the download was still on, I went outside with the tablet and the download stopped. I forgot totally that I was using his connection and to be effective, I needed to stay close within certain range. The moment I went out of range, I lost the signal and the download. The benefit of the download was mine but the connection was his.
The connection was governed by closeness. I had the privilege but left the coverage. You cannot sustain transmission in transgression.
God is the fastest and surest hotspot; your download in destiny is secured if you stay in communion with him and live within scriptural range. There are places you will go and God will not switch on his data of inspiration for you.

There are relationships you get into and the connection to certain grace would be shut down against you. Lot went to Sodom and was reduced to his boxers even though it was wealth that afforded him the relocation.

A faithful, fruitful and truthful father in faith is a hotspot. There are applications of transformation that you cannot build up if you're not properly brought up. There are nuptial applications you cannot download in marriage if you don't have a functional father with successful marital data.

 There are characters you cannot buy off the shelf of education if you lack some parental upbringing. There are foundational truths you cannot download in ministry if you are out of godly fatherly hotspot.
Some friends are hotspots; they extend megabytes of courage and commitment for you to download ideas and strategies on the tablets of vision. You don't willfully hurt your hotspots if you want to stay connected for fuel.
There are hotspot friends who would link you to your helpful download sites. Stay within the range of honour, honesty and humility. Don't take your hotspot for granted through "familiar" spirit.
If you noticed some download has stopped in your life, check your hotspots! Its the month of favour

MUSTARD SEED FAITH'

.''And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove here to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. However this kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting'' - Matthew 17:20-21.Faith like a mustard seed is not like the great faith Jesus talked about in Matthew 8:8.

 Great faith requires a word from the Lord which a man believes but mustard seed kind of faith is in the saying (verbal declaration and it is enhanced through prayer and fasting...There is a correlation between mustard seed faith and prayer and fasting. Prayer and fasting that is properly done releases a spiritual energy in your spirit man, hereby giving you the authority and boldness to speak to any mountain and nothing shall be impossible.

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How can I have this faith? Live a prayer and fasting life. You can be faced with mountains at any time, the best to do is to be prepared before hand. If the disciples had been engaging in prayer and fasting, they would have been able to speak to the man's mountain.

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You do not prepare for battle in the midst of battle, you prepare for battle before battle comes.

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Over-feeding the flesh with all that it needs will make a man to be filled with unbelief, fear and worry. But when you starve or deprive it of all it craves for and engage in prayer and fasting, you will be filled with the energy to demonstrate a mustard seed faith.

Mustard seed faith sees a mountain (difficulty, problem, challenge etc) and speaks to it. Confessing positive words is not the same thing as speaking to the mountain.