16 August 2015, Sunday
The Stronghold in our body by Rev Samuel Mametsa
The Stronghold in our body by Rev Samuel Mametsa
16 August 2015, Sunday Service
“The stronghold in your body” by Reverend Samuel Mametsa
1 Chronicles 28:9 NIV
9 "And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
A stronghold is a something that is fortified. Don’t make a mistake and follow a soldier to his base. His base is his stronghold. Inside a stronghold you will find secret rooms. A stranger will not know the secret rooms and how to maneuver inside. The base inside of you is your heart. Inside a base, a stronghold you find secret weapons, dangerous weapons etc.
You find two things in the heart: 1) for good things and 2) for evil things. When David says to his son, my son. If somebody starts with my son, he is showing love.
Even if you pretend to be loyal, it is the same God who searches hearts. You can't love Him in pretense. If you really love him, He will know it.
The stronghold in your body, is the heart. The witch in your heart is your own in heart. It is well hidden, you can't expose the heart. Even your brother, sister, cousin can't know your heart. Why did God allow this stronghold to be inside of me.
The bible says guard your heart, how do you guard something that is not exposed, you can't even see it. You just know it is in the left side.
It is in your heart, when things don’t go well with us, we must first check our hearts, what is in our heart? Do we love, respect, cherish other people?
My son serve God with a loyal heart. How can you do it? I am struggling with this. How do you do this? In other words God is saying you are able to make your heart loyal. After Solomon was told by the father, He then says, guard your heart.
How do you do it? You can correct what is in your heart.
Proverbs 17:22 KJV 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
If your heart is not happy it is sick. In other words if you are happy you are preventing your heart to work in the darkness. When you are happy all the time, the rooms in your heart can't operate. The evil rooms operate when you sad, unhappy, in other words you are thinking bad about somebody, in other words you are a witch, in your heart. If your heart is happy, everybody pleases you.
Song of Solomon 4:9 NIV 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Why you say somebody has stolen my heart, do you know what kind of heart you have stolen. Inside the heart are weapons, machinery, bombs, grenades etc. No one should steal somebody’s heart. Everybody must struggle with their own hearts. How do you steal somebody’s hearts when you don’t even know your heart? Ask the person how do you know or see the heart. The heart is evil and it doesn't persuade the owner. It doesn't ask you when it starts to operate.
I like David, he says in Psalms 86:11 KJV 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Don’t allow your heart to be overthrown. There is God in the heart
David says in Psalms, Search, when there is not much, you don’t search. But you search when there is much.
David says to God, here is my heart, search me. Psalms 139:23 KJV
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Some people even pretend to the police, they know they have stolen. Ask your neighbour, what is your heart thinking now. Right now some hearts are saying we want to go now, some say when we leave here we’re going such and such a place. But listen to David Search me, O God. Solomon said you evil heart who can know you. The problem is that people love what is in their hearts.
Dr. Mbadi spoke much about the will” If you say in heart I will build a double storey, you will do it but if you say in your heart I will not tithe, you won’t do it. The will is very powerful. If you say “I won’t get a job” it is true that you won’t get the job. It is your will. He said if you want to go to Makhado, you will even go on foot, but once you say it is too far, you will walk a short distance and then say it is far.
Psalms 86:11 NIV 11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name
In other words in your heart there is a division. When you feel year heart, it is one beat at a time. You may be in church now, with a divided heart. David says to God I don’t need division in my heart, and He says please. The problem of this division is this: where there is division, there is conflict.
If you ask 2 people who are fighting “please push this car.” You will have a problem as the two must first agree. Cos when is pushing the other one will be busy with his trousers, when he is tried then the other one is saying let’s push and now the one is tired. In other words in your heart one is pulling, one is pushing and what is worse they are in your one heart.
Even if God says listen to your heart it is fighting. I hear people say I have two hearts, one says this, and the other says, that. It means we agree with the word of God. We agree that the heart is divided. The good thing is that you hear both as they speak, that is why you say, the one heart says this and the other says that.
People curse themselves, they give authority to the heart to be divided: you say my hearts are divided, in conflict it means it is one heart, on heart, on the left, divided but not bleeding. Don’t allow your heart to cause division in your body.
If you don’t solve your divided heart then you will experience a heart attack. It is your own fault, as you have failed to bring your heart under control, when the heart sees you are failing to resolve the issue, the heart says, I am stopping to serve our owner, he has left us to fight, let’s just “stop” working and the doctors will say “heart attack.” Try and ask the doctor, what is a heart attack, you don’t clear answers. Sometimes some doctors will tell you, don’t speak too much in your heart, you deprive the heart from pumping the heart, you are keeping it busy talking. If your heart starts to talk too much, stand up and start laughing, laughter is the best medicine. We will not say you are crazy. We will know that you are trying to cure your heart.
The medication for the heart is to be happy. Stop calling stroke by being “sad”. You keep saying in your heart “That person really hurt me, made me so angry”. Some end up talking to themselves. Don’t allow your heart to talk too much. Women are better, if it starts with you, stand up and do something, pick up the broom. The problem is you prefer to sit alone. It is better to sit alone reading and studying the bible. Once you sit alone you start thinking of somebody who hurt you. That is witchcraft. Ever since I borrowed this person money, he or she is not paying me, when I call he doesn't answer the phone. I wish he would just get hit by a car. That is a heart of a witch. That is why you hear people say “You have a heart of a witch.” Stop telling people “You have stolen my heart.” You are taking that person’s heart and mixing it with your own, double trouble.
We sing that song “Heḽi ḽibilu ḽanga,” “this awful heart of mine.”
The stronghold is in your heart. When your heart is divided you can't even hear God. When Sunday comes and you must go to church, the devil says, don’t u know that you still have laundry to do? Yesterday you attended the stokvel and tomorrow you are working far away. You then stay away from church. Next Sunday something serious comes and then you now expect God to understand.
You find that those two Sundays were meant for your blessings in church.
The solution: u know your heart is divided, you know what you think and you were given power to guard your heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 KJV
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you and heart of flesh.
Prophet Ezekiel was told by God that this people have ugly, evil hearts. A stone is ugly. Muvenda mubikwa na ive, ive a vhibva, (You can cook a Venda person with a stone and the stone will get cooked but the Venda person will remain uncooked) it means that the heart of the Venda person is hard, tough. Even in other languages, they will be having their own proverbs for this.
God says through Prophet Ezekiel that I can take away a stony heart and give you a fleshy heart.
“The stronghold in your body” by Reverend Samuel Mametsa
1 Chronicles 28:9 NIV
9 "And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
A stronghold is a something that is fortified. Don’t make a mistake and follow a soldier to his base. His base is his stronghold. Inside a stronghold you will find secret rooms. A stranger will not know the secret rooms and how to maneuver inside. The base inside of you is your heart. Inside a base, a stronghold you find secret weapons, dangerous weapons etc.
You find two things in the heart: 1) for good things and 2) for evil things. When David says to his son, my son. If somebody starts with my son, he is showing love.
Even if you pretend to be loyal, it is the same God who searches hearts. You can't love Him in pretense. If you really love him, He will know it.
The stronghold in your body, is the heart. The witch in your heart is your own in heart. It is well hidden, you can't expose the heart. Even your brother, sister, cousin can't know your heart. Why did God allow this stronghold to be inside of me.
The bible says guard your heart, how do you guard something that is not exposed, you can't even see it. You just know it is in the left side.
It is in your heart, when things don’t go well with us, we must first check our hearts, what is in our heart? Do we love, respect, cherish other people?
My son serve God with a loyal heart. How can you do it? I am struggling with this. How do you do this? In other words God is saying you are able to make your heart loyal. After Solomon was told by the father, He then says, guard your heart.
How do you do it? You can correct what is in your heart.
Proverbs 17:22 KJV 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
If your heart is not happy it is sick. In other words if you are happy you are preventing your heart to work in the darkness. When you are happy all the time, the rooms in your heart can't operate. The evil rooms operate when you sad, unhappy, in other words you are thinking bad about somebody, in other words you are a witch, in your heart. If your heart is happy, everybody pleases you.
Song of Solomon 4:9 NIV 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Why you say somebody has stolen my heart, do you know what kind of heart you have stolen. Inside the heart are weapons, machinery, bombs, grenades etc. No one should steal somebody’s heart. Everybody must struggle with their own hearts. How do you steal somebody’s hearts when you don’t even know your heart? Ask the person how do you know or see the heart. The heart is evil and it doesn't persuade the owner. It doesn't ask you when it starts to operate.
I like David, he says in Psalms 86:11 KJV 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Don’t allow your heart to be overthrown. There is God in the heart
David says in Psalms, Search, when there is not much, you don’t search. But you search when there is much.
David says to God, here is my heart, search me. Psalms 139:23 KJV
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Some people even pretend to the police, they know they have stolen. Ask your neighbour, what is your heart thinking now. Right now some hearts are saying we want to go now, some say when we leave here we’re going such and such a place. But listen to David Search me, O God. Solomon said you evil heart who can know you. The problem is that people love what is in their hearts.
Dr. Mbadi spoke much about the will” If you say in heart I will build a double storey, you will do it but if you say in your heart I will not tithe, you won’t do it. The will is very powerful. If you say “I won’t get a job” it is true that you won’t get the job. It is your will. He said if you want to go to Makhado, you will even go on foot, but once you say it is too far, you will walk a short distance and then say it is far.
Psalms 86:11 NIV 11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name
In other words in your heart there is a division. When you feel year heart, it is one beat at a time. You may be in church now, with a divided heart. David says to God I don’t need division in my heart, and He says please. The problem of this division is this: where there is division, there is conflict.
If you ask 2 people who are fighting “please push this car.” You will have a problem as the two must first agree. Cos when is pushing the other one will be busy with his trousers, when he is tried then the other one is saying let’s push and now the one is tired. In other words in your heart one is pulling, one is pushing and what is worse they are in your one heart.
Even if God says listen to your heart it is fighting. I hear people say I have two hearts, one says this, and the other says, that. It means we agree with the word of God. We agree that the heart is divided. The good thing is that you hear both as they speak, that is why you say, the one heart says this and the other says that.
People curse themselves, they give authority to the heart to be divided: you say my hearts are divided, in conflict it means it is one heart, on heart, on the left, divided but not bleeding. Don’t allow your heart to cause division in your body.
If you don’t solve your divided heart then you will experience a heart attack. It is your own fault, as you have failed to bring your heart under control, when the heart sees you are failing to resolve the issue, the heart says, I am stopping to serve our owner, he has left us to fight, let’s just “stop” working and the doctors will say “heart attack.” Try and ask the doctor, what is a heart attack, you don’t clear answers. Sometimes some doctors will tell you, don’t speak too much in your heart, you deprive the heart from pumping the heart, you are keeping it busy talking. If your heart starts to talk too much, stand up and start laughing, laughter is the best medicine. We will not say you are crazy. We will know that you are trying to cure your heart.
The medication for the heart is to be happy. Stop calling stroke by being “sad”. You keep saying in your heart “That person really hurt me, made me so angry”. Some end up talking to themselves. Don’t allow your heart to talk too much. Women are better, if it starts with you, stand up and do something, pick up the broom. The problem is you prefer to sit alone. It is better to sit alone reading and studying the bible. Once you sit alone you start thinking of somebody who hurt you. That is witchcraft. Ever since I borrowed this person money, he or she is not paying me, when I call he doesn't answer the phone. I wish he would just get hit by a car. That is a heart of a witch. That is why you hear people say “You have a heart of a witch.” Stop telling people “You have stolen my heart.” You are taking that person’s heart and mixing it with your own, double trouble.
We sing that song “Heḽi ḽibilu ḽanga,” “this awful heart of mine.”
The stronghold is in your heart. When your heart is divided you can't even hear God. When Sunday comes and you must go to church, the devil says, don’t u know that you still have laundry to do? Yesterday you attended the stokvel and tomorrow you are working far away. You then stay away from church. Next Sunday something serious comes and then you now expect God to understand.
You find that those two Sundays were meant for your blessings in church.
The solution: u know your heart is divided, you know what you think and you were given power to guard your heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 KJV
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you and heart of flesh.
Prophet Ezekiel was told by God that this people have ugly, evil hearts. A stone is ugly. Muvenda mubikwa na ive, ive a vhibva, (You can cook a Venda person with a stone and the stone will get cooked but the Venda person will remain uncooked) it means that the heart of the Venda person is hard, tough. Even in other languages, they will be having their own proverbs for this.
God says through Prophet Ezekiel that I can take away a stony heart and give you a fleshy heart.