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ENVY & JEALOUSY
Envy and jealousy always suggest that God is unable to provide for you. It says, “ I know what you have is valuable and I hate you because you have it and I don’t.” You hate in another what you would admire in yourself.
No matter what you have, you’ll never have peace because you are always comparing yourself with someone else. Advertisers feast off of these devils.
Hbr 13:5 / [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.We are not to be greedy for gain, or in other words not always strategizing to make personal gain at the expense of others. Such deception is rooted in covetousness and covetousness is rooted in self-idolatry.
Pro 1:19 / So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.Pro 27:4 / Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
Pro 6:34 / For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Jealousy is the root of much of man’s rage. We see this in much of domestic violence and murder.
A. Fruits of Envy and Jealousy:
q Gossip
q Poor self esteem
q Fear of man
q Distorted self concept
q Lack of boundaries
q Stealing, kleptomania
q Sabotage – deliberately destroy or obstruct something for advantage (Including self-sabotage).
q Malice (retaliation) and Sadism (Deriving pleasure, i.e. sexual gratification, from inflicting pain on others)
q Strife and division
q Comparison
q Treachery
q Craving
q Like seeing adversity in others
q Self-piety
q Idolatry
q Covetousness and discontentment
q Imputing motive on others
George Bernard Shaw said, “ There are two sources of unhappiness in life:
1. Not getting what you want 2. Getting what you want.”
Luk 12:15 / And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.Relationships will determine your prosperity. A man searches the world over for what he needs and then returns home to find it was right there all the time.
The distance a person goes is not as important as the direction. What one achieves means little compared to who you have become in the process of your achieving.
Prov 1:19 Greed for gain takes away the life of a man.
Gal 5:26 / Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.The most difficult secret for a man to keep - is his own opinion of himself. Get over yourself – everyone else has.
Jam 4:5 / Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?Jam 4:6 / But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
You can make more friends in 2 weeks by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Phl 2:3 / [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.“You first…Me last” is an attitude often seen in events like the Para Olympics. The most touching thing is to see a group of athletes stop mid way through the event of their lives, to help a fallen comrade before resuming their race.
1Jo 3:12 / Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteousThe first murder was the result of jealousy of Abel’s sacrifice being accepted by God whereas Cain’s occultic one wasn’t. Cain who was of that wicked one, was the founder of false religion, he came up with his own occultic form of worship.
Occultism is spiritual and appears to be light but it is counterfeit; it contradicts what God says about a subject.
Hbr 11:4 / By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.This “Great Cain Contention” has festered and destroyed much of humanity through centuries of religious wars and acts of terrorism. It also crucified the second Adam, Jesus Christ:
Mat 27:18 / For he (Jesus) knew that for envy they had delivered him.Envy grips even some of the religious leaders of our day. Those that are driven in our churches to compare statistics with the mega church projects fall into it. The tendency is to want the admiration and recognition that a large ministry attracts. Many try to copy these church-building techniques with little or no regard to whether these new methods are just the stuff of Cain, re-packaged. Churches see numbers as a sign of success… but in God’s eye success is leaving the flock, the 99, to seek after the one that went astray.
Mat 24:24 / For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.Ø Remember, deception isn’t obvious…that is why it is deception!
Envy and Jealousy Work Out
A Prayer of RepentanceFather God, I recognize and take responsibility for myself and my ancestors for the iniquities of______. I agree with your verdict on my rebellion. I repent, I renounce and I ask forgiveness for my participation with these sins and I ask that their curse be broken in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
q Envy / Jealousy
q Bitterness
q Unforgiveness
q Resentment
q Retaliation
q Anger
q Hatred
q Violence
q Murder
q Covetousness: greedy desire to have more; unjust gain
q Idolatry: our admiration, love or reverence for something or someone that obscures our complete dependence on our Father; What ever you think about most of the time becomes your god
q Comparison: makes the person you are comparing yourself to a god – idolatry
q Discontent: dissatisfied with ones circumstances
q Not trusting in God/Fear
q Unbelief that God will provide/ self-reliance
q Critical Spirits: expresses an unfavorable opinion, a faultfinder
q Gossip: casual or unconstrained conversation about others, the details of which usually aren’t confirmed; murder with the tongue; with intent to destroy reputation of another
q Curse of Touching God’s anointed: (attempting to destroy a Believer’s reputation)
q Competition: striving against others to achieve dominance; rivalry to acquire attention
q Pride: haughtiness; swelled head; presumptuous; arrogance
q Superiority: thinking that one is better, more important, more significant than others
q Self-ambition: a determination to achieve success even at the expense to others
q Strife: contention for superiority; contention in anger; struggle for the upper hand; love of strife
q Rivalry: striving to attain something that another is after by flaunting superiority
q Jealousy: (In the marriage: founded or unfounded, including previous sexual partners)
q Possessiveness: demanding someone’s attention and love
q Control: the need to have everything done your way; fear of letting go; fear of trusting others
q Fear of loss of control: inability to surrender to God
q Programming.
q Purge the strongman of envy and jealousy.
Prayer: According to every persons faith and integrity of heart here tonight, Father, I pray that your grace and mercy be extended to break the curse that we and our fathers have brought upon ourselves. Father, according to the righteousness of the heart, according to the conviction of the heart, according to the dedications to you this day in the name of the Lord Jesus, I break the power of the spirit of Jealousy of everyone in this room back into every generation that it needs to be broken at all levels and release you to your freedom in Jesus without shame and without guilt and without the pressure that this spirit would produce in our lives. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen
Overcomer Scripture for Envy and Jealousy: Memorize at least three of the following
Hbr 13:5 / [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Phl 4:19 / But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Luk 14:11 / For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Phl 2:3 / [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Eph 4:2 / With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Eph 4:3 / Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Rom 12:9 / [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Rom 12:10 / [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Pro 24:16 / For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Psa 37:4 / Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Jam 3:14 / But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Jam 3:15 / This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
Jam 3:16 / For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
Rom 12:3 / For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Phl 4:11 / Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.
1Cr 13:4 / Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Gal 5:26 / Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Sgs 8:6 / Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame.
Psa 12:2 / They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
Psa 12:3 / The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things
1Cr 4:7 / For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?
Jer 9:23 / Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches
ã A Strong Tower by Dennis Bank