Envy and Jealousy Is Not Just an Emotion

Envy and Jealousy is not just an emotion. It's not just a feeling. The Principality of Envy and Jealousy is an entity. It's a being with a personality. It expresses itself through us and its nature is very destructive. Envy and Jealousy is a spiritual problem that is at the root to many of our diseases. The principality of Envy and Jealousy has a mission. Its mission is to divide. Its desire is to separate and divide the body of Christ, destroy relationships, separate families, split churches, wreck marriages and cause animosity between neighbors. It always goes right to bitterness.

Envy and Jealousy's main goal is to take our eyes off God and put our eyes on others. Envy and Jealousy will make others our source of value and fulfillment. But of course, the value and fulfillment is not there. God is our source but

Envy and Jealousy always suggests that God is not able to provide for us and God will not take care of us.

Envy and Jealousy never leaves us alone. It will never leave us at peace. It will always have us comparing our self to someone else. When we don't accept who we are and what God is doing in our life at our own level, Envy and Jealousy will keep us from being who we really are and no matter how much we have, we are never satisfied if we have Envy and Jealousy.

Envy and Jealousy is rooted in Covetousness.

Heb 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."

In this scripture "without covetousness" is # 866 in Strong's Concordance. It means "without gain." So let your conversation "be without regard to gain." We should not seek gain at the expense of another. Have you ever seen someone who is trying to get the upper hand over someone else in a business deal? They strategize to gain at the expense of another person. This is rooted in covetousness which is rooted in Envy and Jealousy, which is rooted in the lack of ability to trust God to meet your needs. It is a form of Unbelief and Doubt and faithlessness.

Covetousness can include things beside money. Covetousness always desires something. It can include Lust, the Pride of Life, keeping up with the Joneses, coveting your neighbor's wife, comparing yourself with others.....clothing, good looks, or their healing! You may compare your state of disease with someone else's state of health. A proverb to deal with Envy, Jealousy and Covetousness is found in the Bible.

Matthew 6:33 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

There is a networking of Satan's kingdom. Covetousness, Envy, Jealousy and Bitterness are all linked together. Most of Satan's kingdom operates with a networking of evil spirits. It's like building a house. You have the foundation, the walls, the roof and so forth. The whole structure is built on the foundation. Satan's kingdom is built on the foundation of evil...... rebellion against God's nature. The Principality of Envy and Jealousy is one of those foundations.
Fear of man, Fear of failure and Fear of Rejection will drive a person to Envy and Jealousy. They tell you things will be alright when you are just like so and so...whoever you are comparing yourself to. Envy and Jealousy always wants to compare. It will even compare families....You may see a family where the man appears to be a good husband, yet in your own family you are dealing with an unresolved issue with your husband. If you compare your family with theirs, Envy and Jealousy can rule you concerning that woman's husband. You may covet her husband rather than ask God to help you resolve the issues with your own husband. Or you may see a family who seems to be living in peace but you come from a destructive family. Envy and Jealousy wants you to compare your family with that family so you will covet their family rather than ask God to help you resolve the issues in your own family. Your eyes are constantly on somebody else instead of your own life.

Envy and Jealousy will not allow anyone to be content. It is always "stirring up the things" that are within us. Envy and Jealousy will not allow us to be at peace and it will prevent us from godliness.

1Ti 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Without godliness we are not going to have any peace whatsoever. We won't have peace no matter how successful we are. If we choose to be content and we deal with Covetousness and we put away Envy and Jealousy then God's able to bless us and the first blessing God wants to give us is our peace of mind and our peace of heart.

There are two aspects of Envy and Jealousy: one has to do with the evil side of jealousy and the other has to do with God's jealousy, which is not evil. Father God is jealous over each one of us with Godly jealousy.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy:

God's jealousy is a zeal and integrity toward His children to protect. That is the only acceptable kind of jealousy. Every other aspect of jealousy will bring a curse. Understanding the zeal of the Lord and His jealousy for each of us should help us understand how very much God loves us.

Yielding to Jealousy, Covetousness and Envy, leads to Idolatry. Idolatry is when we look to someone other than God as our source. It is anything that we esteem greater than God. Idolatry has a profound connection with the spirit of Jealousy. When we are in Idolatry, God, in His righteous jealousy, withdraws and releases us to the evil spirit of Jealousy because He will not share us with another.

A person can end up making the desired object or person to be like a god to them. Our human tendency is to look to the idol of our choice and think that it can deliver us from difficulties and disappointments. We expect the physical things on which we set our hearts and minds to bring us happiness, fulfillment, joy, and peace. The person or thing becomes more important to us than God. The things that we set up as our idols, the things on which we set our hearts and minds, compete directly with the Spirit of God and therefore it interferes and competes with our relationship with God. We think that the idols that we covet will satisfy our innermost cravings- but only God can do that for us.

When we make someone or something our idol, God withdraws and releases us to the evil spirit of jealousy. He wants an exclusive relationship with us, with no other gods before Him. No other people before him. Evil jealousy destroys. But God's jealousy, even after failure, receives our repentance, restores us, as if we were faithful, to a place of intimate fellowship with the God who loved us and saved us for eternity.

God desires our fellowship with Him more than we desire Him. He wants to be our best friend. Clearly understand, God is for us, not against us. He has accepted us and is jealous over us. He has such zeal concerning us that He came and died for us to make eternal provision for our freedom so that we could walk in it. There should be no question in our mind about his love for us.