Setting Affections

January 24, 2024

Setting Affections


When desire is singular confidence is unshakeable

Psalms 27:3-4 (NKJV) 3 Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident. 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.


Affections drive the actions that develop confidence/faith

1 John 3:21-22 (NKJV) 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.


When the heart delights, it can have expectation

Psalms 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.


Affections can be reset from earthly to heavenly things

Colossians 3:2 (KJV) 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.


Colossians 3:1-3 (TLB)

1 Since you became alive again, so to speak, when Christ arose from the dead, now set your sights on the rich treasures and joys of heaven where he sits beside God in the place of honor and power. 2 Let heaven fill your thoughts; don’t spend your time worrying about things down here. 3 You should have as little desire for this world as a dead person does. Your real life is in heaven with Christ and God.


How to reset:

Trash talk

A lowering of prior affections is necessary for the raising of Him

Philippians 3:8-11 (NKJV) 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.


Worship

Other developed areas are cut away in the experience of worship/setting

Philippians 3:3-4 (NKJV) 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4 though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so:


Praise

There is a savoring of praise when who He is delights the soul – sets affections

Hebrews 13:15 (NKJV) 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.


Confidence can be cast

Hebrews 10:35 (NKJV) 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.


When affections are rightly set it will effectively communicate life to others.

Philemon 1:6 (Weymouth) 6 praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may result in others fully recognizing all the right affection that is in us toward Christ.