Pressure Part II

Want pressure.
Financial want:
[Read the first part Here ]
In the book of Job, we see how the devil used want pressure on Job with the intention to destroy Job's relationship with God. He destroyed his children, wealth, health, etc.
The devil was envious of Job's relationship God, security, and wealth. Job 1:10. But he failed cos Job's relationship with God was not based on his wealth, health, or riches. That was why Job did not break his fellowship with God. His response to the terrible situation he found himself, is very intriguing. "...the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:21 KJV.
Job trusted God even while facing sore trial. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him..." Job 13:15 KJV.
The devil wanted to wreck Job's faith by pressuring him with wants. Satan took away everything that was dear to Job, yet he came out victorious. He didn't change from one church to another, neither did he change his religion.
But today we see some Christians who change from one church to another because of some financial wants. Some even deny Christ because of a little hardship that confronted them.
Because of want pressure, some Christians so called, now serve God and mammon. They're one leg in the church and another leg in occult. Some Christian sister who use to serve God fervently have turned into professional prostitutes. Some gospel singers have changed to secular music cos of the pressure for fame and affluence. While some tongue speaking, Holy Ghost filled Christians don're even mind selling their bodies, going nude to make money. Some once faithful brothers dump their Christian faith for robbery and 419. While some pastors don't even wait to be filled with the power of God, they go to magicians, and witch doctors to collect power. They have "...a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof..." 2 Timothy 3:5 KJV.
Our Lord Jesus Christ categorized them among the rootless, and fruitless categories of Christians, when he told the parable of the kingdom in Mark 4:5-7,15-19.
Verse 19 KJV says "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."
Stop!!!
Halt for a moment and ponder on these words. If your spiritual life was to be measured in what I call "spiritualitometer" ( God's word )
What category would you belong?
Are you free from want pressure?
If God were to shake your finances ( I'm not praying that He should though) how would your life be?
What would be your response? Are you sure you'll be strong enough like Job to maintain your integrity?
# DailyInstructions...To be continued
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Pressure

The free dictionary defines pressure as:
1.
a. The act of pressing.
b. The condition of being pressed.
2. The application of continuous force by one body on another that it is touching; compression.
We will be looking at pressure, as it relates to the Christian life. Its effects on the Christian's spirituality, and how to over come it.

Pressure is one of the most effective weapon at the devil's disposal, with which he uses to inflate or weakens Christians spiritual life.

Refs.: Judges 16:16, Proverbs 7:23, 1 Kings 13:15-22.
Satan uses different kinds of pressure on different people, base on their point of weakness.
These are some of the common pressures:

• Want Pressure
• Peer pressure
• Personality pressure
• Habitual pressure, etc.

Want Pressure.
Want pressure has to do with our individual needs, and wants.
Sometimes the things we want may not necessarily be what we need, but because we're being pressured, pressed, or constrained to want things we don't really need.
These want pressure sometimes may come in various ways and means. They may come as:

• Financial want: wanting to get rich quick. 
• The want to be financially superior to someone else.
• The want to make ends meet. Although ends would never meet.
• The financial want to amass wealth.
• The want to satisfy loved ones financial needs. Etc.

Financial want.
This (Financial want) is one of the toughest pressure that seems irresistible by many Christians today. Even Judas Iscariot, one of the first twelve disciple of Jesus was not able to resist this pressure Matthew 26:14-16,47-50. He sold his own master for just thirty pieces of silver. He ended in shame and regrets Matthew 27:5.
...To be continued...
Are you like Judas, who'll trade his salvation, and Savior for a piece of cake? #GodForbid
May you receive grace and strength to resist every pressure from the tempter.