The seven requisites are here to help you be recognized by God as man of spirit and achieve His providence in the Holy Spirit's power at this end time. They will help you grow up as spiritual workers quickly.
1. You need to make peace
Those who have self-righteousness and seek their own benefits often break peace when others don't follow their opinions. Even if they don't argue loudly on the outside, they feel uncomfortable. They even take a step back being indifferent about things done in others' opinions.
If you don't like this kind of situation and feel discomfort, you must be aware of your self-righteousness and there is the desire to be served and respected in you. In order to make peace, you should first cast away your self-righteousness, arrogance, and self-serving interests. You should also always try to put yourself in the position of others, pursue their benefits, and achieve humbleness. Then, you won't break peace.
2. You need to remove ill feelings
These ill feelings arise when people fail to gain what they want or the extent they desire it.
Suppose some gave up something good for their superiors. Then some of them think they were sort of forced to do so since they are in a position of inferiority and in doing so they suffered a loss. In such a case they may have ill feelings. This feeling is often agitated when they look at everything from within their own standards or they long for their personal interests.
If you yield to your boss with a meek, peaceful, and selfless heart, then you may not feel discomfort even if you experience loss in reality. Instead, you may feel joyful and thankful when your superiors gained something good, as though you yourself gained it.
3. You need to serve others
Someone who wants to be served habitually tends to order or instruct others. Such a person tends to lead others in his own way. He thoughtlessly points out, reprimands, and even embarrasses others when they don't agree and yield to his heart and will.
In order to truly serve others, you need to deny yourself forthrightly—'mine, my desire, my family, my self-righteousness, my stubbornness'. Only when you remove the 'me, my and mine' can you serve others with consideration in any situation.
Although you know the truth and try to serve, unless your good deeds come from the depths of your heart, you may just hold your ill feelings in your heart and over time it could just change.
4. You need to have a holy heart
You have to cast away evil and achieve a holy heart. Then your words will naturally become holy (Matthew 12:34-37). You must neither think of nor speak out words to hurt, stumble, frustrate, and disappoint others. Such unholy words bring about Satan's accusation, which breaks peace, and leads to conflicts and difficulties.
People of goodness speak in a good way and move listeners' hearts by using words and expressions that belong to goodness. To accomplish the work of God we need to encourage one another with words of the truth and virtue and thereby receive God's help.
5. You need to get rid of fleshly thoughts
If you have fleshly thought you can't obey the will of God (Romans 8:6-7). But if you think spiritually you can understand the heart of God. You can see everything in God's perspective, think in His will, and trust in Him.
Say you've discovered your shortcoming. Fleshly thought causes you to lose heart and feel sad because of the accompanying self-limitations and judgments. Furthermore, you may feel ill toward others who appear to be full of the Spirit. Not only does fleshly thought make you judge and condemn others but also yourself. This condemnation ends up causing you to be stuck in frustration.
On the other hand, if you have spiritual thought and believe that your shortcoming can be fulfilled and you can be perfected by God's grace and strength, you can receive strength to pray fervently with faith. Even in trials, you will not think out of fear or doubt that God has turned away His face from you, but you can believe that God embraces such a child as you repent. By trying to have spiritual thoughts, you can achieve the heart of spirit all the more quickly.
6. You shouldn't flaunt yourself
Those who show off usually want to be recognized by others and be treated with respect because they think they are worthy of it.
If you feel superior to others you can think they should follow you and do everything in the way you want because you think you are better than them.
Such people provide reasons for trials or persecutions. But if you become humble from your heart the Lord will lift you up high and you will be spiritually honored.
7. You shouldn't desire to receive glory and praise
Some people want to be honored when something related with his duty went well. But the glory and honor all belong to God.
You can check if you have this kind of heart by examining your heart when you are pointed out, admonished or rebuked by others. If you really don't have such a desire to receive glory and compliments, you can make a confession like that of the Syrophenician woman even when you were made to feel lowly (Matthew 15:27).
If you have such a good and beautiful heart, you will pursue peace no matter what others say to you and will make them peaceful even by giving your left cheek as they slap you on your right. Let's become spiritual warriors who seek only the glory of the Lord with humbleness.
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