Spiritual Coldness

I see Christians who get cold feet all the time. Every time God puts an opportunity in front of them to tell someone about Jesus or do a work for Him, they get cold feet and can’t move. They get Spiritually frostbitten and God has to begin to trim away the dead part of their heart and get them warmed up so He can use them again.

Fourthly, My Hands were nearly numb from the cold.

I can remember that trip like it was yesterday. In that cold I tried to move my fingers but they wouldn’t move. It was a struggle to even push my glasses back up on my face.

I see people like that in church all the time. They show every sign of being frozen like I was. They can’t lift their hands to praise the Lord. They can’t clap. They sometimes can’t even shake hands with other people, all because they are just cold in the Spirit.

The last thing about that cold was that it made Me Sleepy.

I have heard of people who died by freezing to death. A few of them kept journals describing how they felt when they were so cold -- so cold they wanted to go to sleep. They say when you’re cold, you should try to stay awake or you will die. I sure was sleepy sitting on that limb. I was just about ready to give it up and go to sleep because it was starting to get dark again when I finally heard those four-wheelers coming back to get me. I couldn’t wait to get back to a campfire and a warm place.

People who grow cold in the Spirit are in jeopardy of being lulled to sleep by the devil. They become oblivious to their spiritual condition and unless God undertakes and comes to their rescue, they will sit there and freeze to death in their sins.

We need to guard against becoming cold in the Spirit. Don’t let the devil cause you to freeze to death spiritually in this life, only to burn forever when this life is over. Let’s stay on fire for God. Only when we stay close to God can we feel the warmth of his love and the power of the fire of the Holy Ghost.

Are you feeling cold tonight? Not in the flesh, but in your spirit? It’s time to let God bring life back into you right now before you too become one of the “Frozen Chosen”.