Strife is a contention between two people or two groups and it can be a conflict. Strife is insulated by an evil spirit.
Strife is a great threat to any relationship or any family it can affect a good family it can cause disaster to people who used to live together.
Strife makes you miserable and leads to frequent arguments can cause all sought of things that can lead to offense.
Strife is an evil spirit and strive can kill any good relationship. Strive is inner struggles where there is anger but sometimes it’s not spoken.
There is contention silent, argument that fighting that people seem to be together and they are not together.
PROVERBS 20:3(ESV)It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
It is a honour if you as a man, a believer, a Christian you are keeping away from strife but every fool would be quarrelling.
PROVERBS 13:10(ESV)By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
The people who like stirifing against one another are not wise people because strife is not for the wise.
Strife can destroy unity.Anything that is shattering your unity is an enemy to your progress it is dangerous, it is shatterous.
Strife is also the opposite of love that contention causes the love of Christ not to manifest within a family or a community.
If you are a person who can have strife within you you are a person who has contention within people it will affect your relationship with them.
If you have contention that silent competition, when you feel you should be appreciated more highly than others then you are not walking in love.
Strife is a sign of carnality.Strife is a source of destruction you are not able to find your purpose in life as a family, friends and colleagues. Your unity is distracted and you are not able to fulfill your God given mandate.
Every family has its own defunction and what the Lord can help you is pursue peace.
If you are able to pursue peace by whatever means then you will be able to dwell in perfect peace.
NUMBERS 12:1(ESV) Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
2 SAMUEL 6:16(ESV)As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Sometimes Strife is in the heart it is not spoken. Strife is all about contention when people are not doing what you expect.
Strife is sometimes about underlying issues, Issues that have not been resolved issues that have not been addressed can cause strife.
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF STRIFE?
1.JEALOUSY– It is the major cause of strife.
JAMES 3:16-18(ESV)For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
If there is a disorder in a group just know there is a jealousy that has crept; If we allow jealousy to grow in our hearts we will manifest strife in us.
Jealousy can cause strife and disorder in every relationship. If you see disorder in any relationship; it shows there underlying issues.
2.GREED
PROVERBS 28:25(ESV)A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.
If you believe in God and believe God loves you, you will not envy anybody you will be contented with yourself and you will be able to trust the Lord and when you trust the Lord you will be enriched.
3.SELFISHNESS.
JAMES 4:1-2(ESV)What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Selfishness has greatly affected many relationships.
Selfishness has greatly affected many relationships. Selfishness has no patience you want things to be done your way.
Every relationship calls for compromise. If you are not ready to compromise for others, sacrificing your time because of others that relationship is about to die. Our relationships will thrive without strive.
ROMANS 14:19(ESV)So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
When we pursue peace there is grace when we have peace in our families; we allow the enemy not to access our peace we are able to build one another.
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