The Bee's

Drawing a comparison to the bee invasion, Pastor Gale references 2 Corinthians 10:5 (noted as 10:15) to emphasize taking "every thought captive to the obedience of Christ". Negative or persistent thoughts should be replaced with the word of God, worship, and spiritual discipline before they can grow.
Citing Song of Solomon 2:15, Pastor Gale highlights the phrase "catch the little foxes that spoil the vineyards". Small, unaddressed thoughts are like little foxes or scratching bees; if left unchecked, they can expand into destructive actions like hatred, adultery, lying, or stealing, ultimately spoiling one's life.
 Controlling small negative thoughts at their origin prevents them from developing into serious wrongdoings or harmful behavior.

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Hello, I'd like to encourage you in your journey today. According to scripture, but something happens at my home today that I want to share with you. For the past three months, I've been seeing a bee every now and then in a window by the bedroom. The first time I saw it, I thought it was on the outside, and I went to tap it to say, go away, go away, but it was on the inside. Long story short, it was happening infrequently, not every day. One day there was five bees, another time there were six bees, but then they could be gone for a whole week. So I called the guy and the guy comes today. He goes up in my attic, he goes, a few dead bees, but I don't think this is it. He said, Let me walk around the house. So he walks around the house and he finds the bee nest. Now my house is made of brick and mortar and cedar shingles. So by the fireplace, which is brick and mortar, think about that. Some bee decided to scratch at it until it found a way in and then decided to invite their family. So now we had a whole swarm of bees living with what just started as almost like an itch. You know, the Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 10, 15, take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. What does that mean? Replace the negative thoughts with the word of God. Don't let them keep scratching at you. Replace the negative thoughts with worship and come under the subjection of warfare in worship with God. And let those thoughts go away. Get rid of them, cast them out. Take every thought captive, because if you take it captive as a thought, it will never become an action. Song of Solomon in 215, it says, catch all the foxes. It says, catch those little foxes that spoil the vineyards. When your vineyards are in bloom, your whole life could be in bloom, yet you take a thought and you don't take it captive under the obedience of Christ, and you let it scratch, and before you know it, you got hate in your heart. You're out there having an adultery, you're stealing, you're lying, you're turning into somebody that you were not. And the life of your vineyard is spoiled. Take every thought captive. Catch all the little foxes. Catch all the little thoughts. Don't let them become big ones because then they become an action. God bless you. I love you. Bye. Thank you for tuning in to encouragement for your journey with me, Pastor Gail Alvarez. If you'd like prayer, please call us 247 at 973 679 7296. And if you'd like more information about the Love of Jesus Family Church, visit us at thelovefesus.org.