Deal with the cause

I. MY DEARLY BELOVED SISTERS IN THE LORD, have you identified the cause? What caused the cause? How are you dealing with the cause? It is important to ; if not, we will leave the problem forever, or it will keep appearing to us. Proverbs 4:23 – “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Sister, God is not interested in managing our symptoms, so you also cannot forget the cause and attempt to deal with symptoms. God wants to heal the root cause, and until we of our strong anger, we will keep engaging in unnecessary arguments and beating our spouse and keep suffering the same consequences over and over. Today, begin the process of identifying and dealing with the cause. Medicine can suppress a fever, but if you don’t kill the infection, the fever returns. Spiritually, it’s the same. The cause is the hidden condition of the heart, the unhealed wound, the unrepented sin, the lie believed, and the idol allowed to live. The consequences are the anger, addiction, broken relationships, anxiety, and cycles we keep repeating.

II. MY DEAR BROTHERS IN THE LORD, Jesus modeled this in Mark 5:25-34. The woman had a 12-year bleeding issue. She consulted every doctor and spent all her money, and her condition worsened. But when she touched Jesus, He didn’t just stop the bleeding. He said, “Daughter, your faith has healed you.” He dealt with the cause: her hopelessness, her isolation, her faith. God sees past the surface. If we want lasting change, we must go deeper than behaviour modification. So what is the cause of the problem? The cause of most of the negative things we go through, sin, is the fundamental cause. In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve committed sin; the consequence was shame, hiding, blame, pain in childbirth, and toil. The sin they committed also caused them to doubt God’s word and desire to be like God. Adam and Eve tried to cover the consequence with fig leaves. God dealt with the cause by shedding blood and making garments of skin pointing to Christ. When we commit sin, we even begin to doubt God’s ability to help us or solve our problems. Let’s , and we shall be free.

III. SON OF MAN, David’s brokenness in Psalm 51 demonstrates how he dealt with sin—sleeping with Bathsheba, who was someone’s wife. David could have just said sorry and moved on. Instead, he prayed: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). David didn’t ask for damage control. He asked for heart surgery. That’s dealing with the cause. In Matthew 23:25–27, Jesus Christ stated, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish so that the outside may become clean as well. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.… Jesus was confronting symptom management. Religion manages symptoms. The Gospel deals with the cause. Don’t brush over the cause; deal with it and you shall be set free.

IV. DAUGHTER OF ZION in Psalm 139:23-24, the psalmist teaches us how to : “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Dealing with the cause starts with brutal honesty before God. We stop blaming people and start asking, “Lord, what in me needs healing? Worldly regret says, "I got caught," and tries to justify the sin, justify his or her corrupt acts, and justify the promiscuous life. But godly repentance says, “I grieved God, and I want a new heart.” Repentance goes to the root. The cause of many destructive cycles is a lie we believe. “I’m not enough. God doesn’t care. I have to control this.” by replacing lies with truth from Scripture. In Galatians 5:16 we are advised to walk by the Spirit, and we will not gratify the desires of the flesh. You don’t defeat a negative habit by willpower alone. You replace it by walking in step with the Spirit who transforms the root desire. This is a DIVINE NEW DAY PROPHETIC WORD of encouragement sent forth through the authority and power of Christ Jesus and delivered to the brethren through God's Vessel, Francis Ameyibor, Yes! Hebrews 12:15 admonishes us, “See to it that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.”

V. 2026 IS OUR YEAR AND SEASON TO BE LIFTED UP—Proverbs 28:13 “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

PRAYER: Lord, search me. Show me the cause behind my struggle. I don’t want to manage it anymore. I want to surrender it. Create in me a clean heart. Heal the root so my life can bear new fruit. In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.

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