How to Deal with Covetousness | Jul 17, 2025 | MOSP

Melchizedek School of Priesthood | Jul 17, 2025 Your spiritual life operates exactly like a smartphone battery, and you need to understand that most believers - possibly including yourself - are functioning at critically low levels around 0.5% capacity. This explains why you struggle to access the supernatural realities that should define your daily Christian experience. When your phone drops below 20%, it switches to low power mode, limiting features and performance. Similarly, when your spiritual battery runs low, you lose access to faith, miracles, divine encounters, and the supernatural authority that belongs to every believer. The root issue isn't that you lack these capabilities - they're hardwired into your spiritual inheritance through Christ's finished work. The problem is that you're living a lifestyle that systematically drains your spiritual battery while charging your soul toward worldly desires. Every day, entertainment, social media, worldly pleasures, and the cares of this age transmit electrical energy to your soul that makes you love this world while simultaneously dulling your spiritual senses toward God's word. These influences create an invisible force field around your heart that prevents God's word from penetrating and producing the faith necessary for supernatural living. You must recognize that what modern Christianity calls "revival" is simply believers functioning at their intended capacity. The early church didn't have special privileges you lack - they simply refused to live spiritually uncharged lives. Angel visitations, miraculous healings, raising the dead, supernatural protection, and divine manifestations were so normal that when Peter was supernaturally released from prison, the church assumed it was his angel at the door. When Paul raised Eutychus from the dead, they broke bread and continued the meeting. When Paul was stoned to death and stood up again, it was normal among the saints because they understood they weren't ordinary people. The solution requires breaking your current relationship with time spent in God's presence through extended periods of prayer and fasting. Start with six-hour prayer sessions, building toward twelve hours. This isn't about earning spiritual gifts or paying prices for supernatural manifestations - it's about charging your spiritual battery so you can access what already belongs to you. Just as you charge your phone daily to unlock its features, you must charge your spiritual life to experience the supernatural realities Jesus promised would follow every believer. Begin where you are, even if that means starting with just minutes of focused prayer in the Spirit. Build gradually from two minutes to fifteen, then thirty, then one hour, eventually reaching six-hour stretches. Schedule these sessions weekly, treating them not as extraordinary spiritual achievements but as basic maintenance for your spiritual health. Find accountability partners who share this vision for authentic Christian living. The forces of this age will resist your attempts to live this charged lifestyle because they lose their influence when you operate at full spiritual capacity. Many will try to convince you that extended prayer and fasting are unnecessary, that relationship with God doesn't require such intensity, or that you should balance spiritual pursuits with worldly enjoyment. These voices - whether from well-meaning believers or your own comfort-seeking nature - are the very influences keeping you at low spiritual capacity. Recognize that hunger for God should be the baseline of your Christian existence, not an exceptional trait. If you're comfortable in your current spiritual state, your hunger is already fading. True spiritual vitality manifests as an almost ferocious pursuit of God - raw, organic, and untamed. The creatures around God's throne cry out continuously, and this vicious desire for God should characterize your approach to spiritual life. Break fr