Have you ever seen a person with tapeworm? He can eat essential and healthy foods, but he still feels weak. This happens because the tapeworm lives off of the vitamins and takes away all the good nutrients from the food. The same happens spiritually.

Why are there people who hear strong messages, and glorious testimonies, yet they’re becoming weaker every day? Because they’re allowing malice into their lives.

Malice punishes! Have you ever been punished?

When parents punish a child, he sees everyone having fun, enjoying themselves, but he can’t, which causes him to be sad. The same happens with the malicious people among us, as it is written:

Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty. Jeremiah 2.19 NIV

You see other people conquering, progressing, sometimes these people have less time in church than you; however, malice has gotten you in the way… and a lot!

When a person is committing adultery, stealing, etc., he knows he’s wrong, he knows he’s in sin. But malice is worse, because a malicious person thinks he’s fine, but he is worse than those is bound to another sin.

The truth is that malice takes away all the good you have.

It dirties your eyes, your thoughts, and your heart.

For this reason, you have to wash away the malice!

It’s easier to work with someone that comes to church for the first time, than it is to work with a malicious person.

Malice comes from what you hear from malicious people, from what you see. Malice does not enter when we talk about the Holy Spirit, it enters when we talk about sacrifice.

When you ask me what is the Israel Challenge, I’m going to say that it’s something holy, pure, and an opportunity I have to honor my God; it is for my Salvation.

Now ask an unbeliever what is the Israel Challenge, or what is sacrifice. He’s going to say it’s absurd. He’s going to say that he doesn’t accept it and that the pastor is a thief… However, it is normal to hear an unbeliever say such things. The worst part is that there are malicious people in church who think the same way.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? Jeremiah 4.14

If you want to overcome, do a sincere prayer right now! Ask God to remove all the malice from you, because if you stop to think about it, you’ll see that this has been delaying your life for a long time.

Wash yourself of malice, and we will soon be hearing your testimony.

In addition to this sincere prayer asking God to wash you of all the malice, ask God to tell you what He wants from you! Have the courage to do this prayer and the courage to obey and give God what He asks of you.

Believe! We are in the final stretch of the Israel Challenge, and malice causes people to miss the opportunity that God is giving them.

God bless you!

He is waiting for you on the Altar!

Collaborated by: Bishop Jadson Santos