God loves you!
For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
1 Timothy 2:5 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved you and your household.” Act 16:30
What is being saved all about?
What does being saved actually mean? Saved for what?
We are saved eternal damnation, from being eternally lost forever, never knowing
the love and mercy of a loving God and Creator.
In my opinion, it takes more faith to believe in evolution then it does
creation. The earth and the living creatures on the earth are in order and there
is a balance. To say order and balance came from chaos and chance takes a lot
more faith, then believing in an all powerful God, who is the creator, of all.
Who has a design for creation and a design for your life. God Almighty spoke the
world into existence. Adam was created in the image of God, he was able to name
all of the animals, and to name something is to attribute a characteristic to
the thing you are naming.
When the earth was created God wanted to expand His territory. He wanted a
family to love and serve Him. As you expand, you need more people to handle
certain areas of your business. After Adam sinned, the earth became a testing
ground. The spirit of man is encased in flesh with limited powers, until man
could be found worthy to operate in the realms of their Creator where your
thoughts have immediate power. We are in training until we can submit our
thoughts and tempters to Jesus Christ. God would never give His power to someone
who would use it for evil.
Everyone will be of one mind and one heart; therefore, everyone will know each
other’s thoughts. God in his great wisdom is searching for people, who will grab
hold of the gospel of Jesus Christ, so God can rescue them from hell and spend
eternity with them. Time is limited, it is finite. Satan and his fallen angels
chose not to obey and worship God, even those they saw God face to face. God is
selecting a group of people, a family or bride for his Son, who will obey him
and worship him. God is a god of love and relationship.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.….
And on the sixth day, God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth. God formed man out of the dust of the ground
and breathed into His nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He
had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the Lord God command the man
saying of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat
of it you shall surely die. Eve was deceived into eating the fruit and she gave
some to Adam who was with her. Their disobedience to God caused Adam and all of
mankind, to live in a cursed world, under the lordship of Satan. Because to whom
you present yourselves servants to obey, you are that one’s servant whom you
obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness.
(Romans 6:16)
God is a merciful and gracious God. He has made a way for mankind to come back
to him by the blood sacrifice of Lord Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh.
Being good and belonging to a church will not save you from hell. God has one
plan of salvation and that is faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. Even if you are
eating from the “good fruit” of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you are
still eating from Satan’s tree. You may be good and do good hoping that your
“good” will outweigh your “bad” and God will have mercy on you and allow you
into His heaven. God said that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life through Christ Jesus. For God so loved the world, that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. God sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him, Jesus Christ, might be saved.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father,
God, except through Me, Jesus Christ.” Jesus Christ died for the sins of
mankind, and made peace with God by shedding His blood for all sins. By faith in
Jesus Christ, we are eating from the tree of life. We are not our own gods,
doing whatever we want. We are no longer operating in our knowledge of good and
evil. We are loving and obeying God and living in Christ Jesus; and Jesus is
living in us.
God gave dominion of the earth to mankind. Mankind obeyed Satan and not God,
therefore they, Adam and Eve, gave their dominion over the earth to Satan. This
is the original sin of mankind. We were born with a sin nature. Man is born
spiritually dead; he is unable to communicate with God. There is a sin barrier;
your sin has separated you from your God. Because of the sin of the first man,
Adam, we all are under Satan control, sentenced to hell for eternity. But thanks
be to God Almighty our Creator, He has made a way of escape, thought Jesus
Christ His Son. God did not sentence you to Hell for your sins, Adam did. God is
not trying to send you to hell; He is trying to save you from it. Hell was
created for Satan and his followers, not God’s children. A person might ask if
God is so loving why did he create hell? Why doesn’t he just forgive everyone?
God said, “Let there be light and the light was created.” God lives in eternity,
not time, when God created time; He set up the rules to govern the time and
seasons. He cannot go back on His word or the earth would not be, because the
earth was created by the spoken word of God. Therefore, the spoken word of God
has all authority in Heaven and in Earth. Jesus Christ is word of God made
flesh; Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father.
We declare unto you the life, eternal life, which was with the Father and was
manifested unto us. God has given us eternal life; this life is in His Son,
Jesus Christ. He that has the Son has life. Almighty God, the Father, gave each
one of us a free will so that we could choose to serve Him or Satan. Hell was
created for Satan and not man. Each day Satan deceives more of God’s creation
into following him into the depths of the earth – Hell. Don’t let Satan deceive
you; call upon the mercy of God today.
Heaven is a real and beautiful place with an atmosphere overflowing with love,
peace, joy and hope. Hell is a real and terrible place with an overflowing
atmosphere of despair, pain, hopelessness, fear, and torment. God sent Jesus to
the world to save people, who were already lost because Adam’s sin.
God gave me a word. “I chose a people, and trained a nation, yet sin was among
them. Though I desired to bring men closer to me, the sin and pride was
repelling Me away from man. My firstborn Son, Jesus Christ, went into the earth
to proclaim salvation through Him. My everlasting covenant was established with
Him. I greet my children with such great joy once they accept my Son, Jesus. I
send part of my very self to them to direct and guide them. I have done my part.
Oh my children why do you not listen to the cries of your hearts and obey my
commands? Is it too hard to love one another? Can you love each other as I love
you? Ask me, ask Jesus to help guide you. He is faithful. If you could be good
by your own merits then the crucifixion of Jesus was unnecessary, welcome Jesus
into your hearts. Ask Him to help you to be pleasing to the Father. For this is
His job to bring salvation and bring you closer to me. I need a people who can
stand up for what is right and good, a people to defend against the attack of
evil, a holy people chosen by God.”
Lord God Almighty wishes all would come to faith in Jesus Christ and turn from
their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord. Jesus said to His disciples,
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man
if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in
exchange for his soul? Lord God Almighty loves you and wants to forgive your
sins, by accepting Jesus Christ into your heart, confessing with your mouth
Jesus Christ is Lord, and believing in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead you will be saved. You don’t have to change to invite Jesus into your
heart. God the Father loves you, and Jesus is greater and more powerful than any
sin you ever committed.
Do not die before accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior; once you die
it will be too late. Are you willing to regret your past sins and stop sinning?
You can start a new life today, one of love and devotion to God, the Father of
Jesus Christ. Welcome Jesus into your heart and let the blood of Jesus wash away
your sins. Jesus said, “Most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). Each person has a spirit;
this spirit can either serve the Divine Creator, Lord God or the spirit of this
world, Satan. If you decide to serve God as oppose to the devil, you must be
reborn.
To be reborn is to take out the heart of stone and replace it with a heart of
flesh. It wasn’t until I was born again that I knew that God was real. Before
that time I thought he was, but I never was quite sure. Now, I can sense Him,
now I can feel his presence. I can love him; before I was saved, I couldn’t love
him. I feared him, but now I love God with all of my heart, soul, and strength.
God is the best thing that has happened to me and Jesus Christ made that
possible. All I can say is thank you Jesus for coming into my life and saving
me. What happened is I switched kingdoms. I was in the kingdom of this world
which is ruled by Satan. Now, I am a citizen of Heaven I belong to God Almighty.
He ransomed me from the devil by the shed blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. Now, I
am in this world, but not of this world. My new mission is to bring other people
to God. God, the Father, loves his creation. He is looking for people who will
live to serve him and love other people. He is looking to build an everlasting
kingdom and we are his children who love and obey him. God is looking for people
who are not centered on themselves, but centered on God and others.
Satan fell because he focused on himself and thought he could rise higher than
God. He wanted to build his own kingdom above God’s kingdom, but the Lord God
kicked him out. God’s kingdom is ruled by God’s rules which is love, and love
gives, love protects, love suffers long for someone else, love is kind, love
does not envy, it is not prideful or boastful, love is patient, is not selfish,
love thinks no evil, does no evil, does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices
in truth and justice, bears all things, believes all things, hopes and endures
all things. God is love and love never fails. My Creator, God Almighty and the
Lord Jesus Christ gave me a choice. I have a free will and I chose Jesus Christ
to be my Lord and Savior. I chose to follow God and serve Him and live by his
laws and ordinances. I chose life. How about you?
To become born again you must ask Jesus to be Lord of your life by saying the
following prayer from your heart. “Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus, I
present myself to you. I have sinned against you, but I am willing to turn from
my sin and follow you. I ask you to forgive my sin. I pray and ask Jesus to be
Lord over my life. I believe in my heart, so I say it with my mouth: “Jesus is
the Son of the Most High God and has been raised from the dead by the power of
Almighty God.” I make Jesus Christ the lord over my life. Jesus come into my
heart and change me, help me to be the person you created me to be. I believe
this moment that I am saved, I say now – I am reborn. I am a Christian. I am a
child of Almighty God.”
This is only the first step in a long journey that will last forever. You now
have a constant friend, a God who will never leave you for forsake you. You also
have a real enemy, Satan, who hates you and wants to curse you. The devil will
try everything in his power to deceive, disappoint, discourage, and disillusion
you into giving up on your new birth and life in Jesus. The devil will even use
other Christians against you! But don’t give up on your salvation, never let the
devil win in your life. You are too precious to God to be lost again. The devil
can’t hurt God, so he hurts God’s children and blames it on God. It is easier to
kill a baby Christian then a mighty warrior in Christ Jesus. Yes, even if you
are an older person, you are still God’s baby. The best thing to do is grow in
the Lord. “As newborn babies, desire the sincere milk of the word that you may
grow thereby unto salvation”
In Mathew 18:3 Jesus said, ““Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted
and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of
heaven.” You might ask, “How can I become like a little child or be born again
when I am old?” The answer is you have a soul which is your mind, will,
emotions, and memories, and you live in a body. The soul and body are not born
again, they do not change. Your spirit is born again, when Adam sinned, he died
spiritually. When Jesus comes into your heart and life, you are born again. Your
human spirit is born again into the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ crucified the
sin nature. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20
Your spirit is a baby and God is your Father. The most beautiful of all memories
I have as a baby Christian is when my spirit cuddled up to the Holy Spirit which
lives inside of us and I felt so much love and acceptance. I was like a child
being nursed by their mother, so much love, so much peace. I was bonded to Holy
Spirit forever. I treasure moments of intimacy with God, times I’m just waiting
and loving on Him. It is never a physical, it is always spiritual. God will be
forever holy and divine.
The Blood Covenant
God gave dominion of the earth to Adam and Eve. They sinned against God, and
became subject to Satan. God established covenants with mankind to partner with
man concerning the affairs of man. God is not a god who stands aloft to the
problems of mankind. He wants to get involved, but you must be in covenant with
God, and have faith in Him. The last covenant with mankind was made with Jesus.
In Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given
it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls; for it is the
blood that makes an atonement for the soul.” Just as light is the only thing
that can conquer or overcome darkness so life is the only thing that can conquer
death. In a covenant, both parties give their best to each other. Blood
covenants are found throughout ancient civilizations. A blood covenant demands
absolute, unwavering loyalty. If you break a blood covenant, the other party of
the covenant would kill you, because the only way out of a covenant was death.
If one party absolutely hated the other party, under covenant rules, they were
obligated to help their covenant party.
God’s plan for marriage has always been a blood covenant, between the man and
the women. On their wedding night, the woman being a virgin, would bleed,
therefore establishing the covenant between the two forever, part of the vows
are to death do us part. The only way out of a blood covenant is death.
The covenant was made between God the Father and God the Son. If you deny Jesus
Christ before man, Jesus will deny you before the Father. In Titus 1:16 Apostle
Paul said, “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.” In 1 John
1:7-9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleans us from all sin. If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness,”
The covenant was made between God the Father and God the Son, if we deny that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, Jesus is God in the flesh, we break the covenant
with Jesus Christ, and therefore it is broken with the Father. “For many
deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 2 John 1:7.” Never deny that
Jesus Christ is Lord, He is the only begotten Son of the Father, and He is God,
the Son. My covenant with God the Father is sealed by my faith in Jesus Christ!
To say that Jesus Christ is not God or your Lord and Savior is to break covenant
with God.
Adam lost dominion of the earth because of his sin, and Jesus reestablished his
dominion of the earth because of his obedience. Therefore, all work for the
kingdom of God has to be done by the commandment of Jesus Christ. Jesus has all
authority and he uses his body to carry out his commands. Jesus Christ has all
authority in heaven and in earth and he delegates that authority to his body. If
you want an evil spirit to stop tempting you, say in the name of Jesus, evil
spirit leave me now. I place the blood of Jesus between me and any evil spirit,
evil spirit go in Jesus name.
Holy Spirit
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God is one Lord. And you shall love
the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
might. It is said that Christians believe in three gods, The Father, The Son,
and the Holy Spirit. This is a stumbling block to some people who believe in one
God. The Lord our God is truly one God.
The doctrine of the Trinity is central to the uniqueness of Christianity.
Christians believe in one God, who is present in the form of the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. It is the same God, occupying different levels, The Father is
in the highest Heaven, and the Son is the bridge between the highest heaven and
earth. Another way to say it is that it is the same God performing different
functions. The Holy Spirit indwells the believers. A Christian believes that
Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit dwell within them. This indwelling makes
it possible for Christians to walk in holiness and live a sin free life. God is
an Almighty great God we cannot limit him.
John 14:23 – 14:26 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves me, he will
keep my word; and My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our
home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word
which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. These things I have
spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to
your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Luke 1:15 “For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink
neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even
from his mother's womb.
Acts 13:52 and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
The Nicene Creed, in its entirety, affirmed belief ". . . in one God, the Father
Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, Light of Light, very God of very
God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all
things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was
incarnate and was made man; he suffered, and the third day he rose again,
ascended into heaven; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
And in the Holy Ghost."
The council acknowledged that Christ was God of very God. Although the Father
and Son differed in role, they, and the Holy Spirit are truly God. More
specifically, Christ is of one substance with the Father. There is sameness, not
a similarity. But the council felt that if they didn’t say sameness that
eventually people would lower of Christ's oneness with the Father. They also
argued that Christ was begotten, not made.
In the Old Testament, the presence of God dwelled in the Holy of Holy after the
Israelites built the tent. Before the tent was built, the presence of God guided
them through the wilderness. In Exodus 13:21- 22 And the LORD went before them
by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to
give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar
of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
In the New Testament, the Presence of God leads his people from the inside of
them. Act 16:6 now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia,
they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. Today,
Christians can be lead by the Spirit of God. In Galatians 5:16 say then: Walk in
the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. This word walk
means to direct one’s life, walk as to keep the law. When we walk in the Spirit,
we let the Holy Spirit lead and guide us.
As a Christian, we are the living temples of God. God, in the person of the Holy
Spirit and Lord Jesus lives inside of us. We receive them by asking to be filled
with the Holy Spirit and by faith. The Holy Spirit is a free gift. He is also
the most precious of all gifts. God will never leave us or forsake us. It is a
joy to know that the Lord of all creation lives inside of you. This is also an
awesome responsibility, because we have to guard our thoughts and words. Be holy
for the Lord your God is holy.
To receive the Holy Spirit pray to God and ask him, Dear Heavenly Father, I ask
you in Jesus’ name to fill me with the Holy Spirit so that I may receive the
fullness of your Spirit and serve you better. Heavenly Father please give me the
gift of speak in other languages or tongues in Jesus’ name I pray.
What about my past?
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation; to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto
himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the
word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:17-19)
You have now entered into a covenant with God Almighty by the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ. You are a new creation; all of your past sins, mistakes, shortcomings
are on the cross of Jesus Christ, when you are in Him. God knew we couldn’t keep
all of his commandments everyday of your life. So he sent Jesus Christ to the
earth, who kept the whole law, the law of love and obedience to the Father.
Jesus Christ healed on the Sabbath because God told him to. Jesus made a
covenant with Father over 2,000 years ago. It cannot be broken; your sin will
not break your covenant with God Almighty. That means we cannot keep on sinning
and doing whatever we want, certainly not, because the wages of sin is death.
The closer we move towards Jesus, the less we want to sin.
The real question is – If I am a new creation why I’m I still feeling these same
old emotions? The key to that is being in Him. Raising up your thoughts,
desires, affection, words, on things above, not things of this world. And once
you are in Him and he is in you, he may direct you to become a governor,
teacher, mayor, police officer, whatever he created you to be. But first, learn
to live and move and have your being in him. Being in Christ Jesus is
constantly, throughout the day, turning your thoughts to him. Once you learn to
walk in Christ, sin will no longer have dominion over you.
1 Peter 2:2. Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits
nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.” John 6:63. By
reading and studying the Word of God, you can have intimate fellowship with Him.
God is generally very close to the new Christians, loving and teaching them
truths about His kingdom, which is inside of you. Memorize the word of God,
Jesus fought Satan with the word of God, study the life of Jesus. When a
Christian sins against God, you open the door for the devil to enter your life.
The devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy. If you sin, confess your sin, and
ask God to forgive you and cleanse you with the blood of Jesus. God didn’t save
you just to lose you again.
What if I Sin?
My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if
anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not ours only but also for
the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His
commandments (1 John 2:1-3). But if we walk in light as He is in the light, we
have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:7-9) The blood
of Jesus will cleanse us from all sin, if we ask for forgiveness, repent which
is deciding to stop the sin, turn to God and we have forgiven all others. Even
if you have sinned the same sin, if you asked for forgiveness, sincerely, then
to God it is like the first time, because other times have been forgiven and
forgotten. The love of God and the atoning power of Jesus blood are so great,
that God always forgives and forgets completely, when we completely forgive
anyone who has done us wrong.
Once you have tasted the goodness of Almighty God the desire to sin will fade.
But if we sin, always run back to Almighty Father and ask for forgiveness and
turn away from your sin. Satan will try to convince you, that you have committed
a sin that God will not forgive. That simply is not true, especially if you are
a young Christian. When I was still young in the Lord, I sinned and Satan tried
to convince me that God would never forgive me. I also found the following Bible
verse, which seemed to agree with what the devil was saying. For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly
gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good
word of God and the power of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them
again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and
put Him to an open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6) If I would have agreed with Satan and
given up on my salvation early in my walk with the Lord, then I would have
started living like I never knew Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I would
have been lost forever in hell, within the first few months. I thank God for
good churches and Pastors who speak the truth about God.
Believe God the Father will forgive you if you confess your sin and repent.
Repent means to return or respond to God. Jesus didn't die just to lose you
again. If your newborn baby does something wrong would you stop loving and
caring for them. How much more does our Heavenly Father love you? I am not
giving you permission to sin; we should honor God by always walking in love. If
we walk in love, we will be obeying His commandments. Jesus had to die a
terrible death because of sin, never sin intentionally.
There is one sin that the Bible states as being unforgivable and I believe that
sin is the rejection of Jesus Christ. As long as you love the Lord Jesus and you
are trying not to sin, you are still saved. Jesus will forgive you. Jesus knows
whether you are fighting sin or submitting to it.
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that
one’s slaves whom you obey, whether sin to death, or of obedience to
righteousness? (Romans 6:13) Sin will separate you from God, and place you in
the enemy camp. If you are in sin, you are a slave of Satan. The wages of sin is
death (spiritual death or separation from God), but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23) You don’t have to stay in the enemy
camp, if you ask God to forgive you, repent of the sin, and claim the blood of
Jesus for the forgiveness of sin. God will forgive you. You can request the
grace of God to overcome that sin. Condemnation will keep you in the enemy camp,
because you have not forgiven yourself. God keeps His word, if He said, “If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.” You can be sure that you are forgiven. (1 John
1:9) But your iniquities (wickedness) have separated you from your God; and your
sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. (Isaiah 59:2) …And
my sin is always before me. (Psalm 51:3). Always forgive yourself once you asked
God to forgive, because if you don’t it is un-forgiveness and God can’t forgive
you unless you forgive.
The Holy Spirit dwells within us, the more we desire to have the Holy Spirit,
the more we must abide in Christ Jesus. Jesus said, “I have come as a light into
the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” (John
13:46) What does Lord Jesus said about sin REMOVE IT from your life. Sin will
destroy your life and your walk with God. No Father wants to see their children
hurt, and sin brings death. Never desire to seek your own, but in all things
please God. It is true that His love covers a multitude of sin, but we must have
a pure and clean heart before Father God. Never give up and never give in, keep
fighting sin. You were given authority over the enemy and you need to use that
authority to keep sin out of your life and help to free other people. Each
temptation can be used as resistance to strengthen your spiritual muscles.
“Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.
But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have
returned to Me strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:31-32) God does not tempt,
Satan does. Satan tempted Peter into denying Jesus, not once but three times.
After the denial I would imagine Satan continued to condemn and taunt Peter.
After we sin, run back to God, if we don’t we will be fighting condemnation and
guilt. It is best to confess our sins as soon as possible pleaded the blood of
Jesus and seek forgiveness.
Lord Jesus will never give up on you and will continue to meet you where you are
at, and teach you His ways and thoughts. We should be willing to learn, if we
are to grow in the Lord. The closer you walk with Father God and Lord Jesus the
less sin you will have in your life, all evil must flee in the present of a Holy
God.
I believe that Satan puts sickness upon us, one reason is we opened the door by
sinning, or we just get sick, or we are under attack by Satan, He is trying to
put out the fire we have for the Lord Jesus. God will not make you sick, He
might remove His protection, because there is something in your life that needs
to be corrected and sickness will get your attention. A Holy God requires a Holy
people. I am talking a spirit-led holiness and not works, just be obedience to
His prompting. God will speak to your spirit, soul, or body.
We punish ourselves by sinning. The Holy Spirit has a unique ways of getting
your attention, sometimes by a holy fire on your behind. The Holy Spirit would
rather have you feel a little now, to get your attention, then to have your
whole entire body burn in Hell.
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near
to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify
your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be
turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the
Lord, and He will lift you up. (James 4:7-10) When a Christian sins against God,
you open the door for Satan to enter your life. Satan comes to kill, steal and
destroy. Don’t be the Christian that resists God, submits to the devil and the
presence of the Lord leaves. You are still God’s child; the enemy has just taken
you captive.
Sin is always selfish, we can't sin for someone else, we sin for self, remove
the self-seeking attitude and the majority of sin will not be a temptation. If
we refuse to forgive, including forgiving ourselves, Jesus has to carry the
burden. If we hurt another Christian, Jesus carries the pain. If we bless one
another, Jesus partakes in the blessing. When we help each other, we help Jesus.
If we judge one another we judge the work of Jesus in their lives.
I fought the same sin for years, each time I felt the temptation arise, I would
get fearful, then start quoting the word of God. I would sometimes pace the
floors praying and pleading the blood of Jesus. Yet I would sin until I changed
my attitude about the sin. I saw myself as a helpless victim to the sin. I would
even be upset at Jesus for letting me sin. Then this verse hit me: If I regard
iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. (Psalm 66:18) I didn’t want to sin
I was fighting the sin, but after reading that verse I checked my heart. I had a
heart change. I was angry at the sin, at the first sign of temptation; I would
take authority over the evil and command it to leave in Jesus’ name. I didn’t
plead with evil to leave. I commanded it to leave in Jesus’ name. I finally
started to operate in the authority God has given me over the powers of
darkness. I was in an attitude of faith in God, not fear of failure. I say that
the blood of Jesus is against evil, I have the armor of God on, and I use the
sword of the spirit. All of these powerful weapons should be used with a pure
heart, a heart filled with the love of God.
If you want true victory, change your focus, you will draw to you what you focus
on. If you focus on defeat and sin, you will feel defeated. If you focus on God
and His goodness by studying the word of God, praise Him and giving him thanks,
you will have victory. Our thoughts and words are like spiritual magnets.
Forgive and You will be Forgiven
“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to
settle accounts with his servants. “When he had begun to settle them, one who
owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. “But since he did not have the
means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and
children and all that he had, and repayment to be made. “So the servant fell to
the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and
I will repay you everything.’ “And the lord of that servant felt compassion and
released him and forgave him the debt. “But that servant went out and found one
of his fellow servant who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and
began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe.’ “So his fellow servant fell
to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I
will repay you.’ “But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he
should pay back what was owed. “So when his fellow servant saw what had
happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that
had happened. “Then summoning him, his lord *said to him, ‘You wicked servant, I
forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. ‘Should you not also have
had mercy on your fellow servant, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’ “And
his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should
repay all that was owed him. “My heavenly Father will also do the same to you,
if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Matthew 6:12
From these verses God expects us to forgive people including ourselves who have
not lived up to our expectations or hurt us. If you forgive the sins of any,
they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” If
you did not forgive yourself, then God cannot forgive you. Never sin against
your own conscience, if you know it is wrong, don’t do it.
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come;
but woe unto him, through whom they come. Luke 17:1
We have a choice to forgive or be offended. The Bible is clear in telling us to
forgive and let go of all offenses. An offense will keep you in bondage.
I was at work one day and a coworker, a fellow Christian, had a disagreement. I
thought I was totally in the right, while she thought she was. The next day,
while in the shower, I didn’t have a peaceful morning with praise and
thanksgiving to God. Instead, this person and the events of the previous day
were filling my mind and my heart was grieved. At first I said to myself, “Get
out of my mind” then I realized I hadn’t forgiven her. So I forgave her and the
thoughts faded.
Forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge.
Forgiveness is releasing the person without receiving an apology, payment, or
explanation. Forgiveness is viewing the person or event from a non threatening
perspective.
Forgiveness is a decision you make to benefit you, not the person that hurt you.
The person that hurt you could care less if they were ever forgiven by you.
Forgiveness is something you do for yourself. It is an act of obedience to the
commandments of Jesus Christ. When you forgive a person, you need to forgive
each act separately, instead of a blanket statement. I forgive my father for
being mean to me is a blanket statement. It is best to forgive each incident
that the Lord brings to mind. I forgive my father for beating me up at the age
of six. I forgive him for lying to me about my mother. Each incident that you
choose to forgive will bring you into a place of healing for yourself.
When you forgive a person, that doesn’t mean that you still need to be friends
with that person or do business with them. Don’t let the devil set you up for
repeat failure. It gets harder to forgive a repeat offender and it is harder to
forgive ourselves for being hurt again.
If the person who has hurt you is a business associate or a family member and
you have to continue to associate with them. You still need to forgive them, but
that doesn’t mean you have to be close to them or that you trust them to change.
Trust is earned not granted.
If you are unforgiving, then anger, resentment and bitterness from the past will
hurt new relationships and new experiences. Your life might become so wrapped up
in the wrong that you can't enjoy the right. You are wrapped up in the past at
the expense of the future. You might become depressed or anxious which will
cause your body to become sick and your immune system to be compromised.
Truly, sometimes people don’t know that they have hurt you. It is best to keep
things in the open, concealing them in the dark only leads to lies and
deception. Openly, say, “I was hurt when you did this.” The person might or
might not ask for forgiveness it doesn’t matter, it is your responsibility to
forgive.
If you have spoken ill of someone and God is dealing with your conscience about
the issue, then it would be good to repent and ask God for forgiveness. But, it
is not necessary to go to the person who you talked ugly about because they are
unaware of it. We are commanded not to stir up strife. In these cases, the
saying is true…if they don’t know, it won’t hurt them. The main objective is to
walk in love. Treat other people how you would want to be treated.
The Bible is very clear, if we do not forgive others, God will not forgive us.
Matthew 6:14-15 For it you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you: But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses. Un-forgiveness, give the other person power
over you. They hurt you in this life; don’t let them destroy your eternal
destiny. Hell is full of people who choose not to forgive others.
Un-forgiveness can bring isolation into a person’s life. Some people have been
hurt so badly that they are unable to forgive and relate to other people. The
un-forgiveness has built up a wall around their hearts. They are unable to
establish new relationships because of the pain from the old relationships. They
have an “all I need is God attitude.” No man is an island to themselves, we were
created for relationship. In Genesis 2:18, And the Lord God said, it is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. In
Ecclesiastes 4:9-19 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for
their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him
that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up. We are the
body of Christ and we need each other, 1 Corinthians 12: 12-13 For as the body
is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many,
are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one
body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been
all made to drink into one Spirit. (Also see Romans 12:4-5) We are created to
live in a community or a family unit.
We are in a fight for our lives… Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ; put on the whole armor of God, that ye
may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, fight the good fight of
faith. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring
lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
These and many more are fighting scriptures and the devils knows that if he can
hurt you so deeply you can’t forgive your abuser, or if the devil can get you to
sin against your own soul, so that you cannot forgive yourself, or if the devil
can hurt you so badly and blame it on God so that you cannot forgive God,…….then
the devil will have won, and you will spend eternity in hell for the crime of
un-forgiveness.
Forgiving someone is something we do for ourselves. We cannot expect the other
person to change; the only person we can change is ourselves. This is very
important while dating. Don’t marry someone thinking that you can change them,
only God can change a person’s heart.
The hardest person to forgive is you. We hold ourselves to a higher standard, we
know verses like: Hebrews 12:4 ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin. We know better than to fall into sin. But if we do, we need to
repent, ask for forgiveness from God in Jesus’ name, and forgive ourselves. When
we repent and ask God to forgive us, we need to confess our sin, not justify it.
Example: Forgive me Lord for lying to my boss is the proper way to ask for
forgiveness. The wrong way would be to justify the sin, like Lord you know I
need this job, so I lied to keep my job, forgive me.
And it doesn’t help if you ask God to forgive you fifty times for the same sin.
If you truly repented, he forgave you the first time. The longer you stay in a
state of condemnation, the longer your assignment from God is left undone. We
are not higher than God, so when God forgive us, for His own name sake, we need
to forgive ourselves too. Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. If you are
having a hard time forgiving yourself, say for Jesus’ sake I forgive me.
If you can’t forgive, then ask God for the grace to forgive yourself. Remember
Jesus Christ wants you to succeed, more than you want to succeed. A person
without an ego would have the attitude, Lord Jesus, You and Lord God are the
only holy perfect ones, and I throw myself on your mercy, for your mercies are
new every morning. Give me the grace to forgive myself.
Dear Jesus
It is best never to sin against your own conscience. Never think that you are so
strong that you put yourself in a position to be tempted. Never judge another
person’s sin as if you were better than they are. No one knows another person
past or why people do what they do. Take everything to God in prayer and keep a
clear conscience. Forgive and it will be forgiven you. And don’t take on another
person offence. If your child was bullied at school, take on the appropriate
actions, like contacting the school, but don’t take on the offense.
Forgiving God can be hard because we are taught that God is all knowing, all
powerful, He is everywhere at the same time. God is our healer and our provider.
God is our King and our Lord. He rules over all. Yet, an eight year old girl is
raped by her drunken 18 year old brother. A stray bullet takes the life of an
innocent child. A child of God after believing for healing dies after suffering
terribly with cancer. After giving into the kingdom of God for years, you are
unable to pay your bills or the car breaks down. Where is God? Where is He when
I’m hurting so bad that I can’t breathe?
He is in the same place, where he was when he watched his innocent beloved only
begotten Son be tortured and crucified for mankind. He is in the same place He
was when so many martyrs have lost their lives for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
They were tortured and put to death, some were beaten, beheaded, cut open with
swords and knives, shot and killed, raped and murdered for the gospel. 1
Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. And John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay
down his life for his friends.
God will not violate free will. God will not make you do anything; therefore God
will not make a sinner stop sinning. Roman 12:19 dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is
mine; I will repay, Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked
should die? Said the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and
live? God will give the abuser time to repent.
Steps to Forgiveness
1.) Make the choice to forgive – forgiveness is not a feeling. Forgiveness is a
choice made through faith.
2.) Understand that forgiveness does not forget what happens nor does it excuse
the person who hurt you. Forgiveness releases you from the person and incident.
You don’t want to make excuses for the person who hurt you. Like, they were
incapable of loving me because they were never loved. This may be true, but
forgiveness is forgiving the person, not making excuses for the person.
3.) Once a person is forgiven, stop rehearsing the incident in your mind or
telling others what terrible things happened to you? Stop reliving the event. If
the event should enter your mind, pray “God I choose to forgive
____________________________, and I ask you to forgive them too. Lord God,
please heal my emotions and remove any lies or pain that has been embedded in
me.” As you walk in greater forgiveness you can ask the Lord to bless the person
who hurt you.
4.) Release any thoughts of revenge, anger, bitterness, or resentment towards
the person who has hurt you including yourself.
5.) Some pains and hurts are so deep that we are wounded at the conscience and
subconscious levels, once forgiveness is given, God can and will start the
healing process. Remember the devil does not want you to forgive and be set
free. Beware of any inner voices telling you that if I forgive it will happen to
you again.
6.) Forgive yourself and God.
After you have forgiven, if an event enters your mind again, there is a reason,
(a) either you need to forgive again, (b) there is a lie that is attached to the
event, (c) you might need to confess a sin to God concerning the incident, or
(d) the devil is tormenting you or your past to shipwreck your future.
People who live in the past are often depressed and full of regrets; people who
live in the future are often anxious and worried. The people who take the
present moment and live in the presence of God casting all of their cares upon
him for he cares for us, and take the whole of the past with its victories,
disappointments and regrets, and place the past on the altar of God, burning up
the disappointments, placing the victories at the feet of Jesus, and applying
the Blood of Jesus to the regrets, live a life full of joy and contentment. We
can’t change the past, we are not God, and we can only live in the present. If
you are tormented by some action or sin you committed in the past. You need to
forgive yourself, because if you keep reliving the moment and you will draw to
yourself the things you are focused on. Forgive! And start focusing on the
goodness and mercy of God.
We are made in the image of God and the Spirit of God dwells within us after we
are born again. The words of our mouths and belief in our hearts have creative
power to frame our worlds. Whatever you dwell upon will become part of you in
time.
Take time to get alone with God and ask him to show you every individual that
you need to forgive. You can start forgiving them today and you will begin to
feel so much better. Remember forgiveness is something we do ourselves and not
the other person. Let God be the judge, not you.
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is
almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis
“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends
with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to
forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to
our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
― C. JoyBell C.
Sample Prayer of Forgiveness
Dear Lord God Almighty, in the name of Jesus, I choose to forgive
_______________________________ for ___________________________________. I want
to forgive but I need your grace to forgive completely. I place
_______________________________ and the situation into your hands. I forgive and
I ask you to forgive me for any involvement in the situation. Dear God heal my
wounds that this has caused. I forgive you for allowing this to happen. Please
forgive me for holding on to the offence, shame, hate, and angry. I choose to
release it all to you. By the blood of Lord Jesus Christ I cleanse the wound and
the memory. Please Father remove all the lies in my soul and mind because of
this event.
If sexual abuse was involved continue to pray: Lord God Almighty, I ask you to
break all spirit and soul ties with ________________________________. I forgive
them and I release them from me. I call back all parts of my soul, and I release
all parts of their soul to them. Lord God please make me whole again heal my
brokenness.
How to Get Free in Your Soul so You Can Fly in Your Spirit
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed
away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17). We who were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death. Therefore we are buried
with him by the baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(Romans 6:3-4)
Notice in both verses, we are new when we are in Christ. If we walk in the
spirit we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Being born again is a union
with Christ Jesus, we are filled with the Holy Spirit and Lord Jesus is in us
and we are in Him. All of our past sins, memories, events are placed on the
cross of Jesus Christ and were buried with him. We experience the newness of
life when we realize the old is passed away. It is not just you; it is you in
union with the Creator of everything. It is you in union with Jesus Christ, who
has all the power and authority in heaven and in earth and under the earth. You
are new!
We need to make a break with the past by confession:
Dear Heavenly Father,
I am a new creation in Christ Jesus because I was born again into the kingdom of
God and redeemed from the kingdom of darkness but the blood sacrifice of Lord
Jesus. Lord Jesus is my king and savior. Therefore, I boldly proclaim that any
sin I might have done willfully or unknowing I ask for you forgiveness. Any sin,
curse or agreement with evil of my ancestors; I ask you dear Father God to
forgive me and place the cross of Jesus Christ between me and any actions of my
ancestors that is unpleasing in your sight in Jesus’ name. Father please remove
any lies embedded in my mind or heart, in Jesus’ name. Father I ask you to fill
me with your truth in Jesus’ name. Satan be gone from me and my life forever in
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I sever any ties with evil in Jesus’ name.
Realizing, all of your past, good, bad, and ugly, is on the cross of Jesus
Christ. Now, by faith believing it, even if you need to repeat over and over
again, I am a new creation in Christ Jesus old things are passed away, behold
all things are new.
Sometimes the past is so painful that we are unable to just let it go and
believe. For people who have had generation of iniquity past down might need
inner healing.
Introduction to Inner healing
We know that when God first created the earth everything in the earth was good.
God loves us and has pleasure in our successes. We were created for God’s
pleasure. We are children of love created by a love God. We were created to be
loved and protected. God formed the family unit to love, train, instruct, and
nurture the children.
We hear the gospel preached and we come to God and we find out that God is good
and He loves us. When we accept Jesus Christ as our King and start to work in
his Kingdom. We love and serve King Jesus and we are saved from the fires of
Hell. We have entered into a covenant with the Creator of the universe. We can
live forever with God in all of His glory and goodness. We can have the love,
peace, acceptance and joy that we always wanted. We can be important people; we
are Kings and Priest of the Most High God. We are His children and we are seated
in Heavenly places with Christ Jesus. We are no longer victims, losers; hopeless
bunch of people, for the God of the universe loves and cares for us…WOW!
Because we are not in Christ Jesus all the time, the old patterns of thinking,
the lies that we believed about ourselves haven’t been changed, so we fall back
into old habits, believing the old lies that were engraved upon our soul, we are
the victims of our environments, we will never amount to anything, we are no
good, so we stay in that place of sin and defeat until the goodness of God or
the prayers of the saints can penetrate the feeling of defeat and hopelessness,
we confess our sins, and try to do better, try to read more Bible, memorize more
word of God, to renew our minds only to find that after a time we fall back into
the same pattern of defeat and we cry out to God. Heal my thinking, remove the
lies from me. And that is inner healing…
It is necessary to read and memorize the Bible so that we can renew our minds,
AND we have to remove the lie in our thinking. If you were abused, wounded,
used, rejected, or addicted to drugs or alcohol, then you need to read and study
the word of God more. Because thy word oh God have I hidden in my heart that I
might not sin against you. We read the word of God until it because part of our
thinking. We read the word of God until we become the word, and the word becomes
us.
Some people say that inner healing is not necessary because all of my past was
crucified on the cross with Jesus, this is very true, but sometimes our past
prevents us for living in Christ. If you have a wound, it hurts every time
someone brushes up against it. This emotional pain is enough to pull you from
being in Christ. God is a God that heals the broken hearted. Jesus overcame the
devil in the dessert, and he returned in the power of the Spirit. When he came
to Nazareth, one of the first messages he preached in the gospel of Luke was
Luke 4:18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised. It would seem like inner healing and
deliverance were part of the gospel message.
Tearing down of strongholds
A stronghold is a fortified place, a place of security or survival. Satan sets
up strongholds in people’s lives, it is like placing a chain around their leg
and each time that person starts to advance in the Kingdom of God. The devil
pulls this chain and yanks the person back down again. John 10:10 The thief
cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. He wants to steal your
health, your faith, your love of God, your trust in God. The devil wants to
bring fear, hate, doubt, sickness, poverty, lack, un-forgiveness, rebellion,
lust, deception, disappointment into your life. But God, …. John 3:8 “For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the
devil. John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world. (Overcome means to conquer, to carry off the victory, to
come off victorious)
Strongholds are normally started at early childhood. One example is a young
child is abused or molested by their parent or a close relative. This develops
strongholds of distrust for authority, hate, angry, guilt, and shame. If these
strongholds are not dealt with, the distrust for authority turns into rebellion,
hate advances to murder, angry advances to rage, bitterness, resentment. I’m not
painting a pretty picture. And because that child has these spirits of abuse,
hate and angry, they, the evil spirits, will set up events in the child’s lives
to reinforce their strongholds. Events of abuse and molestation continue to
happen in a person’s life. Once that person becomes a teenage all these emotions
are flaring up in their young minds, their hormones are making the person more
unstable. The emotional pain is too great to bare. Humans were not created to be
abused. We were created to be loved and to serve God and each other. But because
of sin, evil entered the world and destroys lives. Once this emotional pain is
too great that person will either withdrawal into themselves and continues to
sabotage their lives without even knowing why they are doing destructive things.
Often times the person will develop a drug or alcohol problem to numb the pain.
The evil spirits of abuse, angry, rebellion, rage, etc.., will always hide in
the soul, ready to spring out when it is triggered.
A trigger is an event that will recall a memory either subconscious or
consciously. Certain songs will trigger memories in your past. Certain smells
will trigger memories, someone who has been abused as a child might be triggered
when someone raises their voice at them. The abused person will responded with
hate, fear and angry. That person is not reacting to the events, they are
reacting to all the unresolved hurts and pain that has been buried within them,
and they responded to that yelling with hate, angry, and sometimes violence.
Sound familiar? The enemy has set up stronghold in their life. As a person
continues to act on their pain and hurt, habits are developed which serve to
reinforce the stronghold.
Childhood trauma can affect the rest of our lives if we let it. A child’s mind
is created to bond with its environment. The chemicals in the brain that are
necessary to think abstractly are not present in the child’s mind. This is why a
child thinks everything is about them. If a child hears the parents fighting,
the child believes the fight is about them, they caused it. The personality of a
person is established within the first six years of development. God engineer
the child’s brain to be one with the family until the child is old enough to
think for themselves.
As Paul puts it ... “Oh what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this
life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus
Christ our Lord” Romans 7:24
The first steps in tearing down strongholds are:
* Confessing any known sin in your life, don’t justify the sin, confess it as
sin.
* Repent of the sin - which means determine in your heart that you will not sin
again in the same way. Like if you stole something, steal no more. Repent means
to change your mind.
* Forgiveness, totally forgive everyone involved including God and yourself.
* Cancelling all bitter root judgments. A bitterroot judgment is a vow you make
to yourself, I’ll never treat my children that way.
* Ask Jesus Christ to heal the memories, and remove any lies.
* Walk through the memory with Jesus Christ and trained counselor.
* Fill yourself with the word of God and the Holy Spirit.
The Power of the Word of God
The most powerful force or Supreme Being is God Almighty, our Creator. We have
established that He is a loving God. Everything we need for life and godliness
was given to us. The sacrifice of Lord Christ Jesus dethroned the devil and we
are now seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. When Jesus was on the earth
He fought the devil with the word of God, self sacrifice and always doing what
His father commanded him to do. WE, as God’s children, have been given access to
the ear of God; we can come boldly before the throne of grace. Hebrews 4:16 Let
us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time of need. Some might ask, “If that is the case, why
are there so many defeated Christians.”
We have a powerful God, but we also have a powerful enemy. We can never fight
this enemy on our own. We need to be in Christ and Christ needs to be in us.
Jesus Christ is the word of God made flesh, we need the word of God within us,
study it, memorize it, quote it, and become it.
The Bible states: Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil
his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And then he will spoil his
house.
There are no voids, when the unclean spirits are driven out, you must fill the
void with the Spirit of God. We are the temples of the living God. Fill your
mind with the word of God. The Holy Spirit lives inside of us. God is my Lord,
master, creator, king, but the best part is he is my father. He is not some god,
who is far away, that I pray to and hope he hears me. God is a God, who loves
His creation so much that he is willing to sent His spirit into us.
Matthew 12:43-45 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he said, I will return
into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he found it empty,
swept, and garnished. Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state
of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wick
generation.
Listed below are some very good scriptures. I have included them to show the
power of the word of God.
Exodus 23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until
thou be increased, and inherit the land. Joshua 17:13 Yet it came to pass, when
the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to
tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in
his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to
pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Proverb 23:23:7 For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverb 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligences for out of it are the issues of
life.
Proverbs 13:2-3 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; but the soul of
the transgressors shall eat violence. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his
life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He
that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his
heart.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is good, and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
In conclusion: We are made in the image of God and the Spirit of God dwells
within us after we are born again. The words of our mouths and belief in our
hearts have creative power to frame our worlds.
Developing Positive Words
The more a person acts on the stronghold the more power the stronghold is given.
Example: Anger: A person can be angry in a situation, but when a person acts on
that anger by yelling or striking out, the more power is given to the stronghold
of anger. In order to be free from the stronghold, you must decide to act in a
godly matter. Instead responding in anger, ask God to give you the grace to
overcome your anger in the midst of a bad situation. Respond in love or walk
away. We cannot fight the devil using his tools or methods. In Ephesians 4:31-32
states: Let all bitterness, wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be
put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath
forgiven you.
It is a battle but you can win with the help of God. Desire plays a very strong
role. Do you desire to be free? If you desire to be free, God will help you
become free. Find some verse in the Bible that are solutions to your problem and
continue to mediate on the scriptures.
Stop the negative Words
Keeping yourself unspotted from the world included bridling or guarding your
tongue. Are you speaking God’s words or your words?
If you get angry, control your words, Never say, “I’m going to kill you” In
order to control your words you first have to control your thoughts, the Bible
tells us to think upon good things, don’t dwell on the past and past hurts. If a
negative situation comes to your mind concerning a person, purpose in your mind
to think about a positive trait of that person. You would be less likely to be
angry at someone if you where thinking good thoughts about them.
Be patient the renewing of your mind takes time. We have been programmed by the
world for a long time. Speak words of life not death and practice focusing on
God and his word.
Speak Life - Glory to God Almighty. Thank God I’m doing well. God is good all
the time. I’m blessing and prosperous. I’m more than a conqueror in Christ
Jesus. And remember it’s not enough to say the words we must believe them too.
The heart, head, and mouth must come into agreement. It takes all three. I think
it, I believe, and I know it, act upon it. These are the steps to faith. But
seek first the Kingdom and God and His righteousness. God wants you to be
victorious, just cooperate with God.
In summary:
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are
pure, whatsoever things are good report; if there by any virtue, and if there be
any praise, think on these things.
A stronghold was developed over time, don’t get discourage if it takes time to
tear it down just believe All things are possible with God. The more time you
spend with God and the things of God. The less power that stronghold will have.
The Armor of God
Eph 6:10-18 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the
whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having
done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the
preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God is within you.
2 Cr 10:3-5 for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling
down of strong holds ;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
The battlefield of the will and desires. First we must conquer our minds, than
we must advance the kingdom of God to include our family, friends, state, and
nation. If you can capture the mind and beliefs of the youths, you can change a
nation. The enemy knows this, we should know it too. Look at America, we have
been changed by the media, but it is time to comeback stronger. We are in a
battle for souls and we need the armor of God. Before starting your day, plead
the blood of Jesus upon you, your family and processions. To plead means to
argue a case or cause in a court of law. In other words, back off devil, I and
everything and everybody that pertains to me belongs to Lord Jesus Christ,
purchased by His blood. After you plead the blood of Jesus Christ, put on the
armor of God.
On the cross Jesus Christ defeated Satan. Satan is a defeated foe. He is still
your enemy, but you are victorious through Jesus. Let us look at the pieces of
armor.
The Belt of Truth - This was a belt the tied tightly around the waist, it gave
the solder freedom of movement because they would take their clothing into the
girdle. We must surround ourselves with truth, by honest and open communication
with other people especially God and ourselves. Let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, Hebrews 12: 1. Anything that is hidden needs to be bought
into the light. Once an incident is in the light, it loses its power to control
you. The word of God is truth; study the word of God daily, even if you read one
verse. Surround yourself with the Holy Spirit; invite Him into your life. Create
an atmosphere that is inviting to the Holy Spirit, have praise in your heart and
be filled with love and gratitude.
Spirit of Truth is the Holy Spirit. He will guide you in all truth, he will give
you power to live a Christian life; He enables us to pray according to the will
of God. For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Psalm 89:14
Breast Plate of Righteousness - Romans 5:17 for if by one man's offence death
reined by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall rein in life by one, Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. The breast plate of righteousness is not our own,
but it is the righteousness of Jesus Christ, we are to put on Christ. The breast
plate protects the heart – the emotions, love, sorrow, depression, guilt,
condemnation, jealous, fear, angry, and hate. These are the most abused emotions
and Jesus Christ is the solution for our emotional needs.
Once we are saved, we try to do the right thing. We want to please our heavenly
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, because we love them, but sometimes we miss
it. We have holes in our breast plate of righteousness. So Jesus seeing us, he
loves us, and he gives us his righteousness. I seen a vision; I was standing in
battle and my breast plate had these holes in it, Jesus stands besides me and he
gives me his breastplate which was shine and new. It is not my righteousness,
but Jesus’ righteousness.
Phil 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the
law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is
of God by faith:
1 Tim 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
This is a breast plate of faith and love, not of works. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But
let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and
love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availed anything, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.
The one definition of righteousness is conformity to the moral law. Apostle Paul
exhorts Christians to moral uprightness; awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Almighty God has always called His people to a higher standard, a standard of
holiness. We are not under the law but under grace, meaning grace will enable
you to fulfill the moral law. We are righteous by faith in Jesus Christ. Faith
works by love; it is heart knowledge of the beauty of holiness. I follow the
commandments of God out of a love for Him.
A self righteous person will be critical and judgmental. They will follow the
commandment of God out of fear not love. If they mess up, they would run away
from God being unable to forgive themselves for a season, because out of pride
they held themselves to a higher standard. The joy of the Lord is missing.
Christianity becomes a set of rules which to love by.
A person operating in the righteous of Christ Jesus will be loving and
forgiving. They would operate out of mercy because they know how many times God
has forgiven them. If they mess up, they would be quick to ask for forgiveness
and run to God and the mercy seat, because of their love for Him. They gladly do
those things that are pleasing to Him. There focus is on obeying God, not out of
duty or compulsion, but out of love for God and others. As a Christian desires
to grow nearer to God they will begin to seek the Lord, they follow the
prompting of their hearts. Christianity is not a bunch of rules to live by, but
a relationship with God. A Christian will prefer love over hate, peace over
strife, forgiveness over revenge, thankfulness over complaining. The ways of
this world will grow distance and uninviting. Righteousness by faith in Jesus, a
heart trust in Jesus Christ, not head knowledge, but heart knowledge.
Every time I take my eyes off of Jesus and focus on becoming righteous, I fall
from grace to works. Every time I take my eyes off of Jesus and focus on
fighting sin, I lose the battle with sin. Whatever you focus on you will attract
to you. We are called to live holy and righteous lives by faith, not works.
Shoes of the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace: prepare to walk in the gospel,
shoes bring protection and defensive. Shoes help you keep your footing; you
can’t walk far without shoes. Let Lord Jesus guide your steps each and every
day. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written,
how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring
glad tidings of good things!
Shield of Faith: Satan will attack us in our minds, emotions, bodies, or
finances. The shield of faith covers us. If he cannot attack us, he will attack
those who are closest to us. The Romans had to lock shields in battle. The plan
is the enemy is to separate you from God and other Christians. All of our power
and authority flow from God Almighty, the Creator. If the devil can hurt you and
blame it on God, then you cannot go to God to get healed, physically or
emotionally because you think God did it. Always stay close to Jesus and have
faith that he loves you dearly. He desires for you to succeed.
Helmet of Salvation – have a covering, submission to authority, to have
authority you have to be under authority. A helmet is protection for our head,
take the helmet of salvation, and receive it. In Hebrew 10:25, The Bible tells
us not to forsake the assembly of ourselves together, as the manner of some, but
exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the day approaching. We
need to belong to a body of believers or church.
If the world and the things in the world attach themselves to you, to bring you
into the worldly way of operating, instead of the spirit of Christ, then in an
anointed church service, that thing has to get off of you. How many times have
you heard, “what has gotten into you.” If you don’t go to church that thing on
you is going to continue to draw you away from God. Whether it is oppression,
doubts, or disappointment, don’t give it any place; give no place to the devil.
In war time, the enemy would take his sword and crush the head of the opposing
army. In Matthew 4: 1-11; the devil used the word of God against Jesus. The
battlefield is for the mind. The enemy will try to put thoughts into your mind
that would be a death blow. If the devil can separate you from Jesus you will
have a death blow. You should have some spiritual authority in your life that
you are accountable to. Someone or a group of people who you trust and you could
go to talk to them about anything without being judged or rejected. This would
be a biblical way to guard your thoughts.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 but let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Derek Prince “The protection for the mind is hope, but the protection for the
heart is faith”
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. Hope is not wishful thinking; hope is built on faith, built on
the promises of God, built on trust. Hope is an expectation of good based on the
promises of God’s word.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love
God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Colossians 1:2 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Sword of the Spirit: Which is the word of God Matthew 4:1-11, Jesus used the
sword against the devil. You can’t separate God from His word. We need to build
up our spiritual muscle by studying the word of God. In the midst of a battle,
sometimes we have to take the word of God and tie ourselves to it as an anchor.
Breaking Generational Curses
Can a Christian be cursed? The answer is no, you can’t curse what God has
blessed. Is it necessary to break generational curses? The answer is yes, it is
necessary. The evil spirits don’t believe the word of God or they don’t obey the
word of God. God said if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold all things are become new. We, as believers, need to
reinforce the new covenant. AS a new believer, I struggled with old thoughts and
I couldn’t get the breakthrough until I renounced involvement in the occult.
Jesus gave us the victory we need to contend for it.
Sample Prayer:
Dear Lord God Almighty,
I acknowledge your presence in my life. You are the only all knowing and all
powerful God, my creator, my father, and my master. I am depended upon you, for
apart from you I can do nothing. I stand in the truth that all authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus Christ. And because I am in Christ
Jesus I share in that authority as Jesus enables me to. Dear Lord God, fill me
with your Holy Spirit and lead me into all truth. I pray for your complete
protection and guidance. I plead the blood of Jesus upon my mind, heart, soul,
spirit, my family and friends and everything that pertains to me. In Jesus name.
In the name and authority of Lord Jesus Christ, I command Satan and all evil
spirits to release me in order that I can be free to know and do the will of
God. As a child of God seated with Christ in the heavenly places, I command all
the enemies of the Lord Jesus to be silence and leave my presence forever in
Jesus name. I forbid any evil spirit from harassing me or inferring with me in
any way in Jesus name.
As you speak out these words, remember evil spirits and Satan will only be
defeated if you confront him verbally. He cannot read your mind, and he is under
no obligation to obey your thoughts.
The first step is to renounce your previous or current involvement with
satanically inspired occult practices and false religions. You need to renounce
any activity and group that denies Jesus Christ, offers guidance through any
other source other than the absolute authority of the written Word of God, or
requires secret initiations, ceremonies, or covenants.
Dear Heaven Father,
I ask you to guard my heart and my mind and reveal to me any and all involvement
I have had, either knowingly or unknowingly, with cultic or occult practices,
false religion, or false teachers. In Jesus’ name, I pray Amen.
Non-Christian Spiritual Experience Inventory
Prayer,
Lord I confess that I have participated in ___________and I renounce
__________in Jesus name. I commend every evil spirit that came into me because
of the ___________to go now in the Name of Jesus. I shut the door to my life and
the lives of my children to every demonic spirit in Jesus name associated with
the practice of ________________. I thank you Lord Jesus Christ that I am
forgiven and set free.
Dear Lord God Almighty if my ancestors had involvement in any occult practices
listed above or have sinned against you. I confess and renounce my sin and their
sin and ask for your forgiveness and I cleanse myself and my family with the
blood of Jesus. I command every evil spirit associated with the practice to be
gone from me and my family in Jesus name. Dear Lord God Almighty, In the name of
Jesus Christ your son and my Lord and Savior; I ask you to break any and all
generational curses from me and my family, because I now belong to you. You are
my family and your family is blessed and not cursed. I am a member of your
family and I ask for and receive the blessing of Abraham and the blessing
associated with belonging to Christ Jesus. Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I know that you desire truth in the inner self and that facing this truth is the
way of liberation. I acknowledge that I have been deceived by the father of lies
and that I have deceived myself. I pray in the name of Lord Jesus Christ that
you, heavenly Father, will rebuke all deceiving spirits by virtue of the shed
blood and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. By faith I have received you
into my life and I am now seated with Christ in the heavenly places. I
acknowledge that I have the responsibility and authority to resist the devil,
and when I do, he will flee from me. I now ask the Holy Spirit to guide me into
all truth. I ask you to “search me, O God, and know my heart; have mercy upon
me; tell me to truth, help me to believe the truth, and lead me in the way
everlasting”. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen
Self-deception (deceiving ourselves instead of acknowledging the truth)
___hearing God’s word but not doing it (James 1:22; 4:17)
___saying we have no sin (1 John 1:8)
___thinking we are something when we are not (Galatians 6:3)
___thinking we are wise in our own eyes (1 Corinthians 3:18-19)
___thinking we will not reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7)
___thinking the unrighteous will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9)
___thinking we can associate with bad company and not be corrupted (1
Corinthians 15:33)
Self-defense (defending ourselves instead of trusting in Christ)
___denial (conscious or subconscious refusal to face the truth)
___fantasy (escaping from the real world)
___emotional insulation (withdrawing to avoid rejection)
___regression (reverting back to a less-threatening time)
___displacement (taking out frustrations on others)
___projection (blaming others)
___rationalization (making excuses for poor behavior)
For those things that have been true in your life, pray aloud:
Lord,
I agree that I have been deceived in the area of _________. Thank you for
forgiving me. I commit myself to know and to follow your truth. Amen.
Faith is the biblical response to the truth, and believing the truth is a
choice. When someone says, “I want to believe God, but I can’t,” that person is
deceived. Of course you can believe God, Faith is something you decide to do,
not something you feel like doing. Believing the truth does not make it true. It
is true; therefore, we believe it. We cannot create reality with our minds; we
face reality. It is what or who you believe in that count. Everybody believes in
something, and everybody walks by faith according to what he or she believes.
Positive Confession:
I recognize that there is only one true and living God who
exists as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that he is worthy of all honor,
praise and glory as the Creator, Sustainer, and Beginning and End of all living. I recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the Word who became flesh and dwelt
among us. I believe that he came to destroy the works of Satan, that he disarmed
the rulers and authorities and made a public display of them, having triumphed
over them.
I believe that God has proven his love for me because, when I was still a
sinner, Christ died for me. I believe that he delivered me from the domain of
darkness and transferred me to his kingdom, and in him I have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins. I believe that I am now a child of God and that I am
seated with Christ in the heavenly realms. I believe that I was saved by grace
of God through faith, that it was a gift and not the result of any works on my
part. I choose to be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. I put on the whole armor of God and I resolve to stand firm in my faith and resist the evil
one.
I believe that apart from Christ I can do nothing, so I declare
myself dependent on him. I choose to abide in Christ in order to bear much fruit
and glorify the Lord. I announce to Satan that Jesus is my Lord, and I reject any counterfeit gifts or works of Satan in my
life. I stand against
Satan’s deception by taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. I declare that the Bible is the only authoritative
standard. I choose to speak the truth in love. I choose to present my body as an instrument of righteousness, a living and holy
sacrifice, and I renew my mind by the living Word of God in order that I may
prove that the will of God is good, pleasing, and perfect.
I put off the old self with its evil practices and put on the new self, and I declare myself to be a
new creation in Christ Jesus. I trust my heavenly father to fill me with his Holy Spirit
and to
guide me into all truths and to empower my life that I might live
above sin and not gratify the desires of the flesh. I crucify
the flesh and choose to walk by the Spirit. I renounce all selfish goals and choose the ultimate goal of love. I choose to obey the two greatest commandments to love the Lord my God
with all my heart, soul, mind and to love my neighbor as myself. I believe that Jesus Christ has all authority in heaven and earth and that he is the head over all rule and authority. I
believe that Satan and his demons are subject to me in Christ, since I am a
member of Christ’s body. Therefore, I obey the command to
submit to God and resist the devil and I command Satan in the name
of Jesus Christ to leave my presence. Your confession should match your desire, and your desires will lead your
actions into conduct that matches your confessions. We do not want to be double
minded.
Prayer
Psalm 155:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he
given to the children of men.
Jesus Christ has all authority in heaven, in the earth, and under the earth and
he gladly shares the authority with his children on earth. The host of angels
will respond to a prayer that is prayed in faith. Prayer is communication with
God. Prayer is making a request in a humble manner; prayer is adoration, praise,
confession, supplication, or thanksgiving. Prayer is an act of faith. Faith that
God hears, God cares, and God wants to get involved in this world.
Sometimes we project onto God the attributes of our fathers. If a person father
was very busy and uninvolved in his children’s life. People tend to think God
doesn’t want to get involved with their lives. That he is a God that is too busy
for them, that doesn’t care about their needs. This is so far from the truth.
God is a god of relationships. He wants a relationship with you, he wants a
family. He can have everything, yet one of His desires is to have a family that
loves and obeys Him.
If I was going to live with someone for eternity, I would want that person to
truly love me, not for what I could give them, but love me for who I am, not
what I do.
Prayer is getting God involved in yourself, your family, your friends, your
nation, your world. Prayer is not just talking, pray is listening. When you
communicate, you talk and listen. We need to take time to listen. Many
Christians journal, which is writing what they hear in their hearts during
prayer time. Journaling is very important, if you forget part of conservation
with a friend, it isn’t life changing, but if you forget something God has
spoken to you, it could be life threatening.
There are several types of prayer, individual and group prayer. There are
prayers that we pray with our understanding and there are prayers we pray with
an unknown language. There are prayers that come from a person heart, or prayers
that are directly from the word of God. There are prayers in your tears, moans,
and your breath. There are prayers that are prayed while kneeing, standing,
walking, or running. God hears them all. God is a God that is very near, not a
God that is far away. There are many books written on prayer. The best advice is
pray. Pray in the morning, afternoon, evening before going to bed. Ephesians
6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. If praying is
communicating with God, then if you are conscience of the presence of God during
all of your waking hours, you will be praying always. Remember, God desires
fellowship.
Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
judgments.
Matthew 16: 19 Jesus said , “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
The word bound has several means, one is to bind, fasten with chains, to throw
into chains, to put under obligation. The word loose means to loose any person
or thing tied or fastened, to loose one bound, to unbind, release, to dissolve
anything bound. Jesus said that this is a key, so if you say “I bind the evil
spirit from interfering with me in Jesus name” Are you fastening the evil thing
to you? Or are you forbidding the evil spirit from operating in your life? You
might say Jesus knows what I mean, but you are no addressing Jesus? Jesus’ host
or army will carry out the command, but you are addressing the enemy. You must
be specific so that there is no confusion. Example prayer: I forbid Satan or any
evil spirit from harassing me in Jesus name. I release myself from any involved
in evil or the occult in Jesus name.” You don’t want to bind an unclean spirit
to you; you want to forbid the unclean spirit from operating in your life in
Jesus name. Remember, unless you speak out loud in Jesus’ name. The host of
heaven will not come to your aid. Jesus has all authority and delegated that
authority to the believer. Jesus has chosen to work alongside of mankind. We
must work with Jesus to establish his kingdom on earth.
Creating an Atmosphere inviting to the Presence of God
Paul states in 1 Corinthians 3:16 that we are the temples of God, “Do you not
know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
We love God and we want God to feel at home with us and in us. God is holy and
he commands us to be holy for he is holy. Holy is defined as sacred, saint, set
apart one. God dislikes every kind of impurity both physical and moral. In the
physical sense God desires that we keep our dwellings clean and neat. Our homes
should be clean of any evil object or filth. In a moral sense, God wants us to
put away sin from our lives. We should live morally pure lives, no fornication,
adultery, incest, idolatry, murder, lying, stealing, and such sins.
We should have a thought life of praise, worship and thanksgiving to God. In
Romans 14:17, Paul said, “for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” The devil would have you
focus on your past mistakes and regrets so that you can draw the past into the
presence and defile the present moment. Key: Whatever you focus on you will draw
to yourself. God would have us focus on his goodness, love, peace, joy, and
mercy so that we will draw the presence of God into our present. Praise worship
and thanksgiving to God is a great way to create an atmosphere in which God
dwells.
Every thought you think, the Holy Spirit hears because he is inside of you. God
loves us and he also loves all of his creation and bride of Christ. If you want
more of God starts becoming a person that God wants to hang around with. Think
and speak positive thoughts and words about God and his awesome family. Never
insult or judge a person in spiritual authority over you. If you see a fault,
take it to God in prayer. Always build up the people of God, never cut them
down, because God loves them as much as he loves you. Let Jesus be the judge of
his people’s action, our job is to walk in obedience and forgiveness.
God loves you!