Dearest Saints,
Now that we have seen how feeling inferior is deceptive and destructive, we need to take steps to overcome this and no longer allow this spirit (and every other negative symptoms/spirits we may have allowed to dominate our lives) to have any more dominion over our lives. I find the first thing when dealing with any negative situation is to understand that anything we have believed that brings nothing but discouragement, bondages and every negative symptom of our thinking is not of God, but of the enemy. We must believe as we take the steps to be delivered, that God has given us authority in His Name to cast out satan (Luke 10:19) and gives us His Spirit to live in total victory, otherwise, we remain defeated. Our enemy (satan and his angels) is nothing but a deceiver and a liar. His motive is to rob Christians that always discourages and brings us down. Unfortunately, he is often successful, when it should not be the case. We should always hate the lies of the enemy because it is knowing the truth of Christ that sets us free. If we want anything good to come out of our negative past, I believe we need to do the following in this order:
a. First, we need to know our full identity in Christ. We do this by BEING CONVINCED that everything He accomplished is available to us to live the abundant life and offers us victory in every circumstance. He offers us an enormous inheritance of living in peace, having joy simply because we have a BLOOD BOUGHT RIGHT who willingly gave His life for us. We need to know this is for each of us. When the Lord revealed this to me, I realized that I have been living under the deception of the enemy all along and believing his lies which was why I was living a defeated and often despairing life. I believe this was the opening for God to work mightily through me that I can now say that has brought me deliverance and victory to help many others in their time of need. I repented to the Lord because I believed the lies of the enemy and failed to put my trust in Him and live according to His Word. Even out of ignorance, I chose to repent.
b. When we first see our need to be TOTALLY CONVINCED about our true identity in Christ, we need to refuse to believe that we are inferior to one another, because our identity is who we are in Christ. Next, we need to be CONVINCED that anything that results negatively, is nothing but a deception from the enemy. With Gods help, I now refuse to live under the devils deceptive ways. I made a BOLD declaration to the Lord that He would take full control of my life, and will now live to bring Him glory. To believe my past is not going to be in vain, but will be used for the purposes of being a rich blessing to many others, for their deliverance so they too can live the life God came to give each of us. By His Grace, I will be what God wants me to be, to fulfill what God calls me to do. When David stood against his enemy and the enemy of Gods people (Goliath), he boldly declared: "Who is this uncircumsized Phillistine, who should come against our people? For he comes with weapons, but we come against him in the Name of our Lord". And because of this, he killed the giant (1 Sam 17: 45-51). Therefore, we need to be CONVINCED who we are in Christ, KNOWING who He is and what He can do for us and declare the same thing against our "so-called giants". By His Grace, I REFUSE to accept anything less than Gods best for my life and will FOREVER LIVE IN TOTAL VICTORY over the enemy. When we make this bold declaration to the Lord with His help for us, I believe this can be a real turning point for many!! God gives us a choice to choose life or death (Deut 30.19). Choosing to do things His way is CHOOSING LIFE that will allow us to live in victory.
Now that we have seen how feeling inferior is deceptive and destructive, we need to take steps to overcome this and no longer allow this spirit (and every other negative symptoms/spirits we may have allowed to dominate our lives) to have any more dominion over our lives. I find the first thing when dealing with any negative situation is to understand that anything we have believed that brings nothing but discouragement, bondages and every negative symptom of our thinking is not of God, but of the enemy. We must believe as we take the steps to be delivered, that God has given us authority in His Name to cast out satan (Luke 10:19) and gives us His Spirit to live in total victory, otherwise, we remain defeated. Our enemy (satan and his angels) is nothing but a deceiver and a liar. His motive is to rob Christians that always discourages and brings us down. Unfortunately, he is often successful, when it should not be the case. We should always hate the lies of the enemy because it is knowing the truth of Christ that sets us free. If we want anything good to come out of our negative past, I believe we need to do the following in this order:
a. First, we need to know our full identity in Christ. We do this by BEING CONVINCED that everything He accomplished is available to us to live the abundant life and offers us victory in every circumstance. He offers us an enormous inheritance of living in peace, having joy simply because we have a BLOOD BOUGHT RIGHT who willingly gave His life for us. We need to know this is for each of us. When the Lord revealed this to me, I realized that I have been living under the deception of the enemy all along and believing his lies which was why I was living a defeated and often despairing life. I believe this was the opening for God to work mightily through me that I can now say that has brought me deliverance and victory to help many others in their time of need. I repented to the Lord because I believed the lies of the enemy and failed to put my trust in Him and live according to His Word. Even out of ignorance, I chose to repent.
b. When we first see our need to be TOTALLY CONVINCED about our true identity in Christ, we need to refuse to believe that we are inferior to one another, because our identity is who we are in Christ. Next, we need to be CONVINCED that anything that results negatively, is nothing but a deception from the enemy. With Gods help, I now refuse to live under the devils deceptive ways. I made a BOLD declaration to the Lord that He would take full control of my life, and will now live to bring Him glory. To believe my past is not going to be in vain, but will be used for the purposes of being a rich blessing to many others, for their deliverance so they too can live the life God came to give each of us. By His Grace, I will be what God wants me to be, to fulfill what God calls me to do. When David stood against his enemy and the enemy of Gods people (Goliath), he boldly declared: "Who is this uncircumsized Phillistine, who should come against our people? For he comes with weapons, but we come against him in the Name of our Lord". And because of this, he killed the giant (1 Sam 17: 45-51). Therefore, we need to be CONVINCED who we are in Christ, KNOWING who He is and what He can do for us and declare the same thing against our "so-called giants". By His Grace, I REFUSE to accept anything less than Gods best for my life and will FOREVER LIVE IN TOTAL VICTORY over the enemy. When we make this bold declaration to the Lord with His help for us, I believe this can be a real turning point for many!! God gives us a choice to choose life or death (Deut 30.19). Choosing to do things His way is CHOOSING LIFE that will allow us to live in victory.
c. When we are being transformed by the renewing of our mind, we are now able to get rid of the garbage from believing the lies of the enemy from our entire past, and expect God to deliver us and restore our lives. When you compare everything that comes from the devil, we have to treat this like garbage that is full of stench. When you have garbage in your home, you think nothing twice then to tie it up and throw it out once and for all. We need to do the same by seeing everything the enemy comes against us is garbage and throw every adverse belief and putrid lies from our very house (our body, which is the Temple of God) 1 Cor 6:19. We do this by refuting all lies from the enemy, we cast it out of our lives and we no longer accept his lies and deceptive ways for our lives. We keep doing this for as long as we see the need to do this. Can you imagine anyone who got rid of any garbage, would go to the dump to bring it back home? That would be insane. Nor should we ever find ourselves accepting any garbage back from the enemy when we got rid of it once and for all. Otherwise, that too would be equally insane.
d. When we have repented of every sin (known or unknown) and made those declarations for God to direct our lives to live the life He intended for us to live, we need to be certain to fill our houses (spirit, mind, body and soul) with the promises of His Word, which always brings Hope, Peace, Joy, edification and keep it filled. In Matt 12:43-45, God reminds us that when we clean our houses by removing the garbage of lies from our lives and just leave ourselves empty, this allows the enemy to return with spirits more evil and the condition of a person becomes worse simply because we failed to fill our mind and heart with His loving Word and His promises for us (Phil 4:8).
The reason why we need to be most convinced of our identity in Christ first is utmost, otherwise we risk falling back in to our old habits and be defeated by our former patterns of our old thinking. I capitalized certain words to STRONGLY EMPHASIZE their importance we need to take and heed to. We need to have the mindset of Christ first before we can ever think we can rise up in victory. God gives each of His Children an inheritance of everything good, but not every Christian receives it because they continue to listen to the lies of the enemy and end up believing and following his deceptive ways instead. God cannot help us when we do not choose to follow His ways. We also need to be TOTALLY CONVINCED that we are valuable to God who can use us in mighty ways to bring Glory to His Name, healing many lives and be a powerful testimony to bring hope and encouragement to many if we would BELIEVE Him and STOP listening to the lies of the enemy who would try to make you believe otherwise. When we are fully convinced by what He tells us, this is that strong foundation that allows Him to build and fully restore our lives. His Word is only as active and powerful to the measure we believe it, receive it and live it. I am living proof of this, as a testimony of my life.
Will you consider buying my books in support of HelpingCopeThroughHope mission work in Zambia? You may go to my link below to observe.
In the Matchless Name of Jesus
Richard
Associate Director
Answers2Prayerhttp://sites.google.com/site/greatestbuilderforourlife
http://www.answers2prayer.org/
Let us therefore follow after the things which promote peace, and the things that edify one another (Rom 14:19).
No comments:
Post a Comment