FREEDOM!!!! The process that we face in Christ, is being set free from the world, it's wisdom, it's strongholds, it's soul ties, it's materials, and greater than that ourselves. God wants to free us from our pride, our lusts of the flesh and the lust of our eyes. "For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world", (1 John 2:16). Having a sober vision of ourselves will give us the desire to be set free from all those things that hinder our transformation in Christ Jesus. While we may see the great fight against the world and the evil one, the greatest fight is within ourselves. We have to understand that the enemy uses what is already in the depths of our of hearts and minds to wage war against us. We give the enemy the bullets to shoot at us!!! It's like your enemy comes on your property and uses everything in your shed including rakes, shovels, picks, ropes, hammers, nails, and axes to wage war against you. God our loving Father, wants to clean out our sheds and free us from all the things the enemy uses. God then fills our shed with His Son Jesus Christ, which the enemy cannot use.
A subtle but deadly weapon we give the enemy to use against us is a unforgiving heart. As we have memories of people who have hurt us and we still have scares of those hurts, the enemy brings people in our lives that remind us of those people. He may also resurface those people. These may be the people God wants to shine the Light of His son through us for their salvation, but we are blocking the light because we do not want to have anything to do with them. It is not enough just to be free from "habits", because new ones can be introduced. It is not enough to be free from past hurts, because new ones can come. The enemy can do just as much damage with empty vessels as with vessels full of anger, bitterness, greed, and evil. “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation”, (Matthew 12:43-45). If that vessel is not pursuing the Holiness of Christ through the written Word of God and fellowship with the Spirit, the enemy will wage a greater war than before!!! We must remember that throughout the rest of our lives we will face temptations and trails, we can only defeat the enemy in Spirit and Truth with the Word of God. Anything less than God will have no affect against the enemies attacks. We will never become perfect in this flesh, but we must strive for perfection. We must desire the fire of the Holy Spirit to purge us of all the impurities that are deep down, so that we will be filled with Christ to reflect His light to this darken world!!! Today, seek the fire of the process and the passion to be free to do God's pleasing and perfect Will in the earth!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying the process on purpose!!!!!
Romans 12
A Living Sacrifice
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
1 Thessalonians 4
Plea for Purity
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[a] us His Holy Spirit.
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