The most powerful weapon of defense against the onslaught of the Devil, is forgiveness. But no one has the power to forgive or to be forgiven without the Son. No one has the power to live out that forgiveness without the Son. Forgiveness is Life. Eternal Life. You can’t have one without the other. You can’t understand one without the other. Do you know how to walk in life in a way that causes the most self assured non believer to begin doubting himself in your presence. Do you know how to overturn every demonic assignment in your vicinity to the point of making demons tremble at the sound of your name? Do you know what power really is? Do you want to be like Christ? Really? You see, nothing and no one could move Jesus from His position of power. No one controlled him – no matter what they did. Despite all that happened TO Him, none of it happened outside of what he permitted. He was not a puppet of anyone’s opinion of Him…good or bad. He was the CAUSE of everything he demonstrated. He needed nothing and no one outside of Himself to be all that He was and is. Do you want that? Do you want to be such a badass that not even your persecutors…your haters…your murderers or even your greatest fans can cause you to react in any way other than in praising God and forgiving them? Do you want that? Do you want to be so open hearted that you love everyone around you more than your own life – and yet not a single one of them can control or deter you in any way from the Father’s Will? If you’re waiting for a 5 step formula on how to “activate” this power within you, or a certain passage in scripture to memorize in order to access this forgiveness, you’re on the wrong page. You can’t start with forgiving others. You have to start at ground zero. Where you are. Do you know God’s forgiveness? Seriously…do you know it? Have you tasted it…has it permeated your being…do you walk around in life like a man who has been pardoned the moment before his execution? How can you get to that place and stay there? It’s actually very very very simple…so simple that most people never really get it. You must be a person of prayer. And Jesus Christ is the one who teaches us how to pray. Is your life a life of prayer? Are you a person of prayer? Or are you so lost – that even as you read this you’re shaking your head thinking “what kind of prayer?” I’m not talking about form, or a set of prayers, or how long you pray, or how often. I’m talking about continuous and ceaseless unbroken communion with the lover of your soul! Understand that there IS NO WAY to be like Christ without Him. Reread that and think about it for a moment. The problem is that some of you thought that maybe I was going to offer a formula or suggestion on how to be more self assured like Jesus – relying only on the power within yourself. But there is NO power within yourself that can exist without union with the Lord. That is what Christianity is. Your union with the risen Lord. You cannot have anything that Christ had without having the man Himself. Witnessing being born again with the very real spirit of the Lord and His Father coming to live in you, that changes you - the SAVIOR Himself is now closer to you than your own heartbeat…forgiveness becomes real. Salvation becomes real. Eternal Life becomes real. Grace overwhelms you. What can mortal man possibly do to you?? Pour your heart out to God…bow your head and confess all of your hidden thoughts and motives…sing songs to Him…praise Him….talk to Him about the flowers you saw this morning and how the breeze caught your attention…reveal to Him the hidden things in your heart – speak back to Him the hidden things He reveals to you. If you do this…I mean really do this, really get into a real prayerful relationship with the Lord…He will supernaturally reveal to you and seal in your spirit the truth of who He is and what He has done for you…that…THAT is what will naturally lead to the kind of confidence, assurance and conviction it takes to easily forgive all others. You will naturally bear the fruit. If and when you start to slip, the very real and true voice of the Lord will warn you…you will become extremely sensitive to sin in your life. The enemy’s darts will have nowhere to land…the snake will have no opening by which to enter…you will start to put away childish things and stand as a man or a woman in the STRENGTH of the Lord. He will not let your foot slip. “Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” …One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.” Acts 19:13-16 “Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the house with his disciples, they asked him, “Why couldn’t we cast out that evil spirit?” Jesus replied, “This kind can be cast out only by prayer.” (Mark 9:28-29) “Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!” (Matthew 26:41) “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will” (Romans 8:26-27) “This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name, Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done on earth as it is on heaven. Give us today our daily bread, forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever. Amen.” – Jesus (Matthew 6:9-13) (Luke 11:1-4) ishiswomen.wordpress/2013/07/11/whoever-has-the-son-has-life/
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