What is the sin pattern
"enemy" that has mastered your life? What power of death is oppressing you? Jesus destroyed it, and he wants you to enter that victory. He is your life, and your life is hidden in Him. The veil is torn. God's presence is life, power, love, peace, and releases from all satanic power that we came under due to our rebellion from God. Can you believe on Christ? What Jesus did in overcoming Satan was for you and it was for me. Jesus was already over Satan, and he came as a man to bring us into power over sin. We were born into sin because of Adam's sin, and by faith, we are born into new life (power OVER sin and death) by Jesus' victory-in exactly the same way, by faith that is given to us by the Holy Spirit as we seek Him! Yay. You can't do anything. You can't transform a potato chip let alone your heart. But God can, and He did. This is the gospel, Christ in you, the hope of glory! Seeing by the Spirit, the OT prophet said there will come a day when God will give us a new heart and a new mind, created in Christ Jesus. Have you seen the fullness of God's nature indwelling you yet? How are you trying to achieve that? By your resolve, or by believing on Christ. One is law, the other is the law of the Spirit. One spells either defeat or pride (when we do it ourselves), and one spells the demolishing of Satan's power by the cross! Do you see it? Now is the time to come out of religion. Religion is UNBELIEF!
"Don't be afraid of them, the Lord said to Joshua, for they are already defeated! I have given them to you to destroy. Not a single one of them will be able to stand up to you." Joshua 10:8
These words are so beautiful. God is looking for faith on the earth. He wants to see that we take his promises and Christ's work seriously and live by it. Lord, grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation so we can see what has been given to us. Give us revelation in our inner man of your covenant in Christ. We can make ourselves see it. Only you can breathe revelation into our hearts so we will be certain of that which we cannot see with our eyes and reason. Thank you Lord. You promised to do it, and we trust you. Give us grace to apprehend you and all that you did for us. We love you.
"And the Lord gave them peace, just as he promised the, the Lord helped them destroy all of their enemies. Every good thing the Lord had promised them came true." Joshua 21:44,45
Jesus destroyed Satan's power over man, and we will believe it. Faith comes as we search the word, cleave to God, and insist on taking what God gave us in His great love. He suffered to give us Himself. Do we care? Do we take it seriously, or are we content to do our little deeds and live our lives in idolatry and distraction? God gives more grace!
They are already defeated. We enter the divine nature through these great and precious promises in Christ. Listen to these words and get a hold of it for your life and whatever is fighting to master your heart: NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO STAND UP TO YOU!
Joshua is a powerful story that points us to Jesus's work on the cross. While the modern church may weaken the power of the cross through their traditions, and mixing man's ideas with the gospel, the pure bread that comes down from heaven is a plan of total transformation-by faith. It is a process. He made you holy and there is no condemnation when you fall short, and he is making you holy.
The Israelites (a picture of our salvation according to Paul) took the Promised Land one town at a time so "the wild beasts" would not overwhelm them. When we take what God gave us in Christ, let's say, we gain victory over a spirit of lust, Satan comes against us to take back that "town". God is teaching us how to stand firm in His power, and like anything else, it takes time!
Joshua 10 is a powerful chapter that speaks to the total victory Christ won on the cross when he killed the power of sin and raised you and I up over all the power of the death. "Through death he destroyed the power of the one who held the power of death" (lose translation). God wants His people to take the land that He has already given us. What is that land? It is the land of victory over sin's power, the old man, the old nature. Like the Israelites, we just have to believe His promise. We have to believe on the Lamb who was slain to free us, heal us, deliver us, and one day even transform our bodies and make us just like him-for we will see Him as He is.
Listen to these verses, and when it says "your enemy" see the attitude or sin habit that the evil one is trying to defeat you with-see it as defeated already. As we come before our God and believe on His promises, refusing to accept that which he has destroyed, the Ruach Holy Spirit will come and breath on us with his quickening spirit and we will see the walls come down. It's such a gracious, simple gospel that we can't see it. Man has come in with his thoughts and ideas from hell to complicate something that is simple-so that we won't enter into the victory. Satan isn't going to sit by while we take the land back and reign with Christ over his dark powers. No, he is going to come to the church first to mix the word with his words, just like he did to Jesus in the wilderness. Meditate. Marinate. Pray, Ask, Seek, knock and don't give up church! Run from wolves in sheep's clothing who mix the power of the cross with their ideas and dumb it down sapping all of the dunamis power out of the gospel. This is a gospel of POWER. This is gospel that moves mountains, opens blind eyes, sets captives FREE as if they were never bound!
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