Understanding the 10 principles of deliverance and applying them to your life could be a tool God will use in obtaining lasting victory.

 1. If God’s against it, so am I.

     • Galatians 5:19-24

2. Every sin has its origin in your heart.

    • Jeremiah 17:9; Proverbs 4:23; Romans 13:14

3. It is easier to keep the heart clean than it is to clean it after it has been defiled.

    • Proverbs 22:3; Proverbs 6:27-28

4. You cannot fight a fleshly appetite by indulging in it.

    • Ecclesiastes 5:10; James 1:14-15

5. Small compromises lead to great disasters.

    • Luke 16:10; Matthew 6:24; Romans 6:16

6. Those who do not love the Lord will not help us serve the Lord.

    • John 5:18-20; Proverbs 25:15-16

7. Our sinful habits do hurt those who follow us.

    • Romans 14:7; 1 Corinthians 10:23, 24

8. It is not possible to fight a fleshly temptation with fleshly weapons.

    • II Corinthians 10:3-5; I John 4:4

9. We lose our freedom to choose when we give in to temptation. The consequences of our choices are inevitable, incalculable, and up to God.

    • Proverbs 5:22; Proverbs 20:17; Proverbs 9:17-18

10. God balances guilt with blame. Accept the blame for your actions, and God will remove the guilt.

    • John 1:9

 

These principals are taken directly from Reformers Unanimous International.  For more information see,

http://reformu.com

 
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“I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.” Psalm 119:59

 

When the mind repents of ill ways the feet are soon led into good ways; but there will be no repenting until there is deep, earnest thought. Action without thought is folly, and thought without action is sloth: to think carefully and then to act promptly is a happy combination. If we can get our feet right as to holy walking, we shall soon get our hearts right as to happy living. God will turn to his saints when they turn to him; yea, he has already favoured them with the light of his face when they begin to think and turn.

C.H. Spurgeon

 

This day in which we live is one of overwhelming moral decay.  A day in which evil is called good and the good are persecuted.  The epistemology of our society has shifted from that of Judao-Christian (Bible) values, to that of a world view shaped by modern media.  It is now Hollywood and New York that shapes the way American society thinks and not the Word of God.

This decay caused by the loss of Biblical values has crept into our churches, homes, and families.  We have devolved into less moral individuals and institution by means of this subtle infiltration of a world culture that is opposed to fundamental Christian values. We have forsaken holiness and separation and have become something less than our God intended.

It is important that we understand that holiness and separation are not the end but an exercise to obtain the end.  We are ambassadors in bonds for Jesus Christ and Representatives of the work of the Kingdom of God here on Earth.  As ambassadors our holiness and separation is for the purpose of drawing souls to the Kingdom and to facilitate the labors of the Spirit.  We can only affect the World culture as much as our Christian testimony is effective.  Those who proclaim the truth while being in yoke with unrighteousness, infidelity and idolatry, hinder their effective witnesses for truth.

It is also important to realize that we are powerless without the power of God and therefor we can only be as effective as God is able to work through us.  If we are unsuitable vessels we will not be used, because God cannot use us.  If we cannot be used to perform the function that He left us on the earth to perform, we will not be able to obtain any satisfaction in our activities.

This is at the heart of the issue; our people and our Churches are lacking in true Biblical self evaluation.  As believers we must recognize that we are being influence by the world.  We must step back and look at our lives from the reference point of Christ, which we can only do through His Word. 

Often we consider our ways but only through the paradigm of this world culture, or at best, modern evangelical church culture, (which all too often are virtually indistinguishable) and not by a Biblical standard.  We think ourselves good enough so long as we adhere to some arbitrary standard we set to justify ourselves in our own mind and rarely consider what would be God’s heart on how we conduct ourselves.  This lack of self evaluation, and therefore separation, has caused us to lose some of our God given power and authority. God cannot use us because we will not be so used.

So what do we do?  Get your Bible and get on your knees.  That is it, no great plan or program.  No self help book or motivational lecture.  Go to God and ask Him to reveal any sin in your life that is hindering your ministry, and then ask him to direct you in a change. See, Psalm 139: 23-24.  Let us see if God will in turn be faithful and answer our prayers, and then we get the privilege of being used by Him.  But first we must think, and then, with the power of God, we will turn.
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John R. Rice

Are your prayers hindered? Well, thank God, there is a remedy. The hindrances can be torn down. Even this very day you may feel again the smile of God's face and hear the whisper of His Spirit and know that there is nothing between you and God.

In John 1:9 we are given this blessed promise,

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Confession - that is the remedy for your sin.

A Christian does not have to atone for his sins. In fact, no man can possibly atone for his sins. The atonement was completed by Jesus Christ; and thank God, on the cross He cried out, "It is finished"! Let no one, then, think that he must go through a long period of time, trying to earn God's favor and to lay up credit so that his prayers can be answered.

And the Christian is not to "do penance" for his sins. Paying money, doing without food, sleeping on boards, or fasting a certain number of days - these, as a matter of penance, or suffering, trying to pay for sins as a criminal spends a certain number of years in prison to "pay his debt to society," is not what God demands.

No, the dear Lord simply and plainly promises, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

I think that an honest confession of sin would involve the following matters:

First, an honest realization in the heart of one's failure and sin. Confession cannot be simply a matter of the lips. For the mouth to say, "I have sinned," when the heart still says, "But it was not very bad, and it was not altogether my fault," is not true confession of sin. Another way to say this is that the Christian must honestly judge his sin in the light of God's Word and the revelation of the Holy Spirit of how God feels toward the sin.

Second, honest confession would involve a penitent heart and sincere repentance. I think there could be no honest confession of sin, if there were not grief over it. The sin grieved the Holy Spirit, it wronged God, and by it the Christian who sinned was untrue to the Saviour he professed to love and serve. The Christian's testimony was injured before the world, his fellowship with God was broken, his usefulness was curtailed, and his prayers were hindered. All these things ought to cause the Christian sincere grief of heart over his own sin. I do not mean a morbid despair. I simply mean the godly sorrow that "worketh repentance" (II Cor. 7:10). And this grief of heart over sin will involve a revulsion, a turning away, a change of mind and attitude toward sin, which we call repentance. If the Christian is not sorry for his sins, in his heart, and does not honestly long to do better, then there is no genuine confession of sin.

Third, a confession, in the sense that is meant in I John 1:9, would involve a simple faith that God is willing to forgive and cleanse us as He has promised. We are God's own dear children. We are dear to His heart. For us He gave His own Son. He has already given us everlasting life and promised to take us home to Heaven. We have never deserved His mercy, and we do not deserve it now; but He loves us still. And so a Christian can confess his sin, safe in the assurance that God has promised to forgive and cleanse, and God cannot lie. We are under a covenant relationship with Him. Our forgiveness is based on His faithfulness, not on our faithfulness.

So, any time a Christian is conscious of his sin, judges the sin and takes sides against it with a penitent heart, then he has a perfect right to trust the Lord for instant, complete forgiveness and for perfect cleansing.

Beloved reader, you can know the sweet intimacy with God that you long for; you may know it this very day. You may then live a life of unhindered prayer and daily, glorious answers. So in the light of God's Word, and submitting yourself to the searching of the Holy Spirit, I urge you today to confess honestly and to turn your heart away from every known sin and then claim the forgiveness and the cleansing which God has so freely promised to all of His own who confess their sins!

Is there nothing between your soul and the Saviour? Have you humbly searched your heart anew in the light of God's Word, and found nothing to hinder your prayers? Oh, then, dear Christian, enter into your inheritance and begin the abundant life of prayer, asking and receiving that your joy may be full!
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God Is! 01/12/2010
 
SOVEREIGN

“And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” Daniel 4:35.

 

OMNIPOTENT

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:27.

 

OMNISCIENT

“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.” Psalm 139:1, 2.

 

OMNIPRESENT

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” Psalm 139:7.

 

INFINITE

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?” I Kings 8:27.

 

INCOMPREHENSIBLE

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8, 9.

 

UNCHANGING

“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6.

 

ETERNAL

“Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” Psalm 90:1, 2.

 

JEALOUS

“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34:14.

 

JUST
“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” Deuteronomy 32:4.

 

MERCIFUL

“Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.” Joel 2:12, 13.

 

LONGSUFFERING

“Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.” I Timothy 1:16.

 

LOVE

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” I John 4:10.

 

Accommodating

“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” II Corinthians 8:9.

 

Wrathful

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” Romans 1:18.

 

HOLY

“For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” Leviticus 11:45.

 

FAITHFUL

“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.” Deuteronomy 7:9.

 

I AM

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Exodus 3:14

 
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Our official Crossover kickoff is THIS coming Sunday, January 17.  Our first meeting will be Friday the 22nd.

Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
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