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Dear George,
--- Quote ---May I suggest that you make a one to one declaration to Our Heavenly Father, using your own words from your heart and mind, based on something like the following:
'Farther, in Jesus' Name, I am deeply troubled about the thoughts that keep coming into my mind. I know that you have confirmed in your word that "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5)." - and I am struggling how I may best do this for me. I know that imagination is not real, but I have a problem distancing myself from these thoughts that come into my mind. I most certainly do not want to entertain these thoughts. Please confirm what I must and need to do. Is it just a question of speaking to these thoughts and telling them that they are not my thoughts and to depart from me? And do I need to keep doing this until such time, as they can no longer enter into my mind? Thank you for giving me Life and this Renewed Life in Your Holy Spirit, and please always keep me in your Rest (which includes Your Love, Peace and Joy of Heart). Your Obedient Servant and Adopted Son pg-91.'
Please pray about this, and if you are burdened by His Holy Spirit within you, The Spirit will give you the words you need to become free of this particular issue in your life.
Remember, If He has Set you Free you are Free indeed.
--- End quote ---
Thank you for your helpful thoughts and prayer!
Dear Kat,
Thank you for your very detailed answers and providing a lot of Scriptures to meditate on.
--- Quote ---1John 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
v. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
--- End quote ---
I have some difficulty to understand this. Should I link these verses to:
Rom 7:14-25
14 For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly, having been disposed of under Sin.
15 For what I am effecting I know not, for not what I will, this I am putting into practice, but what I am hating, this I am doing.
16 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, I am conceding that the law is ideal.
17 Yet now it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin making its home in me.
18 For I am aware that good is not making its home in me (that is, in my flesh), for to will is lying beside me, yet to be effecting the ideal is not.
19 For it is not the good that I will that I am doing, but the evil that I am not willing, this I am putting into practice.
20 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin which is making its home in me.
21 Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me.
22 For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within,
23 yet I am observing a different law in my members, warring with the law of my mind, and leading me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 A wretched man am I! What will rescue me out of this body of death? Grace!
25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Consequently, then, I myself, with the mind, indeed, am slaving for God’s law, yet with the flesh for Sin’s law.
or: I sin and fail because I "literally" neither seen or known Him?
George
Kat:
1John 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
v. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous
That underlined is the key to understanding this thing of not sinning. It's certainly not the case that we literally will not sin, as it says in John "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1John 1:08). No we do sin as long as we are in the flesh, but if Christ's Spirit dwells in you and therefore you are in Him as well, then it is by His grace that we are redeemed by His sacrifice and our sins are covered and not counted against us.
Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
v. 20 Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
v. 21 But now, apart from the Law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets—
v. 22 God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah—for all who believe (this faith God gives us, verse below). For there is no distinction among people,
v. 23 since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.
v. 24 By His grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus, (ISV)
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Rom 4:7 "How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered!
v. 8 How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"
2Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
v. 18 All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
v. 19 for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world (just the few chosen at this time) to Himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed His message of reconciliation to us. (ISV)
Isa 44:22 I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've redeemed you.
Acts 3:19 Therefore, repent and turn to Him to have your sins blotted out,
All of this is only if Christ is indwell and by His blood being applied to us are we set free from 'all' our sin (Rom 6:7, 18, 22).
1John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Rom 5:9 Now that we have been justified by His blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through Him!
Rev 1:5 and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the One who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood
v. 6 and has made us a kingdom, priests for His God and Father, be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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