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Highway to Christian Victory

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Prayer is certainly the highway to Christian victory and is God’s way of developing a loving relationship with His people. However, prayer is also the chosen vehicle to change the plans of Satan for your life, family, community, church, city and country. Isaiah shows there must be a time of waiting before God in prayer, (Isa. 40; 31). The apostle Paul gives a plea to the church to pray, (I Tim. 2:8), “Men everywhere should pray.” The apostle James tells us the potential and powerful prayer in James 5:16. There is no limit to the power of the prayers of the righteous. The early church started with patient prayer in Acts 1: 3. They prayed for ten days. This was Christ’s command, (Lk. 24:49). We see the experience of prevailing prayer in (I Thess. 5:27). Christians should always be in the attitude of prayer. However, we see in (Matt. 6:6), a call to personal prayer and secret prayer is the miracle of the Christian life.

The Discerning of spirits in the End Time Church

Try the spirits whether they are of God (1 Jn. 4:1) “…and Believe not every spirit”. All people are commanded to examine all spiritual things with our critical faculties to see if the Word of God being presented. There are evil spirits that can produce paranormal phenomena therefore we are exhorted by the Scripture to prove the spirits or test the spirits; prove all things; hold fast only to that which is good.victory-in-Jesus
Proving all things requires the use of our reasoning and understanding but we cannot rely only on our intellect. We cannot be swayed by our inward feelings but we can trust the illumination and guidance of the Holy Ghost. Moreover, the greatest principle concerning the testing of spirits are the Scriptures themselves because the Bible is the Truth. (1 Cor. 12:3), “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit God calleth Jesus accused: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost”. The is the supreme test of discerning spiritual things.

John, said the same thing: “Hereby know ye the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God,” (l Jn. 4:23).

The Bible says to Flee Fornication

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“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body,” (1 Cor. 6:18).

The Apostle Paul gave us hope concerning besetting sins like the sexual sins we have been discussing. He gives us principles in Romans 6 that can help us achieve victory if we apply them to our lives.

  • The Fact (Rom. 6:6)Christ has made it possible for us not to be slaves to sin. He gave His life that we might have victory.
  • The Faith Principle (Rom. 6:11). We have to decide we are going to die to the sin and begin counting ourselves dead to sin from this moment on no matter what temptation comes along. This act can be done in faith.