Hello.
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My name is Shelley Quinn
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and I welcome you
to Exalting His Word.
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Today we're going to look at
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how God renews our
thoughts and our attitudes
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and how we can live in
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the Resurrection
power of Jesus Christ.
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We'll be contructing several
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Life
Affirmations From Scripture.
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So you might want to
have a note pad ready.
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Before we begin I'd
like to take a moment
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just to review the
theme text for this program.
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Psalms 138:2
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That verse says that
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God exalts His name and His word
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above all things
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and that He exalts His
word even above His name.
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What exactly does that mean?
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It means that God
has promoted His word to
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the highest rank of importance.
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It means that
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nothing is more
important to God than His word.
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God has granted creative
life-giving power to His word.
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Power that will
accomplish all of His will
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and because of that
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He has assigned His word to
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the highest position of praise.
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You know,
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if we only could
appreciate how important
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the word of God is
to us individually,
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our attitudes about Bible study
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and meditating on the word,
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would be forever changed!
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God's word is life to us.
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It's not theory.
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It's not just a
bunch of spiritual ideals.
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It is very practical
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and it brings great blessings!
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Let's ask the Lord
to be with us today
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and we're going to invite
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the Holy Spirit
to be our teacher.
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Heavenly Father,
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we come before
you humbly but boldly
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entering your throne room.
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And Father we ask that
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you would send us a special
supply of your Holy Spirit
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and that He will
be our teacher today.
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And that by His
power You might sanctify us
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through Your word.
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Help us to put Your
word into practice Father God
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for the glory of your name.
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In Jesus name, amen.
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Now, let's get to our Life
Affirmations from Scripture!
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Here's the first affirmation...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Now, let's take
this apart line by line.
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We began by saying,
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"My mind is renewed.
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"My attitudes are made
new and radically change
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through the power of His word."
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Now, where did I get that?
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Romans 12:2
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In that verse it says,
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"Do not be
conformed to this world but
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"be transformed by
the renewing of your mind.
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"That you may prove
what is good and acceptable
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"and perfect will of God."
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Then the next line
we were talking about
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we said,
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"His word sanctifies me.
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"Separating me from
the world's view point.
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"I am set apart morally,
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"ethically,"
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and that big word I used...
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"Attitudinally.
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(That means by
"in our attitudes")
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"From the world
system my conduct
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"and my thoughts are governed by
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"God's administrative
system of His Holy Kingdom
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"as recorded in His word."
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Now, where did I get that?
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Let's look at John 17:17.
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The Bible says,
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"Sanctify them by your truth.
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"Your word is truth."
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Do you realize
what that's saying?
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It's saying that
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the word of God can sanctify us
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and set us apart from
all of the evil of the world.
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It is through His promises that
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we escape evil
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and partake of
God's divine nature.
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The next statement was...
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"I am recreated
in the image of God."
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Could you say
that about yourself
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and feel comfortable?
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If you have accepted
Christ as your Savior,
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that is the Bible's
testimony about you.
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In Ephesians 4:22-24 it says,
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"Strip yourselves
of your former nature."
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Put off the old.
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Discard your old un
renewed self which characterized
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your previous manner of life!
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And becomes
corrupt through the lust
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and desires that
spring from delusion.
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The delusion of human thinking.
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And the Bible goes on to say...
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"Be constantly
renewed in the attitude
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"and the spirit of your mind."
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We are to have a refreshed
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mental and spiritual attitude.
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And that
scripture goes on and says,
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"Put on the new nature.
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"The regenerated self
that is created in God's image.
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"It is God-like and true
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"righteousness and holiness."
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That's what the
Bible instructs us to do!
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Then in Ephesians
2:10 the Bible says for
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"We are God's own handy work."
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His workmanship.
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Recreated in Christ Jesus.
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We were born anew that
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we may do those good
works which God predestined.
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Which He planned
before hand for us.
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Now the next statement
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some people really
have a hard time in actually
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declaring God's
testimony over their life.
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The statement from
our affirmation is...
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"I have been given
the mind of Christ."
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Would that make you
uncomfortable to say that?
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The Bible says in
I Corinthians 2:16
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"We have the mind of Christ."
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That is God's
testimony over you.
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Then the next statement is,
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"By the power of the Holy Spirit
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and God's Holy Word,
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"I take every thought captive
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"and make it obedient to
the will of Christ my Lord."
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That comes from
II Corinthians 10:4,5
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where it says,
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"The weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but
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"they are mighty to the
pulling down of strongholds
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"and casting down arguments."
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"And every high
thing that exalts itself
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"above the knowledge of God
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"bringing every
thought into captivity to
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"the obedience of Christ."
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Now, let's put
that all back together
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and look at our
affirmation from scripture.
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[affirmation on screen]
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I'll tell you something...
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It is at
sometimes uncomfortable when
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we first begin speaking
Life Affirmations because,
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we realize we're not there yet!
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But this is God's
testimony about you and I
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and what He vows
to do in our lives
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if we will just
cooperate with Him.
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Well, stay tuned
for just a moment.
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We're going to pause
for a brief announcement but
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we'll be right
back to build some more
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Life
Affirmations from Scripture.
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If this dynamic series is
making a difference in your life
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then you should know
about a special study guide
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written by Shelley Quinn.
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Exalting His Word with
Life Affirmation from Scripture.
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Is an in depth
study of the word of God.
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Please send your love gifts to
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Let's return to our study.
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The next
affirmation reads like this...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Let's take that
apart line by line.
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What does is it
like for us to say;
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"I am anointed by the Holy One?"
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It almost sounds like
we're exalting ourselves but
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that's what the Bible says!
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In II
Corinthians 1:21,22 it says,
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"It is God who makes both us
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"and you stand firm in Christ."
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He anointed us.
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Set His seal of ownership on us
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and put His spirit in our hearts
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as a deposit
guaranteeing what is to come.
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And then in I John 2:20,27
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the Bible says this,
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"But you have an
anointing from the Holy One
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"and all of you know the truth.
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"As for you the anointing that
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"you received from
Him remains in you.
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"And you do not need
anyone to teach you but
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"as His
anointing (the Holy Spirit)
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"teaches you about all things.
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"And as that anointing is real,
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not counterfeit,
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"just as it has
taught you remain in Him!"
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So we see God does say that
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we are anointed
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and we need to be able to
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accept God's testimony
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and declare God's
testimony over us.
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Actually,
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we would be
exalting our self if we said,
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"I'm not anointed".
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If we're in Christ
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and we said I'm not anointed
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we would be
exalting our knowledge
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above the word of God!
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Now, let's go on
to the next line.
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It says that God works in me to
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cause me to
desire the right choices.
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To decide to
follow His instructions
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and determine to
act as He planned for
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His good purpose.
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I walk in
deliberate devotion to Him.
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I simply yield
and He does the rest.
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Now, where did I get that?
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Well, my favorite verse...
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Philippians 2:13 says,
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"For it is God
who works in you to
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"cause you to will and to act
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"according to His good purpose."
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That makes me
wanna shout for joy!
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Now, let's put
that all together again.
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And it says...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Now here's our next affirmation;
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"I take up my cross daily...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Now, let's take
that apart line by line.
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It started of by saying,
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"I take up my cross daily
in deliberate determination
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"to crucify my own sin nature."
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Jesus said to us in Luke 9:23;
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"If anyone
desires to come after me
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"let him deny himself
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"and take up his
cross daily and follow Me."
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Did you know that
some people think that
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taking up our cross means that
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we have a
certain burden to carry?
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Have you heard people say that?
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We've all got
our cross to bear...
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But that's not what Jesus meant.
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And during Jesus
day when He said,
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"Take up your cross daily..."
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They knew exactly what He meant.
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To take up your cross meant that
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you were getting
ready to be crucified.
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So what Jesus is
talking about here is that
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we will be ready to be crucified
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to our old sin nature
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and put on our new nature.
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So, the next part of
the affirmation says,
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"By the power of the Holy Spirit
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"I put to death my old
way of life and burry it."
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You know one of my
favorite scriptures is
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Romans 8:13 that says,
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"It is by the Spirit that
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"you put to death the
misdeeds of the body."
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You and I can not
crucify our old sin nature
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by our own power.
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We need the power
of the Holy Spirit
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and by His leading
we can put to death
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those old habits and
attitudes and things that
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were keeping us from
drawing near to the Lord.
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And in Romans
6:4-8 the Bible says,
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"Therefore we
were buried with Him
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"through baptism into death that
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"just as Christ was
raised from the dead
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"by the glory of the Father,
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"even so, we also should walk
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"in the newness of life."
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"For if we have
been united with Him
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"together like this in
the darkness of His death,
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"certainly we should also be
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"in the likeness
of His resurrection."
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And knowing this that
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our old man was
crucified with Him that
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the body of sin
might be done away with.
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Then we shall no
longer be slaves to sin for
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he who has died has
been freed from sin.
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Now, if we died with Christ,
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we believe that we
shall also live with Him.
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The next part of
our affirmation says,
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"I clothe myself with Christ,
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"that I may live a
resurrected lifestyle."
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That comes from Romans 13:14.
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There it says,
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"But put on the
Lord Jesus Christ
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"and make no provision for
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"the flesh to
fulfill its lusts."
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You know, my earnest
prayer is that I will be
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continually filled
with the Holy Spirit.
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And that's where I got
that in the affirmation.
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It says in Ephesians 5:18
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-especially if you
read it in the Greek,
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it will really help you to
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understand what
the Bible's council is.
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In Ephesians 5:18 it says,
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"Ever be filled
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"and stimulated
with the Holy Spirit."
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It's not just a
one time filling!
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We have to die daily and then,
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be filled with His
spirit again daily.
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The next part of
our affirmation says,
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"I'm learning to live in
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"the power of
Christ's resurrection by
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"the divine nature
of Christ living in me."
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That comes from
Romans 6:11 and it says;
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"Even so, consider
yourselves dead to sin
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"and your
relationship to it broken.
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"But consider
yourselves alive to God.
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"Living in unbroken
fellowship with Him."
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In Christ Jesus!
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And then in
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Philippians 3:10-11 Paul said,
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"I want to know Christ
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"and the power
of His resurrection
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"and the fellowship of
sharing in His sufferings.
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"Becoming like Him in His death,
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"and so somehow to attain to
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"the
resurrection from the dead."
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One thing I
think, before I go on...
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I just wanna pause and say
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a lot of us have been
taught ironiously that
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once we become Christians
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everything is
gonna to be just peachy.
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That there wont be any problems.
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And we almost feel like,
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why are we suffering or
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why are we going through this?
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But the Bible
frequently talks about
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sharing in
Christ's sufferings that
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we might also
share in His glory.
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So it's no
surprise if we suffer,
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but the good news is
that when we do suffer,
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things that
happen in this world that
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God is always there with us.
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He will never
leave us nor forsake us
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and He gives us
the victory in Christ.
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Well, let's go on.
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The rest of that
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it comes from Colosians 1:27.
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And there it says,
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"To them God
willed to make known
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"the riches of the
glory of this mystery
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"which is Christ in you.
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"The hope of glory."
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Praise the Lord!
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My only hope of glory,
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your only hope of glory is
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Christ living in you.
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Now let's reassemble that
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and look at the
affirmation again...
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[affirmation on screen]
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You know,
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I have made it my daily practice
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since I began
speaking affirmations...
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The Lord brings
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these scriptures to
my mind in new ways.
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And I've made it
my daily practice
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when I get up in the morning to
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go before the Lord and say,
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"Father, teach me your will.
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"I am coming before you
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"and I ask you that
you will cause me to
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"pick up my
cross and die to self
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"by the power of
your Holy Spirit.
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"I am asking that
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"you will help
me to put to death
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"the misdeeds of my flesh.
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"I want to walk
being lead by your spirit.
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"I don't want to run in
ahead of your Holy Spirit.
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"I don't want to lag
behind the Holy Spirit.
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"And what I want to do Father is
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"just to be lead
step by step that
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"you would order my steps."
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And then,
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when I've gone through
that part of the process,
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I'll come to the
Lord and I'll say,
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"Now Father, help me to
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"clothe myself
with Jesus Christ.
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"I ask in the name of Jesus that
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"you would give me
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"a fresh in filling
of the Holy Spirit."
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You know we can
grieve the Holy Spirit of God
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very easily.
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We can resist the Holy Spirit
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and we can even quench
the Holy Spirit of God.
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When Paul said,
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"I die daily
brothers, I mean it."
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He knew that
everyday when he got up,
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He had to start anew.
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It was a fresh start.
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The Bible says in Joshua 24:15
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"Choose you this day
whom you will serve."
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And Paul knew
that he had to get up
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and in deliberate
determination say,
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Lord I am ready
to pick up my cross.
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I am ready to die to self.
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Help me to put to death
the misdeeds of my flesh
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by the power of
your Holy Spirit.
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And now Lord,
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fill me with power from on high.
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Let me be ever
filled and stimulated
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and energized
by the Holy Spirit!
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Let me plant this
word in my heart Father,
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and let your word be
alive and active in me.
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Teach me how to live
by the resurrection power
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The same power in person that
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brought Christ out of the grave
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let Him work in me
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and bring me up to
walk in newness of life to
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follow in the
footsteps of Jesus Christ.
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And Lord,
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let the righteousness
that went before Him
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be the path of life
that I follow as well.
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I think that Paul
more than anyone...
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I love his teachings because
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they were always so balanced.
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He knew that
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we are only made
righteous by faith.
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Yet he also often talked about
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the necessity of obedience.
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That we must obey God's laws.
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And there's only one way for you
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and I to walk in obedience.
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And that is to be
lead by the Spirit of God.
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It has to be God
who is working in us to
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cause us to will and to act.
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And when we learn to
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take
affirmations from scripture,
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when we start speaking
God's word over our lives,
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then something begins to happen
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inside our hearts.
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First we'll find that sometimes
we feel a little guilty.
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And I think, you know,
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some people think that
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any guilt feeling we
have is just from the devil.
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But not always.
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Sometimes it's
really godly sorrow
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and we realize how far
we have fallen short of
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the glory of God.
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But then,
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as the Lord begins
working that in us then,
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when we start continue
speaking this over our life,
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He brings us to
that point of repentance.
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And you know, I've noticed,
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God changes us sometimes
in such a simple way that
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we don't even
realize it's happening
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until after it's happened.
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I'll share just a brief story...
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I was doing a
teaching about 50 miles
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from my home on a weekly basis.
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And I would go up each week
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and I was teaching a
group of about 30 people.
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And it was a
marvelous teaching that
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the Lord had given me!
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And I was watching people
over a period of several months,
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I was watching God
change them completely
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and driving home I was going...
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"Oh Lord, change me!
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"What's wrong with me?"
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And the Lord
impressed this thought in me.
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He said,
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Do you not yet
realize the changes
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I have brought in your life
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and you have yet to thank me.
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You know, I didn't realize.
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I didn't realize because
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God does it in
such a gentle way.
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And it all came because
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I was speaking
God's word over my life
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and He was watching
His word to perform it.
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May He multiply His mercy,
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His love and His grace to you.
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And may you spend your time
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making that which is
most important to God
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what is also
most important to you.
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Let God's number one
priority Exalting His Word,
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become your number one priority.
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